Staff News
Jeanne Fong--1996 CARL Campus Liaison for UC Berkeley
Campus Proposes (Staff) Distinguished Service Awards Program -
Deadline for
Berkeley Citation and Distinguished Service Award Nominations
Early Bird with Hal Varian
NetDay96
New Campus Breakfast & Lunch Spot Expected
Electronic AttachmentLibrary 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.
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As the 1996 UC Berkeley Campus Liaison to California Academic and Research Libraries (CARL), I want to encourage CARL members --current and prospective--to take an active interest in CARL activities this year. With seven hundred members, CARL is the largest organization representing academic libraries in California, and one of the largest ACRAL chapters. It provides quality regional programs through its northern and southern programming planning committees, and through CARL's Interest Groups: ABLE (business librarians), CALM (management librarians), CARLDIG (reference librarians), SEAL (science and engineering librarians), CSUL (CSU librarians), and DIAL (librarians interested in diversity issues). Membership is open to all library staff, not just librarians.
CARL's Third Annual Conference held in October in San Francisco was a great success thanks to the leadership of 1995 CARL President Bill Whitson and to contributions made by CARL members from Berkeley, among many others. This year's conference in San Diego on October 25-26, Friday through Saturday, is expected to be as popular.
Call on me to be your channel for communication from and to CARL for any questions about the organization, membership, and upcoming programs and conferences. I will also welcome any news about UCB CARL members for inclusion in the "People Making News" and "Places Making News" sections of the quarterly CARL Newsletter. You may contact me at the Engineering Library at 643-5565 or by email at jfong@library.berkeley.edu.
Many thanks to Beth Sibley in GSSI, who had been our CARL Liaison since 1992, and has moved on to be for the next two years the CARL Northern California Campus Liaison Coordinator.
Jeanne Fong
Engineering Library
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The campus Personnel Office has proposed this year's Distinguished Service Awards program which will recognize both teams and individuals. Awards will be based on one-time significant contributions and/or sustained outstanding performance. Awards may be in the form of cash or training, at the discretion of each Vice Chancellor. The Library's Vice Chancellor is Carol Christ, The Vice Chancellor and Provost. Each Control Unit will administer its own program within general guidelines and will set award amounts. The Library's Control Unit is The Vice Chancellor and Provost.
Awards will be based on the work performed from May 1, 1995 through April 30, 1996. Employees must be on payroll status as of May 1, 1996 to receive an award. All career and long-term casual staff classified employees (employees covered by Staff Personnel Policy and employees covered under the AFSCME contracts) career and long-term casual A&PS employees, and career and contract status MAP employees are eligible. Skilled crafts, printing trades, and technical unit employees are excluded from eligibility.
See the Personnel Office Gopher for more details. Employees may send comments to Human Resources Director Alice Gregory by March 1.
Janice Burrows
Library Human Resources Department
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Special Faculty and Staff awards may be granted in special circumstances to retiring members of faculty and staff. The Berkeley Citation is selectively awarded to faculty for: distinguished achievement in the recipient's fields of work; and notable service to the university (other than teaching and research). The Berkeley Citation may be awarded to staff for outstanding service to the University over the course of the recipient's career. The Distinguished Service Award for staff recognizes superior contributions to the University through the position held. Awards are presented at Commencement.
For further information concerning nomination procedures, please contact Janice Burrows, LHRD, telephone: 2-3778 or e-mail: jburrows@library.berkeley.edu>.
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The LAUC-B Research and Professional Development Committee invites all interested staff to an Early Bird discussion featuring Hal Varian, Dean of the School of Information Management and Systems at UC Berkeley. Dean Varian will discuss, among other items, the on-going plans for this school.
Please join us in the Morrison Room, Doe Library, on Wednesday, March 13, 1996 at 8:30-10:00 am for this event. Coffee and tea will be served.
Grace Mills
Law Library
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On NetDay96, Saturday, March 9, 1996, tens of thousands of community volunteers, with the assistance of engineers from California's high technology companies, will install network wiring in California's thirteen thousand public and private schools.
To learn more about NetDay96 and sign up as a volunteer, visit the NetDay96 home page at http://www.netday96.com. All schools, private or public, are on the home page. To help on NetDay simply choose a school, and go to that school on March 9: there you'll join other volunteers to get instruction in pulling wiring from classrooms and a library or computer lab to a central closet. That's all there is to it. Wiring kits, equipment and technical expertise will be provided by corporate sponsors. Every school will have its own organizer to direct events.
NetDay96 is a wonderful way for the Berkeley Library staff to get involved in helping our communities.
Jeanne Fong
Engineering Library
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An article appearing in this week's HaasWeek announced that three local companies, the Sante Fe Bar & Grill, Lalime's, and Poulet are competing to take over the Haas Cafe, a site which currently sits undeveloped on the ground floor of the faculty services wing of the Haas School of Business. Proposals were recently presented to a committee of the School and it is expected that the winner will be decided by the end of February. Construction is anticipated to be completed by August of this year.
For those of you in search of new lunch spots on or near campus, Haas reports that the Cafe will provide a "good, nutritional" lunch for under $5.00, and will definitely include a grill and a pizza oven. Bon appetit!
Pat Davitt Maughan
Thomas J. Long Business & Economics Library and Teaching Library
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Training on Netscape
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