This year's lucky MSAP/PSAP participants were announced this week, and the Library was a hand's down winner. Congratulations to our three winners: Jeanne Fong, Cris Campbell and Cameron Olen. All of our nominated employees placed in the winner's circle.

MSAP (Management Skill Academy Program) and PSAP (Professional Skills Academy Program) are widely regarded as a must for employees with outstanding potential for growth and development. The two programs are sponsored by Office of the President, University of California, to select outstanding employees with managerial talent and potential to participate in a week's program with other outstanding talents from the northern California campuses.

The selection process is rigorous and highly competitive by campus committee. This year, from the Berkeley campus, twenty-five applicants competed for nine open spots for MSAP. For PSAP, twenty applicants competed for eight slots.

Our lucky winners will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to Vallombrosa, a convent, in Menlo Park, while they work night and day with mentors who will provide feedback on their managerial attributes.

Jeanne Fong is an MSAP selectee, with Cris Campbell having been chosen as first alternate for both Berkeley and Santa Cruz' campuses among four alternates. This guarantees her a slot in next year's program and allows her early admission for this year if anyone from her two designate campuses cannot fulfill the requirements to attend. Cam Olen was the Library candidate for PSAP and has been chosen as a first round participant.

In other developing Library leadership stories, three Library managers, Rebecca Green, Barclay Ogden, and Margaret McCormick, have been enrolled in the campus' new Leadership Academy, which is a new on-site eighteen month program that began last month.

Ellie Schindelman, chair of selection committees for these programs, congratulated the Library on its fine applicants and high success rate, commenting on the strong applications and the campus' commitment to helping the Library in our time of change.

Congratulations to Jeanne, Cris and Cam, and their managers, Katie Frohmberg and Barclay Ogden, who strongly supported them and committed to fulfill all the necessary managerial tasks required for applicant admissions.

We hope we will hear further from these participants in future CU News articles regarding their experiences in these programs.

– Kay Starkweather
LHRD

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The Bancroft Library Welcomes Naomi Schultz

The Bancroft Library is very happy to welcome Naomi Schultz to our staff roster as the new Photoduplication Coordinator. A recent graduate in literature from UC Santa Cruz, Naomi comes to the Library with experience in multiple facets of library public service and the retail book world. She will be heading up the Bancroft's demanding photocopy and photographic services operation, serving as liaison with Interlibrary Services and working at Bancroft's public service desks.

Welcome!

– Susan Snyder
The Bancroft Library

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ENVI Has a New Circulation Supervisor: Allison Rea

The Environmental Design Library is pleased to introduce a new staff member, Allison Rea, who began February 9 as our new Circulation Supervisor. She is replacing Agnes Concepcion, who accepted a position at the Chemistry Library.

Allison has only recently moved to the Bay Area from Mendocino County, where she was the bookmobile librarian for the Mendocino County Library and helped them implement an automated circulation system. She also did volunteer work in the Mendocino County Public Library.

Allison has also held a paraprofessional position in the Ukiah Unified School District working with students with severe disabilities, and she managed a record store in Santa Cruz for six years. She has a BA in Music from UC Santa Cruz. Allison's Library phone number and email address are 3-7222, area@library.

Welcome Allison!

– Elizabeth Byrne
Environmental Design Library

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The Library Purchasing Agent Has Arrived Bill Brockett Joins the LBO

Bill Brockett comes to purchasing in the Library Business Office from the University of San Francisco (USF). He has over twelve years of experience in support service administration in higher education. In addition to procurement, Bill's background includes stints in mail processing, on-site office supply, printing, and copier program management, receiving, and property management. His purchasing experience was developed at both USF and at San Francisco State University.

Bill completed his BS degree in information systems management last year at USF. He hopes to continue studies at Cal once he gets settled. He is grateful that work and home are now on the same side of the Bay.

Please join us in welcoming Bill to the Library and stop by to say hello. He is in Doe Annex, Room 456.

– Elise Woods
LBO Staff

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President's Science/Engineering Award Goes to Lib/Info Science Professor at UCLA

The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers this year has gone to UCLA Assistant Professor Gregory H. Leazer of the Department of Library and Information Science at UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. The award was created in 1996 by President Clinton to acknowledge the work of outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their research careers. The award is a first in the field of library and information sciences. Leazer was one of sixty researchers from across the country to receive the award.

The National Science Foundation nominated Leazer in recognition of work on information retrieval in digital libraries. He looks forward to using his award to further his research in intelligent search agents. He will focus on how people use technology and then apply that knowledge to the design of search agents that more closely approximate human behavior. For more information, see the UCLA news article on the web at: http://www.uclanews.ucla.edu/Docs/KC046.html

– Nona Mikkelsen
Editor

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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:

Library Human Resources News and Links

Administrative Analyst
Young Musician's Program
Mentors: Caryl Levine, Director of Development
Marsha Jaeger, Director

Student Affairs Officer I
Political Science Department
Mentors: Kathy Sarconi, Student Affairs Officer
Pat Hull, Department Business Manager

Editor
IST Public Information Group
Mentor: Kalle Nemvalts, Public Information Manager

Senior Administrative Analyst
Cal Photo ID Project / Undergraduate Affairs
Mentors: Angela Blackstone, Director, Information Systems, Housing & Dining Services

Programmer/Analyst I
Letters and Science Computing Resources Mentors: Peter Brantley, Director of Computer Services
Seth Novogrodsky, Computer Support Architect

For more information please contact Chris Murchison, Acting Manager, Staff Internship Program at 642-2711 or cmurch@uclink4.

A workshop on creating your own internship will be held:

Friday, March 5
12:00 to 1:30 pm
Room 24, University Hall

For more information, contact Chris Murchison, Acting Manager, Staff Internship Program at 642-2711 or cmurch@uclink4.

HR FAQs

Remember you need an the signature of an AUL, and in some cases the AUL's superior, for straight replacements, new jobs, increased percentages of time or extensions of appointments.

Employee Development and Training

Call 2-6400 for more information.

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Library Employment Opportunities

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

Job Duties: Supervisory position. Supervise all activities of the Acquisitions Unit, including ordering, claiming, invoice processing, and payment. Assume chief responsibility for book fund accounting procedures, including monitoring of the expenditure of book funds, reconciling ledgers, and maintenance of Innopac acquisition information. Implement the Berkeley Financial System for the Law Library. Required qualifications: Extensive knowledge of and experience with the Innopac Acquisitions Module. Demonstrated ability to supervise effectively a diverse group of employees. Preferred qualifications: Familiarity with the Berkeley Financial System.

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