LIBRARY NEWS

~ UW-Madison Libraries to administer LibQUAL+ survey
~ Mary Folster to present LibQUAL poster at Showcase 2004
~ Friends book sale a success
~ Memorial Library welcomes librarians and archivists for national conference
~ WiLS, UW hosts digital library conference
~ Partners in Giving wraps up campaign
~ American Indian Studies records in MadCat

NOTABLES

~ Tanner Wray leaves position as head of Access Services
~ Karl Debus-López accepts position at Georgetown University
~ Two librarians receive recognition in museum exhibit
~ New research intern at Wendt Library
~ Promised Land author hits airwaves

FEATURES AND EVENTS

IN THE NEWS

~ Book sale receives media attention
~ David Null cited in On Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Journal
~ Historical Society newsletter mentions three UW-Madison librarians
~ Former SBP employee featured in School of Education newsletter
~ Insect Research Collection creates buzz in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Where in the Libraries?

PUBLISHED

IN PASSING

25 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

LIBRARY NEWS

• A 10-minute survey of more than 2,500 students, faculty and staff on the UW-Madison campus is being conducted by the libraries to measure the quality of their services. The survey, called LibQUAL+, is expected to provide staff with users’ perceptions of library service quality and to help staff identify potential improvements.
  Read more about LibQUAL+
  
  
• Mary Folster, Business Library, will present a poster on LibQUAL+ and participate in a panel discussion at Showcase 2004 April 5. Showcase 2004 is designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas as campus employees face the ever-increasing demands of improving almost all aspects of the campus and its community. The event will be held April 5 at the Fluno Center from 7:45 a.m. to noon.
  
  
  
• The Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries held its semiannual book sale Wednesday, March 3 through Saturday, March 6, raising $20,400. Out of the 15,000 books available at the sale, the Friends sold or gave away approximately 14,850. People flooded the west corridor of Memorial Library prior to Wednesday's preview sale. Forty-eight volunteers made the event possible and contributed more than 213 hours throughout the sale, according to co-coordinator John Toussaint. The sale excludes the hours he and co-coordinator James Dast contributed.
  
  
  
• Madison will welcome hundreds of visitors April 28-May 2, who will be attending the annual conferences for the Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences and the American Association for the History of Medicine. Memorial Library will host ALHHS's program April 29. An exhibit in Special Collections cosponsored by the Health Sciences Library called "Layers of Knowledge," will analyze the manner in which scientific information is displayed in illustrated scientific texts. For more information on the conference, visit: http://www.hsl.wisc.edu/aahm-alhhs/index.cfm. For more information on the exhibit, visit: http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/news/events.shtml.
  
  
  
• The university,Wisconsin Library Services and other organizations hosted a one-day library conference called "The Wisconsin Digital Library: Bringing the Pieces Together" March 24 at the Pyle Center. The conference focused on accessing the state's historical resources, connecting the state's digital library collections, and promoting these resources. UW-Madison Libraries Director Ken Frazier and Associate Director for Library Technology Nolan Pope presented made presentations on collaboration models and Wisconsin's digital resources. Visitors to the conference's Web site may view Pope's PowerPoint presentation.
  
  
  
• The Partners in Giving campaign officially ended in February after a five-month long campaign to raise money for local and national charities. The UW-Madison Libraries raised more than $32,500 in the campaign and 26 General Library System staff members volunteered in their departments. College Library Director Carrie Kruse chaired the campaign and Memorial Library Web Coordinator and Reference Librarian Tony Krier developed a Web site for library staff members. The university raised more than $1.1 million total, and, combined with state and UW Hospitals and Clinics employees throughout Dane County, generated more than $2.6 million, falling just short of the projected goal of $2.7 million.
  
  

• Users interested in materials from the American Indian Studies Program may now find most of the records online. AISP has already entered catalog records for approximately 2,500 books, videos, audio tapes and reference materials into MadCat. Program staff intend to add another 500, a project which is expected to be completed this semester.
  
  

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NOTABLES

• Tanner Wray, head of Access Services, left Memorial Library March 5 to accept a position as the access services manager at the University of Maryland. Throughout his five-year stay at the libraries, Wray worked with services such as Library Express and ILLiad. He also worked in Interlibrary Loan prior to his Access Services appointment in November of 2000, when the department was created. Dineen Grow, User Services, Albert Quattrucci, Access Services, and Judy Tuohy, Interlibrary Loan, will attend public service heads meetings and report to Ed Van Gemert, head of Public Services, until Wray's replacement is found.
  
  

  Photo by Robin Rider, Special Collections
  



• Karl Debus-López, Chief Acquisitions Librarian and the head of the Acquisitions and Serials Department in Central Technical Services, moved on March 5 to Georgetown University as the associate university librarian for Collections and Technical Services at Georgetown University. He joined the UW-Madison Libraries staff in 1998, when he moved here from the Washington, D.C. area. He was named head of Acquisitions and Serials in December 2000 when CTS was reorganized. Debus-López was named one of the two 2003 Librarians of the Year and played a major role in the migration of acquisitions data from NOTIS and implementation of the Voyager Acquisitions module in 2000. He has served on and chaired numerous committees, presented at conferences around the country and worked with electronic resource licenses. Manuela Nitti, the current head of the Fiscal Unit in Acquisitions and Serials, is serving as the interim head of Acquisitions and Serials.
  
  Photo by Beth Hess, CTS-Acquisitions and Serials

• Digital Content Group Digital Project Coordinator Amy Rudersdorf and South and Southeast Asian Studies Bibliographer Larry Ashmun were listed as contributors to "Hmong at Heart," an exhibit at the Madison Children's Museum. Rudersdorf and Ashmun worked with Joel Halpern, a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, whose images of Laos appeared in the exhibit and in a manual for teachers. The exhibit opened Jan. 31 and will run until May 30, when it will travel to 10 other children's museums across the United States.
  
  
  
• Julie Pohlman is joining Wendt Library as a research intern circulation manager who will be working in Reference and Instruction as well as Circulation. She is no stranger to the UW-Madison Libraries, most recently working in Wisconsin Library Services. Pohlman received her master's in library science from the University of Arizona and worked at Yale University before coming to Madison.
  
  
  
• Harriet Brown, author of The Promised Land, will read her works on WORT March 30 at 7 p.m. She will appear on a show called "Radio Literature," a weekly broadcast showcasing literature for children, poetry, fiction and nonfiction works. In The Promised Land, a Parallel Press poetry chapbook, Brown discusses life, loss, family and Judaism. The Parallel Press is an imprint of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. Poetry chapbooks are available for $10 apiece or $50 for six.

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FEATURES AND EVENTS

• The library knot is a useful tool that has been in existence for much of the 20th century, although its origins are unknown. Librarians use the knot to tie up manuscripts, periodicals and books, often with loose bindings, pages or covers, that are headed for the bindery or storage. The knot itself is secure but can easily be undone by pulling at one of the loose strings without using a scissors to cut the knot. The knot is a less harmful alternative to a rubber band, which can damage library materials. Librarians use cotton typing tape, a woven red ribbon approximately one-fourth of an inch wide that is usually used for larger materials. Librarians also use heavy white string or "GripTites," pink tapes one-fourth of an inch wide that can be slipped around books and tightened by pulling on an "o-ring" through which the tapes are threaded. The former head of Conservation,James Dast, diagrammed the knot for a program developed by the Preservation of Library Materials Committee and Wayne Gathright, who works in Collection Preservation and Assessment, later turned the directions into an online reference for the Binding Department's Web site. In fact, the library knot directions receive the most hits on the Web site, with more than 100 people visiting the site in October alone.
  
  The source of the knot is a mystery but according to Preservation Librarian Andrea Rolich, a former bindery supervisor, Kathleen Link, learned to make the knot from her supervisor, who worked in the library from 1908 to 1959.
  See directions for the library knot
  
  --Andrea Rolich contributed to this story.
  
  
  
• Muriel McCarthy, the keeper of Archbishop Narcissus Marsh's Library in Dublin, gave a lecture titled "Simony, Sacrilege, and Perjury: Marsh's Library" March 23 at the Pyle Center. McCarthy is a distinguished librarian who recently received an honorary doctorate from University College Dublin and played a major role in restoring and expanding the library. Marsh (1638-1713) was the Protestant Archbishop of Armagh and had a keen interest in science, philosophy and mathematics. Through various purchases and additions, he obtained a large collection of manuscripts and books on Irish history, travel, law and science, among others. The lecture was cosponsored by the Celtic Studies Program and the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries.
  
  
  
• The Friends of the Libraries will host a literary forum on "little magazines" Wednesday, April 7, geared toward young literary writers interested in "little magazines." Titled "FELIX: A Series of New Writing," this lecture series is named for Felix Pollak (1909-1987), the former curator of Special Collections. This lecture, the third in the series, will focus on literary culture and the little magazine's evolution. Five poets from the creative writing program to participate in the forum. This event will be held in Special Collections at 4:30 p.m. The series was organized by Barry Osborne and David Pavelich, both of whom are graduate students in the School of Library and Information Studies.
  
  
  
• "The Photograph as Book" is the new exhibit in the Kohler Art Library by Carol Chase Bjerke, the artist who created the books. According to her statement, "books and photographs are a natural combination. Traditions they share include multiple imagery, narrative, the expansion of ideas into concepts, the intimacy of being held in the hand for viewing, and a solid standing as culturally-integrated objects." "The Photograph as Book" is on display until April 1.
  
  
  
• The University Press is showcasing some of the materials it has published over the years in an exhibit in the Memorial Library lobby. The exhibit examines the UW Press and showcases promotional materials and some of the books it has published relating to a variety of topics, including the university and its history, memoirs and fiction. The UW Press was founded in 1936 and published its first book in 1937; since then, the press has published more than 3,000 works, 1,400 of which are in print today. The exhibit runs until April 6.
  
  
  
• Jim Draeger, an architectural historian with the Wisconsin Historical Society and chief of the Office of the Historic Buildings, will present a slide show at 3 p.m., Saturday, March 27 in 340 Steenbock Library. The illustrated talk, titled "Making Plans: The Development of Standard Plan Houses," will combine pictures from magazines and catalogs with images from houses that were constructed from the building plans. Draeger will also discuss the effects of Keith's Magazine on Home Building, Ladies' Home Journal and other publications on domestic life and house styles. The presentation is in conjunction with an exhibit called "The Arts and Crafts Movement, Bungalows & Related Topics." The exhibit displays books, journals, postcards, pottery and embroidery on the decorative arts, the Arts and Crafts movement, gardening and mission furniture.
  
  
  
• Staff members celebrated St. Patrick's Day with green food and Irish music in room 170 of Memorial Library. Dineen Grow, Circulation, began celebrating St. Patrick's Day at the library 21 years ago when she decorated the office for the holiday. It became a tradition and continued with the help of Orison Lewis, then a security officer who helped deck the office in shamrocks and streamers, and with the support of circulation office staff who generously contribute treats and the space to hold the festivities.
  
  Edie Dixon (right), Library Technology Group, wears a
  green hat and a cheerful smile.
  Photo by Richard Schwartz, Geography Library
  
  
  
• Anne Vandenburgh, a former librarian at Wendt Library and a 1982 SLIS graduate, and Robin Willard, a 1991 SLIS graduate, will give talks Monday, March 29, as a part of Small Press Publishing Month. Vandenburgh will speak on Charles Lindbergh's student days at UW-Madison, a topic on which she recently wrote a book, Lindbergh's Badger Days. Her book was mentioned in the spring 2004 issue of On Wisconsin, the university's magazine for alumni. Willard will discuss his experiences working at a small Madison press. The event is hosted by the Special Libraries Association Student Group and will be held at noon in the SLIS Commons, 4207 Helen C. White Hall.

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IN THE NEWS

• The UW-Madison Libraries received attention from various Madison media for the semiannual book sale, March 3-6. The Wisconsin State Journal, The Capital Times and the Badger Herald all ran stories previewing the book sale in their March 3 issues and quoted James Dast, former head of Conservation, and Don Johnson, head of Library Communications. John Toussaint (right), along with Dast, coordinated the sale. Toussaint was interviewed by WKOW to discuss the book sale March 3. A segment concerning the sale appeared on both WKOW and WMSN. The Daily Cardinal ran a feature photo from the sale as well.
  
  
  
• University Archivist David Null was quoted in On Wisconsin in a story about the University of Wisconsin Collection, an online archive of the university's history, which includes issues of the alumni magazine, the UW-Madison yearbooks and The Wisconsin Engineer. The online collection also includes photos of the Memorial Union in honor of its 75th anniversary and pictures of student protests, which were placed online after the release of David Maraniss' book, They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace in Vietnam and America October 1967. Null also appeared in a photograph in the Wisconsin State Journal March 24, with a copy of a Wisconsin yearbook from 1889. The story mentioned the digital archives of Wisconsin yearbooks in the larger context of the current yearbook's publishing problems.
  
  
  
• UW-Madison librarians Barbara Lazewski, Steenbock Library, Pamela O'Donnell, College Library, and Beth Harper, Memorial Library, ran a workshop in January for students in grades 6-12 on using Internet resources for history-related research at the Wisconsin Historical Society. The three librarians appeared in the Historical Society's member newsletter, Columns.
  
  
  
• Rachel Melis (right), a master of fine arts candidate and a former Silver Buckle Press employee, was featured in the School of Education's newsletter, Campus Connections, for her work with children's books. Melis produced Taste the Light, an artist's book for children, and designed a publication for the Cooperative Children's Book Center's Charlotte Zolotow Lecture. The article, titled "Love of Art, Books Merge," highlighted Melis' ability to blend her love of nature with children's books, particularly in an exhibit, "Savanna," that appeared at the Steinhauer Trust Gallery at the UW-Madison Arboretum Visitor Center in late 2003. Kathleen Horning, the CCBC director, was also quoted in the piece. Melis will be teaching art at Kansas State University in Manhattan this fall.
  
  
  
• The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel visited the Entomology Museum at UW-Madison, featuring Insect Research Collection Curator Steven Krauth and the collection of more than two million insects. The article ran in its March 8 issue and was accompanied by photographs of Krauth and the collection of bees.

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Where in the Libraries?

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PUBLISHED

• Former Reference Department staff member Willa Schmidt keeps on writing. Last year, she published works in the Potomac Review, Calyx and Moibus: the Magazine of Social Change. Now she is winning awards as well. Her work "Pernicious Anemia" won first place in the 12th annual Memoirs Competition of the Writers Workshop in Asheville, N.C. She received an award of $350 for her story, which was chosen from a pool of more than 100 entries. "Pernicious Anemia" will be posted on the Writers' Workshop Web site in the future. Schmidt also won second prize in the Wisconsin Academy Review's short story contest and will receive a prize of $250. Her story will be published in the fall 2004 issue of the Wisconsin Academy Review. Schmidt will also read her story at Café Montmartre Oct. 9.
  
  
  
• The Jail Library Group, a volunteer program operated by students in the School of Library and Information Studies, published its 2003 annual report online, highlighting the award it received, its updated collection development policy and the shift in volunteers—10 joined the group and several students graduated. The Jail Library Group estimated that approximately 40 volunteers filled more than 975 requests for materials in 2003. The group also has a wish list on Amazon.com of materials inmates have requested. The Jail Library Group received the Chester Pismo Snavely Memorial Award for a Nifty Activity at the South Central Library System Celebration Sept. 25 last year.

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IN PASSING

• John Ohliger, a former clerk at College Library and the co-founder of WORT, passed away Jan. 25. He was 77 years old. Ohliger dedicated his life to education, working at the library, serving as a professor at Ohio State University, and working in various radio stations across the country. He continued to use the UW-Madison Libraries until his death.
  
  
  
• Roger Edward Schwenn, the former director of the UW Center System Libraries, passed away March 1 in Yarmouth, Maine. Schwenn received his bachelor's and master's degrees from UW-Madison and, after working in libraries in Columbia, Mo., and Ann Arbor, Mich., he accepted a job as an instructor and head librarian of the UW Extension Division in 1949. He became the chairman of the department of library science at the extension before becoming the director in 1964. From 1970 to 1972, he also worked at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, helping to develop its library.
  

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25 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

• From the Feb. 16, 1979 issue of Added Entries: "More and more undergraduates are discovering that Beethoven's 5th and Fleetwood Mac are not the only sound recordings available from the College Library Tape Center. Mary Anglim has recently compiled special subject lists of valuable audio resources. In some instances, Mary analyzed the contents of record anthologies to identify hard-to-locate literature, speeches, drama, poetry and music. For example, Nixon's "Checkers Speech," Chekhov's Tri Sestry (Three Sisters) performed in Russian by the Moscow Art Theatre, a recording of Susan B. Anthony's "Are Women Persons?," the sonnets and plays of Shakespeare, selections from Beowulf read in Old English."

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Quotation

"No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination."

— James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish author and poet

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