12/14/2005

LIBRARY NEWS

~ Library Liaisons program studies options
~ GLS passes goal for Partners in Giving Campaign
~ New one-stop Web page for staff reports
~ New library in MadCat
~ Share Your Holidays to Eliminate Hunger
~ A snapshot of public service in Memorial Library
~ Google Scholar incorporates Find It for those searching on UW-Madison campus

NOTABLES

~ Null and Konrad take on new positions
~ UWDC earns two Webbies from WLA
~ Carbajal named new Latin American and Iberian Studies Librarian
~ Walker gives birth to baby girl
~ Parallel Press poet wins local honor
~ Four members of Circulation earn reclassification
~ Two new librarians at Wendt

FEATURES AND EVENTS

~ Next reference retreat scheduled for January
~ Second annual White Elephant Drawing
~ College Library celebrates Helen C. White's birthday
~ 2005 Wisconsin Women Library Worker's quilt raffle
~ Koch's New Year's cards on display at Kohler

NEW RESOURCES ON THE WEB

~ UWDCC goes beyond one-millionth object

IN THE NEWS

~ Wisconsin State Journal announces UWDCC's millionth object
~ Inside Higher Ed recognized UW-Madison's Honoring the Faculty program
~ CCBC librarians suggest picture books as gift ideas
~ Ngo-Nguidjol featured in The Capital Times
~ Wisconsin State Journal discusses plagiarism
~ Horning quoted in USA Today
~ Pollock appears in Wisconsin State Journal
~ Jim Danky in Wisconsin State Journal article about Bone Folder's Guild project

FYI: National Library News

~ Librarian heroes in Des Moines

SNAPSHOTS

PUBLISHED

25 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

LIBRARY NEWS

• The Library Liaisons program has been reorganized in the past year to make faculty connections with the library easier and more effective. Liaisons are library staff members who are assigned to a specific academic department and who are responsible for becoming familiar with the research and teaching needs of the department. In addition to providing assistance regarding library collections, liaisons are also responsible for communicating with department faculty and graduate students about library services and to identify possible courses that would benefit from integration with the Library & Information Literacy Instruction program.
  Read more about the new subject librarians listing
  
  
• The annual Partners in Giving campaign drew to a close Nov. 30, but donations and pledges will gladly be accepted through January 2006. Partners in Giving is a charitable campaign for employees of the state, University of Wisconsin and UW Hospitals & Clinics. The program provides employees the opportunity to donate to more than 400 organizations including organizations specifically focused on Hurricane Katrina relief in light of recent events. Pledge forms were distributed to all General Library System employees after the campaign launched Oct. 10. These forms should be returned to Jim Buckett, coordinator of the Partners in Giving Campaign for the General Library System.
  
  This year's goal for the campaign is to have 30 percent participation throughout GLS. By the end of the campaign, 107 GLS employees pledged or donated to the campaign, which means roughly 42 percent contributed and the goal, surpassing the goal by nearly 12 percent. Pledges and donations from GLS alone totaled $30,956.
  
  In connection with the Partners in Giving campaign, the libraries held a White Elephant Drawing, similar to last year. Library staff are also eligible to win certificates to Borders, certificates to the Babcock Dairy Store, a campaign polo shirt or a UW Libraries baseball hat simply by returning the pledge form, with or without a contribution. So far, winners include Jamie Woods of CTS, Jill Rosenshield of Special Collections, Ronald Larson of Memorial Library, Suzanne Otto of CTS, Jan Behn of Administrative Services, Dineen Grow of User Services, Friends Liaison Thomas Garver, Susan Brinson of College Library, Debi Doyle of CTS-Cataloging, Bibliographer Marilyn Hicks, Judith Louer of the Business Library and Nancy Jones of Steenbock Library.
  
  
• There is a new Web site for all the library staff reports. This page will replace the previous reports page from the library staff site and the reports page from the selectors' pages. The new page provides an alphabetical list of all the reports the Library Technology Group could find on library sites. The Collection Management Reports Group has created an FAQ for reports and a new form for staff to request reports.
  
  
• MadCat, the electronic campus catalog, now includes collections from the Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Program Library. The collection includes a number of books and movies related to Chicana and Latina Studies. Books are available for loan periods of one week.
  
  
• Memorial Library participated in the Share Your Holidays to Eliminate Hunger food drive again this year through Dec. 7. Last year, the library provided 206 meals to those in need in nearby areas. Food and monetary donations help stock the Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin. The foodbank has not yet counted how many meals were collected in the lobby of Memorial Library this year.
  
  
• During the week of Nov. 14, all staff in public service areas in Memorial Library were asked to log interactions with library patrons. In seven days, library staff answered at least 3,402 queries, and some proved rather interesting.
  Read a selection of intriguing information collected.
  
  
• Google Scholar has now incorporated UW-Madison's Find It software. This allows people on campus to search the Web using http://scholar.google.com, and they may see a Find It at UW-Madison link in their search results if the item is available on campus. For those off-campus, simply selecting UW-Madison as your library in the scholar preferences screen should provide similar results.
  

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NOTABLES

• As of Oct. 10, 2005 David Null and Lee Konrad have both received new positions within the General Library System.
  
  Null has been named director of University Archives after serving as the Acting Director of the University Archives since May of 2002.
  
  Konrad has been serving as the head of public services at Memorial Library since August, 2004. He has now been named the director of Memorial Library and is responsible for the administration and management of the largest library on campus.
  
  
• UW Digital Collections was honored at the recent Wisconsin Library Association Conference in La Crosse Oct. 26 with two Media and Technology Section Webbies Awards. Out of four possible awards, UWDC earned two; one for best reference site and one for being the best of the best.
  
  
• Paloma Celis Carbajal has been named as the new Latin American and Iberian studies librarian. She served as the interim librarian in this area since May 2004 and holds a bachelor's degree in Hispanic language and literature as well as a master's degree in Spanish. She is currently working on a master's degree from the School of Library and Information Studies.
  
  
• Library Intern Nola Walker gave birth to a baby girl at 2:19 a.m. Nov. 14. The baby is 8 lbs 9 oz, and is 19.5 inches long.  Nola will be on leave until Jan. 4.
  
  
• Parallel Press Poet Karl Elder has won the Chad Walsh Poetry Prize. According to Karl, this award is believed to be the largest monetary award for a poem or group of poems. The poem which won him this honor was published in the Summer 2005 issue of the Beloit Poetry Journal. Karl recently penned poems for a Parallel Press chapbook titled The Minimalist's How-to Handbook, which was also published this past summer.
  
  
• Four members of the Circulation Office, Kari Grover, Leslie Haagensen, Marianne Larson and Debra Nelson, have recently been reclassified as library services assistant-advanced/lead. User Services Supervisor Dineen Grow said, "These individuals have progressively assumed more and more responsibility over the years. They have all taken on new duties related to credit card and debit card payments, carrels and lockers, universal borrowing, ISIS holds and interlibrary loan item record creation." She added, "In addition to these duties, the staff in this office act as resource personnel for both campus and system staff regarding policies and procedures related to the Voyager circulation module."
  
  
• Wendt Library added two new librarians to their team this past summer. Jennifer Velasco is a public services librarian through January and has previous experience at Wisconsin TechSearch. Amanda Werhane is working as a reserves and information services librarian and will be at Wendt into mid-February. Amanda just graduated from the School of Library and Information Studies last May and previously worked at the Center for Instructional Materials and Computing for two years.

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FEATURES AND EVENTS

• The next reference retreat for all reference librarians on campus is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006 in the Education Sciences Building. For information about attending, contact Nancy McClements of Memorial Library.
  
  
• After the success of the first White Elephant Drawing last year, General Library System Director Ken Frazier hosted another drawing this year during the Partners in Giving Campaign. This year's drawing was held Nov. 2 in the Play Circle of Memorial Union.
  Read more about the second annual White Elephant Drawing
  
  
• Nov. 26 marked the birthday of Helen C. White, the namesake of the building that also holds College Library. White was the first woman at UW-Madison to achieve the rank of full professor in the College of Letters and Science. In honor of White College Library staff members surprised patrons with cupcake treats as they entered the library. In just 35 minutes on Nov. 28, 109 cupcakes were distributed. This number is significant because it would have been her 109th birthday. The cupcakes had purple frosting because purple was White's favorite color. According to lore, she wore purple clothing every day.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Wisconsin Women Library Workers annual quilt is on display in the School of Library and Information Studies. The 2005 quilt is titled "Women Environmentalists" and is on display at the SLIS Library. Since 1980, the WWLW has made a quilt to raise money for their organization. Volunteers make individual squares, and a designer assembles the quilt together. This year's raffle proceeds will go toward memorials in honor of Maria Bode and Professor Margaret Monroe. Raffle tickets are available at the SLIS circulation desk through Dec 22.
  
  
  
• For nearly three decades, artist and photographer Lewis Koch has been creating New Year's cards to delight and occasionally bewilder his friends. Koch's annual tradition of card making uses collage, photography and wordplay as a contemplation of the transient nature of time, to mourn the passing of another year and celebrate the next. Presented together for the first time are 25 years of cards, accompanied by source material from books and broadsides, original photographs, rubber stamps and other ephemera. The exhibit was curated by Lewis Koch himself and will be on display from Dec. 1, 2005 - Jan. 31, 2006 at the Kohler Art Library.

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NEW RESOURCES ON THE WEB

• Throughout October and November, the staff of the UW Digital Collections Center worked to digitize more objects for their collections as they move beyond one-million digital objects. A new collection, titled Brecht's Works in English: A Bibliography, was added in the beginning of October. Items were also added to The Arts Collection, Ecology and Natural Resources Collection, Foreign Relations of the United States Collection, The East Asian Collection, and a significant amount of new materials in The State of Wisconsin Collection. Some new items of note include:
  
  Brecht's Works in English: A Bibliography included nearly 2,000 records of Brecht's works published in English. This collection is a cooperative project of the International Brecht Society and the Bertolt-Brecht-Archive in Berlin.
  
  Fourteen new volumes of Foreign Relations of the United States have been added to the collection of the same name. These items are all from the early 1940s and include diplomatic papers, the conferences at Washington and Casablanca. This series of volumes is considered the official historical record of U.S. foreign policies.
  
  
  
  
  Within the East Asian Collection, 215 new images make up the subcollection named The William Hervie Dobson Collection. These images show the Yeungkong area in southern China and its residents from roughly 1900-1940. Dobson was a pioneer missionary and doctor who lived in that area most of his life. He was born in New Jersey in 1870, but traveled to China as a missionary with the Presbyterian Church. He also became the first Presbyterian missionary to learn the Yeungkong dialect.
  
  The State of Wisconsin Collection expanded significantly. As part of the 2005 Library Services and Technology Act grant-funded project, 576 historic images of Janesville were added. Many of these new images were taken by an amateur photographer, Lowell "Bud" Gruver, who often paired his photographs with a historic photograph of the same scene. The same program provided funds to digitize objects showing Libraries and Schools in Marathon and Lincoln Counties and Early Fond du Lac County People and Places. Between these two collections, UWDCC digitized five volumes and 1046 images that document the history of public libraries, schools and the beginnings of Fond du Lac County in the mid-1800s.
  
  
  

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IN THE NEWS

• The Wisconsin State Journal helped announce the UW Digital Collections' one-millionth digital object with a feature story on the front page of the local section Oct. 10. The article discussed the digital production of “Harvest Time” by Lois Ireland as well as the work that helped the UWDCC reach this milestone.
  
  
• Inside Higher Ed published an article Oct. 11 which mentioned the UW-Madison program for honoring faculty members who earn tenure or a promotion. Through this program, the libraries add a book of the faculty member's choice to the library's collection. The book includes a bookplate reflecting the faculty member's name and the year he or she was honored.
  
  
• Cooperative Children's Book Center Librarians Merri Lindgren and Megan Schliesman's latest article in the Wisconsin State Journal was published Nov. 22. This month, their article highlighted recently released picture books that would be good gift ideas for young children. They also mentioned the Book of the Week selections on the CCBC's Web site.
  
  
• Emilie Ngo-Nguidjol, Reference and Francophone Studies, was featured in an article Nov. 28 in The Capital Times. The article focused on her efforts to improve health care in her native country by renovating a small health center in Botbea, Cameroon.
  
  
• The top story from the Wisconsin State Journal Nov. 29 discussed plagiarism of ideas and included comments from UW-Madison Libraries Director Ken Frazier.
  
  
• USA Today quoted the Cooperative Children's Book Center Director Kathleen Horning in a story about Disney introducing a girl into the world of Winnie the Pooh.
  
  
• Ann Pollock of Memorial Library and her husband were featured in a story in the Wisconsin State Journal Dec.12 about cross-country skiing in Elver Park.
  
  
• Wisconsin State Journal published a story Dec. 12 about the Bone Folder's Guild Sixty Books project in which 60 blank books are available for patrons to check out and fill with their own passage or creative message. Jim Danky, director of the Center for History of Print Culture in Modern America and Friend of the UW-Madison Libraries, was quoted in the article as one of the patrons who checked out a blank book.

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FYI: NATIONAL LIBRARY NEWS

• An article in the Des Moines Register details the heroic efforts of some librarians in a Des Moines Public Library in Des Moines, Iowa. The librarians managed to rescue a 20-month-old child from a man believed to be a sex offender. The man attempted to hide out in the library bathrooms, and the librarians not only rescued the child, but also detained the man until police arrived. The article goes on to explain exactly what librarians actually do, and how their jobs are changing in the new digital age.

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SNAPSHOTS

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PUBLISHED

• The final poetry chapbook for 2005 to be released by the Parallel Press is Now You See It by Ron Wallace.
  Read more about Now You See It
  
  
• Vicki Tobias, digital services librarian for the UW Digital Collections Center, just published an article about blogs and a listing of blogs related to women and women's issues. Her work was published in Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources by the UW System Women's Studies Librarian's Office.
  
  
• In preparation for UW-Madison's Parent's Weekend Nov. 10-13, the libraries produced a four-page supplement which highlights the latest improvements in the libraries made possible by the Parents Enrichment Fund. The Parents Fund is an annual of the UW Foundation. The supplement highlighted recent renovations to Memorial Library study areas and the development of the Open Book Café in College Library.
  
  
• The Data Program and Library Service has released the November 2005 issue of DPLS News. This issue includes articles about data related to the hurricanes on the gulf coast, a new subscription providing access to Roper Express and news from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.
  
  
• Karen Rosneck, Acquisitions, is currently working on editing a volume of the Dictionary of Literary Biography that will be published next year. She has also presented a paper about the story Ridneva (1876) at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference last month. This paper is one of a series that she has presented in the past few years, all of which related to stories included in Album: Groups and Portraits by the nineteenth-century Russian woman writer Nadezhda Dmitrievna Khvoshchinskaia (1824-1889). Rosneck also penned a paper about another story written by this author which will appear in a future volume about Khvoshchinskaia and her sisters.

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25 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

• While public services areas of Memorial Library recently conducted surveys, it appears this method of information gathering is not new to the library system. In the Dec. 5, 1980, issue of Added Entries, the libraries conducted two surveys to help gather information about two very different areas.
  

  "The first survey was developed by the Public Catalog Subcommittee of the Bibliographic Control Committee. This subcommittee, chaired by Dennis Hill, was charged with measuring the physical capacity of the catalogs to determine what is needed and with examining possible options for making the subject catalog more consistent and effective. . . . It is hoped that this survey will suggest ways in which we can change or improve the structure of the subject catalog.
  
  The other survey relates to indirect cost rates in research libraries and came out of the Indirect Cost Studies Office in the Peterson Building. They, and we, were concerned with determining costs of federal grants with respect to the data on library costs and whether the data satisfies federal requirements. . . . In a one-day period picked at random (Dec. 2), the survey will try to assess who uses the library and for what purposes."

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Quotation

"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life."

—Norman Cousins (1915-1990), American Editor

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