Volume 5, Number 10
March 15, 1996

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

SUL/AIR Items

• MELVYL Brown Bag
• LASU Annual Meeting
• New FOLIO Guides
• RITS Welcomes Daisy Flemming
• New Rare Books Specialist
• Exhibition Announcement

• Breaking and Entering

• "Vladimirov's Russia" Watercolors
• "How to Book a Read/How to Read a Book"

• Twenty Years of the Worst Serial Title Change of the Year Awards

I recently attended the annual MELVYL Update presented by the Division of Library Automation, UC. As you might expect UC continues to expand its access to electronic resources through Melvyl and is busy planning web interfaces to Melvyl resources. Topics covered included:

• Loading BIOSIS
• Delivering IEEE publications (full images) online
• MELVYL system web interface
• UCSF's Web Interface for MELVYL MEDLINE
• Cataloging Internet Resources
• GPO Gate, UCSD's GPO Access Project
• Infomine UC Government Documents project

Interested staff are welcome to attend a brown bag presentation on Thursday, March 21, 12-1pm in the Ida Green where I will be happy to share what I learned at the update.

--Steve Gass, RISC

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The LASU board would like to invite all libraries personnel to the Annual Meeting to be held on March 28 in the Meyer Forum Room from 9:30 am - 10:45 am.

The discussion will focus on past transactions and future plans of LASU. We also would like to offer the opportunity to all to join your colleagues for breakfast.

--Marleen Madou, LASU President

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We have new or revised brief guides for the following Folio databases:

• Anthropological Literature
• Dissertation Abstracts
• MLA Bibliography
• PAIS
• Sociological Abstracts
• World Catalog
• RLIN
• Econlit

--Kathy Kerns, Reference Services

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Daisy Flemming joined RITS on March 11th as the Information Resources Specialist for Engineering. Daisy will work with faculty and students from the departments of Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, and Engineering Economics Systems to incorporate technology into the learning and research done in the departments. She received her degree in electrical engineering from Edinburgh University, and has worked in various capacities in the high tech industry. Daisy will be located with the engineers in Terman 313.

--Lois Brooks, Academic Technology

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The Department of Special Collections is delighted to welcome Helen Woods as its new Rare Books Specialist. Her job is to track incoming materials and shepherd them through the various stages of technical services work.

Helen is new to SUL, but is a longtime Stanford library worker: as a copy cataloger at Lane, and, most recently, an acquisitions specialist at Crown, she brings long and varied experience to the position. As I've taken her around to meet her colleagues in other departments, I've learned that she knows many of us already from NOTIS training work.

She'll probably find many of you first, but do come by the department to welcome Helen to SUL.

--David Sullivan, Special Collections

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"How to Book a Read/How to Read a Book" is on display in the lobby of Green Library through April 2, 1996.

An exhibition of books from the Department of Special Collections and the Physics Library focusses on issues of legibility in the design of texts.

Medieval manuscript leaves, early printed books, 19th century type specimen books, and work by William Morris, Edward Johnston and Jan Tschichold, as well as contemporary book artists and digital type designers illustrate the evolution of lettering and type design in response to social changes and technological innovations.

Commercially printed and fine press, traditional and experimental format books show how page design and book structure serve to reveal--or deliberately obscure--text. Thanks go to Becky Fischbach for her eye-catching graphic designs for the exhibition.

--David Sullivan, Special Collections

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"BREAKING AND ENTERING: what I always wanted to know about library OPAC security systems and never knew who to ask" will be the topic at the Northern California Technical Process Group Annual Meeting on Friday April 25, 1996. The keynote speaker is Clifford A. Lynch, Director, Library Automation, University of California. The meeting will be held at the new San Francisco Public Library and tours will be available. The only cost is for dues of $5.00. Registration deadline is April 12--if you're interested, let Charlotte Xanders know (xanders@sulmail; 5-4952) and she'll fax you a registration form.

--Charlotte Xanders, Cataloging

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"Vladimirov's Russia" Watercolors (Exhibit Pavilion next to Hoover Tower, November 8, 1995 - May 7, 1996).

"How to Book a Read/How to Read a Book" (Green Library Lobby, March, 1996 through April 2, 1996).

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The Worst Serial Title Change of the Year Awards recently celebrated their twentieth anniversary. This list of the winners from the awards' first twenty years is an abstract of one that appeared as an appendix to the article "The Worst of the Worst: Celebrating Twenty Years of the Worst Serial Title Change of the Year Award" by Margaret Mering and Pamela Simpson, which appeared in the journal Library Resources & Technical Services, vol. 40, no. 1, Jan. 1996.