In her role as Technical Service Workleader/Circulation Assistant, Agnes brings 16 years of UCB public service with her. She worked previously at NRLF and as Circulation Assistant at Engineering and Environmental Design libraries.

Agnes can be reached at 3-9482 or aconcepc@library.

– Ayana Bourgeois
Chemistry Library

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April Gilbert Is New Member of Periodicals Check-In Division, Technical Services Staff

The Periodicals Check-In Division in Technical Services is pleased to welcome April Gilbert to our staff. She began on December 16 as an assistant for the Division Head, and comes to us from the Gifts and Exchange Division.

April brought to our Unit a very strong background of foreign languages. While a student at Xavier University of Louisiana, April took several French courses in Belgium, and in Germany she took courses in German. She also spent a year in Russia studying Russian at Voronezh State University. She graduated from Xavier with a BA in French and German. Currently, she is in the MA/PhD Program in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley.

We are glad to welcome April to our department.

– Wanda Rybak
Periodicals Check-in Division

Miss Antonie J. Koenig, known to her friends and colleagues as Toni, was born in 1905 and died just two days short of her 93rd birthday, on December 4, 1998, in Carmel, California. As a child Toni spoke French, and her mother is said to have been a French tutor to the Russian court and to have barely escaped Russia three years before the 1917 revolution. Toni graduated from UCB in 1928 with degrees in French and English and as a member of the honorary organizations Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Delta Phi. She received a certificate in librarianship at Berkeley in 1930 and was appointed to a position in the Reference Division in 1931. In 1947, she moved to the Catalog Department, where she combined administrative responsibilities with original cataloging in the humanities and cooperative cataloging for LC. She became Assistant Head in 1964 and Acting Head of the Department on the retirement of Miss Higgins in 1965. In 1967, on the appointment of a permanent head, she retired to a newly acquired house ("The Lark") in Carmel. There she combined volunteer work for the Carmel Public Library with collecting Oriental art objects and Teddy bears.

Mrs. Naomi Edwards Held died November 21, 1998, aged 84. After obtaining her degree in librarianship from Peabody Library School in 1940, she worked in various libraries before joining the Catalog Department at Berkeley in October 1957. Her husband, Ray Held, was a member of the faculty of the then School of Librarianship. Naomi and Ray were regular subscribers to the San Francisco Opera. Like Toni, Naomi during her tenure was assigned increasingly responsible administrative and original cataloging duties, and from November 1968, she was Music Cataloger, dividing her time between the Catalog Department and the Music Library. Retiring in the fall of 1974, she moved with her husband to a farm near Hamilton, Missouri, where she passed the remainder of her life with a sister, Miss Elizabeth Edwards.

Toni Koenig and Naomi Held both exemplified what it once meant to be a professional cataloger. Both ladies – the term aptly describes them – were a pleasure to know and to learn from.

– Charles Hamilton
Retired, 1991

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– Allan Urbanic
Area Studies Unit, HAS

Yahoo also included The Bancroft's online Mark Twain exhibit in its special year-end selection from Weekly Picks. (It was first featured on December 14 as a weekly pick.) The editors confided, "Around that time we took to wearing our white suit to work, and saying things like, 'Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom the harder it is to get rid of it,' and 'Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned,' and 'Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.' But, after a while we dropped the gig. Truth is, we couldn't figure out what the heck we were talking about."

Yahoo's best-of feature also provided the following facts about life in '98:

• 73% of the libraries in the US provide public internet access.
• 69% of students and teachers say students' grades have improved because of the internet.
• The amount of time needed to download 32 volumes of an encyclopedia using fiber-optic lines is one second.

– Nona Mikkelsen
Editor

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HR Alert

The following section is devoted to employment opportunities, merit and salary update information, awards, career training and development opportunities, and other Human Resources announcements. Current deadlines and job postings are also listed below:

Deadlines

• Management Skills Assessment Program: Due January 22, 1999

Library Human Resources News and Links

Deadline for submission of resume, cover letter, and list of references is March 15, 1999.

– Janice Dost
Director, LHRD

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Employee Development and Training

Effective Analytical and Staff Work is a workshop that shares a proven method for performing effective analytical and staff work in a university environment. The workshop covers the keys to success in performing analytical and staff work: properly defining problems and assignments; consulting and coordinating work with others; collecting information; preparing information for analysis and conclusions; using groups to assist with analyses and other assignments; developing sound recommendations; and writing reports that are acted upon. Through descriptions of real analytical and staff support projects, and exercises pertaining to work you are doing at the time, you will learn practical methods to improve the results of your work and increase your effectiveness."

* Note: Participants will be asked to write a project proposal.

This class meets on February 4 and 11 from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm in Room 24 of University Hall. If you would like to enroll, please feel free to email Carmen Reed and/or submit a workshop enrollment form which can be found on page 82 of the EDT catalog via FAX to 2-2888 attention Carmen Reed or call 2-8134.

No fee for Berkeley employees; other UC employees $350.00

Asian-American Families and Caregiving
Thursday, January 21, 1999
Noon

Speaker: Denise Cheung, MSW (CARE Services)
Director of Hong Fook Adult Day Health Care Center in Oakland
Sponsor: CARE Services

Tang Education Ctr, 2222 Bancroft
Phone: 643-7754 or email careserv@uhs.berkeley.edu

Clarissa Daniel, UCB CalFIT (Health*Matters) will present a class on the Alexander Technique. "Discover effective ways to improve posture, the way you sit, stand or walk. Recommended for anyone wishing to ease pain and gain more flexibility and strength."

Friday, January 22, 1999
12:10 pm
Call for location: 643-4646

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Submissions of staff news are welcome. Library Unit Heads/Supervisors are encouraged to submit introductions of newly appointed staff, and news of staff promotions, reclassifications, awards, publications, transfers, and departures. (Rough drafts or requests for the editor to draft articles are also welcome.)

News deadline: Tuesday noon

Please submit articles via email to uclib@library.berkeley.edu or on a disk to:

Nona Mikkelsen, Editor
Librarian's Office, 245 Doe Library
UCB, MC 6000