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The University Library Welcomes Three New LibrariansThree librarians have joined the University Library staff. Filling in the vacancies left by three other departing librarians earlier in July this year, Rob Bain, Daina Dickman and Gene Springs are now the library's new Public Services, Web and Electronic Resources Librarians, respectively. Aside from their special designations, all three are also reference librarians.The University Library invites you to meet its new staff members. They are eager to meet you and to show you the many resources and research tools the library has to offer you. They would like to help make your Golden Gate University academic experience a rich, rewarding and successful one. ROB BAIN
Public Services and Reference LibrarianRob arrives at GGU from the Hoosier State, where he recently completed dual master's degrees in Library Science and Information Science at Indiana University. He is excited about meeting students and faculty, and introducing them to all of the wonderful resources that University Library has to offer."I really enjoy seeing the look of relief on a patron's face when I'm able to show them how to find that critical piece of information that's been eluding them," he says. "That's the most gratifying aspect of librarianship for me."In his spare time, Rob consumes books like most people consume oxygen. He also enjoys cooking, developing web sites, and is looking forward to dusting off his snowboard this winter.  GENE SPRINGS
Web and Reference Librarian.Gene comes to GGU from Duke University in North Carolina, where he interned providing business and financial reference and supported social science data research and analysis. Gene received his M.S.L.S. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he conducted research on government information and publications."I am really looking forward to strengthening the relationship between the library and the university community through a dynamic and intuitive library web site. Also, I am excited to assist faculty and students with research questions using the myriad resources available in the library, and to fortify relationships with the university's academic departments. Additionally, I look forward to promoting, and teaching about, the many useful and powerful databases we have available through the library web site."When he's not in the library, Gene enjoys reading, films, attending concerts, exploring the Bay Area, and camping/hiking.  DAINA DICKMAN
Electronic Resources Librarian. Daina Dickman is the new Electronic Resources Librarian. She was most recently employed as a Library Assistant and Cataloger at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She has also worked in various capacities for libraries in the University of California system and public libraries in Columbus, Ohio. She recently completed her MLIS at San Jose State University and has a MA in Comparative Studies from Ohio State University and a BA in Political Science and English from UC Berkeley.Her favorite parts of being a librarian are helping new library users and answering reference questions.She enjoys biking, crafts, music, local history and is a long time volunteer Health Educator at the Women's Community Clinic in the Panhandle. She lives in a huge painted Victorian in the Western Addition with seven roommates and her pet rat Claire.
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| Monday, October 8 | Finding Company & Industry Ratios using ORBIS Database, and Analyzing Ratios Using SAS | 5-6 pm | Lab 4225 |
| Monday, October 15 | Finding Company & Industry Ratios using ORBIS Database, and Analyzing Ratios Using SAS Webcast o | 5-6 pm | Your desktop |
| Thursday, October 18 | Webcast RefWorks, Part I o | 5-6 pm | Your desktop |
| Monday, October 22 | Research for the Real World Symposium: Roundtable Discussion | 5-6:30 pm | Room 4203 |
| Tuesday, October 23 | Research for the Real World Symposium: Marketing the Environment | 5-6:30 pm | Room 6209-6211 |
| Wednesday, October 24 | Research for the Real World Symposium: Simply Clear Water for the World | 4-5:30 pm | Room 6209-6211 |
| Thursday, October 25 | Webcast RefWorks, Part II o | 5-6 pm | Your desktop |
| Monday, October 29 | Research for the Real World Symposium: Three Skills of Top Trading | 5-6:15 pm | Room 5207 |
| Wednesday, October 31 | Research for the Real (and Surreal) World Halloween Party | 3:30-6:30 pm | Room 6209-6211 |
o Note: Send an RSVP email to askalibrarian@ggu.edu or call the Reference Desk at 415 442-7244 and we will provide you with all the information you will need to log on to the webcasts.If you are unable to attend any of these webcasts, let us know, as the webcasts will be archived.
All University Library workshops are free and open to the faculty, students, alumni, and staff of GGU. We encourage you to register in advance for the workshop you wish to attend. You can do so in person at the Reference Desk; by calling 415-442-7244; or via e-mail askalibrarian@ggu.edu.For information and description of these workshops please go to the Library's Workshops and Events page.
---R. Bain
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FOOD for THOUGHT
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The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choicest words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech.
---Edwin H. Friedman
The Update is a regular feature of the University Library's website. If you wish to be added to our mailing list, please contact The Update Editor. Suggestions and questions regarding the newsletter may also be directed to this address.Consultant: Janice Carter | 415-442-7248
Editor: Alice Dietrich | 415-442-7259
Site of the Month: Larry Burg | 415-442-7250
Books of Interest: L. Burg
Food for Thought: A. Dietrich
Free Cultural Events Calendar: A. Dietrich
Graphics & Layout: A. Dietrich
Other contributors to this issue: J. Carter, R. Dain, D. Dickman, G. Springs
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Research For the Real World
How do the research skills students gain at Golden Gate University help them prepare for academic and professional success? We would appreciate hearing your thoughts, observations and experiences. Please send your comments to Janice Carter jcarter@ggu.edu, and please join us for the Research for the Real World Symposium, October 22 - November 1, 2007.Events scheduled thus far include the following: Golden Gate University Presents The Economist Intelligence Unit Global Outlook, Featuring Leo Abruzzese, Insights into Innovators Speaker Series, coordinated by the Marketing Department, Golden Gate University.When: Monday, October 22, 8 - 10 amWhere: Golden Gate University, 536 Mission Street, 5th floor auditorium
RSVP: to Marketing mktgasst@ggu.edu or 415-442-7830
Roundtable Discussion with faculty, alumni and students on how research skills students gain at GGU help them succeed academically and professionally. Please send your thoughts on this topic to askalibrarian@ggu.edu and please attend the roundtable discussion.When: Monday, October 22, 5 - 6 pm
Where: Golden Gate University, 536 Mission Street, Room 4203
RSVP: to askalibrarian@ggu.edu or 415-442-7244
Please let us know if you would like to participate via telephone.
Marketing the Environment, with GGU Professor Emeritus Kerry Curtis.The future of the planet depends to a great extent on you and me: our values, attitudes, and behavior as consumers, customers, and voters. Professor Curtis will discuss the work he's been involved in to learn how the tools of marketing and research can be used to promote an understanding of environmental issues.When: Tuesday, October 23, 5 - 6 pm,
Where: Golden Gate University, 536 Mission Street, Room 6209-6211
RSVP: to askalibrarian@ggu.edu or 415 442-7244
Simply Clear Water for the World: Lisa Farmen's Quest Golden Gate University Rising Star Alumna Lisa Farmen will talk about How her education at GGU and her work with GGU students, faculty and staff helped her develop inexpensive ways of purifying water, which can help solve water shortages and water contamination issues throughout the world.When: Wednesday, October 24, 4 - 5:30 pm
Where: Golden Gate University, 536 Mission Street, San Francisco, Room 6209-6211
RSVP: to askalibrarian@ggu.edu, or 415 442-7244
Best Practices on Incorporating Skills for Effective Research in the Classroom. Faculty Development Workshop, facilitated by Mona Sabuco and Walt StevensonWhen: Thursday, October 25, 5:00 - 6:15 pm, Room 5224
RSVP: to askalibrarian@ggu.edu, or 415 442-7244
Please let us know if you would like to participate by telephone.
The Three Skills of Top Trading Professor Hank Pruden, who is also president of the Technical Securities Analysts Association of San Francisco (TSAASF), will talk about his new book: The Three Skills of Top Trading and autograph copies. Reviews of the book have been exciting, as evidenced by the following: "Professor Pruden's new book, The Three Skills of Top Trading is unquestionably the best book on a specific trading method and the necessary attributes for trading that I have read. His logic, understanding of human foibles, and use of the Wyckoff method of trading are broadly referenced, readable, understandable, and entertaining." ---Charles D. Kirkpatrick, II, CMT, co-author of Technical Analysis: The Complete Resource for Financial Market Technicians, editor of the Journal for Technical Analysis, and board member of the Market Technicians Association.When: Monday, October 29, 5 - 6:15 pm
Where: 536 Mission Street, San Francisco, Room 5207
RSVP: to askalibrarian@ggu.edu, or 415 442-7244
Research for the Real (and the Surreal) World Halloween Party
Costumes are not required but are most welcome; participants are encouraged to come dressed as researchers who have inspired them. Some might wish to come as Galileo, Benjamin Franklin (with kite), Madame Curie, Sigmund Freud, Margaret Mead, or Sherlock Holmes, etc. Some participants may wish to come in costumes representing their favorite research tools including the Web, Blogs, Standard & Poor's Net Advantage, SAS, RefWorks, etc.When: Wednesday, October 31, 3:30 - 6:30 pmWhere: 536 Mission Street, San Francisco, Room 6209-6211
RSVP: to askalibrarian@ggu.edu or 415 442-7244.
BOOKS of INTEREST
What therapists say and why they say it / Bill McHenry, Jim McHenry. Boston : Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, c2007 RC480 .M394 2007 Ettlie, John E. Managing innovation : new technology, new products, and new services in a global economy / John E. Ettlie. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann, 2006. HD45 .E76 2006 Marketing in the 21st century / Bruce D. Keillor, general editor Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007 HF5415 .M2194 2007 4 vols.: v. 1. New world marketing; v. 2. Interactive and multi-channel marketing; v. 3. Company and customer relations; v. 4. Integrated marketing communication The group therapist's notebook : homework, handouts, and activities for use in psychotherapy / Dawn Viers, editor. New York : Haworth Press, c2007 RC488 .G725 2007 Ethics management for public administrators : building organizations of integrity / Donald C. Menzel. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2007 JF1525.E8 M46 2007 Cause for concern : results-oriented cause marketing / Stephen M. Adler. Mason, Ohio : Thomson/South-Western, c2006 HF5414 .A353 2006 Boeing versus Airbus : the inside story of the greatest international competition in business / John Newhouse. New York : A.A. Knopf, c2007 HD9711.U64 B646 2007 Marketing that works : how entrepreneurial marketing can add sustainable value to any sized company / Leonard M. Lodish, Howard L. Morgan, Shellye Archambeau. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Wharton School Pub., c2007 HD62.5 .L633 2007 Mobile multimedia in action / Ilpo Kalevi Koskinen. New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2007 HM851 .K67 2007 Flower confidential / Amy Stewart. Chapel Hill : Algonquin Books, 2007. SB443.3 .S74 2007 The psychopathy of everyday life : how antisocial personality disorder affects all of us / Martin Kantor. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006 RC555 .K36 2006 Market domination! The impact of industry consolidation on competition, innovation, and consumer choice / Stephen G. Hannaford. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007. HD2757.3 .H36 2007 Mortgage-backed securities : products, structuring, and analytical techniques / Frank J. Fabozzi, Anand K. Bhattacharya, William S. Berliner. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2007 HG4655 .M65 2007 Measuring marketing : 103 key metrics every marketer needs / John Davis. Singapore ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons (Asia), c2007 Ref HF5415 .D366 2007
The San Francisco Food Bank
900 Pennsylvania Avenue, San Francisco
"This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Food Bank serving San Franciscans in need. From less than a million pounds of food per year in 1987, the San Francisco Food Bank has grown to be the city's largest source of nutritional assistance, distributing nearly 28 million pounds of food to more than 124,000 people every year. You can help us in our campaign to end hunger by donating, volunteering , or advocating for sensible food policies." ---(excepted from the San Francisco Food Bank website, September 25, 2007)
PICTURES AT TOP show the exquisite mosaic running up the risers of the 163 steps of the 16th Avenue Tiled Steps. These steps are the result of a neighborhood project and are located on Moraga Street between 15th and 16th Avenues, San Francisco. For more 'Enchanted Stairways' see below. |
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OCTOBER 2007
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 UC BOTANICAL GARDEN
Diverse plant collection, rare and endangered species 200 Centennial Drive, Berkeley First Thursdays free (Oct 4); ongoing, $2-$5  FLEET WEEK
Thursday, October 4 - Monday, October 9, 2007 Airshows featuring the Navy Blue Angels, Team Oracle and Viper West Parade of Navy ships and ship tours.  CHESS
All experience levels; ages 6 & older. SFPL-sponsored public program October 5, 3:30 - 5:30 pm Excelsior Meeting Rm, 4400 Mission St. @ Cotter  CARBON FOOTPRINT
Offset your carbon footprint & make a difference SFPL-sponsored public program Octboer 6, 1 - 3 pm Main Library, 100 Larkin St. at Grove 
MOVIES at SFPL MAIN
ONE CITY FOUR FILMS Thursdays 12-2 pm, October 4, 11, 18, & 25 Films: The Color Purple, Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, What's Love Got to Do with It & North Country  HALLOWEEN COSTUME WALK
Sunday October 28, 12 noon - 2 pm Children's Garden Yerba Buena Gardens Mission between 3rd & 4th streets 
FARMERS' MARKETS
Sources for field-ripened fresh fruits & vegetables, freshly baked breads & pastries, flowers, gourmet appetizers & gifts, fresh fish, nuts, mushrooms, etc. List & schedules of farmers' markets | 
BEER BREWERY TOURANCHOR BREWING 90-minute tour and sampling; Need to make reservation 1705 Mariposa, San Francisco  CHOCOLATE TOURCHARLES CHOCOLATE FACTORY Wednesdays & Saturdays 11:30 am & 2:30 pm; online reservations 1451 66th St., Emeryville 
CHOCOLATE TOURSCHARFFENBERGER CHOCOLATES Daily docent-led tours; Free chocolate tasting 914 Heinz Ave. Berkeley  ENCHANTED STAIRWAYS
Telegraph Hill to Montgomery St.; across Montgomery St. median, down to Sansome St.  Greenwich Stairs
Telegraph Hill to Montgomery St.; across Montgomery St. median, down to Sansome St; Take Filbert and/or Greenwich, one up to Coit Tower and the other down. 
Vulcan Steps
Above the Castro between Ord and Levant Streets, near 17th Street. Other nearby steps are Saturn Street Stairs, Levant Street Stairway, Ord Court Stairway and Clifford Terrace Stairway.  Saturn Street Stairs
Above the Castro connecting Ord and Saturn Streets. Near 17th Street and one half block from the Vulcan Steps. See Vulcan above for nearby stairs. |
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SCHEDULE of FREE DAYS at MUSEUMS in the BAY AREA
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October 2007 volume 2, no. 10
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