Public Health Library Welcomes Jerry McGovern

I am delighted to announce that Jerry McGovern has joined the Public Health Library staff, as a reference librarian at our satellite in Oakland, the Occupational and Environmental Health Library (OEHL). 

Jerry received his B.A. at CSU Sonoma and his M.L.I.S. at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Jerry's years of experience as an information specialist at an environmental engineering and health consulting firm will come in handy as he digs into serving the information needs of the state toxicologists and epidemiologists he'll be working with at the OEHL, under the direction of OEHL librarian Charleen Kubota.

In accepting our position, Jerry has made the brave move of relocating to the Bay Area from the Sierra foothills, and he says he's excited about trying out the urban life. He was an avid mountain climber until his body caught up with him, and continues to favor outdoor activities: bicycling, hiking, etc. He also tells me that he is a "gourmet explorer", so surely he has made the right move by landing here in our midst!

As a new member of the Sciences Council, Jerry hopes to make it to campus regularly to attend meetings of the Council. During his first months he will also be coming to campus to learn more about how our library system works. Please join me in welcoming him if you have a chance!

Cris Campbell
Public Health Library

Marilyn Kwock Makes Change at Bancroft

The Bancroft Library welcomes Marilyn Kwock to its Public Service Division as its new Photoduplication Coordinator. Marilyn didn't have to travel far, having come from Bancroft Technical Services where for the past 2 years she has been a manuscript processor and curatorial assistant to the History of Science and Technology Collection. She has also worked with pictorial and manuscript collections, in preservation and on public service desks at UCSD and the Alaska State Library. She brings with her many varied interests and an indomitable energy. Her new responsibilities include researching and preparing orders for photographic duplication but will also have an archival processing component - the best of both worlds, according to Marilyn. Her desk temporarily remains on Tier 8 of the Bancroft Library in the Technical Services Division and she can be reached via e-mail asmkwock@library.berkeley.edu or by phone at 3-7163. 

Susan Snyder
Bancroft Library
 

Exhibit: Annual Exhibition of Gifts to the Bancroft Library
 

The current exhibition in The Bancroft Library Exhibition Gallery features a wide range of books, pamphlets, manuscripts, photographs, maps, artwork and other research materials acquired during the past year. Bancroft curators have assembled a colorful and entertaining selection of materials, with something for everyone's tastes and interests. The exhibition will be on display though March 31, 2001. Please visit The Bancroft Library and enjoy some of our recent additions. These include Taylor & Skinner's Survey and Maps of the Roads of North Britain or Scotland, a 1776 London publication of maps and La Paysane Pervertie, Ou Les Dangers de la Ville…, by Restif de La Bretonne, published in The Hague in 1784.

Manuscript materials include "Diary of a Parisian" an unsigned work written in Paris from Jan. 1, 1792 - Dec. 31, 1798 by an unknown “bourgeois de Paris," an unbroken run of 62 holograph journals by Bay Area Beat writer Philip Whalen, and a collection of Gold Rush letters from the Bartholomew Family collection.

Thomas Dawson and F.J.V. Skiff's The Ute War: A History of the White River Massacre and the Privations and Hardships of the Captive White Women Among the Hostiles on Grand River, published in Denver by The Tribune Publishing House, 1879 is the primary contemporary account of events that led to the removal of the Ute Indians from their lands west of the 107th meridian. It is estimated that less than a dozen copies of this rarity survive. 

The rare and unusual pamphlet, Too Young to Love; or The Vow Recalled. An Incident Real and Ideal, by Cadet James B. D’Ame published in Rutland, Vermont and printed for the publisher by L. Barney in 1853 compliments our extraordinary holdings relating to the California Gold Rush.

Another rare item is the wanted poster, "Proclamation: $5,000 reward Francisco (Pancho) Villa," printed for the Columbus, New Mexico Chief of Police and issued after Villa's infamous raid on the sleepy southern New Mexican town on March 9, 1916.
 
 

Organizational Culture: Assessing Our Own Work Cultures

Tools for assessing organizational culture and to identify cultures of Berkeley campus.. 

Schedule:
    February 1, 2001 (9:15-12:00)
    150 University Hall 

Note: Please register for this program using Interactive Course Enrollment (ICE) located at: http://hrweb.berkeley.edu/ice/home/.