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August 1996
- How to find out if you're suffering from COOVS
(Chronic Olympics Over-Viewing Syndrome):
Do you feel semi-postal the instant NBC cuts from the actual
competition to one of its soft-focused boring and intrusive "up close and
personal" Olympic moments?
Do you find yourself rooting for non-American athletes just so NBC
won't whip out a canned "up close and
personal" Olympic moment?
Between cravings for Coke and McDonald's do you
find yourself seriously pondering just how the track and field atheletes
can move so fast wearing all that gold jewelry?
If you've answered "yes!" to any of the above questions, you're suffering
from COOVS, and it's time for you to change entertainment mediums. Thank
goodness for The New and The Cool: MRC Web Site Highlights & New Additions. All
memories of John Tesh and weightlifters' eating habits will soon be
erased from your mind.
- If you don't have Netscape 2.0 or higher loaded on to your pc, you're
not going to be able to view Internet Reference
Resources, and that would be a shame! This Frame-designed site
is really an information shopping mall. "Encyclopedias, Factbooks and
Ladies' Lingerie second floor!" Oliver Heyer has brought together in one
place the most frequently used internet informational resources that our
colleagues at the Reference Desks and Information Desk use to answer
patrons' questions. If you don't currently have Netscape 2.0 or
higher, and really don't want it, bookmark this page anyway because soon
Oliver will be bringing you a non-Frame version of the site.
- It was just a matter time until John Creaser's webbing of the Earth Sciences & Map
Library received the kind of recognition outside of The
Library that it deserved. The
McKinley Group's online editorial team has determined that EART's site,
under Mr. Creaser's tender guidance, has excelled in each of its criteria
for evaluating web sites, namely "Depth of Content," "Ease of
Exploration," and "Net Appeal." So, John's EART site has received a
4-star rating (the highest rating) from the smart folks at the McKinley
Group. Congratulations John and EART!
June 1996
- My job is to tell you all about the wonderful resources you'll find at
the fabulously polite Canada
Internet Resources page, but I'd rather make a pitch for the
brilliant and hysterical movie Canadian Bacon.
Ignore the scathing reviews it received from those humorless turkeys holed
up in the balcony. This film, now available on video, is a satirical
gem! Webchick says "check out both of these Canadian thangs!"
- Until I read the essays at
Overview of the South Asian Diaspora, I thought that
diaspora was something that was cured by massive doses of
Pepto Bismol. There goes my career as
Jeopardy! champ. To further enlighten
historical heathens such as myself, bibliographic guides on the topics of
Education & Language,
Sociology, and
Women are also available.
- Why are all of the streets that you need to navigate in Berkeley
blocked by concrete barriers? Why can't you make a left hand turn
anywhere in San Francisco? Why is there a
BlockBuster Video Store every 500 feet? Why
can't I find a plain old cup of coffee anywhere in the
Bay Area? Find answers to these questions and more, at Finding
General Plans for Cities & Local Communities.
- In case you've been watching too much CNN,
there's a lot more to
the Islamic world than terrorists and bad guys in Hollywood action
thrillers. Let
Selection of Periodicals and Journals in European Languages
and
Selection of Bibliographies and Reference Works lead
you to some interesting and thought-provoking materials.
- Need the latest vegan surf report? Contact a colleague at UC Santa
Cruz. Curious about the current state of beach volleyball? Buzz a buddy
at UC Santa Barbara. Want to find out how Cher's coping
with the big five oh? Call a cohort at UCLA. Reach out and touch a
fellow UC employee courtesy of UCSF.
- If there's one thing I've become an expert on in the last 7 months,
it's . Take it from an
expert, the new Library
Photocopy Services page designed by intern Brierly Ray is
delightful. I know I speak for entire Library staff when I say that the
section describing the best angle for photocopying one's
butt is much appreciated, and long overdue. Good job Brierly!
May 1996
-
Ahh, New York City in July. I can almost smell the rotting garbage, hear
the welcoming expletives, see the energized government document
librarians
sprint towards their next exciting meeting. ALA Annual is just around
the corner. If you're going, make sure you check out the barrel of
laughs outlined in the GODORT
Schedule ALA Annual Meeting, New York City July 5-9, 1996.
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The only folks who'll be disappointed by this page are Web surfers
looking for sites devoted to the life, loves, (and when he's not too
busy being a superfreak) music, of Symbol. The Court
Fee and Revenue Stamps of the Princely States of India
features some lovely graphics, but not one drop of purple rain.
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Sure, some people might be interested in the South Asian organizations,
media, education,
history of the South Asian diaspora and South Asian languages information
available through South Asian Diaspora
Electronic Resources. But this
constantly hungry person wants links to food! I want
a $5.99 all-you-can-eat buffet lunch, and I want it NOW.
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Their streets are clean, the taxi cab drivers actually brake at red
lights and they're genetically programmed to be polite. They gave us
Dudley Do Right, flannel shirts, hockey and a healthcare system
inferiority complex. Of course I'm referring to the Canadians. Whenever
I start to feel envious of our neighbors to the North, I think
of two little words: French Canadians. They've got 'em, and we don't.
God bless America! But if you've got a Francophilic hankering that
Paris just can't fill, tune into
Québec Internet Resources for a dose of
on-line attitude.
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It's not quite as earth-shaking as a hostile takeover, or the impending
motherhood of Madonna. But the merger of
Periodicals/Newspapers/Microforms
has left its mark on our users. It's a one-stop shopping operation now,
sort of like having a Super K-Mart on the first floor of Doe.
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I can barely find my way around the new maze-like environment of the new
Technical Services digs in the bowels of Moffitt, let alone get hip on
Geographic
Information Systems in the Earth Sciences & Map Library! If
these spiffy software packages can help me plot out the shortest route
between my cubicle and the bathroom, I'm all ears. Otherwise, I gotta go
(literally).
-
If you're looking for a place to have an election year mud wrestling
party, read no further. The Bancroft
Library Seminar Room is not the place for you. It's for the
use of UC Berkeley instructors whose courses use Bancroft Library
material. Ya hoo, don't bogart that Golden Spike dude.
April 1996
- Got Eyeballs? Don't know what to do with them? Wonder no more.
Martha Stewart tm and Heloise have graciously collaborated
with the Optometry Library to create
Resources in Optometry, Ophthalmology and Vision
Science, and
Library Resources in Optometry and Vision Science.
In these two pages you will find fun and easy-to-do projects such as:
stringing Christmas eyeball garland (green and
bloodshot eyes
preferred), and crafting original eyeball
jewelry
(blink goodbye to that glass eyeball crap). You'll also find a special
entertaining tips section that features a whimsical top-ten list of
why eyeballs are better than olives!
- I'm sure that your social calendar is just packed with fun and
enriching events, but these two programs presented by The Bancroft
Library: Ferlinghetti, City Lights, and the Beats in San Francisco, and
California Gardens from 1769 to 1915 are sure to
bring some added zing to your life! At these two sure-to-be-delightful
conferences, find out the hygiene secrets of your favorite dead alcoholic poets, and
a thousand and one hors d'ouvres ideas for the common garden slug. Yummy!
- Just how reputable is your health care provider if it doesn't provide
you with a good leeching once a month? Public Health has made this
all-important evaluation component much easier with: Health
Care Planning, Organization, and Evaluation Resources.
-
African American Microform Collections in the UC Berkeley
Library is your guide to over 10,000 microfilm reels and
microfiche from the Jackson Family Plastic Surgery
Archives. From LaToya's pioneering advancement of hair
extension science, to Michael's triumphant Diana Ross facial cloning, you'll
see stitch-by-stitch coverage of the historical butchering of one of
America's most talented and tormented families.
March 1996
- Feel like blowing town for a few days, but you can't find anyone
saintly enough to look after your dog whose had major bowel problems
since eating two cans of wet cat food (true story!)? Here are a
couple pages that kind of do that Calgon taking you away thing:
Other Regional and Local Government and Community Resources, and
Other States. I especially like the "Other Regional" page because
it
includes a link to the NYC
Demographic
Mapping Project. This site actually identifies the areas of
New York City where you will surely be sweared at by a cabbie,
propositioned by a hooker, and panhandled by a member of the touring
company of CATS. It was remarkable, I felt like I was
there!
- Feel like doing more to promote human rights than
just boycotting things made in China, and by General Electric? (I bet you
haven't bought anything for a very long time)! Get some
ideas for action by looking at
Human Rights
Resources.
- In my last installment of What's New, I
made some flip remarks about the somnambulistic content of Andrea Sevetson's webpage entitled,
GODORT Policy and Procedures Manual. Since making those
regretful remarks, Ms. Sevetson's entire Resources of
use to Government Documents Librarians website has been
honored by the website-rating Magellan corporation, and her site consistently
sports some very impressive useage statistics. If this weren't enough to make
this usually humble gal an absolute pain in bootocks to be around, now
it's very likely that Mattel is going to model its Librarian
Barbie (with a detachable bun, and wool mini-skirt no less)
after her! So, it is with great pleasure and supreme reverence, that I
direct your attention to Andrea's most recent additions to her
award-winning body of web work:
Resolution Regarding a Transition to a More Electronic Federal Information
System, GODORT's Principles on Government Information,
Whitepaper: Government Information in the Electronic Environment,
Depository Library Council Recommendations and Responses,
FDLP Study: Transition to a More Electronic Federal Depository.
- The Education-Psychology Library has graciously given job-seekers
another opportunity for fulfillment, frustration and rejection at
Job
Listings.
- The Public Health Library has put together a Pamphlet
File Subject Headings List of its most
depressing and disturbing publications. But at least now
there's a place I can go to find out more about the
mind-controlling electromagnetic fields that are being beamed into my
head by Burger King. Did someone say Whoppertunity?
- If that last paragraph left you feeling less than perky, this next
installment, courtesy of PUBL again, will leave you feeling less than
frisky.
Family Planning/Contraception/Abortion isn't exactly
foreplay,
o.k.?
- Ladies, trying to get in touch with your inner chick? Or your
chick's inner chick? Dudes, dying to find out how she so easily messes
with your mind? And why you like it and keep coming back for more? Women's
Studies Resources might just shed some light on these, and
other earth-shattering questions!
- We got 'em, people are using 'em. I'm referring to
Main Stack Study Rooms of course. But unless the definition
of "study" has been changed to denote the consumption of Bud Light,
Dorritos, and Domino's thick crust pizza with extra cheese, I think the
Lib
has been seriously duped! But who am I to complain? I've got a
party on Level C to crash.
- It's about time the Library proudly strutted its world renowned
collection of whips, chains and leather masks! I'm talkin'
Medieval Collections extraordinaire, and this is just the
beginning! Soon The Library will be consulting with the Walt Disney
Company on its Medieval World On Ice. At least Tonya Harding will be
working again.
- From this page, a lonely, bored, biologically-challenged, or curious
soul may view, or download the Bioscience &
Natural Resources Library Journal List, instead of watching
re-runs of Baywatch.
- All aboard! Have your tickets and Dramaminetm ready
because An Illustrative Sampling [of] Transportation-related Publications on the
Web includes links to press releases, technical reports and
newsletters.
- Allan Urbanic feels about Slavic studies the way I feel about Elvis.
He's an absolute Slavic information maniac. His not-so-secret
professional goal is to plant Slavic materials in every single collection
and room in The Library. Needless to say, Alski is one busy comrade!
Slavic materials in the Government & Social Sciences Information
Service is his most recent attempt to infilltrate the
second floor of the Doe Library.
- Here's one you definitely don't want to miss, or as the folks at
EART would say, HOYDDWTM! Dictionary of
Abbreviations and Acronyms in Geographic Information Systems,
Cartography, and Remote Sensing. Yeah, I'm sensing acronym
overload myself. Cheeze Louize, librarians!
January 1996
- The political posturing that has thoroughly saturated the media,
even my beloved tabloids, has once again brought it home to me that
American politics and politicians are ugly. The hair, the clothes, even
the empty rhetoric, has finally gotten to me. It makes me want to secede
from the U.S. of A and start my own country. Who's with me?! It
shouldn't be that difficult to do because GSSI has provided us with tons
o' fun information about how to develop a new and better social order with
its GSSI
Research Guide to Development Information. I'll tell you one
thing, MY new country will have more than one lousy Elvis stamp!
- Why does Barbie own a brand new hot pink Corvette, and I'm driving a
rusted out death machine? How has she managed to have simultaneous
careers as an astronaut, scuba instructor and President of the United
States, and I can barely work and take a few classes? What
has enabled that faux blond bimbo, and not
this faux blond bimbo to take
the world by storm and inspire and intimidate most young girls (and some
young boys)? Sociology:
Selected Reference Sources may just be the place to find the
most up-to-date and cutting edge literature on this deep and
earth-shattering subject.
- Find out from U.S. State
Department Microform Collections Relating to Eastern Europe
just how much vodka, caviar, cabbage and potatoes U.S.
ambassadors consumed in the name of diplomacy earlier this century.
- Super Bore XXX is over, the Dallas Cowboys won, and the jewelry
industry
couldn't be happier.
But I'm bummed out to say the least. I mean, the Cowboys have won so many
times, they don't even want to go to Disneyland anymore! I need to shake
off this blue (and silver) funk and get perky again. That's why I'm
really glad that the Education-Psychology Library has put together Psychology
Internet Resources. Of particular interest to me today is
the link to Mood
Disorders.
- Eeek! I just flashed on an image of Zero Mostel signing a rousing
chorus of "Attrition, attrition!" If you're feeling like it's time for a
new career, check out Jobs in Engineering [Web Manager note: web
page no longer available]. I wonder if Noah slipped a mickey into my
bagel this morning?
- Yup, ya just can't get away from us chicks. We're in books, in
films, on T.V., on the cover of Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue (I'm
the babe in the leopard bikini) and in microform. You read it right
honey, microform. Yeah, it's a petite format, but it
sure does pack a punch. Don't believe me? Check out the heavy hitting
sisters at UCB
Libraries Microform Sets In Women's Studies.
- If you thought that C-SPAN's congressional subcommittee coverage was
a total incomprehensible eye-glazer, take a peek at the
GODORT Policy and Precedures Manual. Each Government
Documents Round Table meeting must take at least three hours! And that's
just to take attendance! Pass me a pillow baby, I feel a nap coming on!
- Two documents that are being optioned by the Bummer Channel:
Report of the Academic Services Planning Group - December 8,
1995 and the
Administrative Services Progress Report - January 12,
1996. If these reports
make you feel agitated and depressed rather than tired and confused,
please see Psychology
Internet Resources immediately.
- Tracy Seneca's not just a close personal friend of
Charo's, she's the Library's Guide Guru. If you've
been wondering (and I know you have) which Library Information Guides are
available in print, available on the Library Web only, and which guides
need an author ('cause you're dying to write one), take a look at
Library Information Guides - Library Services and Policies.
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