New Staff Member in GSSI
March is Fire Prevention Month
California Academic Librarians in Management: Seminar on Humor
Library 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.
Please join me in welcoming John Angelico to the staff of the Government &
Social Science Information Service (GSSI) and the Research Services &
Collection Development Department (RSCD). John serves as GSSI's
Processing Coordinator (coordinating all material processing, including
electronic resource installations) and serves at the GSSI reference desk.
John's background includes a Bachelor's Degree in Film Studies from San
Francisco State University (1993). John comes to GSSI from the
Acquisition Department where he has worked for the past five years in a
number of increasingly responsible positions, including the Records
Maintenance Unit, Periodical Division Binding and Bibliographic Services,
and Records/Documents Division. In addition, John has served in the ISIS
rotational program since Spring 1994 as an Integration Specialist.
-- Chuck Eckman
GSSI Coordinator
The Library's Emergency Preparedness group has designated March to be the Library's Fire Prevention and Awareness Month. All Library Staff are invited to attend Fire Prevention/Suppression Training sessions which will offer both information and a hands-on opportunity to use fire extinguishers on actual (but controlled) fires.
The course consists of two parts: 1) a 45 minute video/discussion session in the morning conducted by Tonya Hoover, UCB Deputy Fire Marshall; and 2) an hour long, hands-on session in the afternoon where staff from the campus Facilities Department will both demonstrate how to put out a variety of fires using a fire extinguishers available in campus buildings and give staff an opportunity to put out fires themselves. Information available in these sessions will be applicable not only in the work place, but in the home as well.
In order to be eligible to participate in the hands-on session, you must attend the 45 minutes video/discussion session in advance, although not necessarily on the same day, (e.g., you could attend the video/discussion on Tuesday and the hands-on on Thursday, but not vice versa). However, you CAN attend the video/discussion without attending a hands-on session at this time.
Please indicate which video/discussion session you wish to attend. All hands-on sessions are scheduled for 1:15pm on days in which the video/discussion sessions will take place. If you cannot attend one of the hands-on sessions offered, but wish to do so, we will make arrangements to have additional sessions at a later date to accommodate eligible employees. We have been conservative in scheduling the hands-on sessions because a re-charge is involved.
Hope you can participate!
Tuesday, March 7 9- 9:45am
10-10:45am
11-11:45am
Thursday, March 9 9- 9:45am
10-10:45am
11-11:45am
Monday, March 20 9- 9:45am
10-10:45am
11-11:45am
Wednesday, March 22 9- 9:45am
10-10:45am
11-11:45am
The Conservation Department was host last week to four staff
members from the UC Santa Cruz library as they begin work on their first major NEH
preservation and access grant. Under direction of Rita Bottoms, Head,
UCSC Special Collections, the project will microfilm and provide computer
indexing of the holdings in the Mary Lea Shane Archives of the Lick
Observatory, housed in the University Library of UCSC. Berkeley efforts
to assist Santa Cruz in the start up of its work included a visit to Santa
Cruz by Ann Swartzell in which she provided an overview of activities and
offered the benefit of our experience with such projects. UCSC staff
members then travelled to Berkeley for training in microfilming project
procedures. They included Karen Mokrzycki, Acquisition and Preservation
Librarian; Sue Stoebner and Matthew Simpson, UCSC Library Conservation
Department; and Dorothy Schaumberg, curator of the Mary Lea Shane
Archives. The three days of training included detailing the Conservation
Department's procedures, a tour of the Library Photographic Service
microfilming unit (led by Charles Stewart), and the opportunity for Santa
Cruz staff to meet with staff of two current microfilming projects here:
the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Records preservation
project (Elizabeth Stephens and Derek Taylor) and the Kroeber and Heizer
Papers Preservation and Bibliographic Control project (Lauren Lassleben,
Jane Bassett, Xiuzhi Zhou).
-- Ann Swartzell
Conservation Department
LIGHTEN UP: HUMOR IN LIBRARY MANAGEMENT
A half-day program presenting different styles of humor and how they can be applied to workplace situations. The goal of this program is to help participants develop a personal humor style and to view humor as a "virtue".
SPEAKERS: Pauline Kelzer, Associate Professor, CSU Hayward
Linda Dobb, Assistant University Librarian, CSU SF
And some surprises ...
Bring your favorite library/management/workplace joke, cartoon, or anecdote!
Please make check payable to CARL.
Questions: awhistler@scuacc.scu.edu or 408.554.6927
ETHNOTES is a new regular feature of CU News which highlights ethnic/cultural holidays for each month of the year. Sereptha Strong of the Transportation Library will coordinate the collection of texts (not more than 1-2 paragraphs per holiday) and welcomes any contributions from UCB library staff members with information pertaining to particular holidays.
Note: the deadline for submission of articles to CU News is Tuesday
noon.
Please e-mail them to: sstrong@library.berkeley.edu by the Friday
before the CU News deadline.
For sources of information for this column, send e-mail to:
Sereptha Strong: sstrong@library.berkeley.edu
Note: the main source of information for this column is Chase's 1995 Calendar of Events.
Carnival - February 27-28
A period of festivities, feasts, foolishness and gaiety immediately before Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. Ordinarily Carnival includes Fasching (the Feast of Fools), being the Monday and Tuesday immediately preceding Ash Wednesday. The period of Carnival may also be extended to include the preceding three days, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, or even longer periods in some areas.
Brazil - Carnival - February 25-28
Especially in Rio de Janeiro, this carnival is said to be one of the last great folk festivals, and is the big annual event in the life of Brazilians. It begins on Saturday night before Ash Wednesday and continues through Shrove Tuesday.
Germany & Austria - Fasching - February 27-28
Fasching, also called Fasnacht, Fasnet or Feast of Fools, is a Shrovetide festival with processions of masked figures, both beautiful and grosteque. Always the two days (Rose Monday and Shrove Tuesday) between Fasching Sunday and Ash Wednesday.
Shrovetide - February 26-28
The three days before Ash Wednesday: Shrove Sunday, Monday (also called Rose Monday in Germany and Austria) and Tuesday (also called Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday or Pancake Tuesday) - a time for confession and for festivity before the beginning of Lent.
-- Shrove Tuesday is a public holiday in Florida.
-- Mardi Gras, although literally the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday,
has come to be popularly applied to the preceding two weeks of
celebration. This festival is especially popular in New Orleans,
Louisiana; Mobil, Alabama; and certain Mississippi and Florida cities.
Ash Wednesday - March 1
Marks the beginning of Lent. Forty weekdays and six Sundays (Saturday considered a weekday) remain until Easter Sunday. It is named for the use of ashes in ceremonial penance.Dominican Republic - Independence Day - February 27
National Day. Independence gained in 1844 at the withdrawal of Haitians, who had controlled the area for the past 22 years.
Korea - Samiljol or Independence Day - March 1
Koreans observe the anniversary of the March 1, 1919, the independence movement against Japanese colonial rule.
Muslim Holiday - Id Al-Fitr - March 2-3
Feast marks the end of the month-long fast of Ramadhan. It usually continues for two or three days.
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