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• Clayton Burnham is the library's new network manager.  He has a broad background in systems and networking. He also was with UCR for ten years.

• Veronica Cabrera joins Access Services at Circulation Services and will be continuing her studies in English at UCSB. She has worked as a student assistant since February 2001.

• Melissa Frolli just graduated with a degree in English and will now be working in the Serials Department.  She had previously worked as a student assistant at the Information Desk.

• Courtney Kuroda worked at the Music Desk in the Arts Library as a student.  She has received her Masters in music and will be working for Access Services in the Reserve Book Services area.

• Megan McDevitt will be sharing her time between working at the Reserve Book Services and her studies in Aquatic Biology.

• Greg Raney is a recent graduate from UCSB in the field of English.  He also is part of Access Services at Circulation Services.

• Dana Welch comes to us via Canada.  He has taught English as a Second Language and has been an illustrator.  He joins Access Services Interlibrary loans.

• Nicole Zaletel will be working in the Reserve Book Services while attending UCSB.  She is double majoring in History and Political Science.

• Grigor (Gorbi) Boyahdyan has transferred from the Reserve Book Services, where he has worked in different positions since April 1999,  to Circulation Services.  He continues to attend UCSB with a major in Electrical Engineering.

• The newest addition to the Systems group is Ernest Alexander. He most recently came from the Cataloging  & Acquisitions Department after having worked in several departments as a student assistant since January of 1993.

• Daniel Castanon graduated from UCSB in the field of Chicano Studies.  He will be moving back to Stockton with his family and will be continuing his education.

• Becky Eldridge retired after more than 25 years with us.  She will be pursuing other interests as well as do some traveling.  Click here to see photos of  her retirement party.

• Sarah Kenney has left the Serials Department to attend graduate school at San Jose State. Photos of her farewell party.

• Laura Pichardo from ILL has decided to concentrate on her life-long ambition to become an attorney. Back to the top

This past June, many UCSB librarians and staff found their way to the corridors of San Francisco's Moscone Center for the Annual Meeting of the American Library Association.  Several of our UCSB folk were involved in presentations and special meetings and share some comments in the links that follow.  Others were a bit too humble and we had to rely on their colleague's reports:

• Larry Carver: Digital Geospatial Data from the User's Perspective
• Gary Colmenar: First National Conference on Asian Pacific American Librarians 
• Lynn Gibbs: Technical Services in Large Research Libraries
• Sal Güereña: Digitizing for Diversity in CEMA
• Gary Johnson: Interlibrary Loan
• Sarah Pritchard: ALA Council: Policies and Programs to Watch 
• Sally Willson Weimer: ACRL Programs - Sherman Alexie and a Mural Walk

Following a successful election, Coalition of University Employees (CUE) Local #1 has been putting several of our library employees to work at both the local and state level.  Joanne Murray, who helped negotiate CUE's first contract and will continue in her capacity as an alternate, has begun serving as the local's Vice President. Jack Joshua was elected to the Bargaining Team and has been attending sessions every other week to negotiate improvements to the current contract. Alyce Harris is the newly elected Election Appeals Panelist and will serve on a panel charged with investigating and ruling on any election challenges throughout the state. 

Never having gotten to take dance lessons as a child, Renata Hundley found an adult beginner ballet class three years ago and added tap and jazz lessons as her confidence grew.  In honor of her 50th year on the planet, she increased her class and rehearsal hours and got to perform in a dance concert in July. 

When she wasn't busily working on our Pegasus and other library Web pages, Margaret Rankin was busily organizing sales of this year's Summer Solstice Celebration tee-shirts.  She got some of our library folks to help sell the shirts along the parade route. Take a look at some photos of the Parade from their vantage point . . . 

The bees arrived a day or two before July 4th. I had heard the buzzing as I was cleaning up around the apricot tree - and in fact had been working within a couple feet of the swarm - but I did not realize they were there till the morning of the 4th.

For a better look and more information, click on this LINK.

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UCSB Libraries employees visited some great places this summer and once again share some of their pictures:

• California
  Sequoia
  Eastern Sierras
  Santa Barbara
• Other States
  Michigan
  Montana
• Other Countries
  Ireland
  France

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We hit several milestones this summer as we prepared to launch Pegasus II.  With so much on the line, it was good to have some fun to relieve that stress and prove, once again, that with the right attitude, anything can be fun!   Click here to see more PHOTOS.