What Was New on the Library Web - 1997 Archive
 Exhibits and Events
Electronic Resources - Known Problems
Electronic Resources - Trial Databases
News Archive
Current News
November 1997
-
Humor in the face of adversity may sound like another lame
Oakland Raiders marketing
gimmick, but I assure you, it isn't. It's what comes to mind when I read
titles such as: Sugar beeter, Tow sack tattler,
and Pea pickers prattle. What these cheery titles mask is
the serious subject matter of life in a U.S. migratory labor camp in the
late 1930s. The Government
and Social Science Information Service (GSSI) has kindly created a
research guide to the UC Berkeley Library's collection of migratory
labor camp papers.
-
Can't get enough of the Web? Can't click your way out of a paper bag? Don't
want to be a geek, but look like one anyway? I forgot the point I was trying
to make ... Oh yeah! Joe Barker, the
UC Berkeley Teaching
Library's internet guru extraordinaire (I say that and he's not even
my boss!) has once again come to the rescue of the Web-impaired and Web-deficient.
His comprehensive and useable guides to Meta-Search
engines, the meta-search engine Northern
Light, and the search engine Lycos,
are A tickets for sure!
-
If you are a busy working parent/person like moi, you are on a "need to
know basis." So when someone generously offered to explain to me the underlying
reasons for, and global ramifications of, Marv Albert's bicuspid assault, I sweetly smiled, allowed my eyes to
glaze over, and secretly thought about new strategies for changing my son's
diaper while he jumps around like a chimp on acid in his crib (which is
actually something that Marv may have expert knowledge on). Bottom line:
don't bother me with useless information! Which brings me full circle to
the reason for this rant - useful information. We, as information-seeking
and disseminating animals, must know the location of all the libraries
on this here campus! Not an easy task, but Ann
Moen has made our search easier with her new-fangled, easy-to-use
Map of the Libraries.
-
Everytime I trip over my husband's assorted power tools on my way to the
washer & dryer in the garage, I gently remind him that he does not
need to own every gadget and gizmo available for sale at the Home
Depot. For various prudent collection and financial reasons, the UC
Berkeley Library has learned this lesson, and has not purchased every book,
journal, serial, and Ronco Screw-o-matic under the sun. So when students,
faculty or staff members need material that we do not own, we can graciously
refer them to the Interlibrary Services
department, or the ILS
web site. This lovely site features playful, yet appropriate graphics courtesy
of Mary Scott, and excellent design
and mark-up by Janet Talley.
September 1997
-
The new web-based Melvyl® interface is so darn intuitive, you'd
think it was a Mac®. Well, I personally
need a little guidance with such new-fangled things. So when I can't reach
Dionne® and my Psychic
Friends® for assistance, I turn to the Teaching
Library's® guide: Melvyl® System via the Web.
-
The husband and I rented Jackie
Chan's Crime
Story over the weekend. What a disappointment! It had a real
plot, decent acting, no humor and in the first 30 minutes, absolutely . I could be wrong, but I have a feeling that
The Battle
for Mono Lake could be another excellent, but fu-less film.
-
As Xena says, Vanquish
Ignorance, and learn more about the South/Southeast
Asia Library, and the History
of Southeast Asian Studies at UCB.
-
UCB students, faculty and staff can literally now have information delivered
to them on a silver
platter. Online databases not available via Melvyl® are now
only a mouse-click, or two, or three, away!
-
Sometimes finding your way around a library can be a lot like navigating
the side streets of Berkeley - impossible! The good people at the
Public Health Library
understand this, and have created a wonderful page to help you find
what you need at PUBL.
July 1997
-
The BioScience Library reserve
forms are for faculty only. But
they are a fine example of how the Library, and especially the fine and
sensitive people at BIOS, are getting
more in touch with their clientle through electronic avenues. I feel an
internet group hug coming on!
-
Also from the electronic touchy-feely, gosh forbid we should talk face-to-face
once in awhile department, comes the Khush mailing list. According to the web page, "Khush is a mailing list
for gay, lesbian, bisexual South Asians and their friends." So if you're
a heterosexual Anglo Saxon without any friends, you'd be better off with
the BioScience reserve
forms.
June 1997
-
So, you thought that you could just stroll into the Public
Health Library and snagglepuss anything that you could lay your
greedy little hands on, and keep it forever huh? In your dreams buckaroo.
This here library has a circulation
policy. Honey, don't mess with these people, they know where you
live!
-
As all the internet teaching and learning world knows, Joe Barker has
created many fabulous Internet
Resources web pages. His latest triumph threatens to turn this web junkie
into a Pointer Sister! Of course I'm referring to Joe's Excite
web page. Here you will find detailed instructions on how to make this 50+
million site database do your evil bidding. Now, has anybody seen my silver disco
pants? I know they're around here somewhere ...
May 1997
-
Your partner just blew your life savings on lottery tickets, your kid just
announced that she's pregnant with Michael Jackson's second child, and
you've just discovered on your backside a scaley red patch that looks like Elvis. You need to visit the Health Sciences Information
Service Internet Reference Sources site now!
-
The evening MBA assignment: "Compare and contrast the managerial
styles of Bill Gates, Martha Stewart, the Skipper from Gilligan's Island,
and Captain Kirk as portrayed by William Shatner in the "Trouble with Tribbles"
episode. Take into account each manager's ability to make a coconut cream
pie from a floppy diskette without any power." Your response: Get
some help at the Evening MBA Program Support page.
-
The IMF's IFS on CD-ROM is part of the BIN at UCB, instructions courtesy
of GSSI at [webpage no longer supported] Get it, got it, good!
-
All I can tell you is that European
Union Press Releases & News prominently features the words
"Specific Organs."
-
Opening Remarks For Senator John Warner begins with: Thomas Jefferson
once observed, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects
what never was and never will be." John's been such a downer since
Liz dumped him.
-
Responses to questions - Dan O'Mahony Dan, what are you talkin' about here?
Instantaneous access to Bubba's lunch order at McDonald's???
-
Ohhh, our collection's not good enough for you huh? You need to
visit Chelsea's new school. Well then
you just go ahead and apply for your Berkeley/Stanford
Cooperative Library Card, and thank Tricia
McCarthy for the lovely
electronic form while you're at it.
-
O.K., so there's nothing about all you can eat buffets in
South
Asia Guides or Photographs,
Historical Documents, and Maps relating to the South Asian Diaspora,
but these sites are tasty nonetheless.
-
So what, you may ask, does it take to get an Agroforestry collection
named in your honor? Just ask Rudy
Grah.
-
Like you, I just feel so overwhelmed some days. It's exhausting being a
web goddess, sex symbol, wife, and mother. So instead of just kvetching
about my tough life, I'm going to find out how to clone myself. First stop
on the multiplicity road to relaxation is Molecular
Biology. Won't you join me?
-
What pigeons see.
-
At Planning
Resources on the Internet: Online Publications, Debby Sommer has
compiled "a 'collection' of online publications pertinant to city and
regional planning". Yeah, whatever. What's really cool is the
link to information about communes at her
Housing &
Real Estate page. Pass the patchouli oil
man.
-
It's a moisture
thang.
-
If you're not UCB faculty, staff or student: Can't
touch it!: Cambridge
Scientific Abstracts.
-
The Gulf
that keeps on giving.
-
It's one-stop ERIC shopping from EDP's
entrypage. Thanks people, you've rocked my educational world.
-
Color me liberal, but Beilstein
CrossFire Databases evokes some very scary William
F. Buckley Jr. images for me.
Copyright © 2005
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Last updated 11/16/05. Server manager: contact
|
