LIBRARY NEWS

~ Kudos from Chancellor Wiley
~ Libraries offer WAA members access to resources
~ Partners in Giving Campaign aims for more participants, holds White Elephant Drawing
~ Campuswide library survey suggests small improvements
~ A happy return

NOTABLES

~ College of Engineering honors Tom Murray
~ Wendt Library to have new director
~ Rudersdorf and Saywell named acting co-chairs of Digital Content Group
~ Baumgart named co-coordinator of Instruction for Memorial Library
~ College Library names new public services coordinator
~ Crinion to head CTS Serials & Acquisitions
~ Center, McClements recognized for WLA work

FEATURES AND EVENTS

~ Great Pumpkin Contest at College Library
~ Ebling Library holds open house
~ Not your typical outreach: Taking Water Resources to Allied Drive

IN THE NEWS

~ The Wisconsin State Journal explores Memorial Library's InfoLab
~ A profile of students cramming at College Library
~ CCBC librarian writes article for the Wisconsin State Journal

SNAPSHOTS

~ A poetry picnic

PUBLISHED

IN PASSING

25 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

LIBRARY NEWS

• During a campus Round Table Presentation Nov. 10, Chancellor Wiley used the UW-Madison Libraries as the example of a unit in the university that has adapted to the changing campus climate and is responsive to campus needs. He said the library system is often cited as a model for other research libraries in the country.
  

• The libraries and Wisconsin Alumni Association worked together to expand library access for WAA members. As a new benefit of membership, WAA members now have access to the multidisciplinary Proquest Research Library and business-oriented ProQuest ABI/INFORM licensed resources. In addition, WAA members can use the ask a librarian e-mail reference service and the libraries have agreed to fill a limited number of journal article requests.
  
  An e-mail sent to alumni in the WAA Sept. 30 announced the new service, which prompted a surge in paid WAA memberships, reflecting the desire for access to library resources. An evaluation of the services in six months will determine the long-term success of the project. Ed Van Gemert, deputy director; Susan Barribeau, collection development; and Elisabeth Owens, library administration, helped make this project possible.
  
  
• The Partners in Giving campaign is back for another year of raising money campuswide and statewide for worthy charities. Jim Buckett, Steenbock Library, has been named chair of the libraries effort and is working to raise staff participation this year. Last year, the library staff contributed nearly $33,000, a drop from the $38,500 raised in 2002. In an an effort to get back to the 2002 numbers, the focus this year is encouraging more people to donate.
  
  The libraries have decided to hold a White Elephant Drawing to help drum up support for the campaign. The idea is for library staff to bring "white elephant" items, or items no longer wanted by the owner but possibly perfect for someone else. A second drawing will also give away a football autographed by Badger head coach Barry Alvarez and two sets of four men's hockey tickets. All library staff can enter the drawings, whether or not they donate to the Partners in Giving Campaign. Ken Frazier, director of the libraries, is also working to coordinate a "talent/no talent show" for the event. Check your e-mail in the coming weeks for the final date and time.
  
  
• The LibQUAL+ survey conducted last spring shows how the campus thinks the libraries perform in service areas of collections, physical space and customer service. With nearly 2,000 responses, survey results indicate that the campus generally feels the libraries perform well. A few areas for improvement emerged and will be used to help make changes and improvements to the library.
  Read more about LibQUAL+ results
  
  
• A new addition to Special Collections is a little more special than expected. At least its circuitous route back to the collections makes it special. The book was returned to UW-Madison by an administrator at Discovery Laboratories in Pennsylvania. He received it as a Christmas gift from an employee and later discovered it was still considered property of UW-Madison Libraries.
  
  The book titled Die Luftmächte der Welt has Hermann Göring's signature on the title page and was published in German in 1939.

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NOTABLES

• Tom Murray, director emeritus of Wendt Library, received the Spring 2004 College of Engineering's Bollinger Academic Staff Distinguished Achievement Award. Murray was honored for his work to help Wendt Library address the changing needs and expectations of today's library users, according to an article in the brochure for the annual Engineers' Day Dinner Oct. 22. He retired this past August.
  Read more about Murray and this award in a PDF
  
  
• The College of Engineering announced the new Wendt Library director will be Deborah Helman. Helman currently works as the associate head of Baker Engineering Library at MIT. She earned her bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and went on to earn a master's degree in Library and Information Science from the same institution. She will join Wendt Jan. 18.
  
  
• Amy Rudersdorf and Lisa Saywell have been named acting co-chairs of the Digital Content Group while the search for a new department head is under way. Amy has worked in DCG since February 2002 and Lisa has worked in DCG since last May.
  
  
• Beginning Jan. 5, Steve Baumgart will be a co-coordinator of instruction at Memorial Library. Steve currently serves as reference coordinator at Loyola University Chicago Science Library.
  
  
• Library & Information Literacy Instruction Intern Pamela O'Donnell has been named public services librarian at College Library. Pamela holds a master's degree in Library Science as well as a master's degree in Art from UW-Madison and a bachelor's degree from Lawrence University. Recently, she has worked with Wisconsin Historical Society, the Women's Studies Librarian's Office and the Women's Studies Consortium. Pamela started her position Nov. 1.
  
  
• Jackie Crinion has been named the new head of Acquisitions and Serials in CTS. Currently the assistant dean for Collections and Extended Services at the University of Texas in San Antonio, Jackie will take her new position at UW-Madison Jan. 3.
  
  
• At a recent Wisconsin Library Association conference, Sue Center, Law Library, was honored with an award for her work as federal relations coordinator. Nancy McClements, Memorial Library, presented the award. Nancy has served as president of WLA this past year and her successful leadership has provided closer ties with school librarians and a more streamlined organization, according to Ed Van Gemert, GLS deputy director.

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FEATURES AND EVENTS

• For the sixth year in a row, College Library held the Great Pumpkin contest. The student who guessed the closest combined weight of the three pumpkins, which was 215.25 pounds, won a $100 scholarship donated by College Library staff. The pumpkin contest is coordinated by Bruce Broker, College Library Computer & Media Center, and Jaye Rosandick, College Library Security.
  
  
  
  
• Ebling Library held an open house Oct. 20 to show off the new facility opened this summer. The Health Sciences Learning Center, which houses Ebling Library, also held an open house at the same time.
  View pictures of the new library and the open house
  
  
  
• A library's idea for outreach has turned into much more for the children of Allied Drive. The Water Resources Library brainstormed earlier this summer about ways to advance the outreach mission of Sea Grant and Water Resources. But what developed was more than just the typical outreach idea, it was Water Critters for Kids.
  Read more about Water Critters for Kids

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IN THE NEWS

• An Oct. 6 Wisconsin State Journal article discussed the amount of time UW-Madison students spend in front of a computer. The article described the busy 118-station InfoLab in Memorial Library and quoted InfoLab Manager Henry Huang.
  
  
• An article in the Wisconsin State Journal Oct. 8 profiled students "cramming around the clock" in College Library. The article notes that College Library is open 24 hours a day, five days a week by popular demand. Students in the article also discuss the evolving atmosphere in the library as the night goes on.
  
  
• Merri Lindgren, Cooperative Children's Book Center, wrote an article for the Wisconsin State Journal which highlighted children's books about elections and voting. The article, published Nov. 2, discussed four books, separated by age group, which dealt with topics ranging from how women earned the right to vote to how a family functions in the White House.

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SNAPSHOTS

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PUBLISHED

• The new Parallel Press Catalog for 2005 has been published, detailing all the Parallel Press books, poetry chapbooks and history chapbooks for sale.

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IN PASSING

• Arthur H. Robinson, the namesake for the Map Library and professor in the Geography Department from 1946-1980, died Sunday, Oct. 10, at 89. An article in The Capital Times Oct. 12 detailed his accomplishments which included significant contributions to the UW-Madison Geography Department. He wrote 15 books and monographs, including Elements of Cartography which became the nation's leading cartography textbook. In 1988, the National Geographic Society adopted the Robinson Projection as the standard for producing all world maps. The New York Times also acknowledged his accomplishments in a lengthy obituary Nov. 15.
  
  The Capital Times quoted Onno Brouwer, a former student and now director of the cartographic production laboratory, saying Robinson felt it was very important to establish a map library and cartographic production library at UW-Madison. Mirroring Robinson's goals, the family requested that donations be made to the Robinson Map Library or the History of Cartography project in lieu of flowers.

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25 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

• The October 19, 1979 issue of Added Entries showed that one campus building had a bit more personality than the others. An article titled "The continuing saga of Ms. Helen C. White Hall" explained a series of mailings to Ms. H. C. White Hall at the library address.
  
  "Over the years Ms. H.C. White Hall has received various and sundry interesting items in the mail. It all started in 1972 with the arrival of an elegant black evening wrap direct from Saks Fifth Avenue. The real "Ms. Hall" was eventually identified and the coat safely delivered. Since then Ms. Hall has received offers for major credit cards, a set of Reader's Digest sweepstakes entries, and numerous catalogs from mail order firms. Her most recent correspondence indicates that Ms. Hall is also a victim of the current employment situation and she has graciously consented to share her first rejection letter with us."
  
  Read a copy of her rejection letter printed in Added Entries
  
  The article went on to says, "Needless to say, Ms. Hall is pleased to know that her application will be kept on file."

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Quotation

"Wear the old coat and buy the new book"

—Austin Phelps (1820-1890), American Educator

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