News

Recent additions to the UW Libraries databases:

Sociofile 1974-:

Sociofile contains abstracts of journal articles published in Sociological Abstracts and Social Planning Policy and Development Abstracts (SOPODA) It covers the literature of sociology and related social science disciplines from 2,300 journals published worldwide, enhanced citations for relevant dissertations since 1986, and books, book reviews, and conference papers.

INSPEC Linked:

Links to journal holdings in the UW Libraries are now displayed in the full INSPEC record. A word of caution about the linkage for records of conference proceedings: Check the UW Libraries Catalog for the title or conference name since many proceedings are part of the collection, but are not linked as a journal or serial.

Comments received regarding the UW Libraries' Web-based exhibition "No Finer Site":

From Ann Arbor: "Just a note to tell you how much I enjoyed `No Finer Site.' My great-grandfather helped build the first University building (including the original columns) and my great-grandmother was a 'Mercer Girl' and the first music instructor at Washington."

From Australia: "I was absolutely delighted to find the online exhibition of `No Finer Site'on the University's Web page. Whilst researching my family history recently, I discovered that my great-great-great grandfather ...was an early president at the University of Washington. My ancestor, John Henry Hall, was president there from 1869 to 1872."

Development Wish List

The following are needed by the Health Sciences Libraries and Information Center:

• $30 each for headphones for student use of audiovisual and computer equipment in open spaces
• $150 each for whiteboards for student group study rooms
• $300 each for computer chairs for public stations and teaching rooms
• $310 for a book truck to be reserved for "public use"
• $850 for a color printer for student use

Photo by Howard Clifford, UW Negative #1673

The UW Libraries Invites You to a Traveling Exhibit

A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution

UW Libraries, Allen Library Lobby, March 20 - May 1, 1997

Developed by the American Library Association and the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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and the Companion Exhibit

Green Tea and Barbed Wire: Reflections on the Japanese American Incarceration

Allen Library Balcony, March 20 - June 30, 1997

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and the Public Program Complementing the Exhibit

Survivors of the Justice Department Crystal City Internment Camp, Texas

Panel discussion presented by the Japanese American Citizens League

Thursday, April 17, 1997, 110 Kane Hall, 7:30 pm

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Exhibits and program open to the public. Admission is free. No reservations required.
For information call 543-1929

Visit the Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project website.

Additional support for exhibits and programs was provided by the UW Libraries, the Kenneth S. Allen Library Endowment Fund, Uwajimaya and the Japanese American Citizens League, Pacific Northwest District.

Rosalie Wilson

Rosalie Wilson, Accounting, was killed with her family on January 5th, 1997. The following tribute is by her co-worker, Tasha Taylor.

Rose Wilson was my colleague and my friend. I worked with her for the last five years at the UW Libraries Accounting Section. From the beginning of our working relationship, Rose and I were a team. She accepted me and was easy to work with. She cared about her work, yet there was a greater awareness that work was not all there is in life. I appreciated her because she had such a full life; she had a sense of herself.

Rose viewed life as a series of challenges that one had to accept. She accepted that life was full of good and bad times. She believed that if you fell down, you should pick yourself up and go on.

I miss Rose's wise counsel, cheery attitude, and her consistent sense of humor and play. Her e-mail address was "roswil". She used to say that she wanted to change it to "rose won't" because of all the demands she was getting.

Rose and her husband, Bill, had a wonderful marriage, and she was rightfully proud of her daughters. She was a vibrant person whose view of life was positive, humorous and uplifting. I grieve for the passing of her and her family, for I have lost not only a colleague but a dear friend.

Appointments

Roslyn Holdzkom started her new position as university archivist on February 3, 1997. She recently served in the Manuscripts Department at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Emily Hull became networked information librarian at the Health Sciences Libraries and Information Center on January 1, 1997. Her previous position was at the Tacoma Campus Library where she had been a reference librarian since 1992.

Sanae Isozumi is the new coordinator of cataloging and Japanese cataloger in the East Asia Library as of February 1, 1997. She comes to the position from the University of California San Diego Libraries.

Adam L. Schiff is the new principal cataloger in the Cataloging Division as of April 1,1997. He comes from the California Academy of Sciences Library in San Francisco.

Scott Spooner started as reference librarian at the Tacoma Campus Library on January 1, 1997. Previously, he served as a project engineer for the Navy and as an electronic design engineer for Motorola.

Katharine Whitson assumed new duties as access services/reference librarian at the Bothell Campus Library on January 1, 1997. She was one of the Bothell Campus Library's founding staff in 1990.

Retirements

David Wood will retire as head of the Humanities and Social Sciences Libraries and head of the Music Library on April 30, 1997 after 30 years of service to the UW. He began his professional career in the Harvard University Music Library in 1960 and joined the UW as head of the Music Library in 1967. He was promoted to the head of the Humanities and Social Sciences Libraries in 1979.

Deaths

Helen Strickland, former UW Libraries staff member, died on January 12, 1997. She began working for the Libraries in November 1960 in the Fisheries-Oceanography Library and later held the position of head of that library. At the time of her resignation in July 1969, she was head of the Science Reading Room, now the Natural Sciences Library.