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IN THE MEDIA

20 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

EVENTS

• 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 book sale fund Friends grant programs and to purchasing and preserving special library collections. For more information, see: /libraries/news/releases/2001/20010306-booksale.shtml.

NOTABLES

• Rebecca Payne has joined the Memorial Library staff in the Digital Asia Library Initiative Department as project manager. Payne joins GLS from the University of Illinois, Urbana where she worked as a Graduate Assistant in Central Reference Services. Payne holds a MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana, a MA in East Asian Studies from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in Japanese Studies from Bates College in Maine.

  Payne brings a background of relevant experience to the Digital Asia Library. She was the program coordinator for the Asian Educational Media Service in the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana for two years. She was also the associate director for the Center for Educational Media (CEM) of the Institute for Education on Japan at Earlham College in Richmond, IN. Stop by 218 Memorial Library to welcome Rebecca to the library.

• Clarence J. Henning, known to many as “Slim,” died on Saturday, Feb. 10 at his home in Sauk City. Henning worked in the library as an electrician until the 1980s. He was 90 when he died, and is survived by his wife Wilma, his son Bill, three grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Henning’s funeral was in Sauk City on Tuesday, Feb. 13.
• Tanner Wray, head of Access Services at Memorial Library, was recently appointed to be the treasurer for the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) of Wisconsin. The GLSEN is the leading national organization working to end anti-gay bias in K-12 schools. GLSEN Wisconsin accomplishes this mission locally through advocacy, education, Gay-Straight Alliance support, and recognition of adult and youth grassroots activists through scholarships and awards.
• Abdulla Badsha, an original cataloger of South Asian language materials in CTS, successfully defended his dissertation in the English Department in December. In addition to his work in CTS, Abdulla has contributed to the GLS for many years as a public services librarian at the Information Desk.
• Cheryl Becker, former librarian with the UW-Madison Health Sciences Libraries, is the new public library consultant for South Central Library System, which includes Adams, Columbia, Dane, Green, Portage, Sauk, and Wood counties. After leaving UW-Madison, she became assistant director and head of reference and adult services at Mt. Horeb Public Library.
• Karl Debus, the head of the Acquisitions and Serials department, has been appointed to the editorial boards of both the Acquisitions Librarians Electronic Network (AcqNet) and of the related Web resource AcqWeb. AcqNet provides a forum for discussion of acquisitions and collection development.

LIBRARY NEWS

• Marilyn Annucci and Gwen Ebert each have won Pippistrelle Best of the Small Press Awards 2000 for their respective Parallel Press chapbooks Luck and The Twig Songs. The Parallel Press is an imprint of the UW-Madison Libraries. Full story.
• The city of Madison's Downtown Coordinating Committee has approved $60,000 for a renovation of the State Street Mall. Although the plans are not yet complete, they will include planting trees and building new planters and benches in front of Memorial Library. District 8 Alderman Mike Staude is also hoping to include safety features such as new light posts and fixtures. Although construction is set to run from May 21 to June 9, the city has already begun removing the round benches that formerly adorned the area.

IN THE MEDIA

• On Saturday, Feb. 24, the Wisconsin State Journal ran a cover story titled "Bevy of Beautiful Books" about the UW-Madison Libraries' upcoming celebration of the acquisition of its six millionth book. The article includes an interview with UW-Madison Professor of Physics emeritus Jack Fry, who donated more than 26,000 documents of Italian history to the libraries. Also quoted are Ken Frazier, director of the UW-Madison Libraries, and Deb Reilly, assistant director for external relations of the libraries. See the article

20 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

• Roughly 20 years ago, the library began offering a new Filing Guide for people using Memorial Library's card catalog. The guide provided general filing rules as well as examples and answers to frequently asked cataloging questions. The guide was made available in conjunction with newly adopted filing rules as of January 1981.

QUOTATION

"A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them."

- Mark Twain, in a letter to the Millicent Rogers Library, 1894.

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