Farewell to Marjorie Irao

Sally Hughes Awarded Fellowship

Management Award Nominations Due

EVENTS

An Evening of Literary Magick & Alchemy

FSM Café Event

HR ALERT

Retirement workshop

Library Employment Opportunities

Courtesy Listings

Farewell to Marjorie Irao

Please join the Interlibrary Services Department as we wish Marjorie Irao a fond farewell.

Marjorie came to the UCB Library as a Student Assistant in the early 1980's, then as a Clerk in Government Documents from 1984-87. She slipped through our fingers for a few years, but returned in 1991 as a Library Assistant in the Cooperative Services Department, Interlibrary Lending Unit. She was hired as the Bibliographic Retrieval Coordinator, which included managing the Branch Retrieval Service for ILL, the Berkeley/Stanford Cooperative Program (now RLCP), and the Baker Service. Marjorie was involved with automating many functions in all of these areas, including offering Baker Requesting through GLADIS, Pathfinder, MELVYL, CDL, and Baker's web site. In June 1998 she was involved in one of the first implementations in the country of desktop delivery of articles to faculty via the web. In July 2004 Marjorie added the position first of lead assistant, then supervisor of the Doe/Moffitt Course Reserves Unit to her list of responsibilities, continuing as the Head of the Baker Service, providing valuable services to instructors.

In all she has done for the UCB Libraries, Marjorie has used a gentle hand to guide her student assistants and staff and demonstrated superb public service sense with a willingness to investigate and implement change.

Marjorie is leaving to see her children through their teen years and become a full time mom. It has been a pleasure to work with her, and we hope you will join us in wishing her well. Her last day will be Friday, March 3.

Marjorie, we will miss you.

Charlotte C. Rubens, Head
Interlibrary Services

Sally Hughes Awarded NHC Fellowship

I want to share the good news that Sally Hughes, ROHO's 0specialist in the history of science and medicine has been awarded a 9-month fellowship to the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. NHC is a humanities counterpart to the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behaviorial Sciences on the Stanford campus. The purpose of the fellowship is to allow time and space to write--in Sally's case, to continue a history of Genentech and the rise of commercial biotechnology--and to interact with scholars from many disciplines. Her book-in-progress grows out of the many oral histories and associated research she has conducted at ROHO on biotechnology and bioscience in the Bay Area. She will be in residence in North Carolina beginning next fall. Congratulations, Sally.

Ann Lage
Regional Oral History Office

Nominations Due for Excellence in Management Award

The Berkeley Staff Assembly's Excellence in Management Committee seeks to improve the campus workplace climate by identifying and publicly recognizing outstanding managers and supervisors. The Excellence in Management award, now in its 18th year, provides an opportunity for employees to acknowledge the exemplary contributions of their managers and supervisors.

This year's theme, "Excellence in Management: Celebrating Managers Who Celebrate Staff", recognizes supervisors and managers who are proactive in their efforts to support and retain excellent staff.
These qualities include:

• creating a diverse and inclusive workforce;
• supporting flexible or non-traditional working arrangements;
• providing opportunities for staff development and growth;
• encouraging creativity and "thinking out of the box" to find solutions; and
• sponsoring ways to recognize staff and encourage teamwork.

Steve Lustig
Acting Vice Chancellor-Business & Administrative Services

EVENTS

Thursday March 2, 2006
7:00pm to 9:00pm
Ethnic Studies Library
Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley campus
FREE EVENT

Abra Palabra will feature alumni and student writers reading from their original work and an open mic will be offered for folks with a flow.
The reading will be held in conjunction with an exhibition of art work by the truly amazing student artist Cesar David Valdez.

Featured artists include the amazing Vanessa Peña, class of 2000 and the insightful Marcelino Urioste, class of 1998 others to be announced.

If you have questions, I may have answers, call Cruz @ 654-2918.

Yo soy el eco, tu eres la palabra.
Padre de piedra el hijo te gritaba.
Por que lo abandonabas abba abba.
No me contesta una sola palabra.
Mala la piedra y malo el que la labra. -Armando Uribe.

Obesity has become the leading nutrition problem in the United States and elsewhere, not least because of changes in society--food marketing among them--that promote overeating and sedentary lifestyles. Attempts to curb food marketing, especially the kind aimed at children, run up against arguments that such advertising is protected by the First Amendment. Should it be? Does Freedom of Speech apply to selling junk food to children? This presentation by Marion Nestle will address such issues.

Marion Nestle is Visiting Professor in the Schools of Public Policy, Public Health, and Journalism at UC Berkeley and award winning author of Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (2002) and Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (2003).

The presentation will be followed by a discussion. All are welcome to participate, admission and snacks and beverages are free!

Limited seating - please arrive early

Free and open to the public

Location: FSM Café at Moffitt Library
Date: Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Snacks and beverages from 6:00 until 6:30. Program begins at 6:30

Sponsored by Berkeley Public Health Alliance and Cal Nutrition Outreach
Contact: BerkeleyPHA@yahoo.com

Free Speech Movement Cafe Educational Program Series, UC Berkeley Library
For more information: fsm-info@library.berkeley.edu