Our bustling Preservation Department, headed by Barclay Ogden, will report to Chuck Eckman, Associate University Librarian for Collections, starting July 1st. Some years back this belonged to the Collections portfolio and Chuck and Barclay have been consulting closely since the AUL joined us two years ago. Bernie Hurley has ably led Preservation and I am very grateful to him for having taken on this extra responsibility.

The logic of this shift was reinforced by conversations in New Directions showing that Preservation requires a hybrid strategy for materials and digital records. This means that Bernie will continue to work closely with Barclay and Chuck.

The Library's Digital Imaging Lab (DIL), headed by Dan Johnston, will move to the Systems Office from Preservation and report to Lynne Grigsby-Standfill. The connection between DIL's digitization projects and Systems metadata management services makes this a logical move.

Tom Leonard
University Librarian 

The Business & Economics Library is very happy to welcome LAIII Lillian Lee to BUSI and to the University Library community. Lillian comes to us with many years of experience at two Bay Area libraries: City College of San Francisco and the Levi Strauss Corporate Library. She is experienced in circulation operations, technical services, business research and information delivery, and web development. Her most recent job was as a web designer for Roses Road, Inc., a Pasadena-based web development consulting firm. Lillian will be BUSI's webmaster, assist with technical and circulation services, and work the reference desk.

Milt Ternberg
Head of Long Business & Economics Library

I am delighted to announce the appointment of Kathleen Gallagher as the Interim Head of the Anthropology Library, beginning July 1, 2008. Suzanne Calpestri, who has been Head of the Anthropology Library for 14 years, is retiring at the end of June.

Kathleen's appointment in the Anthropology Library will be on a temporary .5 FTE basis, along with her current .5 FTE role as Project Leader for the Moffitt Library Renovation and Revitalization. While filling this interim assignment in the Anthropology Library, Kathleen will be on hiatus from her position as Undergraduate Services & Collections Librarian in Doe/Moffitt Instructional Services Department.

Kathleen Gallagher has been at the UC Berkeley Library for six years. She has collaborated with Suzanne Calpestri on projects in the past, and is looking forward to working with faculty and students in Anthropology and with the Anthropology Library staff in the coming months.

A national  recruitment for the position of Head, Anthropology Library will begin in the fall of 2008.

Isabel Stirling
Associate University Librarian and Director of Public Services

Spiro Kostof (1936-1991), widely recognized as one of the world's leading architectural historians, taught his last course in the Spring of 1991 in the Architecture Department of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design. The 26 lectures of his course "A Historical Survey of Architecture and Urbanism" covering the period from the Florentine Renaissance to the post-modernism of the late 20^th century were video recorded and have recently been digitized and made available for public viewing. Kostof's lectures were heralded for situating the architectural monument in a framework of vernacular buildings that imbue it with meaning. He was also known for exposing the relationships between architecture and the people and cultures that built it. Kostof was the author of A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals (1995), The City Shaped (1991), and The City Assembled (published posthumously in 1992). The 26 80-minute streaming lectures can be found at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/kostof.html.

This digitization project was the result of collaboration of Gary Handman and Gisele Herrmann of the Media Resuorces Center and Elizabeth Byrne and David Eifler of the Environmental Design Library.

David Eifler
ENVI

Norah Foster will be retiring from the Doe-Moffitt Libraries on June 27, 2008. Norah began her career at UC Berkeley in 1975 as a Library Assistant I in the Periodical Division of the Serials Dept. She held progessively more responsible positions over the years, and in 1996 was appointed Acting Head of Periodicals/Newspapers/Microforms. Late in 1998, Norah transferred to the Humanities and Area Studies Resource Group in order to become the Operations and Reserves Manager of Graduate Services, which was about to open in a newly created space in Doe Library. Within a few months, she managed to open the doors to a fully functioning public service unit. Since
then she has continued to meet the needs of its graduate student and faculty users, processing a steady stream of reserves, and hiring and training the student employees who staff the desk. Norah has also provided reference to users in the Environmental Design and Moffitt Libraries through rotational opportunities, been an active member of the Circulation Services Group, advocated for pay equity in CUE, and regularly attended the conferences of the American Library Association. Norah plans to spend her last day at work at the ALA conference in Anaheim. Her first project as a retiree will be archiving the unpublished papers of her partner, Dr. Geoffrey A. Cook. We wish her all the best for a happy retirement.

Jan Carter & Myrtis Cochran
Research and Collections for Humanities and Social Sciences
Doe/Moffitt Library