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Issue 52

12/6/2006

News for Staff of UW-Madison Libraries

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GLS raised $1,069 on Nov. 30 to benefit Partners in Giving with the first ever GLS Partners in Giving Silent Auction. In the Open Book Cafe, College Library patrons could bid on items such as a hand-knit blanket or homemade Indian dinner. A drawing for various prizes was held after an announcement of the winning bids. A miniature hockey stick signed by the Wisconsin Badgers men's and women's national champion hockey coaches, Mike Eaves and Mark Johnson, received the most number of bids at 12, while a framed watercolor by Jennifer Lodde, which sold for $160, received the highest bid amount. Refreshments and a live music performance from Christopher Cramer and Peter Gorman, UWDCC, accompanied the bidding. The Silent Auction is part of the greater Partners in Giving campaign of Dane County, which has raised $44.6 million in the past 33 years and ran through Nov. 30 as well.
University Archives, with the help of Chris Hartman and Stephen Meyer, have started a new "photos of the month" site called Featured Images. Each month, photos for which the Archives do not have much background information will be posted online and open for comment. Each series will be targeted toward a specific group—for example, October's photos recognized SLIS in honor of its 100th anniversary. Photos that receive identification/information will then be added to the regular UW Collection online. University Archives welcomes photos from departmental anniversaries and other major campus events. Contact David Null regarding photo contributions.
Approximately 100 friends and co-workers celebrated the life and career of former Mills Music Library Director Geri Laudati on Oct. 28 in the Carol Rennebohm Auditorium of Music Hall, 925 Bascom Mall. A concert held as a tribute to her was sponsored by the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Music and UW-Madison Libraries. The program included music featuring piano, string, wind and vocal selections.
UW-Madison Libraries formed a team to help out in the 2006 Dane County Paint-a-thon in August. Sheiliah Harrington, GLS Central Technical Services; Nancy Jones, Steenbock Library, and husband Ken; Bev Phillips, Steenbock Library; Bob Shaw, WILS; Ed Van Gemert, acting director, GLS; and Amanda Werhane, Wendt Library, all gave up a large part of a Sunday afternoon to help out. See the pictures.
Once again, the front lobby of Memorial Library had a donation barrel for the "Share Your Holidays to Eliminate Hunger" food drive from Nov. 20-Dec. 4. The Second Harvest Food bank of Southern Wisconsin, along with NBC 15 and other sponsors organized the drive, which is in its 10th year. Last year donations from the Memorial Library barrel provided 158 meals to those in need in southern Wisconsin. Cash donations are also accepted and may be sent to:
Second Harvest Food bank
2802 Dairy Dr.
Madison, WI 53718
or call (608) 223-9121
Wisconsin's Water Library for Kids won the WLA Media and Technology Section Webbie Award for the Best Site for Kids at this year's WLA Conference. Launched in 2006, the collections at Wisconsin's Water Library for Kids feature children's water-related books that have won awards or appeared on best-book lists. Most books are geared toward the preschool through second grade crowd, although there are materials for older children and young adults. The site includes lists of recommended fiction and nonfiction books, lists of children's videos, story hour ideas and a section just for kids activities.

The Water Library for Kids grew from the Wisconsin's Water Library Web site, an outreach project of the UW Water Resources Library to improve access to reliable water information for Wisconsin residents, and was chronicled in Issue 48 of Libraries@UW-Madison.

The design of the site began during Fall 2005 with the help of three students enrolled in the UW-Madison School of Library and Information Studies information architecture course: Molly Kliss, Jodi Leslie and Ellsworth Rockefeller. Stephanie Good and Shao-Chen Lin also worked on this site with students.

The photos used were taken at the Allied Drive Learning Center in Madison. The "Allied Drive Story Hours" began during the summer of 2004 when the UW Water Resources Library launched the first of a series of story hour programs. The story hours project continues and has become a partnership between six other specialized campus libraries, the UW-Madison School of Library and Information Studies and the Madison School and Community Recreation Safe Haven Childcare Program. The Allied Drive Story Hours were featured in the Spring 2005 issue of the Friends magazine.

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Wendt Library has hired Anne Glorioso as the circulation and information services librarian. Glorioso joins Wendt from UW-Richland Center, where she provided circulation and access services as well as some reference instruction and collection maintenance.

Glorioso received both her MLIS and her BA in history and art history from UW-Madison. In addition, she has worked at the Journalism Reading Room, the Pharmacy Library and the Department of Natural Resources Library. Glorioso has also been an active member in the Wisconsin Library Association and the Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians.
At the Midwest conference of the Medical Library Association, Ebling Library staff presented three papers, comprised nearly half of a panel on liaison programs and presented five posters. Staff who participated included: Terry Burton, Ulrike Dieterle, Mary Hitchcock, Joe King, Amanda Lambert, Diane Mueller, Carol Noreen, Sandy Phelps, Rhonda Sager, Julie Schneider, Jenny Schroeder, Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, Michael Venner, Gerri Wanserski and Susan Zeyher.

A selection of the posters is currently on display at Ebling.
Former Library Communications intern Kristin Knipschild has started a new position with The Wisconsin State Journal. Knipschild is in charge of the new weekly section "Celebrations" printed in the Sunday edition, which includes celebrations of all kinds, major and minor: engagements, weddings, birthdays, retirement parties. Of her new position, Knipschild says, "It is rewarding to work on something that has a positive overall message."
Christine Faris Kline has been hired for the position of Electronic Resources Acquisitions Librarian.

Kline comes to CTS from MINITEX, a program of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education and the University of Minnesota, where she was electronic resources librarian. In that capacity she participated in the identification, evaluation, selection, licensing and promotion of a wide variety of electronic resources. Prior to that she was a serials librarian at UW-Stevens Point and an electronic resources coordinator at Northern State University.

She began Dec. 1, 2006.
OCLC has chosen two Wisconsin librarians to serve on their advisory committees.

Irene Zimmerman, head of cataloging and current member of the Collections and Technical Services Advisory Committee, has been re-appointed to serve another three-year term on that committee. Joy Schwartz, Web librarian and interlibrary loan librarian at Winnefox Library System, was appointed to the Reference Services Advisory Committee for a three-year term.

The OCLC Strategic Service Area Advisory Committees were established to provide OCLC with an informed group of users who can assess the impact of various OCLC products and services.

The three advisory committees are Collections & Technical Services, Reference Services, and Resource Sharing.

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FEATURES AND EVENTS

The Friends of the UW-Madison Library will highlight Wisconsin folk songs and African storytelling among their spring 2007 events.
See pictures of the first Book-off, sponsored by the UW-Madison Libraries' Silver Buckle Press. The timed bookmaking competition was held as a part of the Wisconsin Book Festival on Oct. 20, 2006, in the Wisconsin Union Theatre. Talented artists engaged in a frenzy of folding and gluing. Modeled on TV shows like "Iron Chef" and "Project Runway," the elimination-style tournament featured artists competing against each other and the clock to solve book design challenges.
College Library hosted a poetry and prose reading for Illumination, the undergraduate art and literary magazine. Click here for the story.
Two dozen photographs from around the world are on display on the third floor of College Library. The pictures were taken by UW-Madison students during their time spent studying abroad. Several of the student photographers talked about their adventures and shared additional images Nov. 15.

A yearly photography contest is sponsored by UW-Madison's International Academic Programs department. The contest (the source for most of the photos in the exhibit) was open to all UW-Madison students who participated in a study-abroad program during either the 2004-05 or 2005-06 academic year. Submissions were accepted in four categories: People, Badgers Abroad, Architecture and Nature Scenes. View the exhibit.
Kenneth Frazier, UW-Madison interim vice provost, discussed the role of printed books in an era of increased use of digitization practices Nov. 16 in "The Printed Book in a Digital Age." Parallel Press authors John Neu, former UW-Madison Libraries history of science bibliographer, and Harold Scheub, UW-Madison African languages and literature professor, spoke on the importance of small-press publishing.
Oz Frankel, assistant professor at the New School for Social Research in New York and author of the new book, States of Inquiry: Social Investigations and Print Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain and the United States, led a print culture colloquium, "Print Statism: Governments as Publishers in the Nineteenth Century and Beyond," Nov. 29 in the SLIS Commons.

In his book, Frankel explores the 19th-century roots of the modern "information state," specifically the roles of investigative projects and official reports in embedding the state in print culture and refashioning the politics of representation. The event was cosponsored by the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, the School of Library and Information Studies, the Department of History, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the Department of Educational Policy Studies, the Women's Studies Program and the Religious Studies Program.
The next time you walk through Memorial Library, be sure to check out the lobby exhibit, Cyclopaedia (1728) by Ephraim Chambers. According to an entry from the UW Digital Collections' History of Science and Technology, Cyclopaedia is "a universal dictionary of arts and sciences containing the definitions of the terms and accounts of the things signify'd thereby, in the several arts, both liberal and mechanical, and the several sciences, human and divine; the figures, kinds, properties, productions, preparations, and uses, of things natural and artificial; the rise, progress, and state of things ecclesiastical, civil, military, and commercial; with the several systems, sects, opinions among philosophers, divines, mathematicians, physicians, antiquaries, criticks; the whole intended as a course of ancient and modern learning." The four volumes on display are a landmark in the history of encyclopedias. The exhibit was organized by Marilyn Hicks, bibliographer for education, psychology and transportation. The Cyclopaedia's journey to digitization was chronicled in Issue 48 of Libraries@UW-Madison.
Ebling Library will showcase "Walking, Being, Seeing: The Experiences of Todd Starks in Oil, 2000-'06," mural-sized paintings that capture the "reflection and wonder" that spring from the creative mind of Wisconsin artist Todd Starks. The exhibit is on display through February. Meet Starks Thursday, Jan. 18, from 7-9 p.m. on the third floor, Ebling Library. For more information contact Micaela Sullivan-Fowler.

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IN THE NEWS

The 'Features' section of the Oct. 11 issue of The Capital Times mentioned "The Fairies are Exquisite Dancers," an event at Memorial Library sponsored by the Friends of the UW-Madison Library that showcased rare books and music. The event was part of "Paris in Performance," an interdisciplinary exploration of music, dance, poetry, lectures, film and art re-creating French political and artistic visions from 1870 to 1920.
The Wisconsin State Journal highlighted Parallel Press author and UW-Madison African Languages and Literature Professor Harold Scheub on Oct. 13. An article that headlined the "Local" section, complete with audio slide show, featured Scheub for his time spent collecting stories in Africa which he has turned into a three-part series South African Voices.
Capital Times writer Heather Lee Schroeder visited campus Friday, Oct. 20, to report on library-organized events for Wisconsin Book Week. The story highlights the Publishers Showcase, which set up in Memorial Library and the State Historical Society and was sponsored by Library Communications and the Wisconsin Center for the Book; the Book-Off, which took place in Memorial Union Theatre and was hosted by the Silver Buckle Press; and the Kooser/Hamilton lecture at the Orpheum that was sponsored by the Libraries and the Friends of the UW-Madison Library. Click here for the complete story.

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FYI: NATIONAL LIBRARY NEWS

An article on newsfactor.com announces Google's latest effort to promote global literacy. Google has launched a new Web site, www.google.com/literacy, an online resource for educators, ProLiteracy and others seeking to promote reading and writing.
The U.S. Education Department's National Center for Education Statistics released a formal report of tabulations for the 2004 Academic Library Survey. The survey focuses on library services, collections, library staff, expenditures, electronic services and information literacy. View the report.

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The books above were part of the Eloisa Cartoneras exhibit featured in Memorial Library lobby Oct. 18-Nov. 8. The display featured hand-crafted books, printed very cheaply with painted cardboard covers, representative of a growing bookmaking movement in South America.

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PUBLISHED

The latest edition of Memorial Library Community News is now available online.
Jaime Martindale-Stoltenberg, map and geographic information systems librarian at the Robinson Map Library, is the co-editor of the most recent issue of Library Trends, "Geographic Information Systems," edited by Martindale-Stoltenberg and Arbraham Parrish, 55(2), Fall 2006.
The Fall issue of DPLS news now available online. DPLS News is a twice-per-semester publication from Data & Program Library Service of UW-Madison with articles about local, national and international data issues. Contact Joan Juhnke with questions.
Wisconsin Week turned a Library Communications release into one of its front-page articles in the Dec.6, 2006 issue. Intern Michael Worringer's story about access to digital content benefitting the state and beyond is also posted on wisconsinidea.wisc.edu in its series of profiles on the Wisconsin Idea in action. Peter Gorman, head of UWDCC, is the feature profile.
The University Library Committee has published its 2005-06 annual report.
The following new resources were recently added to the University of
Wisconsin Digital Collections. For more information about digital
resources at UW, contact Peter Gorman, Vicki Tobias or visit the UWDC Web site.

FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES
New content includes volumes from 1950-1954, focused on a wide range of locations throughout the globe, including Korea, Europe and China. The newly added material also includes National Security Affairs, 1952-1954 and Western European Security, 1952-1954. The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication. The series is produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian and printed volumes are available from the Government Printing Office.

DIGITAL LIBRARY FOR THE DECORATIVE ARTS AND MATERIAL CULTURE
The Craftsman
In 1901, Gustav Stickley, a premier proponent of the Arts and Crafts movement in North America, along with United Crafts of Eastwood N.Y. published the first issue of The Craftsman. The monthly journal was dedicated to the products, ideals and philosophy of the Arts and Crafts Movement. The Craftsman espoused the ideal of simple, functional design and the "necessity of producing good art as a means to improve public morals and further public happiness" (Foreword from v.2, no.3, 1902).
Topics include furniture making, domestic architecture, interior design, landscape design, decorative arts, textiles, industry and social commentary. There are also numerous articles by and about major artisans and proponents of the Arts and Crafts Movement, such as William Morris, John Ruskin, Charles Binns, Irene Sargent, Frederick Law Olmsted and Harvey Ellis. Full of illustrations and photographs, The Craftsman
provides a multifaceted and detailed look into the movement and its beginnings in North America. The journal ceased publication in 1916.

THE ECOLOGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES COLLECTION
Passenger Pigeon
The Passenger Pigeon is the official scholarly publication of the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology, an organization of both professional and nonprofessional ornithologists dedicated to the study of Wisconsin birds. First published in 1939, the quarterly journal features a wide range of original information about Wisconsin birds and their habitats, including seasonal field reports, results from annual Christmas bird counts, descriptions of May and Big Day counts, and scientific research articles. Contributions include reports from birders throughout the state on unusual and interesting sightings and historical accounts from and about prominent Wisconsin naturalists. Ten issues, spanning the years 2002-2004, have been added, bringing the total to 79 issues online.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COLLECTION
Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer, aus dem 16ten und 17ten Jahrhundert...(1788)
Published anonymously in the latter part of the 18th century, Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer or Secret symbols of the Rosicrucians is a critical document explaining the source of Rosicrucian ideas. Dating to the early 17th century, the Rosicrucians are highly contentious. Some scholars view the group as alchemists, others as a group wishing to promote social reform. This addition of Geheime Figuren contains illustrations of the symbols that were central to the followers of the Rosy Cross.

ICELANDIC ONLINE DICTIONARIES AND READINGS
Viglundar Saga
The Viglundar Saga, or the saga of the Viglund family, is one of several such Icelandic narratives. Icelandic sagas, derived from oral traditions, were written between the 12th and 14th centuries and describe the lives of Icelanders and others ranging from farmers to royalty. They are viewed by many scholars as early precursors to the modern novel, but they are not strictly fiction. While unconfirmed, Icelandic scholars believe that this particular saga was written by Jón Ólafsson of Svefneyjar (1731-1811), author of Om Nordens gamle digtekonst, Cph.1786, and who was also involved in the activities of the Arnamagnæan Commission for decades.

SOUTH AFRICAN VOICES
South African Voices
South African Voices presents the work of Harold Scheub, the Evjue-Bascom Professor of the Humanities in the Department of African Languages and Literature, in both print and audio formats. The oral performances presented in South African Voices were gathered during two of three extended visits by Harold Scheub in the late 1960s and 1970s, a time period during which life under the apartheid regime became
increasingly bleak. During this time Professor Scheub interviewed a staggering 2,000 storytellers, poets and myth makers, all of which has been distilled into this three volume online collection. The first and second volumes focus on the performances of Nongenile Masithathu Zenani and the third volume contains the voices and stories of a number of
performers.

THE STATE OF WISCONSIN COLLECTION
Ada James Papers and Correspondence (1915-1918)
Additional materials included selected folders from the larger Ada James Papers housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society. Ada James (1876-1952) was a leading social reformer, humanitarian, and pacifist from Richland Center, Wisconsin, and daughter of state senator David G. James. The Ada James papers document the grass roots organizing and politics required to promote and guarantee the passage of women's suffrage in Wisconsin and beyond. The materials from the widely popular Ada James papers were digitized as a pilot project to study how to improve digitization process efficiency when dealing with archival manuscript materials and how best to link these digitized materials from online finding aids. As such, the organization and presentation of the materials varies slightly from other archival collections in the UWDC. This project was completed in cooperation with the Wisconsin Historical Society and UW-Oshkosh University Archives and Area Research Center Librarian Joshua Ranger.

Historical County Plat Maps from South Central Wisconsin and Early
Madison City Directories
This digital collection of historic plat books and city directories provides accessibility to early information about South Central Wisconsin, specifically Columbia, Dane, Portage and Wood counties. A variety of the oldest plat books, atlases and city directories were
chosen because of their frequent use and delicate condition. They are widely used by the public for local history and genealogy and even for those trying to find out why a street got its name. The historic plat books help people to trace neighborhoods and streets from what was once farmland. The additional materials include three city directories encompassing the years 1894-1899.

Local Histories of Columbia, Dane, Portage, Wood and Sauk Counties
The most recent addition to this collection of works that describe and document the early histories of South Central Wisconsin is The History of Columbia County, Wisconsin, published in 1880. County histories offer details about flora and fauna, the environment and landscape, native peoples as well descriptions of important events and people. These histories are immensely popular with genealogists as they contain
biographical sketches of the early settlers of the county.

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN COLLECTION
Selections from the University of Wisconsin Archives
This collection presents photographs and other images that document the history of the University of Wisconsin. It includes images of chancellors and presidents, Memorial Union, student activities and daily life, and UW athletics. New images document visits from Sinclair Lewis, the NCAA Wisconsin men’s basketball champions of 1941 and more.

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25 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

From the "In the Spotlight" section of the Dec. 18, 1981 issue of Added Entries:

"Three years ago, the position of Women's Studies Librarian-at-Large was created to provide cooperation and information-sharing among the women's studies programs within the University of Wisconsin System.

Today, under the direction of Linda Parker, Librarian-at-Large, the position has expanded to include accomplishments in publishing, bibliography, library instruction and computerized information retrieval.

The position of a Women's Studies Librarian-at-Large is unique to the UW System. Parker considers the creation of the position an indication of the concern Wisconsin has for its women's studies program.

'The UW has a strong commitment to women's studies,' Parker said. 'Wisconsin is a leader in this regard. My position is the only one of its kind in the country, and the UW is the only system to devote a position to a women's studies librarian.'

Its purpose, she said, 'is to support women's studies curriculum in the University through information-sharing.'"

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Quotation

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."

—Samuel Johnson ,(1709-1784)

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

Please send questions, comments or story ideas to:
Don Johnson, 608.262.0076, 330C Memorial Library,
Sara Johansen, 608.262.2853, 348 Memorial Library, or
e-mail Libraries@UW-Madison.

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