Media and Technology Section
Updated: November 14, 2007
Winter 2007 Newsletter
Welcome New MATS Officers
Submitted by Nichole Fromm, Debra Shapiro and Nanette Bulebosh
The MATS Board is thrilled to welcome two new officers for 2008: Debra Shapiro and Nanette Bulebosh. Deb will be Vice Chair/Chair Elect and Nanette will be a Director-at-Large.
Debra Shapiro is the coordinator for the distance program at University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies, where she teaches Web-based and distance courses (and a few face-to-face!) on cataloging, metadata, and Web site design and usability. She completed a Masters' in Library Science with an archives concentration at UW-Madison in 1991. Her prior positions include three years as a photograph cataloger at the Chicago Historical Society, another three as picture researcher and archives cataloger at Pleasant Company, and two years as Internet Cataloger at the Internet Scout Project. When she's not teaching librarians, Deb is most likely to be cooking or taking pictures of food; see Deb's Lunch.
Nanette Bulebosh has served as the director of the Kiel Public Library
in western Manitowoc County since 2002. She has also worked as a
high school teacher (English, drama and photography), college adjunct
instructor (writing), newspaper reporter, and broadcast journalist.
She has a Masters in Education from Lakeland College and hopes to
obtain her MLIS from the UWM School of Information Studies
in the spring of 2008. Her technology-related interests include
Library 2.0, video gaming in libraries, podcasting, and digital libraries.
Nanette is married to a dairy farmer and has two young children.
Thank you to Deb, Nanette, and the rest of the MATS Board who have made 2007 a great year to be chair.
Scholarship Recipient's WLA Report
Submitted by Jamie McFarlane, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
I am a lucky librarian; not only was I able to step out of the office for a week to attend the 2007 WLA conference, but I did so with a full scholarship from the Media and Technology Section. Thank you, MATS!
This year's MATS-sponsored sessions focused on how advances in technology affect library users and information seekers, particularly how new media tools - blogs, wikis, podcasts and the like - can be employed to reach library users; how to provide services that interest techno-savvy adults, teenagers, and children; and how legislation (ppt) affects the availability of and access to information. Though many of the sessions seemed to be geared towards public libraries, the ideas presented easily translate to special libraries like mine - and government regulation (or lack thereof) affects us all.
I returned from the conference with many more new ideas and approaches than I had expected. I urge all MATS members to take advantage of this great opportunity to update your knowledge, network with your colleagues, and refresh your outlook. I hope to see you next year in Middleton!
Tech Tip: Old Version
Submitted by Jon Mark Bolthouse
Is newer always better? Not always, especially when it comes to software compatibility. That's where "Old Version" comes in. This repository of earlier versions of software apps such as QuickTime, AOL Instant Messenger, Norton Antivirus, and Direct X is a gold mine of software oldies but goodies. Keep it in mind the next time the CD-Rom from the Children's department will only run with QuickTime 2.0 installed.
