Friday, April 20
8:00 am – 12:00 Noon
Ballroom
Atrium Registration
Mt. Everest
Internet Cafe
7:30am - 8:30am
Mt. McKinley
Librarians Supporting Nursing Education (LibNEd) Meeting
9:00am - 10:00am
Mt. McKinley
EBSCO Publishing, Stephanie McConnell
9:00am - 10:15am (Four Concurrent Sessions)
Mt. Blanc
Speaker: Helene Androski, Memorial Library, UW-Madison (retired)
Discover Wisconsin - and Midwest - Authors
Wind down your conference activities by talking about the books you love! In this latest of the Readers Section’s series of book discussions, Helene will review the genre of Midwest regional writing and lead a book talk on Zona Gale’s Miss Lulu Bett, a classic with impeccable Wisconsin credentials (Zona Gale was from Portage, conveniently near Wisconsin Dells). You do not have to have read the book beforehand to attend, but you’re going to want to anyway. The program would end with participants recommending other works of Midwest regional writing with a web site to follow that will include an annotated bibliography of the suggestions.
Matterhorn
Speakers: Michael Strahan, Lydia M. Olson Library, Northern Michigan University and Dr. Mary Ellen Powers, School of Nursing, Northern Michigan University
Information Instruction Sequencing for Nursing Students: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Collaboration between Library and Nursing faculty resulted in an innovative program where students learn information skills in a content-driven, tiered instructional sequence. Integrated into the School of Nursing curriculum from certificate level through graduate school, the program is the culmination of a yearlong project. From initial proposal, to consensus and unanimous approval by Nursing faculty and administrators, the program was implemented in fall 2005. In addition to discussing planning and implementation, the presenters will address strategies to assist students, including post-session access to content. They will also provide formative and summative evaluation results from Nursing faculty and students participating in the instructional sequence.
Mt. Rainier
Speakers: Debbie Cardinal, Wisconsin Library Services (WiLS), Emily Pfotenhauer, Wisconsin Historical Society and Chris Hartman, University Archives, UW-Madison
There’s More Work to Do than I Thought…Perspectives on Digital Project Management
In a multi-type digital, collaborative project, how DOES the work get done? We’ll discuss distributed project management and setup, setting timelines, defining a workflow, distributing the work and getting the project done!
Pikes Peak
Speaker: Louise Robbins, School of Library and Information Studies, UW-Madison
“Librarian Spies”: The Strange Careers of Philip and Mary Jane Keeney
Librarian Philip O. Keeney and his wife, Mary Jane, turned his censorship-related firing from Montana State University into a cause celebre that drew national attention and founding of the Progressive Librarians Council, which many active young librarians joined. But they also were among those federal employees identified by Elizabeth Bentley and the Venona decryptions as spies for the Soviet Union during World War II and after. The accumulation of evidence against them and their ultimate fate reveal much not only about the history of their time, but the issues surrounding secrecy and national security in our own time.
10:15am - 10:30am Break
10:30am - 11:45am (Four Concurrent Sessions)
Mt. Blanc
Speakers: Shaun Abshere, WiscNet Madison and Bob Bocher, State Library Division, Wisconsin DPI
Wiretapping the Internet: Coming Soon To An Internet Provider Near You
Over the past three years, federal law enforcement has been aggressively seeking broadly expanded powers to wiretap the Internet. This has been done most visibly by trying to extend a law originally targeted at phone company wiretaps (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act- CALEA) to the Internet. Internet providers used by academic institutions (e.g. WiscNet) must meet the new CALEA requirements by May 2007. The federal Department of Justice is also seeking major changes in other statutes to enable law enforcement to track Internet use by millions of Americans. This presentation will explore these issues, including NSA wiretaps, and their impact on academic institutions and the 70% of Americans now using the Internet.
Matterhorn
Speakers: Emily Rogers and Renee Ettinger, Cofrin Library, UW-Green Bay
Co-sponsored by the WLA Support Staff Section
The Sane Way to Train
Are you bogged down with training new student assistant? Are you tired of repeating yourself for each new hire? Are you wondering how to train students with different learning styles? Come and find out how the David A. Cofrin Library staff kept their sanity intact and streamlined their training with online courseware. By incorporating Desire 2 Learn, a course management system, the library was able to train a large amount of new assistants quickly and efficiently with limited staff. We will discuss the evolution of the program, the technical processes required, and provide specific examples of what has worked and what has not worked. A student who has recently completed the program will be available to provide insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the online training. There will be time for questions as the end of the session.
Mt. Rainier
Speaker: Krista Clumpner, Lydia M. Olsen Library, Northern Michigan University
Interdisciplinary Blog for Liaisons
As library liaison to three departments in the College of Arts and Sciences at Northern Michigan University I wanted to find a way to increase communication between myself and the faculty in the areas of Art & Design, Communication and Performance Studies, and Modern Languages and Literatures. While each area covers diverse topics there is also the potential for areas to be related and useful to each other. Unfortunately, there is little opportunity on our campus for interactions and interdepartmental communications. In an attempt to help address this problem and increase my communications with all my liaison areas, I proposed creating a blog for all my liaison areas where combined communication can be encouraged.
Pikes Peak
Speaker: Ane Carriveau, Lane Library, Ripon College
Lofty Goals, Harsh Realities. Do We Do What We Say We Do?
Assessing user needs and how the library is meeting them is critical to the library remaining relevant to the institution it serves. Ensuring that the library’s goals and mission are in active practice and not just something nice to put on paper should also be part of any assessment that is done.
Lane Library did two surveys in Fall 2006 to look at how well we are meeting the needs of the students and the faculty we serve and how well we are living out our mission and goals. This will be a discussion of survey methodology, results, changes made and future directions.
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