Staff NewsVolume 51, Number 2, 19 January 1995
Note: that the last issue of CU NEWS should have been numbered: Volume 51, Number 1
Ethnotes from the LAUC Cultural Diversity Committee
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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.
New Staff
Laura Dale Clopton
We are pleased to announce that, beginning January 3, Laura Dale Clopton accepted a temporary Assistant Librarian appointment in the Teaching Library and in RSCD. In her Teaching Library appointment, she fills in for Corliss Lee, who is on maternity leave, and in RSCD she replaces the hours for which Allan Urbanic is doing collection development for the UC Santa Barbara Library in Slavic Studies. She will serve as Program Coordinator in the Teaching Library half-time and Reference Librarian in RSCD.
Laura Dale comes to us with a Master's Degree in Library Science and a Ph.D. in German, both from Cal. Her M.A. in German is from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and her B.A. is from Rhodes College in Tennessee.
Laura Dale has experience in working at the Moffitt Reference and Information Desk where she served first as a Library School intern and then worked a regular schedule of nights and weekends at the Desk. She has worked in the Teaching Library, providing GLADIS/MELVYL Workshops and Term Paper Advisory Service Sessions, and at RSCD providing both secretarial and bibliographic checking work for Main Library Selectors.
Please welcome Laura Dale on board when you see her!
CONGRATULATIONS to MARK LIVINGSTON (LHRD) and BRUCE SATOW (Systems), recipients of the first SDC Recognition Awards! Mark and Bruce were nominated and selected for their excellent service to The Library.
At the annual SDC Early Bird on March 22, University Librarian Peter Lyman will present each recipient with a Certificate of Recognition and voucher for $400, redeemable for professional development, above the maximum annual staff development funding.
Please mark your calendars to attend the Early Bird, March 22, 1995, to
offer your congratulations and learn more about Staff Development
opportunities available to library employees.
--Staff Development Committee
LIBRARY TOURS NOW START AT 3 PM!
As the Doe/Moffitt constructions nears completion, the library has undergone several changes. The new Doe stacks have opened, the Map Room has moved, and the newly expanded Government Information Service is now operational in what was formerly known as the Loan Hall. Until the dust finally settles, tours are an excellent way to keep patrons informed so they can continue to use the library effectively.
Beginning January 17, Spring & Summer Session tours will be offered weekly (on Tuesdays) through August 8. They will start 10 minutes earlier now at 3 PM and will last approximately 1 hour. Tours begin at the first floor entrance of Doe Library (across from the Security Desk).
In addition to the regular weekly Tuesday tour, special tours for UCB faculty, students and staff can be arranged by appointment. To arrange a special tour, please have patrons contact Mari Miller, Doe Library Tour Coordinator, 643-7202 (or email: mmiller@library). Special tours are subject to availability of staff and are carefully evaluated for referral to other library units, when appropriate. Requests from non-UC clientele are referred to other campus units, when appropriate.
Please help us get the word out to the campus to tour its new, modern,
spacious Library!
--Mari Miller, Library Tour Coordinator
TOUR AT UC BERKELEY MUSEUMS AT BLACKHAWK February 5 at 2:00 p.m.
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 another tour of the exhibition Sunday February 5, at 2 PM. Call Blackhawk Museum (510) 736-2280 for directions to the Museum.
AN EVENING WITH MARK TWAIN
January 25 at 7:30 p.m.
Randy Maple, as Mark Twain, will delight you with quotes, stories, and anecdotes which reveal the history, wit, genius, and wisdom of this celebrated author. You are encouraged to dress in period costume, or as your favorite Mark Twain character! Fun for young adults as well. Behring Auto Museum Lecture Room at the Blackhawk Museums. (510) 736-2280. Tickets are $6 ($4 for Museum Members).
TELECONFERENCES FOR LIBRARY ASSISTANTS
Soaring to Excellence Teleconferences for Library Assistants!
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.
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
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For sources of information for this column, send e-mail to Sereptha Strong: sstrong@library.berkeley.edu
Ati-Atihan Festival (Philippines) - January 21-22
One of the most colorful celebrations in the Philippines, the Ati-Atihan Festival commemorates the peace pact between the Ati of Panay (pygmies) and the Malays, who were early migrants in the islands. The townspeople blacken their bodies with soot, wear colorful costumes and sing and dance in the streets. Also, the festival celebrates the Feast Day of Santo Nino (the infant Jesus). This annual festival takes place during the third weekend in January.
Note: Main source of information for this column is Chase's 1995 Calendar of Events.
Ramadan
While most of us associate holidays with feasting, Muslims celebrate Ramadan, the major Islamic holiday, with a month of daytime fasting. Observed during the ninth month of the Islamic year, Ramadan begins in February this year. It starts when the moon first appears as a thin crescent and ends when a sliver of moon is sighted again, 29 or 30 days later. Ramadan commemorates the gift of the Koran from God. Fasting during Ramadan is an exercise in self-control that is intended to stir genuine empathy and compassion for the poor and to promote spiritual renewal. The truly festive aspect of Ramadan occurs when the new moon is sighted and the fast is broken. The days following the new moon, called Eid-ul-Fitr (the spelling varies) are filled with feasting and visiting relatives and friends.
One day Jason the-security-guard, also known as Jason Delaney, was standing outside the Librarian's Office.
"Hey Jason."
Jason said, "Hey."
He stood waiting.
"I'm waiting for Maria Shriver to come out of the bathroom," he said.
We looked at him.
"Maria Shriver. You know, she's married to Arnold Schwartzenegger."
"Maria Shriver is Not in that bathroom."
"Yes, she is! She's here with that crew filming something for Dateline."
We began to believe him so we crowded into the doorway and leaned out into the hall.
"You know, we Could go in there."
We stopped to contemplate what it would be like to be in a bathroom with Maria Shriver.
"You know, maybe we should think of a reason to be standing in this doorway so that when she comes out, we don't look so obvio -- oops, too late, there she is."
Wow.
"She looks shorter."
"Yeah."
"Pretty hair."
"See ya," said Jason smiling.
-- by Holly Halligan
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