Newsletter, Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians

Co-Editors: Stacey Burkart, UW Baraboo Library
Karen J. Dunn, UW Madison, Steenbock Library

Inside this Issue...

News from the WAAL Chair WLA Annual Conference
Hut! Hut! WLA Foundation, Silent Auction
WAAL Annual Conference Women's Studies, Film/Video Resources
WAAL Information Literacy Award:
Call for Nominations
UW-Milwaukee Libraries' Digital Collections
Mentors Needed, WAAL Conference People & Places in the News
Scholarships Available! Calendar of Meetings & Events
  WAAL Board Members

News from the WAAL Chair - Patricia Herrling

Patricia Herrling, WAAL Chair, photo WAAL Business Meeting and WLA Conference
Fellow Academic librarians: I assume everyone is in the thick of a new Fall semester. New students, instructional classes and tours, and all of the other new events connected with the start of an academic semester keep us hopping. Hopefully, we will all take a break at the end of October for the WLA conference. This will be held October 28-31, Milwaukee at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel.

The hotel should be familiar to you from our WAAL 2003 conference. You can find more information about the conference, including registration information at http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/conferences/2003/

We will also be holding our WAAL Business meeting at the conference. This will be
Wednesday, October 29th at 12:00pm in Room D6. One of the things we will be discussing at this Business meeting is changes in our WAAL Bylaws. You will be receiving a postcard about the changes and an opportunity to vote on these if you cannot attend the Business meeting. The proposed changes are also available at http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/waal/bylawchange.html

New WAAL Chair for 2004
I have some good news and some bad news about our Vice-Chair/Chair Elect. Paula Ganyard was elected Vice-Chair/Chair Elect in 2003, but due to pressures of work and a change in jobs, she did not feel able to continue in this role. However, the good news is she gave us lots of notice and is continuing as the WLA Webmaster. I enjoyed working with Paula this past year and join everyone on the WAAL Board in appreciation of all the work she has done for WAAL. We did not feel it would be fair to ask a newly elected Vice-Chair/Chair Elect to step into the Chair position, so after consultation and brainstorming the Board asked a person with prior WAAL Chair experience to step into this position for 2004. Gene Engeldinger, who many of you know, has agreed to be WAAL Chair 2004. If you do not know Gene, he is the Director of Carthage College. He has a long history of involvement with WAAL and we are very lucky to have him take on this duty for us. If you would like to congratulate (or commiserate with) Gene you can reach him at eng@wi.rr.com.

WAAL Electronic Directory
As most of you should know by now we have published for the first time an electronic version of the WAAL Directory. This is available at the WAAL web site at http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/waal/. You should click on the link for "WAAL Directory (Members Only)". This is a great way to browse or search the WAAL Directory for librarians across Wisconsin. The electronic format also allows us to keep this information up to date and accurate. If you have changes or updates, please contact Michael Watkins, Chair of the Directory committee at watkins@uwosh.edu. To access the Directory you need an ID and password. In July, Michael sent an email containing this information. If you do not have that information, please contact Michael at the email address listed above.

Your WAAL Committees have been busy working on several other new initiatives for the coming year, including a new Information Literacy Award. The information about this new award can be found at http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/waal/infolit/index.html. You can also read more about this in the newsletter. The 2004 WAAL Conference Planning committee is well underway on work for the next conference, which will be held in Elkhart Lake. A call for program proposals has already gone out and more news will follow as we get closer to that date. The Publications and Membership Committees will be working together on a new and snazzy WAAL Membership brochure for the Spring conference.

I guess that wraps it up for this newsletter. This will be my last column as Chair of WAAL. I want to say how much I have liked working with and getting to know so many librarians across Wisconsin. We have a great state association of Academic Librarians! I have said it before, but this past year has brought it even more strongly home to me. Whatever conferences or workshops I attend throughout the year people are always impressed with the innovations, involvement, and creativity of Wisconsin Librarians. I am honored to have served you this past year and look forward to many future years of involvement.

Sincerely,
Patricia Herrling
WAAL Chair 2003

P.S. WAAL/WLA Committee Members Needed!

I had sent out an email earlier in September announcing some vacancies in WAAL/WLA committees. I had a great response and have filled all of the WAAL Committee openings. Thanks to all who volunteered! However, we do still have a few slots to fill for our WLA committees. They are for the Long Range Planning Committee (http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/committees/lrp/index.html) and the Library Development & Legislation Committee (http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/committees/ldl/ldl.html). You can find out more information about these committees at the URL's listed above. If you would like to volunteer or talk to me about one of these committees, please call me at 608-263-6373 or email me at pherrling@library.wisc.edu.

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"Hut! Hut!" cartoon--Michael P. May

Reprinted with permission of Michael May.
Copyright 2003 by Michael May.

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WAAL Annual Conference

--Nerissa Nelson, WAAL Conference Planning Committee Member

Mark your calendars for the WAAL 2004 Annual Conference, April 21-23 at the Osthoff Resort in Elkhart Lake.

This year's theme, Up to Speed: Information and Technology Literacy for Lifelong Learning includes an exciting group of speakers. Dane Ward, Associate Dean of Public Services at Illinois State University's Milner Library, will talk about Information Literacy. Kathy Pletcher, Associate Provost of Information Services at UW-Green Bay, will discuss issues regarding Legislative Advocacy. Diversity Issues in Librarianship will be presented by Zora Sampson, Director of Library, Information and Instructional Technology at UW-Barron County. We also have a panel - Mark Beatty from WiLS, Rebecca Bark from Alverno College, Gus Falkenberg from L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library, Mimi King from UW-Eau Claire's William D. McIntyre Library and Kim LaPlante from Northeast WI Technical College - that will discuss issues concerning QuestionPoint and Virtual Reference. The Conference Committee will post scheduled events and sessions on the WAAL Web site in the near future.
The conference website can be found at: http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/waal/conferences/2004/2004.html

WAAL will follow the same online format WLA uses for their registration and call-to-conference. Postcards will be sent to WAAL members early in 2004 to remind them of the registration deadline. The call-to-conference brochure will be posted on the conference Web site early in 2004; printed copies will not be mailed. If you have problems accessing the online form, please contact the WAAL Planning Committee, c/o Nerissa Nelson, nnelson@uwsp.edu, and we will be sure to mail you a registration form.

We look forward to seeing everyone at the Osthoff in Elkhart Lake!

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WAAL Information Literacy Award: Call for Nominations

--Eliot Finkelstein, Chair, Information Literacy Award Committee

The WAAL Information Literacy Committee is pleased to announce the First Annual WAAL Information Literacy Award.

This award recognizes a librarian or librarian-led team from any Wisconsin academic institution who has made innovative or significant contributions over the past year to enhance information literacy. The successful delivery of a particular class or the development and implementation of a special project or program are two examples of ways in which academic librarians are enhancing information literacy in Wisconsin.

The award winner will present his/her winning information literacy contribution at the 2004 WAAL Conference (April 21-23, Elkhart Lake). The winner will receive one free registration for the WAAL conference and will be recognized there for his/her achievement.

To access the nomination form, please see the WAAL Information Literacy Committee Web page: http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/waal/infolit/index.html

The deadline for submissions is December 19, 2003.

Committee Members:
Dave Dettman, UW-Green Bay
Eliot Finkelstein, UW-Madison
Jennifer Schmidt, SWITCH Library Consortium

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Mentors Needed for Scholarship Recipients

Scholarships are awarded to undergraduates, paraprofessionals, and graduate students to assist with expenses of attending the WAAL spring conference. Scholarship winners are paired with a mentor to guide them through the conference and to introduce them to colleagues. This is a great opportunity to meet potential colleagues and to introduce them to the profession. Please consider volunteering to be a mentor for one of the scholarship winners!

If you are willing to volunteer or have questions in regard to this opportunity, please contact: Laurie Swartwout, WAAL Professional Development Committee Chair
Cardinal Stritch University Library
6801 N Yates Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53217
Phone: (414-410-4264)
e-mail: lgswartwout@stritch.edu

WAAL Annual Conference
Up to Speed: Information & Technology Literacy for Lifelong Learning
April 21 - 23, 2004

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Scholarships Available! 2004 WAAL Spring Conference

The WAAL Professional Development Committee is pleased to announce scholarship opportunities to attend the conference on April 21-23, 2004, at the Osthoff Resort & Conference Center in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.

Scholarships are available to:
bullet point Undergraduate students and/or library student assistants,
bullet point Paraprofessional staff, or,
bullet point Graduate student currently enrolled in library science programs.

Application forms for all of the scholarships are available from the WAAL web site at: http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/waal/.
Before completing the application, please refer to Guidelines for Scholarship Applicants. These guidelines can be accessed at the following web address: http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/waal/committees/app_guidelines.pdf

Nominations for the Undergraduate Student / Library Student Assistant scholarships are being sought from anyone who supervises student assistants. Any undergraduate student or library student assistant who may be interested in or who shows potential for a library career is eligible.

Applications for the Paraprofessional scholarships are available to all paraprofessionals who are WLA members or who become WLA members prior to the conference. Paraprofessionals are those individuals who are currently working in a library. Graduate students currently enrolled in an Information Science program and who are working and/or interning in a library should NOT apply for the Paraprofessional scholarship, but should complete the Graduate Student scholarship application.

Applications for the Graduate Student scholarships are available to all graduate students currently enrolled in an Information Science program, regardless of whether or not they are currently working or interning in a library setting.

Scholarships cover the registration fee for the conference, meals, hotel room, and mileage, if applicable. In order to reduce costs, recipients are expected to share a room with another scholarship winner. Those individuals awarded a scholarship will be paired with a mentor to guide them through the conference and to introduce them to colleagues.

Nomination and application forms must be received by January 31st, 2004. Please send all completed scholarship applications to: Laurie Swartwout, IMC Coordinator, Cardinal Stritch University Library, 6801 N Yates Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53217.

The Professional Development Committee is pleased to continue its role in providing scholarships to assist with attendance at the conference and furthering the professional development of colleagues as well as fostering potential interest in librarianship.

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WLA Conference logo image--"Libraries @ the Heart"

WLA Conference

Libraries @ the Heart
Annual Conference - Oct. 28 - 31, 2003
Four Points Sheraton, Milwaukee, WI

--Vanaja Menon, 2003 Conference Publicity Chair

Register now to attend the dynamic 2003 WLA Conference: Libraries @ the Heart. Come and explore the splendid offerings for the mind and the body. There is an impressive line-up of informative sessions, interesting tours, and exciting special events. Attend your favorite sessions, tour other libraries, enjoy trivia, mingle with some of the outstanding authors and award winners, and go salsa dancing when the night is still young. Milwaukee, a jewel of a city, has many things to offer. Bring your family, visit your favorite museums, restaurants, and other attractions.

Our keynote speaker, Will Durst, is a nationally known political satirist, and he surely will be hilarious. Do not miss Durst's informed and intelligent comments as well as his pointed and refreshing humor.

The YSS luncheon speaker is someone you all know. This prolific author resides in Wisconsin and has won award after award for his comics/graphic novels. The fans of Neil Gaiman have a wonderful opportunity to hear him speak at this luncheon. He is the winner of this year's Elizabeth Burr Award.

Other speakers include: Deborah Blum, the Banta award winner, Peggy Lautenschlager, Wisconsin Attorney General, Barbara D'Amato, mystery author, Roy Tennant, Manager, eScholarship Web & Services Design, California Digital Library, Richard Grobschmidt, Assistant State Superintendent, Department of Public Instruction, John Gurda, author and historian--and the list goes on.

Featured at the conference's book discussion is Mystic River by Dennis Lehane. Interestingly, USA Today announced that Mystic River is its next Book Club selection. On a related note, the film version of Mystic River, directed by Clint Eastwood, will be released nationwide, Oct 15, 2003. Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon and Tim Robbins star in this movie. For more information visit: http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2003-09-17-mystic-river_x.htm.

The President's Luncheon, on Friday, is sure to intrigue and entertain you. This program inspired the conference theme: Libraries@ the Heart. UW Health and Medical School Cardiologist, Dr. Gene Musser, Wisconsin Poet laureate Ellen Kort and Library Director and Quadruple by-pass survivor James A. Gollata will offer a program from each person's perspective: the heart as a physical entity, as poetic image, and as a metaphor for the library community. They will also perform an evocative piece written for this event.

The conference committee seeks volunteers to assist at any of the following events and support facilities: registration, exhibits, local arrangements, liaisons to room monitors, bus monitors, WLA store, and Internet room. Please contact Gayle Falk at gafalk@burlington.lib.wi.us to volunteer! Volunteer assistance is greatly appreciated!

Important planning considerations:

bullet point Remember to take advantage of the advance registration before October 10, 2003. See: http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/conferences/2003/pdf/registration.pdf

bullet point The Four Points Sheraton guarantees rooms at the conference rate only until September 26, 2003. Make your reservation today: http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/conferences/2003/accommodations.htm

bullet point For more information on the 2003 Conference, please visit: http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/conferences/2003/news.htm

See you at the conference!
Conference Web Site: http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/conferences/2003/index.htm

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WLA Foundation Silent Auction!

It is not too late to contribute an item to the WLA Foundation Silent Auction! Expressions of your artistic talents (e.g., original paintings, weavings, and needlework), professional consulting services, spare theatre or concert tickets, weekend condo getaways, and collectibles are all welcomed! The market value of your contribution is tax-deductible; after the auction, you will be provided with this documentation.

For more information, go to http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/wlaf/auction.html. The contribution form is available at http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/wlaf/auctionform.doc

If you have questions, please contact me or Bernie Bellin, Silent Auction Committee Chair, at bbellin@lakeshores.lib.wi.us.

All proceeds from the auction help build the Foundation's endowment, which has supported scholarships and awards as well as the 2002 Intellectual Freedom Leadership Institute and the Wisconsin Public Library Consortium's survey of library users and non-users. The WLAF's mission is to support the role of Wisconsin libraries as essential institutions in a democratic society.

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Women's Studies, Film/Video Resources

--Phyllis Holman Weisbard, University of Wisconsin System, Women's Studies Librarian

The UW System Women's Studies Librarian's Office maintains a database of information on documentary, experimental, and feature film and video productions by and about women. Over 600 new records have just been added to the database, called WAVE: Women's Audio Visuals in English, bringing the total to 1,895. A companion webpage, recently updated, lists contact information on about 500 distributors, including links to their websites. Both WAVE and the companion webpage are linked on the homepage of the Librarian's office, http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/.

The direct URL to WAVE is http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WAVE. WAVE is an
excellent source of information about what videos exist. It is NOT a record of the holdings of University of Wisconsin System libraries. To find many of the videos on women held by UW System libraries, select the "UW System Search" button within a UW campus library catalog. Other names for this feature, depending on the campus, are "Universal Borrowing," "Other Libraries," "Other Catalogs" "MultipleLibrarySearch" or "UW catalogs." Select all the campuses' libraries and run a keyword search, women and videorecording.

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UW-Milwaukee Libraries' Digital Collections

--Steve Burnham, Editor, UWM Libraries

As one way to participate in the Milwaukee Idea--UWM's philosophy of sharing its resources with the community--the UWM Libraries inaugurated a digitization unit in 2001, and have since produced three online digital collections under the leadership of digital projects librarian Krystyna Matusiak.

In response to the tragic events of September 11 and the subsequent war, the Libraries posted an exhibition called Afghanistan: The Harrison Forman Collection. Put together by Matusiak, digital spatial librarian Patti Day, Carrie Leatherman, and student assistants, the online exhibit of 189 images is drawn from the Harrison Forman photographic collection housed in the Libraries' American Geographical Society Library (AGSL).

The photographs, taken in 1969, show Afghanistan as a functioning, healthy nation. Some of the more striking images include those of Afghan families; workers engaged in traditional occupations and trades, such as goldsmithing and selling salt; and the two 1,500-year-old statues of Buddha, later destroyed by the Taliban.

Last fall, Matusiak and digitization intern, Cullen Carter, completed an extensive collection entitled Milwaukee Repertory Theater Photographic History which provides a visual chronicle of the productions of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater from 1977 to 1994. Over 1,800 images were selected from the Mark Avery Collection housed in the UWM Libraries' Archives.

Avery worked as the staff photographer for the Milwaukee Rep from 1976 to1994, and donated thousands of negatives to the Archives in 1999. The images in the collection document 195 productions, ranging from Shakespearean tragedy to Larry Shue's comedies, and attempt to capture the emotionally rich but fleeting nature of theater performance.

The most recent project is Transportation Around the World: 1911-1993. Focusing on transportation and geography, this collection should prove a valuable tool for students of all ages. Its 650 images were selected from three separate photographic collections held in the AGSL, and were chosen by Jim Dicker, Associate Professor in UWM's School of Architecture and Urban Planning, and Patti Day. The photographs are cross-indexed under many categories: transportation type, mode, facility; geographic feature; continent, country/region, state/province, city/place; photographer; and collection. The project was created by Matusiak and Carter; UWM Libraries staff member Steve Miller acted as metadata consultant.

All three digital collections may be accessed at http://www.uwm.edu/Library/digilib/.

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People & Places

Beloit College

A collection of more than 30 rare and historic books and documents from the Wisdom of the Ages Athenaeum of the Remnant Trust are on exhibit in Morse Library, August 18 - December 8, 2003. With a few exceptions, the titles are available to be touched, studied, and used in the teaching process. A series of public events including presentations by faculty, students, and special guests coincides with the exhibit. For more information please see: http://www.beloit.edu/~libhome/trusttext.html

Lawrence University

From January 21, 2004 - March 5, 2004, Seeley G. Mudd Library will host the ALA/NEH traveling exhibit, Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation. Programming to accompany the exhibit will include: a public lecture by Ronald White, author of Lincoln's Greatest Speech: the Second Inaugural (Simon & Schuster, 2002), presentations by several Lawrence faculty, a book discussion series in conjunction with the Appleton Public Library, and collection talks about our own Lincoln Collection.

The reference librarians have just completed a Mudd version of Searchpath, an online library tutorial based on TILT (from the University of Texas System) and Searchpath (from Western Michigan University). They were inspired by colleagues at UW-Green Bay to use this technology to acquaint students with basic library research. Staff plan to use Searchpath in conjunction with face-to-face library instruction. To view the library tutorial, visit: http://www.lawrence.edu/library/searchpath

The Mudd Library recently received a grant from the Japan Foundation to purchase Japanese materials to support our East Asian Languages and Culture program. The materials we have purchased can be seen at: http://www.lawrence.edu/library/libinfo/japanfoundation.shtml

Marquette University

The Marquette Libraries opened the new John P. Raynor, S.J., Library on August 4 and held a gala dedication ceremony, September 19, 2003. Martin Sheen, who received an honorary doctor of letters degree, was one of the guest speakers. The 125,000-square-foot library houses the Information Commons with 24/7 access, current periodicals, Special Collections reading room and storage facility, over 200 workstations and wireless access throughout the building, two state-of-the-art classrooms, a conference center, a comfortable café, and 16 group study rooms. The new library has a bridge connection to Memorial Library, which will continue to house the majority of the collection. See: http://www.marquette.edu/library/raynor/dedication.html

For photos of the new library and descriptions of services, see the Libraries' fall newsletter: http://www.marquette.edu/library/information/news/fall03/

To help meet increasing interest in the library's J.R.R. Tolkien Collection, Matt Blessing, head of the Department of Special Collections, is now holding twice-weekly drop-in orientation sessions. Materials from the collection will be displayed and the approximately half-hour sessions allow time for questions.
http://www.marquette.edu/library/information/news/2003/Tolkien.html

UW Green Bay

Renee Ettinger is a new part time Reference/Instruction Librarian. She is a May 2003 graduate of UW Milwaukee and served a reference internship at the Golda Meir Library while in library school. Renee's undergraduate degree in philosophy and comparative religion is also from UWM.

Kathy Kanikula, formerly an LTE in Access Services, is now a permanent, part time Library Services Assistant in that department. Kathy has an MLS from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a journalism bachelor's degree from UW Oshkosh. She has also been a junior/senior high school librarian at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska.

UW La Crosse

Michael Current has joined the Murphy Library staff as Government Information Public Services Librarian. Michael comes to UW-La Crosse with almost 9 years of library experience, mostly from Carleton College, his alma mater. He received his MA in Library and Information Science from the University of Iowa in 1994.

Galadriel Chilton is the new Electronic Resources Librarian at Murphy Library. Galadriel earned her MLS from Indiana University in 2000. Before coming to UW-La Crosse, Galadriel was Technology & Outreach Coordinator at Viterbo University in La Crosse.

The Murphy Library Information Success Tutorial, which has been used as the basis for several other tutorials throughout the country and in the UW-System, is featured in Barbara Allen's book, E-learning and Teaching in Library and Information Services, Facet Press, 2002.

UW Madison

Erika Arroyo, Ginger Cassidy, Sherab Chen and Amanda Werhane have joined the staff of the CIMC as Program Assistants.

Jo Ann Carr co-authored Information Literacy Collaboration: a shared responsibility in the September 2003 American Libraries. This article cites the efforts of Wisconsin library associations to work together on K-20 information literacy.

Memorial Library celebrated its 50th anniversary, September 17, 2003, with an exhibit documenting its history, tours of the building and a speech by Libraries Director Kenneth Frazier. At the time of construction, the library could conceivably hold 1.5 million volumes; two expansions later, the library holds more than 3.5 million volumes. Visit the virtual exhibit at: http://memorial.library.wisc.edu/memorial50th.htm

Bev Phillips joined the Information Services staff at Steenbock Library in August, 2003. She was, formerly, the librarian and information specialist at the Land Tenure Center. In addition to reference and instruction, her responsibilities will include liaison and selection activities for departments in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

photo, Glencoe

The School of Library and Information Studies has announced its next Librarians' Tour of Scotland for July 24 - August 4, 2004. For more information, visit: http://www.slis.wisc.edu/people/pearl/scotland.htm or contact Jane Pearlmutter at 608-262-6398, jpearl@slis.wisc.edu

Photo courtesy of Arpita Bose, 2003 Scotland Tour participant.

UW Manitowoc

Robert Bjerke, Director of the Library, retired in July after 30 years at UW-Manitowoc. In August, Tom Prein was hired as the new Library and Information Technology Director. Tom comes to Manitowoc from the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, where he was the Electronic Resources Librarian. Prior to that he ran the Instructional Technology Center at the University of Alabama. Tom is a native of Wauwatosa, and graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

UW Milwaukee

Peter Watson-Boone retired on July 31, 2003 from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, after 13 years of service as Director of Libraries. During Watson-Boone's tenure, the UWM Libraries added 1.5 million items, a 43% increase in holdings; implemented a new online catalog; established a digitization unit; and inaugurated services such as E-reserve, document delivery, electronic full-text, and digital spatial data.

Retiring Director of UWM Libraries Peter Watson-Boone receives a proclamation in his honor from Interim Director Ewa Barczyk at his July 31 retirement party.

Watson-Boone and Barczyk photo

Watson-Boone led the planning for the Stage IV expansion of the Golda Meir Library building and substantially strengthened the Libraries' Archives, Special Collections, and American Geographical Society Library.

Watson-Boone was active locally, regionally, and nationally in library organizations. He established a Milwaukee-area academic library directors' discussion group (MAALD), and was chair of the Council of University of Wisconsin Libraries (CUWL) in 1995-96.

At a national level, he most recently served on the Executive Committee, University Libraries Section, of ACRL. A co-founder of two RASD sections (CODES and MARS), he received the ALA's Isadore Gilbert Mudge Citation in 1991 for distinguished contributions to reference librarianship.

Watson-Boone was University Librarian at Idaho State University from 1987-90; before that, he held various library positions at California State University, Chico and UCLA. He served on the editorial boards of Reference Services Review, Behavioral and Social Sciences Librarian, Journal of Academic Librarianship, and Journal of Access Services, and has authored over 75 publications, including monographs, chapters, articles, technical reports and book reviews.

Ewa Barczyk has been appointed Interim Director of the UWM Libraries. Barczyk has served as Associate Director of the UWM Libraries since 1998. Since arriving at UWM's Golda Meir Library in 1985, she has held several positions including Associate Director both for Collection Management and for Public Services, and Head of Interlibrary Loan. Previously, she worked as adult reference librarian at the Shorewood (WI) Public Library (1983-85), and in the libraries of Yale University (1978-83).

Michael Doylen has been appointed Head of Archives at the UWM Libraries. Most recently an Archivist at the Marquette University Libraries, Doylen has worked previously at the UWM Libraries as Editor and as an Academic Archivist. He holds a PhD in Literature from University of California-Santa Cruz and a MLIS, with an emphasis on archives, from UWM.

The School of Information Studies (SOIS) of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee announces several new faculty and staff. With about 500 students, 17 full-time faculty and teaching academic staff, and a devoted array of adjunct instructors, the school offers several programs, the largest of which being the Bachelor of Science in Information Resources and the Master of Library and Information Science. The following are the newest additions to the SOIS team. For more information about the SOIS programs, faculty or recruitment, visit: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SLIS/index.htm

Tim Ericson, Coordinator of Archival Studies, M.A. and M.L.I.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Catherine Johnson, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Toronto

Hope Olson, Professor, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Betsy Schoeller, Distant Education Coordinator, M.L.I.S., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Thomas Walker, Interim Dean, Ph.D., University of Illinois

Bonnie Withers, Coordinator of School Library Media Education, M.L.I.S., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

UW Oshkosh

Two Polk Library staff were recognized for their accomplishments at the opening day ceremonies at UW Oshkosh. Erin Czech, Interlibrary Loan Coordinator, received the Outstanding Performance Award given to classified staff who excel in providing service to the University. Joshua Ranger, University Archivist, received the Outstanding Performance Award given to non-teaching academic staff for his successful efforts with integrating archival experiences into undergraduate education and his outstanding work with developing digital collections both on campus and within UW System.

graphic--"Murder in the Stacks"

Polk Library held a mock murder mystery for 30 incoming students on the first Friday night of the fall semester. Marisa Finkey and Renee Sengele* designed the evening as a fun way to help new students learn about the library and to meet the library staff. Polk Library staff played the suspects and the victim. The murder mystery received great reviews and a front page article in the student paper. See the Polk Library News for more information: http://www.uwosh.edu/library/news/2003/sep03.html#2

[* Renee reports that Carleton College has a nice example of its mystery event at: http://www.carleton.edu/campus/library/reference/workshops/MurderMystery.html]

UW Richland

Jessica Brooks was hired as Associate Academic Librarian at UW Richland in Richland Center in August. Jessica is a recent graduate of the UW-Madison School of Library and Information Science.

UW Washington County

Nancy Bigler, Academic Program Manager/Library, retired in July after 27 years at UW Washington County in West Bend. Mark Rozmarynowski, a recent graduate of the UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies, was hired in July as the new Associate Academic Librarian.

UW Waukesha

Faye Flesia, Library Director at UW-Waukesha, has announced her retirement, effective November 30th. Faye has worked at Waukesha for 35 years!

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WAAL Board Members

Officers
 

Patricia Herrling
pherrling@library.wisc.edu

WAAL Chair
Gene Engeldinger
eng@wi.rr.com
Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Mary Rieder
mrieder@uwc.edu
Past Chair
Jeanne Foley
foley@uwosh.edu
Secretary
Sue Riehl
riehl@uwplatt.edu
Member at Large
Ewa Barczyk
ewa@gml.lib.uwm.edu
ACRL Liaison

Committee Chairs

 
Marlys Brunsting
brunstim@uwgb.edu
Conference Planning Co-Chair
Mary Rieder
mrieder@uwc.edu
Conference Planning Co-Chair
Michael Watkins
watkins@uwosh.edu
Directory Committee Chair
Jill Markgraf
markgrjs@uwec.edu
Information Literacy Committee Co-Chair
Karen Pope
popekj@uwec.edu
Information Literacy Committee Co-Chair
Evelyn Payson
epayson@uwc.edu
Legislative Liaison
Evelyn Payson
epayson@uwc.edu
Membership Committee Chair
Jim Tobin
rjt@gml.lib.uwm.edu
Nominations Committee Chair
Laurie Swartwout
lgswartwout@stritch.edu
Professional Development Committee Chair
Michael Strahan
mstrahan@nmu.edu
Publications Committee Chair
Lisa Strand
strand@scls.lib.wi.us
WLA Executive Director
WAAL Board Web Site

Calendar of Meetings & Events

WLA Annual Conference
Four Points Sheraton, Milwaukee, WI
October 28-31, 2003
WAAL Board Meeting
WLA Offices

October 17, 2003
10:00 am -2:00 pm

WAAL Business Meeting
Four Points Sheraton,
Room D6
October 29, 2003
12:00 pm-2:00pm
WLA 2004 Leadership Conference, WLA Offices December 5, 2003
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
WAAL Annual Conference
Osthoff Resort, Elkhart Lake
April 21-23, 2004

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The WAAL Newsletter welcomes articles of interest to academic librarians. Please consider sharing summaries of research or research in progress, announcements/results of meetings or conferences, and news of staff changes and/or accomplishments. Deadline for the next issue:

January 16 , 2004

Material should be sent to:
Karen Dunn
Steenbock Memorial Library
550 Babcock Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1293
(608) 263-3899
kdunn@library.wisc.edu

WAAL Publications Committee:
Michael Strahan (Chair), Julie Fricke (Web), Stacey Burkart, Karen Dunn (Newsletter Co-Editors)

© 2003 Wisconsin Library Association. Portions may be quoted or copied if credit is given. Contact the WLA Executive Director when quoting or reproducing extensively. WLA Phone: 608-245-3640; Fax: 608-245-3646

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