CU News

Volume 52, Number 4, January 25, 1996

CONTENTS:
Staff News
Screening Committee for Position of Library Chief Administrative Officer
    Appointed
Librarians in Print
Public Service Manual (PSM) -- Online
Exciting Development in Scholarly Research Tools
Terry Huwe Speaks at Centennial Congress of FID in the Netherlands

STAFF NEWS

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.

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Screening Committee for Position of Library Chief Administrative Officer Appointed

I am pleased to announce that the following people have agreed to serve on a blue-ribbon screening committee for The Library's Chief Administrative Officer position currently under recruitment:

Louise Taylor, Director, Planning and Analysis, Chair
Tom Vani, Executive Director, BAS
Jill Moak, Principal Budget Analyst, Budget and Planning
Tom Koster, Director, Space Management and Capital Programs
Patti Owen, Manager, Academic Personnel Barbara Morgan, Director, Strategic Technical Planning, IS&T
Kay Starkweather, Employee Relations Manager, The Library
Milt Ternberg, Head, Business Library

The Chief Administrative Officer for The Library is not only essential to the effective running of The Library, the incumbent also serves in important roles on the campus as a whole.  The Screening Committee has been asked to:

  1. Recommend names of individuals whose candidacy should be solicited;

  2. Recommend selection criteria for the position;

  3. Screen applications and recommend whom should be interviewed;

  4. Interview selected candidates;

  5. Provide a list of acceptable candidates, including statements assessing the interviewees' strengths, weaknesses, and suitability for the position.

I am very grateful to this committee for helping us to strengthen Library services through the appointment of a new Chief Administrative Officer.

Peter Lyman
University Librarian

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Librarians in Print

In the recent issue of Library Trends (Fall, 1995, v. 44 no. 2), UCB librarians Pat Maughan and Ellen Meltzer, along with colleague Tom Fry at the University of Denver, have an article published entitled, "Undergraduates in Focus: Can Student Input Lead to New Directions in Planning Undergraduate Library Services?"  This particular issue of Library Trends explores The Library and Undergraduate Education.

Ellen Meltzer
Teaching Library

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Public Service Manual (PSM) -- Online

Thanks to the team effort of PSAG-PS, PSSC, and Circulations Services Group, the old Public Service Policy Manual has been rethought, restructured and is now available in a web version at:

This manual joins the Library Orientation Manual in the "Staff" section of the Web.

The new Public Service Manual replaces in part the old Public Service Policy Manual, but has been reconceived.  The contents of this manual were dictated by the question, "What would be useful to staff serving a patron at a public service desk?"

The general table of contents divisions included are:

Several documents appear here for the first time or are relatively new and are filed here for easy reference: There are several entries in the table of contents which don't yet link to documents -- these documents will appear as time and review procedures allow.

In a move to the much sought after "paperless environment" there will be no mass distribution of the manual in hard copy.  Units have the option of printing any component document(s) they wish using their web browser print command.

All your comments are welcome about ways to maximize the usefulness of this manual.

The Library Manager's Manual is currently being reviewed for similar restructuring and web publication.  Some of the documents which used to be included in the old Public Service Policy Manual will be included in this upcoming manual.  If you regularly use the old PSPM for an item not included in the new PSM, please let me know.

Gail Ford
gford@library.berkeley.edu

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Exciting Development in Scholarly Research Tools

MathSciNet, one of the most comprehensive indexes to the literature of mathematics in the world, is now available on the World Wide Web (WWW) for all UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff, as well as visitors to our campus departments and libraries.  The new WWW-based index is a breakthrough tool for the mathematical sciences and a superb example of the potential of online bibliographic resources.  I urge you to take a look at it.

The database is a product of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and is thus affordable as well as powerful.  MathSciNet was beta-tested at Berkeley this fall and, after overwhelmingly positive feedback, was officially introduced January 1, 1996.

MathSciNet is composed of Mathematical Reviews (MR), the AMS's premier reviewing and abstracting journal, and Current Mathematical Publications (CMP), an AMS current awareness journal.  The database, which reflects daily updates to CMP and monthly updates of reviews to MR, provides coverage from 1940 to the present.

MathSciNet files can be searched by author, title, journal, publication year, review text, reviewer, Mathematics Subject Classification number, etc., or all of the above.  Dazzling hypertext links provide instant access to other works by an author, information on journals reviewed by MR, reviews referenced in an on-screen review, reviews that cite the on-screen review, and more!

The AMS's new service is available at: http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/, or through the Collections and Resources button on the Astr/Math/Stat Library's web page.  Access is by IP address, so MathSciNet can be used anywhere on the campus network, as well as from the home IP for UC Berkeley faculty, staff, and students.

To use MathSciNet you will need:

  1. a computer or terminal with a connection to the Internet and the WWW;
  2. a graphical browser, such as Mosaic or Netscape, which supports forms (older versions of some browsers do not support forms, but MathSciNet will also work with text-based browsers such as Lynx);
  3. a DVI or PostScript viewer--which makes readable the mathematical symbols on the screen--is necessary to view the complete records, but citations and authority files are easily readable with only a WWW browser.

Records can be printed or downloaded, provided the data is for use by authorized users only.  According to the terms of our contract, an authorized user may not make MathSciNet available to anyone other than another authorized user, whether by telephone link or by permitting access through his or her terminal or computer, or by other similar or dissimilar means or arrangements.

Documentation on MathSciNet will be available soon at the Astr/Math/Stat Library Web site, and is available now at the AMS site, as well as extensive online help--both context sensitive and through a help index.  A limited supply of Quick Start cards from the producer are available.  Send requests to math@library.berkeley.edu.  Questions about MathSciNet should be directed to Catherine Candee, ccandee@library.berkeley.edu, 642-5729.

Catherine Candee
Astronomy/Mathematics/Statistics Library

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Terry Huwe Speaks at Centennial Congress of FID in the Netherlands

Terry Huwe was a speaker at the Centennial Congress of FID, the International Federation for Information and Documentation, in November 1995.  The event was held in The Hague, Netherlands, and focussed on emerging technologies and library strategies.  The presentation was jointly made with Belgian library Michel Bauwens, and was titled "Knowledge Transfer in Cyberspace: A Model for Business."

Terence K. Huwe
Director of Library and Information Resources
Institute of Industrial Relations

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PAPER COPY ATTACHMENTS to this week's CU NEWS: None

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Business & Economics Library
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