Program Schedule

WAAL – Our Capital Convergence
April 19-22, 2005
Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center
Madison, Wisconsin

Welcome
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› Housing & Travel
› Monona Terrace

Call to Conference (Program)
› Tuesday, April 19 (WAAL Board Only)
› Wednesday, April 20 (1st Day)
› Thursday, April 21 (2nd Day)

Post Conference
› Friday, April 22

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Conference Planning Committee

PROGRAM SCHEDULE: THURSDAY

THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2005

8:00am-5:00pm - Thursday

Registration - Counter 2
Internet room - M

8:00-9:30am - Thursday

Breakfast - Promenade

8:00-9:00am - Thursday

WAAL Business Meeting - B

9:00-10:15am - Thursday

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

New Partnerships in Technical Services - E
Allison Reeves, Carroll College
Michael Cohen, General Library System, UW-Madison
Aimee Glassel, General Library System, UW-Madison

Cataloging and Acquisitions departments are forging new alliances with outside vendors to maximize staff and provide new services for users. This panel discussion will showcase several new initiatives and describe innovations that are improving technical services. Allison Reeves will relate how Carroll College is automating their collection development by using YBP's Gobi Export and outsourcing most of their copy cataloging through YBP and PromptCat. Michael Cohen will detail changes to the cataloging workflow at UW-Madison that resulted from implementation of the SFX link resolver. Aimee Glassel, also of UW-Madison, will discuss the options for replacing a locally maintained e-journals list with one generated from the SFX database.

Planning Collaborative Spaces for Learning in Libraries Architects Re-Thinking Libraries as Places to See and Be Seen - F
Gene Engeldinger, Director, Hedburg Library, Carthage College
Jack Poling, Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle, Ltd. Architecture, Interior Design and Urban Design

The onslaught of digital research materials is prompting changes in the function and design of libraries. Although print collections are here to stay, the purpose of the college library is gradually changing, moving from being a warehouse of collections to a workshop for learning. The number of books in a collection is not nearly as important as how students use the library services available to them. Students are looking for collaborative work spaces and see the library as a place to exchange ideas. Library renovations now include more group study rooms, cyber-cafes, media labs, lots of comfortable seating, and combined service points. A college library director and an architect with substantial library design experience will share their insights on the library as a social study center.

A Leadership Convergence - G
Valerie Viers, Ane Carriveau, Carl Ziebell, Ripon College Librarians

Ripon College Library adopted a collaborative leadership model nearly three years ago. The reasons for this change, challenges faced along the way, and how this leadership model has evolved over time will be the focus of this panel presentation.

10:15-10:30am - Thursday

BREAK - Promenade

10:30am-12:00pm - Thursday

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Institutional repositories: exploring the issues - E
Nerissa Nelson, UW Stevens Point
YanLiao, UW Stevens Point

Information technology has entered the world of learning and is changing the ways by which education is delivered. The emergence of learning repositories (systems for the collection, storage, location, and retrieval of digital educational content) at various institutions is a direct result of the convergence of information technology and education. The UW-System strategic directions are mandating the exploration of creating and implementing a UW Federated Repository (UWFR), which is to bring together the learning objects of all UW campuses for central storage and retrieval across the system. The successful implementation of the UWFR calls for close collaboration of faculty, information technology, and the library. At the current stage, UW-Stevens Point and UW-La Crosse are each running a pilot learning repository on their campuses. This presentation will explore the basic issues facing such an operation, and more importantly, it will address the roles the library can and maybe should play on this new horizon, from facilitating the contribution of learning objectsinto the repository to providing access by metadata creation, from managing the digital copyright to promoting the use of these learning objects.

Using circulation data for the assessment of book and serial acquisitions: methods and outcomes - F
Jeff Ellair, Library Director, UW-Sheboygan

Assessment is certainly a key word in academe today, and librarians have kept records of circulation transactions since prehistoric times. But how do you collect, organize, and interpret circulation data in order to assess print acquisition selections? This program will explain recent efforts of staff at the UW-Sheboygan library to methodically track and organize circulation data, to assist in evaluating past collection development decisions. Jeff will discuss how the data is collected and managed, the outcomes which have helped to inform future acquisition selections, and the other benefits which have come from developing this ongoing evaluative system.

Connecting with the Community - G
Amanda Moss, School of Library and Information Studies, UW-Madison; Kathy Myers, Hedberg Library, Carthage College; Jo Ann Savoy, Water Resources Institute, UW-Madison

Academic libraries are leading the way as higher education responds to requests for more direct service to the public. This program will review three innovative activities that demonstrate that leadership. Kathy Myers will describe Carthage College 's Family Fun nights; JoAnn Savoy will discuss UW Madison library story hours for a local neighborhood; and Michelle Besant will provide information about UW Madison SLIS' award winning Jail Library program.

12:00-1:30pm - Thursday

LUNCHEON - Ballroom B
Frank Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin
Speaker: Jack Holzhueter, Wisconsin Historian

Monona Terrace was intended as Frank Lloyd Wright's gift to his hometown of Madison, Wisconsin. This building has a contentious architectural history, taking nearly sixty years before being built. Historian Jack Holzhueter will discuss Frank Lloyd Wright's relationship with Wisconsin, his architectural designs for the state, and the relationship with the land.

Related Links:
Wright in Wisconsin
Frenzied Fight for Wright Rarities

1:45-3:00pm - Thursday

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Converging statistics - E
Sarah Calcese, Wendt Library, UW Madison
Nancy McClements, Memorial Library, UW Madison
Nathan Vack, Wendt Library, UW Madison

The UW-Madison libraries are using a locally-created program to record, search, and tally public service questions anytime and from anywhere. This web-based tool allows staff to enter not just tally marks, but the text of actual questions and answers. The speakers will explain how the form was programmed, show how questions are entered and searched, demonstrate creating reports on the fly, and describe how the database is being used to improve training and staffing patterns.

LibQual - F
Mary Folster, UW-Madison
Galadriel Chilton, UW-La Crosse
Michelle Washington, UW-Milwaukee
Kate Hinnat, UW-Eau Claire

In October 2003 several UW-system libraries signed on to participate in an ARL sponsored project to conduct a survey of library services. The instrument, LibQUAL+(TM), is a suite of services that libraries use to solicit, track, understand, and act upon users' opinions of service quality. The program's centerpiece is a rigorously tested Web-based survey bundled with training that helps libraries assess and improve library services, change organizational culture, and market the library. This survey, conducted on UW campuses in March of 2004, was launched simultaneously in libraries through North America and Europe . The survey instrument was designed to elicit feedback on the quality of library services in the areas of collections, personal service and physical facilities. This panel will be comprised of LibQual coordinators from several UW-System campuses. The panel members will discuss three major topics:

• the history and background and development of the survey instrument
• the experiences that we encountered with launching such a large project on our local campuses
• results of the survey

Converging Interests: Recruiting a Diverse Workforce for Academic Libraries - G
Louise Robbins UW-Madison SLIS
Phoebe Chiu, UW-Madison SLIS
Kyung Sun Kim, UW Madison SLIS
Joanna Sin, UW Madison SLIS

Recently a great deal of attention has been paid to the changing demographics of librarianship. The profession as a whole is concerned with what appears to be a looming shortage of librarians as current professionals retire, however research libraries in particular are concerned with the shortage of subject specialists among graduates of American Library Association (ALA) accredited master’s degree programs. This presentation will report on research launched in October 2004 to gather and analyze data on the approaching needs for subject specialists and the potential pool of students to fill these positions. In addition, findings from a Web-based survey will be discussed to shed light on effective strategies that LIS schools and professional associations can use to improve the recruitment and retention of minority students for ethnic / cultural diversity in librarianship.

3:00-3:15pm - Thursday

BREAK - Promenade

3:15-4:30pm - Thursday

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Connecting with the Curriculum: converging technologies deliver the library to the student - E
Jean Ruenger-Hanson, Steenbock Library, UW-Madison, Diana Wheeler, Wendt Library, UW-Madison

Academic libraries are seeking ways to become a more integral part of the teaching mission in higher education. Web technologies offer a direct library-to-student connection when contents are tailored to the needs of a course. Jean Ruenger-Hanson will discuss the development of an easy-to-use web-based staff tool cooperatively developed by librarians and technology staff. The system, dubbed Library Course Pages Builder, dynamically generates customized web pages containing reserves, library instruction materials, and library services. Diana
Wheeler will describe Wendt Library's creation and electronic courseware delivery of Engineering Professional Development 151: Technical Information Resources, a library credit course for the College of Engineering.

Converging the three health sciences libraries (or what were we thinking?) - F
Terry Burton, Ebling Library, UW Madison

In 2004 the University of Wisconsin-Madison merged three separate libraries into a single entity in a new building. Terry will address how the merger of staff, services, and collections impact library operations in expected and unexpected ways.

Old and the new converge: the immigrant experience in fiction - G
Helene Androski, Memorial Library, UW-Madison

The Reader's Section offers another opportunity where librarians can come and talk about their love of reading. At this session, Helene Androski discusses the immigrant experience in fiction and will lead a book talk on WLA Banta winner Mary Helen Stefaniak's The Turk and My Mother. This novel features Eastern European immigrants in Milwaukee in the early years of the Twentieth Century and is based on the author's own family. The audience is encouraged (but not required) to read this interesting novel before the presentation. Recommendations from the audience for novel titles about the immigrant experience will be posted on a web site after the conference.

5:00-7:00pm - Thursday

Special Interest Group Meetings:
Wisconsin Education and Curriculum Librarians - E
Academic E-books Consortium - F