New Assistant Curator in Environmental Design Archives

Kady Ferris Comes to Water Resources

LAUC-B Career Status and Promotions

Cal Librarians Contribute to New Engineering Reference

Farewell to Jessica Lemieux

Michelle Morton Completes Bancroft Assignment

Esther Fulsaas. 1941-2006

HR ALERT

Library Employment Opportunities

Courtesy Listings

Environmental Design Archives Welcomes New Assistant Curator

Miranda Hambro comes to the CED Archives with an educational background in art history, anthropology, and museum studies. Her work experience includes more than 5 years in registrars' departments at various museums and arts institutions including the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and the New YOrk offices of Southeby's. She also spent 8 months as a Cruise Director for VIctoria Cruises on the Yangtze RIver and is trying not to loose her Chinese language skills. Miranda recvieved her degree in Museum Studies at the University College London in England and her BA in Art History/Anthropology from University of Washington. She is "fascinated with the urban environment" and the Archives is pleased to have her.

Waverly Lowell
Environmental Design Archives

Kady Ferris Comes to Water Resources

It is my pleasure to announce that the Water Resources Center Archives (WRCA) has hired a new Public Services Library Assistant. Kady Ferris previously spent three years as a part- time student employee at the UC Berkeley Mathematics Statistics Library, where she dabbled in all aspects of circulation, from shelving and patron relations to cataloging and checking in new materials. This background, along with three years working as the films manager for the Student Entertainment Board, has prepared her for the variety of tasks she performs at WRCA. These tasks include handling all of the logistical arrangements for the California Colloquium on Water lecture series, assisting with fundraising for the library, and keeping track of circulation. Kady graduated from UC Berkeley in May with a Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications and is pleased to be staying in the Bay Area and learning more about water issues.

Linda Vida, Director
Water Resources Center Archives

LAUC-B Career Status and Promotions

On behalf of LAUC-B I am pleased to announce the following librarians achieved promotion to the rank of full Librarian in 2006:

• James Church
• Elizabeth Edinger
• Kathleen Gallagher (and career status)
• Linda McLane
• Margaret Phillips

Lucia Diamond
LAUC-B Chair, 2006-2007

Cal Librarians Contribute to New Engineering Reference

A new reference book, Using the Engineering Literature, has just been published. This book by Routledge was edited by Bonnie Osif and covers most facets of engineering. It is intended for librarians and engineers who are working in a field that is new or unfamiliar to them and it will also be useful to experienced engineering librarians.

Identifying and describing some of those resources are UCB librarians Linda Vida and Rita Evans. Linda, director of the Water Resources Center Archives, co-authored the chapter on Environmental Engineering with Lois Widmer, Brandeis University. Rita, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies Library, wrote the chapter on Transportation Engineering.

"It was challenging and educational to work on this chapter that covers standard LC call numbers and subject headings for each topic and includes new online resources as well. It was also a pleasure working with co-author Lois Widmer..

“This was a terrific opportunity to delve into classic and new resources – manuals, standards, databases, core journals and websites.” said Rita, “and it’s something I’ll use when I’m doing research that touches on other aspects of engineering.” Other chapters cover engineering sub-disciplines including architectural engineering, bioengineering, civil engineering, computer engineering, electronic and electrical engineering, and industrial and manufacturing engineering. Web and print resources are described and, along with bibliographic information, most entries include detailed annotations.

Farewell to Jessica Lemieux

Naturally, we have mixed feelings in announcing that Jessica Lemieux of Bancroft Public Services will be leaving the Library on Friday, September 15. We are very happy to congratulate her on her appointment as Assistant Archivist at SF Museum of Modern Art where she will be on the ground floor of establishing an institutional archive for the Museum. But of course we will also miss her greatly and acknowledge this as a huge loss for the Library. During her tenure at Bancroft, she has worked on a large number of exhibits, has been Curatorial Assistant to Theresa Salazar doing class presentations, research and correspondence, and various projects. She helped to process the records of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915, David Brower, and Save Mt. Diablo, and all this while managing our photocopy and ILL operation with efficiency and panache, training and supervising a large group of excellent student employees, and working three public service desks. She has been an exemplary co-worker and friend. Best wishes and best luck to Jessica.

Susan Snyder
Bancroft Library

Michelle Morton Completes Bancroft Assignment

Michelle Morton has completed a one-year post-doctoral appointment as a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) fellow at The Bancroft Library (Sept 2005-Sept 2006).

During her time at the Bancroft, Ms. Morton worked as a curatorial assistant for the Latin Americana portion of the Bancroft Collection. In that capacity, she worked on a number of special projects, including writing a guide to the Spanish/Mexican land grant cases housed in the Bancroft Library, consolidating a guide to the microfilm collections at Bancroft related to Mexico and Central America, helping with acquisitions related to these collections, and working the web page and on a guide to the reference collections related to our Latin Americana materials.

She showed keen interest in cataloging, processing and digital projects related to the Latin Americana collections. She also served on the reference desk, where she fielded queries about all aspects of material in The Bancroft Library. Through her efforts, the Bancroft Library has a number of new tools that guide researchers to key resources related to our holdings. Michelle is dedicated and focused, and we appreciated having her as part of the Bancroft staff.

Ms. Morton has shown a sustained interest in special collections work and in library work in general, and is now attending San Jose State, where she will be working on a Master's degree in Library and Information Sciences. We wish her luck in this endeavor.

Theresa Salazar, Curator
The Bancroft Collection, Western Americana
The Bancroft Library

Esther Fulsaas. 1941-2006

Esther Marie Fulsaas was born November 18, 1941 in Oakland, California to William and Esther Fulsaas. After a brief struggle with ovarian cancer, she passed away July 24, 2006 at her home in Berkeley surrounded by family and friends. She is survived by her elder brother Arthur Fulsaas and his wife Hilda of Juneau, Alaska; two nieces, Margaret Kugzruk of Fairbanks, Alaska and Camille Marshall of Juneau, Alaska. She also leaves behind five grand-nieces and nephews and numerous cousins. Her ashes are interred at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, CA.

A lifelong resident of Alameda County, Ms. Fulsaas was well known among her family, friends and colleagues as an accomplished musician, a brilliant catalog librarian, a quick wit and a fun-loving woman. She performed professionally for 16 years as organist for Central Lutheran Church in Oakland. Her extensive repertoire included a vast number of compositions by Bach, Mendelssohn and Brahms. She also excelled on the piano, recorder, harpsichord, French horn, trumpet, drums, trombone, and voice. She performed for many years with a local madrigal group, The Arch Street Irregulars. She received her Bachelors degree in Music History from UC Berkeley in 1964.

She completed her Masters in Librarianship here 1966, and began her 35-year career as a librarian with the UC Berkeley Libraries. As a catalog librarian, Ms. Fulsaas worked with many types of materials including government documents, non-music recordings and electronic media; however, the significant portion of her professional life was spent working in the complex area of serials cataloging. She was a well-known expert in this area, serving as an invaluable resource for librarians and staff throughout the UC Berkeley libraries as well as to serial librarians from other UC campus libraries. In 1986, Ms. Fulsaas became head of the Serials Catalog department at UC Berkeley. She retired from the University in 2002.

Her many hobbies included car rallies and racing. Her classic 1966 Jaguar E-type Coupe and her participation in the local Jaguar Club gave her many exciting experiences. Ms. Fulsaas enjoyed travel and her visual documentation of her trips to Asia, Europe, Canada, and nearly every state in the USA attests to her passion for exploration. Perhaps her favorite travel destination was Alaska, where she made numerous automobile trips over the years. She loved the wild and rugged scenery and the joy of visiting family.

Esther's quick wit, her love of a good joke, and her alter ego as Skimo the Clown provided us with constant surprise, respect for her individuality and the joy of seeing her bright blue eyes shine with laughter.

Lisa Rowlison