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 December
2001
Volume 7
(back
issues)
In this Issue
Staff in Focus
New Library Employees
Adiha Wahid
Near East Collection
11/26/01
Matthew Glickman
Access Services
11/25/01
Teresa Mensz
Law Library
12/12/01
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Staff Highlights
Congratulations
to the candidates who have been recognized at the
Service Quality Awards on November 29th.
Individuals
William Massa * Steven Arakawa
Claire Halloran * Vermetha Polite
Lynette Robinson * Arthur Bromell
Mary Holder * Suzanne Lorimer
Student
Alfred May
Workstation Support Team
Karen Reardon * Meng-Ghon Tang
Ernest Marinko * George Ouellette
Front Door Redesign Task
Force
Holly Grossetta-Nardini * Karen Reardon
Gillian Mayman * Andrew Shimp
Carolyn Claflin * Julie Linden
Jennifer Kostelnik * Marianna McKim
Congratulations to the employees
awarded for
2002 Professional Development Grants
"Our English Amphion:"
The Theatre Career of Thomas Augustine Arne, 1732-78
Todd Gilman
Creating a Resource for Information on Contemporary
Book Artists: Digitization of Ephemera in the Arts of the Book Collection
Jennifer Weintraub, Jae Williams, Karen Reardon
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United
Way Giving
Last
Month to give the Campaign is ending December 31st...
Your
donation to the United Way can change the lives of children, the elderly,
and other needy citizens in Greater New Haven.
Let Me Make A Pledge Now!
Click below to make your pledge right now! It's easy and secure with
Yale's new online pledge form.
Click
here and enter your Yale NetID and your sign on password to
access the system.
Click Here for the United Way Site
For
more information contact:
Diane Turner
Library's United Way Coordinator
432-1810
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HR Updates
Yale Calendar
Recess Day: Monday, December 24
Christmas Day: Tuesday, December 25
Recess Day: Wednesday, December 26
Recess Day: Thursday, December 27
Recess Day: Friday, December 28,
Recess Day: Monday, December 31
New Years Day: Tuesday, January 1, 2002
Martin
Luther King Day: January 21, 2002
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Supervisory Discussion
Groups
Meetings located in room 409 in SML
December 20th 11:00-12:00
January 31st 11:00-12:00
February 21st 11:00-12:00
March 21st 11:00-12:00
April 18th 11:00-12:00
May 30th 11:00-12:00
The
December 20th meeting will feature a presentation on the EAP Program.
The guest speaker will be Mark
Gaynor.
Safety Bulletin
The "Safety Bulletin" is
a quarterly publication from the Office of
Environmental Health & Safety made available to all faculty, staff and
students at Yale University and Yale Medical School on our web site at
http://www.yale.edu/oehs/PDF_files10_01sb.pdf.
Beginning this quarter, all faculty, staff and students holding a Yale
email account will be notified by email of the posting of the most
recent copy of the bulletin on our web site. Printed copies will also
be made available on campus and the medical school via our office's
safety bulletin boards.
Calendar of
Events
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Langston
Hughes centenary exhibition
February 1, 2002
Beinecke
Tea
with Alice
January 11, 2002, 9:30-10:30
Sociology Lounge
Tea
with Alice
February 7, 2002, 2:00-3:00
SML Spoon
Tea
with Alice
March 25, 2002, 10:30-11:30
SHM Beaumont Room
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Forms
Are you using the most
current form for:
Workers' Compensation: Health Service Appointment
Form ER 15-2 REV 98 (current form number)
For a form please come to Library Human Resources in Room 155 of SML
Find
It
Food Drive
M&PSA's Canned Food Drive
will be held this year from December 10th through December 21st. The food
drive benefits the Connecticut Food Bank, the largest centralized source
of donated emergency food in the state. The food bank serves 450 agencies
such as soup kitchens and food pantries, providing food for an estimated
250,000 people a year.
Drop off your cans at one of
the following locations:
Art and Architecture Library
circulation desk
Divinity Library staff lounge
Engineering Library circulation desk
Kline Library kitchen
Law Library
Medical Library administrative office
Social Science Librarian's Office
Additional boxes will be placed
in the following locations over the next few days:
Beinecke Library desk
Sterling Memorial Library administration
Cross Campus Library circulation desk
School of Nursing Library circulation desk
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The
Second Annual Service Quality Award Presentation and Reception for
2000 - 2001
The event took place on Thursday, November 29th, from 3:00 - 5:00pm
in the
Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall and Exhibit area.
Refreshments and beverages were served.
The honorees were awarded a certificate presented by
Danuta Nitecki and Alice Prochaska.
On behalf of the Service
Quality Award Committee we would like to once
again extend our congratulations to this year's winners of the Second
Annual Service Quality Awards, and to all the staff who have supported
this program, which made this year's ceremony a success.
Kevin Pacelli (Chair,
2000-2001)
Service Quality Award Program
Photos
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Library Assistance for Persons
with Disabilities
The Yale University
Library serves as an important research and educational resource for the
students, faculty, and staff of the Yale community. In order to ensure all
users equitable access to the library's collections, public services, and
web resources, the library has developed a program of services that enable
users with disabilities to take full advantage of its offerings.
Services
available to persons with disabilities:
- Finding and Using Library Materials
- Assistance to facilitate the use of finding
aids (online and physical)
Paging of books from stacks and shelf areas (may be on a delayed basis)
- Assistance in ascertaining the availability
of books and periodicals housed in Yale libraries
Extension of reserves or loan periods or modification of other lending rules
on an individual basis when possible
- Telephone assistance with finding out the status
of an item on Orbis, the online catalog. On an individual basis, library
staff will check to see if an item is on the shelf (may be on a delayed
basis)
- Ensuring of access to microform readers, computers,
and other information technology
Assistance with photocopying of a limited number of pages from books and
journals (may be on a delayed basis)
- Reference Assistance
- Advice about access to specialized online information
sources
- Explanations and descriptions of sources of
specialized information
- Help with numerous bibliographic citations
- Instruction on how to use available library
technologies located at adaptive workstations with
Proxy Cards. Users with disabilities are eligible to obtain a proxy borrower's
card from the Privileges Office for a specified friend or attendant to borrow
library materials on their behalf. Proxy cards for non-students/staff will
be determined on a case-by-case basis depending on an applicant's particular
circumstances.
Public services
representatives from each of the Yale libraries should be contacted with any
questions you may have regarding these services. For more information on university-level
assistance for Yale students and staff with disabilities, contact the The Office
for Equal Opportunity Programs.
Public Service
Representatives from each of the Yale libraries
Access
Services [Sterling Memorial Library/Cross Campus Library]
Cindy Greenspun, Access Services Supervisor
Tel. 432-1854
Area Studies [African, East Asian, Judaica, Latin American, Near East, Slavic
& East European, and Southeast Asia collections]
César Rodríguez, Curator, Latin American Collection
Tel. 432-1835
Arts Library [including
Arts of the Book Collection, Classics Library, Drama Library, and Visual Resources
Collection]
Laurel Bliss, Librarian for Architecture
Tel. 436-8052
Beinecke Rare Book &
Manuscript Library
Christa Sammons, Curator, Collection of German Literature
Tel. 432-2964
Divinity Library
Susan Burdick, Circulation Manager
Tel. 432-5288
Library Administration Services/Human
Resources
Kate Reynolds, Staff Training/Org Dev Officer
Tel. 432-1818
Manuscripts & Archives
Danelle Moon-Geraci, Manager, Reference Services
Tel. 436-0116
Medical Library [including
Epidemiology and Public Health Library]
Obianuju Mollel, Reference Librarian, Medical Library
Tel. 737-1537
Music Library
Kendall Crilly, Music Librarian
Tel. 432-0495
Research Services &
Collections [Sterling Memorial Library/Cross Campus Library]
Lucille Houde, Library Service Assistant
Tel. 432-1778
Science libraries [Kline
Science, Engineering & Applied Science, Geology, Sterling Chemistry, Forestry,
and Mathematics libraries]
Lori Bronars, Science Reference Librarian
Tel. 432-6213
Social Science libraries
[including Government Documents and Information Center, Seeley G. Mudd Library,
Statistics Library]
Denise Hersey, Social Sciences Librarian and Coordinator of Access Services
Tel. 432-6121
Library Systems Office
George Ouellette, Workstations Support Specialist
Tel. 432-1847
The Professional Mentor
Customer
Service
Good
Customer Service does not come about spontaneously in an organization.
It must be developed. Our customers are counting on us to stay two steps
ahead of them to take specific and intelligent actions that will improve
their lives.
For
more information on this topic go to:
http://www.library.yale.edu/training/promentor/
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Join Alice,
The University Librarian
for Tea
Time
Tea
with Alice
January 11, 2002, 9:30-10:30
Sociology Lounge * 140 prospect Street
Tea
with Alice
February 7, 2002, 2:00-3:00
SML Spoon * Sterling memorial Library
Tea
with Alice
March 25, 2002, 10:30-11:30
SHM Beaumont Room * 333 Cedar Street
Remember
Alice has Office hours
every Monday between 8:30-9:30.
Please call Katy for an appointment @ 21810.
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A Word from The University Librarian
A
message to all Library staff about reports of the Beinecke theft.
This
note follows the report on the front page of the New Haven Register
and on television news, giving details about the theft of materials
from the Beinecke Library. It appears that the details given there
came from the charge filed by the New Haven police and from the police
in Wisconsin. Members of Library staff may be wondering whether it
matters any more if we speak to the press about this case.
We would be very grateful if you could all please continue to observe
discretion, and do NOT speak to the press about this case. As before,
if you are approached for comments or further details, please refer
any inquiries to Tom Conroy, on 432-2345. It remains important that
members of the University, and Library staff in particular, should
not talk about the case while it is being pursued through the courts.
Any public comment from one of us might potentially prejudice the
outcome of the judicial proceedings.
With
very many thanks for your discretion and support in this sad and troubling
case,
Alice
Prochaska and Barbara Shailor
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Wellness Now
         
Seasonal Affective Disorder
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is an extreme form of the "winter blues"
-- depression that occurs at the same time each year, bringing sluggishness
and trouble functioning normally. SAD was only recently recognized as a specific
disorder, but since 1982 much has been learned about it and how to treat it.
People suffering from SAD undergo extreme differences in mood, as if they
were split between a "summer person" and a "winter person."
SAD can occur in the summer, but is most common
in the winter. It begins gradually in late August or early September and continues
until March or early April, when the symptoms begin to go away. Sufferers
have been known to increase their sleep by as many as four hours a night and
gain more than 20 pounds as they attempt to "hibernate" the winter
away.
Symptoms Include:
Depression, difficulty enjoying
life, pessimism about the future
Loss of energy, inertia, apathy
Increased sleep, difficulty getting up in the morning
Impaired functioning: difficulty getting to work on time; tasks that are normally
easy seem impossible
Increased appetite, weight gain
Carbohydrate cravings
Desire to avoid people
Irritability, crying spells
Decreased sex drive
Suicidal thoughts or feelings
For children and adolescents:
Feeling tired and irritable
Temper tantrums
Difficulty concentrating
Vague physical complaints
Marked cravings for junk food
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Tip
of the Day
Take the time to get outside to enjoy
natural light.
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Think Now
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Mortgages
Fixed versus Adjustable Rate
Typically, adjustable-rate
mortgages are a good choice under two circumstances: interest rates
on fixed-rate mortgages are high, which may make the home you want unaffordable;
or, you think there's a good chance that rates will trend downward.
In that case the rate on your adjustable-rate loan would decline, giving
you lower mortgage payments in the future. But I don't think either
of those two circumstances apply today. The rates on 30-year fixed rate
loans are actually extraordinarily low, recently averaging about 6.5
percent. The initial rate on one-year adjustable loans, by contrast,
was about 5.25 percent. That's a bit lower than the 30-year rate, but
with short-term interest rates at or near 40-year lows, you have to
wonder if rates are more likely to head lower or higher from here, especially
once the economy begins to improve. I think the odds are that short-term
rates will move higher, which means that 5.25 percent rate is likely
to be adjusted upward in subsequent years. To me, this makes a fixed-rate
loan a better choice.
30-year vs. 15-year
Which is the best loan,?
A 30-year loan at a rate of 6.5 percent or a 15-year loan and getting
an even lower rate, recently around 6 percent. One thing to consider
is the effect on your budget since the monthly payment will be higher
on the 15-year mortgage despite its lower rate. For example, the payment
on a $150,000 30-year 6.5 percent loan will run $1,264 a month. The
payment on the same size mortgage with a 15-year term and 6 percent
rate is $424 higher, or $1,688 a month. Of course, by making that larger
payment, you'll pay less in interest over the life of the mortgage,
and you'll pay off your loan a lot sooner. That could be a consideration
if, say, you don't want a mortgage payment hanging over you in retirement.
On the other hand, by choosing the 30-year loan, you could free up cash
that you could plow into investments for retirement or other purposes.
The 15- vs. 30-year decision
is as much a personal one as a financial one. You have to decide which
is more important to you -- paying off that mortgage or having more
cash on hand to invest in other assets (or spend, as the case may be).
A 30-year loan gives you more flexibility. You can invest the difference
between the 15- and 3-year mortgage payments and thus have access to
it if you need it. If you want access to the equity in your house, by
contrast, you've got to sell it or take out a loan. Also, if you take
the 30-year loan, you can always change your mind later and make additional
principal payments to pay off your loan ahead of schedule. But you pay
for that flexibility with a higher interest rate.
Money.com
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Suggestions and Comments
Send all comments to the Editor, Jessica Linicus
If you
would like something or someone featured in the next Library Links, please contact
me. Library Human Resources hopes you enjoyed this issue of Library Links.
jessica.linicus@yale.edu
Library
Links is
published throughout the year to acquaint the Library Employees and
others of events in the Yale Libraries. Please direct comments and questions
to Jessica Linicus, Editor, Library Human Resources, Sterling Memorial
Library phone: 432-1810, email:jessica.linicus@yale.edu
Copyright 2001
Yale University Library
A Library Human Resource Publication
Jessica
Linicus, Editor
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