NOTABLES

LIBRARY NEWS

IN THE MEDIA

25 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

EVENTS

• Four exhibits, featuring a sampling from the Kohler Art Library’s collection of artists’ books, one of the largest and finest repositories of its kind, will be on display through March 15. These unique pieces, which combine typography, papermaking and other media, demonstrate how bookmaking can become an art form. Some of the most outstanding books from the collection are on display in Special Collections. Other examples, including miniature and small format books, can be seen in display cases located in the lobby and on second floor west of Memorial Library. The work of graphic artist, bookmaker and former UW instructor, Claire Van Vliet is also being shown at the Kohler Art Library. Link to pictures from gallery tour for staff
• This year's annual book sharing party, sponsored by the Librarians' Assembly, will be Thursday, Dec. 20 in Memorial Union. The party is open to anyone who wishes to recommend a book to others. Bob Sessions, Steenbock Library Information Services, and Helene Androski, Memorial Library Reference, will be leading the book discussion and compiling the 2001 Book List. The program will be from noon to 1:30 p.m., check TITU for location. To submit a title to the list, contact Sessions, rsessions@library.wisc.edu.
  Link to the 2000 Book List
  Link to the 2001 Book List
• CCBC award discussions for children's and young adult book awards will continue through Jan. 9, 2002. The sessions are open to any interested adult. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about several prominent awards and to discuss books that are currently eligible. Participants are expected to read most or all of the books on the discussion lists. Each discussion will be held in the Elizabeth Burr Room of the CCBC, 4290 Helen C. White Hall, 5:10 to 9:10 p.m. Advance registration is required for each discussion. Contact Megan Schliesman, 262-9503, or schliesman@education.wisc.edu. Link here for information about the discussions
• The "Partners in Giving" campaign, an annual workplace campaign that raises money for local charitable causes is still collecting donations. According to Jamie Woods, the libraries’ coordinator, there were 130 collections as of Dec. 12, five short of last year’s mark. Though the campaign officially ran through Nov. 30, Woods and libraries director, Ken Frazier, encourage staff to contribute, if they have not already done so. SECC-Dane is the largest annual employee-run fund-raising campaign in Wisconsin. Participants in this year's campaign include 10 nonprofit "umbrella" organizations and 367 individual charities. For an order form, contact Woods, 262-3291, jwoods@library.wisc.edu.
  Link to the campaign poster
  Link to the campaign Web site

NOTABLES

• Duane Anderson, supervisor of GLS mail service, retired Dec. 4 after more than 25 years on the GLS staff. Anderson’s retirement will be effective Jan. 2, 2002. He requested that staff not throw him a party or announce his plans prior to his last day. Anderson worked with his student assistants and the WiLS staff to ensure that regular mail service will continue before the position is filled.
• Bob Toomey, CTS cataloger, retired earlier this month after more than 32 years of working at the UW-Madison. At a retirement party held by CTS, fellow co-workers reminisced about Toomey's interest in poetry and piano music.
• Sheilah Harrington has joined the Chemistry Library staff as the part-time Library Services Assistant-Advanced. Harrington received her MLS from the UW-Madison in 1996 and worked most recently at the State Historical Society Library. Harrington's first day was Nov. 26.
• Amy Rudersdorf will join the UW-Madison Library staff as the Digital Services Librarian for the Digital Content Group. Rudersdorf will be coming from the University of Pittsburgh and will start Feb. 1, 2002.
• Sandy Phelps recently joined the staff of the Health Sciences Libraries as an academic librarian. Phelps comes to the UW-Madison from the University of Iowa with many years of experience in health sciences reference. Her office is located in the Clinical Science Library-Weston.

LIBRARY NEWS

• UW-Madison Libraries will begin using a reference service called Libraries--Live Help at the beginning of spring semester 2002. This service allows users to have an interactive online reference session with a campus librarian any time Monday through Friday, 1 to 9 p.m. The service will be available on all campus library computers. Library Hotlne (11/12/01) featured the service on its front page among four prototype virtual reference services.

  This semester, engineering students had the opportunity to test out the new software. Students in Engineering Professional Development 151 were awarded extra credit for meeting with a librarian via Libraries--Live Help. Many of the users had positive comments about the new program and said it was also fun.

• The libraries recently added several new digital resources with topics such as Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson, Nordic Translation Series, History of the Crusades, and Minerals Yearbook. All of these resources can be accessed through the Electronic Text and Multimedia Collections.
• Memorial Library staff contributed food and donations to the annual Second Harvest FoodBank Food Drive. The donations were collected Dec. 5 by two National Guardsmen. Barrels set up in the lobby were continually overflowing, an indication of the success of this year's effort.
• The Chemistry Library recently celebrated a remodeling. LINK to pictures from the party
• Poet Ted Genoways evokes the stark loneliness and hard-scrabble survival of life in early twentieth-century Klondike in Anna, washing, the latest release from the Parallel Press. In this 16-piece collection, Genoways imagines the life of two Finnish immigrants to the Klondike in 1897. LINK to more information about Genoways and the latest chapbook.

IN THE MEDIA

• Judy Tuohy, head of Interlibrary Loan was quoted in a Nov. 27 Chicago Tribune article about "Chicago's hidden temple of esoterica," the Center for Research Libraries. According to the article, UW-Madison Libraries have been the biggest borrower of materials in the past few years, with 600 requests last year, most of which for newspapers. Tuohy’s contribution to the story follows:

  "The center is promoted fairly heavily in a lot of the departments at Wisconsin," Judy Tuohy said. "The history department comes to mind as a place [with] people who are working in archives and in documents from around the world. They make a lot of requests. But I would say it's mostly newspapers; they have such a rich collection."

25 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

• In December 1976, a unique display of holiday cards from around the world were on display in Steenbock Library. The cards, from the collection of Mrs. O. N. Allen, were from friends she and her professor husband met during their years of travel. Included in the collection were unusual metal and embroidered cards from Russia and Hungary, a wooden carved card from India and cards from Japan, Taiwan, South America and Africa.

QUOTATION

- Donald Walker, Associate Director of New York Public Library, on library books that are most often worn out or stolen.

Libraries@UW-Madison is written by the staff of the News and Editorial Office. Editing interns are Anna Jackson ajackson@library.wisc.edu, Erin Buege, ebuege@library.wisc.edu, Catherine Cox, ccox@library.wisc.edu, and Kat Grayson kgrayson@library.wisc.edu. Please send questions, comments, or story ideas to Don Johnson, djohnson@library.wisc.edu,  262-0076, 330C Memorial Library.