Wednesday, March 29, 2006 5:00pm-7:00pm

UW- Madison SLIS Tradition and Vision: Launching Our Second Century of Leadership
Louise S. Robbins, Jane Pearlmutter, Barbara J. Arnold
School of Library and Information Studies, UW-Madison

Wisconsin celebrated the centennial of Library Education at the ALA conference in Chicago in 1995. This year is the time to celebrate the UW-Madison SLIS centennial 1906-2006. This poster session will feature the historic display compiled by Professor Charles Bunge and will be updated with current UW-Madison SLIS Centennial information. Come learn about the current curriculum, new SLIS faculty, and plans for the official celebration in September.

The Primate Information Network: Connecting with Subject Experts to Build Content for Primate Info Net
Matthew Hoffman, Ray Hamel, Cynthia Robinson, Joanne Brown
Lawrence Jacobsen Library, National Primate Research Center, UW-Madison

The Jacobsen Primate Library is a special purpose library on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2000 and 2005, the library received major National Center for Research Resources grants to support the provision of Internet-based resources and services to both primate researchers and individuals worldwide with an interest in nonhuman primates. Through its website, Primate Info Net, the library has an established role as a main provider of information in the field of primatology, supporting several Internet-based resources and services that facilitate communication between a diverse group of subject experts, researchers and other individuals working across various continents and a range of academic disciplines. In turn, the library taps into these experts to help provide content for those resources and services, both of which are utilized by a worldwide audience of users, including researchers, educators, students and the general public. Subject experts have both authored and reviewed original content on Primate Info Net, helping to ensure the currency and accuracy of the information available on the site, which averages over 7 million hits annually. The library’s recently launched Primate Fact Sheets received over 1 million hits and universally favorable feedback in the first six months of their release.

Censorship as a First Year Seminar—New Directions for the Library in Liberal Arts
Deb Nordgren, Hill Library, UW-Superior

UW-Superior has been named Wisconsin’s Public Liberal Arts University. As the campus community works to more fully express that mission, a first year seminar pilot project was planned for the Fall, 2005. As part of the project, I taught a seminar called Why Censorship? Faculty members developed common goals for the project. The project goal was to integrate students into a community of higher order learners by engaging their interest and imagination. The topic of my course, censorship, provided an opportunity to engage first year students in critical thinking about a subject at the heart of librarianship. As a librarian it was important to me to incorporate information literacy into the course also. This poster session will present the work of the pilot project as well as the development and delivery of the Censorship course. Students discussed the importance of the First Amendment as they read banned books, reviewed censored films, listened to banned music, researched and prepared a presentation on the censorship of video games, and in relation to the controversial issues of pornography and hate speech. Recommendations based on research and this experience for Library participation in First Year programs will be reviewed .

 Point of View: Its Impact on Organization and Access
Jo Ann Carr, Center for Instructional Materials & Computing, UW-Madison
Erica Harland, School of Library and Information Studies, UW-Madison

How does the point of view of specific discipline impact the ways our users organize and access information. Results from a 2004-05 UW System Curricular Design Project will look at the impact of terminology and specific access points on the ways in which UW System teacher education faculty look for learning objects to support their work. This project included interviews with twenty faculty to determine their point of view, the development of a draft portal for which the structure reflected that point of view, and the assessment of that portal by twenty other UW System faculty. A 2005-06 review examining the differences in materials submitted to the MERLOT learning objects depository by teacher educators and those of other disciplines will also provide a perspective on the importance of point of view on access and organization of information. Implications for ways in which the library profession organizes information and provides access tailored to the needs of specific populations will also be explored as well as the implications for indexing structures that are developed or amended by the end user.

Designing Web-based Tutorials Delivered at the Point of Need
Steve Frye, College Library, UW-Madison
Steve Baumgart, Memorial Library, UW-Madison
Nikki Busch, College & Steenbock Libraries, UW-Madison
Ben Conklin, Wendt Library, UW-Madison
Karen Dunn, Steenbock Library, UW-Madison

 In the fall of 2004, a working group was organized on the UW-Madison campus to investigate the use of screen capture software, such as Macromedia’s Captivate and TechSmith’s Camtasia, for patron initiated point of need instruction. During the 2004/05 academic year, we created a number of short narrated tutorials that demonstrated how various library services and resources work. These tutorials were assessed by students and staff using online surveys and questionnaires. These tutorials were then revised and guidelines and best practices were established. Finally, in the fall of 2005, a centralized shared repository was created so that library staff could create, publish, and access these tutorials. During our poster session, we will share our experience with using Macromedia Captivate to create web-based multimedia “show me” tutorials. We will share and discuss our guidelines and best practices which address the technical and pedagogical issues that we have been exploring together. We will show a number of the tutorials that we’ve created and discuss the design and software decisions that were made along the way.

BADGIR: Better Access to Data for Global Interdisciplinary Research
Chiu-chuang (Lu) Chou, Data and Program Library Service, UW-Madison

BADGIR is a new social science data consortium at the University of Wisconsin Madison. It provides a friendly interface to social science datasets produced by UW-Madison researchers. Within BADGIR, users can browse and search metadata, codebooks, and summary statistics like mean, variance and frequency counts of many studies. Registered users can select variables, run cross-tabulations and create subsets. Customized data subsets can be downloaded in Microsoft Excel, SPSS, SAS dBase and Stata formats. Users can also perform regression analyses at the BADGIR web site. BADGIR uses Nesstar suit, a data management tool to comprehensively document social science survey datasets. So data users can quickly grasp the rich contents without dealing with originally primitive raw data. Currently all the studies in BADGIR are available to users via the Internet. During this poster session, you will see BADGIR in action and witness the ease of accessing social science research datasets via a web browser

Libraries of Rovigno/Rovinj, Croatia
Patricia Kuntz

Congress has declared that 2006 is the "Year of Study Abroad." The President has announced a new initiative to promote the study of language and culture abroad as well. With the increased emphasis on study abroad programs and USED funding for area studies and language centers, librarians should be active members in the orientation, program development, and follow-up activities. The University of Wisconsin-Madison offers multiple-level instruction of 65 languages and hosts 7 USED HEA Title VI Language and Area Studies Centers, an international business center, international institutes, and the National African Language Resource Center in addition to the 50 study abroad programs. Wisconsin academic librarians have an opportunity to collaborate with program directors and undergraduate students. The presentation will focus on a 3-week study abroad program to Rovinj, Croatia on the Istra Peninsula where students studied border cultures (Italian, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Austrian). The city, on the Aegean Sea with 12,000 people, houses a number of important libraries. During the interim program, seven libraries were visited to ascertain how Wisconsin students might utilize the library facilities and meet Rovinjians to discuss the program topic.

The Campaign for Wisconsin Libraries: What’s In It For Your Library
Lisa Strand, WLA/WLAF
Rick Krumwiede, Outagamie Waupaca Library System & President, WLAF Board
Barbara Kelly, Appleton Public Library & Treasurer, WLAF Board

 This exciting new campaign promotes the value and importance of Wisconsin libraries. The Wisconsin Library Association Foundation has hired a public relations consultant to create powerful campaign messages and materials, including a website, www.WisconsinLibraries.org. Learn how your library can participate in the campaign.

Resources for Evidence-based Medicine
Martha Jermé, Raynor Memorial Libraries, Marquette University

What is evidence-based medicine and why is it important? This session will introduce the concept and process of evidence based medicine, and resources for accessing evidence-based information to guide clinical decision making.

Destination ImagiNation: Advancing Literacy through Creative Problem Solving
Pat Schoonover, School of Education, Wisconsin Creative Problem Solving Programs, UW-Stevens Point

Destination ImagiNation is an international creative problem solving program. Each year five new Team Challenges are developed and distributed to teams who join. The challenges require careful reading, but more than that, the challenges also require a great deal of research on the part of the team. They learn to research more effectively, and they learn to read for comprehension. The teams also write quite a bit as well. While nearly every part of a school’s curriculum is reflected in Destination ImagiNation, reading and writing are key elements. It sounds like a lot of work! The program is a lot of fun and is a place where learners of all abilities and ages can join together to solve a challenge creatively and present it to a panel of appraisers and an audience .

Information Literacy in the Age of Information Overload: How Libraries and Information Management Programs (Like RefWorks) Can Point to a Solution
Jana Reeg-Steidinger, Library Learning Center, UW-Stout
Pamela O’Donnell, College Library (Helen C. White), UW-Madison
Patricia Herrling, Steenbock Memorial Library, UW-Madison

Librarians from UW-Madison and UW-Stout will ‘point out’ how information management programs, specifically RefWorks, can help users attain advanced competencies in information literacy. These competencies include: integrating new bibliographic information into an existing body of knowledge, synthesizing ideas and concepts from a variety of information sources, making connections across disciplines, recognizing omissions in coverage, and formatting bibliographies according to a particular style manual. In keeping with this more holistic definition of an information literate person, the librarians at UW-Madison and UW-Stout are committed to helping our users achieve a higher standard of information literacy through the use of RefWorks. Teaching librarians are frequently asked to help users organize and effectively use the information retrieved.  Why not have electronic information management software help patrons use information in the same way that electronic databases and services such as SFX and federated searching have made finding information easier?  Our poster will show how instruction programs in university libraries, both large and small, can use software such as RefWorks to help users achieve information literacy.

Assessing Reference & Information Service Delivery
Nola Walker, General Library System (GLS), UW-Madison

In this transitional time for academic libraries, increasing efforts are being made to efficiently serve the information needs of the campus community while budgets are continually challenged. However, the complex structure of university libraries can create unique challenges for staying in touch with user expectations while fulfilling their information and service needs. Through the development of valid assessment measures, libraries are gaining invaluable insights to inform the decisions they make on behalf of their campus community. The presenter will discuss current experiences developing and implementing a user focused survey of reference service delivery. Also, assessment measures employed towards understanding user information seeking behavior will be shared.

New Directions in Scholarly Communication
Julie Schneider, Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing, UW-Madison
Wayne Hayes, Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing, UW-Madison

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has joined a small group of academic libraries that have created offices of scholarly communication for their campuses. The Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing (OSCP) was established in late 2005 in response to a faculty senate resolution addressing the unsustainable financial demands of academic publishing; the desire by faculty to retain and better manage usage rights to their research output; the interest of the libraries to explore innovative, alternative publishing methods; and the rising national call to maximize access to publicly-sponsored research. This poster will share information on the planning and early projects of the OSCP.

The Library Emporium
Troy Baumann, Emporium manager

The Library Emporium, created as an e-commerce outlet for South Central Library System member libraries, customers, and patrons, but now available to the entire Wisconsin library community, specializes in eBay auction format sales and electronic store-direct sales. Designed by the SCLS as an in-house sales program, the Library Emporium sells excess inventory and turns it into revenue for libraries on a shared cost basis. The Library Emporium is dedicated to offering convenient liquidation of goods with little to no effort on the part of member libraries. Emporium Manager Troy Baumann, who handles the day-to-day operations, is an SCLS employee who brings 13 years of sales and customer service experience to the venture, six of which have been specialized in eBay sales. The current Emporium family consists of 51 academic and public libraries, and the Library Emporium has returned over $24,000 in cash proceeds to participants. The Library Emporium also works closely with the Friends of the Wisconsin Libraries and the Wisconsin Library Association.