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2/8/2001

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This spring the UW-Madison libraries acquire their six millionth book. The Friends have launched a semester-long program called Celebrating Books that culminates with a May 2 lecture by recent poet laureate Robert Pinsky.
The series begins Wednesday, Feb. 28, at 4:30 p.m. with a lecture by Jack Fry, Hilldale Professor of Physics emeritus. He will talk about "A Collector’s Vision: Highlights from the Fry Collection” and describe an extraordinary compilation of 26,000 documents now housed in Special Collections.
On Thursday, March 29, at 4:30 p.m., David Hayman, Bascom-Evjue Professor of Comparative Literature emeritus, will talk about the acquisition of the monumental Arion Press edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses, illustrated by Robert Motherwell. Hayman, the donor, is a nationally recognized Joyce scholar and served as consultant on the publishing project.
For more information, see the Friends spring calendar.

Last September, the Kohler Art Library quietly reached its 30th anniversary. To honor this achievement, the library has mounted the exhibit, "Celebrating Art Books at the Kohler Art Library." The exhibit focuses on three areas; the creation of the facility and collection, major strengths and support for the collection, and the Kohler family tradition of supporting the arts. Kohler.html

Wisconsin Week ran a recent article on the Library's netLibrary holdings, prompting library users to take immediate notice. Usage of netLibrary materials jumped dramatically within 24 hours of the article's publication. Read the article at: http://www.news.wisc.edu/wisweek/view.msql?id=5737

The Friends semiannual spring book sale will begin with a preview sale on Wednesday, March 21, in room 112 Memorial Library. The regular sale will be March 22-24, also in room 112. Proceeds from the booksale fund Friends grant programs and to purchasing and preserving special library collections.

The decorated books of Oscar Wilde and his circle from the James G. Nelson Collection are on display in Special Collections of Memorial Library in an exhibit titled "Flights of Fancy." Wilde.html

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NOTABLES

~ Former UW Librarian Bernice "Bunny" Gibson dies at the age of 94.
~ Health Sciences changes
~ Tammy Mays joins National Network of Libraries
~ Travis Warwick heads Math Library
~ Linda Schult leaves Women's Studies Library

Former UW librarian school teacher and librarian Bernice "Bunny" Gibson died on Dec. 30, 2000. She was 94 years old. Bunny was on the library school staff as a revisor, assistant, instructor and finally a librarian until her retirement in 1972. In addition to editing the Library School's Alumni newsletter from 1941 to 1958, Bunny was also a member of the American Library Association and the Wisconsin Library Association.

Julie Schneider joins Health Sciences as collection development and resource management coordinator. She most recently comes from Silver City, N.M., where she worked as an Internet researcher. She was also a hospital librarian in Janesville, Wisconsin.
Deb Cady joins Health Sciences as digital resources and cataloging coordinator. She comes from California State University - Chico with a mix of reference, electronic journal and cataloging experience.
Allan Barclay comes to Health Sciences from Indiana University. He has taken a new librarian position of information architect and combines experience in reference with experience designing online curriculum.
Christopher Hooper-Lane joins Health Sciences as an Access and Delivery Librarian. His home base is Middleton Health Sciences Library, where he coordinates circulation services.

Tammy Mays is the new program coordinator at the National Network of Libraries of Madison. She will be coordinating a consumer health outreach program from the Greater Midwest Region Library, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her last day in UW Health Sciences was Dec. 22.

Travis Warwick became the new head of the Kleene Mathematics Library on Dec. 4. Warwick joins the Kleene Library staff from Normal, Ill., where he was the science reference librarian and an assistant professor at Illinois State University.
Warwick holds a master of library and information science degree from Louisiana State University and has a master of science in mathematics from the University of Idaho. He received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Albertson College of Idaho, where he also worked as a circulation assistant in the library for four years.

Linda Shult leaves Women's Studies Library
For those who missed her farewell party, here are the pictures.

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LIBRARY NEWS

~ Physical reorganization of Central Technical Services
~ Clint Sprott melds art and physics
~ CNN.com focus on librarianship
~ ALA poster: The Ultimate Search Engine

The UW-Madison Libraries Central Technical Services division has undergone a reorganization that will hopefully ease the momentous task of processing library materials for the GLS. CTS.html

Artwork with a twist by Physics Professor Clint Sprott -- nine brightly colored fractal images -- grace the walls of the Physics Library. As described in the Dec. 13 Wisconsin Week story, "Fractals are the offspring of the marriage of art, science and technology. They are generated by a computer to graphically represent solutions to mathematical equations." Sprott.html

CNN.com recently ran a series of articles on the future of librarianship. According to the story, librarians of the future will be focusing more and more on the Internet and multimedia. Although some reference librarians have seen the growth of the Internet as a threat to their jobs, the story quotes many sources and polls supporting different claims. While the Internet is changing the role of the librarian, the article says, the development of online journals and databases have public and university libraries in as great a need of reference librarians as ever. Read the article at: http://www.cnn.com/2000/CAREER/trends/11/28/librarians/index.html

What does the ultimate search engine look like, you ask? Strangely similar to Reference Librarian Nancy McClements. A recent poster, created by the American Library Association, promotes librarians as the best way of finding information, and features a photo of McClements.
See the poster, which also was used as a bookmark.

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IN THE MEDIA

~ Ken Frazier quoted in Lingua Franca
~ Yolanda Gilmore in the Isthmus
~ Steenbock Library profile in Evolutions
~ UW Libraries staff members in Occupational Outlook

Lingua Franca, a journal for scholars and academics, recently quoted Library Director Ken Frazier about the lawsuit that publisher Gordon & Breach has brought against two scientific societies, the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Institute of Physics (AIP). G & B brought the lawsuit after the APS and AIP published articles citing poor quality in G & B physics publications. "The G&B lawsuits are a direct assault on academic freedom and a gross violation of professional ethics," Frazier told the journal. See the story online at: http://www.linguafranca.com/print/0012/insidepub_suitor.html

The Isthmus recently interviewed Reference Librarian Yolanda Gilmore for an article about study circles on race that are being organized by Madison's Task Force on Race Relations. In the article, Gilmore talks about her experiences with racism in Louisiana, Atlanta and now in Madison, and the effectiveness of the study circles in discussing issues of diversity and race. The article was in the Dec. 15 issue.

Biosis, a nonprofit organization that processes biological journal information into electronic databases, did a profile on Steenbock Library. Steenbock provides users access to databases such as Biological Abstracts, Biological Abstracts/RPM (Reports, Reviews, Meetings) and Zoological Record.
Jean Gilbertson, Steenbock's director, talked about the interest in online databases and electronic information. "People have changed drastically, they now want to have everything on their desktop," Gilbertson said. "One indication is that use of our library photocopiers is dropping drastically, leading me to deal with things online - it has become more convenient, the path of least resistance."

The winter issue of Occupational Outlook, the magazine of the U.S. Department of Labor, did a special on librarianship featuring photographs of UW libraries staff. Featured are pictures of Lee Konrad, College Library, and Emilie Ngo Nguidjol and Arianna Hill, Memorial Library. Most of the pictures were taken by Janet Bogenschultz, formerly of librarian instruction.
See the story at: http://www.bls.gov/opub/ooq/2000/Winter/art01.pdf

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PROFILE

~ Catherine Cooney

Catherine Cooney, a digital projects librarian at Memorial Library, will be named the winner of the 2001 Research Libraries Group Travel Award from the Art Libraries Society (ARLIS) for her work with digital art materials, in March. Cooney.html

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20 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

~ Biology Library moves to Birge Hall

In January 1981 the Biology Library moved to room B164 Birge Hall.

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QUOTATION

"A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything."

-Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)

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