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 January
2002
Volume 8
(back
issues)
In this Issue
Staff in Focus
New Library Employees
Mary Ann Mann Law Library 1/28/02
Kimberly King Acquisitions 1/14/02
David Driscoll BRBL 1/14/02
Andrew Hungaski BRBL 1/8/02
Tachtorn Meier Cataloging 1/2/02
Christopher Edwards BRBL 1/22/02
Jarett Esposito Law Library 1/14/02
Christa Robinson Kline 1/2/02
Employees Who Have Left the Library
Hsiao-Chang Chen East Asia Collection 1/15/02
Daniel Nolting Arts Library 1/11/02
DavidFaulds BRBL 1/8/02
Promotions
Ngadi Osadebe Beinecke 1/2/02
Ned Pocengal Medical Library 1/7/02
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Staff Highlights
The
following employees have agreed to join SCOPA.
The term of their appointments is January 2002
through December 31, 2003.
Mary Caldera, Manuscripts
and Archives
Eric Friede, Divinity Library
Stephen Jones, Beinecke Library
Cecile Mandour, Catalog Department
The
following librarians have agreed to serve on the Yale Library Promotion
Review Committee 2002-2003.
David Stern,
Librarian V, 2002
Dorothy Woodson, Librarian V, 2002, Chair
Martha Smalley, Librarian IV, 2002
Christine Weideman, Librarian IV, 2002 and 2003
Emily Horning, Librarian III, 2002 and 2003
Manon Théroux, Librarian III, 2002
Kathleen F. Bauer, Librarian II, 2002
Dorothy
Woodson has agreed to serve as Chair of the Committee.
Here
are the new members of WAG:
Andrew Gray (Library Administrative Services)
Jim Shetler (Technical Services)
They will join returning
members:
Danuta Nitecki (ex officio,
sponsoring AUL)
Karen Reardon (ex officio, Systems)
David Stern (Public Services,
Chair)
Calvin Hsu (Collection Development)
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HR News
Yale Calendar
Official
Yale Holidays 2002
M.L.
King Jr. Holiday
Monday, January 21, 2002
Good Friday
Friday, March 29
Memorial Day
Monday, May 27
Independence Day
Thursday, July 4
Labor Day
Monday, September 2
Thanksgiving Day
Thursday, November 28
Recess Day
Friday, November 29
Recess Day
Tuesday, December 24
Christmas Day
Wednesday, December 25
Recess Days
Thursday, December 26
Friday, December 27
Monday, December 30
Tuesday, December 31
New Years Day
Wednesday, January 1, 2003
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University
Escort Service
The
university provides an escort service for staff to be accompanied to
their cars or other walking destinations. The campus escort service
may be reached at x55555 (all fives) and is available all year, any
time [24/7]. According to a police department spokesman, the escort
can easily be ready to walk with someone with a half-hour advance notice.
Please consider this safety service if you need to travel on campus
late hours or when there are few others around,or if for any reason
you are uncomfortable walking to your nearby destination.
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Calendar of
Events
Langston
Hughes centenary exhibition
February 1, 2002
Beinecke
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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Web
W-2
Self-Service
Web W-2 application. Web W-2 will allow employees to view and print
their 2001 W-2 tax forms at any time of the day or night. And best
of all, you will have access to your tax forms several weeks earlier
than with a standard paper form!
The web-site will be accessible through the HR Self Service application.
The URL will be e-mailed to all Yale employees with a known email
address around the 17th of January. A link will also be available
on the Payroll web-site.
What can you do to get ready? Sign up for a net-id and pin number
if you currently do not have or know your net-id. (Detailed instructions
are available at http://edserv05.its.yale.edu/acct/
Check the name, address and social security number on your most recent
pay stub. If this information is incorrect, please notify payroll@yale.edu.
Please note that proper documentation is required to substantiate
any change to a name or social security number.
Web
W-2 is now available!
http://www.yale.edu/w2
For questions or concerns, please contact Payroll at payroll@yale.edu
or at 432-5408.
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Find
It
Staff Resource Library
The Staff Resource Library is a virtual collection easily accessible
through ORBIS. It promotes the creation of a workplace where learning
is not just a formal event but an on-going and integral part of
our daily work lives.
http://www.library.yale.edu/orbis/
keyword: Staff Resource Library
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The Professional Mentor
Teaching
Department to work together
Leaders with vision applaud diversity and know how to
accentuate the positive aspects of a diverse group of employees.
The leader with vision helps employees celebrate their diversity. He
or she seeks to find something special and unique to applaud in the
personality of each of the people who work in the organization.
http://www.library.yale.edu/training/promentor/
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Join Alice,
The University Librarian
for Tea
Time @ Spoon
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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Wellness Now
         
January is National Mental Wellness Month. As I researched how to improve
stress, depression and other aliment, I came upon a site that delete with using
humor. I hope you find this as interesting as I did, or at least it gave you
a laugh.
Taking Humor Seriously in the Workplace©
Why has humor become a recognized asset in the workplace? Humor facilitates
communication, builds relationships, reduces stress, provides perspective, and
promotes attending and energizes.
Humor Facilitates Communication
Humor provides a non-threatening medium through which an employee or employer
can communicate.
Humor Builds Relationships
The development of staff cohesion and a sense of team effort in the workplace
can be effectively facilitated by the use of humor.
Humor Reduces Stress
Work is often associated with stress, and we know that stress is one of
the main causes of illness, absenteeism, employee burnout, etc. Humor is a great
stress reliever because it makes us feel good, and we can't feel good and feel
stress simultaneously. At the moment we experience humor, feelings like depression,
anger, and anxiety dissolve. When we laugh we feel physically better, and after
laughter we feel lighter and more relaxed. In addition, humor provides a psychological
stress reducer as it snaps our thinking to another channel by breaking the mind
set of the thinking which leads to increased creativity.
Humor Provides Perspective
Another way in which humor oils the gears of the workplace is by providing
perspective. Consider the Ziggy cartoon where Ziggy is lying on the psychiatrist's
couch and the psychiatrist is saying, "The whole world isn't against you...there
are BILLIONS of people who don't care one way or the other."
Humor Promotes Attending and Energizes
We know that all good lecturers have many jokes, stories, and anecdotes
that are shared in order to command attention and energize the audience. Humor
wakes us up and increases our attending. An office bulletin board loaded with
cartoons, one liners, jokes, pictures, etc. is one way to invite humor into
the workplace. A few moments of humor at work can lead to increased productivity
as the newly energized employee returns to his or her task.
Connects us with others
Our needs to affiliate with others is enhanced through humor.
Replace distressing emotions with pleasurable feelings
Humor and distressing emotions cannot occupy the same psychological space.
You cannot feel angry, depressed, anxious, guilty, or resentful and experience
humor at the same time. Most of us have experienced a time when we have been
angry and someone, while in the throws of our being angry, does or says something
humorous. A typical response is, "Don’t make me laugh. I want to be
angry." Intuitively we know that we cannot maintain distress and experience
humor simultaneously.
Humor changes how we behave
When we experience humor we talk more, make more eye contact with others, touch
others, etc. Humor increases energy, and with increased energy we may perform
activities that we might otherwise avoid.
Finally, humor is good for mental health because it feels
good!
Humor is a major career asset, so let's be serious about humor and use humor
to lighten our seriousness in the workplace. As we increase our personal humor
quotient and spread our humor contagiously to others.
Works cited: Steven
M. Sultanoff, Ph.D., http://www.humorx.com/programs.html
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Tip
of the Day
LAUGH :-)
Joke
for the day...
25
SIGNS THAT YOU'VE HAD TOO MUCH OF THE 2000's:
1. You just tried
to enter your password on the microwave.
2. You have a list
of 15 phone #'s, to reach your family of three.
3. You call your
son's beeper to let him know it's time to eat. He emails you back from
his bedroom, "What's for dinner?"
4. Your daughter
sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site.
5. You chat several
times a day with a stranger from South Africa, but you haven't spoken
with your next door neighbor yet this year.
6. You check the
ingredients on a can of chicken noodle soup to see if it contains Echinacea.
7. You check your
blow-dryer to see if it's Y2K compliant.
8. Your grandmother
clogs up your e-mail inbox asking you to send her a JPEG file of your
newborn so she can create a screen saver.
9. You pull up
in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.
10. Every commercial
on television has a website address at the bottom of the screen.
11. You buy a computer
and a week later it is out of date and now sells for half the price
you paid.
12. The concept
of using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase,
is foreign to you.
13. Cleaning up
the dining room means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat
of your car.
14. Your reason
for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have e-mail
addresses.
15. You consider
second-day air delivery painfully slow.
16. Your dining
room table is now your flat filing cabinet.
17. Your idea of
being organized, is multicolored Post-It notes.
18. You hear most
of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.
19. You get an
extra phone line so you can get phone calls.
20. You turn off
your Modem and get this awful feeling, as if you just pulled the plug
on a loved one.
21. You get up
in morning and go online before getting your coffee.
22. You wake up
at 4 AM, to go to the bathroom and check your e-mail on your way back
to bed.
23. You start tilting
your head sideways to smile. :)
24. You're reading
this.
25. Even worse;
you're going to forward it to someone else!
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Think Now
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Roth
IRA
The
IRS has given us a free gift: the Roth IRA. Anyone eligible (adjusted
gross income of less than $150,000) should consider starting a Roth. The
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education, the purchase of a home or any other need that might arise.
There is no required distribution, which makes the Roth a great tool for
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or stock brokerage account.
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for information on the Roth IRA
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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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