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Issue 6

11/14/2000

News for Staff of UW-Madison Libraries

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As you may have noticed, room 124 in Memorial Library is being remodeled into a state-of-the-art lecture hall. The lecture hall will feature a 55 seat wired study room with computer outlets, study carrels and small worktables. An adjoining classroom will also feature audiovisual equipment, Internet and handicap access.
A temporary plywood wall has been constructed inside the library's west exit. The exit will remain closed throughout the remodeling process. Construction work generally begins at 7 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m., but will be halted from Nov. 22 to Dec. 25 during final exams.

The State, University and UWHC Employees Combined Campaign (SECC) for Dane County is under way. The campaign, which runs through Dec. 1 , has a target of $2.35 million. Contributions go toward charitable organizations in Dane County and across the United States.
For more information, contact Jamie Woods, Central Technical Services, at 2-3291 or jwoods@library.wisc.edu. Payments can be made by check, cash or monthly payroll deduction. To learn more, also see the SECC's Web site http://www.wisc.edu/secc/

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NOTABLES

~ Staff Changes at Health Sciences Libraries
~ Aimee Glassel joins Central Technical Services
~ Kalleen Mortensen departs from the CIMC
~ JoAnne Lehman is new editor in Office of Women's Studies

Michael Venner and Erika Sevetson have been hired in the Information Services Unit at Health Sciences. Also, Gerri Wanserski will be working full time at the Pharmacy Library with Heidi Marleau, and Brian Beecher is working full time at the Clinical Sciences Center in Weston Health Sciences Library with Ann Combs.

Aimee Glassel, formerly of the Internet Scout Project, has recently been hired as the new electronic resources librarian in Central Technical Services (CTS). Aimee has done presentations both locally and nationally on Internet resource cataloging and will be working with cataloging of electronic resources and acquisitions. She also has worked with the Helen Allen Textile Collection, in Women's Studies, and at the Wisconsin Union Travel Center. Her first day in CTS was Nov. 1, you can find her in 324 Memorial Library.

Kalleen Mortensen had a going away party recently at the Center for Instructional Materials and Computing (CIMC). Mortensen, who worked in the CIMC since 1989, has joined the library staff at MATC. Kalleen.html

JoAnne Lehman has joined the Women's Studies Librarians' Office as editor. Lehman is the former editor of the Continuing Legal Education Books department of the State Bar of Wisconsin and has also done editorial work for a Children's Health Awareness Project and the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. Lehman's bachelor's degree is in music from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She replaces Linda Shult, who has left the department to become a reading teacher. Lehman's first day was Nov. 9. The going away party for Linda Shult is scheduled for 3:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 30, in 430 Memorial Library.

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LIBRARY NEWS

Poet J.D. Whitney becomes the latest Parallel Press chapbook author with the release of What Grandmother Says. This chapbook marks the tenth release for the press, an imprint of the UW-Madison libraries. It features subtle life-lessons and evocative word-pictures. Read more about it at: /libraries/news/releases/2000/20001107-whitney.shtml

The Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center Library will receive a $2.5 million, five-year grant from the National Center for Research Resources to boost the library's staff and resources so that it can more effectively work with the greater primatological research community. The grant will allow the library to work cooperatively with other primate centers to coordinate information services for research and affiliate staff and to promote information sharing.
Read more about the Primate Center grant in the next issue of the Friends magazine Libraries.

In the wake of Frank Cook's retirement, Robin Rider, curator of Special Collections, is currently serving as interim director of the UW-Madison Archives. At the University of California-Berkeley Bancroft Library, Rider acquired archival collections, provided access to collections, developed documentation strategies for records, and conducted oral history interviews. Robin will continue her duties as Special Collections curator.

On Dec. 1, the Central Technical Services (CTS) division will be reorganized into two new departments, an Acquisitions and Serials Department, headed by Karl Debus, and the Cataloging Department, headed by Irene Zimmerman. The Acquisitions and Serials department will be divided into three functional areas, a Check-In Unit, an Order Unit and a Fiscal/Receiving Unit. The Cataloging Department will consist of four units: Copy Cataloging, Original Cataloging, Catalog Maintenance, and Retrospective Conversion.

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IN THE MEDIA

~ SLIS Director Louise Robbins' book The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown

This year School of Library and Information Services Director Louise Robbins published The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown, a book about the strange firing of librarian Ruth Brown from an Oklahoma library in 1950. Robbins's book was highlighted in a column in The Capital Times this fall. Originally, the library reported Brown's firing as due to circulating subversive materials. Fifty years later, after exhaustive research, Dismissal uncovers the truth: Brown was fired for supporting the black civil rights movement and was in constant contact with the Congress of Racial Equality.
For more information, see: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0806131632/qid%3D973709198/002-0521660-0630428

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PROFILES

~ Frank Cook
~ Melba Jesudason

Frank Cook retired as director of the UW Archives on Sept. 28, a job he has held since the 1960s. Read more and see pictures from Cook's retirement party. FrankCookretires.html

After more than 20 years of bringing "color" to campus libraries, Melba Jesudason retired in October. See the story and pictures from Jesudason's retirement party. MelbaJesudason.html

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20 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

~ Index of American Srbobran index published

In November 1980, Memorial Library catalogers Bob Gakovich and Milan Radovich celebrated the release of the selective index of The American Srbobran, which they wrote and compiled. The American Srbobran is the oldest continuously published Serbian-American newspaper in the U.S. Radovich now works in Area Studies.

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QUOTATION

"He who destroys a good book kills reason itself."

- John Milton

Libraries@UW-Madison is written by the staff of the News and Editorial Office. Please send questions, comments, or story ideas, to Don Johnson, djohnson@library.wisc.edu, 262-0076, 330C Memorial Library.

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