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Issue 23

6/12/2003

News for Staff of UW-Madison Libraries

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SNAPSHOTS

~ Where in the Libraries?

PUBLISHED

~ University of California Press book co-authored by Robin Rider now online
~ Karen Rosneck republishes: chapter in Gale's Russian Literature in the Age of Realism
~ Parallel Press reprints Academic Library in the American University plus poetry chapbooks Singing to the Garden, Light Made from Nothing and Bones of Light
~ William Fietzer holds book signing
~ Karl Debus-López and Tanner Wray publish an article in LCATS 27

IN PASSING

~ Esther (Stineman) Lanigan, first UW-System women's studies librarian

25 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

~ Take a trip into Memorial Library's past

POSITION CHANGES

The UW Libraries celebrated the retirement of seven personnel Wednesday, June 11. Jeanne Boston, the director of Library Computer Operations, Tom Hefko, who works in User Services at Memorial Library, and Memorial Library's building manager, Dennis Hill, will end their working careers. John Koch and Lois Komai, both senior academic librarians at Steenbock Library, Donna Senzig, the director of College Library, and James Seals in Library Reserves at College Library, will also retire. Their work represents more than 200 years cumulative service to the libraries. A photo feature will follow in the next issue of Libraries @UW-Madison.

See a profile of each retiree
After serving as the acting head of reference in Memorial Library, Nancy McClements was named head of reference, a position she took earlier this year. She is currently the president-elect of the Wisconsin Library Association and is a member of both the American Library Association and the Association of College and Research Libraries. McClements also serves as the Web manager for the Wisconsin Women Library Workers and sits as co-chair of the Online Public Access Committee's Issues committee. McClements is no stranger to UW-Madison or the Memorial Library. She began her career in 1978, when she worked as a library assistant in Serials Acquisitions. She left the building two years later, taking a job as the circulation supervisor of the Instructional Materials Center (now the Center for Instructional Materials and Computing) and later as a user services librarian. McClements reopened the door to Memorial Library in 1988 when she helped build the Reference Department's CD-ROM collection. She earned her bachelor's degree from Heidelberg College and her master's degree in library science from UW-Madison.

Larry Jacobsen, the director of Library and Information Service for the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center, has retired after serving 30 years at UW-Madison. His colleagues held a retirement party in his honor April 24. While at the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center, he helped develop Internet services for the primatological community in addition to attending meetings of the American Society of Primatologists and the International Primatology Society. Three years ago the center received a $2.5 million, five-year grant from the National Center for Research Resources to boost the library's staff and resources, including developing Primate Info Net as an Internet access tool.
View photographs and read colleagues' comments

Already a familiar face around Memorial Library, David Null became the university archivist for UW-Madison early this year. Null originally took a position as the head of the Reference Department in Memorial Library in 1994. He also served as the publications committee chair of the Wisconsin Library Association as well as the ACRL liaison and as a member-at-large for the board of directors of the Reference and User Services Association of the ALA. Prior to his work at UW-Madison, Null worked at the University of New Mexico, first as a reference librarian and later as the acting head of Special Collections and Archives. He received a bachelor's degree from the College of William & Mary and a master's degree from the University of Chicago's Graduate Library School.

Michele Besant returned to Madison as the director of the School of Library and Information Studies laboratory library Jan. 2. Besant completed her master's degree and Ph.D. from UW-Madison. She came to the UW-Madison Libraries from the Florida State University's School of Information Studies.

The Digital Content Group opened its doors to a new research intern Feb. 3. Jessica Williams recently graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in library information studies. She works in metadata creation and reformatting.

While the Digital Content Group welcomes Williams, it also says goodbye to research intern Kirstin Dougan, who packed her bags for Duke University in early May. As a public service librarian in the Music Library, Dougan will work with digital projects in the music library, as well as reference and instruction jobs in both the main and music libraries. Dougan recently received one of three Kevin Freeman Travel Grants, an award given to first-time visitors to the Music Library Association's annual convention in February in Austin, Texas.

Jan Duxbury and Jamie Woods stepped up to become the heads of units in the Central Technical Services. Previously, Duxbury was the acting head of the Serials Control and Binding Unit while Woods was the acting head of the Copy Cataloging and Catalog Maintenance units.

Andrea Ball, the education coordinator at the Health Sciences Library, announced her resignation, effective May 23. Although she enjoyed her experiences at Wisconsin, she returned home to Portland, Ore., where she took a position as a clinical librarian. Chris Hooper-Lane takes over as education coordinator while Gerri Wanserski replaces him as reference coordinator while coordinating the Pharmacy Library.

Tony Krier joined Memorial Library's staff April 1 as the reference librarian and as Memorial Library Web coordinator. Previously, he was a reference/instruction/serials librarian at Franklin Pierce College Library in Rindge, N.H. Krier received his undergraduate degree in English literature and philosophy from Northeastern Illinois University and his master's in library and information science from Dominican University's Rosary College. For those interested in learning more about Krier, visit his Web site at: http://www.taohead.com.

Ellen Olsen also joins the Memorial Library team as the new Library Service Assistance-Advanced supervisor in Circulation. Olsen, who took over for David Grindrod in January, previously worked as a student and a project appointee in Circulation.

Nate Finn and Josiah Redford have been hired for the Saturday morning security shift at Memorial Library. Among other things, they will check the building for unlocked office doors and monitor access to staff-designated areas.

Two new librarians joined the Wisconsin Library Services Interlibrary Loan Program as of this spring. Chloe Keefer, the new WiLS member services librarian, came to UW-Madison from Millbrook, N.Y., where she served as the manager of information services for the Institute of Ecosystem Studies. She received her master's degree in library information studies from UW-Madison in 2000, as well as a bachelor's degree in conservation biology. Sarah Marcus took a position as the new WiLS lending services librarian. Marcus is a 2003 SLIS graduate from UW-Madison and will take over for Rachel Watters, who has left WiLS.

John Luedtke, the director of computer services at Wendt Library, will step down in July after providing the library with almost 35 years of service. Luedtke was a pioneer in computerized searching for materials in the 1970s. He also aided in building one of the first microcomputer LAN systems at UW-Madison. Other accomplishments include the creation of the first CD-ROM network among the libraries as well as the first electronic reserves system. He will celebrate his retirement at an open house July 11.

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AWARDS AND PRESENTATIONS

Although they may not have known it at the time, thousands of UW-Madison students over the past three decades have been affected by the work of Dennis Hill.
Read more about Dennis Hill
Liz Breed and Karl Debus-López were named Librarians of the Year for 2003. Breed is a librarian in the Memorial Library Reference Department and Debus-López is the chief acquisitions librarian and the head of the Acquisitions and Serials Department in Central Technical Services. Recipients of the awards, which recognize outstanding contributions to the campus library services, are chosen by their peers in the UW-Madison Librarians' Assembly.
Read a copy of the story from Wisconsin Week

Marta Gomez, a book artist with Tiramisu Press and head of the Conservation Lab in Collection Development and Preservation at Memorial Library, experienced the vacation of a lifetime when she traveled to New Zealand last summer to conduct workshops on artists' books.
Share Gomez's experiences
See her pictures

Eunice Graupner and Steven Frye represented the UW-Madison Libraries at the 11th annual ACRL Conference in Charlotte, N.C., in April. The team, along with representatives from Brigham Young University and Purdue University, collaborated to make a presentation on Convey's OnDemand software. Convey's OnDemand is a program that allows users to use a virtual reference system when doing research.
Visit the presentation Web site

Barbara Walden, the European history librarian, recently presented her continuous online project titled "Historical Research in Europe: a Guide to Archives and Libraries" at the ACRL-WESS Social Sciences History Discussion Group early this year in Philadelphia. Walden, along with SLIS student Joseph Tomich, discussed the project's goal of providing information on archives and libraries in Western Europe and Greece, with information on more Eastern European countries to follow. The project originated with Walden's predecessor, Erwin Welsch, who made guides used on the site.
See Walden's Web site.
Professor Tejumola Olaniyan presented a lecture Feb. 26 on library usage at UW-Madison and the University of Virginia, where he was formerly a professor of English. Olaniyan serves in the English, African languages and literature departments at Madison. He also researches a variety of topics, including Caribbean drama, African political cartoons and theories of literature. The series, entitled "Evolving Directions in Academic Research and Resources," intended to create discussion between faculty members and the library staff. ASHIND, the Libraries' Area Studies, Social Sciences and Humanities Interdisciplinary Group, sponsored the events.

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IN THE NEWS

Students and librarians now have a valuable tutorial in which they can learn library research skills and explore international women's issues. In the latest tutorial, Using a Metasite, as well as three previously announced tutorials, Pamela O'Donnell and Phyllis Holman Weisbard instruct users on using and identifying a metasite. The funding for these tutorials came from the UW-System Institute for Global Studies. Weisbard's tutorials were featured in Teaching with Technology Today. To read the full article, please see:
http://www.uwsa.edu/ttt/articles/odonnell.htm

Evaluation of Web sites
http://www.library.wisc.edu/projects/ggfws/iwitutorials/searchengines/iwssearchengines.htm

Using a metasite
http://www.library.wisc.edu/projects/ggfws/iwitutorials/metasites/iwsmetasites.htm.

Using Genderwatch
http://www.library.wisc.edu/projects/ggfws/iwitutorials/genderwatch/iwsgenderwatch.htm

Finding Articles from Contemporary Women's Issues Within Lexis-Nexis
http://www.library.wisc.edu/projects/ggfws/iwitutorials/lexisnexis/iwslexisnexis.htm.

To visit the International Women's Issues tutorials homepage:
http://www.library.wisc.edu/projects/ggfws/iwitutorials/iwiindex.htm,

In other news, Weisbard was interviewed on WKOW, channel 27, on Feb. 26 in a story about Internet and plagiarism. She and colleague JoAnne Lehman were also interviewed for Women's eNews in a commentary on the Internet's effect on women's media. To read the full story, please visit: http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm?aid=1201.
Carol Mueller was quoted by Debra Morrill of Wisconsin Woman in an article titled "How to Be Happy at Work." Mueller spoke on the importance of role playing in difficult situations and of solving one's own problems, as well as the benefits of social interactions outside of the office. She also stressed the necessity to handle one situation at a time, a message directed toward working women struggling to balance a job with raising a family.

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LIBRARY NEWS

The Digital Library for the Decorative Arts has new additions to its Web site, courtesy of the Digital Content Group and the Chipstone Foundation in Fox Point, Wis. The Web site now presents a database of early American furniture in which users can view more than 100 items from the Chipstone Foundation. In addition, the database also houses online texts such as Edith Wharton's The Decoration of Houses and Craftsman Homes by Gustav Stickley. Visit the Digital Library for the Decorative Arts
After more than 50 years, a World War I service flag created by UW students in 1918 finally returned to its home May 26. The flag, originally created to honor UW-Madison students who served in World War I with additional names added after World War II, was found in the Mazomanie (Wis.) Historical Society in 2001. The flag was dedicated May 30, 1918, and was used in many commencement ceremonies, as well as on other special occasions. Archivist David Null and General Library System Director Ken Frazier went to Mazomanie to bring the historic flag back to Madison. For the history and photographs of the service flag see:
History of service flag
A history of the service flag from its creation to its use in World War II.
"More than she bargained for"
A story in the News Sickle Arrow dated Sept. 8, 2001, shortly after the Mazomanie Historical Society curator discovered the flag
Service flag at 1919 Commencement

Rita Frakes (left) and Joan Moc of the Mazomanie Historical
Society, display the service flag during the Memorial Day presentation.

Three Health Sciences Libraries will merge into the Health Sciences Learning Center by June 2004. The Middleton Health Sciences, Power Pharmaceutical, and Weston Clinical Science Center libraries will combine to fill a new building with more than 340,000 volumes and will serve as the primary library facility for all of the schools and programs associated with health sciences.

Click here for more information on the construction project and other news at the Health Sciences Libraries

Steenbock Library, the main library for the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the School of Human Ecology, the School of Veterinary Medicine and UW Extension, Cooperative Extension, also has a Web-based newsletter.
Click here for Steenbock's newsletter

Dance aficionados or anyone desiring to know about the history of UW-Madison's dance program may take in an exhibit in Special Collections, located on the ninth floor of Memorial Library. The exhibit, titled Moving Lessons: Dance at UW-Madison, runs until June 30. It focuses on the program's history, including Lathrop Hall's completion and dedication in 1910 and the life and times of Margaret H'Doubler (1889-1982), the founder of the first academic dance program in the country in 1926. The exhibit also notes more recent figures such as Anna Nassif, who taught dance at UW-Madison from 1958 to 1998. The exhibit features books, documents, costumes, photographs and even sheet music courtesy of the University Archives at Mills Music Library and the Dance Department.
Staffers at the Wisconsin Historical Society are doing a little housecleaning this spring. To provide better and more efficient service to patrons, staff members are reorganizing the overcrowded stacks. To compensate for the construction, which lasts until June 14, the library is opening a new set of stacks and placing catalogued material with the general collection.
Read more about the renovation project

For those who can't resist the crack of a bat on a breezy summer night or the smell of leather gloves and dusty fields of grass and dirt, the Memorial Library offers a haven. The library hosts an exhibit throughout the summer titled "And then Home with Joy: Baseball and Books," located in the lobby. Barry Osborne, who works in cataloging in CTS, organized the exhibit with assistance from Kelly Osborne, Special Collections. Works on display include Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, Kenneth Rudeen's Roberto Clemente and William Heyen's What Do You Have to Lose?
See the brochure created for the exhibit

Deanna Rislund and Valerie Love, two SLIS students, will go global this summer. Rislund will travel to Honduras while Love will go to South Africa; both will help build libraries through the World Library Partnership. The WLP exists to promote global understanding through literacy, learning and research. The Honduras trip extends from June 25 to July 23. In South Africa the program in Limpopo runs from July 15 to August 15; volunteers will participate in the Kwa-Zulu Natal program from July 22 to August 22. Rislund and Love are both current SLIS students.

The Silver Buckle Press, a working letterpress museum, created a poster for the second-annual Wisconsin Book Festival, to be held Oct. 22-26, 2003. The first statewide festival in 2002 brought more than 8,000 people to downtown Madison last year.
Read about the poster and see the photographs
The UW-Madison Libraries hosted the national LOEX Conference for library instruction May 8-10 at Monona Terrace. Abbie Loomis, Library & Information Literacy Instruction Program, and Carrie Kruse, College Library, were co-chairs. Other LOEX committee members included: Diana Wheeler, Kurt F. Wendt Library; Eliot Finkelstein, College Library; Helene Androski, Memorial Library; Jaquelina Alvarez, College Library; Kerry Gleason, Library & Information Literacy Instruction Program; Patricia Herrling, Steenbock Library; and Steve Frye, Memorial Library.

Abbie Loomis (left) and Carrie Kruse

Dan Joe, Library Communications, designed the conference logo and a large display featuring the UW-Madison Libraries and its Library & Information Literacy Instruction Program. Alvarez designed and produced the printed conference program.
For more information about LOEX, see: http://loex2003.wisc.edu/

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SNAPSHOTS

In which campus library can you find this image? Please send your answers to Don Johnson, Library Communications, via djohnson@library.wisc.edu or Katie Gilbert, kgilbert@library.wisc.edu. The source of the mystery photo will be revealed in the next newsletter.
Photo by Katie Gilbert, Library Communications.

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PUBLISHED

Robin Rider is now an e-author. The Quantifying Spirit in the Eighteenth Century, a book she edited along with Tore Frangsmyr and J. L. Heilbron, is now on the University of California's Press eScholarship Editions Web site. The book discusses the science behind mathematics and its development in several European nations with a focus on Sweden. The book was originally published in 1990.
Link to Rider's work

Karen Rosneck recently published more of her written work, this one concerning Russian poet Iuliia Zhadovskaia. Rosneck, who works in CTS-Acquisitions and Serials in Memorial Library, wrote a a chapter on Zhadovskaia's life and poetry in Russian Literature in the Age of Realism, published in 2003 by Gale (part of The Gale Group, Inc.). In "Iuliia Valerianovna Zhadovskaia," Rosneck summarizes and analyzes Zhadovskaia's poetry and prose and places it in the context of the writer's life.

Parallel Press, an imprint of the UW-Madison Libraries, added three more chapbooks to its collection and reprinted a book in 2003. In Singing to the Garden, a book of poetry by Roger Pfingston, the poet navigates the most tender and most difficult aspects of his subject's lives by relying on vivid imagery and the human senses. Light Made from Nothing, a chapbook by Susan Elbe, focuses on life lessons such as learning how to love and to live and to survive the heartache along the way. Bones of Light, the most recent chapbook, is a work by Judith Sornberger that reflects on love, sensual relationships, motherhood and religion, among other topics. A reprint, The Academic Library in the American University, a work by Stephen E. Atkins, discusses the academic library's role as upholding higher education. The book was originally published in 1991 by the American Library Association.

William Fietzer, a former GLS employee, held a book signing in Madison's Booked for Murder May 17 for his work, Penal Fires. The story focuses on a man on parole for Viet Nam protest crimes who sees a murder being committed and subsequently gets caught up in a wave of events that include an attempt on a man's life and more killings. Fietzer worked in circulation and Central Technical Services from 1974 to 1991. He currently holds positions at the University of Minnesota in digital resources, humanities cataloging, and classics and African studies selector.
Karl Debus-López and Tanner Wray authored two articles comparing Purdue University's libraries to UW-Madison's and to a public library in regards to book purchasing. Debus-Lopez, Wray and Purdue's Suzanne M. Ward discuss each school's methods in an article titled "Collection Development Based on Patron Requests: Collaboration Between Interlibrary Loan and Acquisitions," published in Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services 27, Summer 2003. The second article compares the UW-Madison Libraries' Book Express to a book request system in a public library and has not been published.

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IN PASSING

Esther Lanigan (nee Stineman) passed away Dec. 29, 2002, in Monument, Colo., as a result of brain cancer. Lanigan, who was the first women's studies librarian in the UW System, also wrote and co-wrote several books on women's careers and lives in the 19th and 20th centuries as well as published several papers, articles and reviews. In addition to her tenure at UW-Madison, Lanigan worked at the College of William & Mary, the University of Colorado and Colorado College.

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25 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

From an article in the Chicago Tribune on May 8, 1978 and reprinted in Memorial Library's June 2, 1978, newsletter: "This week the OSHA brings news of 'librarian's lung,' primarily a disease of rare book librarians, caused by spores on the manuscripts. It is similar to 'mushroom worker's lung,' 'farmer's lung,' 'bird fancier's lung' and 'snuff taker's lung,' all of which manifest themselves in frequent bronchial disorders. The curious recent outbreak of librarian's lung in the U.S. is tied to another symptom, a rash that appears on the hands of librarians in large university and city libraries that handle special periodicals from India."

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CORRECTION

A headline in the last issue of Libraries@UW-Madison indicated that Kerry Gleason of Library Instruction had won a WLA scholarship. According to Anne Lundin from the School of Library and Information Studies, the award is a new $3,000 scholarship being offered by SLIS to second-year students in youth services.

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QUOTATION

"I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out."
--Nora Ephron (1941-) U.S. author, screenwriter

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Libraries@UW-Madison is written by the staff of the News and Editorial Office. The editing intern is Katie Gilbert, kgilbert@library.wisc.edu. Please send questions, comments or story ideas to Don Johnson, djohnson@library.wisc.edu, 262-0076, 330C Memorial Library, or to Katie Gilbert, 262-2853, 348 Memorial Library.