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Issue 46

2/9/2006

News for Staff of UW-Madison Libraries

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The RefWorks working group has launched a marketing campaign in collaboration with Library Communications to increase awareness and use of RefWorks at UW-Madison. In an effort to inform the campus community about this Web-based bibliographic manager, the working group is using various outlets to create a buzz and spark interest. A message about RefWorks was included in a mass e-mail sent to faculty, staff and teaching assistants on campus and new bookmarks will soon appear at various library information desks. Additional promotional materials are also being produced in an effort to make RefWorks more visible to those who have not yet discovered this research tool.

RefWorks is available to all UW-Madison students, staff and faculty. RefWorks enables researchers to download citation information, create their own personal research database, and format bibliographies instantly in any of more than 400 citation styles. Because it is Web-based, a RefWorks account can be accessed from any computer, anytime.

To learn more about RefWorks, or to answer questions a patron may ask, visit http://www.library.wisc.edu/instruction/refworks/.
To help library patrons understand how to use some library services and resources, the Tutorials Using Screen Capture Working Group has developed various tutorials that are now available. These tutorials are meant for all campus libraries and can be useful for “point-of-need” assistance or on library course pages.
The Wisconsin National Primate Research Center has renamed its library the Lawrence Jacobsen Library in honor of Former Director Larry Jacobsen. Jacobsen was the long-time director of the library from its inception in 1973 until his retirement in 2003. For more information about Jacobsen and this change visit their Web site.
While the Partners in Giving Campaign officially ended Nov. 30, donations were still welcome through the end of Jan. 31, 2006. General Library System Campaign Coordinator Jim Buckett reported that 118 GLS staff members have donated or pledged $37,481, just over last year’s contribution of $37,467. Partners in Giving Campaign donations from all organizations in Dane County together totaled more than $2,700,000.
The librarians assembly has released its list of "Books We Like" from 2005. The annual list has been published in previous years as an insert to the libraries' holiday greeting card. Following the chancellor's lead in 2005, the libraries did not produce holiday cards because of budget constraints. In lieu of this insert, the 2004 and recently released 2005 lists are available in this newsletter.
Books We Liked 2004
Books We Liked 2005
With support from the Friends of the Library, the General Library System is accepting nominations for the second annual Library Staff Service Awards. These awards recognize staff members of any library on campus whose work performance benefits the internal and external constituents of the UW-Madison Libraries. More specifically, these staff members likely show:
- Exemplary working relationships with library colleagues and/or library clients.
- Contributions to establishing a welcoming learning and research environment.
- High-productivity coupled with teamwork, leadership and/or cooperation.
- Creativity, initiative and independence that positively influences library services.
- Achievements and work products that significantly benefit library services.
Six awards are available, one for classified staff, one for academic staff and four for student staff. To nominate a staff member, the nominating form should be submitted with a letter of nomination. Two additional supporting letters are required and all materials should be submitted to Sandra Guthrie, 365 Memorial Library by Friday, March 10.
Nomination form
Nominations are being accepted for this year’s UW-Madison Classified Employee Recognition Awards. These awards are meant to recognize a classified employee “who has done an outstanding job for the university community,” according to UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley. Nominees will be evaluated on a variety of factors, including promoting excellence within the work unit, developing innovative solutions to everyday problems, performing well under pressure and participating in public service activities outside normal work responsibilities. Nominations can be submitted online and should be sent by Friday, Feb. 17.
Wendt Library has launched a new Web site in the past month. Nate Vack, Amy Kindshi, Nancy Spitzer, Eric Larson and Deborah Helman of Wendt Library worked with University Communications to create this site.
The Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing has launched a new Web site. The OSCP works to advocate and promote increased awareness of current and developing open-access publishing opportunities available to the UW-Madison scholarly community. Questions or comments should be sent to oscp@library.wisc.edu.

NOTABLES

In an e-mail to staff, Deputy Director Ed Van Gemert announced that Mills Music Library Director Geri Laudati has taken a medical leave. She is staying with her family in New Jersey while she receives care, and it is not known when she may be able to return. In her absence, Lisa Wettleson will manage the library with the help of John Solon and Matt Appleby. Cards and letters may be sent to:
Geri Laudati
c/o Rita Farino
439 Green Street
Boonton, NJ 07005
General Library System Human Resources Assistant Pam Andreoni retired from her position after more than 27 years of service in the libraries Dec. 23.
On Dec. 1, Jamie Woods was appointed head of CTS Original Cataloging Unit after serving as acting head since June.
European History Librarian Barbara Walden has been selected as a member of a mission to Germany, "Leipzig, Dresden, Weimar: Exploring a Library Landscape," to study the collections of the Deutsche Bucherei (German National Library in Eastern Germany). This mission will take place March 16-23 and will also include a visit to the Leipzig Book Fair, the German librarian's association meeting and various other research libraries in eastern Germany. This mission is sponsored by the Goethe-Institut New York, the U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Germany, Public Affairs Section, and Bibliothek & Informational International, in cooperation with the Western European Studies Section (WESS) of ALA/ACRL.
Emilie Ngo-Nguidjol, Memorial Reference and Francophone Studies, will be leaving UW-Madison to take a position as African studies librarian at the University of California, Berkeley. While her last day has not been determined, she expects to leave mid-semester.

"Her excellent work on many local and national committees and conferences have benefited the reputation of our department, Memorial Library and UW libraries," according to Nancy McClements, head of Reference.
Jennifer Nowak Velasco will join the Wisconsin TechSearch staff at Wendt Library as a resource sharing librarian on Feb. 1. She is a recent SLIS graduate with a background in behavioral science & law and political science. She has also held a variety of positions at Wendt Library and WTS since 2000.
Eric Larson will begin his new position as Wendt’s digital services librarian Feb. 1. He began his library career as a student worker at Wendt and graduated from SLIS in May 2005. He has worked on a variety of digital projects, including the Public Services Statistics Database, the Journal Value Project and Wendt’s new Web site.
Dianna Xu has been named the new East Asian Studies Librarian and will begin March 15. She comes to UW-Madison from the University of Washington where she was the Chinese Studies Librarian.
Wendt Library found their first bioengineering librarian and marketing coordinator in recent SLIS graduate Amanda Werhane. Amanda has worked at both the Center for Instructional Materials & Computing and Wendt Library. Most recently, she served as Wendt’s reserves and information services librarian .
ChoiceReviews.online reviewed the Women’s Studies Librarian’s Web site in their January issue. The Choice article said, "The site does an excellent job of combining educational materials for researchers from UW with those for researchers worldwide seeking women's studies materials. Rather than simply compiling different resources, the Librarian's Office also has created tutorials and WAVE (Women's Audio Visuals in English), a database of women's videos that is used by many researchers and librarians." ChoiceReviews.online is a publication of the American Library Association.
The Memorial Library Reference Desk has some new faces this spring. Anne Rauh, European History Librarian Barbara Walden, Eileen Harrington, Salim Mohammed of College Library and Sue Humphrey of Memorial Library will be lending their skills.
Pat Erickson has been named the new General Library System human resources assistant. You can find Pat in room 367 Memorial Library.
As Libraries@UW-Madison reported in issue 43, Isthmus ran a feature on the Artists' Books Collection housed at the Kohler Art Library. That article and Kohler Director Lyn Korenic’s liaison work have led to increased interest in the collection. Various groups have visited the library in response, including faculty from the Creative Writing department, the American Girl Company and the Wisconsin Historical Society Press.
Steve Miller will be joining the Library Technology Group Feb. 13. He is a SLIS graduate.
Ruth Kaczor of CTS retired Feb. 1 after 35 years. In an e-mail to all Memorial Library staff, she said words could not express her gratitude to everyone. She also mentioned that she will continue to live in Madison.
Library Communications Intern Michael Worringer has taken a second internship this semester with the Wisconsin Library Association. Michael's work with WLA focuses on the Campaign for Wisconsin Libraries by updating information on the Web, contacting state media to generate public service announcements and coordinating the distribution of promotional materials to libraries across Wisconsin. The campaign is meant to increase awareness of how libraries contribute to the state's economic growth, education and lifelong learning, and the quality of life in Wisconsin.
At the Memorial Library reference desk, Bonnie Kalmbach tracked down an answer for Professor Frank Solomon. He was so pleased, he responded to her message with "I asked for a little drink of water, Bonnie gave me a whiskey still."
Andrew Gough has been named the new research intern for digital projects at Wendt Library and the Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing. Gough recently graduated from SLIS, and previously worked on digital projects at the Wisconsin Historical Society.

FEATURES AND EVENTS

The School of Library and Information Studies celebrates its centennial anniversary this year with a new focus. From 2:30-4:30 Friday, Feb. 10 in the Pyle Center, a program highlighting diversity will discuss how to create learning communities that are welcoming and fruitful to everyone. The program will also introduce an undergraduate internship program, which is a cooperative venture of the school with the UW-Madison Library. The program is designed to encourage students from underrepresented groups to consider librarianship as a career goal. Registration is required for attendance.

Library staff participating in planning the SLIS event and the new internship program include: Ken Frazier, Sandra Guthrie, Carrie Kruse, Lis Owens, Emilie Ngo-Nguidjol, Janice Rice, Lisa Saywell and Nola Walker. They worked in cooperation with Louise Robbins, Barbara Arnold, Linda Mundt and Kate Beard of SLIS.
"Lothar Meggendorfer & Movable Books" is an exhibition highlighting color lithographic proof sheets of movable children's books, from the Lothar Meggendorfer Collection in the Department of Special Collections. Meggendorfer (1847-1925) created more than 100 children's books over the course of his career, many in multiple editions and translations. To set Meggendorfer's "paper engineering" in context, the exhibit also contains books with movable parts from the Renaissance through the 21st century, including treatises on cosmography, geometry, landscape design and the automobile as well as contemporary artists' books from the Kohler Art Library. The exhibit will be on display in Special Collections, 976 Memorial Library, through April 14.
"The Art of Books: Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815-1930" exhibition is on display in Memorial Library's main lobby. It showcases illustrated bindings from books in the collections of UW-Madison Libraries, and highlights the library's three-year, Institute of Museum and Library Services grant-funded project to provide a database and related resources to open the world of these beautiful objects, once found commonly in American homes, to a wider audience.

Included in the exhibit are books with designer bindings from the 1890s and early 1900s, books from the Civil War and World War I and books from the mid-nineteenth century whose colorful bindings and endpapers depicted and enhanced American's interest in an expanding world. The exhibit will be on display through March 29.
The School of Library & Information Studies will be hosting an Edible Book Festival from 4-6 p.m. Tuesday, April 4. The exhibit is mean to celebrate literature, art and food by creating edible dishes that relate to books. The Edible Book Festival is actually a worldwide event, but this is a first for UW, according to SLIS Associate Director Jane Pearlmutter. Those interested in submitting an entry to the exhibit should submit a brief application to Pearlmutter by March 15.
The General Library System Staff Development Committee will be coordinating an Employee Art Exhibit this spring with the help of the Memorial Library Exhibits Committee. The exhibit, "Artistic Collaboration," will be displayed in the first and second floors of Memorial Library from April 19 through May 17. Any library staff member is welcome to submit work to the exhibit. Interested staff members will be asked to complete a submission form that will be available by e-mail in the next couple weeks. Submission forms are due approximately March 17, and artists should plan to deliver the artwork to Memorial Library around April 13 or 14. Staff members should contact Suzanne Otto of CTS for more information.
Memorial Library staff held a potluck Jan. 17 to celebrate the recent holidays. Staff members brought in a wide array of items including a homemade cream cake.
View pictures from the potluck
The count is now available from Memorial Library's participation in the Share Your Holidays to Eliminate Hunger food drive in December. Staff contributed 158 meals to the drive.

NEW RESOURCES ON THE WEB

During December and January, the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center added 75,463 pages, 168 images and 12 video minutes to the existing digital collections. The Publishers' Bindings Online: The Art of Books collection also has 245 new books. Other collections with new resources include Foreign Relations of the United States Collection, the History Collection, the History of Science and Technology Collection, the Science Collection, The State of Wisconsin Collection, and Mills Music Library Special Collections.

Specific items that may be of interest include:
- A new volume in the History Collection, titled Reader services in libraries: A day in honor of Margaret E. Monroe, includes a tribute to two women, Muriel Fuller and Margaret Monroe. Specifically, the volume contains the second Muriel L. Fuller Memorial Lecture, held as part of the activities in honor of Monroe's retirement.
- Eighty images were added to the Science Collection that were taken from the classic works of German veterinary anatomists, Wilhelm Ellenberger and Hermann Baum and medical illustrator Hermann Dittrich. The images were published in texts from 1898 and 1911-1925 titled Handbuch der Anatomie der Tiere für Künstler. The images focus on the integumentary and musculoskeletal systems of the horse, dog, cow, lion, goat and deer.
- One of the many additions to The State of Wisconsin Collections includes 21 images of the First Brigade Band of Brodhead, Wis. Many of the images depict band members or their wives, including Frederick Knickerbocker (pictured), Edwin Oscar Kimberly and George Spaulding. These images are part of the Civil War subcollection within The State of Wisconsin Collection.

IN THE NEWS

Sylvia Edlebeck of CTS was featured in the Dec. 6 issue of Wisconsin Week. The article discussed her role in the Philharmonic Chorus of Madison at the Wisconsin Union's Tudor Dinners during November and December. Edlebeck has been performing with the philharmonic since 1972.

SNAPSHOTS



	Last November, College Library hosted a poetry reading in the Open Book Cafe. Undergraduate poets who were published in the first issue of Illumination read some of their work and others in attendance were welcome to read as well. According to Eliot Finkelstein of College Library, the reading sparked interest in the upcoming second issue of the journal, which is scheduled to be published this spring.

PUBLISHED

The UW System Women's Studies Librarian's Office has published volume 26, no. 4 of Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources. The issue includes book reviews, reviews and links to new women's studies resources online, zine reviews, an article about the nature of women's studies today, and many other articles. The articles are written by scholars based at universities across the nation. Feminist Collections is available online or in print.

IN PASSING

Melba Jesudason's husband, Victor, died Jan. 19, and a funeral was held Jan. 24. Melba worked in College Library for many years and made many friends on campus, according to Jane Bannerman of College Library.

25 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

The Feb. 6, 1981 issue of Added Entries announced the relocation of the Biology Library to B164 Birge Hall, where it is located today. At that time, the specialist for the library was Gordon Luce and the library assistant was Joyce Halvorson.

Quotation

Libraries@UW-Madison is written by the staff of Library Communications.
Managing Editor: Kristin Knipschild

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Don Johnson, 608.262.0076, 330C Memorial Library,
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