V. 2, No. 11 of the U.B.C. LIBRARY STAFF NEWSLETTER M&RGH 1966 A PARTING SHOT Another year's issue of BIBLOS draws to a close. Biblos staff say thanks to our many contributors throughout the year. Special appreciation goes to Lynne Maclver, our sometimes-frantic typist, and to Mr. Bob Frew, Mining S- Metallurgy Print Shop for their faithful reproductions of our efforts. On a less encouraging note (from our standpoint) enthusiasm and contributions for this year's poetry contest are, to say the least, inadequate - but cheers to the FEW who valiantly conjured up lines, thoughtfully and otherwise. On a more encouraging note - we introduce and wish good luck to the new 1966/67 Biblos staff. May they be blessed with a rash of contributors. For names of the fortunate volunteers turn to page END. Music to our ears 19th August 1966 Mr. Basil Stuart-Stubbs Head Librarian Campus Dear Mr. Stuart-Stubbs, Our visitors to the campus have been extremely pleased with the organization of your service before their arrival and with their reception during their seven-week stay. Invariably when dropping in to say goodbye, they mention how helpful your staff has been. I would appreciate your passing on this note of appreciation to those concerned. Yours sincerely W. H. Auld Director of Summer Session P.S. And a big X to all from King Basiieus. News 'n Notes Student Orientation Tours. Ture Erickson in charge. Numerous "volunteer" Libniks will be escorting groups of students through the complex, September 12 - 16. Tours will start from Sedgewick at 10 and 11 a.m. and 2 and 3 p.m. And a reminder that all students will be allowed into the stacks during library hours this year. Division Heads Please Note. Student Assistant Hiring. John Grey, Cataloguing, will be interviewing and hiring during the week of registration, Sept. 12 - 16, down at the Personnel huts. Social Security Numbers. Al1 student assistants must have one. Make sure that they check with the payroll office when first hired. No pay cheques will be issued without a social security number. There will be no exceptions. Severence Pay. All student assistants are entitled to severence pay. Please make sure they know this. If they are leaving campus before their final cheque is prepared, they should leave their correct forwarding address with the division for which they are working. Hourly help of all kinds must have social security numbers for payroll and are eligible for severence pay. Book moves and new locations are best described as follows: Main Library Reserve Book Collection servjes post-grad and upper year (3rd & 4th) courses (except biomed, Woodward and Math) and al1 years Education (see also Curric Lab.) Sedgewick serves all first and 2nd year needs (except Education), and 3rd and 4th Arts and Commerce RESERVES (except Math). Math Library, ground floor of Math Bldg. Now contains QA 1- 799 material formerly in the Main Stacks. Serves upper years and grad course math needs. Curriculum Laboratory in the Ed. Bldg. Serves Ed. students. Houses actual classroom textbooks and teaching aids PLUS all the Methodology material formerly in Main, Sedgewick and Reserve. New staff Acqui si tions Ann Diano, Lib. Asst.; Judith Hall, Lib. Asst.; Doralynne Gutkin, CI.I; Heather Thompson, Lib. Asst.; Nora Williams, CI. L; Georgia Linley, Lib. Asst.; William Johnson, Clerk I; Taj a Bhavan, CI. II. Biomed. Branch Maya Veleglevac, CI,I Cataloguing Judy Inouye, Lib. Asst.; Mary-Ann Epp, Lib. Asst.; Janet Ellis, Lib. Asst.; Carolyn Stewart, CI. I; Pat Ord, Lib. Asst.; Freda Bailey, Librarian; Angela Schmidt, CI. I; Jean Bryfogel, Sr. Lib. Asst.; Barbara Ross, CI. I; Barbara Heuer, CI. I Ci rculation Tannis Havelock, CI. I; Diana Clarke, Lib. Asst.; Ruell Smith, Lib. Asst; Kathleen Langton, CI. I; Eveline Van Ginkel, CI. I; Judith Scliwarz, Lib. Asst. Fine Arts Barbara Little, Librarian Forest ry-Agricul ture Sharon Stanwell, Lib. Asst. Government Publications Dorothy Martin, Librarian Math Library Carole Goldsmith, CI . I Periodicals Reading Room Patricia McCalib, Librarian Prebindery Charles Hill, CI. II Science Judi th Crape, CI. II Sedgewick Shannon Patterson, Librarian Serials Ann Gardner, Lib. Asst.; Marilyn Freeman, Librarian; Mary Chow, CI. I; Ian Lee, Lib. Asst, New staff (Cont'd.) Social Sciences Lois Carrier, Division Head Special Collections Joan Mitchell, Lib. Asst.; Frances Woodward, Librarian Woodwa rd Roswitha Haas, CI. I; Elli Gomber, CI. I MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: Harvey Christensen, Stack Supervisor at Woodward Derica Dennigan, Clerk III, Xerox in Circulation Gwen Deachman, Library Assistant in Humanities Frances Tudge, Clerk IV in the Prebindery Kathy Beynon, to Clerk II in Acquisitions Robin Williams, to Library Assistant in Serials Alice Thomas to Clerk II in Cataloguing Sue Keevil to Head of the new Math Library Lore Brongers to Head of the new Forestry/Agricul ture Library George Freeman to Head of the Social Work Library S. Y. Siu to Library Assistant in the Math Library Dorothy Nepaulsingh to Clerk II in Humanities Isa Fiszhaut, Librarian in Social Sciences LEFT AND LEAVINGS: Acquisitions - Suzanne Bowden, Mary Popow, Bob Haxton, Joyce Chu, Natalie Smortchevsky. Biomed. Branch - Luba Skripnikoff. Cataloguing - Ursula Compes, Nona Konya, Jeremy Pal in, Marianne Gerber, Margrethe Hooper, Lena Grunig, Pam Boulden, Helene Mitton, Sasha Miller, Ci rculation - Chris Maxwell, Fran Johnson, Marg Price, Florence McKay, Ursula White. Fine Arts - Diane Rosebrugh. Law - Valerie Roddick. Prebindery - Bronson Little. Science - Annabel Henderson, Annmaree Lunney Seri als - Marilyn Meister, Richard Landon, Ken Telfer. Social Sciences - Head, Ann Brearley to Library School faculty. Social Work Library - Head, Joyce Cummings, Special Collect ions - Blair Cowan, Pat Ludwick. Woodward - Margaret Leighton, Elisabeth Jupp, Donna Arola. A NEW LIBRARY BRANCH INSTITUTE OF FISHERIES LIBRARY Biological Sciences Bldg. Staff: Huibert Verwey, A.S., B.Sc, B.A., M.A., M.L.S., F.G.S. (Phil.), Head. Penny Vroom, Assistant, AIM: To make available to faculty, researchers and graduate students the widest possible range of published information dealing with all aspects of hydro-biology. The Library's RESPONSIBILITIES: Demands for scientific information appear in three distinct forms* 1. The need to keep the faculty, researchers and graduate students abreast of developments in all areas of hydro-biology [i.e. current awareness] 2. The need to supply them with the most up-to-date answer to specific questions [i.e. references] and 3. The need to furnish the scientists with reports on all the work done on a given subject over a specified period of time [i.e. exhaustive searches] In an attempt to fulfill these effectively, the Institute of Fisheries Library shall contain only highly specialized material mostly in reprint form. Catering to the demand for this often inaccessible material, the library carries on an active exchange program of scientific articles with various institutional libraries throughout the world. Some 35 foreign countries are presently being served with the reprinted contributions from the Institute of Fisheries and a good efficient liaison with leading foreign scientists now exists. This world exchange of scientific information is one of the library's prime functions. As can be expected, scientific research in this field is being carried on in all languages, particularly Russian. In an effort to alleviate the language barriers, the exchange and dissemination of existing translations in the language of "need" will be used. At present over 7,000 card-entries representing Russian translations in the field of marine-biology, ecology, and oceanography are being reviewed and selected for inclusion in the collection. Extensive research and preparation of future translations will be carried out cooperatively. The library will work closely with such agencies as the Clearing House for Federal Scientific and Technical Information (CFSTI), the European Translation Centre (ETC), the National Lending Library (NLL), the Special Libraries Association (SLA), the National Oceanographic Data Centre (NODC), Russia's All-Union-Institute (VINITI), the National Research Council, Canada (NRC) , and many others. Thus, a two-fold mission exists: to make both published and unpublished translations available and to prevent duplication of translation effort. A housing shortage prevents material of a general nature in zoology, marine biology, ecology, limnology, and oceanography being part of the present collection. These are being kept in the Woodward Library. Only pertinent primary and secondary sources such as periodicals, annals, indexes, abstracts, dictionaries, etc. will be in the Institute of Fisheries Library. Acquisitions will be handled by Woodward and the ultimate duplication of relevant material presently in Woodward is anticipated, FUTURE PLANS: 1. Plans for a new building have been completed and construction will start in the near future. 2. Future storing of non-book materials in microfiche form is envisaged to ensure the availability of all desired material in the Library. This non-circulating material precludes missing and/or unavailable material and will undoubtably same money, time and space. Simplicity, efficiency, effectiveness and enthusiasm are the key to the new Institute of Fisheries Library. For further good public relations Sedgewick has recently ordered: THE INSULT DICTIONARY how to be abusive in five languages. London, Wolfe, 1966. and NOW - on to the REAL REASON for this issue ... THE ANNUAL POETRY CONTEST * " Contest general 1 implies COMPETITORS. This year we have exactly SEVEN - a lucky number, no doubt, but only SEVEN out of over 250? For your convenience and the safety of the contributors we have numbered the entries. Our motto - VOTE BY NUMBER - J3UT VOTE ', Write the number of your choice on a pice of paper (below) and drop it in the _»Bko5 in the Staff Lounge by FRIDAY, September 9th. Wei re counting on your vote - one per staff member - so is the present Poetess Laureate ! (tear ajoncj dotted I ine) Poetry Contest : Ballot - No. 1 A LIBRARY'S JUNGLE OF VERSES TO THE FRONT Basil Stuart-Stubbs and Bill Bell FROM US the Staff For the long nights you lay awake And pondered problems for our sake: For your most eloquent appeals On our behalf for better deals: For all the pains within the head And times you've wished that we were dead For all you suffer, all you bear Through good, bad, mad days every year:- From all the staff, both new and old, Take now this tribute to the bold. And for the staff who read these rhymes In bright or murky library climes, We speak in one great dulcet voice - "Despite all the complaints, moans, groans emitted all year, we are working here - it must be by choice! 2 TRAVEL To all those staff members who lived through book-buying expeditions this year: Upon command they rise and go Where the golden bookstores grow;- Where beneath a foreign sky Many sets do anchored lie; And watched by dealers, clutching notes, In many a shop they hang their coats,- In rain or sun they ventured out. East and west they scoured about, Seeking rich goods near and far, Some delightful, some bizarre;- In book jungles climbing bold (Hope these shaky ladders hold!) Listening close and giving ear When the loot is seeming near. 10 Spending money left and right - Over a million - what a sight! Sending home the myriad prints - Growing chaos ever since. And when kindly falls the night And the bars are closed up tight To Inns they trundle those men and women Feeling almost superhuman. Knowing they have dispelled some gloom From 0/P lists. And given room For thought at home. "How will we cope With all this stuff? See what happens when given scope To buy?" But the writings's on the wall - Every corner we'll fill, with joy. A gift horse one does not annoy! 3 ONE STEP FORWARD (in the Reserve Book Collection) We were all in such a state Because we couldn't ventilate, Until those elves from B&G Decided to end our misery. They tackled the problem with "main and might" Now Colonial shutters are our delight. But please, do any of you antique lovers Have spare "early American" typewriter covers? 4 SYSTEM (Ci rculation) Every night we said our prayers, And faced the SYSTEM every day. And every day that it was good We said, "It's in a jolly mood! " Now that SYSTEM we have beat. Cards and badges it will eat. Rare its fits of jndigestion. Beneficial? Without question. 11 TIME TO RISE Alarm clock with its piercing shrill Your cursed voice we'd gladly kill. From our beds we blindly stray To shut you up- then hit the hay. OUR B & B LAND - or, it's great to work in UBC Library When at your post alone you sit, And you are very tired of it, You have just to shut your eyes And dream of being otherwise. To dream of being far away - Like in the Staff Lounge half the Or on green, bedecked lawn out th Where all the student bodies are, Where the wind sings through the t' And the sprinklers whirl with ease To sit upon that green expanse And challenge first place with the ant While 'round the fountain's spray There passes The post-war boom - Educated masses. Meanwhile, back at the book factory When your eyes you once again Open, and see all things plain; Grim white walls, and pale tiled floors, Rows of knobs on catalogue drawers, Many people perched on chairs, Those heavy fire doors on the stairs, Each a challenge when you climb, Muttering strong phrases all the time. And, oh me, Another trek to see The keypunchers on floor eight, _ (If this keeps up, we'll lose some weight.) 12 And a bright spot in the day - on floors three and five The Display Committee comes alive With cases and murals to dispel dark patches From halls and minds. But look - our watches (The clocks often differ) show "Time" - shake out the lead Rush off home - and late to bed. 7 HERE WE GO ROUND THE SERIALS FILE. ( trad. ) A journal? Why yes Sir -No t rouble at a 11 - They're all alphabetical Right there in our file. For 'Blood' look under B And for 'Gut' look under 'Mouse Newsletter' - M, Any trouble - ask again. Our motto around here, Sir, is service with a smi You'll find anything you want, Sir, in our Serials File. You're looking for 'The Bulletin Of the Entomological ... ' What Sir? ... Society ? And you've been trying under B? I cannot think how, Sir, but I quite forgot to say We don't think that's d i st inct i ve; we prefer the other way. So look for the Society and this time, Sir, look under E. A-ah, yes! 'Entomological Society of America, Bui letin'. There you are! It's nothing Sir; you're welcome. It takes a little while, But you'll find that you'll soon, Sir, love our Serials file The 'Acta Biologica' That comes from Hungary? It's not under A And its not under B? You've looked under Acta Nova Series B iolog ica Un iversitas (Which sounds 1ike a group) And you can't find a d--n thing wherever you look? Why that's an insti tut ion. We record it differently. It's not at all the same, Sir, as a society. You do, follow me, don't you? ( I just saw your face ) This time you look for the name, Sir, of the pi ace. A_an> X£S- 'Szeged, Hungary. Tudomanyegyetem. (Founded 1940) Acta universitatis szegediensis. Acta biologica. Nova 'series' Any more queries? It's nothing, Sir; You're welcome. It takes a little while, But you'll find that you'll soon, Sir, love our Serial File. This one is Spanish Remember what we said? But first let me ask you Sir Which words have you tried? Trabajos! Instituto! Santi ago! Consejo! Cient i fi cas! Ramon! And even Caj al! And it wasn't under any of them at all? But this one's governmental - perhaps I should explain - This G.D.» sort of thing, Sir, is entered under Spain. A-ah, yes! 'Spain. Consejo Superior de Investigacione Cientificas. Instituto Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Trabajos That's the one for us! It's nothing Sir; you're welcome. It takes But you'll find that you'll soon, Sir, love a little while, our Serials file. --' G.D. - Government Document 14 This last one's Japanese? Urn ... I have to agree That the whole queer thing Looks distinctive to me. Perhaps You would leave it I think that I'll need a dictionary gazeteer list of letters world atlas 'World of Learning' and several other things beside.' Perhaps I should warn you Sir, it may take quite aS/hile But by ten o'clock tonight, Sir, you'll love our Serials file. 8 For All Ages Listen my children and ye shall see What does a Library mean to me? It means those books, those endless pages Books for students of countless ages Books for learning, books for living, Books for buying, books for giving. Books in Print and books 0.P. Books from way across the sea. Books of wisdom, books for fun, Books not even yet begun. Books of histories lost in time, Books on acting, books on mime. Books of poems light or ponderous, Books of fiction wild and wondrous. Books for Teachers, Dentists, Teachers, Books for Engineers and Preachers. Books for any field you name, Books to set the mind aflame. Books on Law and books on science, The smuggled book of brave defiance. Books to challenge Books to plan, The meaning for this dot called man. And if as man does oft extol The eyes are windows for the soul. What better place the eyes to look Than in the pages of a book. 15 Student assistants in Circulation were a little punchy by the last day of Summer Session and came up with this pneumatic tube effort. It all started with "Please add a line to our poem'" - The day is fine, our job is thru' Although you've been a friendly crew We hate to leave, the work was ... fun (?) But summer's gone, it's all been done! We've paged and sorted and bookbinned - We've gossipped, chatted, sang and s---ed, - 3 weeks reprieve, oh aren't we gay! Oh fabrious day, calou, callay. Downstairs they gasped in disbelief When through the tube we cried, "Relief!! " The coffee breaks we grabbed in haste, The pencils, stamps and ink and PASTE! - And while we're at the bin - cavorting Pat yells out, "You should be sorting! " MESSAGE FOR STAFF HELP SAVE THE LIBRARY FROM THIEVES AND VANDALS! ! The University Patrol has found many doors unlocked and windows open recently. Before you leave work, batten down the nearest hatch ! LINE UP for LIMERICKS There once was a very fine camel, Who lived free of trouble an trammel; , But as he grew old /tfX< He suffered from cold, Clc^\ So he painted himself with enamel. A cheerful old bear at the zoo Could always find something to do. When it bored him, you know, To walk to and fro. He reversed it and walked fro and to, fa ' 10 16 THE FOUNTAIN Jeweled spray, shiver cold, Upward singing, Outward f1inging Rainbow water. Lustre laden Like a nymph, a diamond maiden, How the fountain for our pleasure fcatters drops in Crystal measure. Snowy fresh, as ice pellucid, Brittle sparkle, frosty tingle Lovely fountain, how it showers Dewy seeds of Water flowers. How the moisture Gleams and trembles, Falters, 1iqu id I rridescent, Then assembles, opalescent Bubble-foam, and glassy shimmer. Leaping, tossing Water-gl immer. ■*• I . 17 THE ANGEL RAIN Buddha-still I sit, apart. And watch beyond my window's edge Insistent monotone of snow consume the meadows, trees and hedge. By white and crystal magic now, serene and still, I'm one with space; I merge into a realm of bliss, an inner land of silver lace. I feel a pulse of whiteness move, across my heart, across my eyes. My brow is lambent, an open door. So enters Beauty golden-wise. The snow falls rhythmic, flake on flake; each as I gaze blows soft apart. Each is effulgent, each is ripe and holds an angel in its heart. Till what was snow in rainbow drifts, by sheer abstraction rendered plain Partakes of stars and moon and mists. And I behold the Angel-rain! Diamond crystals flash in snow over the while world meadows now, And Shining-Ones, like petal drifts from some remote celestial bough, Float as dreams. Or are they dreams? Lyric music in their flow, Downward the angels, beautiful, as lamps among the snow. Echoes of Silence The air is painted white; Silent rain of the sky: Fal1ing, Fal1ing To the joy of endless night. Spli t the night; A sound of breath: Crying, Crying To the joy of endless night, Heart of Oaken Ages; A Iimb of God: Lost, Lost To dawn's misty sorrow. 13 The fields are full of flowers and the skies are very blue In the silence of the library I wait, my love, for you. The cool green woods are sunny and the errant air is gay With the scent of rose and honey. Will you come to me today? From art books set before me smile lovers, many a pai r. "Oh take this rose and love me! " She has twined it in her hai r. He advances, she retreating, pursues and holds her fast. The artist left them meeting, in a close embrace at last. Through centuries together, on the painted page they 1ie In the glow of golden weather and the endless azure sky. Oh, that we who have for pleasure so short and scant a stay Should waste our precious leisure. Will you come to me today? Little life has got to offer and little man to lose. Since today Fate designs to offer, oh why must you refuse? Why spend these transient hours in the dusky library gloom While the fields are full of flowers and the cherry trees abloom. And if Fate remembers later and comes to claim her due What sorrow would be greater than the joy I had with you? For today, lit by your laughter, between the crushing years I will chance in the hereafte e r , ueLween Liie .. , *& ir eternities of JM? .< tears. * #"^'$ * 19 MORE LIMERICKS 14 There was a young lassie named Kate, Who went to the ice-rink to skate But her friends for a game Quickly gave her the name of Niagara - her "falls" were so great'. 15 Said a tourist when faced by a puma, "I've been told that it's best to assuma Complete lack of fear While the animal's near, And trust to the beast's sense of huma! " An inventor who came from Havana, Invented a startling piana, It played any tune, Howled like cats at the moon, And danced in a curious manna. HAIKU In the Library After midn ight Only air conditioning Compla ins. THE 1965/66 END AND INTRODUCING' YOUR KEEN 1966/67 CENTENNIAL YEAR BIBLOS STAFF. EDITOR: Isabel Godefroy Cataloguing RESEARCH ASSISTANTS: Nick Omelusik Acqui si tions Bep Wu rm Acqu isi t ions Robin Wi11iams Serials Linda Kwong Asian Studies John Johnston i, 1 culat ion Linda Hansen Woodwa rd PUBLISHER: Bob Frew Mining & Metallurgy Print Shop
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