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Issue 21

10/31/2002

News for Staff of UW-Madison Libraries

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NOTABLES

~ Nancy McClements elected president of Wisconsin Library Association
~ Noelle Rydell wins Madison Magazine fiction contest
~ Carrie Kruse chairs 2002 United Way campaign
~ Janice Rice co-chairs American Indian Symposium
~ Rebecca Payne named Japanese Studies and general reference librarian
~ Sept. 20 reception celebrates Ginny Moore Kruse's career
~ Yale artists' books show features work by two UW-Madison Libraries staffers
~ Emerita librarian Melba Jesudason receives Wisconsin Women of Color Network award
~ Tanner Wray accepts Unsung Hero Award
~ Julie Schneider heads up Technical Services at the Health Sciences Libraries
~ Jay Huemmer leaves Administrative Office position

Nancy McClements, Memorial Library Reference, has been elected vice president/president-elect of the Wisconsin Library Association. McClements will serve as vice president in 2003, president in 2004 and past president in 2005.

Noelle Rydell, College Library, won first place in Madison Magazine's fourth-annual short fiction contest. Her story, "Hooks," is featured in the August 2002 edition of Madison Magazine, along with a brief biography and photo.

The grand judge of the contest called Rydell's piece "a very accomplished story, smoothly and often brilliantly written" saying "the author's instinctively good storytelling sense, a willingness to try other paths, and feel for the gritty, treacherous world her characters inhabit lead to a final scene that is unexpected and quite satisfying."
- Read "Hooks" at Madison Magazine's Web site
Carrie Kruse, College Library, is leading the 2002 Partners in Giving charitable campaign in the General Library System. The Partners in Giving booklet is being distributed, listing the charities and community organizations that benefit from the campaign.
- Visit the Partners in Giving Web site
The American Indian Symposium was held on the UW-Madison campus Oct. 18 at the Pyle Center. Janice Rice, College Library, served as campus co-chair of the symposium. Audiences heard American Indian students, faculty and staff share their views about life in academia.
- For more information, visit UW-Madison's Diversity Web site
Rebecca Payne has been appointed Japanese Studies and general reference librarian for UW-Madison Libraries. She began her position Oct. 1. Payne started as project manager of the Digital Asia Library in January 2001. Previously, she worked at the University of Illinois-Urbana as graduate assistant in Central Reference Services in the Main Library and as program coordinator of the Asian Educational Media Service of the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies. She holds a M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois-Urbana, a M.A. in East Asian Studies from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.A. in Japanese Studies from Bates College in Maine.

The Friends of the Cooperative Children's Book Center hosted a program and reception Sept. 20 to mark the August retirement of CCBC Director Ginny Moore Kruse. She has been director of the CCBC since 1976. The reception was held in the Harrison Parlor of Lathrop Hall.
- View photos from the party
- Read more about Kruse from previous newsletter

Tracy Honn, Silver Buckle Press, and Marta Gomez, Collection Development and Preservation Memorial Library, have works featured in "By Chance: Serendipity and Randomness in Contemporary Artists' Books" at Yale University. The exhibit shows pieces that use chance in different ways, from blind collaboration to randomness determined by reader interaction with the work.
- Read more about the show
Retired College Library senior academic librarian Melba Jesudason has received the Women of Achievement award from the Wisconsin Women of Color Network Inc. She was cited for being "a tireless advocate for special groups, international students, students of color, student athletes and precollege students."
Tanner Wray, Memorial Library Access Services, received the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network of South Central Wisconsin Unsung Hero Award Sept. 30 for his three years of volunteerism to the organization. The award recognizes Wray's work in establishing and implementing comprehensive financial systems for GLSEN-SCW.
Julie Schneider is the new head of Technical Services at the Health Sciences Libraries. Schneider served as Collection Development and Resource Management coordinator since 2000. She is responsible for the overall management of the Technical Services unit including staff supervision, bindery, processing, cataloging, collection development and acquisitions.
Jay Huemmer left his half-time position in the Administrative Office Friday, Sept. 6. Huemmer accepted a program assistant position at SLIS. He will continue to work mornings in GLS Shipping.

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LIBRARY NEWS

~ Online with Live Help
~ Memorial Library west corridor now open 24/7
~ Jail Student Library Group marks 10 years of service
~ ACRL Internet Education Project gets CLUE'd in
~ CHOICE reviews Decorative Arts and Material Culture digital library
~ Friends invite speakers Haber, Wilson, McManus for "Food, Feuds & Folly"
~ Ooom-pa-pa: German music exhibit at Mills Music Library
~ Embroidery exhibit Steenbock leaves visitors in stitches

Imagine having a librarian guide you through the UW-Madison's vast collection of books, magazines, and expansive databases -- all from your home computer. This fall, Libraries Live Help, a new real-time service, puts library users online in direct contact with reference librarians on campus.
- Read the full story
Whoever unlocked the doors to Memorial Library's west corridor Sept. 16 at 7 a.m. can throw away the key. A year-long pilot program will keep the west end of the library open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

UW-Madison Libraries Director Ken Frazier decided to pursue the concept after a number of students approached him directly asking for 24-hour library service.
"Despite the fact that it's a large campus," Frazier said, "there are a limited number of places where you can really concentrate and get something done that have the necessary support systems to work effectively."

The program will be paid for with monies from the UW Foundation Parents Fund.
The School of Library and Information Studies marked the 10th anniversary of its Jail Library Student Group, an organization that provides all recreational and educational library services to Dane County Jail inmates. The group was started by Michele Besant (MA 1992, Ph.D. 1999), as part of her LIS 620 Field Projects in Libraries and Information Agencies. Anne Waidelich, then Dane County Law Librarian, was the supervising librarian. Louise Robbins, SLIS Helen C. White, was the instructor and remains the group's faculty adviser.
To celebrate, the Jail Library Student Group held a gathering Sept. 25. The reception included a brief history of the project and a description of the current group, which includes more than 20 SLIS students in various roles; a presentation of the newly framed Presidential Voluntary Service Award received by volunteers Amy Gibson Mark and Nisa Kalambaheti in 1999; and a short speech by Sheriff Gary Hamblin.
The ACRL Internet Education Project added CLUE: Computerized Library User Education Tutorial to its database. Abbie Loomis, Library and Information Literacy Instruction, and Carrie Kruse, College Library, submitted the proposal to include CLUE's acceptance to the project.
- Visit the database
CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries featured UW-Madison's Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture in its July/August 2002 issue. The publication reviews significant books and electronic media of interest to those in higher education.
- Visit the Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
- Visit CHOICE online
The fall 2002 Friends Lecture Series, "Food, Feuds & Folly," satiates, challenges and delights audiences. Barbara Haber, Havard University food historian, presented her lecture, "Finding Your Past in Cookbooks," Sept. 19. Knox College Lincoln Studies Center Co-Director Douglas L. Wilson gave his talk, "Still Learning about Lincoln," Oct. 17.

The final Friends fall lecture, "States' Rights Northern Style: The Case of Wisconsin: 1854-1861," presented by UW-Madison history scholar Michael J. McManus, is scheduled for Nov. 14 at 4:30 p.m. in Special Collections, Memorial Library.

Visit Special Collections, Memorial Library between Oct. 15 and Jan. 15 for "Folly: Fraud & Fakery in the History of Science." The exhibit highlights the tragedies and comedies of pseudoscience.
"The Music of German-Americans in Wisconsin" opened at Mills Music Library Sept.13. Created in conjunction with a conference on campus, "Sounds of Two Worlds: Music as a Mirror of Migration to and from Germany," the exhibit will continue through December 2002.
- For more information about the German music conference, click here
Through Nov. 1, work by the Madison Area Chapter of the Embroiderer's Guild of America is on display at Steenbock Library. For those interested, the Embroiderer's Guild will be presenting its Needlework Show 2002 at Edgewood College Nov. 9 and 10. E-mail madisonega@yahoo.com for more information.

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SNAPSHOTS

~ Homecoming happenings

The week-long 2002 Homecoming celebration was launched on Library Mall Friday, Oct. 11. As you can see, Bucky is ready for action. Above: Bucky gets pumped. Below: Susan Barribeau, Memorial Library Collection Development, shares some Homecoming spirit.

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PUBLISHED

~ Parallel Press releases 'Rendered into Paradise' by Jean Feraca
~ Parallel Press publishes 'The Beastiary: The Book of Beasts'
~ 'American Trilogy' commemorates one-year anniversary of Sept. 11 attacks

Madison-area poet, essayist and Wisconsin Public Radio personality Jean Feraca examines the complexities of relationships and the passing of her mother in a recently published collection of poetry, "Rendered into Paradise."
- Read the full story
UW-Madison Libraries published "The Bestiary: The Book of Beasts" by T.H.White.Other works by White included "The Once and Future King," a children's adaption of the legend of King Arthur, and "The Sword in the Stone," on which the Disney animated film of the same title is based. "The Bestiary" was originally published in 1960.

"A Bestiary is a serious work of natural history, and is one of our bases on which our knowledge of biology is founded, however much we may have advanced since it was written," White said.
- Visit "The Bestiary" page on Parallel Press' Web site

To commemorate the one-year anniversary of the events at the university that reflect on the impact of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the UW-Madison Libraries' Parallel Press presents "American Trilogy," a chapbook featuring the nation's most revered documents: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
- Read the full story

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25 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

~ Turn up the radio

From the "Incredible Query" file, Sept. 2, 1977, courtesy of Sandy Pfahler, GLS administration retiree: "A patron stumbled into the WiLS office, looked around at the array of equipment, and asked if this wasn't perhaps radio station WILS. He was quickly tuned in by the WiLS staff."

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QUOTATION

"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."

- Salman Rushdie

Libraries@UW-Madison is written by the staff of the News and Editorial Office. The editing intern is Erin J. Buege ebuege@library.wisc.edu. Please send questions, comments or story ideas to Don Johnson, djohnson@library.wisc.edu, 262-0076, 330C Memorial Library.