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UCLA PRESENTS: Fall Friday Forum
Join us for a diverse and exciting continuing education experience!
WHEN: September 8, 2006 9:30 AM-1:30 PM
WHAT: "Female Trouble in the Rare Book Stacks: researching shifting views of gender through the rare book collections at UCLA"
This workshop will examine a variety of printed (and some manuscript) sources depicting views of women--and their societal roles--in western culture. Participants will have access to the books themselves, and learn about electronic resources useful for the study of women's history from a rare books point of view. And, while the question of what constitutes "rare" is eternally debatable (and debated), participants will be able to view a sampling of books--from incunables to present-day artists' books and zines--that elucidate, obfuscate, and always fascinate in regards to depictions of gender, femininity, and sexuality.
WHO:
Cristina Favretto is the Rare Books Librarian in the Department of Special Collections at the Charles E. Young Library at UCLA. Previous positions include: Head of Special Collections, San Diego State University and Director of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture at Duke University, where she built a large collection of materials documenting women's daily lives, including cookbooks, diaries, household manuals, and etiquette books. She has worked in a variety of library and archives settings, including the Boston Public Library, Harvard University, and the Andy Warhol Museum. She received her B.A. (magna cum laude) from the State University of New York at Albany, and her MLS and Certificate of Advanced Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. Favretto was born in the United States but spent her middle school and lyceum years in Trieste, Italy.
WHERE:
Special Collections Department, Young Research Library. Directions and parking information will be sent with registration confirmation.
WHEN: September 15, 2006 9:30AM-1:30PM
WHAT: "Digital Preservation 101: Don't Kiss Your Assets Goodbye"
Do you know where your pixels are? From scanning projects to the creation of born-digital, complex/compound objects, librarians everywhere are being faced with the long-term care and feeding of digital objects. Despite recent advances in research and the beginnings of best practices, this is still a mystifying and sometimes treacherous realm for many professionals.
This session will take you through the myths about digitization (that it is a preservation medium), why digital media are so fragile (what is a byte, and why we care), why Silicon Valley in general and vendors in particular aren't helping (if it's backed up doesn't mean it's preserved), what good metadata includes (and how do we get some) and where the research is taking us, including preservation metadata and third-party repositories.
In this session you will learn:
- Technology basics toward an understanding of the nature of digital objects
- The key elements of writing a digital preservation policy: choose what to lose
- What preservationists mean when they talk about "OAIS"
- How to speak the language of preservation when working with vendors and IT
- How to stay current in a rapidly evolving field
WHO:
Victoria McCargar, M.A., MLIS, former senior editor for technology at the Los Angeles Times, has 16 years of sometimes heartbreaking experience in managing digital assets and technology strategies. She served on the Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies (PREMIS) committee and is currently working on developing criteria for news media repositories for the Center for Research Libraries. She is recipient of the 2006 David Rhydwen Award for her scholarly research in news archives by the News Division of the Special Libraries Assn. She has an M.A. in journalism from the University of Missouri and an MLIS from UCLA.
WHERE: GSEIS Building UCLA Campus
WHEN: September 29, 2006 9:30AM-1:30PM
WHAT: The Newest Library Customers: Babies, Toddlers and their Caregivers
Early childhood specialists and library practitioners share their knowledge and experiences. Participants will acquire the tools they need to alter their traditional services to preschool children to incorporate recent research and new service models for this underserved population.
WHO:
Penny Markey, Coordinator of Youth Services, County of Los Angeles Public Library
Tina Carwile, Emergent Literacy Programs Coordinator, County of Los Angeles Public Library
WHERE: GSEIS Building UCLA Campus
WHEN: October 6, 2006 9:30AM-1:30PM
WHAT: From Anecdote to Evidence: Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the Challenge for Librarians
According to a recent study, more than 36% of people in the United States are using some form of complementary and alternative medicine, otherwise known as CAM. Librarians are often asked questions relating to health and medical information. These questions can be tricky enough, but when CAM is thrown into the equation it can be even more challenging.
This workshop is intended for public, academic and medical librarians who provide health information to the public and healthcare professionals and who need the tools to provide quality, evidence-based materials for their patrons.
After attending this workshop, librarians will understand more about:
- History of natural medicine and therapies and CAM today
- The librarian's role and the patient, the practitioner, the doctor
- The art and finesse of handling the (CAM) reference question
- Finding the evidence to support the use of alternate therapies
- Online resources for the librarian
- Educating the patron about evaluating health information materials
- Collection development considerations
WHO:
Kelli Ham, MLIS is the Consumer Health Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Southwest Region, located at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. Kelli plans and coordinates consumer health programs and training for public libraries and community-based organizations, with a focus on the health information needs of the diverse population groups in the region.
WHERE: GSEIS Building UCLA Campus
WHEN: October 13, 2006 9:30AM-1:30PM
WHAT: Banzai Branch Management!
A public library branch is a unique institution, and too often new branch managers are handed the keys and get no other specific training. This workshop will prepare new and potential library branch mangers for the variety of tasks a branch manager faces including disgruntled and disruptive people, handling emergencies, supervising a variety of staff, selecting a neighborhood focused collection, keeping the branch viable in the community, and being both the public face of the library and the "person in charge." Participants will leave with a notebook of real examples and tested templates ready to fill with their specific library information, public relations and programming ideas, reports back to a library director or board of trustees, emergency information, collection management tools, and more.
WHO:
Hillary Theyer is the Principal Librarian in charge of public services for the Torrance Public Library. A graduate of UCLA, she received her MLS in 1994 and a Masters in Public Administration from California State University, Long Beach in 2005. She has been a children's librarian, branch supervisor, and youth services supervisor and has worked for the Beverly Hills Public Library, Sacramento Public Library, and the Palos Verdes Library District. She has developed public programs in conjunction with the statewide initiatives California Reads the Grapes of Wrath and California Stories as well as her own series on women in California history.
WHERE: GSEIS Building UCLA Campus
WHEN: October 20, 2006 9:30AM-1:30PM
Rescheduled! "BETWEEN THE STORIES" - PART TWO
WHAT: Fingerplays, Stretches, Songs, Puppets, Flannelboards, and Other Activities to Enhance a Storytelling Experience for Children ages 2 to 10.
This workshop is a continuation of the "Between the Books" Friday Forum offered in January, 2006. In this workshop, Pam will present all new material and through demonstration and participation, attendees will learn how to plan a complete storytime program and will take home at least 25 fingerplays, stretches, songs, and flannelboard ideas to use in library programming.
WHO: Pamela Greene has been a children's librarian for over 23 years and in her career has presented over 1,000 storytime programs for children of all ages. Retired from the Beverly Hills Public Library, Pamela now does consulting and works part-time at the Inglewood Public Library.
**Special note: there is a $5.00 participant's materials charge to be paid to Pam at the time of the workshop.
WHERE: GSEIS Building UCLA Campus
WHEN: Oct. 27, 9:30 to 1:30
WHAT: Introduction to Legal Materials and Resources
This workshop is designed to introduce basic legal materials to public librarians and other librarians who do not specialize in the law. The course will discuss primary legal sources, including cases, statutes, and regulations, with the emphasis on California law, and will also highlight self-help materials and legal forms. We will focus on the use of web-based and other readily available resources. The goal of the workshop is to enable the general librarian to assist a patron who has a basic legal question.
WHO:
Kevin Gerson has been a reference librarian at the UCLA Law Library for eight years. Prior to entering the law librarian profession, he worked as a senior analyst for a legal publisher. He has a law degree from Stanford and a masters degree from UC Berkeley.
Jill Fukunaga, a reference librarian at the UCLA Law Library, practiced employment law for 10 years prior to becoming a law librarian. She has a law degree from the University of Hawaii and a library degree from the University of South Florida.
June Kim has been a reference librarian at the UCLA Law Library for
three years. She earned her law and library degrees from UCLA.
Jennifer Lentz is the Head of Collection Development and reference
librarian at the UCLA Law Library, where she has worked for the past
seven years. Her law degree is from the University of Oregon and her
library degree is from the University of Michigan.
WHERE: GSEIS Building UCLA Campus
WHEN: November 3-4, 2006 Friday and Saturday 9:30AM-4:30 PM
WHAT: Flat paper care and repair, co-sponsored with LAPNET
This two-day workshop will introduce participants to basic paper care and repair.
Friday, day one: topics will include: paper as a material, the environment, housing and storage, and special concerns for oversized materials.
Saturday, day two: will focus on hands-on instruction in a variety of basic repair techniques including: surface cleaning, flattening, and paper repair. Selection issues such as when not to repair, what techniques may be damaging and when to consult a conservator will also be addressed.
LIMITED ENROLLMENT! While the Friday workshop has no enrollment limitation, the Saturday, hands-on workshop is limited to the first 15 registrants. The cost for both workshops, Friday and Saturday is $150.00; for Friday only, the fee is $85.00.
WHO:
Kristen St. John is the Collections Conservator for the UCLA Library. She has worked for a variety of institutions from private conservation labs to university special collections to the Library of Congress. Along with conservation work, she has done preservation assessments for library collections in small museum and historical societies.
Richenda Brim is the Head of Collection Maintenance in the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute. She received her MLIS from UCLA in 2002.
**Special notes:
1. A bag lunch for each day is included with the cost of the workshop. Please indicate vegetarian or non-vegetarian on your registration form.
2. There is a materials fee of $15.00 for the Saturday hands-on instruction class to be paid directly to the instructors on the workshop day.
WHERE: GSEIS Building UCLA Campus
WHEN: November 17 9:30AM-12:30PM
WHAT: Introduction to Dreamweaver
Join us for a hands-on session that will help you learn the basics of this web-authoring application. We will review the features of Dreamweaver and guide you through creating web pages (which you may take home) with minimal stress. It is assumed that you have no prior knowledge of Dreamweaver.
WHO:
David Cappoli is the Digital Resources Librarian for the UCLA Department of Information Studies.
** Please note: registration is limited to 10
WHERE: GSEIS Building UCLA Campus
WHEN: December 1, 2006 9:30AM-4:30PM Co-sponsored with the California Center for the Book
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WHAT: "These Fragments": A Critical Discussion of Books and Archival Evidences
George Bornstein begins his recent study entitled Material Modernism with a deceptively complex question, "If the 'Mona Lisa' is in Paris at the Louvre," he wonders, "where is King Lear?" The question introduces a range intellectual problematics that focus on how culture is transmitted and how history is shaped. At the center of such discussion sits the most fundamental repositories of cultural memory: books and archives.
This seminar style forum will begin with a discussion of how the fragmentary and often accidental evidences archives contain shape our relationship with history. Our discussion will have at its center reflection on photographic and manuscript materials that will be introduced using PowerPoint. We will also consider how oral history either complicates or compliments extant archival materials and use as example excerpts from oral history interviews.
We will then turn our attention to print culture. We will consider carefully that the creative and intellectual intentions books embody are mediated through a variety of financial, technological, and historical pressures. Such understanding raises important consideration about the nature of authorial intention as well as the construct of textual fixity. Our discussion will include examination of rare print materials (some facsimile some genuine).
WHO:
Ben Alexander holds an M.A. in English and American Literature from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from The City University of New York. Concurrent with his graduate work Mr. Alexander spent many years working as a Manuscript Specialist (archivist) in the Manuscripts and Archives Division of The New York Public Library. He has published several articles on theoretical issues relating to archives and material culture more generally as well lectured on these same subjects in Austin, Atlanta, Chicago, Edmonton, Los Angeles, London, New York, Paris, and Vienna. He currently teaches in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California Los Angeles.
WHERE: History and Special Collections Division, UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. Directions and parking information will be sent with registration confirmation.
WHEN: DECEMBER 15, 2006 9:30AM-1:30PM
WHAT: ALL MARC, NO BITE
Let's say you've learned about monographic cataloging but not how
to actually do it. Take a tour of MARC coding of bibliographic
cataloging records and learn the what, when, and why of practical, non-Da Vinci coding. This workshop is intended for those who have had an introduction to descriptive cataloging but little or no hands on
experience with applying AACR2 and MARC.
WHO:
Russell Johnson, MA, MLS (UCLA '93) is a cataloger and archivist for
the History & Special Collections Division of UCLA's Louise Darling
Biomedical Library.
WHERE: GSEIS Building UCLA Campus
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