All Library staff are invited to attend an Early Bird scheduled by University
Librarian
Jerry Lowell for staff who would like to discuss Associate
University Librarian portfolio options. Staff
are invited to provide input about configurations that
would improve services to users, provide
greater operational effectiveness, and enable scarce operations dollars to be used effectively.The four AUL portfolio configurations can be viewed at
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/UCBonly/AULportfolios/
(UCB only)
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All staff are invited to an Early Bird featuring
Carol Tomlinson-Keasey, Vice-Provost for Academic Initiatives at the Office
of the President, who will discuss planning, design, and progress of new UC
programs, including the California Digital Library, the Virtual University,
and the new UC Merced campus:
Thursday, February 11
8:30 - 10:00 am
Toll Room, Alumni House
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The Bancroft Library is delighted to announce that Renee Perez, custodian
par excellence, has been awarded a Distinguished Service Award by Campus
Physical Plant for her outstanding performance. Renee took on the daunting
task of seeking out and destroying decades of dust, grime and accumulated
dirt from the hallowed halls of The Bancroft Library – in places where no
one had ever gone before.
Renee also keeps the Librarian's Office in tip top shape and is considered
irreplaceable by all.
She has improved the quality of our daily work lives, not only with her custodial
skills and service, but with her unflagging good spirits, energy, delightful
sense of humor, and her warmth. Renee is
beloved by Bancroft and LO staff. This recognition of her contribution to the Bancroft,
the LO, and the campus is more than well deserved, it's overdue.
Congratulations Renee!
– Cynthia Hoffman
Head, Bancroft Administrative Services
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Noted poet Ted Joans will present Hommage à Langston on February 1, which
is Langston Hughes' birthday, and also the first day of Black History Month
1999. Joans will read from his own poems honoring Langston Hughes and some
of Langston's. He has told me that he owes much in his own career to the
inspiration Langston gave him, and he will pay tribute to those influences.
In an earlier 1985 reading by Joans in the Morrison Library, Ishmael
Reed introduced Ted Joans with the following words: "I take pleasure in
introducing a poet who has become a legend, an international treasure and
one of the most influential poets of our time: Ted Joans." In 1998 The
Bancroft Library acquired Ted Joans' papers, which will be available for
consultation subsequent to their processing.
This event, co-sponsored by The Library, the Department of African American
Studies, the Department of English, and the Townsend Center,
will be on Monday, February 1, from 3:30 - 5:00 pm, in
the Geballe Room of the Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall. Please join us!
– Phyllis B. Bischof
Librarian for African and African American Studies
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With the click of a button, UC Berkeley faculty, graduate students, and staff
now can make interlibrary books requests – up to ten per day –
using Melvyl. The Request button is available in three locations within
the Melvyl Catalog: from the display of Melvyl Catalog search results; from the
display of Melvyl Catalog Update results; and from the display of a Saved List.
Baker Service patrons may use REQUEST to have monographs ordered and
delivered to campus addresses.
The REQUEST service is a key component of the California Digital
Library (CDL) and UC Berkeley Library's goal of using digital
tools and services to facilitate resource sharing across the UC system.
If you have questions concerning CDL REQUEST, contact
Charlotte Rubens of Interlibrary Services, who is the CDL REQUEST
liaison for UCB.
More information about using REQUEST is available at
http://www.cdlib.org/guides.
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The Bancroft Library's Regional Oral History Office has made oral histories of
twelve prominent figures in twentieth-century suffragist history available
online at
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/projects/suffragist/
The
histories record the memories of these women, who were leaders in
the movements for welfare and labor reform, world peace, and the passage
of the Equal Rights Amendment.
The histories were tape-recorded and transcribed in the early 1970s
by the Suffragists Oral History Project, under the
auspices of the Bancroft Library's Regional Oral History Office.
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As part of the Scholarly Publishing Series, John Ober, Assistant Director for
Education and Communication of the
California Digital Library and former member of the Berkeley Library School
faculty, will discuss
Library Innovations and Scholarly Communication Strategies of the
California Digital Library.
Tuesday, February 16
4:00-5:30 pm
Stone Room, Bancroft Library
Sponsored by the Center in Studies for Higher Education.
For more information contact Anne Maclachlan at
maclach@uclink4.berkeley.edu.
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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:
Employee Development and Training
Three retirement financial planning workshops are coming up in February.
Fidelity Investments, the Calvert Investment Group, and the campus Benefits
Office will have representatives at the workshops.
For more information, see Ennouncements in this issue at
cu_enncmt.html
Students, faculty and staff can receive CPR training at CPR Saturday on March 6. To
reserve a space (and spaces are going fast), call the
American Red Cross registration number: 1-888-686-3600.
The free training provides certification in the life-saving techniques of
cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.
For many people, managing stress is inseparable from fundamental aspects of who we are, including
our race, ethnicity and sexual orientation. These aspects affect our day-to-day lives in a variety of
ways, and many people feel a need to talk about how various issues, such as Proposition 209 or
prejudice in the workplace, impact our work and family lives and increase our level of stress. This
brown-bag series offers safe and supportive forums for participants to talk about their unique sources
of stress within the context of their race and sexual orientation; to identify resources for coping with
stress; and to help develop positive approaches to stress management. Self-assessment,
action-planning, supportive networking and concrete coping strategies will be discussed.
12:10-1:30 pm
No fee for Berkeley campus staff
Sponsored and Coordinated by: CARE Services – Dianne Rush Woods, LCSW, CARE
Services Counselor.
For more information, contact CARE Services at 3-7754.
- Stress and Coping for African-Americans Working at UCB
Presenter: Dianne Rush Woods, LCSW, CARE Services Counselor
Monday, February 1
-
Stress and Coping for Asians & Asian-Americans Working at UCB
Presenter: Ann Yabusaki, PhD, Private Practice, Berkeley
Monday, February 8
-
Stress and Coping for Latino/Hispanics Working at UCB
Presenter: TBA
Monday, February 22
-
Stress and Coping for Gays and Lesbians Working at UCB
Presenter: Christa Donaldson, PhD, Private Practice, Berkeley and San Francisco
Monday, March 1
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Effective management of conflict in the workplace is a key management responsibility. When conflicts
are not resolved, work groups, work teams and, occasionally, the entire department may become
dysfunctional. Managing conflict requires skills that can be taught.
Note: For managers and supervisors only.
In this workshop you will:
- Learn how to analyze and map workplace conflict
- Assess your own style of dealing with conflict
- Learn how to select the appropriate strategy for managing workplace conflicts
- Learn how to maintain neutrality in order to mediate conflicts between your subordinates
- Learn the skills of effective listening and speaking
- Learn supervisory mediation through role plays
Intructors: Ella Wheaton, Staff Ombudsperson, and Margo Wesley, Associate Staff
Ombudsperson
Schedule: 6 hours (9:00-4:00)
February 5
Fee: No fee for Berkeley campus employees
Sponsored by: Staff Ombuds Office
For information: Call EDT, 2-8134
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Current vacancies for staff library positions are listed below. For
further information contact LHRD or Berkeley Human Resources Employment
Unit, located at 2200 University Avenue, Room 7G, Berkeley, CA 94720.
See full job listings at:
http://hrweb.berkeley.edu/joblist/newlist.htm
CAREER
| POSITION NO. |
DEPARTMENT |
JOB TITLE/FTE |
CLOSING DATE |
| 11-506-50 | GSSI | LA III |
Until filled
|
| 01-527-50 | TS | LA III |
February 5, 1999
|
| 01-539-50 | LBO | ---Asst. II |
February 12, 1999
|
|
01-540-50 | HRD | ---Asst. II | February 12, 1999
|
CASUAL
| POSITION NO. |
DEPARTMENT |
JOB TITLE/FTE |
CLOSING DATE |
| 01-526-50 | BIOS | LA I, 75%, 11 MONTHS | February 5, 1999 |
| 01-530-50 | ENVI | LA I, 6 MONTHS | February 5, 1999
|
| 01-541-50 | BANC | LA I, 11 MONTHS | February 12, 1999
|
| 01-542-50 | ROHO | Asst. I, 11 MONTHS
| February 12, 1999
75%-100%V |
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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
(Please contact the Editor (510 642-3773) if you do not receive
an email confirmation that your article has been received.)
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