Changes at the IGS Library

John Berry Joins Indian Heritage Taskforce

Word from a Former Colleague

EVENTS

Earthquake Centennial Lecture Series Continues

Lunch Poems: Saskia Hamilton

HR ALERT

Library Employment Opportunities

Courtesy Listings

Changes at the Institute of Governmental Studies Library

I would like to announce that Ron Heckart, Library Director at the Institute of Governmental Studies Library (IGS), recently retired. Ron has had a long and distinguished career at IGS and on the UCB campus and he will be missed by his colleagues and constituents at IGS. Ron was awarded a Ph.D in political science from the State University of New York in Albany and received an M.L.S. from UC Berkeley in 1974. Shortly after receiving his degree, Ron was hired as a librarian at the IGS Library. During his tenure, he published numerous articles; was a part-time instructor in the UCB School of Library and Information Studies from 1978-1989; and received the Distinguished Librarian Award in 1994. In 2000, he was appointed IGS Library Director.

I am also pleased to announce that Nick Robinson, Public Services/Web Services Librarian at IGS Library since June 2004, will succeed Ron as Library Director. Nick requires no introduction to the campus. From 1989 to 1998, he managed the Career Counseling Library at the Tang Center, and from 1998 until moving to IGS he was a librarian at the Public Health Library. Nick’s first order of business as IGS Library Director will be to recruit an Electronic Resources Librarian.

Linda Vida, Chair
The Affiliated Libraries Administrative Group (TALAG)

John Berry Joins Indian Heritage Taskforce

John D. Berry, Native American Studies Librarian at the Ethnic Studies Library, has accepted an invitation from the California State Librarian to serve on an Advisory Group for the new California Indian Heritage Center (CIHC). The Task Force advisory groups met in Sacramento on Jan. 9-10th. John serves on the Libraries, Research and Archives Advisory Group to the CIHC. The Taskforce is scheduled to meet at least one more time in 2006.

Word from a Former Colleague

Chris Gutkind, former part-time Doe/Moffitt reference librarian, asked me to pass along his greetings to everyone here. He's living in London, working at the School of Oriental and African Studies library, and now has a cat named Ben.

Recently he published his first book of poetry, Inside to Outside (ISBN 0907562809). Chris suggests the best way for anyone interested in buying the book is through a local bookstore or from an online bookseller such as Amazon.com.

John Kupersmith

EVENTS

Earthquake Centennial Lecture Series Continues

On Wednesday we will begin the second half of our lecture series commemorating the Centennial of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. This will be the fourth lecture in this series:

Wednesday, February 1
7:30 p.m.
Sibley Auditorium

Mary Lou Zoback: "The 1906 Earthquake: Lessons Learned, Lessons Forgotten, and Future Directions"

The lecture series is jointly sponsored by the 1906 Alliances of Stanford and UC Berkeley and each will be given at both locations. Three lectures in the fall of 2005 covered historical and social perspectives of the 1906 earthquake.

The spring lectures in the series will address what we have learned since 1906 in the fields of earth science, earthquake engineering and design, public policy, and disaster preparedness and response. The lectures are UC Berkeley are sponsored by the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, the Chancellor and the Vice Chancellor for Research.

Information on the future lectures in the series can be found on the series website.

The remaining Berkeley lectures are:
February 15, 2006, in Sibley Auditorium: Eric Elsesser
March 1, 2006, in Sibley Auditorium: Kathleen Tierney
March 15, 2006, in Sibley Auditorium: Mary Comerio

Fatemah Van Buren
Earth Sciences and Map Library

Lunch Poems: Saskia Hamilton

Thursday, February 2
12:10-12:50 p.m.
Morrison Library

Saskia Hamilton has been described as an extremely subtle and fierce poet. Her most recent publication is Divide These; she is also the author of As For Dreams and the editor of an edition of the letters of Robert Lowell. She teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York.

Please join us for this, the first of our Spring Semester Lunch Poems series.