Volume 51, Number 1, January 12, 1995

CONTENTS: 01/12/95 issue

Staff News

Ethnotes from the LAUC Cultural Diversity Committee

Library Unit Heads and Supervisors are encouraged to submit short introductions of newly appointed personnel so that the Library's staff can get to know them. Announcements of staff promotions, reclassifications, awards/publications, transfers, departures and other staff news are also welcomed by the CU NEWS editor.

Returning Staff

Claudette Smith

Welcome back, Claudette! On January 3, Claudette Smith, serials processor, returned to the Environmental Design Library after a 7-month medical leave. We are delighted to have her back. Her phone number remains 3-7420.

We would also like to thank Sherri Reeves and Craig Alderson for helping out during Claudette's absence.
--Elizabeth Byrne, Head, Environmental Design Library

New Staff

Welcome aboard to the following new staff members. We're glad to have you with us!

NEW ASSISTANT EDITOR IN ROHO

Leah McGarrigle joined ROHO as an assistant editor in July of last year. Leah did her undergraduate work at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she received her BA in history with honors in 1983. As a college junior, she attended the Universite de Poitiers in Poiters, France as part of the Education Abroad Program. She received her J.D. from Hastings College of the Law in 1989 and is a member of the California Bar.

Leah taught oral history for Vista Community College in Berkeley. Her personal projects include a family oral history as well as a series of interviews with women from which she plans to write a book. One of her favorite activities is speaking to community organizations about oral history.

In her work for ROHO, Leah combines her background in history and in law by focusing on legal and political oral histories.

NEW LIBRARIAN AT THE INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORTATION STUDIES

The Institute of Transportation Studies Library is pleased to announce the appointment of Steve Morris as Assistant Librarian, effective January 1,1995. His responsibilities will include cataloging/technical services (75%) and reference services (25%).

Steve has an MLIS from UC Berkeley and was recently awarded a Masters degree in Geography from Chico State University. He is fluent in Swedish, a skill acquired after spending two years living, studying and traveling in Eastern Europe and the Scandinavian countries. Steve also reads Russian, Danish and Norwegian, and can navigate in German, Polish and Spanish as well.

The "frosting on the cake" will come as Steve shares with ITSL patrons and staff his interest in providing access to digital spatial data (Geographic Information Systems, etc.) and facilitating access to information via the Internet. He most recently served as a Research Assistant with Dr. John Radke at UC Berkeley's Landscape Architecture/GIS Lab. Steve worked earlier (1993-1994) with the Library School's Dr. Robert Harlan on a bibliographic database development project.
--Dan Krummes & Catherine Cortelyou

Promotions/Reclassifications

NRLF

On January 1, 1995, Charlotte Rubens assumed the role of Unit Head of the Northern Regional Library Facility (NRLF), and Scott Miller became its Assistant Unit Head. Besides their unit-wide responsibilities -- including planning for Phase III construction and a major systems upgrade -- Charlotte will manage deposit and systems services for the Facility, and Scott will manage access and building services.

Scott has served on PSAG-PS for several months already, and Charlotte joined PSSC at its last meeting.

Gloria Stockton, who served as NRLF Director since its inception in 1982, has left the Facility to pursue other career goals. Speaking for the UC community, I would like to thank her for helping build an operation that provides an essential service to all the northern UC campuses, storing and providing efficient access to four million volume equivalents. I would also like to add my personal thanks for her assistance during the transition from UCOP to UCB Library administration.

Please join me in congratulating Charlotte and Scott on their new responsibilities, and in wishing them and Gloria the best in the months and years ahead.
--Ralph Moon

Library Classification Committee

Q. What is the Library Classification Committee?

A. A committee of seven Library Assistants, Librarians, and the Human Resources Employment Manager which reviews positions proposed for reclassification to Library Assistant III, IV, or V. The Director of Human Resources makes the final determination based on the Committee's recommendation.

Q. Who classifies other Library positions?

A. Clerk, Senior Clerk, Library Assistant I and Library Assistant II are still classified in-house by the Human Resources Employment Manager.

All other positions (i.e., Secretary, Computer Resource Specialist, Administrative Assistant) are classified by Campus Personnel Office.

All new and revised positions being recruited are reviewed prior to listing by Campus Personnel Office.

Q. How long does it take? Are job audits performed?

A. It depends on the process. The Library Classification Committee meets quarterly and considers all requests made in the preceding quarter. The next meeting will be in January. A decision is made right away. Jobs are audited when more information is needed to make a decision.

The Human Resources Manager usually performs a job audit of all requests, and a decision is made within a month of receipt of request.

Campus Personnel Office takes 6-9 months to issue a decision. Audits are rarely performed, although the supervisor may be contacted by phone.

In all cases, a reclassification is effective the first of the month following receipt of the classification review materials in LHRD.

Q. What else does the Classification Committee do?

A. The primary purpose of the Committee's review is to insure equity of staff personnel classifications within the Library Assistant series. The Committee may propose a review of specific jobs or job groups. The Committee is involved in a project to review and update the August 1984 Supplemental Standards for the Library Assistant series.

The Committee was the first decentralized classification committee on the Berkeley campus, and has served as a model for others now forming.

Q. Who is on the Committee and how did he/she get appointed?

A. The University Librarian appoints the members. Four new members are needed to begin two year terms beginning February 1995. Any career LA III, IV, V or staff member or Librarian who is interested should submit his/her name to Kay P. Starkweather, Library Human Resources Department. One Affiliate Library is also needed on the Committee. These names will be forwarded to Peter Lyman who will select the appointees. Continuing members include Tim Hoyer, Imani Abalos, Laura Osegueda and Kay Starkweather.

Congratulations to the following career staff on their recent reclassifications. Well done!

Following is a list of reclassifications approved by the Committee in its last session:

Name               Department           Reclass to:

Richard Vance		NRLF		LA II
Melissa Wong		NRLF		LA II		
Lynn Wong		NRLF		LA II		
Lorraine Ronan		NRLF	        LA II			
John McCartney		NRLF		LA II		
Minh Giang		NRLF		LA II		
Jin-duan Lin   		EAL		LA IV		
Noriko Nishizawa	EAL		LA III	
Kelly Ward		Publ		LA III		
Rebecca Darby-Williams 	RSCD		LA IV
Charles Warren		RSCD		LA IV
Holliday Cullimore	RSCD		LA III		
Lorelie Mansur		Ed-Psych	LA IV-Supv		
Mark Mentges		Ed-Psych/BUS	LA V
Lora Graham		SOC WEL		LA V	
Richard Ogar		Banc		LA IV		
Laura Moody		NEWS		LA III		
Barbara McEnerney	ILS		LA III		
Michael Adler		ILS		LA III		
Carolyn Kizirian	ILS		LA III		

Reclasses approved by Campus Personnel:

Michelle Fuhrman-Danner 	Cons	Sr. Bookmender
Jason Delaney			BMS	Sr. Sec. Guard	
Cynthia Hoffman			Banc	AA III
Betty Mew			LBO	AA II			
Scherry Royal			LBO	AA III			

A reminder to staff: Librarian reviews are no longer completed and announced as a single group. Watch future STAFF NEWS columns for additional librarian promotion announcements.

Kathryn Wayne, Architecture Librarian, Environmental Design Library, recently published a comprehensive bibliography entitled THE SEA RANCH with architecture Ph.D. student John Maciuika. It has been published as part of the Council of Planning Librarians Bibliography series, no. 307, distributed by the American Planning Association, Chicago, 1994.

Opportunity for Staff Recognition

The first Staff Development Committee Recognition Award has been presented this year to library career staff. This award is an opportunity for career staff to be recognized for their individual and /or collective contributions to The Library. The Staff Development Committee (SDC) encourages individuals to aspire for excellence in their particular field(s) within The Library and to give them an incentive by awarding a special employee or team for their extraordinary contributions to The Library.

SDC will use the following standards to select a nominee:

Excellence, shown by performance that substantially exceeds expectations for the position; performance that sets superior standards of excellence and efficiency in relation to their unit's mission; or performance that capitalizes on the person's knowledge and experience of the unit and the University's operation and procedures.

Personal Interaction, or performance that shows superior ability and willingness to work positively and effectively both up and down the line and with peers; or performance that shows willingness to manage change in work priorities, procedures, and organization.

Initiative and Creativity, or performance that demonstrates an innovative approach to job performance and thereby improves productivity and the quality of work; or performance that shows efforts to improve personal job performance. (Selection criteria extracted from the SPA award.)

SDC will award $400.00 per winner and/or $800.00 per team of 2 or more. The award will be in the form of a certificate towards a class, workshop, or conference related to library career development. This will be awarded in addition to the SDC maximum allowable leave support funding. Recipients must redeem the certificate within one year from date awarded.

Criteria:

1. Non-academic career appointed staff (including MAPS and A&PS)
2. Completed one full year of career assignment
3. Can be nominated by any library career status employee
4. Cannot be self-nominated
5. Cannot be an anonymous nomination
6. Can only receive the award every two years
7. Recipients are expected to participate in SDS selections of future nominations

Staff Development Committee Recognition Award Nomination Form University of California at Berkeley Library

Date: _____________

Nominee:_______________________
Department(s):_________________
Telephone:_____________________

Nominator:_____________________
Payroll Title:_________________
Department(s):_________________
Telephone:_____________________
Do you supervise your nominee?:_____________________________

Please describe in 200 words or less how your nominee(s) have excelled in their personal interactions with their co-workers, supervisors, and/or the Library's patrons. Give one concrete example of how they have displayed initiative and creativity to improve productivity, or quality of work and performance in the Library. (Please type.)

I hereby nominate ________________ for the SDC Recognition Award for 199 __.

Nominator's signature: ______________________________

-- Michelle Turner
Teaching Library

EARLY BIRD

The Library Web Development Team invites one and all to an Early Bird, Thursday January 12th, 8:45-9:45am in the Morrison Library.

The Library's delivery of electronic resources through the World-Wide Web will be discussed. The prototype World-Wide Web server will be presented and its relationship to the InfoLib gopher will be discussed.

Please bring your curiosity and questions. Coffee and tea will be provided.

The Web Development Team:

Lisa Rowlison, chair ISIS

John Creaser, EART

Janet Garey, LSO

Gabriela Montoya, ETU

John Ober, ISIS

Alvin Pollock, ETU

Tracy Seneca, Teaching Library

Roy Tennant, ISIS

Mary Scott, Graphics - consultant

Rob Browning, of The Bancroft Library's Mark Twain Project and curator of the exhibition "Mark Twain: A Life in Writing" at the UC Berkeley Museum at Blackhawk, will conduct a tour of the exhibition this Sunday, January 15, at 2 PM. For directions to the Museum, call (510) 736-2280.

The UCB Library Staff Development Committee (SDC) is sponsoring and coordinating the Soaring to Excellence Teleconferences on the UC Berkeley campus. UCB will be joining another 250 sites in this series of learning teleconferences. The teleconferences will be held one Tuesday per month for five consecutive months, from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm with a thirty minute break. It's not mandatory to attend each part or every session. Enrollment is limited and required.

Please sign up via e-mail to: mturner@library.berkeley.edu ASAP, Library employees are free, Affiliate Library employees and others will be $10.00 per part, personal check or IOC.

Name:____________________

Library:_________________

Dept.:___________________

Phone number:____________

Dates and part(s) desired:

The 'Soaring to Excellence' teleconference series is focused on the specific requirements for library assistants in all types of environments. These teleconferences will be of vital interest to library workers from small and large, rural and urban, public, school, and academic libraries, as well as library students. The topics will specifically address issues that affect the library assistant in today's library. Participation in the conference will promote the viewer's growth as a contributing partner in the library.

All of our 'Soaring to Excellence' teleconferences are guaranteed to provide viewers with at least three specific skills or strategies that may be applied by library assistants.

Each viewer will have access through each local site coordinator to materials supporting each of the topics.

TELECONFERENCE PROGRAM:

#1 Tuesday, February 14, 1995 (Valentine's Day) Dwinelle 4
Part 1 9-10:15 am
"Professional" is an attitude.
What is this attitude and how is it conveyed to others? How can it help you serve your library patron? Issues affecting library assistants such as self-esteem, team-building, and accepting and giving criticism will be explored.

Dwinelle 4
Part 2 10:45-12
Libraries Then and Now: What does the Future Hold?
A brief history of libraries. Trends and issues for the future of libraries. Continued emphasis on individualized service and the unique needs of each person. What part do you as a library assistant, play in all of this?

#2 Tuesday, March 7, 1995
Dwinelle 117
Part 1 9-10:15 am
Technology and the Library Staff
How technology affects the inside operation of the library. Exploring the Internet, and other automation trends that affect your work within the Library.

Dwinelle 117
Part 2 10:45-12
Technology and the Library User
Issues that affect the library user; expectations and fears. Exploring CD-ROM, Self Check out, Internet, and looking toward the future. How to help patrons accept and use new technologies.

#3 Tuesday, April 4, 1995
Dwinelle 117
Part 1 9-10:15 am
Tools of our Trade: Reference Sources for Real-Life Issues Library workers need practical, useful lists and tools to assist in the area of science, health and nutrition., and consumer information. Leave this session with something you can take back to your library and use immediately!

Dwinelle 117
Part 2 10:45-12
Individualized Library Service for a Diverse Population: Is it Possible?
Defining diversity. How to survive in the face of many different views. Dealing with diverse clientele including ethnic groups, different age groups, and people with special needs.

#4 Tuesday, May 2, 1995
Dwinelle 117
Part 1 9-10:15 am
Communication in the Library: Up, Down and All Around
Learning effective communication techniques to use when dealing with patrons, colleagues and supervisors. Techniques dealing with difficult people in the library.

Dwinelle 17
Part 2 10:45-12
Library Learning Over a Lifetime
What is the library assistant's role in programs such as literacy, pre-school story hours, job centers, retirement programs? From school readiness to retirement. Strategies for serving the patron who wants to learn.

#5 Tuesday, June 6, 1995
Dwinelle 117
Part 1 9-10:15 am
Meet the Library Assistants!
Library workers from academic, public, school, and special libraries will discuss their duties, how they fit into their organization, and how they see their future.

Dwinelle 117
Part 2 10:45-12
Staff: The Key to Library Service
The variety of staff roles in the library. How do you fit in? Support organizations and programs to empower you to be the best library worker you can be. Coping with change. Pay equity and security. Just what do MLSs do? Showing your worth.
--Michelle C. Turner, Teaching Library

ETHNOTES is a new regular feature of CU News which highlights ethnic/cultural holidays for each month of the year. Sereptha Strong of the Transportation Library will coordinate the collection of texts (not more than 1-2 paragraphs per holiday) and welcomes any contributions from UCB library staff members with information pertaining to particular holidays.

Note: the deadline for submission of articles to CU News is Tuesday noon. Please e-mail them to: sstrong@library.berkeley.edu by the Friday before the CU News deadline.

For sources of information for this column, send e-mail to Sereptha Strong: sstrong@library.berkeley.edu

First Night or Ringing in the New Year in a New Way.
First Night is an outdoor winter festival held in more than 100 communities throughout North America. First Night marks the arrival of the new year with multicultural pomp and circumstance. It was born in Boston in the late 1970s as a non-alcoholic alternative to the standard New Year's parties and is a community-wide celebration of the arts and culture. (For more information on a First Night celebration in your area, call The International Alliance of First Night Celebrations at [617] 542-6111.)

Women's Suffrage Amendment Introduced in Congress - January 10, 1878
Senator A.A. Sargent of California, a close friend of Susan B. Anthony, introduced into the U.S. Senate a women's suffrage amendment known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. It wasn't until August 26, 1920, 42 years later, that the amendment was signed into law.

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday (celebrated) - January 16
Martin Luther King, Jr., an African American civil rights leader, minister and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (1964), was born in Atlanta, GA on January 15, 1929. He was assassinated at Memphis, TN, on April 4, 1968. After his death, many states and territories observed his birthday as a holiday. In 1983 the Congress approved HR 3706, "a bill to amend Title 5, US Code, to make the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr, a legal public holiday. Signed by the president on November 2, 1983, it became Public Law 94-144. The law designates the third Monday in January as an annual legal public holiday of King's birthday. First observance was January 20, 1986.

Tu B'Shvat - January 16
The 15th day of the month of Shebat in the Hebrew Calendar year is set aside as Hamishah Asar (New Year of the Trees or Jewish Arbor Day), a time to show respect and appreciation for trees and plants.

Did you ever hear about how Fred Yasaki saved the phone booths on the first floor of the Main Library? Last November some phone installer type people came to the library to install new pay phones. While removing the old pay phones,they decided that, well, hey, they'd just take out these old phone booths as well. And they did, leaving the front hall looking very bare, but with brand new phones, yes.

Then Fred came on the scene.

Fred quickly made a few "did YOU authorize this? How about you -- did YOU authorize this?" phone calls until he found out no one had. So then Fred got on the phone big time until he found the person responsible and said BRING THEM BACK and there had better not be a scratch on them. Fred must have been pretty scary because they were promptly returned, looking like their usual brown selves.

Fred Yasaki is one of many Library heros. We welcome submissions from staff of others. If you know of an incident, anecdote, small act that might have gone unnoticed, please submit it to me, Holly Halligan at hhalliga@library.berkeley.edu. I will try to fit it into this space in CU NEWS.
-- Holly Halligan

PAPER COPY ATTACHMENTS to this week's CU NEWS:
1/12/95
ONE - approx. 50 pages
Academic Planning Council Document entitled:
"Toward a Statement of Principles to Guide Long Range Enrollment Planning"

Copies of paper attachments are filed in CU NEWS binders available for staff consultation at the following locations:

Business & Economics Library
Circulation Desk
Haas School of Business

Engineering Library
Reference Desk
110 Bechtel Center

Education/Psychology Library
Reserves
2600 Tolman Hall

Environmental Design Library
Permanent Reserve
210 Wurster Hall

General Reference Service
2nd Floor, Doe Library

Librarian's Office
245 Doe Library

Northern Regional Library Facility
Richmond Field Station

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