@prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:alternative "UBC Library Staff Newsletter"@en ; dcterms:isReferencedBy "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1216361"@en ; dcterms:isPartOf "University Publications"@en ; dcterms:issued "2015-07-13"@en, "1965-01-25"@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/biblos/items/1.0190799/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note """ 1, no. 5 OF THE U.B.G; .LIBRARY STAFF NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY I965 $ 3,000,000 We are $3,000,000 wealthier than we were a very short time ago. Needless to say, this gives the U. B, C, Library an opportunity unequalled by any other University Library in Canada. While the gift covers increased, spend ing^on^bjooks and periodicals, a large increase in staff (especially in the technical processing areas) must also become an immediate necessity. Thus, at the outset, may we look forward with excite- ment to the year and years at hand, and add our voice of thanks to H. R, MacMillan, 2 - HEADS' MEETING Staff Orientation Tours January 25, 1965 The Subject Divisions have noted that about 20 recently-appointed librarians have not had tours in other Divisions; that such tours are important; and that they should be made immediately before the School of Librarianship students come in for field work. The Subject Divisions also asked that regular annual orientation tours be arranged. It was agreed that theseshould be in September or October, provided they do not clash with the English 200 lectures. Around the Building The outside door into the Processing Divisions should be locked after hours, and Miss Dobbin sees to this -at 5 P»m0 However, students are still creeping in somehow, and Library School students do need to have evening access. Social Science Division expressed willingness to admit signed-in Library School students to the north elevator, but this could prove unsatisfactory. It may be necessary to have a Processing staff member on hand each eveninc MORE HEADS" MET ON February 9, 1965 Rush Binding The Bindery has set up a schedule; URGENTLY needed materials delivered to Mr. Lanning by 3 p.m. on a Wednesday will be bound on Thursday. No other days will do. Asian Studies The Association for Asian Studies has completed a survey of Oriental collections in the U,S, and Canada, U.B.C.'s rank has slipped from 7th to 13th in book stock, and we are 17th in staff,. Many other institutions are now buying heavily; the largest collections are at the Library of Congress, Harvard, and California - Berkeley, The Librarian hopes that our budget for 1965-66 will permit increased buying and we are searching diligently for a cataloger Around the Building - once more Locks are being corrected where necessary; but doors are still being left open,, Staff should close them as they pass by. Buildings and Grounds will install two experimental systems for students to lock their briefcases to public racks. The Grand Tour Mre Stuart-Stubbs, armed with desiderata lists and a lively imagination, purchased books and periodicals in New York and Washington; and the George H, Bean collection of Japanese maps (the largest collection of Japanese maps in existence); and gathered 2 packing cases of free dup- 1icates at Harvard. He attended the ALA Midwinter Conference in Washington, toured the Library of Congress Processing and Card Divisions, and the U.S. Book Exchange. He spoke to the Library School class at McGill, and consulted plans for the new medical and graduate libraries there. At Toronto, he toured the U„ of T, processing divisions, seeing their automated operations. _ 4 _ Senate Library Committee Was to meet on Wednesday, February 10th. They hoped to polish off the policy statement on branch libraries and reading rooms. The Librarian is concerned that there be some means of ensuring, once the Committee has authorized a branch or reading room, that the University will provide sufficient funds to set it up and maintain it. Loan policies will also be discussed,. Loan Policies There have been many complaints from faculty that the circulation of journals deprives others of needed quick references. It is difficult to assess this situation, and we may send a questionnaire to faculty to get a better cross-section of opinion. With the advent of the IBM circulation system, it will be much easier and quicker to call in material needed by others; therefore, perhaps loan periods and student fines can become flexible. The latest report of the President emphasizes the University's (and the Library's) service to the business community; no doubt we will be expected to do more of this. In the near future we will need to decide what service should be given to faculty and students of Simon Fraser University. The present feeling is that SFU undergraduates should have library use only privileges; that SFU graduate students and faculty should have "B card" privileges (i.e. 2 week loans on home use materials). It was generally agreed that interlibrary loans would be too costly in our staff time, and would keep our materials out too long. School of Librarianship 0ro Leonard Hc Freiser, Chief Librarian of Toronto's Education d&Sntre Library, was this year's special lecturer at the school. Besides his public lecture on February 16th, he spoke on 3 mornings to the students. Library staff attended in large numbers. Library 835, formerly the school's laboratory, will soon be cleared out, and will then be available for library meetings. It has a public address system, and can hold 100 to 125 persons. Notify the school office if you wish to use the room. - 5 SOMEONE> ANNOUNCES Staff Lounge - Wine, Women or Song Not exactly, BUT 3 different dispensers have been installed in the staff room - CIGARETTS, CANDY and SOUP. The staff is hereby reminded that food is not to be consumed outside the staff room, Pre-Librarianship Society A special invitation is extended to all library assistants;: student assistants, etc. Meetings are on Tuesdays, 12:30 noon, in Buchanan 225. On February 23: CENSORSHIP, a panel. For further information contact Sieglinde Stieda, Catalog Division or the President, Ruell Smith, CA 4-3742. FINE ARTS GALLERY Hours: Tuesday - Saturday - 10:30 - 5:00 p.m. Tuesday evening - 7°00 - 9°00 p.m. Display: An exhibition of American art nouveau posters, complimented by contemporaneous articles on loan from the Ontario Museum. AND An exhibition of five projects by the architect Antoni Gaudi, whose works are related to art nouveau style. Gaudi 's architectural use of undulating lines, in place of the usual straight line, results in demonstrating an unprobed dimension of architecture. This runs through to March 6. From March 10 - March 27: an exhibition of Sub-Sahara Art. - 6 - With apologies to *■ Shakespeare, William. At least Hamlet was spared this problem :- --To bind or not to bind : that is the question: Whether ltis nobler in the bind to suffer The slings and arrows of outraged faculty, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, An by re-shelving end them? To bind : to keep; No more; and if we keep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That library staff is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To bind, to keep; To keep; perchance to lose; ay, there's the rub; For in the case of loss what dreadful lacks may come Though we have shuffled through th4 exchange lists Without pause: there's the request That makes calamity of so wrong a choice; For who would bear the whips and scorns of students, The professor's wrath, the Department's contumely, The pangs of -now o/p~, the I.L.L.'s delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient waiting of the serial takes, When he himself might his quietus make With no bare shelving? Who would volumes bear, To bind and catalog under a constant quota, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd bindery from whose depths No volume e'er returns, puzzles the mind And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus binding does make cowards of us all; And thus the native blue of U.B.'C. Is sicklied o'er with the pale gilded words, And entire works of great pith and moment With this regard their contents turn awry, And lose the name in quest ion.-Soft you now! The fair book truck arrives! With all its mysteries Be all our files remembered,, Betty McAully Woodward Library ■- 7 - INTRODUCING — SOCIAL SCIENCE DIVISION Manning the desk and telephone in the Social Sciences Div. f.s often a test in resourcefulness. In the Ridington Room, sometimes known as the playroom, and perhaps thought of as, although never admitted to be, a sort of hunting ground, the staff has often to cope with somewhat non- academic problems. There was the day a boy came to the desk requesting a stapler. When asked what he wanted to staple, he whispered with a blush that it was for his pants, "split you know"! And recently, in February, students and staff were treated to the tinkling of a music box in the shape of a stuffed Santa Claus, playing a lullaby at 3 p.m. However, a lot of serious research goes on in Social Sciences. As in other divisions, there are the obscure facts, the comprehensive surveys and the authoratative statistics that must be constantly searched out. Servicing approx. 100 government documents per day, the staff of Social Sciences gets plenty of exercise running up and down the stairs to Floor 6. When the material has been procured it must often be presented to the student along with a salestalk to convince him that it is really what he wants. There are 2 types of students. One minute you are faced with someone who mumbles his essay topic and stands with an expectant look on his innocent face, waiting for you to hand him a neat parcel of the material he needs - just the right amount of information that will fit nicely into an essay of the length and depth of hisc It often takes some time and a great amount of patience to discover the meaning of the topic and the point of view from which it is to be writ%en. Sometimes there are mishaps like the day an unsuspecting librarian, after much thought gave lengthy and detailed instruction in finding material on China, doing some of the more difficult research herself, only to discover that the recipient had meant dishes! The next minute you meet an experienced student or professor who reels off the exact information he wants with such enthusiasm and alacrity that a graceful diversion is necessary on your part in Order to change gears and reorientate yourself. Similar is the person, familiar - 8 - to the whole library, who states his problem like a dare - a librarian doesn't know anything and this question will prove it. Social Sciences Division has the unique status of being listed as the library "Reference Desk" in the telephone book. It seems that often this is interpreted as 'anything goes'. "*WfP*:'m having a party on Saturday and I want to invite both my neighbours buy they arn't speaking to each other. What shall I do?" "My son is studying in the library; he's wearing a ski jacket and carrying a brief case. Will you ask him to phone home? I'm worried as he never stays out without calling", Public relations and all that but really there are limits! After two hours of research SSD-ite has been known to triumphantly call his customer to report success only to have the latter chirp cheerfully, "Oh, thank you so much. That's what I thought; I was just wondering!" Evenings and weekends, when the switchboard is closed, people seem more adept at getting the wrong number than they are Monday to Friday,., or maybe they're not wrong numbers. "Can you tell me what is on at Freddy Wood tonight?... How much are the tickets?.., What else is on out there?" BUT despite the frustrations, we call it home. Potential Publications & Help. Mr. Hamilton is in the process of compiling a guide to Canadian reference sources "with the expectation that it will be printed eventually; perhaps under the auspices of the Reference Section of C.L.A." The U.B.C. Library School class of 1963/64 contributed the bulk of the material, but extensive revision and recopying is necessary,, Volunteers for said task would be welcomed. Tough Times at Other Libraries Dept. The National Library of Canada recently tried to pay Woodward for ILL services with 70£ worth of used stamps. A TOUR LAMENT - to the tune of (Where have all the narcissus (i) gone?) Where have all the 1ibrarians gone - last 3 weeks passing? Where have all the librarians gone - short time ago. Where HAVE all the librarians gone - Dash it, I ask you! Oh when will they ever learn That they 'soon will be returning HOME! - like it's debi1itating?- As the entire library staff is aware of by now, great masses of librarians have been passing through department after department assimilating stpres of hitherto unknown division knowledge. It is undoubtedly agreed upon by both tour conductors and tourees that the orientation idea has worked out to be singularly informative and worthwhile. In the future, it is quite 'possible that library assistants will be included in the "tour-of- employees idea". An Odd and End Library School students have been let loose throughout the building for the last week of February and the first week in March. Tender, loving care is highly recommended as they just might be your next boss or neighbouring desk-mate. In addition, and for the first time, a student from the University of Toronto Library School will be doing her practice work here - come March 15 to March 26. So have you heard of WOMAN FALLS', Ont.? Hired - Not Fired Miss Sally Marriott joined Acquisitions as a Library Assistant on February 8, 1965, Cataloging gained Mrs, Betty Misewich from the Vancouver Public Library on February 1, 1965. The UeB,C, Library now has a permanent A;B,Dick operator. Welcome to Mike Bolton, Left us - or Leaving Miss Judy Williams of Acquisitions, Miss Lynne Kuznetsov of College and Miss Lorraine Beattie of Cataloging all left on February 5, 1965.. -Harold Wyne, Circulation, resigned on February 27, 1965. Miss Alida Carlson, Serials, will be leaving on March 12, 1965, Marr iaqes Valerie Clark of Serials, is now Mrs., Noel Roddick since January 30, 1965. Since February 13, 1965, Cheryl Miller of Woodward has been Mrs., Sid Howe, Mr. and Mrs, Alfred Gaensbauer (i„e, Ena Gaensbauer, ex of the Science Division) announce the births of their son, Brian Bernard, on February 7, 1965 and their adopted daughter, Tracey Elisabeth, on February 6, 1965. To Library School David Thomas left Woodward and BMB in the new year to complete his year at Library School, Of Interest The first few of a series of displays on the history of medicine can now be viewed in the Woodward Library rotunda, - 11 - . • Some New Reference Books AVERY obituary index of architects and artists. Hall, 1964, Ref. - FAR BAHM, A. Directory of American philosophers. 1964/65. 1964. Ref, - Hum. BERIO CIVIC LIBRARY. Genoa. Catalog. Columbus collection, G.K. Hall, 1964. Ref. - Hum, BOSTON University, African^gov1t. documents, and area index. G.K. Hall, 1964 Ref. - SSD CUMULATED Dramatic Index, 1909-1949. G,K. Hall, 1965. Ref, - Hum, DE CALLATAY, Vincent, Atlas of the moon, astronomy- astronautics. MacMillan, 1964. Ref, - Map.R, EDINBURGH.'-.-UNIV. LIBRARY, Index to manuscripts. G,K„ Hall, 1965. Ref. - Hum, FOUR language dictionary of automotive engineering. London, 1964. Ref. - SSD GENNADI US LIBRARY, Catalog, American School of Classical studies. G.K. Hall, 1965, 7 v. Ref. - Hum, GOULD, J, and KOLB, Dictionary of the social sciences. London, 1964, Ref, - SSD HAWAII Univ. Dictionary catalog of the Hawaiian col lection. Hall, 1964, 4 v. Ref, - SSD KERRIGAN, E.ES American war medals. Viking, 1964, Ref. - Hum. KINDLERS Malerei Lexikon, 1964. 6 v. Ref, - FAR LAROUSSE encyclopedia of renaissance and baroque art. London, 1964. Ref, - FAR LEVY, M,L. Honor awards handbook, Berkeley, 1964, Ref, - Hum„ LONDON Unive School of Oriental and African Studies, Library catalog,. G.K.Hal 1, 1964. 28 v. Ref, - As,St. MCGRAW-HILL international atlas. Bertelsmann, 1964, Ref, - Atlas MELCHINGER, S„ Concise encyclopedia of modern drama. Horizon, 1964. Ref,, - Hum, NEW YORK. Public Library. Subject catalog; World War 1. G.K. Hall, 1964, Ref. - Hum, STECKLER, B. American scientific books, Bowker, 1964 Ref. - Sc i, TWENTIETH century encyclopedia of Catholicism, Hawthorn. 150 v. Ref. - Hum, UNIV. of London. Education in tropical areas. G.K, Hall, 3 v. Ref. - SSD L » MM B r >\\ i^^: i yj j- . 1 —^ 1 ^i K VV* l • 11 ^ 1 *$§§5§^§%" B^S:"""@en ; edm:hasType "Periodicals"@en ; dcterms:spatial "Vancouver (B.C.)"@en ; dcterms:identifier "Z671 .B5"@en, "Z671_B5_1965_01_05"@en ; edm:isShownAt "10.14288/1.0190799"@en ; dcterms:language "English"@en ; edm:provider "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en ; dcterms:publisher "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en ; dcterms:rights "Images provided for research and reference use only. 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