Conference Schedule

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8:00-5:00am
Registration

8:00-10:30
Continental Breakfast (Enjoy continental breakfast for a small donation)

8:00-9:30am
Professional Development Business Meeting

Utilizing the MLIS in Technology-Centered Companies
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Vice-President of Research and Library Systems-netLibrary, Inc.

A former academic librarian and library and information science (LIS) educator will identify the knowledge and skills that are needed in today's technology companies. The knowledge and skills learned in LIS programs and further developed by practicing librarians are essential to technology-centered companies. The speaker will discuss her experiences in transitioning from academia to an Internet start-up company and in recruiting and hiring librarians to develop the processes and procedures to form the basis of the company's core business-the acquisition, storage, organization, and retrieval of full-text electronic books (eBooks)

Accessibility of Electronic Resources for Users with Disabilities
Axel Schmetzke, Librarian/Assistant Professor, UW-Stevens Point
Sarah Sherman, Assistive Technology Coordinator, UW-Stevens Point

Libraries must ensure that their information resources are accessible to all users, including those with disabilities. The focus of this presentation will be on the accessibility of some of the commonly used electronic databases, such as the Voyager catalog, EBSCOhost Academic Search, Proquest Newspapers, and Wilson's Readers' Guide. Using JAWS, a screen reader, the presenters will demonstrate accessible and inaccessible features of search screens. The presentation will conclude with suggestions on how to improve the current situation.

Table of Contents MARC Enrichment: Beyond Should We or Shouldn't We?
Denise Babin, Head of Automation, UW-Milwaukee Golda Meir Library
William Doering, Integrated Systems Librarian, UW-La Crosse

Enhanced MARC bibliographic records with table of content information are is important enhancement to the huge investment in a library's collection. Will this investment provide a higher level of specificity in searching the online catalog, making it more comparable to journal articles and increase circulation statistics? UW-La Crosse has embarked on a TOC enrichment program. A discussion of the why, who, what and how of MARC enrichment will ensure, as well as the results of UW-L's trial and ongoing commitment.

Prehistoric Rock Art in Western Wisconsin
Robert "Ernie" Boszhardt, Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center Boszhardt will talk and present a slide show of rock art sites in Wisconsin's unglaciated driftless area. Petroglyphs (drawings) have been known for over a century. Pictographs (paintings) have only recently been documented, including two "deep cave" sites. Both types are threatened by graffiti.

Electronic Books: Challenges and Rewards
Susan Barribeau, Reference Librarian, UW-Madison
Steven Miller, Head, Monographs Department, UW-Milwaukee Golda Meir Library
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Vice-President of Research and Library Systems, netLibrary, Inc.

Throughout the last decade librarians have been actively building digital libraries, bringing together traditional print and emerging electronic resources. There has been much discussion on the identification, organization, retrieval, evaluation, archiving and preservation of electronic journals and serials. This panel will explore the challenges and rewards related to the incorporation of electronic books (eBooks) into the digital library, including acquisition, organization, distribution, copyright, preservation, and perpetual access from the librarian's and publisher's perspectives. Issues relating to the cataloging of electronic books and displaying of MARC records for eBooks in library OPAC's will be specifically discussed. Implementation issues, such as staffing, training, technology, and budget, will also be covered, with a brief outline of anticipated future directions.

Web Tutorial Design for Non-Geeks
Julianne Haahr, Library Instruction Program Assistant, College Library/Steenbock Library, UW-Madison
Linda Piele, Instruction Coordinator, UW-Parkside

Within three weeks' notice you are asked to provide a tutorial on search strategies and journal databases for a course of biology sophomores. Or, perhaps you really want to include more interactivity in your required Information Literacy tutorial and automate its grading. Unfortunately, you're neither a geek nor a natural-born techie and have little or no technical support available to you. What do you do? This session will look at how these situations were approached and strategies developed over a year's time. Both presenters have used various software programs for designing tutorials, including Microsoft's PowerPoint and Macromedia's Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and CourseBuilder as alternative to hard HTML programming. They will talk about their experiences, triumphs and pitfalls.

Universal Borrowing
Lorie Docken, UW System, Office of Learning & Information Technology
Stephen Elfstrand, Automation Librarian, UW Eau Claire
Michele Strange, Access Services Librarian, UW-La Crosse

Three UW libraries (Eau Claire, La Crosse, and Stout) participated in the test of Endeavor's Universal Borrowing (UB) software. Panelists will discuss UB features and functions, implementation of UB in UW libraries, user reactions, and UB resource sharing strategies and policies for UW libraries.

Portals to the People: Government Gateways-Public, Private, Hybrid and Mutant
John Koch, Government Documents Selector, Steenbock Memorial Library, UW-Madison
Nancy Mulhern, Regional Depository Librarian, State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Karen Osborne Pope, Assistant Professor, Government Publications, McIntyre Library, UW-Eau Claire Stephanie Ryan, Government Information Librarian, Golda Meir Library, UW-Milwaukee

Will there be one website that provides access to all government information on the web? And will that centralized access point be public, commercial, or a hybrid? This panel will examine and evaluate the current crop of portals to electronic government information and services.

Information Literacy
WAAL Information Literacy Committee

Information literacy enables students to recognize the value of information and use it to make informed choices in their personal, professional and academic lives. WAAL's Information Literacy Committee successfully pioneered the development of state higher education Information Literacy Competencies. The Committee's ongoing efforts include collecting Best Practices exemplifying implementation of the Competencies and bringing ARCL's Institute for Information Literacy Immersion Program to Wisconsin in June 2001.

Accessibility of Electronic Resources for Users with Disabilities
Axel Schmetzke, Librarian/Assistant Professor, UW-Stevens Point

With the passage of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990, libraries undertook much effort to provide access to their physical resources for all people. With more and more information resources migrating to the web, libraries' concern for access must now include also the virtual realm. My studies conducted in 1990 and 2000 showed that many of the campus libraries within the UW system do not provide sufficiently accessible web pages. In the poster session, I will present my latest accessibility data (March 2001). Stop by to check on the trend in your library, to learn how to check your website for accessibility, or to see a demonstration of how blind people can navigate your library's web pages.

Virtual Reference: Assisting the Remote User
Amy Kindschi, Head of Faculty and Student Services, UW-Madison Wendt Engineering Library

Wendt Library at the UW-Madison is providing service to patrons at a distance as an integral part of our Reference Desk service. This year our AskWendt email reference service was mainstreamed into our normal service. All Reference staff were trained to assist remote users whenever the Reference desk is opened. The poster will show the growth of the Ask Wendt service and the types of users we serve. We have been experimenting with Virtual Reference software (most recently Videogate) and hope to add this tool to our remote reference service. We will show some screenshots of Videogate with examples of possible uses.

Circulation or Circumvention: The Academic Library and the Demands of the Literary Canon
Molly Susan Mathias, Adjunct Professor, SLIS-Milwaukee Reference Librarian, Milwaukee Area Technical College

Since the university library is responsible for supporting academic curriculum, it needs to sustain the canon. However, collection development librarians also must be aware of the literary canon and how the university library is responsible for its perpetuation. Collection development activities can at times be in conflict with scholarly standards because the value of some cultural works may not be evident until years later. Academic library collection development should support the university as a whole, while adjusting book and periodical purchases to departmental and curriculum needs. It was anticipated that collections of American and English literature have become more diverse in the academic library of the new millennium. These patterns are demonstrated in Books for College Libraries, the MLA Bibliography and in an academic library online catalog.

5:00-7:30pm Dinner on the Town (Restaurant list will be provided)

8:00-9:15pm UW-La Crosse Planetarium
"Journey to the Stars" Program Join us in UW-La Crosse's planetarium to examine the objects that make up our universe. Objects described include the Sun, the Moon, black holes, nebulae, white dwarfs, supernovae, and more! Cowley Hall is just a short drive from the hotel; if you would like to carpool, please meet at 7:45 PM in the Radisson Hotel's lobby. Directions and maps will be available at the conference registration desk.

8:00am-5:00pm
Registration

8:00-8:45am
WAAL Business Meeting and Continental Breakfast
Enjoy continental breakfast (for a small donation) as the business meeting is conducted.

Outreach to Pre-College Students and Non-Primary Users
John-Leonard Berg, Reference Coordinator, UW-Platteville
Emily Wixson, Science Outreach Librarian, UW-Madison, General Library System/Steenbock Library

Academic libraries are no longer just for college students, faculty, and staff. As Universities open their doors to pre and post college students, academic libraries embrace a wider audience. Learn how the UW-Madison Libraries adapt information literacy and library skills programs to a younger audience. Learn also about the UW-Platteville initiative to introduce high school students to the research process and expose them to campus life, through their "Exploring the World of Information (EWI)" program. The session will review the successes and failures of hosting non-primary users at a university library.

Librarians in a Strange Land: Cooperative projects in Namibia and El Salvador
Emilie Ngo-Nguidjol, Academic Librarian, UW-Madison Memorial Library
Beverly R. Phillips, Senior Special Librarian, Land Tenure Center, UW-Madison.

Apartheid in Namibia: Making Oral History Accessible through a New Database. The University of Wisconsin-Unam (University of Namibia) cooperative program invited me to go to Namibia and help set up a database for oral history. I accepted the invitation with trepidation. But this challenge became an opportunity for someone who spends most of her days developing and teaching BI sessions, providing Reference services, and filling multicultural outreach requests both for the University and the community-at-large. This presentation is an account of the long journey with discussion of some of the issues emanating from such an experience.

Preservation of USAID/El Salvador Library on Land Reform and Peace. A project for the US Agency for International Development Mission to El Salvador created a database and full text preservation copies of library materials-just how much can two people do in two months?

Oral History Cataloging Grant
Analisa Lee, Associate Academic Librarian, UW-La Crosse
Charles Lee, Professor of History/Executive Director, UW-La Crosse Oral History Program

The UW-La Crosse Oral History Program has been in existence for close to thirty years, but the collection, until this year, was not cataloged. With the assistance of a National History Publications Records Commission grant, our goal is to catalog 750 interviews this year. This program will focus on the grant process, scope of the collection, and the resources and unique challenges involved in cataloging oral history materials.

10:30-11:45am (Three Concurrent Sessions)

To Change or Not to Change: That is NOT the Question
Tom Hench, Associate Professor, UW-La Crosse

"It's not that people don't like change, it's that people don't like being changed." There is a world of wisdom in this phrase for organizations everywhere, including libraries. Tom Hench will discuss how to take charge of change in a technologically changing world that seems to want to take charge of us.

Teaching Faculty to Teach Web Evaluation Skills
Barbara Lazewski, Senior Academic Librarian, UW-Madison Steenbock Library

This presentation will cover how we taught teachers how easy it is to teach web evaluation skills. Faculty participated in an active learning exercise, and were provided with adaptable slide shows, sample assignments, and handouts.

BadgerLink Update
Mary E. Struckmeyer, Reference and Loan Library

This program will provide an overview of new services available through BadgerLink, including those of EBSCOhost Page Composer, increased web links, and access to state government information.

2001 The Future is Now: Scholarly Communication and Academic Libraries
Mary Reichel, University Librarian and Carol Grotnes Distinguished Professor, Appalachian State University, Vice-President, ACRL

In this talk Reichel will review the findings of her 1991 research work on faculty's perceptions of scholarly communication and information needs in 2001 and update this work with a review of reported findings of scholars' present use of information in the scholarly communication chain and what they now see as the future in 2011 and beyond. Reichel will also discuss the role academic librarians are taking to influence the future of scholarly communication through such projects as SPARC, and the role of academic libraries in providing current access to scholarship and permanent preservation of it.

What do I Do Now?: Helping Instruction Librarians Develop Teaching Skills
Helene Androski, Reference Librarian, UW-Madison Memorial Library
Dineen Grow, User Services Supervisor, UW-Madison Memorial Library
Carrie Kruse, Library Instruction Coordinator, UW-Madison College Library

In 1998, the UW-Madison Library Instruction program formed a working group to address the need for helping teaching librarians develop new teaching skills and/or strengthen existing ones. This presentation will address how the working group identified the needs of our instruction program and made recommendations for resources and programs to be made available. One of the recommendations was for a video specifically about teaching techniques for library instruction. Subsequently, we wrote and produced such a video. Our experience in planning and creating this video will be discussed, and the 16-minute video will be shown. The presenters will discuss tips on producing such a video, as well as ways in which this teaching skills video can be shared with other library instruction programs.

Basic Legal Research
Lynn Hartke, Reference/Educational Services Librarian, St. Louis University Law Library
Steve Nelson, Technology Services Coordinator, Marquette University Law Library
Lois O'Brien, Library Services Coordinator/Government Documents, Marquette University Law Library

Do you want to get the most information out of available legal resources? Whether it's in traditional paper format or online, come find out how you can successfully guide your patrons in basic legal research. We will review basic legal resources for federal, Wisconsin, and all state materials.

African-American Periodicals Preservation Project, State Historical Society of Wisconsin Library
Cynthia Lott, Project Librarian, State Historical Society of Wisconsin Library
Frances Scharko, Project Librarian, State Historical Society of Wisconsin Library

For the past two years we have been intensively microfilming periodicals from our own collection along with holdings from other major institutions such as New York Public Library, in an effort to save them for future generations. We would like to share with those attending the conference our project mission, general project guidelines, examples of our microfilming, and in general how we think our work has influenced African American studies as well as Library Science.

Notable Books Panel
Raymond Arnett, Director of Library Services, Northland Baptist Bible College
Beverly J. DeWeese, Deputy Librarian, Retired, Milwaukee Public Library
Sandy Sechrest, Document Librarian, UW-La Crosse

Panel Discussion of ALA and WLA Outstanding books by members of the WLA Literary Awards Committee.

"Star" Statistical Sources
Beth Harper, Reference Librarian, UW-Madison Memorial Library

This program will introduce participants to basic statistical concepts, and take participants on a "tour" of selected statistical web sites (mostly U.S. federal government sites), including the Census Bureau, FedStats, and Bureau of Labor Statistics. It will also look at some sites with Wisconsin statistics.

Presenting Electronic Journals to Library Users: A Public Services Perspective
Barbara Hamel, Information Services Librarian, UW-Madison Steenbock Library
Cynthia Huebschen, Collection Development Officer, UW-Oshkosh

Speakers will share their experiences with managing electronic journal lists for their respective campuses. Discussion will center on the issues and policies related to efforts to provide one-stop shopping to library users.

5:00-6:00pm
Curriculum and Education Librarians' Meeting

Information Literacy Committee Meeting

Special Interest Group: Docutek
Electronic Reserves and Web enabling your Traditional Library Services.

6:30-8:30pm Dinner
All Questions Considered: Libraries of NPR
Rob Robinson, Library Director, National Public Radio

Come hear Rob Robinson talk about library service at NPR. The four NPR libraries must provide excellent and accurate reference service on short deadlines, seven days a week. Rob will show pictures and tell stories about how libraries contribute to NPR's unique and award-winning programming.

8:00-8:45am
Continental Breakfast
(Enjoy continental breakfast for a small donation)

Spinning Straw into Gold: Creative Deaccessioning for Archives and Libraries
Michael Doylen, Academic Archivist, UW-Milwaukee
Tim Ericson, Assistant Library Director, Archives & Special Collections, UW-Milwaukee Golda Meir Library

Since the appearance of eBay merely five years ago, on-line auctions have increased in number and popularity. Many public libraries and archival institutions have started using this new technology as a collection management tool. On-line auctions have great potential for the deaccession of out-of-scope materials or ephemeral items that are routinely discarded during processing; however, their use by public institutions is not unproblematic. This workshop focuses on the ethical and legal issues that should be addressed by institutions considering use of on-line auctions. It also provides a practical, "how to" introduction to posting successful auctions and tracking costs.

Balancing the Hype: Library Instruction and Information Technology
Abigail Loomis, Coordinator for Library Instruction, UW-Madison Libraries

As we all know, there is a lot of glitz and glamour surrounding computer technology that can result in our students expecting miracles of that little grey box. What are some of the myths spawned by this hype? How can librarians help students develop realistic expectations about computers and what they can and cannot do for them? This presentation will focus on examining some of the issues that surround users' expectations of technology. The session will conclude with an opportunity for audience discussion of the questions raised.

A Busman's Holiday: Reading the Academic Novel for Fun and Profit
Helene Androski, Reference Librarian, UW-Madison Memorial Library

Here's your big chance to come and talk about books with fellow book lovers! Helene will discuss why academic novels can be particularly entertaining and interesting to academic librarians and will lead a book talk on Jane Smiley's Moo as an example of the genre. (Reading the book beforehand would be helpful, but not mandatory). Then comes "Show and Tell" as we recommend other academic novels to each other with a web site to follow that will include an annotated bibliography of the suggestions.

Digitization: Wisconsin Digitization Projects, Small and Large
Matt Blessing, University Archivist, Marquette University
Jenifer Ihde, Humanities Research/Digital Projects Librarian, UW-Madison
Joshua Ranger, Archivist, UW-Oshkosh

Each academic library in Wisconsin has something unique in their collection of which they are especially proud. Whether it is a collection of papers from the schools founding fathers and mothers, a rare book of great beauty and importance, or a collection of historical photographs of campus, these materials can be very useful to a researcher as well as just wonderful things to show off. The digital era allows libraries to tap into both aspects by expanding the potential audience for their treasures. Digitization projects can be quite large, requiring great resources. But they can also be very limited and manageable for the small library. A panel of three participants will discuss different digitization efforts at their libraries, ranging in size and scale. The purpose of the program is to introduce numerous digitization projects already underway, demystify the process of digitization and to inspire WAAL members to begin their own digitization efforts to help promote awareness of the jewels of their collections.

Charting New Courses with Rare Books
David E. Schoonover, Curator of Rare Books, University of Iowa Libraries

David will offer a slide illustrated presentation, demonstrating new gifts and purchases of private press books, artists' books, and manuscripts for the University of Iowa and discussing his uses of them in new courses and programs.