LIBRARY NEWS

~ Libraries Web site adds new copyright content
~ 2006 annual report now online
~ WAAL board searching for Information Literacy Award nominees
~ Music Library closed for remodeling during Winter Break
~Wendt Library receives artwork
~ Librarians assemble for annual book-sharing brownbag

NOTABLES

~ Nikki Busch takes new position as Grants Librarian
~ Heather Weltin named 'Emerging Leader'
~Student Awards Announced at College Library

FEATURES AND EVENTS

~ Enter the upcoming employee art exhibit
~ Associate Professor Suri speaks as part of lecture series
~ Illumination hosts release party; Friends award writers
~ All staff potluck held Jan. 9

IN THE NEWS

~ Journalism Reading Room mentioned on ESPN.com
~ Wisconsin State Journal names Memorial and College libraries in list of top study spots
~ UWDC in Wisconsin People & Ideas

FYI: National Library News

PUBLISHED

~ Winter issue of Friends News now available
~ Illumination honors Libraries in fall issue
~ Memorial Community News releases latest issue
~ Memorial and College libraries hold most recent editions of Feminist Collections

25 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

LIBRARY NEWS

• The UW-Madison Libraries has created a new section on its Web site devoted to providing copyright information for the campus.
  
  The Web pages, available at http://www.library.wisc.edu/copyright or through the drop-down menu under the "Help & Guidance" section on the main library page, provide introductory educational information on issues of copyright related to library services, including reserves, interlibrary loan and document delivery, digital collections, and personal copyright.
  
  Jaqui Alvarez, College Library Electronic Reserves supervisor; Peter Gorman, University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center head; Deborah Helman, Wendt Library director; Judy Tuohy, InterLibrary Loan head; and Mary Williamson, Wisconsin Library Services, prepared the informative online guides.
  
  The Web pages also include many links for more in-depth information on copyright issues, although UW-Madison Libraries plans to continue to expand on its own content in the future.



• The 2005-06 annual report for the libraries has been circulated electronically and can be read online.



• The WAAL Information Literacy Council is accepting nominations for the Fourth Annual Information Literacy Award through Jan. 12. The award recognizes a librarian or librarian-led team from any Wisconsin institution who has made innovative or significant contributions to advance information literacy. This year, the emphasis will be on a project or a program that shows tangible or demonstrable long-terms results; however, there are no restrictions as to the size of the instructional effort, discipline, target audience or techniques employed.
  
  The award winner will present the winning information literacy contribution at the 2007 WAAL Conference from April 17-20 in the Wisconsin Dells. The winner will also receive one free registration for the WAAL Conference and its Wednesday luncheon and will be recognized there for the winning achievement.
  
  Self nominations as well as thoughts from colleagues are encouraged. Prior nominees are also encouraged to apply. Click here to find out more about the award criteria and to access the online nomination form. The deadline for submission is Jan. 12.
  
  
• Mills Music Library is undergoing some remodeling this Winter Break and will be closed through Jan. 21. Staff will remain reachable by phone and e-mail, though due to the remodeling of certain areas, it is advised that during the first few weeks contact be conducted via e-mail.
  
  
• Wendt Library is the proud recipient of 25 pieces of framed artwork donated by Erdman Art Group with assistance from director Margaret LeMay. Most pieces have been hung on the 1st, 3rd and 4th floors of the library, and others will be featured in a new soft seating alcove on the 2nd floor, to be renovated next year.
  
  In Fall 2005, more than 800 Wendt Library visitors filled out a facilities survey, and the library has been making improvements in response to their votes and comments.  Specifically, visitors indicated that artwork was more important to them than adding group study rooms, lighting, color printing, scanners, photocopiers, Infolab computers, or tutoring space.
  
  Thanks go to Tim Rooney, curator at UW-Madison's Tandem Press, for facilitating the donation and hanging of the artwork.
  -Submitted by Amanda Werhane
  
  
• The Librarian's Assembly held its annual book sharing brownbag discussion Dec. 14 at Memorial Union. To browse any of the near 50 book titles recommended by participants, visit the database on the Librarian's Assembly home page or click here for the list of titles that topped people's favorite reading lists in 2006.

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NOTABLES

• As of Dec. 1, Nikki Busch is Memorial Library's new grants librarian in the Reference Department serving patrons in the area of grants and scholarships. A seasoned Badger, Busch received a bachelor's degree in Anthropology, a certificate in Women's Studies and a Master's in Library Science, all from UW-Madison.
  
  
• The ALA Emerging Leaders program has named Inter-Library Loan Operations Manager Heather Weltin to its first class of selected applicants. Upon completion of the program, Weltin will put her leadership skills to use by accepting a term of service on an ALA or chapter committee, task force, working group or project team, as one of the 100 new librarians ready to participate in leadership in the Association, one of its divisions or state chapters.
  
  
• At the semi-annual Student Appreciation Party in early December, the staff of College Library announced the recipients of their first Student Assistant Excellence-in-Service Awards. Director Carrie Kruse awarded Katie Agnello (right) and Tara Stiles (below, with Kruse) a certificate and Wisconsin Union gift card in recognition of their excellent work ethic and customer service skills. Having recently established these awards, College Library intends to recognize the efforts of two students each semester. Everyone who works at College Library, including student staff, are encouraged to nominate student assistants who exemplify the best in service and attitude.

-Submitted by Pamela O'Donnell

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FEATURES AND EVENTS

• The GLS Staff Development Committee has started amassing submissions for the 2007 Artistic Collaboration. All library staff members are encouraged to participate in this second employee art exhibit that will be on display in the front lobby of Memorial Library Feb. 2-March 29. An opening reception is currently scheduled for the week of Feb. 5. Read the entry guidelines here and download a submission form.
  
  
• Associate Professor Jeremi Suri of the history department spoke Dec. 15 to Libraries staff as part of the "Evolving Directions in Academic Research and Resources" lecture series sponsored by ASHIND.
  
  
• On Dec. 15, a release party was held for the Fall 2006 edition of Illumination: The Undergraduate Journal of the Humanities in Tripp Commons in Memorial Union. The journal is sponsored in part by the UW-Madison Libraries and the Friends of the UW-Madison Library. Illumination editors recognized this semester’s contributors, some of whom read selections from the journal, and Friends President Chris Kleinhenz also awarded three awards and $200 honorariums on behalf of the Friends of the UW-Madison Library for excellence in writing in poetry, fiction writing and essay writing to the following recipients:
  
  Ashley Dallman in Poetry for "Tornar: Winds Teach Women"
  Rachel Kowarski in Fiction for "Once You Learn"
  Lindsay Woodbridge in Essay for "Small Talk"
  
  To read more about the Friends awards, see the UW-Madison Libraries news release. To view photos from the event, click here.
  
  
• Due to the success of last year's Memorial Library staff potluck party, it returned to the staff lounge Jan. 9. Staff kicked off a new year by sharing their favorite recipes.
  

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IN THE NEWS

• The Journalism Reading Room made national news this week, on ESPN.com. Andy Katz, UW-Madison School of Journalism alum and ESPN college basketball writer, poked his head in the JRR Tuesday before the highly anticipated Jan. 9 showdown between the Wisconsin and Ohio State men's basketball teams. One of the students working the desk recognized Katz and asked him why one of his fellow journalists at ESPN always underrates Wisconsin. Read what Katz wrote about the encounter in the rankings section under his name here.
  
  
• Wisconsin State Journal featured Memorial Library and College Library-based GUTS tutoring services in a photo story on the best places students study in Madison. Click here for the story or view it in PDF format to see the featured pictures.
  
  
• The winter 2007 edition of Wisconsin People & Ideas, published quarterly by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, ran a two-page spread on the UW Digital Collections, "The Wisconsin Idea Goes Digital." The story was written for Library Communications by Vicki Tobias of UWDCC.

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FYI: NATIONAL LIBRARY NEWS

• YBP Library Services, the world's leading provider of academic materials for libraries, recently announced plans to partner with EBL and market an extensive collection of e-books. The deal will make EBL's growing list of 40,000 e-book titles available to YBP's library customers around the world. Click here to read more.

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PUBLISHED

• The Winter 2006-2007 edition of the Friends News, published by the Friends of the UW-Madison Library, is now available online.
  
  
• In the "final thoughts" portion of the Fall 2006 issue of Illumination: The Undergraduate Journal of Humanities, College and Memorial libraries are attributed as having "quietly served the campus, the community, and the international academic world with peerless grace and ability." Past and present photos of the two libraries adorn the back cover of the publication. The photos were provided by Don Johnson and Dan Joe of Library Communications, as well as David Null of UW Archives. Visit the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections for more images.
  
  
• Check out the latest issue of Memorial Community News online.
  
  
• The latest issue of Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources is available for browsing in the periodical room in Memorial Library and in the main periodical collection in College Library. Sample articles from past issues of Feminist Collections are available online, though new content has not yet been added.
  
  Featured in the newest edition are book reviews of the following:
  
  -- Evangelical Feminism: A History, by Pamela D.H. Cochran
  -- Living on the Boundaries: Evangelical Women, Feminism and the Theological Academy, by Nicola Hoggard Creegan & Christine D. Pohl
  Women Through the Lens: Gender and National in a Century of Chinese Cinema, by Shuqin Cui
  -- Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China, by Rachel De Woskin
  -- Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of Literature By and About Women of Color, ed. by Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu
  -- Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe: 19th and 20th Centuries, by Francisca de Haan, Krasimira Daskalova, & Anna Loutfi
  -- Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature, by Mary Ellen Snodgrass
  -- Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies, ed. by Kathy Davis, Mary Evans & Judith Lorber
  -- Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, v. 3: Family, Body, Sexuality and Health, ed. by Suad Joseph & Afsaneh Najmabidi
  -- Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia, ed. by Vicki L. Ruiz & Virginia Sanchez Korrel
  -- On Account of Sex: An Annotated Bibliography on the Status of Women in Librarianship, 1998-2002, ed. by Betsy Kruger & Catherine Larson
  -- Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, ed. by Rosemary Skinner Keller & Rosemary Radford Ruethe
  -- Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women From the Earliest Times to 2004, ed. by Elizabeth Evan, et al.
  -- Women's Roles and Statuses the World Over, by Stephanie Hepburn & Rita J. Simon
  
  The issue also features the columns "E-Sources on Women & Gender," "Periodical Notes" and miscellaneous "Items of Note."
  
  Feminist Collections has been featured in full text since 1994 in GenderWatch and Contemporary Women's Issues databases.

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25 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

• The following book recommendations are from the "From the book truck" section of the Dec.18, 1981, issue of Added Entries.
  
  "Books to read in 1982!
  
  The books listed below are ones that I intend to get around to reading some time in the future. They caught my eye as I was typing the notes and cataloging for a future Rare Books Department exhibit entitled "The Twenties Revisited: A Literary Appreciation" which is tentatively scheduled to be put on display in May 1982.
  
  The Green Hat by Michael Arlen (New York1925, George H. Doran Company) was the romance of the decade. Heroine Iris Fenwick, denied the man or her choice by archaic social norms, endures a series of marriages and affairs before committing suicide by driving her race car into a tree.
  
  A Philo Vance Week-End by S.S. Van Dine ( New York, n.d., Grosset & Dunlap) is a series of novelettes; the detective Philo Vance was modeled after the author and offers a contrast to the more hard-boiled heroes of the thirties.
  
  Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale (New York 1920, D. Appleton and Company) was the author's most successful novel. It tells the story of quiet feminist rebellion and depicts, one reviewer has stated, 'the other side of Main Street.'"
  

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Quotation

"The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries."

—Rene Descartes, (1596-1650)

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