Staff NewsVolume 51, Number 5, February 9, 1995
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
The Librarian's Office is pleased to welcome Erika Moldow, our new Secretary II Temp, replacing Erica Jacobs, who left us in December.
Erika Moldow holds a Bachelor's degree in American Culture from Vassar College and brings many skills and talents to her new job. She recently arrived in the Bay Area from Colorado where she held a position with a Youth Employment Program of the Department of Labor. The Librarian's Office is indeed fortunate to have her. If you have not yet had the opportunity to meet Erika, please drop by the Librarian's Office to introduce yourself.
Staff Events
Be Prepared!
A few spaces are still open in the Emergency Preparedness CPR class on
Friday, February 10.
Enroll TODAY by calling Manina Harris at 642-3814
or by emailing her at: mharris@library.berkeley.edu
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.
Name:
Library:
Dept.:
Phone number:
Dates and part(s) desired:
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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Note: the deadline for submission of articles to CU News is Tuesday noon. Please e-mail them to: sstrong@library.berkeley.edu by the Friday before the CU News deadline.
For sources of information for this column, send e-mail to Sereptha Strong: sstrong@library.berkeley.edu
Sri Lanka - Independence Day - February 4
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka observes National Day, a
public holiday.
Mexico - Anniversary of the Constitution - February 5
Present Constitution, embracing major social reforms, adopted
February 5, 1917.
Grenada - Independence Day - February 7
Japan - Ha-Ri-Ku-Yo (Needle Mass) - February 8
Ha-Ri-Ku-Yo, a Needle Mass, may be observed on either February 8
or December 8. On this day, girls do no needlework. Instead, they gather
old and broken needles which they dedicate to the Awashima Shrine in
Wakayama. Girls pray to Awashima Myozin (their protecting deity) that
their needlework, symbolic of love and marriage, will be good.
Participation in the Needle Mass hopefully leads to a happy marriage.
Japan - Snow Festival - February 8-12
Huge, elaborate snow and ice sculptures are erected on the Odori-Koen
Promenade in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
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