V. 1, no. 8 OF THE U.B.C. LIBRARY STAFF NEWSLETTER MAY I965 Inventory was a Bust WHY ARE YOU DOWN ON YOUR HANDS AND KNEES? As the entire WORLD must know by now, May has been a month of checking^the vital statistics - no, this is not a plug for Pat's Beauty Contest. Instead, INVENTORY, "the annual or so disease", attacked the total library and library staff. In former years, the effects of Inventory have always created a certain stir. This year, however, Inventory caught every book, bookie, bookworm, book-reader, and book-worker in the library for the first time since approximately 1958 or 1959. The consequences deserved an audio-visual historical recording for perpetual library archival posterity. In memoriam we: (a) SALUTE highly the Cataloging and Circulation Division staffs - Inventory strikes hardest here. (b) TRUST not too many potential friends were lost in the Inventory "Two-somes". (c) THINK entire staff rates "noble effort" cards. (d) HOPE pink jeans will be out of style for next Inventory - prefer "fiesta". SALUD! - from BIBLOS THE MYSTERIES OF OTTAWA OR, WHAT I LEARNED ON A RECENT TRIP by Basil Stuart-Stubbs Man of the Month When opened, the National Library building will not carry a personal name, but will be the National Library and Archives Building. The building will be completed late in 1966, barring major strikes, and the official opening will be in 1967. Since it will be the only public building completed in 1967 in Ottawa, the opening will be a Big Affair, including maybe the Queen. The building is fully air conditioned, has a capacity of almost 3 million volumes, a total floor area of 13 acres. The main structure of the building is completed. About 60,000 volumes have been accessioned for the National Library, 19,000 are now included in the subject catalog; this is a classed catalog (Dewey) with bilingual indexes. "58,OD0 volumes have been given a preliminary listing, and 79,000 volumes have been catalogued for Canadians. The National Library, therefore, contains about 200,000 volumes at present. In addition they subscribe to 5,000 periodicals, and hold 16,000 titles as backfiles. The document collection fiumbers 19,000 and over 100,000 titles are available on microform. A two-volume cumulated index to Canadiana, 1950-62, will be available this fall. Records of Canadian publication for 1964: Books 1932 Pamphlets 1168 Federal documents 3981 Provincial documents 2633 Requests to the Union Catalog for locations are increasing. The daily average in 1955/56 was 15 per day, and is now 132 per day. In March 1965, there were 3,824 requests for locations. Locations needed urgently should be specified, even on Telex requests; citations are helpful. Seventeen libraries now use Telex. In January 1964, 47 requests were received by Telex, compared with 426 in March 1965. The Union Catalog is now receiving 2,000 reports of new accessions per day from 224 cooperating libraries. In 1964/65, 457,788 reports were received, compared with 138,306 in 1955/56. It is hoped that the Bibliography of Canadiana, 1867-1900, will be printed in I967. Five universities (including U.B.C.) have agreed to cooperate in a scheme whereby the National Library microfilms doctoral theses, catalogs them for Canadiana, and sells prints when requested. This will supersede our arrangements with University Microfilms. A microfilm series of early Canadian official publications is contemplated. The National Library and National Science Library have access to data-processing equipment at D.B.S. and the Bureau of Taxation, so they have little difficulty With key-punching. The Canadian Union List of Periodicals in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and the new edition of Scientific Serials in Canadian Libraries is being keypunched in the same format. It will be possible for us to acquire a list of our own periodicals from Ottawa; the two files can be merged and sorted by location. The Science Union List will be available by the end of the year. The data will be stored on magnetic tape,,.using the IBM 360 computer system in conjunction with an IBM 1403 line printer, equipped with upper and lower case print chain. ■5- ODDS AND ENDS Wanted - a Man Male staff members either (a) beware, or (b) brush up on thy- Richard Burton vocal chords. The Reference Group (comprising of Subject Division Heads) has been investigating alternate means of offering library instruction - as opposed to the personal lecture method now used. The "Investigating Committee" headed by Anne Brearley has decided to try out library instruct ion si ides to be used in conjunction with an instruction tape. A male voice is required to read the instruction script. While the new program will probably not be ready in time for use at Summer School, it is quite possible that male voice auditions will be held in the near future. Another Winner Poise and personality are here again. Pat Q'Rourke names another of the top 6 in his Beauty Contest. Fanfare! Cheers to Lynne Scott (Front-Office) or, as she is known to BIBLOS (the friendly BIBLOS typist). Who's next? HARK! HARK! -Again, BIBLOS hereby announces an extension of the deadline for the 1965 installment of its annual Poetry Contest. After much discussion, it was decided that INVENTORY is a prime subject for poetic perusal and that a little extra time would be needed for best creative results. This^ coupled with a mass BIBLOS staff exodus for the month of June, has extended the deadline to JULY 23, 1965. However, poems wi11 be printed the same month they are received, and we hereby offer two May entries. MOTHER NATURE V FATHER SCIENCE or How I learned to Suspect the Former and Believe the Latter- -once I found my way around the stacks. Once I just read Literature and poems, both great and small. Rhyme prevailed o'er reason 'til I heard Science call And now Sweet Nature's Order intrigues me not at all. •Cos now for me its M.A.O.'s and heterocyclic rings, Linear servo-systems and Scientific Things. Note the superior judgement this Pure Knowledge brings! "Sing a song of sixpence, a pocketful of rye"? Ergotoxine poisoning was coming to that guy! "Ten thousand saw I at a glance", of daffodils said Wordsworth. This reckless computation is another source of more mirth. "Come into my parlor.." is another down-right lie! These words were never uttered and never heard by fly! "Horns locked in combat", said the Bards, speaking of "harts found panting". Their cellular construction is what I find enchanting. "Darling little red-wings flying home to rest"? What self-respecting Phoenicus would be caught winging West? To think that I was once enthralled by Donne and Robert Herrick, When my reading might have been so jolly polymeric! Chekhov really can't compare with Neurophysiology, And Proust's no match at all for dramatic Roentgentology. Thermal conductivity and warm transonic flow Replace for me the cooler tones of Frost and C. P. Snow! Yes, I've really made the transfer and I'm sure it's for the best I mean, ultra-violet spectra, isotopes and all the rest Are really one great saga of Scientifie. Quest. So, Fare-Thee-Wel1 Humanities from a polypeptide zone, But don't forget this Scientist's no further than your phone When you want back your Westerns on my extended loan! B. McAully Woodward -7* How timely,... How timely should a system be For a University, Especially, its Library, The ever-growing knowledge tree? Should the system with the knowledge rhyme And date back to the dawn of time Or should it point progressively Towards science fiction theory? Two incompatible extremes For our Library, it seems, When in the twentieth century One poor chap carr.ies grudgingly Twenty thousand books a year On his arm from the bindery Right into the knowledge tree, Because the catacombs are crooked And bring a truck soon to a halt And all because the supersonic Conveyor belt is not installed. The present system dates back, indeed, Not to the medieval creed, Neither to the Roman days Which had their transportation ways, Not even to the stony age, But to a prehistoric stage: From this time our custom stems To carry things in our hands! Roby Prebind -8- Positions Vacant Head of Social Sciences reference division serving faculties of Arts, Commerce and Education. Subject background in the social sciences and reference, and administrative experience desirable. To plan and administer a program of reference services in a Social Science Division with a staff of three professionals (including head) and four non-professionals. University has student body of 16,000. Library has collection of 800,000 and there are substantial funds available for a major expansion of the collection. Salary of $8,100. Good retirement plan and medical, group, disability, and (provincial) hospital insurance. Four weeks vacation. First Assistant (Librarian III) to Head of Serials Division responsible for the acquisition, recording, partial servicing and binding of periodical publications. Serials Division has a staff of 23« First Assistant will directly supervise the work of a librarian, five library assistants and two clericals, and assist in the revision of records and the planning of an automated serials system. Minimum salary $6,900. Resignations Government Publications lost Lorraine Lintner on May 20th. Future resignations include Barbara Raue, Circulation and Ellen Brown, Curriculum Laboratory - both on June 8, 1965. Millions of New People Serials Division gained Leo Cullen, Library Assistant, on May 1, 1965. Marilyn Meister, Library Assistant, on May 10, I965 and May Vool, Clerk II, on May 3, 1965. Julie Abell, Clerk II, joined the Catalog Division on $ May 3, 1965 and Gennis Walcott will join Cataloging as a Library Assistant on June 1, 1965. Circulation Division now have Penny Clark, Clerk 1 I, as of May 3, 1965. Emma Plett, Library Assistant, as of May 1, 1965 and will have Margaret Litzcke, Clerk I, as of June 9, 1965. Acquisitions Division acquired Marjorie Wool lam, Clerk II on May 19, I965, Patricia Shandruk, Clerk I, on May 25, 1965 and will acquire Jean Bradley, Library Assistant, on July 5, I965. Social Sciences will have Patricia Brennan, Clerk I I, on June 7, 1965» Promotion Paulina Kirman, Acquisitions, was promoted from Library Assistant to Senior Library Assistant on May 1, 1965. Transfers Sonja Sanguinetti moved from Library Assistant in Circulation to Library Assistant in Acquisitions on May 1, 1965, Anne-Marie Lunney moved froirt Cataloguing to Clerk II in Science on May 25, 1965. -10- Wedding Recently, Colleen Cameron (Acquisitions) became Mrs. Frederiksen, Of Potential Interest The Vancouver Historical Society will hold its first annual banquet on Saturday, June I2th, I965 at "Hycroft", 1489 McRae Avenue. Guest speaker will be Dr. Kaye Lamb, Dominion Archivist.Tickets $3.50 each, Tickets and further information can be obtained from Mrs. G. Bowes, RE 8-7682 and Mrs. J. K. Stathers, RE 8-7334. Another Transfer Joyce Cummings, of the Social Sciences Division, has transferred to a new position as Librarian in the School of Social Work reading room. And a swimming pool in the same buiIdingi Through the Mail it Came THE SHOREY BOOK STORE 815 Third Avenue Seattle, Wash. 98104 STUBBS LIBRARY UNIV. OF B.C. VANCOUVER 8, BC CANADA ATTENTION: BASIL STUART -11- BOOK OF THE MONTH QL 513 T3 M36 1939 Marais, Eugene Nielsen, 1872-1936. The soul of the white ant; with a biographical note by his son.,. —black ant of the family, no doubt. o A Helpful Cross-Reference East Europe Q see Europe, Eastern 0 o -12- And Still They Transfer Diane MacNair, ex of the Social Sciences Division moved to Government Pyblications on May 25, 1965. On June 7, 1SJ65, Susan Lissack, Secretary for Social Sciences Division will transfer to Government Publications. WELL, WE HAD TO FILL THIS SPOT WITH SOMETHING BIBLOS peoples Marilyn Berry Sedgewick Jill Buttery Science Ture (we found him) Erickson Woodward Jeannette Fish Law Pat Gorgenyi Acquisitions Susan Lissack Social Sciences Jay Kincaid FAR Mike Matthews Circulation Eleanor Mercer (Recording Secretary) Extension Lynne Scott (typist) Front-Office BIBLOS deadline for June is - please - June 25th, 19651 VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY VACANCY Head, Catalogue Division, 7 subject divisions, 8 branches. Extensive experience in cataloguing and demonstrated administrative ability preferred. Librarian III. Salary range $6808 - $8111, with usual benefits. Apply: Miss M. Sing, Personnel Director,
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