Staff Newsweb August 15, 2011 -- Number 1168

News Melissa Beck named LAUC-LA Librarian of the Year Alice Hunt Awarded Staff Assembly Scholarship Eloisa Borah Shows Visual Indexing Know-How at LOEX 2011 in Texas	Human Resources Open Positions
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Melissa Beck named LAUC-LA Librarian of the Year

Melissa Beck, a librarian in the Hugh & Hazel Darling Law Library, has been named the 2011 Librarian of the Year by the Librarians' Association of UCLA (LAUC-LA), the U.C. system's primary organization for professional librarian and governance affairs.

The award, conferred during the Association's spring meeting in May 2011, recognizes excellence in librarianship, particularly as it furthers the teaching and research mission of UCLA, and meets the intellectual, informational, and cultural needs of the university community. The award also recognizes specific achievements of the award recipient.

Melissa was recognized for her leadership, innovation, and creativity in single handedly creating, implementing, and reviewing a systematic approach to cataloging and tracking electronic resources in the Law Library. She overcame many technical, cataloging, and cultural obstacles to provide public access to over 2,000 electronic titles and electronic packages, many of which had been purchased years ago by the Library. Melissa created, implemented, and documented tracking methods for cataloging e-resources to systematically provide access. She also organized procedures for identifying new titles added to e-packages and those that were dropped, since vendors do not have standard alerting services.

Melissa served on the UCLA Library's Electronic Resource Management System Implementation Team, which was charged to populate the newly acquired Serials Solutions 360 Resource Manager with electronic holdings, and to present the library's licensed resources to users in a revamped public interface. Melissa's participation in implementing this project has profoundly impacted the entire UCLA community by making licensed resources widely available to all of our users. Outside of the University, Melissa co-authored the CONSER standard record training manual and was the sole editor of its 2010 revision. The manual is used to train serials catalogers to make decisions and choices about bibliographic structure, while adhering to nationally recognized standards for the CONSER standard record.

Sharon Benamou, on behalf of the LAUC-LA Librarian of the Year Award Committee, 2011

Eloisa Borah Shows Visual Indexing Know-How at LOEX 2011 in Texas

Instruction librarians, who attended LOEX 2011, learned an easy method to add a visual index to their presentations and instruction web pages in the session: Picture This: A Show-Me-To-Win-Me-Over Method of Visually Indexing Strategic Research Instruction, presented by Eloisa Borah of the Rosenfeld Management Library.

A quick summary of her method is available in her session handout, which is currently posted at the conference site: loexconference.org/program/presentation_files/PictureThis.pdf.

Eloisa has also written a full article on this method, which will be published in the conference proceedings, Library Orientation Series No. 44, scheduled for early 2012. Eloisa offers an advance read to her UCLA colleagues, so contact her for this or any questions you may have on visually indexing information.

M. Rita Costello

Alice Hunt Awarded Staff Assembly Scholarship

Alice Hunt, area studies library assistant in YRL’s Collections, Research and Instructional Services (CRIS) department, was awarded one of fifteen Staff Assembly professional development scholarships. She received $500 towards an Arabic course through UCLA Extension. Recipients were recognized at the Staff Assembly Awards Reception on June 24.

Congratulations, Alice!

Jade Alburo

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