Thursday, April 19
8:00am - 5:00pm
Ballroom
Atrium Registration
Mt. Everest
Internet Cafe
7:00am - 8:15am
Grand Ballroom Breakfast
7:30am - 8:30am
Matterhorn
Library Research Round Table, Business Meeting
8:15am - 9:00am
Mt. McKinley
WAAL Business Meeting
9:00am - 10:15am
Mt. Blanc
Speaker: Barbara Hamel, Steenbock Library, UW-Madison
Shear Terror: Trimming the Print Reference Collection
As the budget continues to shrink, the Internet invades, and the battle for alternative use of building space rages, Steenbock Library’s print reference collection has taken a hit. Escalating costs, plummeting use and online alternatives have necessitated a reevaluation of the traditional print reference collection. This presentation will address the factors influencing change and describe what was done to the reference collection, how it was done, and how the reference staff and patrons have coped.
Matterhorn
Speaker: Susan Barribeau, Memorial Library, UW-Madison
How Long is Perpetuity? E-Resource Licensing and Archiving
Purchasing electronic is becoming a common event in academic libraries. How is the license agreement language reflecting provision for future access to what we own? This presentation will investigate the perpetual access clauses of a number of licenses and ponder the future...of electronic resource access.
Mt. Rainier
Speaker: David Dettman, Cofrin Library, UW-Green Bay
Can Students Meet the Demands of Today’s Classrooms and Tomorrow’s Workplace?: Assessing Information Literacy and Communication Technology Skills
ICT Literacy Assessment is a comprehensive tool that uses real-time, scenario-based tasks to assess information, communication, and technology skills. The test was developed by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) using the ACRL "Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education" and input from academic librarians, faculty and administrators. At UW--Green Bay we undertook a study to determine if library instruction and additional ICT-related exercises throughout the semester allowed students to demonstrate a higher degree of mastery of the seven measured information proficiencies: Define, Access, Evaluate, Manage, Integrate, Create and Communicate. Details of the test and results of the study will be shared.
Pikes Peak
Speakers: Galadriel Chilton, Michael Current, Jenifer Holman, and Cris Prucha, Murphy Library, UW-La Crosse
Lesson Study: An Experience in Collaborative Inquiry
In Japan, "lesson study" has been credited for improving Japanese elementary mathematics and science instruction. At UW-La Crosse, approximately 40 teams are engaged in this form of scholarly inquiry which integrates teaching, learning, research, theory and practice. Librarians have been involved in two such lesson study projects, one in Communication Studies (CST110) and one in Theatre Arts (THA350). In each lesson study project, a course-related information literacy lesson was collaboratively designed with classroom instructors. The lesson was taught, student learning was observed and analyzed, the lesson was collaboratively redesigned and the lesson was taught again in a subsequent semester. The lesson study project resulted in vastly improved communication between librarians and course instructors, and a lesson that benefited from the collaboration that entered into its design. This presentation will provide an overview of how librarians used lesson study to explore the information literacy lesson taught to Communication Studies students.
10:00am - noon
Mt. McKinley
ExLibris, Mike Tartaglione
10:15am – 10:30am Break
10:30am - 11:45am (Four Concurrent Sessions)
Mt. Blanc
Speakers: Todd Bruns and Sue Dentinger, Memorial Library, UW-Madison
Metalib: User Reactions and Coming Attractions
How have patrons adjusted to metasearching via MetaLib at UW Madison? How are our patrons actually using MetaLib. How are MetaLib and metasearching being taught? MetaLib 4 promises to take our MetaLib implementation into interesting new areas, including new services that will be very apparent to our users: clustering and facets, and increased local control of the MetaLib interface. If MetaLib 4 is available for testing prior to this conference, we will discuss these new features: what is clustering? How does it work? What are the changes behind it? How does this compare to, for example, Google Scholar or NCSU’s Endeca OPAC indexing and display of search results?
Matterhorn
Speakers: Allan Barclay, Amy Gannaway and Bonnie Shucha, UW-Madison (Ebling Library, College of Engineering, Law Library)
Beyond Newsletters: RSS Feeds, Blogs, and Podcasts
What’s the difference between a blog and a podcast? And what does RSS stand for, anyway? During this session you’ll find out the answers to these questions, as well as discover how these tools can be effectively used in libraries. We’ll briefly explain the technology behind the tools and discuss how you can use blogs, RSS feeds, and podcasts to keep up with the current news and events and communicate with library staff and patrons. We’ll take a look at what other libraries are doing and provide suggestions to help you get started.
Mt. Rainier
Speaker: Tom Hennen, Waukesha County Federated Library System
Library Legislative Advocacy & ALF
Learn more about how the Alliance for Libraries conduit fund is advancing or legislative advocacy program. The Wisconsin Library Association has created a campaign conduit fund to allow library supporters to contribute to statewide legislative campaigns in the name of the Alliance for Libraries Fund (ALF). WLA members place funds in an account and will be asked if they wish to donate funds to legislators or candidates that WLA chooses. We must receive explicit authorization to release funds to a specific candidate or candidates; we may not direct contributions without authorization from the individual contributor. For more information, see: http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/legis/conduit.htm
Pikes Peak
Speaker: Pat Wilkinson, Polk Library, UW-Oshkosh
Books Are Our Brand! E-Books Are Our Future
Almost 70% of college students identify “books” as the first thing that they associate with libraries. No other association comes even close. Ironically, despite the quick acceptance and wide use of the e-content, the acceptance and use of e-books has seemed to lag behind other forms of digital information.
Patrick Wilkinson is chair of OCLC Members Council’s Task Force on the Integration of E-Books. Learn what the Task Force is discovering about the current e-book landscape: what factors hinder the integration and acceptance of e-books; how some libraries have successfully integrated e-books into library services; what are the current business models for “current” e-books vendors; and how are participating libraries and OCLC working with massive e-book digitization efforts. Then express your ideas about what e-books mean for the future of libraries and library patrons.
11:45am - 12:00 Noon Break
12:00 Noon - 1:45 pm
Grand Ballroom
Luncheon Program
Speaker: Emily Auerbach
The UW Odyssey Project: Transforming Lives Through the Humanities
Emily Auerbach is a Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Project Director of "The Courage to Write" series of radio documentaries on women writers. She has received numerous teaching and arts awards from the University of Wisconsin and broadcasting awards for "The Courage to Write" series.
Emily Auerbach reaches not only undergraduates through her campus classes on 19th-century literature but also hundreds of thousands of nontraditional students through lectures at public libraries, Elderhostels, prisons, retirement centers, schools, and service clubs. Over 4,000 people attended "Jane Austen in the 21st Century," a 40-event festival she directed for the UW Center for the Humanities (see http://www.humanities.wisc.edu). This festival was honored with the 2001 Governor's Award in the Humanities.
One new outreach course she directs is called the Odyssey Project, a free humanities course for low-income adults. She also serves as co-host of "University of the Air," a one-hour program broadcast statewide on Wisconsin Public Radio, Sundays 4-5 pm, featuring interviews with faculty in a variety of disciplines (see http://www.wpr.org for University of the Air broadcast schedule).
She first became interested in the audio medium as a way to spread literature to wider audiences when she was hired in 1985 by the Annenberg/Corporation for Public Broadcasting Foundation to oversee development of 24 radio programs on 19th and 20th century writers that could be used both for broadcast and as material in Independent Learning courses (see LSA Independent Learning, IL English 167-168). With grant funding, she then began "The Courage to Write," a new series of radio programs and written guides about women writers who overcame tremendous obstacles in order to become authors (see LSA Independent Learning, IL English 249). Emily Auerbach serves as project director, scriptwriter, and narrator for this award-winning series. She has just completed a book entitled Searching for Jane Austen for the University of Wisconsin Press (Fall 2004), and has published articles and textbooks on 19th century British and American writers.
Odyssey Project Website: http://www.odyssey.wisc.edu/Pages/about.htm
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Mt. McKinley Room
Lexis/Nexis, Lynn Smith
1:45pm – 2:00 pm Break
2:00pm - 3:15pm (Four Concurrent Sessions)
Mt. Blanc
Speaker: Carl Ziebell, Lane Library, Ripon College
Co-sponsored by the WLA Support Staff Section
Using Student Employees in Non-traditional roles within the Undergraduate Library
In many traditional libraries, student employees are often used to staff the circulation desk during the off hours when library staff is unavailable, to process books in the cataloging department, and to do other mundane tasks that do not seem to require direct staff supervision. However, what happens when money is tight and the there is minimal staffing? How can a small library get its work accomplished and provide the most quality services for the dollar? One answer is to utilize student employees in ways that we haven’t necessarily considered before in order to free up our time to do other professional tasks that otherwise often get shelved for lack of time. Please come prepared to discuss any non-traditional ways that you presently use your undergraduate student workers.
Matterhorn
Speaker: Michael Watkins, Polk Library, UW-Oshkosh
DataFerrett for the Dataweb: Virtual Processing of Government Data Files
DataFerrett for the Dataweb creates an exciting new dimension in online access to government data. The DataFerret software, a joint venture of the Census Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control, allows for searching many of the raw data (microdata) sets made available by various government agencies. It allows the user to create unique customized files from government data sets by cross-tabulating variables and retrieving the results in tabular format. This presentation will provide background information and a brief history of the DataFerrett software and the DataWeb and will include a demonstration of its capabilities. An overview will be given of the current datasets available for processing The demonstration will show how the DataFerret software can be used to cross tabulate variables with two or three tabulations from different raw data samples—including one from the 2000 Census Public User Microdata files and one from the National Center for Health Statistics mortality files.
Mt. Rainier
Speakers: Lelah Lugo, Denise Madland and Carol Hagness, Library Learning Center, UW-Stout
Orienteering the Laptop Campus: Team Adventures
Librarians have teamed up with Student Services, First Year Experience Staff, Learning and Technology Services, and the Teaching and Learning Center to orientate students and faculty for “hands-on/minds-on” experiences in the use of their laptops. With UW-Stout being the only laptop campus in the UW System, there is a unique opportunity for collaborative training and integration of resources into courses for students and faculty. For students, the E-Scholar Laptop Initiative provides a comprehensive effort involving training in the optimum use of their laptops (email, laptop utilities, information resources). For faculty, workshops and sessions provide discovery experiences in the integration of the laptop in their teaching and putting library resources into D2L. Stout librarians are an integral part of the training and further extend library advocacy through student events and activities. The overall orientation “package” puts the library in a prominent place on the map for the campus newcomers.
Pikes Peak
Speaker: Dr. David Wrone, Author & Professor Emeritus of History, UW-Stevens Point
Was Oliver Stone Right? On the Trail with a Super Sleuth: Four Decades of JFK Assassination Research
David Wrone is one of our nation's foremost authorities on the JFK assassination. Since 1968, he has researched the Warren Commission report, co-authored a bibliography, and has written numerous articles on the assassination. Before his retirement in 1994, Dr. Wrone examined Zapruder's film and published his book entitled "The Zapruder Film: Reframing the JFK Assassination." In this publication, he utilizes his knowledge of forensic evidence and provides the film's forty-year history. During his lifetime work on the subject matter, Dr. Wrone has taken bold steps to refute the Warren Commission report and challenge the establishment's findings and research. Through his presentation, Dr. Wrone will walk the audience through his research process and share the experiences that he encountered on his journey. Learn first hand about the challenges that he faced during his years of investigative research. He will keep you spellbound as you learn about theories and findings that surround the greatest crime of the twentieth century. Learn about path of one courageous professor and his experience in utilizing the Freedom of Information Act to gain access and publish his work.
3:15pm - 3:30pm Break
3:30pm - 4:45pm (Four Concurrent Sessions)
Mt. Blanc
Speakers: Eric Larson and Nate Vack, Wendt Library, UW-Madison
The BibApp
The UW-Madison Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing (OSCP) is working to build a campus Institutional Bibliography (IB). When you connect people with citations, an interesting picture of campus scholarly communication develops. The IB creates many opportunities; detailed collection analysis, improved department/liaison relationships, personalized copyrights instructions and rapid population of MINDS@UW- our institutional repository. The OSCP has captured over 12,000 unique citations and identified 2,000+ pieces of work to digitally archive from the College of Engineering.
The OSCP is now working to expand the project to include the Schools of Medicine and Nursing and the English Department. This explanation has led to campus collaboration, as partnerships with Wisconsin TechSearch and the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) help to pilot an important new library service.
The BibApp is also a very forward website. Come hear about agile web development, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript toolkits, mashup-techniques and RESTful architecture.
Matterhorn
Speakers: Kristin Woodward and Molly Susan Mathias, UW-Milwaukee Libraries
Co-sponsored by the WLA Library User Education Round Table (LUERT)
Inquiry Based Research: Process as a means to Discovery
Librarians have adapted to find the “teachable moment” in one-shot workshops, while faculty can devote an entire semester to developing student writing as a process of discovery. In collaboration with Composition program coordinators and instructors, Research and Instructional Support at the UW-Milwaukee Libraries has conceptualized an Inquiry Based Research Curriculum. Our challenge is we often focus on post-evaluation and observable skills, whereas faculty might use a rubric that asks questions about the level of “engagement” students have had with inquiry and how research sources were used in the final product. Attendees will learn about Inquiry Based Research and how it is implemented in our composition program. Participants will be part of a group discussion to assist in conceptualizing the differences in library instruction services and faculty instruction goals. Attendees will create a plan to assist them in developing an “Inquiry Based” Instruction process for their instruction sessions.
Mt. Rainier
Speakers: Louise Robbins and Ming-Hsin Chiu, School of Library and Information Studies, UW-Madison and Diane Barlow and Patricia Fisher, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland
Researching, Courting, and Educating Next Generation Subject Specialists
Is there a shortage of subject specialists for academic and research libraries? If so, in what fields does demand outstrip supply? Will future staffing patterns change the demand? Why do people with advanced degrees enter librarianship? How can we use what we know to make sure that the demand for subject specialists does not outstrip supply? And once we have recruited advanced degree holders, what should their curriculum include? A team from UW-Madison SLIS and its counterpart at the University of Maryland share the results of their three-year IMLS-funded research.
Pikes Peak
Speakers: Matthew Coan, Amanda Werhane, Thomas Durkin, Chris Hooper-Lane (UW-Madison Libraries--Steenbock, Wendt, Social Science Reference, Ebling), Susan Heffron, Todd Wehr Memorials Library, Carroll College and Jennifer Snoek-Brown, Karrmann Library, UW-Platteville
Liaison Librarian Forum: "What’s New? What’s Next”
Partnerships, outreach, co-instruction with faculty, relationship marketing, subject expertise, collection development, committee work, advocacy-What do these words have in common? They’re all job duties of liaisons! Join us for an update on current trends in liaison librarianship and a lively discussion with liaison librarians from across the states, representing multiple disciplines. Panelists will react to a brief look at the literature and then report on new and upcoming collaborations, describe recent struggles, and provide their own perspectives, on the future of liaison services. Audience (that’s you!) participation and questions round out the forum.
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Mt. McKinley Room
WiLS Meeting, Kathy Schneider
5:30pm - 7:30 pm
Grand Ballroom Bennett Studio Photography Reception
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