Long-time Technical Services staff member Marilyn Ng is retiring from the Collections Core Services Division's Ordering Unit. Marilyn became a member of the Library's staff on August 20, 1979. She was hired into the Acquisition Department's English Language Order Division and performed a wide range of ordering functions at increasingly responsible levels. In addition to doing both monographic and serial acqusitions in nearly every subject area, Marilyn became the Library's expert in out-of-print searching. For many years she was a valued member of the Photo/Search Division until budget cuts forced a cutback in the O.P. program. Later she headed the CCS Division's Out-of-Print Unit until it too was phased out due to budget constraints.

Marilyn has held the position of CCS Ordering Unit Training Coordinator, and has done many rotations in other units including stints in Serials Payments, Serials Check-In, Serials Cataloging, Monographic Copy Cataloging, the Catalog Information Desk and the Information Gateway. In addition, she has served on multiple Library committees and hiring teams. In 1999, Marilyn co-authored an article about the Photo/Search Division in the journal "Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory." In 1994 and 1995 Marilyn served as Vice-Chair/Chair Elect and Chairperson of the American Library Association's Association for Library Collections and Technical Services Out-of-Print Discussion Group.

Marilyn's first priority upon retirement will be resting up for the holiday season! She will be fully occupied with eldercare and various tasks at home, but hopes to find time for crafts projects, classes, and programs of interest. We will sorely miss Marilyn's bright presence and dedicated work in the Collections Core Services Division. Thank you Marilyn for your many years of dedicated service and countless contributions to the Library!

Rebecca Green
Head, Collections Core Services Division
Technical Services Department

"Picture yourself nearly 6000 miles from home in an enormous, over-lit, yet uncrowded convention center. You find yourself surrounded by labyrinthine aisles filled with shiny publications in all the official languages of Spain: Basque, Galician, Catalan, and Spanish. Everything is laid out beautifully to impress. Powerful editorial groups like Alfaguara, Anaya, Oceano, Planeta, Random House-Mondadori occupy the front rows and the others--grouped by either region or publisher type (academic, independent, children's etc.)-- are cached in the back.

Next, figure yourself conversing with the very publishers whose names you've only seen on book covers (or in your library's catalog), chatting about their latest releases, recently signed authors, and how e-books are starting to take hold in a market vehemently opposed to them. Finally, imagine that you only have a mere three days to collect catalogs, scribble down titles and ISBNs. That's a little bit of what it's like to be invited as a 'guest librarian' to Spain's most important book fair, which alternates between Barcelona and Madrid every two years."

Claude Potts, Librarian for Romance Language Collections in Doe/Moffitt Libraries, was one of 12 academic librarians from the U.S. invited this year to attend the 26th annual LIBER book fair. His trip was funded mostly by the America Reads Spanish program--a joint initiative of the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade and the Spanish Association of Publishers Guild--and supplemented with generous support from both UCB's Library Collections and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

Allan Urbanic
Head, International and Area Studies, Research and Collections
Doe/Moffitt Libraries

The Technical Services Department is mourning the loss of our valued and beloved staff member, Jody Bussell, who passed away on November 9 after a brief battle with stomach cancer. Jody was hired into the Serials Department of the Library in March 1990 as a Library Assistant II, and ended her career as the Payments/Electronics Unit Head and Assistant Division Head of the Collections Core Services Department. Jody served on many Library and systemwide committees and working groups throughout her 18 years of University service. In 2004 she successfully completed the intense and challenging Leadership Development Program which was desiged to encourage and train emerging leadership talent on the UC Berkeley campus. At the time of her death, Jody was a member of the Integrated Library System Implementation Team, and was eagerly looking forward to working with the new Millennium system. Jody's staff and co-workers will always remember her gentle manner, her enormous knowledge and talent, and her gift for committed service to the Library and campus community. Jody is survived by her beloved husband Mike, by her mother, and by many relatives and friends. No services will be held, but contributions in Jody's memory may be made to Heifer International (http://www.heifer.org).

Rebecca Green
Head, Collections Core Services Division
Technical Services Dept.

"Nineteen Landscapes and One Bird," photographs by John Kupersmith, will be on display November 22 through December 18 at Cafe Arrivederci in San Rafael. The address is 11 G Street. For more information, visit http://www.jkup.net/photos/

Congratulations, John!

Myrtis Cochran
Doe/Moffitt, Research & Collections

Alison Wannamaker, Exhibits Coordinator in Graphics, has received her Masters in Library and Information Sciences from San Jose State University.

Congratulations Alison!

Mary Scott
Head, Library Graphics