NOTABLES

LIBRARY NEWS

IN THE MEDIA

PUBLISHED

PROFILE

20 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

EVENTS

• Poetry, storytelling, music, and bookmaking for kids will highlight campus library participation in the UW-Madison Open House, Saturday, Aug. 19. Openhouse.html
• The Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries will host their fall book sale from Wednesday Oct. 25 to Saturday Oct. 28 in room 112 of Memorial Library. More than 14,000 books donated primarily by faculty, staff, students, and area residents will be available.

NOTABLES

• Diana Wheeler has been hired as an associate academic librarian in the services unit of Wendt Library. Diana, who has been a research intern at Wendt since January, will be working in library instruction, reference and circulation.
• Barbarly "Barbie" McConnell, who has worked as director of the Kleene Mathematics Library since 1998, has moved to Fullerton, Calif., with her family. McConnell plans on finding a librarian position in an academic library and on spending time with her two children. She also hopes to assist in the organization of the 2001 America Library Association annual conference, which will be held in San Francisco.
• The Office of Library Instruction is proud to welcome Kerry Gleason as a new project assistant. Kerry worked formerly in Public Services/Cooperating Collections at the Foundation Center in New York and plans to seek her master's degree in library science at the UW.
• Barbara Walden, European history bibliographer in Memorial Library has been elected vice-chair/chair elect of the Western European Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).
• Tracy Honn, of Memorial Library's Silver Buckle Press, has returned from her work hand making books in an Ecuadorian nature reserve. Check out photos from her trip. Tracyreturns.html
• Classical Gas composer Mason Williams gave a concert Monday night, Aug. 14, for more than 250 people in the Mills Music Hall of the Humanities Building. The performance was backed by Jeff Eckels on bass and Hollis Taylor on violin. Afterwards Williams signed copies of his book, Them Poems, the most recent chapbook by the Parallel Press. Miss the concert? See pictures from the event. williamspics.html

LIBRARY NEWS

• Since August, there have been a lot fewer library fines levied against UW-Madison Library patrons. The libraries are making the policy change largely in response to concerns that undergraduates were disproportionately affected by library fines. Circpolicy.html
• The guide "Introducing the Libraries Web site" has been updated for the fall. The guide outlines how to gather and access information through the UW-Madison Libraries Web site. The handout comes in an easy-to-print version and can be obtained here: http://www.library.wisc.edu/help/main/introducing.pdf
• The UW Archives and Management Services (ARMS) has redesigned their Web site, detailing the Archives, the Oral History Project and the Records Management Office. The site makes it easy to send material to Archives, listen to sound clips of Oral History Reviews and view the Records Management manual online. New, color coded navigation bars and a site map make site navigation simple. View the new site at: http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Archives/

IN THE MEDIA

• Karyn Odway, a health reporter for NBC 15 news, interviewed Andrea Ball for story titled "Evaluating Consumer Health Information on the Internet." Ball works at the UW-Madison’s Middleton Health Sciences Library. AndreaBall.html

PUBLISHED

• Melba Jesudason, a reference librarian in the Mills Music Library, has written an article titled "Academic Libraries Outreach to Student-Athletes Through E-Mail Reference Service." The article will be published in Volume 28, issue 3 of the Reference Services Review (RSR) in fall 2000. Jesudason is a frequent contributor to the publication.

PROFILE

• Ann S. Nelson, the new president of the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries, has been visiting campus libraries this month in preparation for her year as president. Nelson is a longtime friend of the libraries. In 1997 she gave the libraries the Second Folio of Shakespeare's works, in memory of her late husband, Harold "Bud" Nelson. Read this story in the Spring 1997 issue of the Friends magazine, titled "The trust of a friend" on page 10 of the electronic file. Spring97.pdf

20 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

• On August 1, 1980, UW-Madison Chancellor Irving Shain announced that budget restraints would require a freeze on all book buying by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Subsequently, many branch librarians and bibliographers submitted petitions, wrote letters and placed phone calls in protest of the freeze, which was eased in the following months.

QUOTATION

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written."

- Oscar Wilde

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