A first-team All American and candidate for UW-Madison’s top student-athlete award, Tucker happily woke up early and spent an hour posing in the Ethnic Studies room on the first floor of College Library in late February.

Since Tucker came in his “normal” clothes, he changed in a library classroom and borrowed Assistant Sports Information Director Brian Lucas’ socks for the photo shoot.

During the shoot, Tucker confirmed his name actually rhymes with the word “Orlando” and explained his love of comic books—particularly Superman.

Tucker even commented that he should visit the library more often when library staff showed him the collection of graphic novels.

Tucker recently became UW-Madison’s all-time leading basketball scorer and was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated last year. He was an ideal candidate for the READ poster; Bucky Badger graced a poster cover last year.

The awards span across all campus libraries, and three award categories exist. Receive more information here.

The awards are intended to recognize exemplary working relationships with library colleagues and/or library clients and contributions to establishing a welcoming learning and research environment. Creativity, initiative, teamwork, leadership and/or cooperation, as well as achievements and work products that significantly benefit library services are also taken into consideration.

Nomination requires the use of the nominating form with a letter of nomination. Two additional supporting letters are required. Nomination packets should be submitted to Sandra Guthrie, 365 Memorial Library, no later than Friday, March 30.

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Her wide knowledge base and deep appreciation for library collections—and their values to current and future scholars—have played an important role in her success.

She announced her decision to retire in late February and since then, both short and long-term strategies have been created to cover Schofer’s responsibilities.

Scheub walked up and down the coast of southern Africa, working with storytellers, historians and poets in the oral traditions of the Xhosa and Zulu in South Africa, the Swati in Swaziland and the Ndebele in the southern part of Zimbabwe.

Scheub also discussed a project initiated by Kenneth Frazier, interim chief information officer on campus, to digitize Scheub’s entire collection of thousands of hours of audio tapes, 3,000 color slides, 5,000 black-and-white photographs and hours of motion pictures amassed during his research trips to the rural areas of southern Africa.

For more information, contact Jo Ann Savoy of the Water Resources Library or Mary Lou Reeb of the Aquatic Sciences Center.