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System Celebration scheduled Sept. 15; award nomination deadline is April 15

Mark your calendars for System Celebration 2005, scheduled Thursday, Sept. 15, at Morels restaurant in Middleton. This event is our annual thank you to the staff, trustees, and mayors/village presidents of SCLS member libraries for their support and efforts throughout the year.

Award nominations -- which may be made by library staff, trustees, Friends, citizens, etc. -- must be submitted at www.scls.info/about/systemceleb. New this year is the requirement that all nominations be submitted electronically. The deadline for nominations is Friday, April 15.

The System Celebration also will once again offer a poster session during the reception portion of the evening. Individual libraries are encouraged to prepare posters about a new construction or renovation project, a successful or unusual library program, a successful advocacy project, or a project to raise funds or obtain volunteer support for the library. If you are interested in preparing a poster for the session, or would like to suggest an idea for a poster, contact Mark Ibach by email by June 1, 2005.

 

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SCLS offers exciting new options for 2005 SLP program

This summer the South Central Library System is offering member libraries two new programs to enhance the Summer Library Program -- an online registration form and an online teen book club.

Participants can register for the Summer Library Program via participating libraries' websites. In addition to standard registration questions, the registration form will include a statement regarding the privacy of e-mail addresses and communications as protected under Wisconsin state law and a box for parents to check acknowledging that they are aware their child has registered for the Summer Library Program. Use of this electronic registration form is voluntary.

SCLS member libraries also will have the opportunity to offer an additional way for teens to talk about books this summer.  Teens at participating libraries can join the system-wide online teen book discussion project. SCLS will contract with a blog service that will allow teens to register for a book club that is monitored and facilitated by volunteer SCLS librarians.  Volunteers moderators will be trained in both blogging and book discussion techniques and will determine the length of the discussion series and the titles to discuss.

More information about both programs will be coming in the near future.

Available now are promotional materials for the 2005 SLP, the theme of which is “Dragons, Dreams & Daring Deeds.” To access these materials on the SCLS website, go to www.scls.info/pr/slp/. Coming soon to the site will be PSA scripts and a link to programming ideas.

 

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Member/Staff News

As part of Dane County Libraries Celebrate T.C. Boyle, the Black Earth Public Library and the Mazomanie Free Library are jointly sponsoring Carolyn Wedin, Wisconsin Humanities Council, who will present “Diversity or Division? America’s and Wisconsin’s Immigrant Heritage” on April 24 at 2 p.m. at the Historic Mazomanie Arts Center. A photographic exhibit of area forefathers and foremothers, compiled by the Mazomanie Historical Society, will help put a local face on the issues of immigration and the contributions of immigrant heritages to American culture.

The latest issue of Libraries@UW-Madison is now available at www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/News/newsletter/39/.

On April 7 the UW-Madison Memorial Library will host Stan Nelson, Museum Specialist Emeritus, Graphic Arts Collections, Smithsonian Institution, for a presentation titled “Recasting Gutenberg.” Nelson will discuss the history of type founding and describe the process of how type is made: from punch cutting and matrix fitting to casting and finishing. His presentation will also include a demonstration of hand casting. The lecture is part of the two-day Silver Buckle Press symposium Recasting Gutenberg, the second in the series "Hot Type in a Cold World" on modern letterpress printing and the effect of the computer on printing. The presentation will be in Room 126 at 4:30 p.m.

 

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Ebling’s Norcross recognized by AHIP

Natalie Norcross, associate director of Ebling Library, has been renewed at the distinguished level by the Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP), a peer-reviewed professional development and career recognition credentialing program of the Medical Library Association.

Through this recognition, Norcross is acknowledged as showing "the highest standards of professional competency and achievement in the field of health care information."

Ebling Library houses information and resources for the health sciences at UW-Madison. The Library opened last summer and is the result of combining the former Middleton Health Sciences Library, Weston Clinical Science Center Library, and Power Pharmaceutical Library.

 

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WiscNet's Future Technologies Conference is May 2-3 in Madison

WiscNet’s Future Technologies Conference, May 2-3, 2005, at the Monona Terrace in Madison, will feature keynote speakers Julian Lombardi and Mark Cooper. There also will be breakout sessions, networking opportunities, a year-in-review by WiscNet Executive Director David Lois, and Board of Directors elections.

Lombardi will share a demonstration of his innovative Croquet Project, a combination of open source computer software and network architecture that supports deep collaboration and resource sharing among large numbers of users. The integrated 2D and 3D Croquet interface allows for co-creativity, knowledge sharing, and deep social presence among large numbers of people. Cooper will discuss his work on collaborative information production, deliberative democracy and cooperative organizations, and open networks in the digital economy.

Breakout sessions are planned throughout the conference on topics ranging from open source tools, Annenberg/CPB digital content, voice over IP, optical and advanced networking, visions of the future of online content, innovative uses of the network for teaching and learning, distance learning efforts and collaborations, security, digital library collection efforts, the future direction of WiscNet and, of course, the WiscNet annual business meeting and board elections.

Complete details and a registration form may be found at www.wiscnet.net/ftc_registration.

 

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FOWL annual meeting is April 9 in Madison

The Friends of Wisconsin Libraries (FOWL) annual meeting is scheduled April 9, 2005, at the Alicia Ashman Branch of the Madison Public Library, from 8:30 a.m. until 2 p.m.

For more information about the meeting, or for a registration form, visit www.cheesestate.com/friends/meeting.htm.

 

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College of DuPage offers links to medical information in Spanish

Below are some helpful online health and medical resources in Spanish that may be of use to library patrons. When doing medical-related reference, information should always be discussed with health care providers who can interpret it and apply it to an individual's case.

To access the Spanish language resources, visit www.dupage.edu/COD/index.php?id=109.

 

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ECB’s Surf Report explores nature’s violent side

This month's Surf Report from the Educational Communications Board (ECB) takes you on a guided tour of the more violent side of nature, featuring websites about tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes, forest fires, avalanches, drought, floods, tornadoes and hurricanes.

Whether it's the 2004 Asian Tsunami or the 1871 Peshtigo Fire, natural disasters have a way of capturing our imagination, and can be a great way to help patrons interested in learning more about scientific concepts.

Visit the Surf Report at www.ecb.org/surf.

 

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UW-Madison to host Basbanes for annual Friends lecture

Nicholas Basbanes, editor and author, will be the featured speakers at this year’s annual spring meeting of the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries. The author, award-winning journalist, and former literary editor of the Worcester Sunday Telegram has been called a “certified bibliomaniac" and "the leading authority on books about books."

Now in its eighth edition with more than 80,000 copies in print, his first book, A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction for 1995. It was also named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Basbanes' most recent book is A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World. He currently writes a monthly review of children's books for Literary Features Syndicate, which he and his wife established in 1993.

Basbanes will speak at the Madison Club, 5 East Wilson Street in Madison, at 5:30 p.m. on April 20.

 

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