Schedule

Wednesday, April 2, 2003

8:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. Registration, New Orleans Foyer

8:30 a.m.- 10:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast, New Orleans Ballroom
Enjoy a continental breakfast (for a small donation).

9:00 a.m.- 10:15 a.m. Keynote Speech New Orleans Ballroom
Partnerships and Connections: The Learning Community as Knowledge Builders
Tyrone Cannon, ACRL Vice-President/President-elect 2002-2003, Dean, University Libraries, University
of San Francisco

The academic library is a place of opportunity, interaction, serendipity, and strong collections and is central to the knowledge building process. Academic librarians play a key role in developing, defining and enhancing learning communities. As such,we must explore ways to build partnerships and connections with faculty, researchers, students, information technology professionals, administrators and staff. Are there best practices for these partnerships? What can we do differently? Will academic libraries have a role in future learning communities?

10:30 a.m.- 11:45 a.m. Three concurrent sessions

New CATS on the Block; Collections, Access and Technical Services at Steenbock Library, Directors 6
James Buckett, Head, Collections, Access and Technical Services (CATS), Steenbock Library, UW-Madison
Jeanne Witte, Access Services Librarian, Steenbock Library, UW-Madison

CATS: Collections,Access and Technical Services is the result of merging the Access Services Dept.
(circulation, interlibrary loan and reserves) with the Technical Services Dept.at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ’s Steenbock Library after a key head librarian retired. This presentation will talk about why we decided to merge the departments, the reactions of the staff involved, the planning process involved in establishing cross training of students and staff, and the ability for data driven collection development this merger offers us.

Enhancing the Library Web Site with a Relational Database, Directors 1
Chiu-Chuang (Lu) Chou, Senior Special Librarian, Data and Program Library Service, UW-Madison

In 2001 “Internet Crossroads in Social Science Data”, a collection of web sites for reference use, reached 650 plus links. We needed a more effective way to organize and locate information within this collection. I will share my experience in building a relational database for these links and how I used a web-based application to allow users to query the database and locate useful Internet sites. With very little resources, we were able to add this powerful tool to our web site at dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/newcrossroads/index.asp. I hope that by sharing our success story, I can help other librarians start similar projects.

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back; or, It ’s Not Done Until the Money Runs Out: Creating Web
Literacy Tutorials On International Women ’s Issues Topics, Directors 5
Phyllis Holman Weisbard, Women’s Studies Librarian, UW System
Pamela K. O’ Donnell, UW-Madison SLIS (’02) and graduate student in Media and Cultural Studies,
UW-Madison

Thanks to a $6000 grant from the UW System Institute for Global Studies, four self-paced, interactive,
ADA compliant tutorials for Web Evaluation, Lexis-Nexis, GenderWatch and Metasite searching using
topics related to international women ’s issues are at www.library.wisc.edu/projects/ggfws/iwitutorials/
iwiindex.htm. Presenters will discuss the process of creating these tutorials using Dreamweaver/Fireworks/Coursebuilder, their collaborative relationship, their evolving ideas about the purpose and content of the tutorials, and the problems posed by designing in an ever-changing web environment. They will also demonstrate the tutorials, invite feedback, and hope to stimulate a discussion among the audience of the promise and perils of online tutorials.

12:00 noon- 1:30 p.m. Luncheon Program, New Orleans Ballroom
The Future of the Printed Book
A. David Schwartz, President, Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops, www.schwartzbooks.com

The Book in its present incarnation has been with us since the 1450s, yet it has been pronounced either
dead, or nearly so, many times during its existence. I would like to explore the reasons for the bound book’s longevity, the vanquishing of its numerous enemies, and its future as both the key repository of human knowledge and as one of the prime means for personal change and pleasure .I will touch on the corporate changes in the publishing and retail marketplace, the role electronic media plays in the book world, and the current challenges to the Book as we still know it. I will also reveal the Book’s secret of success.

1:45 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. Plenary Session, New Orleans Ballroom
A Model of Undergraduates’ Academic Library Use and Information Seeking Behavior
Ethelene Whitmire, Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, UW-Madison

This presentation reports on the results of survey responses and interviews of undergraduates about their academic library use and information seeking behavior. The focus of the presentation will be on
how undergraduates seek information, the factors that influence undergraduates to seek information
and to use academic library services and resources and the relationship between their academic library
use and educational outcomes (i.e., information literacy and critical thinking). Finally, the implications of the research findings for academic libraries will be discussed.

3:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. Break, Conference Lobby Floors 1 & 2

3:30 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. Free Tour
Marquette University Raynor Library Tour

3:30 p.m.- 4:45 p.m. Three Concurrent Sessions

One Year Along —Virtual Reference Efforts and Results, Directors 5
Discussion Leaders: Steve Frye, Reference Librarian, Memorial Library, UW-Madison
Eunice Graupner, Reference & Instruction Coordinator, Business Library, UW-Madison
Bob Sessions, Reference Librarian, Steenbock Library, UW-Madison

Discussion leaders will answer the following questions for UW-Madison and ask audience members to answer them from their experiences, particularly about AskWisconsin and QuestionPoint. Where is the service being run, collaboratively or alone? Describe the service and how the statistics are changing. How did you promote the service? How did you train the staffers? What responses are you getting to the service? What kinds of users (age or status), topic questions and time of calls are most frequent? Where did your most distant user come from? Any weird questions you’ve received? What do you expect for the service next year?

What ’s New in AACR2? From computer files to electronic integrating resources, Directors 6
Steven Miller, Head, Monographs Department, UWM Libraries, UW-Milwaukee

The Anglo-American Cataloging Rules recently went through two major revisions. In 2001, chapter 9 on
“Computer Files” became “Electronic Resources” and took greater account of how to catalog Internet
resources. In 2002, chapter 12 on “Serials” was renamed “Continuing Resources” and expanded to
cover all bibliographic resources that change over time. This presentation will focus on the impact of
these revisions for cataloging electronic resources, with special emphasis on the new category of “inte-
grating resources” that now stands as a third “type of issuance” along side both monographs and serials.