You're Invited to the First Bancroft Round Table of the Semester

LAUC Research & Professional Development Committee Presents ...

BSA "Brown Bagger" with Vice Chancellor Horace Mitchell

Additional Holiday for UC

University Mileage Reimbursement Rate Increase

Send responses to OCC@library.berkeley.edu

Also on the OCC web site:
• Jerry Lowell's talk concerning his hopes and plans for organizational renewal in the Library;
• the OCC's logistics presentation, including the proposed time line and processes to be accomplished by July 1st.

We encourage you to participate in one of the upcoming Values Discussions at Alumni House:

• Monday, February 14, 10:30 - 12:00
• Tuesday, February 15, 1:30 - 3:00
• Thursday, February 17, 8:30 - 10:00
• Tuesday, February 22, 2:30 - 4:00

Refreshments will be provided.

Use the OCC website to REGISTER NOW for the VALUES DISCUSSIONS that begin next Monday!

Another Steal by ILS!

The Interlibrary Services Department is happy to announce the arrival of Shannon Monroe in our Lending Unit, effective February 7, 2000. Shannon previously worked in the Circulation Unit of the Engineering Library. She loves to write poetry and historical romance novels. Stop by and say hi, and be sure to buy her book Somebody Else's Sky, available at Cody's.

Charlotte C. Rubens
Head, Interlibrary Services

New Water Archivist: Melissa McGann

The Water Resources Center Archives is pleased to announce the addition of Melissa McGann to the staff. Melissa came on board in December 1999 as a part-time Archivist Assistant. She is currently completing the arrangement and description of the Mono Lake Committee collection.

Melissa received a Master of Arts in Public History at California State University, Sacramento, and has a strong background in archives and photograph management. Concurrent with her WRCA appointment, Melissa is working as the Assistant Collections Manager at the California State Museum Resource Center in West Sacramento. She is organizing and processing a massive photograph collection chronicling the WPA/CCC construction of over forty state, county, and municipal parks in California, Washington, and Oregon.

We are very excited to have someone of Melissa's talent and experience joining us. She may be reached via email at mmcgann@library.berkeley.edu.

Randal Brandt
Water Resources Center Archives

Completed At Last

The Earth Sciences and Map Library has reached a technical processing milestone. Several years ago work was begun on converting holdings for our largest set of topographic maps to machine readable form. This map set, produced by the U.S. Geological Survey, contains more than 60,000 sheets covering each of the U.S. states. Since the map collection retains superseded editions, our holdings are significantly higher.

Some of you may remember DOC2 cards. These are 3 x 5 inch orange cards gridded off in boxes that contained all of the holding information for this very large set. The cards originally filled a large five foot high card catalog to capacity. Due to the sheer number of holdings and the alphabetical nature of the v/c information, it was not feasible to add all holdings to a single Gladis record. Instead d-level Gladis records were created for each sheet area. This enabled inventory control and allowed for automated circulation.

Keying for this project was begun several years ago, before all of our various moves and several states were completed. However, credit for the bulk of the work goes to Traci Penrod (LA-III), who for more than two years has diligently keyed records, added holdings, and bar coded all the maps until at last all those DOC2 cards have disappeared. As projects go, this was certainly a daunting one and ranked high for tedious repetitiveness. Traci never complained once, but we all know she is glad it is behind her now.

For awesome statistics: Between January 1998 to January 2000, Traci created 47,202 d-level Gladis records, added holdings and bar coded 72,798 maps. Great job Traci!

John Creaser
Earth Sciences & Map Library

Bancroft Library Gets Welsh Oral Histories

One of The Bancroft Library's prime collection goals is to document immigration to California from pre-Gold Rush days to the present in order to provide historical background for California's multi- ethnic population. One of those immigrant groups is the Welsh.

The Regional Oral History Office has deposited in The Bancroft Library the second donated oral history in the series "Welsh- American Society Oral History Collection." The first two oral histories were conducted by Mabel Agozzino for a class in Celtic Studies with Professor Kathryn Klar. They are: Mary E. Wilson, "Tawch a Dead: Growing Up Welsh in the Bay Area," and Megan Davidson, "From Kidwelly to California." In order to record the experience of Welsh immigrants to California, the interviews include examples of both language and culture that survive the process of assimilation into American society. The Welsh-American Society of Northern California is contributing to this project with an annual scholarship of $1,000.

Willa Baum
ROHO

You're Invited to the First Bancroft Round Table of the Semester

The first Bancroft Round Table of the Spring Semester will take place on Thursday, February 17th, at noon, in the Lewis-Latimer Room of the Faculty Club, Berkeley. Lucinda Glenn Rand, Archivist at the Library of our neighboring institution, the Graduate Theological Union, will offer us Christian Seed in Western Soil: The Graduate Theological Union and the University of California.

Pioneering ministers, churches, seminaries and the Graduate Theological Union itself have played an important role in California's development. Ms. Rand will discuss sources for the religious history of the Bay Area and the West, especially those in the collections of the GTU and Bancroft libraries which reflect on the histories and connections between the two sister institutions. Learning of our collective resources which bear upon the motivating beliefs and early religious institutions of California (a state whose modern history, after all, dates from the foundation of its Missions), should offer many interesting perspectives on subsequent development.

Interested members of the UC Berkeley campus community are invited to attend this informal event, which aims at stimulating thoughtful discussion as well as promoting awareness of the resources of The Bancroft Library. Scholars will enjoy this chance to learn more about the collections at the GTU Library as well.

David Kessler
Baiba Strads
The Bancroft Library

LAUC Research & Professional Development Committee Presents ...

The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities Library Fellowship: An Overview
Friday February 25, 2000
8:30 am - 9:30 am
The Morrison Room Doe Library

Coffee and tea will be served

Speakers:
• Suzanne Calpestri, The George and Mary Foster Anthrology Library
• Gary Handman, Media Resource Center
• Tom Laqueur, Professor of History and Past Director of the Townsend Center
• Elaine Tennant, Professor of German

The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities sponsors an innovative Fellows program, which identifies a group of 12 Fellows each academic year. One of the twelve Fellows is selected from the Librarian Series. The fellowship includes an honorarium and the opportunity to participate in a lively intellectual conversation with a wide array of senior and junior faculty, as well as doctoral students who are working on their dissertations.

In recognition of the importance of cross-disciplinary dialogue, the fellowship is open to all librarians, including those with specialties that are not related to the Humanities.

Join your LAUC colleagues to learn about the Fellowship program, its purpose, value, and to have your questions answered about application procedures.

For further information:

http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/townsend/program.html

BSA "Brown Bagger" with Vice Chancellor Horace Mitchell

Do you wonder what issues and concerns Business and Administrative Services (BAS) is addressing? What should BAS be doing for staff? Do you have questions and comments for Vice Chancellor Mitchell?

You are invited to an open discussion regarding BAS on Tuesday, February 15 from 12:10-1:00. The location will be determined soon.

After opening comments, Vice Chancellor Mitchell will address questions submitted in advance and entertain questions from the floor in an open forum. Please submit advance questions to Mark Gotvald at mgotvald@uclink4

Additional Holiday for UC

Veterans Day will be an additional holiday beginning in 2000 (Veterans Day falls on a Saturday this year, with the UC holiday observed on Friday, Nov. 10). No current holidays will be taken away. Individual campuses will determine where the day of class instruction that would have fallen on Veterans Day will appear on the academic calendar. Please also note that the collective bargaining agreements with unionized employees must be negotiated regarding the Veterans Day holiday.