Category: San Francisco

Libraries in the San Francisco region

EVENT: BayNet 2010 Annual Meeting with Author Siva Vaidhyanathan

By BayNet | Published: February 26, 2010

Please RSVP by May 14, 2010. Register here.

JOB: Patient Health Librarian at UCSF Medical Center

By BayNet | Published: February 23, 2010

Part-time position with benefits.

UCSF Patient Health Library
UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion
1600 Divisadero Street
San Francisco, CA 94115

Job Summary:

The librarian is responsible for the daily operation of the Patient Health Library. These responsibilities include providing health/medical reference support to all patients, their friends, family members, and partners, and to Mount Zion neighbors who visit the library; marketing, developing, promoting, and disseminating information about the Patient Health Library throughout the UCSF community; maintaining the Patient Health Library Collection, including recommending materials for acquisition and cataloging new items; and maintaining a local policies & procedures manual/handbook.

Qualifications:

Required, Masters degree in library science from an accredited institution. Minimum of 2 years of experience in providing health & medical reference/research support, including expert use of PubMed and thorough knowledge of & competency in using lay health/medical resources. Substantive understanding of basic biomedicine. Excellent working knowledge of lay and professional health & medical resources, including both on-line and hard-copy resources; must be able to conduct intelligent reference interviews with clients, asses their information needs and select &/or guide them to the most appropriate source(s). Excellent oral and written communication skills and the ability to work independently. Ability to assess/plan/implement program and marketing requirements for the Patient Health Library.

Familiarity with NLM, OCLC, and Melvyl; knowledge of Inmagic a plus.

The UCSF Patient Health Library is a part of the H.M. Fishbon Memorial Library at UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion.

Salary and Classification:

UCSF Medical Center Classification: Analyst III, Job Code 7236
This is a part-time (50%) position with benefits. (FTE $53,600 – $88,400)

Application:

Apply only through UCSF Human Resources; refer to Requisition # 32115BR

PROFILE: Lauren John of the Town and Country Club in San Francisco

By BayNet | Published: February 8, 2010

Lauren John is BayNet’s newest board representative for special libraries. A librarian for the San Francisco’s Town and Country Club, she organizes monthly literary discussions and leads book groups. Her groups have appeared in public libraries, bookstores, boardrooms, museums, living rooms, retirement communities and synagogues. At Infopeople, she has taught librarians how to run book discussion groups and is the author of Running Book Discussion Groups: A How To Do It Manual.

How did you decide to become a librarian?
I originally thought that I would be a journalist and I took lot of writing and media classes in college at the State University of New York at Binghamton, which I attended from 1974-1978.

In my media and society class in my senior year, I wrote a paper about the 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast that Orson Welles did on Halloween night. In the broadcast he announced that Martians had invaded New Jersey. Preposterous as that sounds today, people believed him and there was widespread national panic.

The paper that I wrote was about how and why people believed the broadcast. I went to the university library looking for answers, and the reference librarian there (wish I could remember her name) told me that I could go back to the newspapers for 1938 and read the news accounts of the broadcast and the reactions to it in the editorials. I spent hours and hours in the library looking at primary source documents on microfilm – fascinated by the letters to the editors and also sidetracked by the fashion ads. I soon realized that I was hooked on the research as much as the writing. (The paper got an A).

When I graduated from college, still unsure of what I was going to choose as a career – I took a summer class at St. John’s University School of Library Science in Jamaica, Queens. The class was about the publishing industry and the teacher was Patricia Glass Schuman – who later founded Neal-Schuman publishers. I loved the class and enrolled in the MLS program in the Fall. Note – Neal-Schuman published my book Running Book Discussion Groups in 2006.

Also posted in BayNet Libraries, Profiles | Tagged solo librarians |

S.F. Bernal library reopens after renovation

By BayNet | Published: January 30, 2010

“This building was a real gem to begin with,” said Andy Maloney, the Department of Public Works architect who oversaw the project. “Now it also meets today’s needs.”

Link: S.F. Bernal library reopens after renovation

Posted in San Francisco | Tagged bernal library |

EVENT: BayNet Board Meeting, February 3

By BayNet | Published: January 7, 2010

The next BayNet board meeting will be held Wednesday February 3rd from 9:30 am to 12:00 noon at the Academy of Art University Library.

The meeting will be held in room 621 of the Library, which is located on the 6th floor of 180 New Montgomery Street (at Howard Street), San Francisco, CA 94105. (Map). Please RSVP to Debra Sampson, Library Director, dsampson@academyart.edu .

Also posted in Events - Past |

EVENT: 21st Century Education: Motivation, Creativity, and Achievment, January 16

By BayNet | Published: January 4, 2010

On Saturday, January 16, 2010, the San Francisco Waldorf High School Lecture Series presents:

“21st CENTURY EDUCATION: MOTIVATION, CREATIVITY, and ACHIEVEMENT”

A Conversation with Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of A Whole New Mind:Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future and Drive: the Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

and Michael Krasny, host of KQED’s Forum and Professor of English at San Francisco State University.

Location: Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California Street,
onsite parking, public transportation – see details below
Time: 2:00 pm, Book signing to follow.
For reservations and information: call 415-213-6194, email hslectures@sfwaldorf.org or visit www.sfwaldorfhighschool.org/lectures

Suggested donation $5.00
Co-sponsored by Books Inc.

What is the most important preparation for work in the 21st century? What values and skills will be needed and rewarded? What truly motivates us to achieve? How do we foster internal motivation in students to do well at school and for life?

Join us for a thought-provoking presentation and discussion with best-selling author Daniel Pink on an education that moves far beyond left-brain “academic” thinking, to an approach that fully integrates social and emotional learning-one that calls upon students’ inner resources to meet each other and the world.

In Pink’s new book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, he examines 40 years of research in behavioral science that calls into question how we run our schools, organizations and many aspects of our lives. Pink will share insights into what research tells us about motivation , potential, and reward systems. He will highlight the motivational techniques that have long-term benefits for learners and the motivators that help unlock the mind’s potential to think critically and creatively.

Public transportation:
The following MUNI bus lines stop in front of the JCCSF:
#1 California
#2 Clement
#3 Jackson
#4 Sutter
#43 Masonic

Also posted in Events - Past |

JOB: Clinical Information Services Specialist, San Francisco

By BayNet | Published: November 17, 2009

Clinical Information Services Specialist (medical librarian)

About American Academy of Ophthalmology

The mission of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) is to advance the lifelong learning and professional interests of Ophthalmologists (Eye M.D.s) to ensure that the public can obtain the best possible eye care. Headquartered in San Francisco, the Academy has approximately 29,000 members worldwide and almost 200 employees.

Also posted in Jobs | Tagged medical librarian |

Richard Geiger on News Librarianship

By BayNet | Published: November 13, 2009

From San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science

A 2009 Lazerow Lecture Webcast: Phoenix Revisited: Musings from a News Librarian

Richard Geiger, retired Library and Research Director at The San Francisco Chronicle, SLA Fellow, and winner of the SLA John Cotton Dana Award, will regale you with tales of his three decades as a newspaper librarian at The San Francisco Chronicle and the San Jose Mercury–News. And yes, many of the old– time journalists did keep a fifth of booze in their bottom drawer.

Geiger has seen newsroom technology move from typewriters and Linotype machines to personal computers, websites, blogs, databases and video. He supervised the transition of newspaper libraries from clipping files, print photographs and negatives to online text and digital image archives. Geiger will discuss the current state of the news media and its impact on news libraries.

The captioned URL to the webcast is http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/media/capURL.htm#lazerow2009&menu_lazerow

QuickTime is required for viewing.

Also posted in San Jose and Silicon Valley | Tagged san francisco chronicle |

Coit Tower – Library

By BayNet | Published: November 3, 2009

San Francisco – Telegraph Hill: Coit Tower – Library, originally uploaded by wallyg.

Caption: Library, located out the outer south wall of Coit Tower’s rotunda, was executed by Bernard Zakheim in 1934. The artist painted himself in the center, reading a Hebrew book. Fellow artist John Langley Howard reaches for a Marx book, Ralph Stackpole learns about the destruction of the Rivera mural at Rockefeller Center in New york, and Beniamino Bufano reads about his proposed St. Francis statue. Continue reading.

Posted in San Francisco |

San Francisco, the city that’s open for data

By BayNet | Published: October 19, 2009

“…city officials announced the launch of DataSF.org, a repository for thousands of pieces of information pouring out of local government. “The idea behind the site is to open up San Francisco government and tap into the creative expertise of our greatest resource – our residents,” said Newsom at the launch in August. He hoped for “a torrent of innovation” such as those on the iPhone and Facebook app platforms…DataSF.org makes publicly available more than 100 data sets from local government, including from the police, the transport authority and public works.”

San Francisco, the city that’s open for data, The Guardian, October 14, 2009.

Also posted in Resources |