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SSEALS Reorganization
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Bancroft Round Table: Joseph Duggan on Medieval Manuscripts, February 18
Dr. Gene Rochlin: "Dys-connected: Dependency and Vulnerability in the Age of Automated Information Systems" - March 3
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In December 1997, the South/Southeast Asia Library Service was reorganized to more efficiently manage day-to-day operations. The reorganization will not change services in SSEALS and should be transparent to patrons.
Imani Abalos, who currently manages the Main Library Info Center, will assume the day-to-day management duties for SSEALS. These duties will include desk scheduling and oversight of the personnel and technical processes that are required to keep the unit open and functioning properly. Please direct concerns, requests, and comments about the unit to her at 2-7600 and through email at iabalos@library.
SSEALS librarians (Suzanne McMahon, South Asian Collections and Virginia Shih, Southeast Asian Collections) and staff (Vanessa Tate, Curatorial Assistant for South Asian Collections and Rebecca Darby-Williams, Curatorial Assistant for Southeast Asian Collections) are available for reference consultation and bibliographic instruction.
In the near future, SSEALS will be temporarily relocated to Doe 120 because the space it now occupies is part of the Phase III Seismic Upgrade plan for the Doe facility. During the relocation, services will be kept to as close to normal as is possible. Following the seismic retrofitting, SSEALS will return to its former location on the fourth floor of Doe.
- Allan Urbanic
Area Studies Unit, HAS
After many years (3) in planning, Government and Social Science Information (GSSI) and UC DATA are pleased to announce the beginning of the Social Science & Government Data Library (mounted on the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE) at: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/GovData/info
The initial rollout took place on February 2, 1998. Titles from the 1990 Census of Population and Housing include "Summary Tape File 1", "Summary Tape File 3", and "Subject Summary Tape File 3, Persons of Hispanic Origin in the U.S."
More data sets are due in early March: "SSTF5 Characteristics of the Asian and Pacific Islander Population in the US", and "SSTF2 Ancestry of the Population in the U.S."
- Andrea Sevetson
GSSI
Although celebrated for its vast Americana collections, The Bancroft Library also houses the Rare Books Collection of UC Berkeley. Medieval manuscripts, from many parts of Europe, are among the jewels of this collection. The Bancroft is particularly proud of its holdings of Arthurian romances, including Lancelot, the Holy Grail, Merlin and the Death of King Arthur.
Joseph Duggan, Professor of French (who also moonlights as Associate Dean of the Graduate Division) has been using our extensive collection of French medieval manuscripts in his teaching for many years. Professor Duggan will give the Round Table crowd some idea of the extent of Bancroft's holdings, and will share insights about such fascinating questions as the dating of manuscripts, comparisons of different hands, and the development of styles of writing.
This first Bancroft Round Table of the Spring semester will convene at noon on Thursday, February 18, at the Faculty Club's Lewis-Latimer Room. 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. This promises to be an interesting talk about a fascinating and beautiful body of materials by a renowned expert.
- David Kessler
- Baiba Strads
The Bancroft Library
The LAUC-B Research and Professional Development Committee presents:
"Dys-connected: Dependency and Vulnerability in the Age of Automated Information Systems"
Tuesday, March 3, 1998
4 pm - 5:30 pm
Barrows Hall - Lipman Room
University of California, BerkeleyDr. Gene Rochlin will speak about the process of embedding computers and networks as central elements in the operation of a number of modern "systems" whose performance can be critical for personal, as well as social well-being. A professor of energy and resources at UCB, Dr. Rochlin is a physicist with a background in political science who has studied technologically sophisticated organizations with complex structures, in particular the military. Recently featured in "The Berkeleyan" (Jan. 28-Feb. 3), he is the author of "Trapped in the Net" (Princeton University Press, c1997).
As library and information professionals, computers are so much an integral and daily part of our lives, we rarely have time to examine the technological choices whereby we organize and deliver information services. Does the larger societal trend toward pervasive computerization without consideration of the consequences contain some lessons we also can learn? Please join us for a probing and entertaining look at an issue which may have particular relevance for us as information professionals, as well as society as a whole.
- Mari Miller
Humanities and Area Studies (HAS)
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