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New Library Staff
Anne Occhterine Michael Widener TransfersNancy Faircloth Promotions Stephen Ross DeparturesGretchen Gano Terry Fleischer Meghan Gaffney Lisa Adriani Shawn Biegan Fereshteh Molavi Staff In FocusJeannette Ponzio On October 18, 1965, Jeannette began her career at Yale as a Shelver in the Medical Library. Prior to this she worked as a bookkeeper at the American Supply Co. Within a few years, Jeannette was promoted to Circulation Assistant. At the time the Circulation Department was part of the Reference Department and supervised by Ruth Smith. In 1971, the Medical Library Director, Stanley Truelson created a part-time Circulation Supervisor position during the evening hours specifically for Jeannette. With three small children at home, Jeannette wanted to be home during the day for her family. This switch in her schedule worked well for Jeannette and she continued in this position for 11 years. During her 41 years at Yale, many changes have occurred; the library moved from Geac to Orbis and from photocopy auditrons to copy cards, the Circulation Department changed location to the opposite wall and the Photocopy Room moved downstairs. Jeannette served as Acting Head of Circulation from 1986 to 1987. In 1990, Jeannette changed positions and departments becoming an Acquisitions Assistant in Technical Services ordering serials for Medical Center departments. About one year ago, her responsibilities changed once again as Technical Services became Collection Development and Management. Although still involved with serials, Jeannette now orders, invoices, and works through problems with electronic journals. Jeannette has enjoyed working at the Medical Library. She has worked with many
directors throughout the years. She feels it is a pleasure and an honor to work
with the current director, Kenny Marone. Jeannette also enjoys working with
both Daniel Dollar, Associate Director, and Cindy Crooker, Director, of Collection
Development and Management. She looks forward to a few more years at Yale and
is ready to face the challenges of electronic resources. Promotion of Managerial Staff in the Yale University Library, 2006 I am very pleased to announce that the following managerial staff have been promoted, with effect from September 1: Sharon Tarascio Doreen Powers Elizabeth Beaudin Karen Reardon These colleagues have a clear record of increasing the scope, breadth, depth and complexity of their job responsibilities. They all demonstrate a great spirit of collaboration, and take pride in sharing their knowledge and experience with others. Their contributions to the Library system can be seen in their numerous roles. They have been recognized for their commitment to providing excellent service and advice, and for their expertise as supervisors and/or project leaders in their respective field and levels. These dedicated leaders have done outstanding work, demonstrating exceptional expertise, and I congratulate them most warmly on these well-deserved promotions. We are all most fortunate to have colleagues of this caliber. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the members of the promotion review committee, ably chaired by Susan Burdick. Other members were Regina Romero, John Gallagher, Dolores Cullen, Marybeth Bean and Marsha Garman. The Library is indebted to them for their meticulous, high-quality work in this important process. Alice Prochaska Long Service Awards
Staff
Author: Anthony Riccio The Italian American Experience In New Haven The Italian American Experience In New Haven: Images And Oral Histories by Anthony Riccio (Stacks Manager at the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University) draws upon personal interviews as well as family and archival photographs to present a richly complex and fully realized history of the life and experiences of Italian immigrants who settled in New Haven, Connecticut in the 19th and 20th centuries. Not only is the daily pulse of life in the Italian-American community revealed in the life stories of ordinary men and women, the reader will discover how this immigrant community was affected by such landmark events as the Spanish Flu pandemic, the Great Depression, and World War II. Also revealed are the hardships of Italian immigrant women who labored under terrible (and often hazardous) conditions in New Haven's shirt factories. The integrations of historic photographs with the reported interviews transform The Italian American Experience In New Haven from just another ethnic American history into a compelling social history showcasing a vibrant, vigorous, colorful community. The result is a brilliantly written and highly recommended work that is as entertaining as it is informative.
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Entry and Access Changes for Sterling Memorial Library
Sterling Memorial Library’s (SML) hours of entry have been extended during the 15 month renovation of the Cross Campus Library (CCL). For the Fall 2006 semester, SML will replicate CCL’s normal hours of entry, including the popular late night study hours. Starting on Wednesday, September 6, 2006, SML will close at 1:45 am Sundays to Thursdays; 9:45pm on Fridays; and 6:45pm on Saturdays. Check the library’s “hours” website for the complete Fall 2006 schedule of hours and exceptions [http://www.library.yale.edu/hours/].
Also beginning on September 6, entry into SML after 6pm from Sundays through Fridays will now be restricted to only those who are holders of Yale University or Yale Library identification cards. This restriction will be made to maximize the availability of library resources for Yale-affiliated readers during the popular evening hours.
As a reminder, the CCL collection is now located in SML, on floors 1, 1M, and
1MB in the SML stack tower. More information, photos, and current updates can
be found at the renovation website: http://www.library.yale.edu/renovaxn/phase2a/
Custodial Changes
Michael Roberts who was previously assigned to the Old Campus will now supervise the Custodial Teams at the Cross Campus, Beinecke and Sterling Memorial Libraries. Julie Renko will move from her Libraries assignment to the Old Campus. Both Julie and Mike have over 25 years service at Yale University. These moves will strengthen our ability to provide quality cleaning and indoor environmental management services to the Yale Community.
Mike and Julie can be reached at the following numbers:
Michael Roberts, Office: 432-1755 Cell: 627-2945
Julie Renko, Office: 432-0147 Cell: 627-4218
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Current
Library Exhibits
With a coastline extending for 5835 km (4,058 of which represent more than 1,300 islands), a land area of 56,542 sq. km. (slightly smaller than West Virginia) and shaped like a boomerang swinging from the Adriatic Sea to Hungary and Serbia, Croatia served for centuries as a crossroads between North and South, East and West; between Central Europe and the Mediterranean world, Christianity and Islam, science and religion, enlightenment and obscurantism, modernity and tradition. This rich and enduring intercultural dialogue is well documented by Croatia: Themes, Authors, Books, a new exhibition at Sterling Memorial Library. Selected and arranged by Tatjana Lorkovic, Curator of the Slavic and East European Collections and originally from Croatia, the exhibition spans five centuries (15th – 20th) and brings together a wealth of materials in a variety of formats (maps, manuscript and printed books, photographs) and disciplines (history and geography, linguistics and literature, religion, travel, astronomy, chemistry, medicine, neurophysiology, etc.), from a number of Yale repositories, including the Arts Library, the Maps Collection, the Medical Historical Library, and the Slavic and East European Collections. Among the items on view are 16th century portolans (containing navigational charts and sailing directions); manuscript samples of Glagolitic, the oldest known Slavic alphabet, developed in the 9th century by brothers St. Cyril and St. Methodius; grammars and dictionaries documenting a national revival based on the Croatian language at a time (16th-18th centuries) when the country was simultaneously under the rule of Austrian (Habsburg), Turkish, and Venetian powers; literary and historical works by such authors as Marko Marulic (1450-1524), Vinko Pribojevic (d. after 1532), Mavro Orbin (Mauro Orbini, d. 1611 ), Ivan Lucic (Giovanni Lucio, 1604–79), Tin Ujevic (1891-1955), Miroslav Krleža (1893-1981), and Nobel Prize winner Ivo Andric (1892-1975). Croatian contributions to science and technology date from the 15th century and include works by the inventor, linguist, and historian Faust Vrancic’s (lat. Fausto Veranzio, 1551-1617), whose Machinæ novæ describe various inventions including the parachute; Ðuro (ital. Giorgio) Baglivi (1668-1707), a native of Dubrovnik who was appointed professor of anatomy and theoretical medicine at the Sapienza University in Rome when still in his twenties, and later became the Pope's physician; Ruder Boškovic (ital. Ruggero Boscovich, 1711-1787), also of Dubrovnik, whose researches and publications in astronomy, mathematics, physics and natural philosophy gained him professorships in various European universities and memberships in the Royal Society of London, the St.Petersburg Academy, the French Académie Royale des Sciences, and the Italian Accademia dell'Arcadia; Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), the Croatian-born, Serbian-American inventor whose discovery of the rotating magnetic field was the basis of most alternating-current machinery; and chemist Lavoslav Ružicka (1887-1976), who was the first Croatian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in 1939. Travel literature is represented by works about Croatia as well as by Croatian authors. To the former category belongs Viaggio in Dalmazia (Venice, 1774), by the Paduan monk and philosophe Alberto Fortis, while Boškovic’s Giornale di un viaggio da Costantinopoli in Polonia (Bassano, 1784), which documents an (aborted) astronomical mission to Constantinople and back, is an illustrious example of the latter. The exhibition also features a selection of books on archeology, art, and architecture, including Robert Adam’s Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalato in Dalmatia (London 1764), and works by renowned miniaturist Julije Klovic (Giulio Clovio) and sculptor Ivan Mestrovic. Croatia: Themes, Authors, Books is on view in the Sterling Cloister and Elevator lobby from August 7 to October 31, 2006. BLACK GOLD: Geopolitics of Oil in the Middle East
The Life and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh
(1906-2006):
The Manuscripts and Archives collection in Sterling Memorial Library is the principal repository for the Anne Morrow and Charles A. Lindbergh Papers, the former consisting of over 300 archival boxes of her letters, diaries, writings, photographs, and memorabilia. Most of the contents of the letters and diaries have not been published and will provide researchers and editors with continuing opportunities for discovery, analysis, and future publication. The exhibit presents highlights of her papers, including letters by Amelia Earhart, Lady Bird Johnson, Jacqueline Kennedy, Robert Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, Virginia Woolf, Eleanor Roosevelt, Vita Sackville-West, Igor Sikorsky, Stephen Spender, and Thornton Wilder. Also featured are photographs taken by Anne Morrow Lindbergh on the Pacific and Atlantic Survey Flights for Pan American Airlines. Many of these were published in her extended article in National Geographic, "Flying Around the North Atlantic." On these and other flights, Anne Morrow Lindbergh served as co-pilot, navigator, radio operator, and aerial photographer. Also included are selections from her manuscript diaries, poetry, essays, and books including North to the Orient, Listen! the Wind, The Unicorn and other poems, 1935-1955, and the enduring classic Gift from the Sea, recently re-published in a special 50th anniversary edition. |
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Recycling Presentation Thursday September 21, 2006 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. SML Lecture Hall |
| Yale University Library Calendars Staff Center for Multimedia Learning |
| Official Yale Holidays 2006 Thanksgiving
Day Recess
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SUPERVISORY DISCUSSION GROUP
2006-2007
All Meetings In SML Lecture Hall Thursday September 14, 2006 11:00am – 12:00pm |
Learning Plan Spotlight
| Total Number of
Library Staff |
Number of Learning
Plans Submitted |
Percent Staff Participation
as of August 31, 2006 |
Total $$ anticipated
for learning activities as of August 31, 2006 |
| 331
C&T |
273 |
82% |
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| 255
M&P |
225 |
88% |
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| 586
Library staff |
498 |
85% total staff participation |
$17,679 |
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Shaundolyn Slaughter has office hours on Thursday mornings from 10:00am -11:00am
to discuss Learning Plan activities, ideas and questions.
Be sure to call her at 2-1810 or e-mail her at: shaundolyn.slaughter@yale.edu
to reserve your time.
§
Take a look at the Library’s Training and Learning Events Calendar to view and
register for upcoming activities at: http://www.library.yale.edu/training/stod/courseschedule.html
Cross-Training Initiative
Informational Teas scheduled
Still wondering about
the Cross-Training Initiative after reviewing the Cross-Training Resource Kit
at: http://www.library.yale.edu/training/stod/Resource%20Kit%20draft%202.doc?
Then come join the Cross-Training Committee members and enjoy
some light refreshments at one of the upcoming cross-training informational
teas. These informal teas will give the
Cross-Training Committee the opportunity to talk with interested Library staff
members about their thoughts and ideas regarding the Cross-Training program
in particular and cross-training in general. Space is limited so register
for one of the Cross-Training Informational Teas today at: https://medapps13.med.yale.edu/tms/tmscourses.get_course_details?p_crs_id=914
Yale Health Plan Highlights
For information regarding the new pharmacy deductible for faculty
and staff that became effective July 1, 2006, the Avian Flu and international
travel, as well as the West Nile Virus, visit the Yale Health Plan website at: http://www.yale.edu/yhp/menu.html
Are you a member of the
Yale Health Plan?
§
Shaundolyn Slaughter serves on the YHP Member Advisory Committee as a representative
for Library staff who are members of the Yale Health Plan.
Feel free to contact her at 2-1810 or at shaundolyn.slaughter@yale.edu
if you have any general questions about the Yale Health Plan.
§ For individual or specific matters, contact Vicki Eisler, Patient Representative at 2-0109, or at vicki.eisler@yale.edu.
Civil Union Partner Policy for Faculty and Staff
Effective April 1, 2006
Amended August 2, 2006
Background:
As a result of the enactment of Connecticut’s new civil union law, which
became
effective October 1, 2005, the University has changed its policy regarding benefits
for
same sex couples.
Effective Date of change:
April 1, 2006
Eligibility requirements:
New Staff
The University will require that a same sex couple join in a civil union in
order to be
eligible to enroll in the University’s medical and/or dental benefits.
Existing same-sex couples
For those same-sex couples currently enrolled in the University’s medical
and/or dental
benefits, under current policy, no action is required at this time. As with
all qualifying
events under our benefit plans, if you currently do not have a same sex partner
covered
under the University’s medical or dental plan and wish to add a same sex
partner outside
of Open enrollment period, you may do so by attesting to the civil union within
30 days
from the date of union.
Tax implications or exemptions
Because same sex unions are not recognized by the federal government, the partner
benefits will continue to be subject to federal tax. Under Connecticut state
law, the
partner benefits will be afforded the same tax treatment as that provided to
married
couples provided the couple has a civil union recognized by Connecticut law.
For same sex couples moving from out-of-state, the University will recognize
civil
unions that are valid in other jurisdictions.
For more information please visit the following websites:
http://www.jud.state.ct.us/lawlib/Law/civilunion.htm
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Bulletin Board |
New for Yale parents - Back-Up Child Care Learn more about this new service at the next Back-Up Child Care Briefing
scheduled for September 8th... |
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Yale University Library Send all comments to the Editor, Sharon Tarascio If you would like something or someone featured in the next Library Links, please contact me at sharon.tarascio@yale.edu. Library Human Resources hopes you
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