Schedule (continued)

The Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians invites you to a Spring Getaway on Beautiful Green Lake! Links to Wednesday | Thursday | Friday Sessions PDF Version

Thursday, April 18th
8:00-5:00
Registration

8:00-8:45
WAAL Business Meeting—Continental Breakfast (for a small donation)

UW-Madison unveiled a new reference service in the fall of 2001. The "Live Help" service delivers live reference service over the Internet. This one-of-a-kind reference service connects users with a librarian, who can help guide them through the library Web site. It uses two-way text-chat, voiceover IP and screen sharing capabilities so that librarians can instruct patrons using the catalog, databases and other resources. Come find out how the project is progressing!
Sponsored by Ingenta

Electronic Reserves: Out of the Box
Debra Duncan, Technical Services Librarian, UW-Oshkosh, Forrest R. Polk Library
Mary Luebke, LSA Senior, UW-Oshkosh, Forrest R. Polk Library
Patrick J. Wilkinson, Library Director, UW-Oshkosh, Forrest R. Polk Library

During the summer of 2001, the Forrest R. Polk Library at UW-Oshkosh initiated an electronic reserve service by purchasing the services of Docutek Information Systems, Inc. Why did Polk Library buy an electronic reserve system rather than build one? What policies did the library adopt early in the process to develop this service? What equipment and software were purchased? How well did the installation proceed? What major issues were addressed during the set-up? How did the library handle workflow for this new service? What problems were encountered? How was electronic reserve received by faculty and students? The presentation will address these questions based on the library's first year of experience with electronic reserves.
Sponsored by the WLA Circulation Services Round Table & WLA Support Staff Section

Government Information After September 11th
Elizabeth Harper, Government Documents Librarian, UW-Madison Memorial Library
Cynthia Wolff, PhD Candidate, UW-Madison SLIS, Chair, ALA GODORT

Even before the events of September 11th, access to government information was in the news, as the CIA and State Department wanted to recall a book in the "Foreign Relations of the U.S." series after it had been printed and distributed. Since September 11th, the documents community has been discussing the issues of access. Government agencies are pulling information off their sites. There's discussion of the privacy of patron records and restricting access to physical collections. Cindi and Beth will discuss these issues and the current state of affairs in terms of the implications on Federal Government information policy and provide opportunities for further discussion.
Sponsored by the WLA Document Services Round Table and the WLA Intellectual Freedom Round Table

WISCAT Union Catalog and Linked Automation Systems
Sally Drew, Director, Reference and Loan Library

The WISCAT resource-sharing program is undergoing big changes in 2002. Users will still be able to search the union catalog of over 7 million titles, but new software will also allow for searching of local automated systems and enhanced interlibrary loan management. Software incorporates Z39.50, ISO interlibrary loan and the emerging NCIP national standards. Reference and Loan Library staff will demonstrate the new services available through Auto-Graphics, Inc. and Fretwell-Downing, Inc., as they are interfaced to create a full resource sharing system for Wisconsin.
Sponsored by the WLA Interlibrary Loan Round Table

It's Electrifying!: Accessing e-journals through OCLC Electronic Collections Online
Kirsten Houtman, OCLC Member Services, WiLS
Sonya Oliver, OCLC Representative

Sonya Oliver of OCLC and Kirsten Houtman of WiLS will make a presentation on OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online. Electronic Collections Online provides delivery of e-journal access whether your users are in Baraboo or Timbuktu. Please come and listen and ask questions!

Natural Language Searching of Bibliographic Databases
Daniel Norstedt, Reference Librarian, UW-Eau Claire MyIntyre Library

Since the early 1990s, vendors of commercial databases have been introducing relevance ranking search systems for their products. West Publishing's Westlaw is a good example. Yet the vendors of most bibliographic databases we offer in libraries continue to rely upon Boolean logic. Even where a natural language, relevance ranked system is offered such as in EBSCO, they are little used. Why are we not using such systems in our libraries? Would their availability bring greater use and more effective end-user retrieval? This presentation reviews the promise, current status, and possible futures of natural language searching of bibliographic databases. It updates a presentation on the same topic given by the presenter at the WLA conference held in La Crosse several years ago.

In these tumultuous times, some look to libraries for current information on world affairs as well as for favorite comforting library resources. Historically, American public libraries have tried to assume a pivotal community role during times of war. For her PhD dissertation from UW-Madison's SLIS, Patti Becker explored the role of American public libraries during World War II. She discovered a wide gamut of themes ranging from Victory Book Campaigns to collect reading material for military libraries and cooperation with Office of War Information propaganda efforts, to myriad efforts to meet local, war-related bibliographic needs. Through her visually enhanced presentation, Patti reveals a fascinating chapter of American history.
Sponsored by the WLA Library Research Round Table

The constantly changing Internet search engine industry has lost some search engines, gained new ones, seen radical changes in search techniques, and yet it still manages to serve over 100 million searches per day and most searchers are satisfied with the results. The vast amount of information on the Internet now accessible via search engines has had a major impact on both students and librarians. This session compares the surviving search engines in terms of databases, advantages, and disadvantages. In addition, it looks at the pitfalls of Internet searching and the impact on academic librarians.

The Medical College of Wisconsin's Award Winning PR Campaign
Linda Backus, Clinical Services Librarian, Froedtert Hospital Library
Julie Gores, Director of Library Services, Waukesha County Technical College
Linda LeMahieu, Web Services Librarian, Medical College of Wisconsin Library
Deborah Ruck, Information Resources Librarian, Medical College of Wisconsin Library
Jane Walczak, Clinical Services Librarian, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Library

In the fall of 2001, the Medical College of Wisconsin Libraries were awarded a blue ribbon in the Public Relations Contest at the annual meeting of the Medical Library Association. The contest was designed to showcase creativity in library promotion and to allow health sciences information colleagues to exchange public relations ideas. The MCW Libraries @ your services campaign was chosen from more than 50 entries as the best example of an ongoing marketing campaign. The entire PR committee for the Medical College will speak about their experiences during this session.
Sponsored by the WLA Public Relations Committee

This panel of ACRL Immersion Institute participants will address how instruction librarians are incorporating ideas from last summer's program, Wisconsin Immersion, and the WAAL Information Literacy Competencies at the programmatic and classroom levels. Following individual panelist presentations, the moderators will guide an idea-sharing discussion with the audience.
Sponsored by the WAAL Information Literacy Committee

Fee vs. Free: Charging for Digitized Electronic Collections
Barbara Baruth, Director, User Services, UW-Parkside Library
Debra Shapiro, Continuing Education Specialist, UW-Madison, SLIS
Michael Edmonds, Deputy Administrator, Library/Archives, Wisconsin Historical Society
Libraries and archives have been steadily moving to a model of providing access to resources rather than ownership of materials.

In addition, we are beginning to digitize our one-of-a-kind special collections and archival holdings. Should academic libraries and archives provide free access to these digitized collections? How can we manage the costs associated with digitization and access? Should we rethink the way we provide traditional value-added services such as selection and cataloging? A panel of librarians and archivists will introduce several viewpoints on these issues and invite lively discussion.
Sponsored by the WLA Wisconsin Genealogy & Local History Round Table

In the world today, high tech and information-based businesses are dominating the economy. The New Economy is an increasingly global economy in which businesses compete and communicate on a worldwide basis. There is an increasing value placed on knowledge and information in the New Economy, and the ability to effectively organize and communicate that knowledge and information is of paramount importance. Where does Wisconsin fit into the New Economy? Join Dr. Ward to learn the state of Wisconsin's economy and what the future holds.

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7:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast (for a small donation)

Learn how the instruction librarians at UW-Green Bay used WebCT to offer library instruction to students in a human development course. Find out how to setup a session, pros and cons of using WebCT to deliver instruction, and what the students' reactions were to this type of instruction. In addition, future plans for such instruction at the Cofrin Library.

Moon Rats, the Bosnian Toothache Demon, and other tales of the AGSC Re-cataloging Project
Liz Miller, Project Leader, AGS Re-cataloging Project, UW-Milwaukee Golda Meir Library

In October 1999, UWM's Golda Meir Library began a project to re-catalog the pre-1980 holdings of the American Geographical Society Collection. The project's goal is to completely re-catalog approximately 75,000 monographs, 9,000 serials titles, 50,000 of the Collection's 480,000 maps, 6,000 atlases, and materials in other non-print formats. Previously, these materials have been accessible only through a traditional card catalog, and classified according to a locally created and unique classification system.

The project is now two-and-a-half years old. The project's Team Leader will discuss the challenges the Team has faced, including: hiring and training a team of brand-new catalogers, cataloging works in a wide variety of languages, authorities and pre-AACR2 records, and unique preservation issues.

In this session, representatives from both private and public university libraries discuss their library's policies regarding Internet access for community users. Panel members will speak about the rationale behind these policies as well as what allowances/restrictions are provided or placed upon those non-university affiliated individuals using the library's Internet stations. Panel members will share their library's observations of successes and problems.

Information Seeking in the Biological Sciences
Dr. Robert Wallace, Professor of Biology, Ripon College

The scope of this presentation will go beyond the previous standard work of finding full-text information and even the new standards such as ELS (Encyclopedia of Life Sciences). In his talk, Dr. Wallace will explore both taxonomic and molecular databases (the former being what species are recognized and where they are found; the latter covering protein and gene sequences). These two comprise, in part, the future of what constitutes biological information. Dr. Wallace will show what sort of information is available and how it is manipulated.

Accessibility for Electronic Information Resources for Users with Disabilities: A Review of the Latest Research
Axel Schmetzke, Librarian/Assistant Professor, UW-Stevens Point University Library

Libraries must ensure that their information resources are accessible to all users, including those with disabilities. Until recently, little product information has been available that would help librarians to select accessible online resources. Two upcoming special-theme issues of Library Hi Tech will contain research articles on the accessibility of online catalogs, online indexes and databases, e-journals, e-books, electronic reserves/PDF files and courseware packages. Axel will provide a preview of these articles and a summary of their findings. This information will enable librarians to make more informed procurement decisions and to pressure vendors whose current products lack accessibility into developing more inclusive information products.

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