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Issue 36

10/5/2004

News for Staff of UW-Madison Libraries

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More than 15,000 books will go on sale during Wisconsin’s largest used book sale Wednesday through Saturday, October 6-9, in 116 Memorial Library, 728 State St. The sale, sponsored by the Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, is the 18th of its kind and draws visitors from all over the Midwest.
Read more about the upcoming book sale
UW-Madison Libraries and the Friends of the Libraries are sponsoring the Festival of Fiction as part of the Wisconsin Book Festival. The Festival of Fiction will be held Friday and Saturday nights at the Orpheum Theatre during the four day book festival which includes various activities all over Madison from October 6-10. Authors featured for the Festival of Fiction events include Edmund White, Nell Freudenberger, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Anthony Doerr, Tenaya Darlington, Mark Winegardner, Charles Baxter, Richard Bausch, Edwidge Danticat and Jeffrey Eugenides.
Read the flyer about the Festival of Fiction

The Madison Zine Fest will be held in connection with the Wisconsin Book Festival. From Oct. 7-10 anyone can wander into the Open Book Cafe in College Library to hear from many local zine producers and experts and see an array of zines. These homemade, independent and inexpensively produced publications that represent an individual point of view have become somewhat of an underground and mainstream culture. Zine Fest is meant to support zine creation, free speech and the presence of alternative materials in library collections. The UW Women's Studies Librarians, The Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America and the School of Library and Information Studies are sponsoring the event with other organizations.

As part of the Zine Fest and Wisconsin Book Festival, Denise Sweet, the newly-appointed Poet Laureate for Wisconsin, will read selections of her poetry Sunday at 1 p.m. in the Open Book Cafe.
As of July 1, UW-Madison Libraries patrons and staff can now use RefWorks, a tool that helps organize literature citations. Similar to citation programs like EndNote and ProCite, RefWorks can assemble citations and a bibliography of articles while a user is researching in online databases.
Read more about RefWorks
Wendt Library underwent some renovations in August and has a new look for the new school year. Plans for renovations included new carpeting and a refinished, redesigned service desk with a new wall around the desk. The circulation and reference desks were temporarily moved near the front entrance during renovations. Later in the fall, Wendt will also debut new furniture and move the DoIT lab from the first floor up to the second floor.
A new addition to the list of databases on the Libraries Web Site allows users to see which resources link to the new SFX/Find It service. If a "swirly S " icon is shown in the second column next to the database name, the service is available in that database. This means users can link from the result list of a search in that database to a full-text version of an article accessible from various other sources.
View the database list and see the new column
Read more about Find It
The UW Water Resources Library won the Multitype Library of the Year award from the South Central Library System. The library helped with a joint project with the goal of making water-related information accessible to Wisconsin residents in 2003 called Wisconsin's Water Library. This free, online resource gives residents access to nearly 30,000 volumes. Due to it's success in 2003, the Aquatic Sciences Center continued Wisconsin's Water Library in 2004. Accessible from the Water Resources Library Web site and supported by the same staff, this project helped the Water Resources Library become the first UW System Library to make it's collection directly accessible to the public, earning it the Multitype Library of the Year award.

JoAnn Savoy, special librarian for the Water Resources Library, accepted the award on behalf of the library during a Sept. 9 award ceremony near Sauk City. She is pictured with the SCLS board of trustees President Tom Brown.
Ebling Library has been open all summer but the new fall hours do not quite correspond with the hours of the Health Sciences Learning Center, which houses the library. HSLC closes at 9 p.m. but the library is still open until 11:45 p.m. Sunday through Thursday. Faculty, staff and students wishing to enter the building after 9 p.m. should have their UW ID card programmed by Clinical Science Center Security to allow late-hour access. This can also be done by completing a form from the Eblin Library Web site and either dropping it off or e-mailing it to CSC security.
For more information, visit Ebling Library's Web site

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NOTABLES

John Wanserski has been named interim director for Wendt Library following the retirement of Tom Murray. Wanserski has been the deputy director at Wendt Library and will act as director until a replacement is appointed.
Mary Rader started her position as the new South Asian bibliographer Aug. 9. She previously worked at the University of Michigan where she held a similar position.
Memorial Library has a new building and grounds supervisor. After serving as the interim building manger since September, Jeff Gayton will officially take the position Aug. 23. He has worked in various public service positions for Memorial Library since 1997.
The new head of Public Services for Memorial Library will be Lee Konrad, previously of Digital Content Group. Konrad began his new position Oct. 4 and will be in charge of various management and administrative duties including managing and directing budgets of the public services division as well as chairing the Memorial Public Services Heads Group.

"I am thrilled at having been offered the opportunity to serve as Memorial Library's head of Public Services," Konrad says. "In many respects, we are already moving the library forward on numerous fronts — largely due to the ideas and talents of the current public services staff."
Kathy Davis of CTS retired Aug. 25 after more than 17 years with the libraries. A party in her honor gave many staffers a chance to bid her farewell and munch on an impressive spread of food assembled by the department.
Read more about Kathy's farewell party
Digital Content Group just welcomed two new but familiar faces to the department. Jessica Williams and Vicki Tobias have been chosen as the two new associate academic librarians. Williams worked in DCG for the past two years as a research intern and Tobias worked on digital projects for the Wisconsin Historical Society while she was a student in the School of Library and Information Studies.

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FEATURES AND EVENTS

The 2004 Libraries' blood drive surpassed its goal of 100 donors. By the end of the afternoon Aug. 3, 111 library staffers took a few minutes out of their day to give blood and participate in the annual drive. Many library staffers volunteered their time to help run the event. Steve Frye coordinated the drive. Staff may donate blood during the academic year at the UW-Madison Young Blood campus blood donation center in Union South.
A new exhibit at Memorial Library's Reference Desk displays the art of tattoos and body alterations using images from books held in Memorial Library. Titles range from Tikopian Tattoo for a cultural flavor to Punk and Neo-Tribal Body Art for a more recent perspective. Also included in the exhibit assembled by Nikki Busch of the Reference Desk is a game called "Pin the Tattoo on the Librarian." A few Memorial staffers agreed to have pictures of their tattoos taken and patrons now have a chance to match the tattoo to the librarian in an inventive guessing game. Extra staffers were included to make it a bit more difficult. The correct answers are included in the exhibit.
Frankenstein is traveling the country and will continue to haunt Special Collections until Oct. 15. Developed by the American Library Association and the National Library of Medicine, Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature, will visit 80 libraries across the country by 2005. The display was made possible by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Library of Medicine.

Books and manuscripts from Special Collections selected by David Pavelich, Jill Rosenshield and Robin Rider to complement the traveling display will be on exhibit throughout the semester. Greg Prickman and Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, Ebling Library, also developed a parallel exhibit, Creating Life at the Ebling Library, focusing on medical issues raised by Mary Shelley's famous novel, Frankenstein.
The 7th annual Charlotte Zolotow Lecture, The World as Seen through Purple Eyes, will be given by Linda Sue Park Wednesday Oct. 6 at 7:30 in the Wisconsin Union Theater. Park is the author of several works of historical fiction for children and teenagers, including the A Single Shard (Clarion, 2001), winner of the 2002 Newbery Award, and When My Name Was Keoko (Clarion, 2002).

The lecture series was named to honor Charlotte Zolotow, a distinguished children's book editor for 38 years, and author of more than 65 picture books. Zolotow attended UW-Madison on a writing scholarship from 1933-36. The Cooperative Children's Book Center administers the event which each year brings a distinguished children's book author or illustrator to the campus to deliver a free public lecture.
David Woodward, geography professor emeritus at UW-Madison, developed a project that details the history of cartography. Woodward, who recently passed away, was also an artist and the proprietor of Juniper Press which issued letterpress printed books and broadsides. A few of the annual broadsides from Literary Selections on Cartography produced by Woodward for the Friends of the History of Cartography project are on display in the second floor Memorial Library exhibit case. More works from the Juniper Press are on exhibit outside of the reading room in Special Collections. Tracy Honn, Silver Buckle Press, and Robin Rider, Special Collections, curated the exhibits.
Lisa Nakamura, assistant professor of Communications Arts and Visual Culture Studies, will talk about the new scholarly discipline of cyberculture in Evolving Directions in Academic Research in Resources from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 22. The lecture in 126 Memorial Library is sponsored by ASHIND, the Libraries' Area Studies, Social Sciences and Humanities Interdisciplinary Group. Nakamura teaches various courses relating to cyberculture and also has an upcoming book, "Visual Cultures of the Internet," due to be published in 2006.

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IN THE NEWS

A Wisconsin State Journal article Aug. 22 highlighted various things to do on campus, including reading one of Memorial Library's 3.6 million volumes or visiting Special Collections to see various exhibits.
In an article about the Elvehjem Museum's acquisition of Frank Lloyd Wright Japanese art prints, The Capital Times quoted Andrew Stevens. Stevens is a curator at the Elvehjem and will be lecturing about "Wood engraving, Illustration and Art" Nov. 18 for one of the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries events this fall semester. The lecture will be in Memorial Library, room 126.

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SNAPSHOTS




Nancy McClements, Memorial Library Reference librarian, sits next to the Cincinnati Public Library fountain during a vacation trip. The fountain serves as a reminder to patrons that knowledge flows from the printed word. The books were built to appear leather bound but were actually built with clay and concrete in 1988.

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PUBLISHED

Ebling Library released a new Ebling News newsletter Sept. 15 which covers features of the new library including an info lab open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and the only drive-up book return on campus. Other items include Find It, RefWorks, Library Instruction programs and the Daily Dose Union Deli on the first floor of the Health Sciences Learning Center.
The latest Friends News, the newsletter for the Friends of UW-Madison Libraries, is now online. The fall 2004 issue highlights the Special Collections Frankenstein exhibit, a new collection for the Mills Music Library, a list of the fall Friends events and a story about how a grant from the Friends is helping to preserve the Wisconsin Intellectual Freedom Coalition Collection for the UW-Madison Libraries.
The Sept. 22 issue of Wisconsin Week included an insert describing many library services and programs. This library supplement discussed many new services like RefWorks and Find It and also touched on recently developed programs that make library access easier for campus faculty, staff and their students.
Steenbock's What's New online newsletter highlighted the two new services in the library system, Find It and RefWorks, in their posts Aug. 31.

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IN PASSING

As mentioned in the last issue of Libraries@UW-Madison, Ruth Shapiro passed away in July from lung cancer. Ruth spent many afternoons volunteering in Special Collections and her daughter, Debra Shapiro, works in the School of Library and Information Studies. A memorial service for Ruth was held Thursday Sept. 30 from 7 - 9 p.m. at Gates of Heaven in James Madison Park.

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25 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

The Sept. 7, 1979, issue of Added Entries marked the beginning of theft detection in Memorial Library. The director's article noted, "There is no way to adequately thank the Memorial Library staff for the tremendous effort that was put forth to tattletape our collections. Everyone was cooperative and hardworking and survived the dust and discomfort in the stacks in admirable spirits . . . The theft detection system will become fully operative at the end of September when the gates are due to arrive."

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Quotation

"When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it."

—Marie de Sevigne (1626-1696), French diarist

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Libraries@UW-Madison is written by the staff of the News and Editorial Office.
Managing Editor: Kristin Knipschild

Please send questions, comments or story ideas to:
Don Johnson, djohnson@library.wisc.edu, 608.262.0076, 330C Memorial Library;
Kristin Knipschild, kknipschild@library.wisc.edu, 608.262.2853, 348 Memorial Library.