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Senior Fellows Institute Attracts International Leaders
(including two from The Library)

Katie Frohmberg, Associate University Librarian for Sciences, and Bernie Hurley, Director of Access Services, will participate in the Senior Fellows Institute, announced by the Palmer School:

SENIOR FELLOWS INSTITUTE ATTRACTS INTERNATIONAL LEADERS
- Palmer School to Host This Year’s Event

Brookville, N.Y. - Librarians and information specialists from international universities, colleges and networks will gather this summer at Long Island University's Palmer School of Library and Information Science for the 1997 Senior Fellows Institute.

Fifteen individuals who provide leadership roles in the information professions, particularly in higher education, will be participating in the program. Under the guidance of expert faculty, participants will explore information policy concerns, current issues in higher education, inter-organizational issues, how to lead change and the impact of technology on information access and delivery.

The Senior Fellow Institute, a biennial event will be held from July 16 through August 8 at the Palmer School on Long Island University's C.W. Post Campus in Brookville, New York. Dr. Anne Woodsworth , dean of the Palmer School, will direct the pr ogram. "The leaders who participated in prior years have found the program to be an important component in their careers, in developing a net-work of life-long colleagues, as well as in their personal development," said Dr. Woodsworth.

Those invited to the 1997 institute include:
David Crawford, Director, Health Science Library, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
James Estrada, University Librarian, Fairfield University, CT
Rick B. Forsman, Director, Denison Memorial Library, University of Colorado's Health Sciences Center, Boulder
Katherine A. Frohmberg, Associate University Librarian for Sciences, UCB
Carol Ann Hughes, Member Services Officer, Research Libraries Group, Mountain View, CA
Bernard J. Hurley, Director of Access Services, UCB
Violeta Maria Montiero, Administrative Vice Director Information Resources Division, Fundao Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Kate F. Nevins, Executive Director, SOLINET, Atlanta, GA
Maureen Pastine, University Librarian, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Sue K. Phillips, Associate Director for Technical and Networked Services General Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin
Pamela T. Pollard, Manager of Media Services, Brown University, Providence, RI
Ilene Rockman, Assoc. Dean of Library Services, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Lynne Schmelz, Librarian & FAS Science Libraries Coordinator, Tozzer Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Thomas L. Wilding, Director of Libraries, University of Texas at Arlington
Betsey Wilson, Associate Director of Libraries for Public Services, University of Washington, Seattle

The Senior Fellows Program will be offered again in 1999 at the Palmer School. For information about the next program or more details, contact Anne Wordsworth at the palmer School at (516) 299-2855; Fax: (516) 299-4168; e-mail: woodswor@titan.liunet.edu.

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Best of Asia & the Pacific Web Award goes to the Library's South Asia Diaspora web page!

The Library's South Asia Diaspora web page has received the Best of Asia & the Pacific Web award. The huge bulk of the creative and technical work for the page was done by Vanessa Tait, South Asia curatorial assistant. Vaness a created the bibliographies, scanned in photographs, and, with the help of the Library Systems Office, designed the diaspora projects database. The original graphics were created by Mary Scott.

The inspiration for the page came from the Gadar Party collection, currently housed in the South/Southeast Asia Library Service. The Gadar Party, a South Asian nationalist group agitating for an independent India, was active in the Bay Area in the first two decades of the 20th century. Including party publications, handbills, posters, and photographs assembled during the compilation of "South Asians in North America: an Annotated and Selected Bibliography," the collection is the largest and most complete documentation of the Gadar Party in the United States.

In preparation for transferring the collection to the Bancroft Library, we are currently creating a finding aid for the collection and hope in the future to add to the collection and make larger portions of the material available in digitized form.

You can see the page at: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SouthAsia/diaspora.html

- Suzanne McMahon
- South Asia Librarian

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"The Future of the Library" in the Berkeleyan

There is a very interesting "Letter to Colleagues on the Crisis of the Collections Budget" from the 1996-97 Committee on Library of the Academic Senate, with a response from Vice Chancellor and Provost Carol T. Christ, "A Clarification of th e Library Budget," in the February 5-11 issue of "The Berkeleyan."

Read it on the Web at: http://www.urel.berkeley.edu/urel_1/CampusNews/berkeleyan/2-5-97/library.html

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Tribute Event Celebrating Chang-Lin and Di-Hwa Tien: February 21

TRIBUTE EVENT
Please join us Friday, February 21, as we celebrate Chang-Lin and Di-Hwa Tien's years as the Chancellor and First Lady of the campus in music, dance, and reminiscences at a special salute at Zellerbach Auditorium at 8:00 p.m. The event, 'A Cal Family Tribute to Chancellor and Mrs. Tien', is being produced by a broad-based coalition of alumni, students, faculty, and staff. It will showcase the excellence and diversity of Berkeley that are hallmarks of Chang-Lin Tien's tenure.

The evening will feature performances by the Cal Band, campus orchestras, ensembles, vocal and dance groups, and personal reflections by people who have known and worked with the Tiens over the years. Admission is free, but tickets are required. Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis at the Zellerbach box office. You may pick them up in person, or call 642-9988 to arrange for will-call tickets.

RECEPTION
A pre-event reception will be held as well. Proceeds from the reception and contributions from others who wish to participate will go toward a new endowed Alumni Leadership Scholarship for Cal students, created in honor of Chang-Lin and Di-Hwa Tien< /B>. The $150-per-person reception tickets include wine and heavy hors d'oeuvres, priority seating for the tribute event, and opportunity to talk personally with the Tiens. Please reserve your place for this reception by January 28 through Mei-Mei Hong, 1 Alumni House, Berkeley, CA 94720-7520, phone 642-1892, e-mail Mei-Mei@alumni.

POST-EVENT
After the tribute event, there will be an additional chance to congratulate the Tiens and the tribute performers. This gathering will be held in the lobbies on both the main floor and the mezzanine following the performances.

MEMORY BOOK
Whether you are able to attend the event or not, you may still participate in the tribute by contributing a reminiscence for a 'Memory Book,' which will be bound for presentation at the tribute. Your personal thoughts and reflections on the Tien years ca n be inany form (i.e., letters, poems, photographs, sketches). Memory-book cards, which you may use to submit your reminiscence, are available at the Alumni House reception desk, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

For more information about the pre-event reception, post-event, and Memory Book, call Mei-Mei Hong at 642-1892.

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