February 16, 1996
The Brown Bag Series on Collections continues next Wednesday, February 21, in the Ida Green Room, with Roger Kohn and Bill Ratliff sharing their curatorial worlds with us. Roger Kohn is the Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections at SUL; Bill Ratliff is Senior Research Fellow & Curator of the American, International & Peace Collections at Hoover. Roger will be talking about the ins and outs of buying collections in support of Stanford's Jewish Studies Program (now ten years old!) as well as how he shapes the collection to meet the program's needs. Bill has been travelling since our last brown bag, so the focus of his talk is unknown as of these News Notes but I guarantee he will have interesting stories to tell. Join us for these relaxed and pleasant lunch hours with our colleagues.
--Jennie Nicolayev, LASU Program Committee
I am pleased to announce that Eleanore Stewart, head of Conservation Treatment, is shedding her old responsibilities to take on the management of the Replacement and Reformatting section of the Preservation Department, effective January 1. Eleanore, always eager for a new challenge, is applying her creativity, problem-solving skills, and overall preservation expertise to guiding R&R into the future. R&R currently is at a watershed; while continuing to provide conventional services such as preservation microfilming and photocopying, it also is adapting digitization technology into a viable preservation option and is addressing more forcefully the reformatting needs of non-print materials such as videotapes. Eleanore is already immersed in her new position; she is helping launch the preservation portion of a digitization project involving dime novels and penny dreadfuls and is requesting background information to assess the condition of the videotape collection housed in Meyer, as well as learning the microfilming ropes.
We are fortunate that Maria Grandinette, preservation officer at the Hoover Institution, has agreed to become the new head of Conservation Treatment in SUL. Those of you who don't know Maria in her capacity at Hoover may remember her from 1992-93 when she was the Mellon Preservation Administration Intern at SUL. Maria has almost twenty years of conservation experience. Before coming to California, Maria was the head of the Conservation and Book Repair Unit in the Preservation Division of the University of Michigan Library. She also worked as a conservation technician at the Northeast Document Conservation Center and the New York Botanical Garden Library, as well as for the well-known book conservator, Laura S. Young. Maria is very professionally active; recently she has written several papers, given many talks, and is writing a book about collections conservation. Maria's first day in her new office in the Wilbur Mods will be March 11; please make her feel welcome. If you want to congratulate Eleanore on her new responsibilities, you'll have to catch her first. Until Maria settles in, Eleanore is maintaining a role in Conservation Treatment, even as she gets her feet wet in R&R. Until April 30, Eleanore also is assisting me carry out my duties as head of the Preservation Department while I work 50% at RLG supporting the PRESERV program.
--Connie Brooks, Preservation
Title: Electronic Information Resources Librarian
Rank: Assistant or Associate Librarian
Appointment
Salary Range: $29,532-$37,800, commensurate with experience
and qualifications
Position Available: April 1, 1996
The Science Library of the University of California, Santa Cruz, seeks an individual with excellent skills for the position of Electronic Information Resources Librarian. Position and Responsibilities: Under the direction of the Head of the Science Library, the appointee coordinates access to science information in non-print form, including mediated searching. CD-ROMs, Internet Resources, and other electronic formats. The appointee works with subject bibliographers in planning and implementing electronic access; then coordinates and facilitates training and current awareness in these areas for Science Reference Desk staff.
Commensurate with the high public service goals of the unit, the appointee coordinates and facilitates end user training on automated sources, including handouts, classes, consultations, and other related administrative duties surrounding end-user services. The Electronic Information Resources Librarian provides reference service in the Sciences including weekend and evening assignments; and participates in reference group planning and activities.
Under the direction of the Head of the Science Library, and in coordination with other Science Library staff, the appointee will plan for new automation in the Science Library, including identification, implementation, and training for new technologies in he UCSC Library and campus, and outreach in the Monterey Bay Region.
Qualifications:
Required: Graduate degree from an ALA-accredited school of librarianship, experience in science reference and library instruction, demonstrated knowledge of the Internet, demonstrated experience in planning and implementing technology in the support of library services, demonstrated project management skills, demonstrated strong communication and organizational skills, evidence of strong leadership skills including the ability to foster self-management and cooperation among science library staff, demonstrated effectiveness working with library patrons.
Preferred: demonstrated management or supervisory skills, previous responsibility for the coordination of a library function, experience in the design of Web pages, technical expertise with PCs, Macs, and UNIX workstations, prior experience working with a campus computer center staff.
The Campus and the Library: One of the nine campuses of the University of California, UC Santa Cruz is located in a redwood-forest setting overlooking the ocean, 75 miles from San Francisco, 25 miles from San Jose at the north end of the agriculturally rich Monterey Bay area. Approximately 10,000 students, including 900 graduate students are enrolled. The library collection of more than 1 million volumes is growing at a rate of 30,000 volumes annually. The library has a full-time equivalent staff of 140, of whom 30 are librarians.
Librarians at the University of California are academic appointees. They are entitled to two days per month vacation and one day per month sick leave. The University has an excellent social security/university retirement plan, as well as a variety of optional health/dental and life insurance plans. Appointees are subject to periodic peer review for career status, merit increase, and promotion, at which time they are judged on the basis of professional competence and quality of service within the library and to the extent that they are relevant, on professional activity outside the library, University and public service, and other creative activity. This position is represented by the University Federation of Librarians, AFT.
To Apply: Applicants should supply a complete statement of their qualifications, a resume of their education and experience, as well as the names of three (3) referees' names and addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses.
All letters and documents should be addressed to:
Kate McGirr, AUL-Human ResourcesClosing Date: The deadline for application is March 30, 1996.
Re: Position #T95-33
University Library
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA 95064Phone: 408.459.2076
Fax: 408.459.8206
E-mail: liboff@scilibx.ucsc.edu
Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. UCSC is an EEO/ IRCA/AA employer.
--Submitted by Joe Wible, Miller Marine Library
"Vladimirov's Russia" Watercolors (Exhibit Pavilion next to Hoover Tower, November 8, 1995 - March 1, 1996).
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