What Was New in the Library - 1999 Archive
 Exhibits and Events
Electronic Resources - Trial Databases
News Archive
Current News
December 1999
November 1999
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Coming soon! UC Berkeley AIDS Memorial design
competition and Web site.
The University of California, Berkeley AIDS Memorial Committee will
soon officially announce that it is sponsoring an architecture and/or landscape
architecture competition to design a memorial to the Berkeley students,
faculty, staff and alumni who have died in the international AIDS epidemic.
The memorial will be a permanent commemoration of our community's loss,
and a symbol of Berkeley's continued involvement and activity in the struggle
against AIDS. After the winning design is chosen by a panel of judges,
the Committee will work with campus Planning, Design & Construction
to develop the details for the proposed site, and with the Library
Development Office to raise the funds to create the memorial.
The AIDS Memorial Committee has chosen for the
site of the AIDS Memorial an open air light court within the Doe
Library. The light court was formed in 1949 at the time that
the Library Annex was added to the original 1911 Doe Library building.
The light court currently contains
boxed plantings, but its entrance door is usually
locked, and the space is at this time inaccessible to the public.
It may be viewed through several large windows along the first floor corridor,
the primary public corridor linking the south entrance of the Library to
the circulation area and stack entrance.
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Morrison Library Inaugural Lecture - Prof. Linda Rugg of Berkeley's Scandinavian Department will present her Morrison Library Inaugural Lecture at 4 pm in the Morrison
Library; the public is cordially invited to attend. Prof. Rugg's
presentation is entitled Male Reproductive Rights: Mark Twain, August
Strindberg, and Literary Paternity, and will be followed by a reception
in honor of the lecturer.
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The Townsend Working Group for Computers and the Humanities presents Martha Nell Smith "Poetics of the Dickinson Electronic
Archives & Beyond"
Friday, November 5, 10-noon
Social Welfare Library, 227 Haviland Hall
October 1999
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The Townsend Working Group for Computers and the Humanities presents
Ken Whistler with Joan Aliprand: "An Introduction to the Unicode Standard."
Thursday, October 21, 4-6 p.m.
Stone Seminar Room, The
Bancroft Library
Problems in getting various scripts to display, print, and be correctly
transmitted electronically over the Internet and World Wide Web have plagued
communication in the humanities in the past. The Unicode Standard provides
the solid foundation needed so that text can be transmitted between any
platform and across any geographical or language boundaries. Unicode is
a standardized universal set of character encodings which aims to ultimately
cover all the world's principal scripts, including ancient and modern languages,
as well as scientific notation. It offers a simple and efficient approach
to special and modified characters and is increasingly being implemented in software applications.
The incorporation of Unicode in projects that make text in multiple
languages accessible on the WWW is a desideratum.
This talk will be of interest to those whose work involves using a variety
of scripts, including faculty, staff, and students in foreign language
departments, The Library, international software development, and the sciences.
Further information on Unicode is available at: http://www.unicode.org.
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The Berkeley Writers at Work Series presents an interview with
Alan
Dundes, Professor of Anthropology and Folklore Thursday, October
14, noon to 1:30 in the Morrison Library, 101 Main Library. The event
is free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the public. No
reservations are needed.
The Berkeley Writers at work series highlights campus faculty who are
well-known for their writing. It provides an opportunity for them
to talk about their writing process, rather than the content of their work:
how do they get ideas? how much do they draft? revise? who else reads
their work before it's published? what's important in writing for them?
and so on.
Alan Dundes is one of the foremost folklorists in the United
States and author of numerous books on folklore, from case studies of Cinderella
and Vampires, to "Life is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder: A Study of
German National Character through Folklore," and a series of collections
of "Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire," including "When You're Up
to Your Ass in Alligators."
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The Reference Reading Room on the 2nd floor of Doe Library has re-opened!
The Reading Room will be routinely accessible Monday-Thursday 9am-10pm,
Friday and Saturday 9am-5pm, and Sunday 1pm-10pm (all hours that the Doe
Library is open). The Reading Room is for individual quiet study only.
Group study is welcome in the area outside of the Reading Room.
September 1999
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In conjunction with the California Labor History exhibit now
on display in the Doe
Library, there will be a screening of selected parts from the video,
"Golden
Lands, Working Hands"
Wed., Sept. 29 12 noon - 1pm (parts 2, 3, 5)
Wed., Oct. 6 12 noon - 1pm (parts 7, 9, 10)
Location: 122 Wheeler
Hall
The 10 part video series, produced by the California Federation of Teachers, documents 150 years of California labor history. It has been shown on various PBS stations and a copy is available for viewing by
UC students, faculty and staff in the Media
Resources Center.
The 9/29 showing features the rise of the Workingmen's Party
in the 1870s and anti-immigrant politics; contrasts union town SF with
open shop LA at the turn of the century as well as covers the Oxnard Beet
Workers Strike of 1903 and the first farm union led by the Japanese-Mexican
labor Alliance. Also included is the Great Depression/New Deal and the
SF General Strike of 1934.
The 10/6 showing features the Oakland General Strike of 1946,
the DiGiorgia farm labor strike of 1947-1950 and later the birth of the
UFW; explores the expanding labor-civil rights connection, the rise of
public sector unionism and the loss of industrial workers' rights; also
presents current struggles for full-time work, living wages, healthcare,
and dignity.
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In celebration of Labor Day, a labor history exhibit has opened
on the second floor of Doe
Library (near the east entrance to GSSI).
The "Resources in California Labor History" case displays primary
sources from the collections in the Doe and Bancroft libraries highlighting
the role of labor in California history. The items on display include labor
union constitutions and bylaws, convention proceedings, periodicals and
newspapers, agreements, pamphlets, oral histories, and some manuscript
materials, such as minutes, and represent labor union publications at the
state, national, and international levels.
Next to the "Resources in California Labor History" exhibit is
a freestanding display of twenty-three pictures taken from the video:
"Golden Lands, Working Hands," a ten-part series covering 150 years of California
labor history. Produced by the California Federation of Teachers, this
video presents the point of view of California's working people and their
labor movement, from the early struggles to establish fair wages and conditions
following the Gold Rush, through present day efforts for liveable wages,
full-time permanent jobs and affordable healthcare.
KQED, Channel 9,
will air the documentary Monday, Sept. 6 from 3-6pm. Funding
for the video was provided by CFT and other unions, the California Council
for the Humanities, Kaiser Permanente, and PG&E. Curricula materials
have been developed to accompany the documentary so it can be used in the
schools to teach labor history.
The exhibit was organized by Beth Sibley and Bill
Whitson in GSSI.
August 1999
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Grand opening August 23rd - Moffitt
Microcomputer Facility moves to the first floor of Moffitt Library!
The new site will include scanners, and soon the Student Computer
Consulting Service (SCCS).
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Grand opening August 24th - After two long years in a temporary
location, the beautiful Morrison
Library will re-open in its permanent location on the first floor
of Doe Library's north side. Until its re-opening, Morrison books may be
returned to the ILS after
hours bin, 133 Doe Library.
July 1999
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The Architecture Slide Library
will be closed July 26-August 9 to move to its new temporary
location in 492 Wurster Hall. We plan to reopen August 10.
June 1999
May 1999
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The Environmental Design
Library will be closed May 22-June 13 to move to
its new quarters on the top (5th) floor of Moffitt Library. We plan
to reopen June 14. ENVI books may continue to be returned through
our book drop in 210 Wurster Hall until we receive our new book return
box, which will be placed in the lobby of Moffitt. ENVI will remain in
Moffitt for two years while Wurster Hall is seismically retrofit.
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The Map Room will
be physically moving and merging with the Earth
Sciences collection into the newly renovated space in the basement
level of McCone Hall. The Map Room will be closed from
June 1 through June 11, reopening June 14th. The Earth
Sciences Library will remain open during our move. However, the map collections
will be inaccessible.
April 1999
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Laptop IP Service Debuts in the Main Library Stacks. Communication
and Network Services (CNS) is starting a pilot version of the Laptop IP
Service (LIPS) in the Main Library Stacks as a first round of testing before
this service is implemented campus-wide. LIPS is a drop-in laptop service
that uses Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) to provide dynamic
assignment of IP addresses for computers connected to LIPS-managed public
network ports. UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff are
eligible to use the service. UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff can
sign up for LIPS via a Web registration
page. For more information about the service and how to sign up for the
pilot, go to the LIPS
Web site.
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CalDay at
The Library - Saturday, April 17th, 9am - 4pm. Win a borrowing
card, explore exhibits, listen to a lecture, take a few tours and surf
the Net!
March 1999
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The Information Center
in the Doe Library will be closed during the Spring Break, March 22-26.
Patrons needing reference assistance are advised to go to GSSI (2nd floor Doe) and the Information Gateway (entryway level Moffitt).
Both GSSI and the Information Gateway will be open during the Spring Break M-TH,
1-5pm.
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Good News! Finally, after over a year of delays due to required permit approvals, the new Doe core elevator in Doe Library is open
and in operation. This new ADA compliant, large size elevator connects
all floors of Doe Library from the basement to the 4th floor.
It is located at the SW corner of the old Doe Core. Access to
the new elevator can be gained from the Doe south entry, via the south
corridor (past temporary Morrison
Reading Room, Book
Sale Room and temporary SSEAL).
The completion and opening of the new elevator is one of the last construction
issues of the Doe Core Demolition and Seismic Upgrade Project (Doe Step
2).
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Exhibit Documents the History
of Affirmative Action at UC Berkeley. The exhibit will be on display
from March 1 through April 19 on the first floor of Doe
Library.
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The
Research Advisory Service is back to help undergraduates! The
Research Advisory Service is located in the Reference Center, 2nd floor, Doe
Library. Appointments will be available Monday-Friday, 1:00 pm-5:00pm (with the last appointment at 4:30 pm) from March 1 through May
7.
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Earth
Sciences Library will close during move.
The move of the Earth
Sciences Library from the Wellman Trailers into the newly renovated
McCone
space is scheduled for March 19 through April 1, and the library
will be closed during this period.
February 1999
January 1999
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January 20, the California
Digital Library Web site is officially released.
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Database Advisor for Science and Engineering. This service will help you decide which
of the Libraries' 30+ science and engineering databases to use to locate
the articles and other materials you need. It is designed to use a simple
keyword search to determine which databases would cover that topic.
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Graduate Services will
be closed until January 19 while the collection is being prepared
for its move to 208 Doe.
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