Volume 15, Number 3, November 2005

Clarke College
In September, Paul Roberts, Director of the Nicholas J. Schrup Library at Clarke College, attended the CIC-sponsored Transformation of the College Library Workshop in Chicago. The Clarke team consisted of Roberts, Sr. Joan Lingen, Provost and Academic Dean and Sr. Pat Nolan, Professor of English.

Coe College
Hong Bo Xie has recently been hired as Head of Technical Services at Stewart Memorial Library.  Hong Bo is a recent graduate of the University of Iowa School of Library and Information Science.  She joins Stephanie Sueppel hired last Fall as Head of AudioVisual  replacing Cedra Williamson who retired.  

Two of the library’s support staff have been recognized for their years of service to the Coe College community;  Linda Bloedel, Interlibrary Loan Assistant for 35 years of service, and Rich Adkins, Music Library Supervisor, for 30 years of service. -- Submitted by Betty Rogers.

Divine Word College
Dan Boice, Librarian at the Jacoby Memorial Library, is very happy to report that Divine Word received a ten year accreditation from the Higher Learning Corporation/North Central Accreditation. Boice chaired Divine Word’s accreditation team, which visited the campus in October.

Loras College
Michelle Bailey is the new Cataloging Services Librarian at the Loras College Library. Suzanne Ward is the new Library Assistant-Part-Time. In October, the library staffs of Loras and UD got together to discuss ILLiad.

Mercy College of Health Sciences
Mercy College of the Health Sciences Library in Des Moines moved into its new facility on October 28, 2005. The library is on the first floor of the College's new Sullivan Center and now has 6,600 square feet of space designed to meet the needs of our growing number of students, faculty, and staff. The new facility has rooms available for group study or media viewing and an adjacent 25 seat computer classroom that uses Smart Board technology. PDF of the fact sheet and picture of the Sullivan Center. -- Submitted by Eileen Hansen.

Morningside College
We have a new Circulation Manager. Her name is Karen Johnson. Karen holds a BS degree in German from South Dakota University. She worked at Gateway for 8 years. She is the mother of a teenage son and lives in Sgt. Bluff, Iowa.  Karen has worked as a library volunteer and brings a wealth of technical knowledge and computer skills to Morningside College Library. She has also been active in Girl Scouts and has been an adult leader for many years. Karen began her employment with Morningside on July 1st. -- Submitted by Daria Bossman.

University of Dubuque
In September, Mary Anne Knefel, University Librarian at the Charles C. Myers at the University of Dubuque, attended the CIC-sponsored Transformation of the College Library Workshop in Chicago. The UD team consisted of Knefel, John Stewart, Vice-President of Academic Affairs and Paula Carlson, Associate Dean. The library also has three new staff: Jaimie Shaffer, Circulation Supervisor; Kim Spenser, Serials Assistant; and Diana Homan, Library Secretary. Paul Waelchli has been promoted to Assistant Director of Library Instruction and Public Services and Jan Waterhouse has been promoted to Assistant Director of Library Systems and Technical Services.

Waldorf College
The Luise V. Hanson library was formally dedicated on October 8, 2005. Waldorf College received $4.5 million from the John K. and Luise V. Hanson Foundation to help fund the library. Luise V. Hanson was an 18-year member of the Waldorf College Board of Regents. She was the wife of John K. Hanson founder of Winnebago Industries of Forest City, Iowa. Luise was a life long supporter of Waldorf and had a passion for books and libraries. The library has 28,500 square feet with 2 classrooms and a seminar room, several individual study rooms, wireless, a faculty research center, college archives, and a coffee shop. Details and pictures about the library can be found on our library web site at: http://www.waldorf.edu/services/library/library.htm.

New Staff
In August of 2005 Jennifer Turner became our new Technical Services Coordinator. She holds a BA from Concordia College in Moorhead Minnesota and a MLS from Dominican University. She was
formerly Media Librarian at the Hutchinson School System in Minnesota.

Luise V. Hanson Library receives two grants for 2005-2006:
The Luise V. Hanson Library received a Carver Grant for $50,000 to help build our children's curriculum center as well as collection building in biology and business resources.

Waldorf College was awarded a Title III grant from the US Department of Education in 2005. Over the period of 5 years the library will be receiving $125,000 for collection building in psychology, biology, and secondary education. -- Submitted by Jim Kapoun.

Wartburg Theological Seminary
At the Wartburg Theological Seminary’s Reu Memorial Library, there are two new staff members: Barbara Day, Readers’ Services and Media Services Supervisor and Deborah Vanicek, Technical Services Assistant/Media Assistant.

Iowa Public Academic News

Iowa State University
In late August 2005, Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian, delivered an invited PowerPoint presentation titled “Wikis: Disruptive Technologies for Dynamic Possibilities” at Digital Libraries à la Carte: Choices for the Future, an international workshop held at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. The presentation reviewed the general nature and structure of select wikis, the features and functions of popular wiki software engines, and described the content and use of wikis by select businesses, colleges and universities, and libraries. A self-archived copy of the presentation is available (http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/TICER2005.ppt).

In October, Gerry McKiernan also delivered a selected PowerPoint presentation titled “Web Feeds: The Greatest Things since Sliced Bread!” at the LITA National Forum 2005 in San Jose, California. A self-archived copy of the presentation is available (http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/LITAForum2005.ppt).

Sean Cordes, Instructional Technology Librarian, also gave a presentation at the LITA National Forum 2005. Sean’s talk was entitled, “Library Instruction Tutorials: Bottom-Up Design Structures for Maintenance and Scalability.” The presentation described the processes involved in designing a scalable, portable, and maintainable application structure to deliver library instructional content. Highlights of the presentation included choosing scalable technologies by establishing needs and requirements; separating content from design using modularization; creating scalable web application using open standard technologies; and fostering adoption through dialoguing and brand integration.

DataPalooza, the Library’s annual electronic learning festival was held on October 5, 2005. Librarians demonstrated online resources and answered questions from patrons about selecting and searching electronic resources.

Parks Library is one of the first academic libraries in the United States to provide a public scanner for use by the Iowa State University community. The scanner is self-service, and it is located in the Reference area at Parks Library. Patrons can store scanned images on a CD or a flash/USB drive. Scanned images can also be emailed to the patron’s personal computer.

The Public Relations Committee at Parks Library has released the first issue of “Your Library – Newsletter.” The newsletter is distributed via email to ISU faculty and staff. It is also available on the Library’s website, http://www.lib.iastate.edu/home.html.

University of Northern Iowa
Personnel News
Tim Bryant, a former Reference Librarian & Bibliographer, is currently an Instructional Technology Librarian in the Information Commons of the E. H. Butler Library at Buffalo State College, SUNY.

Becky Lutkenhaus, former Documents & Maps Reference Librarian & Bibliographer, has accepted a position as a Product Developer for Thomson West in St. Paul. Becky will be working on the Westlaw.com product.

Kent Snowden, former Head of Access Services, has accepted the position of Directory of the Rosa Parks Library at Troy University-Montgomery Campus, Montgomery, AL.

Rod Library is currently conducting a search for a Reference Librarian and Bibliographer. For more information, please go to http://www.lib.uni.edu/searches/ and click on the Reference Librarian and Bibliographer option. Rod Library anticipates advertising for an Access Services Coordinator soon. Please watch the Web site on the Rod Library page, http://www.lib.uni.edu/searches, and the Iowa Library Job List, http://www.silo.lib.ia.us/for-ia-libraries/joblist.html, for this position announcement.

University of Iowa
UI Libraries' Sesquicentennial Anniversary
It all started in 1855 with two boxes, 50 books and a dream. This year marks the UI Libraries' Sesquicentennial Anniversary. We invite you to join us for this celebration.

• Student Essay Contest. Deadline October 7. Grand Prize $200.
• Beyond the Bun: A Look Inside Librarian Culture. North Exhibition Hall, Main Library. September-November, 2005.
• Branch Libraries Open Houses. September 26-October 10, 1:30-3:30pm.
• Librarian Film Series (co-sponsored by the Bijou and LISSO). Shambaugh Auditorium, Main Library. October 27-30, 8pm.
• Campus Party. Food, Music and Drawings for iPod and Gift Certificates. Main Library. November 3, 1-4pm.
• Sesquicentennial Celebration. Dr. Mark Edmundson, author of "Why Read?", will speak. Dessert Reception will follow. Shambaugh Auditorium, Main Library. November 3, 7pm.
• Connecting You to a World of Ideas for 150 Years. North Exhibition Hall, Main Library. November 2005 - February 2006.

For more information, check online at www.lib.uiowa.edu/sesqui.

Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust of Muscatine Grant
The University of Iowa has received a $236,000 grant from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust of Muscatine to help expand and renovate the main library’s Information Arcade electronic classroom.  Construction of the two-year, $1.36 million project is expected to begin in 2006.  The project will expand the arcade by adding a second electronic classroom to alleviate pressure on the existing room, as well as two others at the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.  The new classroom will explore the use of wireless technology and provide a more flexible teaching environment, and it will divide much of the existing space into workstations that allow for more collaborative learning and interaction between students and faculty members.

UI Conservator To Help Save Historical Collections Damaged By Katrina
The conservator from the preservation department of the University of Iowa Libraries is headed to Mississippi to help begin the process of saving cultural and historical collections damaged by hurricane Katrina. Gary Frost leaves Thursday, Sept. 22, for a one-week trip to the Gulf Coast. His team will visit numerous museum, archives and libraries in Mississippi cities to offer an initial assessment of the damage.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ournews/2005/september/092105katrina-libraries.html

Card catalogue redux

In the first week of classes, while students are rushing to the bookstores to shell out hundreds of dollars for textbooks they may never crack open, those in the UI Library Preservation Unit are taking a closer look at a more nostalgic side of books.

With the advent of such technologies as the Internet and digital cataloguing, certain traditional library standbys, such as the card catalogue, are going the way of the eight-track tape.

Because the library's main card catalogue was retired in 2004, today's first year students will never experience the romantic act of physically leafing through a drawer of cards in order to find the call numbers for the books they need. But they still have a chance to encounter these artifacts and experience them in a reinvented and artistic manner through the cARTalog project.

Currently, more than 160 participants from at least 20 states have requested cards with the aim of creating book art, sculpture, card poetry, and mail art.

Kristin Baum, an assistant conservator in the UI preservation unit, salvaged a fraction of the catalogue cards before they were hauled off to recycling in February. Her plan for cARTalog is to distribute the 1 million cards, which represent one-fifth of the library's total cards, to people in the community and children in local schools with the intention that participants find as many creative uses for them as possible.

Her goal is "not about the end product but about generating community and getting people creatively connected with one another around the card catalogue," she said.

The inspiration for the project came in the mid- to late-90s, when she witnessed other libraries following the digital trend. Receiving a friend's postcard of the card-catalogue installation at the San Francisco Public Library solidified the idea.

"It opened me up to our cARTalog project once I learned that the UI cards were headed out the door," she said.

Many people may see this shift to a digital era as a tragic death of library culture, but Baum attempted to counter that notion.

"From antiquity, forms have repeated," she said. "Certain formats fall out of use and then cycle back in." She cited the similarity of a computer screen's scrolling mechanism to the ancient papyrus scroll.

Baum views the project as a rebirth of the card catalogue, and she is "curious to see how people will use the cards" and "excited about the miraculous things that people will come up with." Those interested in contributing a creation may have until January 2006 to complete their projects.

Submissions will be considered for exhibition and inclusion in the library's permanent holdings. Baum is most excited about the plans for the mail art submissions, which will be housed in an on-site collection in an old card catalogue drawer. In this way, "people can experience the act of physically paging through the card catalogue, but what they are paging through is also art."

http://www.dailyiowan.com/media/paper599/news/2005/08/24/Arts/Card-Catalogue.Redux-969068.shtml

UI Libraries Exhibit Celebrates United Nations' 60th Anniversary
The University of Iowa Libraries will host an exhibit of items from its United Nations depository collection to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. The exhibit will run from Oct. 17 to 29 in the Government Publications Reading Room on the third floor of the Main Library. A reception for the exhibit will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 24.

The UI Libraries has been a U.N. depository since 1968, and it has a full collection of materials dating to the organization's founding in 1945, according to Brett Cloyd, Documents Librarian. The UI Libraries also provide staff research assistance for those who use the collection.

"These primary source materials provide students, faculty and other researchers with an insight to the relations between countries, as well as the events and activities within countries other than our own," said Cloyd. "Reports from the field in Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Indonesia, El Salvador, Afghanistan and Iraq, among others, help provide a more diverse and illuminating picture of current and historical events in our world. Students have greatly benefited from access to this information."

The United Nations is also an active collector of statistics and treaties among nations and plays an important role as a facilitator between its more than 190 member countries.

"At a time both of globalization and increased polarization on issues of the day, materials in the U.N. collection can help shape and form an understanding of the debates in a broader context," Cloyd said. "We will be featuring materials on Human Rights, the Environment, Nuclear Non-Proliferation and the Millennium Development Goals to highlight key parts of the collection."

Information about the Libraries' United Nations exhibit can be found online at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/govpubs/intl/unday.html. For more information, contact Brett Cloyd at (319) 335-5743 or by email at brett-cloyd@uiowa.edu.

STORY SOURCE: University of Iowa News Service, 300 Plaza Centre One, Suite 371, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-2500.

Staff Update
New Professional Staff

• Randy Roeder, Librarian II, Head, Complex Cataloging, CTS, effective July 1, 2005
• Mark Anderson, Part-time, Temporary (6 months) Librarian I, Digital Initiatives, 62.5% FTE, effective July 1, 2005
• Mary Noble, Part-time, Temporary (6 months) Librarian I, Complex Cataloging, CTS, 62.5% FTE, effective July 1, 2005
• Stephanie Joseph, Librarian I, Librarian Residency Program Reference Librarian, RLI, effective September 6, 2005
• Jennifer Wolfe, Librarian I, from 100% Complex Cataloging, CTS, to 75% Complex Cataloging, CTS and 25% Digital Library Services, effective September 26, 2005

Promotions

• Amy Cooper Cary, Librarian III, Assistant Head, Special Collections & University Archives, effective July 1, 2005
• Edward Miner, Librarian III, Bibliographer, effective July 1, 2005
• Michael Wright, Librarian III, Head, Rapid Access, CTS, effective July 1, 2005
• Jia Xu, Librarian II, Complex Cataloging, CTS, effective July 1, 2005

Resignations

• Janet Hulm, Librarian II, Head, Acquisitions, CTS, effective August 1, 2005
• Amy Cooper Cary, Librarian III, Assistant Head, Special Collections & University Archives, effective July 29, 2005

Retirements

• Larry Woods, Director, Technical Services & Information Systems, Administration, effective September 20, 2005