LIBRARY NEWS

~ Library Express improves access and usability
~ Annual blood drive draws nearly 100 donors
~ 9XM~WHA exhibit reveals controversial history of radio station
~ UW-Madison Libraries assist in creation of Wisconsin's Water Library Web site
~ Silver Buckle Press reaches across community, state by offering tours
~ Wireless WiscWorld connections offered

NOTABLES

FEATURES

~ Mary Galneder retires from Map Library

Snapshots

PUBLISHED

~ Libraries Magazine goes to 12,000 nationwide
~ Library map and tabloid published with Wisconsin Week
~ Ulrike Dieterle publishes article in the Journal of Library Administration
~ Barbara Walden publishes article in UW-Madison's European Gazette
~ Janell Duxbury documents the classics in rock

25 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

LIBRARY NEWS

• It is now easier than ever to borrow a book or request an article from the libraries. Effective July 2003, Library Express services were enhanced, and all UW-Madison Library users are now able to request and track article and book deliveries, distance circulation, and distance interlibrary loan services through Library Express. The new system replaces a variety of Web sites and simplifies the procedures that users have to follow to make requests. Users will log in to Library Express using their UW-Madison ID card numbers and last names. A $2 per article convenience fee will be charged for articles owned by campus libraries. Payment can be made using a campus UDDS fund account or a WisCard account. Articles, books, and other items that the libraries must obtain from off-campus remain free.
  Learn more about Library Express
  
  
• Nearly 100 donors and 28 volunteers participated in the annual UW-Madison Libraries blood drive, held Aug. 7 in the Memorial Library's staff lounge. According to Steven Frye, coordinator of the University Libraries Annual Blood Drive and Distance Library Services coordinator, the 76 pints of blood donated could save as many as 228 lives. Donors received an insulated lunch bag and plenty of refreshments, including cookies and fruit from a stand on Library Mall. To keep the room cool, the circulation staff donated fans and the physical plant turned down the temperature.
  
  
• In conjunction with an international radio conference held in Madison, July 28-31, Memorial Library presents a display in the lobby honoring WHA, one of the oldest radio stations in the country.
  
  The exhibit, 9XM~WHA: The Formative Years, centers on the controversy surrounding radio in its early days and its importance during and after World War I. WHA, which changed its call letters from 9XM in 1922, is engulfed in a debate over whether or not WHA was the first radio station or if Pittsburgh’s KDKA holds the honor. The exhibit attempts to answer this question, providing historical evidence such as documents, newspaper clippings, radio programs and photographs.
  
  The answer is complicated and the exhibit sorts out various claims; for example, in 1921 WHA was the first radio station to have a regular schedule of voice broadcasts for the public. Its first official transmission for the public occurred five years earlier when the station played the weather broadcast in Morse code. As 9XM during World War I, the station transmitted signals for the Navy, although it was briefly dismantled in April, 1917, at President Wilson’s request. The exhibit also displays early radio equipment and diagrams for the station.
  
  
  
• In honor of the Wisconsin Year of Water, the UW-Madison Libraries teamed up with the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, the UW Water Resources Institute and the UW Sea Grant Institute to create Wisconsin's Water Library, a new resource available to all Wisconsin citizens. This Web site allows Wisconsinites to search for, request and check out books on water-related information. The site also has a searchable database of articles and Web sites as well as facts on Wisconsin's rivers and lakes and online access to a reference librarian. Governor Jim Doyle declared 2003 the "Wisconsin's Year of Water" in an effort to celebrate and educate on the state's water resources, their importance and the threats they face.
  Learn more about Wisconsin's Water Library
  
  

• The Silver Buckle Press offers casual, walk-in tours for campus visitors and students learning about the press as well as formal, scheduled tours to various groups from around the state, according to Tracy Honn, the director of the Silver Buckle Press. She recently hosted an art class from UW-Whitewater and from the Conserve School (a private high school emphasizing environmental studies), but also gives tours to elementary, middle and high school students. Some of the visitors are prospective graduate students in art, artists and visitors curious about book-making. Others are printmaking students, students interested in the history of the book and library students. Honn gives approximately two formal tours a month; groups typically include classes from the School of Library and Information Studies, History of Science, Geography and Art departments.
  
  
• In several libraries and buildings around campus, users may access WiscWorld without wires and plugs. Users simply require a Net ID and a laptop with a wireless network card to logon at one of 15 campus locations.

  Where to go:
  1. Bascom Hall: first-floor lounge (rear) and courtyard
  2. Helen C. White Library: 1st floor east, 2nd and 3rd floors west
  3. Grainger Hall: 2nd-floor library, 3rd floor
  4. Learning Support Services (LSS)/Van Hise: study hall, room 455
  5. Medical Sciences Center: room 1335
  6. Memorial Library: rooms 116, 216, 412 Reading Room, lobby, south stack areas on 3rd, 4th, 5th and 7th floors
  7. Memorial Union: Main Lounge, Great Hall and several 1st floor locations including Lakefront Cafeteria and the Terrace
  8. Middleton Health Sciences Library
  9. Power Pharmaceutical Library: library, room 2004
  10. Social Science: front lobby on main level
  11. Steenbock Library: 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors
  12. Teacher Education building, Center for Instructional Materials and Computing: 2nd and 3rd floors
  13. Union South: including the lower-level atrium and study area, the Red Oak Grill, Copper Hearth, and main study lounge on the 1st floor.
  14. Wendt Library: 4th floor
  15. Weston Clinical Sciences Center Library
  

  
  

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NOTABLES

• Cynthia Robinson became the new director of the Wisconsin Primate Research Center Library in early August after former director Larry Jacobsen stepped down in June. Robinson, who received a master's degree from UW-Madison, previously served as the associate director of the University of Minnesota Bio-Medical Library. She was also the manager for library services at Allina Health System in Minnesota, the assistant director for Collection Services, the acting co-director for technical services at the University of Virginia's health sciences library and head of education at the University of Nebraska's McGoogan Library of Medicine. Robinson was an associate fellow at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Md. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her daughter and gardening.
  
  
• Melba Jesudason, a recently retired senior academic librarian from College Library, has kept herself busy volunteering at Madison's Senior Center. She uses her library skills in working with young people and she tutors students in the Computer Buddy program, a program that pairs students with senior citizens. Jesudason also participated in a photo project in which senior citizens were placed with Junior Girl Scouts interested in photography.
  
  
• Marta Gomez, a book artist at Tiramisu Press and head of the Conservation Lab in Collection Development and Preservation at Memorial Library, will showcase some of her work at the University of Arizona in Tucson. The school is displaying a collection of books from across the country in an exhibit called Love and/or Terror: a Book Arts Exhibition and Symposium. The exhibit run until Sept. 21, with exhibition and reception events Sept. 12. Gomez is one of 50 book artists who designed and created books based on the "Love and/or Terror" theme.

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FEATURES

• For 38 years, Mary Galneder has called the Robinson Map Library home. Now she is closing the doors on her lengthy library career as she looks ahead to retirement.
  Read more about Galneder's career and retirement plans.

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WHERE IN THE LIBRARIES?

	Last issue's answer to "Where in the Libraries?" Business Library, 2200 Grainger Hall.      Photo by Katie Gilbert, Library Communications. Near which campus library can you find this image? Please send your answers to Don Johnson, Library Communications, djohnson@library.wisc.edu or Katie Gilbert, kgilbert@library.wisc.edu, by Sept. 8. The source of the mystery photo will be revealed in the next newsletter.  Respondents from issues 24 and 25 will be entered into a drawing for one free Parallel Press poetry chapbook, to be held after this issue. Future drawings will be held following every other issue. Congratulations to Amy Bourne, Digital Content Group, the first to respond with the correct answer. Jennifer Lodde, CTS; Erin Meyer-Blasing, Astronomy Library; Sue Murray, Health Sciences Libraries; and Elsa Althen, Biology Library also responded. All five names will be entered in the Parallel Press poetry chapbook drawing. We will announce the winner in issue 26.

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PUBLISHED

• From the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries . . . Libraries Magazine, published with support from the Friends and other gifts, gives a brief pictorial history commemorating the 50th anniversary of the opening of Memorial Library and describes some major gifts and exhibits leading into spring 2004. It includes an original story by Judith Strasser, a Parallel Press poet. The magazine also lists more than 6,000 donor families that made contributions, both monetary and in-kind, to the libraries since 2001. For a PDF of the print publication, see: Libraries.
  
  
• From the libraries . . . The Wednesday, Aug. 27, Wisconsin Week includes a supplement called Libraries@UW-Madison, circulated to 25,000 UW-Madison faculty and staff as well as contacts at other campuses and in state government. The supplement includes a map of campus libraries, more than 85 subject specialists serving as faculty liaisons, plus stories describing initiatives in public service and access. The publication, which was less expensive to produce than a previously existing campus map brochure, will be available for general distribution through the Library and Information Literacy Instruction Program Office, 262-4308, libinstruct@library.wisc.edu.
  For a PDF of the print publication, see: Library Insert.
  
  
• Ulrike Dieterle, the head of Access and Document Delivery Services at the Health Sciences Libraries, recently published an article in the Journal of Library Administration. The article focuses on digital document delivery and is based on her presentations at the 10th Off-Campus Library Services Conference and the 18th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning. The article, "Digital Delivery to the Desktop: Distance is No Longer an Issue," discusses the evolution of Library Express at the Health Sciences Libraries from 1999-2001.
  
  
• European history librarian Barbara Walden published an article in the winter/spring 2002-'03 issue of UW-Madison's European Gazette. Walden wrote on a project she is directing called "Historical Research in Europe: a Guide to Archives and Libraries." This resource is designed to assist users preparing for overseas research by simplifying their searches. The database houses more than 3,000 resources concerning France, Italy, Germany and Great Britain, with more from Western Europe to follow. Walden discusses the importance of research preparation prior to travel and lists sample questions her Web site answers.
  

• Did you know... Janell Duxbury, head of Serials Control and Binding in CTS, has authored several works on rock 'n' roll? Duxbury authored Rockin' the Classics and Classicizin' the Rock : a Selectively Annotated Discography and added two supplements. The works as a whole focus on the relationship between rock and classical music. Duxbury analyzes rock music to find instrumentals with classical music themes. She has also published several papers and written on the topic for Web sites, including "Shakespeare Meets the Backbeat: Literary Allusion in Rock Music," Popular Music and Society, an academic journal published by Routledge. She also maintains her own Web site, Rock-Classical Connections Web page , and has work from her discographies on the Deep Purple Classical Quotes site, a Web site devoted to the rock band Deep Purple.

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CORRECTION

• Tom Durkin, an associate academic librarian with the working title of Digital Services librarian at Digital Content Group, was mislabeled as a research intern in Issue 24 of Libraries@UW-Madison.

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25 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

• From the Aug. 18 issue of Added Entries, the UW-Madison Libraries' newsletter:
  "Beginning this fall and during the coming year Memorial Library will be going through a major disruption while the old part of the building is remodeled and renovated. The work is scheduled to begin about October 1, 1978, and should be completed by February 1, 1980."

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Quotation

"To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country."

--George Washington

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