LIBRARY NEWS

~ Memorial Library celebrates 50 years
~ Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries events for October and November
~ Campaign launches for Partners in Giving
~ Digital Content Group posts new projects online
~ ASHIND lecture, Oct. 31
~ Joel Halpern to visit Madison Nov. 7-14
~ Tour the Library Archives at the State Historical Society
~ Gallery talk: Oct. 23, Special Collections

NOTABLES

FEATURES

IN THE NEWS

~ Memorial Library's 50th anniversary receives media attention
~ "A Literary Feast" reviewed in Wisconsin State Journal
~ The Capital Times discusses Historical Society director search
~ Frazier quoted in the Wall Street Journal
~ Van Gemert cited concerning library records and the Patriot Act on WMTV

Where in the Libraries?

PUBLISHED

~ Parallel Press publishes Lewis Koch exhibit keepsake
~ UW-Madison Libraries publish School of Human Ecology book
~ Parallel Press releases "Getting Out Alive"

25 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

LIBRARY NEWS

• When patrons entered Memorial Library Sept. 17, they were greeted with flowers, a large banner and free cake. They also entered the building without requiring photo identification and could join a library tour. It certainly was not a typical day at Memorial Library but then again, celebrating a 50th anniversary is not an ordinary event.
  Learn about Memorial Library's history
  Read about events throughout the day
  See photos from a reception following UW-Madison Libraries Director Ken Frazier's speech
  
  
  
• The Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries have planned numerous events for October and November, including a book sale, several guest speakers and a visit from former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins.
  Read about the Friends' activities
  
  
• Partners in Giving, a charitable campaign that allows donors to give to participating agencies, kicked off its 2003 season, which runs from Oct. 13-Nov. 28. Twenty-seven General Library System staff members are among hundreds of Dane County employee volunteers who will be handing out information about this year's state, university and UW Hospital and Clinics employees' Combined Campaign of Dane County. Donors may make donations through payroll deduction, cash or check gifts or a combination of methods. Carrie Kruse, director of College Library, is serving as the GLS chair for Partners in Giving. For more information, visit the campaign's Web site at http://www.wisc.edu/secc. GLS volunteers will also develop a GLS Partners in Giving Web site in order to track donations and provide information about campaign events.
  
  GLS volunteers include: Jaqui Alvarez, College Library; Jim Buckett, Technical Services (Steenbock); Erik Breilid, Central Technical Services; Louise Coates, Bindery (Memorial Library); Sue Dentinger, Library Technology Group; Debi Doyle, CTS; Gail Glaze, Business Library; Vicki Hill, social science bibliographer; Lyn Korenic, Kohler Art Library; Marianne Larson, Circulation (Memorial Library); Florita Louis de Malavé, CTS; Nancy McClements, Reference (Memorial Library); Lois Milton, CTS; Jan Monk, CTS; David Null, University Archives; Andrea Rolich, Collection Preservation (Memorial Library); Jill Rosenshield, Special Collections; Amy Rudersdorf, Digital Content Group; John Solon, Circulation (Memorial Library); Tom Tews, Geography Library; Judy Tuohy, Interlibrary Loan; Ed Van Gemert, Administration (Memorial Library); Phyllis Holman Weisbard, Women's Studies; Mary Williamson, Wisconsin Library Services; Vicki Wipperfurth, Administrative Services; and Irene Zimmerman, CTS.
  
  
• The Digital Content Group has posted several new projects online in recent months. The Ecology and Natural Resources Collection Web site houses almost 200 Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources bulletins dating back to 1950, as well as 10 years of Minerals Yearbooks, with more to come. The University of Wisconsin Collection allows users to access Wisconsin Alumni magazines from the late 1940s and documents on Memorial Union. "The University of Wisconsin: a History," authored by Merle Curti, Vernon Rosco Carstensen, Edmund David Cronon and John William Jenkins, is also online. The State of Wisconsin Collection focuses on primary and secondary writing as well as rare or valuable materials concerning Wisconsin. The collection incorporates books, recordings, maps, photographs and manuscripts as it documents Wisconsin's history and development. Texts include Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, the Wisconsin Academy Review and the Wisconsin Pioneer Experience, a collection of letters, documents and other writings from Wisconsin settlers in the 1800s. The newest additions to the History Collection, are the Histoire Illustrée de la Guerre de 1914 by Gabriel Hanotaux (1853-1944), a 17-volume narrative of World War I, as well as World War I archives with cartoons, photographs and documents.
  
  
• UW-Madison history professor Mary Lou Roberts will speak as part of the library series Evolving Directions in Academic Research and Resources. The lecture will take place Oct. 31 in room 126 Memorial Library from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Roberts authored "Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin de Siecle France," published in 2002 by the University of Chicago Press. Her interests are in late 19th- and early 20th-century Europe and on women and gender during that time.
  
  This lecture is presented by ASHIND, the UW-Madison Libraries' Area Studies, Social Sciences and Humanities Interdisciplinary Group. The group seeks to create a dialogue between faculty and librarians on interdisciplinary research and provides an opportunity for faculty to meet library staff members interested in assisting them with research.
  
  
• Joel Halpern, a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, will visit Madison Nov. 7-14. Halpern first traveled to Laos while working as a field researcher for the United States Agency for International Development. He will give two presentations, to the Council on Thai Studies Nov. 8 during its annual conference and to the Center for Southeast Asian Studies Nov. 14. He will also spend part of his trip writing descriptions for a slide collection, consisting of more than 2,500 slides of Southeast Asia, which he has given to the UW-Madison Libraries. The Digital Content Group is digitizing the slides. The UW-Madison Libraries will retain the slides after digitization.
  
  
• The Wisconsin Historical Society Library Archives is now offering two tours each day, at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. The 30-minute tours begin in the Library lobby and proceed to the Archives Reading Room. The tours, which began Sept. 23, attempt to educate the public on navigating the collections and services.
  

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NOTABLES

• Carrie Kruse, the former Library Instruction coordinator at College Library, began her tenure as College Library's new director Oct. 1. Kruse is no stranger to College, as she has worked in public services and library instruction since 1991, when she began as a library assistant in Reserves Acquisitions. Kruse received her Master's degree in Library and Information Studies from UW-Madison in 1991 and her undergraduate degree from Earlham College in 1987. Kruse is a member of the American Library Association and the Wisconsin Library Association. She has also contributed to several professional journals and presentations and has maintained collections lists in the women's studies and music departments. Kruse replaces former director Donna Senzig, who retired in July. Linda Balsiger served as the interim director throughout the summer.
  More on Carrie Kruse
  
  
• Richard Reeb, assistant director for Central Technical Services, has been appointed assistant director for Collection Development and Technical Services.

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FEATURES

• The average jail offers little freedom to its inmates, although they reside there for only a short time. They cannot leave without permission, cannot see their families unless they're behind bulletproof glass and have virtually no privacy. But a group of graduate students from the School of Library and Information Studies offers hope in one of the simplest forms possible: books.
  Learn more about the Jail Library Group's award and services.

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IN THE NEWS

• Memorial Library's 50th anniversary celebration caught the eyes of several newspapers in the area. The Wisconsin State Journal, The Daily Cardinal and the Badger Herald each published stories on Memorial's celebration and its history prior to the event.
  
  
• The Wisconsin State Journal published an article on A Literary Feast: Recipes and Writings by American Women Authors from History, in its Sept. 28 issue. A Literary Feast hit stands in August; humanities bibliographer Yvonne Schofer signed copies of the book at Canterbury Booksellers Oct. 2. Joan Jones, Loni Hayman and Anne C. Tedeschi, all members of the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries, compiled the book, and Schofer edited it. According to the Wisconsin State Journal, "A Literary Feast is a lively mixture of food and cooking descriptions from old books, sprinkled with recipes from the period."
  
  
• The Wisconsin Historical Society made headlines concerning its search for a new director. The Capital Times published a story in its Sept. 23 issue about the society's hiring of a search firm to assist in finding a new director. The Historical Society, which began a search for a new director in last fall, hired a firm called Opportunity Resources of New York City.
  
  
• UW-Madison Libraries Director Ken Frazier was quoted in a Sept. 22 Wall Street Journal article titled "Special Report: Net Profits -- Reed Elsevier had a clear Internet strategy; And stuck to it." The article concerned libraries nationwide and the use of subscription-based online journals such as those under ScienceDirect. ScienceDirect is a service that provides access to nearly two thousand journals published by Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier as well as links to online titles from other publishers. The article quotes various arguments for and against the service. They write:

  " . . . ScienceDirect and other package online offerings have their critics. Chief among them is Kenneth Frazier, the library director at the University of Wisconsin. He believes that such offerings, while seemingly 'seductive,' will only increase libraries' dependence on the biggest publishers, who can then more easily boost prices.

  "By resisting such bundling, he says, the University of Wisconsin has been able to retain the journals it needs most despite a 2 percent cut this year in the library's budget. 'I'm not hearing a lot of complaints about the high-cost journals we've canceled,' says Mr. Frazier. 'There are alternative ways to get the information out' through various Internet channels and the new open-access networks. . . ."
  
  UW-Madison has licensed a subset of Elsevier ejournals through ScienceDirect on a title-by-title basis only. This subset includes about 200 high-use, high-demand titles in a wide range of subject areas, although Elsevier offers more than 1,800 journals through ScienceDirect.

• Ed Van Gemert, associate director for the UW-Madison Libraries, was quoted in a news story on WMTV (NBC 15) recently. The story focused on whether libraries delete patrons' checkout histories to protect the users' privacy. Under the Patriot Act, the FBI can request library records of suspected terrorists with a warrant. According to Van Gemert, "A principle that we stand on that people have a right to confidentiality to what they read," adding that if the library is ordered to hand over subpoenaed information, it will.

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Where in the Libraries?

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PUBLISHED

• The Parallel Press, an imprint of the University of Madison-Libraries, recently published an exhibit keepsake titled Lewis Koch. Notes From the Stone-Paved Path: Meditations on North India. Koch, an artist and documentary photographer, recorded his year living and working in a Tibetan community near Dharamsala on film and brought it to Wisconsin in the form of black and white photographs.
  
  He gives a gallery talk in Special Collections at 6 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 23. The keepsake pairs photographs from Koch's visit in 1995-96 with photographs of books with various themes, including religion, sociology and agricultural economics. In addition to the keepsake, Koch's photographs are on display until Nov. 7 in Special Collections in an exhibit with the same title. The exhibit pairs these artistic photos with books of poetry and prose on India and Buddhism. Works include "The Precious Garland and The Song of the Four Mindfulnesses" by Nagarjura and Kaysong Gyatso, the seventh Dalai Lama, and "The Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects" by Alexandra David-Neel and Lama Yongden.
  
  The Center for South Asia (a Title VI National Resource Center), the General Library System and University Communications assisted in publishing the work.Koch's work has appeared internationally, including in solo exhibits in London, New York City, Brussels, Rotterdam and Seoul. His work appears in a permanent display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and other museums throughout the world.
  
  In addition to his exhibit, Koch will present a talk Oct. 23 at 6 p.m. in Special Collections.
  
  
  
• To celebrate the School of Human Ecology's 100th anniversary, the Parallel Press recently published The Challenge of Constantly Changing Times: From Home Economics to Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1903-2003. Rima D. Apple, a professor in the School of Human Ecology, authored the book. The Challenge of Constantly Changing Times discusses the birth and development of the School of Human Ecology as it transformed from a female-only department in the College of Letters and Science that emphasized a woman's place in a strong, healthy home to a co-ed school that prepares students for the working world. Digital Content Group digitized the book, which users may peruse by visiting: http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/SoHECent/SoHECent-idx?type=browse.
  
  
• The Parallel Press recently published its 27th Parallel Press poetry chapbook, Getting Out Alive by Tisha Turk. Turk, a teaching assistant in English and women's studies at UW-Madison, learns she has a brain tumor and endures a year of treatments, nausea and a surgery on her way to recovery. Turk splits the poetry book into two parts--one dealing with her illness and the other with her recovery. In her poems, she discusses the value of a human life, relationships and her weakened mental and physical condition. This book, one of six released each year by the Parallel Press, is available for $10. For more information, visit: http://parallelpress.library.wisc.edu/chapbooks/poetry.

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25 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

• Final Cairns bequest installment received

  From the Nov. 3, 1978, issue of Added Entries: "The University was recently the fortunate recipient of a bequest of $222,899.25 representing the final distribution of a trust established by the late William B. Cairns, who died in 1924. In his will, Mr. Cairns asked that the residue of his estate be used to endow a fund for the purchase of books and manuscripts of special value in the study of American literature. He also expressed his 'hope that before this bequest can become available the Regents of the University of Wisconsin will have abandoned the practice sometimes followed in the past of reducing the regular and natural allotment of University funds to a department that receives a gift, and that the income from this bequest may be expended for the purchase of books that could in no other way be available to the institution.' "

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Quotation

"When I want to read a novel, I write one."

--Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister, 1868 and 1874-1880

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