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Issue 3

8/1/2000

News for Staff of UW-Madison Libraries

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The blood drive sponsored by UW-Madison Libraries will take place on Wednesday August 2, in 460 Memorial Library 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Blood types O positive and O negative are most needed. There will be free fruit for all donors, donated to the drive by Eric Roang's fruit stand.

Grammy-award winning songwriter and poet Mason Williams will perform in Madison Aug. 14 on behalf of UW-Madison Libraries. Williams, best known in musical circles for composing and recording the album “Classical Gas,” will appear at Mills Music Hall in Humanities at 7:30 p.m. MasonWilliams.html

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NOTABLES

~ Yolanda Gilmore joins Reference Department
~ Carole McEvoy retires
~ Janet Bogenschultz leaving for Long Island

Yolanda Gilmore has joined the Memorial Library Reference Department staff as a full-time librarian. Gilmore.html

Carole McEvoy is retiring from her position as technical services director of Steenbock Library, where she has worked for the last 26 years. Her friends and colleagues held a party for her in the terrace at Allen Centennial Gardens on July 27. To see photos from the party click CaroleMcEvoy.html

Janet Bogenshultz, the project assistant in the Bibliographic Instruction Office for the past five years, is leaving her position to move to the historic Prospect Park area of Brooklyn, NY, in August. Abbie Loomis and Helene Androski are holding a going away party for Janet on Aug. 8, from 2:30 to 4 p.m. in the Memorial Library staff lounge, on the fourth floor.
Bogenshultz has worked in seven campus libraries during her time in Madison. She has been interviewing for library positions in New York and her husband will be teaching at Hofstra University on Long Island. Bogenshultz says she will miss working with the creative staff and incredible resources that the UW has to offer. Bogenshultz would like to thank her supervisors Abbie Loomis, Eleanor Rodini, Helene Androski, Marie Dvorzak, Cheryl Becker, Nancy Paul, Mary Williamson, Michel Jacques and Debbie Cardinal.

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LIBRARY NEWS

~ Tracy Honn travels to Ecuador
~ netLibrary coming to GLS
~ Wireless Internet coming to campus libraries

Making quality books and paper doesn't vary with climate or geography. Tracy Honn, director of the UW-Madison Libraries Silver Buckle Press, is demonstrating that principle in Ecuador this summer. TracyHonn.html

Generally, adding 1600 volumes in a single day to the library collections of many of Wisconsin's colleges and universities would require a fleet of U-Hauls. But on one day in late July, the University of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities did just that, and without so much as a tricycle to transport them. netLibrary.html

Computer users equipped with wireless modems can now walk into Union South and access the Internet. Four rooms in the union are now capable of connecting your computer to email and the Web without any lines or phone cords, and a number of UW libraries are soon to follow.
By the end of August, DoIT will be providing College, Steenbock and Wendt libraries with wireless connections. Library patrons need only a laptop computer, a wireless network card and a WiscWorld account to connect. College Library will be providing the opportunity to check-out laptops, with wireless cards, so that students who do not own a laptop can still take advantage of the wireless facilities. Other buildings to be equipped in August include Grainger Hall and Memorial Union. Memorial Library should be equipped by the end of the year.

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IN THE MEDIA

~ TIME promotes the General Library System

TIME Magazine, in conjunction with The Princeton Review, publishes an annual college guide that outlines information about more than 1500 colleges and universities. In the 2000 issue, which was released this spring, TIME recognized the library system in their blurb about the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“The University of Wisconsin-Madison is a humongous institution with some of the finest of academic and research facilities on the planet (including a library with a jaw-dropping five million bound volumes).”

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PUBLISHED

~ John Dillon's paper on the Tank Collection

In the 1800s, Mrs. Niels Otto Tank and her husband left the Netherlands to lead a Moravian mission in Wisconsin. Mrs. Tank’s father was a wealthy, Dutch reformed minister in Amsterdam who owned a rare collection of Dutch historical texts. When her father died in the 1860s, Mrs. Tank donated the texts to the state of Wisconsin. JohnDillon.html

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PROFILE

~ Ray Hamel

Ray Hamel’s place in the trivia quiz world is by no means a trivial matter. The Primate Research Center librarian built upon his vaunted trivia career by hosting an event in Washington D.C. on July 19. RayHamel.html

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20 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

~New director named to College Library

In July 1980, Donna Senzig became the acting Director of College Library upon the retirement of Dorothy Schultz. Donna was credited with "providing a smooth transition in the void left by Schultz's retirement." Donna continues to head College Library.

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QUOTATION

"A library is dead if not used."

- Jacqueline Kennedy, 1963

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