Schedule
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Tuesday, April 15
5:00 - 7:00 PM
Board Room
Registration
7:00 - 8:30 PM
Blackhawk
WAAL Board Meeting
8:30 - ? PM
Blackhawk
Chairs' Reception
Wednesday, April 16
7:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Board Room
Registration
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Fleetwing
Internet Cafe
7:30 - 8:45 AM
Atrium
Breakfast
9:00 - 10:15 AM
Ballroom Central
Keynote Address with Gary Price
Gary's Web Research Toolbox
Gary Price is a librarian, formerly with Ask.com, and the founder and chief editor ofResourceShelf.com. He is also the founder and a contributor toDocuTicker.com.
Price earned his MLIS from Wayne State University and holds a BA from the University of Kansas. From 1995-2001, he worked as a Reference Librarian at George Washington University, and from 2004-2006, Gary was the News Editor of Search Engine Watch. He is a frequent speaker at professional and trade conferences, a contributor to Searcher magazine and the co-author of The Invisible Web.
He will cover numerous topics, with demonstrations of many tools. Attendees are encouraged to ask questions throughout the presentation.
Topics will include:
- Web 2.0 Tools & Trends
- The Latest in Web Search
- The Invisible Web Circa 2008
- Web-Based Collection Development
- E-Books & Multimedia Search
- Tools to Keep Current
10:15 - 10:30 AM
Atrium
Break
10:30 - 11:45 AM
Ballroom East
Avoiding the “Librarian Nerd Loop” Engaging Students and Creating a User-Friendly Library Environment
Carroll librarians coined the phrase “Librarian Nerd Loop” to describe our tendency to get caugt up in librarian jargon, idiosyncrasies and technical details which pointed us away from our goals of providing a student centered library. How can we avoid this when creating new services for our student patrons? We will present several new or improved student-centered services in the areas of Web page enhancement, chat reference, information literacy instruction, and on-the-job experiential learning projects for talented student employees. We hope for a lively discussion of how we can all create library environments that are relevant to today’s patrons.
Linda Hartig, Susan Heffron, Amelia Osterud, & Katie Sanders, Carroll College
Ballroom West
Just Where Are We? Academic Librarianship in Wisconsin
Metaphors of navigation, mapping, and travel naturally come to mind because of the location of this year’s WAAL conference. In setting out, we might stop to take a good look around and really see the bigger picture related to the variety of academic institutions and libraries in Wisconsin. This panel will begin to explore librarianship in higher education in Wisconsin and with a discussion of common questions that will highlight the differences and similarities between a representative technical college, two-year college, liberal arts college, masters-level university, and research university.
Pete Gilbert, Seeley G. Mudd Library, Lawrence University
Kim LaPlante, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
Mary Rieder, UW-Colleges
Ed Van Gemert, UW-Madison
Pat Wilkinson, Forrest R. Polk Library, UW-Oshkosh
Gretchen Revie, Seeley G. Mudd Library, Lawrence University
Manitowoc Room
Will You Be My Friend...On Facebook?
Join Ben Willard (ITS) and Julie Fricke (Library) of Lawrence University for an informative overview of Facebook and social networking. Topics will range from basic to advanced. We’ll cover Facebook’s origins and uses, and we’ll also introduce you to events, groups, and developer applications. The fun is nearly limitless!
Ben Willard & Julie Fricke, Lawrence University
NOON - 1:45 PM
Atrium
Luncheon with Rochelle Pennington
Rochelle Pennington, local author of The Historic Christmas Tree Ship: A True Story of Faith, Hope and LoveandThe Endurance: History's Greatest Shipwreck,will share little-known facts surrounding one of the most well-known shipwrecks of the Great Lakes, including the ship's mysterious disappearance, clues washed ashore in the decades following its demise, ghost ship sightings of the Phantom Schooner, and omens believed to have cursed the ship immediately before it set sail on November 22, 1912. The author will also have a recently acquired collection of artifacts from the sunken ship on display.
Pennington is an award-winning freelance author and newspaper columnist whose work has been included in several bestselling series includingChicken Soup for the Soul,Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff,andStories for the Heart.
Pennington’s research on the Christmas Tree Ship has been featured on several television stations including FOX-TV and The Weather Channel’s Storm Stories holiday special.
2:00 - 3:15 PM
Ballroom East
Adventures of the Roving Librarian: Morocco
As North Africa and the Middle East get more attention on the world stage, it is important for Americans to understand some of the domestic challenges countries in the region are facing. In July 2007, I traveled to Morocco as part of a Fulbright Hays grant designed to expose American educators to issues confronting Morocco’s education system. I will discuss findings for the experience, including challenges posed by Morocco’s linguistic diversity; the status of education and literacy; and life in the Moroccan family.
Valerie Viers, Ripon College
Ballroom West
WAAL Information Literacy Award Recipient Presentation
Approaches to Integrating Information Literacy into the Curriculum: Delivery Models and Methods of Assessment
With national accreditation agencies demanding evidence of successful information literacy instruction, assessment has become imperative. So, too, has the collaboration of librarians and faculty in the integration of IL into the curriculum. To that end, we will illuminate various models of course integration offered and implemented at Green Bay. We will also review existing assessment instruments and discuss the value of resulting data in helping librarians grow their IL programs.
Dave Dettman, Cofrin Library, UW-Green Bay
Manitowoc Room
Video Gaming and Online Social Simulations: Overview and Issues for Collection Development
Videogames and interactive “social simulations” have been around for decades, but media attention and serious academic research has increased significantly in recent years. Librarians have taken notice: ALA hosted the TechSource Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Symposium in July, 2007. We will review the context and organization of game research, gaming in libraries, and related collection development issues. Video game collections allow us to serve gamers and gaming scholars while challenging notions of library collections and services. This session will address the value of video game collections as well as evaluation, selection, purchasing, and promotion in academic Libraries.
Thomas Durkin, Social Sciences Library, UW-Madison
Kelli Keclik, College Library, UW-Madison
3:15 - 3:30
Atrium
Break
This break is sponsored in part byLexisNexis Academic & Library Solutions.
3:30 - 4:45 PM
Ballroom East
Next Generation Virtual Reference: Playing with it Now
Virtual Reference serves patrons who want to use their library from the web, but the patron often still has to a specific web page on the library web site. Web 2.0 tools and approaches endeavor to reach out to patrons where they “hang out” on the web. Using Instant Messaging tools and services like AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live messenger and widgets like Meebo, Plugoo and a new add on widget for OCLC’s QuestionPoint are the next steps in virtual reference that are being used by some of our libraries. This session will talk about the decision to use these tools, and how they work and what success is being experienced by the libraries and their patrons.
Steve Frye, UW-Madison
John Jentz, Marquette University
Valerie Beech, Marquette University
Mark Beatty, Wisconsin Library Services and AskAway
Ballroom West
Improving Teaching and Learning through Instructional Partnerships: Building Librarian Relationships with One-on-One, In-depth Conversations
How can librarians work to improve their teaching and student learning and build relationships and community? One solution at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries is creation of an Instructional Partnerships Program. The Program enables librarians to work on individual instructional goals with the help of a partner through self-directed activities of reflection, discussion, and observation. Presenters will discuss how the Program was developed and how partnerships are helping librarians improve their teaching skills and build supportive relationships with colleagues. Benefits and challenges will be highlighted. Resources and tools created to support partnerships will be shared.
Rebecca Payne, Memorial Library, UW-Madison
Carrie Nelson, College Library, UW-Madison
Sheila Stoeckel, Library & Information Literacy Instruction Program, UW-Madison
Manitowoc Room
Building Partnerships for Learning and Scholarship: Developing Faculty Collaboration and a Specialized PK-12 Curriculum resource Collection
PK-12 science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education reform is currently receiving a great deal of attention in the United States. Learn how members of the Biology Department and Murphy Library at the UW-La Crosse (UWL) collaborated to develop both a PK-12 Curriculum Center STEM collection and construct a STEM education website. Additional discussion will focus on efforts to promote this newly created collection/website and forge relationships between UW-La Crosse and the local community (i.e., K-12 school districts, area libraries, media centers, and institutions).
John Jax, Murphy Library, UW-La Crosse
Tim Gerber, UW-LaCrosse
5:00 - 5:30 PM
Manitowoc Room
Librarians Supporting Nursing Education (LIBNEDS) Meeting
5:00 - 6:00 PM
East Room
Curriculum Librarians Meeting
5:30 - 7:30 PM
Atrium
5:30 - 7:30 PM
Atrium
Résumé Review Corner (Free Feedback)
6:30 - 7:30 PM
Manitowoc Room
CUWL USCC New Reference Models Working Group Meeting
7:00 - 10:00 PM
Lounge
Social (Details/Options TBA)
Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday
Thursday, April 17
7:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Board Room
Registration
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Fleetwing
Internet Cafe
7:30 - 8:45 AM
Atrium
Breakfast
8:00 - 9:00 AM
Atrium
WAAL Business Meeting
9:00- 10:15 AM
Ballroom East
Connecting with Faculty
Three librarians and one faculty member from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville share ideas on how to connect with faculty. All three librarians have been asked to teach outside the library for other departments. They also work closely with faculty on various projects, often being asked to join projects that originate outside the library walls. They also try to involve faculty in the design process as well when the library reaches out to faculty, such as in online library instructional modules. Examples will come from both faculty and librarian’s perspective on how to connect with each other.
Regina Pauly, Jennifer Snoek-Brown, Kay Young, & Dr. Rea Kirk, UW-Platteville
Ballroom West
"If You Ordered an Article When I Started Talking it Would be Here by Now!” RapidILL at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
On October 1, 2007 the General Library System at the University of Wisconsin-Madison implemented the RapidILL Software, a document delivery system that allows for mediated or unmediated 24 hour article delivery within their current ILL software ILLiad. With this implementation they have been able to eliminate the high cost and time intensive alternatives for rush article delivery to their campus patrons, while making the majority of their articles rush.
Come hear the speakers discuss their experiences with RapidILL for borrowing and lending, and learn how it has allowed them to free up staff time and to improve all around campus document delivery services.
Heather Weltin, Memorial Library, UW-Madison
Eric Robinson, Wisconsin Library Services
Manitowoc Room
Web Site and Online Database Accessibility at Academic Libraries: A Critical Overview of the Recent Research and Policy Developments
With online resources becoming ubiquitous in higher education, access to these resources is of utmost importance. Libraries must ensure that all individuals, including those with disabilities, can participate in the online learning environment. After introducing the ethical and legal dimensions of this mandate, the presenter will focus on the accessibility of two key resources: library web sites and online databases. Recent research studies will be reviewed and specific policies will be discussed. The key audiences are librarians involved in web design, as well as those responsible for the selection of online databases at campus or UW system level.
Axel Schmetzke, UW-Stevens Point
10:15 - 10:30 AM
Atrium
Break
This break is sponsored, in part, byBlackwell.
10:30 - 11:45 AM
Ballroom East
Super Student-Worker to the Rescue!: Developing an Information Resources Internship Program (Privately-Funded) in a Small Undergraduate Library
After years of limited success employing student workers to provide the level of performance and reliability needed, UW-Sheboygan library staff brainstormed a new internship program in Spring 2007. Selected through a competitive scholarship application and interview process, the intern receives a high-level experience in library and information management, and payroll sufficient to fund their tuition. The program is funded with a grant from the UW-Sheboygan Foundation. Jeff will explain the process of developing the program, he will describe the goals it is intended to meet, and Jeff and Katie will discuss the outcomes of the internship through its first year.
Jeff Ellair, UW-Sheboygan
Katie Kissinger, UW-Sheboygan Information Resources Intern
Ballroom West
Reinventing the Library Class Session: Achieving Remarkable Student Engagement
In mid-2007, UW-Madison librarians completely re-envisioned and redesigned the library session for the campus-mandated Communications requirement. The result has been remarkable student engagement and learning. Students ask all the right questions and their evaluations rank “the librarian’s demonstrations” as the part of the class that helped them most. Although we will focus on and model the interactive methods we developed to engage students, this program will cover our process of developing a library session as well as our use of transformative learning theory and the discovery process in the classroom.
Eliot Finkelstein & Carrie Nelson, College Library, UW-Madison
Trisha Prosise, College & Steenbock Libraries, UW-Madison
Manitowoc Room
Expanding the Role of the Academic librarian: Academic Support Services as Outreach
In 2006 the Carroll Library expanded traditional library services such as information literacy classes and reference support to include other areas of academic support such as writing assistance, subject tutoring, and Supplemental Instruction. While study centers or learning centers are often housed in academic libraries, Carroll librarians manage and facilitate such formalized academic support services by collaborating with faculty. This new role for the Carroll librarians has provided diverse opportunities to partner with faculty and other campus organizations providing student support as well as the chance to network with colleagues outside of our customary library focused organizations. Come to this session and find out how managing and facilitating academic support services have increased student and faculty engagement at the Carroll Library.
Allison M. Reeves & Karla Strand, Carroll College
NOON - 1:45 PM
Atrium
Luncheon with Leslie Umberger
“Sublime Spaces & Visionary Worlds: Built Environments of Vernacular Artists” has been a landmark exhibition for the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan. Visitors from across the U.S. and six continents have been enthralled by the astonishing range and power of the 22 environment builders featured. In the hands of these little-known artists, patches of wasteland become transcendent kingdoms. Empty lots and sheds are gateways to healing and the heavens. Homes and yards are simultaneously museum and masterpiece. Mysterious machines and concrete menageries; thrones of bone and towers of steel; volumes of poetry and libraries of wordless books: all are created by the artist-builders featured.
Leslie Umberger is senior curator of exhibitions and collections at the Kohler Arts Center. She specializes in American art history and the work of folk, self-taught, and vernacular artists.
2:00 - 3:15 PM
Ballroom East
Open Editions: An Introduction to Collaborative Environments for the Production of Scholary Editions
Taking advantage of wikis and other collaborative media, researchers in the humanities have been exploring ways to present scholarly editions of literary and other works. These formats offer the ability for collaborating scholars to work easily together, sharing contributions and communications on platforms accessible to those in their community or even worldwide audiences. Additionally, these new editions can evolve into webs of research activity that link works to other works and to many kinds of research resources, including linguistic or other reference works, related scholarship, and research libraries that house primary sources.
Thomas D. Walker, UW-Milwaukee
Ballroom West
Creating a Library 2.0 Presence Without a Web Programmer
The NWTC Library staff recently used LibGuides software to turn their subject pathfinders and instructional handouts into dynamic web pages and widgets which are available to students through the Library’s web site, the College’s course management system, the student portal, instructor web pages, and even Facebook. Learn how they did it all in less than 3 months, and see a demonstration of how easy it is to create Library 2.0 tools without a web programmer.
Kim LaPlante, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
Julie Chapman, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
Manitowoc Room
A Cataloger in the Archives
This presentation looks at the similarities between cataloging and processing archival collections, particularly in regard to thought processes, description, and providing access. The presenter, a cataloger, will discuss some of the experiences that he has had in processing the papers of John D. Voelker, better know to most people as Robert Traver, in the Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives and will also describe the contents of the Voelker papers and show how a supposedly literary collection would be of interest to researchers in a variety of disciplines.
Stephen H. Peters, Olson Library, Northern Michigan University
3:15 - 3:30 PM
Atrium
Break
3:30 - 4:45 PM
Ballroom East
Artists Inside the Library of Babel
Librarians often promote information literacy within the disciplines, but in some cases, particularly the fine arts, our practice may fall short of our goals. Most librarians have a good sense of ways we can work with art historians, but many have a more difficult time even imagining how we would integrate the library and the studio.
Our panel presents ways that the visual resources librarian and reference librarians have collaborated with studio art faculty at Lawrence University. These collaborations have introduced students to visual and textual resources at all levels of the curriculum from gateway courses to the senior seminar.
Colette Lunday Brautigam & Gretchen Revie, Seeley G. Mudd Library, Lawrence University
Benjamin Rinehart, J. Shimon, & J. Lindemann, Lawrence University
Ballroom West
Library Course Pages in the UW Colleges: Delivering Relevant Library Services to Students at the Point of Need
The UW Colleges have instituted a home grown library portal that provides students access to course relevant library/research material at the point of need. Every UW Colleges class has its own dynamically created Library Course Page (LCP) which integrates features of the OPAC, databases, reserves, CourseCasts, etc. LCPs have also been integrated into Desire2Learn giving the library a strong presence in the online environment.
We will demonstrate features of the program, and how they have been implemented and received. The development process will be discussed as well as the technical requirements to allow other libraries to implement similar solutions.
Marc Boucher, Mark Robson & Renee Sikma, UW-Washington County
Manitowoc Room
Library User Attitudes At A Small Liberal Arts College: The 2007 Alverno College Library Survey
In 2007, librarians at Alverno College designed and conducted a survey of students, faculty and staff by reviewing the current survey literature and utilizing the skills and expertise of faculty in the college’s Psychology department. The cost effective survey focused on how patrons use the college library, what changes they wanted and what types of technology they prefer. In addition, the survey was used to identify demographic characteristics of the library’s users and nonusers.
Larry Duerr & Dolores Skowronek, Alverno College
6:30 - 8:30 PM
Reception
75 Maritime Drive, Manitowoc, WI
FREE dessert reception, with complimentary shuttle transportation to and from the museum. Shuttles will depart from the hotel at 6:15 PM. Tours of the museum are $8 (pre-registration encouraged).
A Smithsonian Affiliate institution, the WI Maritime Museum provides an opportunity to explore the rich history of the Great Lakes region, and learn about the sailors, shipbuilders and submariners who made that history. The Library and Archives contain approximately 8,000 books and 40,000 photographs in addition to personal and corporate memorabilia.
Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday
Friday, April 18
8:00 - 10:30 AM
Board Room
Registration
8:00 - 11:00 AM
Fleetwing
Internet Cafe
7:30 - 8:45 AM
Atrium
Breakfast
9:00 - 10:15 AM
Ballroom East
Library Instruction: Using Effective Marketing Strategies to Ensure Successful Outcomes
The task of getting teaching faculty and students interested in library instruction is often challenging. Instructional librarians may be able to attract the same customers annually and maintain the status quo, but information literacy programs need to grow if they are to flourish.
This presentation will examine how library instruction can be enhanced and cross boundaries into diverse student populations and reveal how marketing your product will attract new recruits to the process of library instruction. By developing partnerships, networking throughout campus, and emphasizing collaboration through a comprehensive public relations agenda, the mystique of library instruction will disappear.
Ronald G. Edwards, Western Technical College
Ballroom West
Podcasts to the People! How Your Library Can Offer Podcasting Training to Your Users
Library-centric podcasts detailing events, services, and general library news are great, but the real power of a podcast rest in the hands of your users. Jon Mark Bolthouse, Automation Librarians for the UW-Colleges and podcasting instructor for UW-Fond du Lac Continuing Education will show you how your library can be the source of podcasting training, enabling your users to create, edit, and host their own podcasts. Program planning, audio editing, royalty free music and sound effects, and RSS feed creation will be covered in this presentation.
Jon Mark Bolthouse, UW-Colleges
Manitowoc Room
ISIP: Diversity and the Information Specialist Internship Program at UW-Madison
In 2005, UW-Madison Libraries staff began to discuss the importance of exposing students from under-represented minorities to careers in the information and library professions. Discussion led to the development of our internship program, called the “Information Specialist Internship Program” (ISIP). This two-year internship gives students a window into the diverse world of information professionals. The program is in its second year, and has three continuing and five new interns. We will share the satisfactions and challenges of our experience in designing the ISIP program, recruiting students and supervisors, and utilizing their feedback as we continue to make the necessary adjustments for a successful program. One of our first cohort interns will also share her experience in the program.
Jeanne Witte, Steenbock Library, UW-Madison
Carrie Kruse, College Library, UW-Madison
Lisa Saywell, Memorial Library, UW-Madison
Keisha Simpson, UW-Madison ISIP Intern
10:15 - 10:30 AM
Atrium
Break
10:30 - 11:45 AM
Ballroom East
Status of Standards-Based Interlibrary Loan in Wisconsin
Standards-based interlibrary loan has the potential to allow interlibrary loan requests to travel from one library to another regardless of with ILL software each library uses. Terms such as ISO, A39.50, SIP2, NCIP are beginning to creep into discussions. What does implementing these standards actually mean? How might it change workflow in your library?
At its simplest, Z39.50 allows for the search and retrieval of bibliographic data in online databases. It is also used on the Internet to search a library’s OPAC.
ISO allows ILL requests to travel seamlessly between two interlibrary loan management systems such as ILLiad or OCLC and AGent. This is now mainly being used by WiLS, but has the potential for use between the academic libraries and other libraries within a library system. The same standards make it possible to send requests from an AGent library to OCLC users. That functionality will be tested and implemented next.
In addition, staff from the Reference and Loan Library are currently testing NCIP (NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol) with public libraries using AGent. It allows a request updated in circulation system to simultaneously update the ILL request.
It’s a new “standards based” world out there!
Terry Wilcox & Sally Drew, Reference and Loan Library
Bob Shaw, Wisconsin Library Services
Ballroom West
Hold that Tomato! A Discussion of Two Books and the Local Food Movement
Have you missed the boat by not moving to Virginia and living off the land? In this latest Reader’s Section Series, Kirsten discusses two books, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver, and See You in a Hundred Years: Four Seasons in Forgotten America by Logan Ward. Both authors spent a year learning to eat only seasonable and local food. No tomatoes or oranges in the dead of winter. And Ward adds to the equation by living the year as if it was 1900. We’ll discuss the books and talk about the local food movement. Participants are encouraged to read one book or both.
Kirsten Houtman, Wisconsin Library Services
Manitowoc Room
Selecting the Right Web 2.0 Tools for Your Library
A plethora of Web 2.0 tools are freely available for libraries to use. With so many options, how does one select the right tools for any particular library? At the UWDCC we determined two key goals that would drive our Web 2.0 activities: drawing new users to http://uwdc.library.wisc.eduand enhancing the experience of our existing users. Our WAAL presentation will focus on the processes behind critical evaluation and implementation of Web 2.0 in our library. We hope our experiences will encourage libraries to experiment and take advantage of Web 2.0 resources.
Leah Ujda & Melissa McLimans, UW Digital Collections Center
Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday