The event is open to the public at no charge. The performance coincides with the publication of Williams's chapbook of poetry, "Them Poems," which will be released this summer by the Parallel Press. The press is an imprint of the General Library System.

The book is the latest work in a career that includes writing comedy for “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” and “Saturday Night Live.” Williams won an Emmy Award for his work with the Smothers Brothers in 1968, the same year "Classical Gas" won three Grammy Awards. In addition, he has published more than 12 pieces of written work, including poetry, musical composition and prose.

The exhibit at the Wisconsin Arts Board Lobby of the Wisconsin Department of Administration, 101 E. Wilson St. continues through Aug. 4. The show is open the same hours as the building, 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Gomez and Soll collaborate to produce letterpress books in limited editions for their independent publishing company, Tiramisu Press. The couple uses handmade materials and prints the books using letterpress. Typically, Soll writes the text; Gomez makes the paper, sets the type, prints, and binds the books. Both work on the design.

Cooney is a familiar face in the campus library community. She was a reference assistant in Kohler Art Library from 1998-99. She also ran the DoIT departmental resource center for four years and was in charge of the center’s Intranet. Cooney received an M.A. and an M.L.S from UW-Madison.

Kirsten Houtman is the new WILS OCLC member services librarian in Memorial Library.

Before joining WILS, Houtman was the technical services and reference librarian at Mount Horeb Public Library. Prior to that, she worked in interlibrary loan at the State Historical Society and in Technical Services at Madison Public Library. Houtman received her M.L.S. from UW-Madison.

Joy Pohlman is the new WILS Interlibrary Loan Services librarian. She will train students and work with interlibrary loan referrals.

Pohlman is transferring from College Library, where she worked in Reserves/Circulation. She has also worked at the CIMC and SLIS on campus.

Jim Buckett will become the head of Technical Services and Collection Development at Steenbock Library on July 1. Buckett brings 23 years of library experience at the State Historical Society to this position.

From 1977 to 1998, Buckett was the gifts and exchanges librarian at the State Historical Society Library. He became head of the Acquisitions Section in 1998. In 1999, Buckett served on AcqImp, one of the the committees coordinating the implementation of the the Voyager system on campus.

Steven Frye will return to UW-Madison to become a reference/instruction librarian in Memorial Library in August.

Frye is leaving the position of head of Reference Services and Library Instruction at Kalamazoo College to join the Memorial Library staff. Prior to that position, Frye was the LSA in the Geology and Geophysics Library at UW-Madison.

Ken Frazier and GLS Administration provided support in funding the video on behalf of the Library Instruction Program. The video will be distributed to all teaching libraries and to a national clearinghouse for library instruction.

According to Linda Balsiger, assistant director and building manager at College Library, there is no target date for the completion of the renovations, but most of the major projects will be finished this summer. “It’s a big, big project,” Balsiger says.

The library will operate under summer hours, but patrons may experience delays because areas of the library will be inaccessible and some book collections will be in temporary shelving. Balsiger suggests that library personnel contact the College Library Reference and Information number at 262-3245 before referring users to the library.

The KIDS Report is a collection of curriculum-related Internet sites selected and compiled by K-12 students (and teachers), as resources for other K-12 students. The site includes reports from 15 schools worldwide. The GLS became the host for the project in the fall of 1999.