March 2006 l Number 63

McIntyre Library l www.uwec.edu/library/ots/

New Head of Special Collections/ New University Archivist Reference Librarian by Colleen McFarland, by Karen Bronshteyn, IN THIS ISSUE: [email protected] [email protected] lthough I am technically would like to intro- NEW @YOUR LIBRARY® a native of Oregon, I am duce myself as a new It’s Showtime!...... 2 thrilled to be returning to Imember of the Mc- Collaboration in A the state I consider home. My fam- Intyre Library Reference Marketing Effort. . . 3 ily moved to when I was an infant, and I team. My research and instruction background AROUND THE LIBRARY spent my childhood in the greater area. I extends into the design of effective information literacy assignments and the assessment of stu- View from the Third Floor received a B.A. in German and history from the Col- Great MINDS@UW . . 4 lege of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. My graduate degrees dent work. You are invited to collaborate with And the Award include a M.A. in history from Cornell University in me and other librarians on the assessment of in- Goes to… ...... 5 Ithaca, New York, and an M.L.I.S. from the Universi- formation literacy. For library instruction, I am Radical Militant ty of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. interested in incorporating alternative approach- Librarians...... 6 For the past five years I worked as a reference li- es to research and writing instruction to facilitate Collection Weeding . . 8 brarian and archivist at several small liberal arts col- student success, such as paraphrasing practice, leges. Most recently, I served as archivist at Whitman the technique of annotated bibliographies, and, VIRTUAL LIBRARY College in Walla Walla, Washington. At Whitman Col- of course, interactive searching. Concern about New Databases . . . . . 9 lege I worked to improve access to archival materi- a national decline in literary reading motivates Ingenta ToC Alert als by creating electronic catalog records and finding me to promote literature and literary discourse Cancelled...... 10 aids for selected collections. I also collaborated with at the community level. Discontinued My academic background includes B.A. de- Databases ...... 10 faculty in departments ranging from art history to grees from the University of Kansas in Slavic lan- Private ID...... 10 psychology to bring archives and special collections materials into the curriculum. My research interests guages and literatures; and philosophy; graduate work in Russian area studies at the University of IN BRIEF include the exploration of new educational and ad- Minnesota; and an M.S. in library science from IMC Open House. . . . 11 ministrative roles for college and university archives the University of Illinois. Previous academic li- Building Update. . . . 11 and the history of Wisconsin artists and art institu- brary work extended into the disciplines of busi- Women’s History & tions. I am eager to begin working with the faculty Earth Day Exhibits. 11 and students of UW-Eau Claire to bring archival and ness, criminal justice, health care, English, and Special Collections special collections materials into the undergraduate early childhood education. Extended Hours. . . 12 educational experience. I am a fan of the outdoors, especially hiking. In my spare time, I enjoy yoga, tai chi, cross coun- I enjoy meeting people from other cultures, and STAFF NEWS...... 12 try skiing, and, of course, reading. I have worked as have been fortunate to travel in Europe (mostly a volunteer for the Nature Conservancy in Northeast- Eastern), and South America. ern Oregon and the Kirkman House Museum in Walla If I can be of assistance in helping to develop Suggestions or Walla, Washington. I also play the violin and am try- research instruction strategies, please feel free comments about our ing to teach myself to play the Appalachian dulcimer. to contact me at [email protected], 836-5961, newsletter? My husband Jason and I look forward to making Eau or stop by my office on the first floor of the li- Claire our new home. brary (1001D). My spring 2006 schedule will Contact Please stop in to meet me in OL-1133, send be Wednesday afternoon through Friday after- n [email protected] me an email at [email protected], or call me at noon. 836-3873. n New@Your Library®

“It’s Showtime!” Recent DVD Acquisitions at McIntyre Library

are shelved at the Main Circulation Desk in DVDs McIntyre Library. They can be checked out for 14 days and may be renewed once. Find one of the 200+ DVDs in our library catalog, check it out, and get the pop- corn ready.

American Values, American Wilderness. (GE42 .A44 2005) Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera. (M1500 .L62 P43 2005) Art 21: Art in the 21st Century, Season Three. (N6512 .A745 2005) Martin Chuzzlewit. (PR4563 .A2 P29 2005) Barchester Chronicles. (PR5684 .B3 2005) Meaning of Food. (GT2853 .U5 M43 2005) Big Chill: a Looming Ice Age? (QC981.8 .G56 B45 2005) Millennium Goals: Dream or Reality? (JZ1318 .L54 2005, v. 1) Bleak House. (PR4556 .A2 H59 2005) Oliver Twist. (PR4567 .A2 D48 2005) Cross-cultural Communication: How Culture Affects Our Mutual Friend. (PR4568 .A2 W42 2005) Communication. (HM1211 .C75 2005) Outsourcing: White Collar Exodus. (HD2365 .O78 2005) Daremo Shiranai = Nobody Knows. (PN1997.2 .D29 2005) Richard Tuttle: Never not an Artist. (N6537 .T8 R53 2005) Do You Speak American? (PE2808 .M262 2005) Sixties: the Years That Shaped a Generation. (E841 .S547 2005) Darker Side of Black. (ML128 .B45 D32 2005) Story of the Weeping Camel. (PN1997.2 .S76 2005) Great Expectations. (PR4560 .A2 H25 2005) Swan Lake: Ballet in 4 Acts. (GV1790 .S87 N82 2005) Hard Times. (PR4561 .A2 B29 2005) Travellers and Magicians. (PN1997.2 .T68 2005) In the Realms of the Unreal: the Mystery of Henry Darger. Tsunami: Killer Wave. (GC221.2 .T78 2005) (ND1839 .D28 I53 2005) Unforgivable Blackness: the Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. In the Womb. (RG613 .I52 2005) (GV1132 .J7 U54 2005) Introduction to Web Site Design. (TK5105.888 .I54 2005) Wal*Mart: the High Cost of Low Price. Jerusalem Women Speak: Three Women, Three Faiths, One (HF5429.215 .U6 W356 2005) Shared Vision. (DS119.76 .J47 2005) William Kentridge: Art From the Ashes. Life and Times of Frida Kahlo. (ND259 .K33 L52 2005) (N7396 .K47 A787 2005)

2 Off the Shelf l March 2006 New@Your Library®

Students were introduced to the projects via a presentation given early in the fall Professors semester. Eventually these projects were merged so each student group had to come and Students Collaborate up with a logo, directory and library en- trance vision, and a poster series. The student groups presented the re- in Library Marketing Efforts sults of their projects in December at a li- brary all-staff meeting. Library staff was by Chris Cox, [email protected] and Carol Lonning, [email protected] very impressed with the results. The pre- sentations and materials were profession- ast semester library staff collaborat- students had seen library promotional ma- al, and all offered alternative perspectives. ed with Dr. Robert Sutton and Profes- terials around campus. Students were most One group offered us their vision of li- Lsor Christos Theo to develop student aware of traditional student services such as brary signage with an elevator motif. An- projects that would assist the library in as- the computer labs and book checkout. Ser- other group suggested ideas for additional sessing student awareness of the library’s vices such as universal borrowing, special signage locations, including the face of the various products and services, and in mak- collections, self-renewal of materials, and circulation desk and on the windows at ing the library a more navigable and in- “Find It” received lower awareness scores. the entrances to the building. Yet another viting location on campus. These projects Awareness of specific services almost exact- went above and beyond the call of duty by were the brainchild of the library’s market- ly correlated to students’ use of the services, offering ideas for a redesign of our library ing committee which, in this time of budget with services such as self-renewal and uni- home page. We have since polled library cuts, has been exploring ways of raising the versal borrowing again at the bottom of the staff members on the best logo, directory, visibility of the library and its services both list. This comes as no surprise when the re- and poster series and will be conducting on campus and in the larger community. sults of the two questions that determined focus groups of students this semester to A group of four students in Dr. Sutton’s students’ understanding of the difference determine which they like best. We hope “Marketing Research” course were as- between universal borrowing and interli- to roll out the new library logo sometime signed to develop and conduct a market- brary loan are factored in. Only 12 percent in the fall of 2006. ing survey to determine what products of respondents correctly understood what Before the projects began, library staff and services students already knew the li- the universal borrowing service was. had some expectations of what the results brary offered and to get a sense of how they The students recommended that library of each project might be. What we didn’t found out about them. Library staff met staff emphasize underutilized services in anticipate was how much the students with the group multiple times throughout the regularly-scheduled library tours. They would learn about the library in complet- the semester to assist in crafting the sur- also suggested that the library redouble its ing the projects. Students from both cours- vey. The survey was distributed in late No- promotional efforts to gain more visibility. es spoke enthusiastically about how much vember to a sample of students outside of This could be best accomplished via mass they learned about the library’s offerings various academic buildings and dormito- e-mail or through notification from the stu- to students. One student group told us the ries on campus. There was relatively equal dents’ professors. graphics project was “one of the most in- distribution of the survey among students Professor Theo’s entire “Advanced teresting projects they’d had to complete” across majors, years at UW-Eau Claire, and Graphics Communications” course partic- while at UW-Eau Claire. location (on- or off-campus). The sample ipated in the library’s graphics project. Six We’d like to thank both Bob Sutton and yielded 108 surveys, with a probability of groups were formed and asked to choose Chris Theo for allowing us to learn so much error +/- 0.21. one of four projects: from their students and for the results of the The results were quite telling. Roughly n Design a logo for use on the library Web projects they worked on. Members of the half (49%) of those surveyed had taken a site and on all print advertising marketing committee, along with others in Freshman Year Experience class which dis- n Present a vision for redesigning/updat- the library, have a great many ideas for stu- cussed the services the library offers and an ing the elevator areas on each floor dent/library staff collaboration in the form equal percentage had taken a tour of the li- n Design a new poster and/or bulletin of course projects or service learning oppor- brary. Fifty-nine percent of those surveyed board display incorporating the library’s tunities. Feel free to contact Carol Lonning also visited the library 12 or more times in a new tag line ([email protected]) or Chris Cox (coxcn@ semester. However, only 35 percent of these n Design a copyright marketing poster uwec.edu) with your ideas. n

Off the Shelf l March 2006 3 Around the Library l View from the third floor

Great MINDS@UW

MINDS@UW is a University of Wisconsin- So what’s currently in the system? That de- Madison initiative available to all UW campus- pends on the community. The UW-La Crosse and es. Currently using DSpace technology developed UW-Whitewater libraries have placed some the- at MIT, MINDS@UW is a digital repository that ses in their communities. UW-River Falls’ Chalm- provides a new outlet for scholarly communi- er Davee Library is capturing research day results cation for such items as theses, gray literature, of student-faculty research collaborations. Some conference proceedings, photographs, learning communities are posting journal articles written objects, and datasets, to name just a few appli- by their faculty when they have permission from cations. It provides a non-traditional outlet for the copyright holder to do so (an increasing num- scholarly communication and promises to be a ber of authors are finding success in negotiating valuable repository of information and research the right to deposit works in institutional reposi- from UW constituencies. tories when they have articles accepted for publi- Works available on MINDS@UW are strictly cation). The Center for the Humanities has posted those generated by UW faculty, staff, and students materials from a forum they sponsored. The Max and are designed for educational or research pur- Cade Institute for German-American Studies is poses. They are arranged in self-defined and ini- depositing copies of their newsletters. The pos- tiated “communities.” Those communities might sibilities are nearly endless. be academic or other departments, research cen- As with any new initiative, it is taking awhile ters or institutes, libraries, programs, or certain for prospective communities to become fully administrative units. Some of the communities aware of this resource and to determine how it that have been developed thus far are the Cen- might best suit their needs. The McIntyre Library ter for Limnology, the Wisconsin Transportation has sponsored one presentation where project Center, the Center for the Humanities, Chalmer staff demonstrated some of the MINDS@UW pos- Davee Library at UW-River Falls, and UW System sibilities and responded to questions. The project by Bob Rose [email protected] Women’s Studies Consortium. Not all the com- is more developed now, however, and we would munity spaces created thus far have been popu- be happy to sponsor another presentation if there lated with documents. is interest among university faculty and staff in Items that are placed in the repository are our doing so. searchable and accessible via Google and other More information on MINDS@UW is available search engines. The community solicits items for at http://minds.wisconsin.edu and there are links inclusion in the repository and determines what there to sites that more comprehensively describe types of items will be included in it – within the the policies for, and the process of, setting up a general boundaries of the MINDS@UW poli- community than does this brief article. I encourage cies and guidelines. The community is responsi- you to take a look at the site to determine whether ble for determining who can add items to its site it might be helpful for your department or disci- and how they will be described. The UW librar- pline. If you have questions about MINDS@UW, ies offer training and support for communities I’d be happy to discuss it with you or make the ap- embarking on this initiative. propriate referral to staff at UW-Madison. n

4 Off the Shelf l March 2006 Around the Library

And the Works by Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) - PS3562.E353 T6

Crash. Paul Haggis, screenwriter of last Award Million year’s Academy Award-winning Dollar Baby, offers this film about a racial- Great MINDS@UW ly and ethnically diverse group of people Goes to… whose lives collide over two days in pres- ent-day Los Angeles. by Chris Cox, [email protected] Information about Los Angeles City: Information about Wyoming Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Frommer’s Montana & Wyoming (2004) - Twentieth Century (1999) - eBook, part of netLibrary collection eBook, part of netLibrary collection Economic Distress in our Cities: Los Angeles, Cowboy stories for children and adults . Field Hearing before the Commit- Vanishing Breed: Photographs of the Cowboy and tee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs the West (1982) - F596 .A378 (1992) -US Government Collection Y 4.B cIntyre Library may not come to Cactus Tracks and Cowboy Philosophy (1998) - 22/1:102-97 mind when thinking about the 78th PS3552.L288 C25 To Protect and Serve: the LAPD’s Century of MAcademy Awards. The carpet on the Cowboy Songs and Frontier Ballads (1938) - War in the City of Dreams (2003) - HV8148. main floor of the library is more orange than PS595.C6 L6 L7 D66 Bill Pickett, Bulldogger: the Biography of a Black red and the staff rarely saunter around in Films starring Academy Award-nominat- tuxes and gowns designed by Vera Wang. Cowboy (1977) - GV1833.6.P5 H38 Cowboy Baby (1998) - Children’s Book Collec- ed actor Matt Dillon That doesn’t mean, however, that our col- Fishing with John tion E H3514c (1992) - IMC Videotapes lections are not Oscar-worthy. In an effort to SH443 .F52 share with you the variety and depth of our Films starring Academy Award nominated collections, we’ve compiled a list of resourc- actor Jake Gyllenhall Good Night and Good Luck. George Cloo- es related to the five films nominated for October Sky (2000) - IMC Videotapes TL789.85. ney’s black and white pic about CBS broad- Best Picture at this year’s ceremony, which H53 A3 cast journalist Edward Murrow and his goal was held a few weeks prior to the unveiling of bringing down Senator Joseph McCarthy Capote. of this article. The envelope, please. Capote and partner Harper Lee of Wisconsin. travel to Kansas in 1959 to research an arti- Speeches by Edward R. Murrow Brokeback Mountain. Probably the most cle for The New Yorker about the murder of a family of four. The film follows Capote as he In Honor of a Man and an Ideal…Three Talks critically acclaimed and widely controver- about Freedom by Archibald MacLeish, Wil- learns more about the crime and becomes sial of this year’s nominees, Ang Lee’s film liam S. Paley and Edward R. Murrow (1941) - friends with inmate Perry Smith. Capote’s follows a Wyoming ranch hand and a rodeo TK6570.B7 M295 research would later culminate in the com- cowboy who meet while shepherding in In Search of Light: the Broadcasts of Edward R. 1963 and develop a lifelong connection. position of his classic In Cold Blood. Murrow, 1938-1961 (1967) - D422 .M8 Based on a story found in Based on Gerald Clarke’s Works about Edward R. Murrow Capote: a Biography Annie Proulx’s Close Range: (1988) - PS3505.A59 Z6 Murrow, His Life and Times (1998) - PN4874. Wyoming Stories (1991) - PS3566.R697 C58 Works by Truman Capote M89 S6 Works by E. Annie Proulx In Cold Blood: a True Account of a Multiple Mur- Works about McCarthyism Heart Songs and Other Stories (1995) - PS3566. der and its Consequences (1966) - HV6533. Executive Committee of the Senate Permanent Sub- K3 C3 R697 H4 committee on Investigations for the Committee Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories (1993) - Shipping News (1994) - PS3566.R697 S4 on Government Operations (1954 – Made Pub- PS3505.A59 A6 lic 1993, 5 vols.) – US Government Collec- Works by screenplay writer Larry Works about Truman Capote’s life tion Y 4.G 74/9:S.PRT.107-84/V.1-5 McMurtry Truman Capote: the Story of his Bizarre and Ex- Joe McCarthy and the Press (1981) - E748.M143 Lonesome Dove (1985) - PS3563.A319 L6 otic Boyhood by an Aunt Who Helped Raise Him B34 Last Picture Show (1979) - PS3563.A319 L37 (1983) - PS3505.A59 Z87 Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthy- Terms of Endearment (1975) - PS3563.A319 Conversations with Capote (1985) - PS3505. ism, and American Culture (2003) - PN1992.6 T47 A59 Z67 .D64 continued on page 7

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American Library Association: he American Library Association (ALA) Council adopted resolutions of interest to a broad audience at the ALA January 2006 Midwinter Conference. One resolution op- Tposed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to reduce the frequen- cy and threshold requirements for Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) reporting; the resolution Radical urged Congress to direct the EPA to maintain the current TRI reporting requirements. An- other resolution resolved that ALA work with the Internal Revenue Service to address IRS changes in the distribution of forms through libraries. Other resolutions addressed copy- Militant right, and “equity of access through universal service, E-rate, and advanced broadband ser- vices.” This said, the resolution with the most visibility and significant impact on libraries and library users was the resolution, proposed by the ALA Committee on Leg- Librarians? islation, Subcommittee on Privacy, of which I am a member.

The ALA PATRIOT The PATRIOT Act Resolution ans kick us around, true terrorists benefit Background from Office of Intelligence Policy and Re- ACT Resolution view’s failure to let us use the tools giv- The PATRIOT Act, signed into law in af- by Betsy Richmond, [email protected] en to us.” This and similar statements were ter 9/11 and opposed in the Senate only by of concern to many of us in the profession. Wisconsin Senator Russell Feingold, provid- Discussion ed federal officials the authority to conduct The Subcommittee on Privacy discussion searches of business records, including those of the resolution was not without debate. of libraries and bookstores. The expanded Some committee members believed that the search boundaries were to be employed in resolution should address only the sections investigations into national security con- (Sections 215 and 505) of the current law cerns. In addition, if such a search were (PL 107-56) that were “due for reauthoriza- conducted, no one involved could divulge tion,” and not criticize the entire law, as its information of the search, even to the per- passage was a fait accompli, and that oppo- son being investigated. sition to the entire law did not reflect ALA Patron privacy and confidentiality are at membership as a whole. Below is the reso- the core of library ethics in the United States. lution as passed: The 1995 American Library Association Code Resolution on the of Ethics, adopted by the ALA Council, June USA PATRIOT Act Reauthorization 28, 1995, states: We protect each library us- er’s right to privacy and confidentiality WHEREAS, the American Library As- with respect to information sought or re- sociation (ALA) is committed to preserv- ceived and resources consulted, borrowed, ing the privacy rights of all library users, library employees, and persons living in acquired or transmitted. (The adherence to the U.S.; and these principles is the basis for extra library security measures in McIntyre Library, such WHEREAS, the most sacred duty of the as the user’s “Private ID.”) U.S. government and its officials is to pre- serve, protect, and defend the Constitution The American Library Association has of the United States and so protect the civil played an active role in trying to pro- liberties of all U.S. persons; and tect patron privacy rights and civil liber- ties since the 2001 passage of the PATRIOT WHEREAS, freedom of thought is the Act and in the current reauthorization pro- most basic of all freedoms and is inextrica- cess. Librarian activities did not go unno- bly linked to freedom of inquiry; and free- ticed. A 2003 e-mail memo by an agent of dom of inquiry can be preserved only in a the Federal Bureau of Investigation, turned society in which privacy rights are rigorous- over to the Electronic Privacy Informa- ly protected; and tion Center as part of a lawsuit, and lat- WHEREAS, ALA opposes any proposal The pin shown above is for sale at www.ala. , by government that suppresses the free and org, search for radical militant librarian. er provided to states (in part): “While radical militant librari- open exchange of knowledge and informa-

6 Off the Shelf l March 2006 continued from page 5 Munich. Steven Spielberg’s entry tion or that intimidates individuals exercis- • allow a recipient of a National Security about the 1972 Olympic Games in ing free inquiry; and Letter (NSL) to challenge the request in Munich, where eleven Israeli athletes WHEREAS, ALA is on record opposing U.S. District Court; and are taken hostage and murdered by a and calling for revision of provisions of the • allow a recipient of an NSL to challenge Palestinian terrorist group known as USA PATRIOT Act (PL 107-56) that fail to the gag order in U.S. District Court; Black September. ensure the privacy rights of library users, li- and Works about the Olympic Games brary employees, and U.S. persons; and • require law enforcement officials to show The Complete Book of the Olympics (1992) WHEREAS, certain courageous members individualized suspicion that items per- – Reference GV721.5 .W25 of the U.S. Congress have recognized the tain to a foreign power or its agent, a per- Swifter, Higher, Stronger: a Photograph- ic History of the Summer Olympics public’s concerns about civil liberties and son in contact with a suspected agent, or (2004) -Children’s Book Collection the extent of police powers exercised in the a suspected agent who is the subject of 796.48 M2592s fight against terrorism and are negotiating the investigation; and Works about Black September among different versions to reauthorize sec- • require prior court review of NSL de- (Palestinian Group) tions of the Act that otherwise soon will ex- mands for intelligence gathering purpos- Black September: its Short, Violent Histo- pire; now, therefore be it es; and be it further ry (1974) - DS119.7 .D615 RESOLVED THAT the American Library RESOLVED THAT ALA urges that Sec- Works about the Mossad Association (ALA) urges the U.S. Congress tion 215 have a sunset date of no more than (Israeli Group) to amend those provisions of the USA PA- four years; and be it further The Mossad: Israel’s Secret Intelligence TRIOT Act (PL 107-56) due for reauthori- RESOLVED THAT ALA urges that a sun- Services Inside Stories (1978) - UB271. zation only in a manner that safeguards set date of no more than four years be add- I8 E37 the privacy rights and constitutionally pro- ed to Section 505; and be it further Works about Steven Spielberg tected civil liberties of all library users, li- RESOLVED THAT ALA urges Con- Steven Spielberg: a Biography (1997) - brary employees, and U.S. persons; and be PN1998.3.S65 M32 gress to intensify its oversight of the use of it further Steven Spielberg: From Reels to Riches the PATRIOT Act as well as other govern- RESOLVED THAT ALA urges Congress (2001) – Children’s Book Collection ment and investigation that 921 Sp444g to amend Section 215 of the USA PATRI- limit the privacy rights of library users, li- Films by Academy Award-nominat- OT Act to brary employees, and U.S. persons; and be • require law enforcement officials to show ed director Steven Spielberg it further Amistad (1997) – IMC Videotapes individualized suspicion that items per- RESOLVED THAT, ALA reasserts its com- PN1997 .A52 tain to a foreign power or its agent, a per- mitment to the rights of inquiry and free The Color Purple (1985) – IMC Video- son in contact with a suspected agent, or expression of all library users, library em- tapes PS3573.A425 C6 a suspected agent who is the subject of ployees, and U.S. persons and opposes limi- ET (1982) – IMC Videotapes PN1997 the investigation; and .E12 tations and chilling effects on these rights. • require records or other items to be de- Jaws (1975) – IMC Videotapes PN1997 Adopted by the ALA Council scribed with sufficient particularity to al- .J34 January 25, 2006 low them to be identified – reducing the Works by Academy Award-nominat- danger that the FBI will engage in fish- ed screenwriter Tony Kushner Update ing expeditions in library or bookstore Angels in America (1993, 2 parts) - records; and The February 2006 issue of American Li- PS3561.U778 A85 • require the FISA Court to make a find- braries included the following quote from For more information on the Acad- ing that these facts have been sufficient- Senator Russ Feingold, “Librarians have emy Awards in general, see 60 Years ly demonstrated; and been extremely effective advocates of civ- of the Oscar: the Official History of the Academy Awards (1989) - PN1993.5.U6 • allow a recipient of a FISA records search il liberties, leading the way in the effort to O14 order to consult with an attorney or other protect our freedoms as we combat terror- The Assistant Director would like person necessary to comply with the re- ism. Reader privacy is an inherent part of li- brary patrons’ intellectual freedom and the to thank the editor of Off the Shelf for quest, to challenge the records search or- her ideas regarding this article, as well exercise of First Amendment rights, and li- der, and to challenge the gag order; and as the staff of the library, the readers, be it further brarians have greatly contributed to the ef- n n and…oh, there’s the music. RESOLVED THAT ALA urges Congress fort to protect these principles.” to amend Section 505 to

Off the Shelf l March 2006 7 Around the Library

cIntyre Library staff is concentrating efforts on weeding our book collections in order to both make the newer titles more prominent and to remove damaged, Moutdated, superseded and unused materials from the collection. Ordinarily we do this in a more leisurely fashion, but we are about to experience remodeling and con- solidation — see Building Update, page 11. In order to accomplish changes in space configuration, we’ve already weeded lesser-used collections in the basement and on fifth floor, including oversize, bibliography and old children’s books. We are now starting on parts of the collection that will be of interest to faculty and will be inviting faculty from various departments to view those items which we think should be removed from the collection. Because we need the fifth floor space first, we are proceeding ‘backwards’ from the ‘Z’ (bibliography) section. The first departments and schools we will contact are those who use books in the ‘R’ (medicine) section, and those who use books in the QA-QS (math, computing and physical sciences) sections. After we finish weeding the fifth floor, we will move down to the fourth floor, and then Collection the third. Please note that this is a tentative timetable as we refine the plans for the reconfiguration of the physical stacks and the impact on the stacks of our upcom- ing remodeling projects. Books published before 1995 are considered for weeding. Before we contact facul- Weeding ty, we check for usage, both check-outs and in-house use, for duplicate copies in other UW System libraries, and consult the Books for College Libraries standard bibliogra- by Janice Bogstad, [email protected] phy. The books you will be asked to look at have already met our criteria for discard and we will be asking for your expertise just in case we’ve missed some reason that the book should be retained. Below is a list of call numbers on each floor so that you have an idea of the order of the weeding project.

FLOOR WEEDED TYPES OF BOOKS Fifth Feb-April PS-Z American literature, math and computers, physics, chemistry, botany, medicine, agriculture, technology, military and naval science, bibliography, library history and library science

Fourth May-July HD-PR social sciences, political sciences, law, education, music, fine arts, language and literature (non- American) including classical, romance, Asian, drama, journa- lism and English literature

Third Aug-Oct A-HC general works, philosophy and religion, psychology, history, geography and anthropology, general social sciences

Collection development staff will inform department bibliographers of weeding prog- ress and date changes as the project proceeds; the bibliographers will be your source of information, so keep in touch with them. n

8 Off the Shelf l March 2006 Virtual Library

his spring’s lineup of new databas- es is heavily weighted toward the New Databases for Thumanities and social sciences, and includes biography, literature, philosophy, and history. In the First Person, published by Alex- Humanities & ander Street Press, is an index to English language personal narratives on the Web that are held by repositories and archives Social Sciences around the world. These narratives come in the form of letters, diaries, memoirs, au- tobiographies, and oral histories from pub- by Mimi King, [email protected] lished volumes. This database not only contains links to full-text documents, but also audio and video sources for more re- cent events. Narrative time periods range from the with partial full-text from Children’s Litera- in the search history make lateral search- 1550s to the 2000s. The index contains ap- ture Review, Classical and Medieval Litera- ing easy. Keyword searches can be limited proximately 20,500 months of diary entries, ture Criticism, Drama Criticism, Literature to search only journal articles or English 63,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral histo- from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Litera- language entries. ry entries. The publisher states, “The sto- ture Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Results are sorted into document cate- ries of diverse groups and ordinary people Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Twenti- gories: journals, peer-reviewed journals, from all walks of life can at last be heard eth-Century Literary Criticism. books, and chapters/essays. Our “Find It!” alongside those of the well-published and Also included are selected full text, ex- service will automatically search the library famous.” cerpted, and commissioned critical ma- catalog for books as well as journals. Researchers can browse tables of con- terial from titles we do not have in our Women and Social Movements in the tents, repositories, dates, places, subjects, collection: Drama for Students, Literature of United States 1600-2000 is published and historical events. They can also search Developing Nations for Students, Literature by Alexander Street Press, under the edi- collections or documents. The document and Its Times, Novels for Students, Poetry for torial direction of Kathryn Kish Sklar and search form enables such in-depth searches Students, Shakespeare for Students, and Short Thomas Dublin of the State University of as topics/persons/events discussed, doc- Stories for Students. These titles are useful New York at Binghamton. The database in- ument type (oral history, letter, diary, and for education majors preparing instruction cludes books, images, documents, scholarly memoir), speaker, or interviewer. In addi- at the high school level. essays, commentaries, and bibliographies. tion, searchers can limit the search to full- The Literature Resource Center also These sources document the multiplicity of text, audio, or video and exclude non-free links to Merriam-Webster’s Encyclopedia women’s activism in public life. items. Only about 25% of the collection is of Literature, which features more than The resource, which examines perspec- held under copyright. 10,000 descriptive entries on literary fig- tives on women’s social movements from Literature Resource Center, pub- ures, works, and terms. colonial times to the present, is an au- lished by Gale Group, is comprised of the Philosopher’s Index, published by thoritative presentation of the primary Literature Resource Periodicals and the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA), is a documents. Literature Resource Reference databases. bibliographic database with author-written The Web site currently includes 65 doc- This database offers a wealth of informa- abstracts covering scholarly research in all ument projects with 1,800 documents, and tion that includes criticism, biographies, areas of philosophy. The literature covered more than 23,000 pages of additional full bibliographies, work overviews and expli- goes back to 1940 and includes journal arti- text documents. It includes book, film and cations, Web sites, periodical articles, com- cles, books, book chapters such as contribu- Web site reviews and teaching tools as well. pare and contrast pages, full-text author’s tions to an anthology, and book reviews. These resources may be particularly good works, and reading lists. Researchers can browse author, descrip- for student teachers preparing history or The LRC provides online, full text access tors (subject headings), journal name, or social studies modules at the high school to series we already have in print: Contem- publication type to restrict a search. Hy- level. Women and Social Movements in the porary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criti- per-linked descriptors within the records United States is designed to appeal to schol- cism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, along and the ability to link previous search sets ars, teachers, and students at all levels. n

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Discontinued Ingenta ToC Alert Service and Superseded Cancelled by UW-Madison Databases by Janice Bogstad, [email protected]

arly in February we received a cancellation notice from UW-Madi- ue to budget constraints, McIntyre son collection development staff that has affected approximately 80 DLibrary has cancelled two databas- Efaculty members on this campus. The alerting (table of contents and es which are largely duplicated in other saved searches) service from Ingenta was formerly provided by UW-Mad- services, and a third has been cancelled ison to the UW System schools at no charge to the individual campuses. at the UW System level. This service was not renewed, but you may continue to receive alerts un- Social Work Abstracts (SWAB) has til Ingenta turns off the service. Formerly known as “CARL Uncover,” the been superseded. We have access to an- service was deemed too expensive by UW-Madison in light of the fact that other database entitled Social Services less expensive options exist. Abstracts, which includes all the jour- Several of our vendors: ISI, ProQuest, SilverPlatter, CSA, ABC-CLIO, and nals indexed in SWAB, as well as many EBSCO, offer TOC and saved search alerts, as well as subject and citation more, and we recommend that those alerts. SearchSpot also offers a similar service that saves searches run by familiar with SWAB try Social Servic- authenticated users, runs them automatically, and e-mails a notification es Abstracts instead. It includes mate- to the user. rial in languages other than English so We are currently investigating the feasibility of a group contract with you may want to restrict your search to six other UW campuses to continue the Ingenta service. If you are interest- English publications only. ed in continuing or starting the Ingenta ToC Alert Service, contact Mimi Our longstanding subscription to King by March 24. If you need assistance setting up alert arrangements NewsBank Newsfile has been cancelled with other vendors, feel free to contact her for a consultation at 836-4958 as we now have more resources that in- n or [email protected]. clude newspaper files. Users are direct- ed instead to ProQuest Newspapers, ProQuest Wisconsin Newsstand, Gen- derWatch and Ethnic NewsWatch. We’ve replaced ProQuest Nursing Journals with Health Source: Nursing. My In the past, we accessed full-text jour- nal articles in the nursing field through ProQuest’s Nursing Index and accom- Private ID panying ProQuest Nursing Journals. These subscriptions were acquired for Why do I need it? the entire UW System through funds The Private ID serves as your “library card” in the online environment. This that came to us as a system. When an- ID will allow you to renew materials online, borrow books through Universal other company, EBSCO, offered us a Borrowing, order articles through ILLiad, and more. restricted, but similar service for much How do I get it? less money, we voted to change over to Click the yellow login button in the online catalog. At the login page, click the EBSCO service. In the short term, the BLUGOLD link, enter your username and password and you will see we will miss access to some journals your 8-digit Private ID. Record that number and keep it handy or just copy but the EBSCO file is growing, so check and paste it into the application you are using. n out HealthSource: Nursing for your re- search needs. n

10 Off the Shelf l March 2006 In Brief

Building Update by Bob Rose, [email protected]

Completed projects and should be moving in the fall. Re- • The sprinkler replacement project was lated to this work, many of the stacks completed in January. All the pipes on the fourth and fifth floors will be were replaced due to a bacterial growth reconfigured. that was causing leaks. Our thanks to • Work will also be done on L-2023A-C. Terry Classen and Ted Short of facili- A permanent wall will be constructed ties management for their efforts to re- between B and C and a folding par- solve this problem. tition providing better sound control IMC Open House • The IMC has a few final finishing will be constructed between A and B. touches and it will be completely done. An emergency door will be built be- by Becky Wojahn, [email protected] Additional furniture was added during tween the library and old library, near hank you the fall to meet student demand. the entrance to L2023B. Access to B and to everyone who at- C will then only be available through Ttended the instructional media Construction will begin on these proj- the Old Library except when A and B center open house on Wednesday, Feb- ects at the end of the spring semester are used simultaneously. ruary 8th. Over 120 people from the • A new instructional lab will be con- • Finally, the loading dock area will university and the Eau Claire com- structed where the government pub- be remodeled. This project is expect- munity came to help us celebrate the lications offices are currently located. ed to be completed by mid-October. completion of the IMC’s move from Government publications staff will re- second floor to the lower level. At- locate to different spots in the library Current construction updates can be tendees toured the newly remodeled when that occurs. found by clicking on the link to the con- space, enjoyed refreshments and took • Special collections will have a new area struction blog in the upper left hand cor- home lots of prizes. At 5 pm, there constructed for them on the fifth floor ner of the library home page. n was standing room only and lots of laughs for Rob Reid’s talk on using humor in the library, based on his re- cent book Something Funny Happened in the Library: How to Create Humorous Programs for Children and Young Adults (ALA 2003). Reid is the author of four other books on children’s library pro- Women’s History gramming and a 2005 Newbery Com- and Earth Day Exhibits mittee member. He currently teaches children’s and young adult literature Check out the display cases in the library grand at UW-Eau Claire. corridor. If you or your students want to mount Watch for future IMC updates, edu- an exhibit in either the large or small case, fill cation news, and highlights of our cur- out the online application form. Click “E” on the A-Z list on the library homepage, then “ex- riculum materials at the IMC News blog hibits application and policy form.” n at http://imcnews-mcintyre.blogspot. com on the IMC Web site, http://www. uwec.edu/library/imc. n

Off the Shelf l March 2006 11 Staff News

John McCrackin, library services assistant in the circulation department, assumed the chal- lenging task of maintaining and updating the A newsletter from McIntyre Library library Web pages after Kate Hinnant left us University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004 in the spring of 2005. He’s done a wonderful (715) 836-3715 job and made enhancements to a variety of ar- eas of the site, as well serving as chair of the Mary Hayden, Editor Web committee and working with the Web [email protected] student employee. John will continue his reg- We welcome IS Technical Ser- ular circulation department duties and staff Bob Rose, Director [email protected] vices Senior Deb Klossner, our new the reference desk as an LTE on Saturday af- n Web developer. Deb has a bache- ternoons. Thanks, John! Sheila Pederson, Graphic Designer lors degree in technical education, Publications Office a masters degree in library me- Cotsy (Catherine) Jones, li- dia, and certificates in electronics brary services assistant ad- and computer networking. She is vanced/lead, retired in currently taking two classes - an February 2006. Cotsy had online introduction to database worked for UW-Eau Claire design and an education class. In for 27 years, starting in 1978 her free time, she does laundry…. as a limited-term employee in records and reg- and basic home remodeling proj- istration and moving to McIntyre Library in ects. She has one daughter, Heath- 1980, when she was hired as a clerical assis- Comments and suggestions about Off the Shelf are appreciated. er, and a really cool, nearly nine tant. She was reclassified four years later and Print copies are distributed mid- year old grandson, Calvin, back continued to progress through the library as- way through each semester to home in New Ulm, MN. sistant classification series throughout her faculty and academic staff, with Originally from New Ulm, the career. She loved working with student as- online copies available to all at home of Schell’s Beer and 1919 sistants and solving patron problems. Cotsy http://www.uwec.edu/Library/ Root Beer, Deb moved to the Eau most recently supervised the public periodi- ots/. Claire area in the fall of 1997 to cals area and the library’s copy service. Best marry her long time fiancé How- wishes for a wonderful retirement, Cotsy. n Mary Hayden, editor ard Luedtke after an eleven year engagement! She came to UW- The new period- Eau Claire in the fall of 2000 to icals public service be Web development coordina- coordinator is Lau- tor for academic affairs and the rie Roach, roachlm@ college of professional studies. uwec.edu. Laurie Deb previously worked as an will continue in a electronic technician, a tech ed 50% position in the Special Collections teacher, a computer technician, government publi- a public library director, and nu- cations department and has been assigned to Extended Hours merous other jobs including her a 50% position in the periodicals area, where Spring 2006 current weekend gig for the past she coordinates day to day operations. Lau- 18+ years as the bass player for rie’s hours in the periodicals area will be M-F, Monday 8 a.m.-5 p.m. her husband’s rock blues band, 10:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Copy Service adminis- Tuesday 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Blue Max. Contact Deb M-F, 8 a.m. tration will be covered by Mimi King, reference Wednesday 8 a.m.-5 p.m. to noon, at 836-3588 or klossndl@ librarian, [email protected], who will process Thursday 8 a.m.-5 p.m. uwec.edu.n departmental authorization requests and an- Friday 8 a.m.-5 p.m. nual billing notices. n Funding for evening hours is provided by the History Department

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