LIBRARY NEWS

~ Staff meeting brings discussion of shelving, budgets and surveys
~ GLS librarians give generously to campaign for charities
~ Iceland's President issues award to Professor Richard Ringler
~ New PSC working groups benefit library Web sites
~ Memorial Library teams up to combat hunger
~ Library staff aids in search for bone marrow donor
~ Map Library and Historical Society launch new Web sites
~ New Year cards draw images from the Thordarson Collection
~ Holiday festivities and a list of "books we liked"
~ Primate Center Library undergoes renovations

NOTABLES

FEATURES

Exhibits

Where in the Libraries?

PUBLISHED

~ Retired Reference Department staffer publishes three works
~ The most wonderful time of year: Nancy H. Marshall publishes Christmas bibliography
~ In the know: staff newsletters from Steenbock and Health Sciences
~ Parallel Press releases new poetry chapbook

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25 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

LIBRARY NEWS

• UW-Madison Libraries Director Ken Frazier discussed expanded shelving space, budget issues and a national survey on library quality at a staff meeting Dec. 10. Frazier spoke for approximately 40 minutes on issues facing the libraries and a plan of action.
  Read more about the staff meeting.
  Read the funding request.
  
  
• Many General Library System employees gave the gift of money to their favorite charities this holiday season. Through Partners in Giving, 92 librarians donated more than $26,590, part of a larger Partners in Giving campaign in Dane County as of Dec. 5. University, state and UW Hospital and Clinics employees made generous donations throughout October, November and December to raise a total of $2,299,046. GLS staffers participated in the campaign, which included a special wrap-up celebration Nov. 20. College Library Director Carrie Kruse served as the chair of the campaign and Tony Krier, a reference librarian at Memorial Library, designed a Web site with updated information on donation totals, news and features.
  
  
• Iceland's President announced this week that the Chevalier Cross of the Order of the Falcon has been awarded to Richard Ringler, an emeritus professor of English, for his contributions to the cultural heritage of Iceland through his translations of Jónas Hallgrimsson´s works and the Iceland on the Internet project, a venture suggested by Ken Frazier. Letters recommending Ringler for the award from Iceland's Science and Technology Policy Council specifically mentioned the contribution and the backing of the UW-Madison Libraries, in particular the work of Peter Gorman in the Library Technology Group. For more on the story see: http://www.scandinavian.wisc.edu/index.php
  
  
• The Public Services Council has two new working groups that will tackle projects relating to library Web sites. The first group, which Amy Kindschi, Wendt Library, and Jean Ruenger-Hanson, Steenbock Library, co-chair, will work on library Web sites with ties to campus courses, while Eunice Graupner, Business Library, and Tony Krier, Memorial Library, will head a group that will review and update various library Web sites.
  
  
• Memorial Library staff members shared their holidays with the less fortunate by participating in the "Share your holidays to eliminate hunger" food drive, sponsored by Second Harvest Foodbank and NBC 15, among others. Two barrels were set in the front lobby and staff members made donations of canned goods and boxed items, such as macaroni and cheese, canned soups, fruits and vegetables, and applesauce. Staff members could also make cash contributions directly to the Second Harvest Foodbank. The eighth-annual food drive, which ran from Nov. 24-Dec. 11, brought in 224 pounds of food for 179 meals. Debi Doyle, Central Technical Services, has coordinated the food drive for the past four years.
  
  
• Gene Dewey, the former head of the Acquisitions Department, has asked library staff members to assist his daughter. His daughter Beth was diagnosed with leukemia, and a search is currently under way to find a bone marrow donor. Irene Zimmerman, head of the Cataloging Department in CTS, is acting as the liaison between the Deweys and the library staff. Donors must be under 61 years old and must pay a $65 fee to be tested, although First Baptist Church will reimburse those being tested, and several library staff members have donated money to cover cost. Many more staff members have expressed interest in donating blood for the test. For more information on bone marrow testing, please see: http://www.marrow.org/.
  
  
• The Robinson Map Library, under new librarian Jaime Martindale, has a new Web site at http://www.geography.wisc.edu/maplib. The site houses general facts such as the library's hours, as well as information about the library's aerial photograph collection, the library's future Geographic Information Systems workstations and its map collection. The Wisconsin Historical Society's new Web site went live Dec. 15 after 11 months of work and the collaboration of 11 Web designers and site builders. The site houses feature stories, information on upcoming events and society news, as well as research information, links to other libraries, and services and programs. Visit the site at http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/.
  
  
• New Year cards are available for staff members who would like to send New Year's greetings to colleagues. Each card features one of four lithographs from "Winter sketches in Lapland..." by Sir Arthur de Capell Brooke with an inside message "Best Wishes in the New Year." The volume is part of the Chester H. Thordarson Collection in Special Collections. Librarians may also include a list of recommended reading from the Librarians' Assembly (see following story). Private donations covered the printing cost of the cards, the inserts, and the envelopes that come with the cards. To view the cards see:
  http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/News/newsletter/29/HolidayCards2003.pdf
  
  
• The Librarians Assembly hosted an annual holiday book sharing program Dec. 18 in the Memorial Union, gathering librarians interested in discussing books they enjoyed reading throughout the year. The Library Communications staff compiled "Books We Liked" from the Librarians' Assembly list in 2002 and published it this month. Next year's list will come from this year's program. The list may also be viewed at http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/News/newsletter/29/BooksWeLiked2003.pdf.
  
  
• The Primate Center Library is getting a makeover during winter break. From Dec. 24-Jan. 19, the library will undergo renovations that include replacing the carpet and the circulation desk and bringing in new furniture for the library and the librarians' offices as well as new work surfaces. The collection and the stacks will remain in the library while staff members will work in conference rooms. They will have access to services like document delivery and Voyager. Patrons of the library can request books through the book transfer system.

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NOTABLES

• Jeff Gayton was recently named the new building manager at Memorial Library. Gayton will take on part-time responsibilities and will be on duty Monday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesday from 1 p.m.-5 p.m. and Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Former Building Manager Dennis Hill is training Gayton and will be available Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7 a.m.-3 p.m.

  When Gayton is off duty, he may be reached at 262-6526, the building manager cell phone at 9-225-6831, by the two-way radio, or by e-mail at jgayton@library.wisc.edu.

• Albert Quattrucci will take a position Feb. 1. as the new Access Services librarian at Memorial Library. His duties will include overseeing retrieval services, collections and stacks maintenance, copy center services, the circulation desk, and the microform and media center. Prior to this appointment, Quattrucci served as a research intern at Wendt Library and the librarian at the Astronomy Library. He also worked in Memorial Library's Reference Department, the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research and the Wisconsin Survey Research Lab. He received his master's degree at UW-Madison's School of Library and Information Studies.
  
  
• Carlene Rohde, who works in Central Technical Services in Acquisitions and Serials, will retire Jan. 5 after 32 years of service. Colleagues and family had a retirement party in her honor Dec. 9.
  See photographs from the party.

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FEATURES

• Joel Halpern has, by most standards, led an extraordinary life. He has traveled around the world, from Southeast Asia to the Arctic Ocean, bringing a camera with him to document his experiences.
  
  Now he’s sharing his experiences by allowing approximately 3,000 slides of Laos to be digitized by the UW-Madison Libraries. The photographs were taken during Halpern’s visits to Laos in 1957, 1959 and 1969. They show the country’s peoples, its architecture, its natural landscape, and its traditions.
  Read more about Halpern's slide collection
  
  
• Ten area librarians have combined interests and talents to create a quilt to support the Wisconsin Women Library Workers. Librarians work on a theme quilt in which all of the patches honor women in some way. The finished project will go to the winner of a raffle to be drawn Feb. 1 at the group's annual Cookie/Book Exchange. The annual quilting project began in 1980 and has taken on a theme each year; this year's quilt focused on female poets. These poets span both time and the globe, from Enheduanna, a Mesopotamian high priestess in 2500 B.C., to Irish poet Eavan Boland, who currently teaches at Stanford University. Gertrude Stein, Christina Rossetti, Maya Angelou and Wisconsin's Lorine Niedecker are among the poets who are represented in the quilt.
  
  Marge Loch-Wouters; Catherine Hansen; Barbara Sanford; Kathy Rohde, Learning Support Services; Nancy McClements, Memorial Library Reference; Ann Clark; Jane Pearlmutter, School of Library and Information Studies; Kathleen Weibel; Meg Kavanagh; and Maureen Welch made patches for the quilt. Kirsten Houtman, Wisconsin Library Services, is selling raffle tickets for $1 each or six for $5. To learn more about the quilting project, please visit http://danenet.danenet.org/wwlw/quilt.htm.

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Exhibits

• Work from the Silver Buckle Press and its curator, Tracy Honn, is on display in a New York Public Library exhibit featuring contemporary letterpress books printed over the past decade and acquired by The New York Public Library’s Rare Books Division.
  
  "The Exquisite Horse," along with some of Honn's individual work, are among the acquisitions in the the exhibit Ninety from the Nineties: A Decade of Printing. Honn's "Doubly Bound: A Tool Kit," a 1994 collaboration with artist Diane Fine, also appears in the exhibit. "The Exquisite Horse" is a collaboration of 32 artists, including Marta Gomez, head of the Conservation Lab in Collection Development and Preservation at Memorial Library, along with her husband, Ivan Soll, Julie Chen, and Kate Leonard.
  Chen's "Bon Bon Mots: A Fine Assortment of Books" is also among the items on display.
  
  The concept for the exhibitions dates to 1968 with Sixty from the Sixties: An Exhibition of Distinctive Editions and has continued since then. The current exhibit runs through May 28, 2004.
  
  
• A Kohler Art Library exhibit through Jan. 31, 2004, celebrates the book arts. Art Library Director Lyn Korenic and Rob Nurre were the curators for the Artists' Book Collection, which displays holiday greetings sent to the library and former director William C. Bunce by book artists, such as Claire Van Vliet and others. The exhibit includes biographical information on each of the artists, catalogs, and other correspondence.
  
  
• Special Collections, 976 Memorial Library, is highlighting the 155-year history of the libraries through March 15, 2004. The exhibit titled 'With Discriminating Knowledge': The Libraries of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1848- includes memorabilia, books, and documents. The material reflects the manner in which campus library collections have been built and points to key events and landmark acquisitions.
  

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PUBLISHED

• Willa Schmidt, a former Memorial Library Reference Department staff member with an expertise in German, has been busy as a writer. Three pieces have been or will be published in various magazines. Schmidt wrote a family memoir for the fall and winter issue of Potomac Review, a short story for the fall 2003 issue of Moibus: the Magazine of Social Change, and a poem for the January 2004 issue of Calyx. All three magazines can be found in the Little Magazine Collection in Special Collections.
  
  
• Former acting GLS Library Director Nancy Marshall analyzed one of the most well-known holiday poems in a book published in 2002. Her work, The Night Before Christmas: A Descriptive Bibliography of Clement Clarke Moore's Immortal Poem, is a bibliography of the publication history of The Night Before Christmas, which has never gone out of print in its history spanning almost two centuries. Marshall's book was published by Oak Knoll Press.
  
  
• Read about remodeling at Steenbock Library and extended hours for exam week in Steenbock's newsletter. Speaking of remodeling, check out the progress on the new Health Sciences facility in the Health Sciences Libraries' Fall 2003 newsletter.
  
  
• Parallel Press, an imprint of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, recently released its sixth and final chapbook in the 2003 series. In Chapman's Pack, author John D. Niles analyzes the life of "chapmen," peddlers who traveled door-to-door with a bag full of small objects and a head full of stories. Niles, an English professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializes in oral epic and Beowulf. He has written or edited several volumes in this area including: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature (1999); Old English Literature in Context: Ten Essays (edited, 1980); and A Beowulf Handbook (co-edited, 1997). Niles also gave a talk Dec. 11 in Special Collections.
  
  Poetry chapbooks are available for $10 apiece or $50 for a year-long subscription. For more information, visit: http://parallelpress.library.wisc.edu/chapbooks/poetry.

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Did You Know?

• When readers of this newsletter do a search under “Search All Newsletters,” it works as a search engine for all issues of the newsletter, including the current issue. A keyword search, such as “College Library” retrieves 30 newsletters dating back three years. Within each newsletter, users can do a Web page search for the specific keyword(s) through "Find on page" [ctrl-F].

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25 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

• Pat Hecox of the MARC Department had a sweet way to wish staff members Happy Holidays. In the Dec. 15 (1978) issue of Added Entries, the UW-Madison Libraries' staff newsletter, Hecox included a recipe for her "Thick 'n' Rich Hot Fudge Sauce."
  
  4 (1-ounce) squares semi-sweet chocolate
  2 Tablespoons butter or margarine
  1 (14-ounce) can Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk
  1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  Dash of salt
  
  "In medium saucepan, over low heat, melt chocolate and butter; stir in remaining ingredients. Cook, stirring constantly, about 5 minutes or until mixture is slightly thickened. Serve over Frozen Egg Nog Mousse (another recipe in the newsletter) or with assorted flavors of Lady Borden Ice Cream. Refrigerate leftovers."

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Quotation

“A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.”
--Carl Van Doren

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