News

The CIMC is always excited for our staff when they reach milestones. Two of our current Project Assistants, Erika Arroyo and Amanda Werhane have recently graduated from the School of Library and Information Studies. We are sad to report that this news, while happy also means that they will be leaving the CIMC.

Erika Arroyo began working at the CIMC her first semester of her freshman year (that was over 7 years ago!). She was a circulation staff member, a circulation supervisor, a reference desk project assistant and our circulation/equipment project assistant. Anyone who has used the services at our circulation desk, benefited from Erika’s many talents. Erika was very skilled at training in new staff members, repairing equipment, and just being an excellent problem-solver. Erika was a huge asset to the CIMC and we will miss her greatly. We wish Erika the best of luck in whatever her future brings (including her new nuptials!)

Amanda Werhane has been working at the CIMC for the past two years as a reference project assistant. She has made innumerable improvements to our reference training materials, our materials (tutorials / web pages) for patrons, as well as our collections. She has also instructed and devised new workshops for the CIMC. We know that Amanda will continue to be extremely successful wherever she ends up, and we are sad to be losing her and her many talents.

During the past year, Jeremy Todd has been working as a project assistant on the MERLOT grant. Jeremy has been helping to develop a portal that provides ease of access to learning objects in teacher education included in MERLOT. As funding for the MERLOT project comes to a close, unfortunately so will Jeremy’s tenure at the CIMC. Jeremy is currently a graduate student in Educational Policy Studies. We are very appreciative for Jeremy’s work.

Posted by Anna Lewis on July 1, 2005

We are happy to announce that Deanna Rasch has recently started at the CIMC as the new Circulation/Equipment Project Assistant. She will be helping to train in new students, helping to organize and process our equipment collection, in addition to helping out with instruction and assisting patrons at the Circulation Desk. Deanna is currently enrolled in the School of Library and Information Studies – working towards her Master’s degree. She comes to the CIMC with a wealth of diverse experiences, as well as a many years of library experience. Please help us welcome Deanna to the CIMC.

Posted by Anna Lewis on July 1, 2005

Get your extra hard drive space from the CIMC! We have added six new external hard drives (60 GB each). They work with PCs and/or Macintoshes. They connect through a firewire cable or a USB cable, and do not require an outside power source. To reserve one of the new hard drives, please call the CIMC Circulation desk at 263-4750. (Keep in mind you must be a student, staff or faculty in the School of Education).

Posted by Anna Lewis on July 1, 2005

For those currently using Memorial Library’s “blue” borrower cards (formerly deposit cards) to check out materials, there is now a new policy in place. The new policy allows card holders to use Inter-library loan services, but comes at a cost. The new card is called an “annual fee” card and it requires two proofs of Wisconsin residency (one with a photo) as well as a $30.00 annual payment. For many CIMC users, the alternative “courtesy” card will still remain free of charge. Those who qualify for courtesy cards include:
• Wisconsin state, Dane county and city of Madison employees
• Faculty, staff and students at Madison Area Technical, Edgewood and Beloit Colleges. Beloit and MATC students will also need to bring a form from their college librarian.
• Private college faculty in the State of Wisconsin
• Donors to the Library
• The spouses, domestic partners, and children of UW-Madison faculty, staff and students.
• Wisconsin K-12 educators
The Card Registration Desk is in the entrance to Memorial Library and is open between the hours of 8:00 am and 6:00 pm Monday through Friday and from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm on Saturday and Sunday. If you have additional questions about borrowing privileges, or need to determine which borrowing category best suits your needs, call the Memorial Library Circulation Office at (608) 263-7360.

Posted by Anna Lewis on July 1, 2005

In order to upgrade our catalog (MadCat) the UW-Library System is facing some extended outages. The upgrade allows UW-Madison to convert bibliographic information (stuff in our catalog) to Unicode™ UTF-8 standard which allows for the display and searching of multilingual records. The specifics follow below, but please be aware that if you have an urgent non-article interlibrary loan request or an urgent book retrieval request (campus library book delivery), you should speak with Anna Lewis directly 608-263-8199.

No UW-System Search requests (materials from other UW Campuses) can be accepted or processed between July 1 and July 22nd.

No UW-Madison Book Retrieval requests can be accepted or filled between July 11th and July 21st (for urgent requests – please contact Anna Lewis 608-263-8199)

Library Express (ILL) requests CAN be made for articles during the outage dates. However, requests for books or other materials cannot be processed until the system is restored. (for urgent ILL requests – please contact Anna Lewis)

The Library Technology Group hopes to have all systems back up and all services back in order on July 21st. We will keep patrons posted with any updates. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Posted by Anna Lewis on July 1, 2005

Discovery Channel School. Life science(Discovery Communications, 2004)
Seventeen CD-ROMs address a breadth of life science topics, from bacteria and mammals to ecology and forensics. Each title includes quizzes, a teacher's guide, related World Book encyclopedia articles, and simulation software. And coming soon to the CIMC collection: Discovery Channel's Earth Science and Physical Science series.

Teacher Mentoring and Induction, ed. by Hal Portner (Corwin Press, 2005)
Comprehensive mentoring and induction programs in teaching can reduce by half new teachers' attrition rates and accelerate their professinal development.
(LB 1731.4 .T453 2005)

The Exceptional Teacher's Handbook: The First-Year Special Education Teacher's Guide to Success, by Carla F. Shelton and Alice B. Pollingue. 2nd ed. (Corwin Press, 2005)
A manual of strategies and best practices for special education and inclusive classrooms for both beginning and experienced teachers. Addresses changes in NCLB and IDEA legislation.
(LC 3969 S54 2005)

Study Guide for the Art Tests (Praxis series. Professional assessments for beginning teachers) (Educational Testing Service, 2005)
(LB 1762 .E38 2005 Art)

Study Guide for the Spanish Tests (Praxis series. Professional assessments for beginning teachers) (Educational Testing Service, 2005) (LB 1762 .E38 2005 Spa)

Recent Additions to the Pre-Kindergarten-Grade 12 Collection

Turning Points in U.S. History (Ambrose Video, 2003)
Three 4-disc video sets examine the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries of American history with dramatizations and re-enactments. In Spanish and English.

Posted by Vince Jenkins on July 1, 2005

The African-American Mosaic: a Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture
Online version of an exhibition held at the Library of Congress from Feb. 9-Aug. 29, 1994. Covering nearly 500 years of the Black experience in the Western hemisphere, surveys the Library's collections, including books, periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film, and recorded sound.

Barahona Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents
Bilingual, searchable database of recommended books in Spanish and recommened books in English about Latinos. With links to other web sites for Spanish books for children.

TQ Source
Resources for teacher preparation, recruitment and retention, certification and licensure, and others. Resources include state policy database, tools to extract and display statistical data from the NCES data sets, a publications database, and a searchable collection of current teaching quality initiatives and programs.

Posted by Vince Jenkins on July 1, 2005

Education Index Retrospective 1929-1983 has just become available to the UW community. This journal database contains citations (no full text) from a broad range of education-related periodicals dating back to 1929.

The database does not yet appear UW-Libraries’ Journals Magazines and Newspapers page, but it can be accessed here:
http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?prod=EDUR

Posted by Jim Jonas on July 1, 2005

July is the first full month of summer, and the CIMC has four displays dedicated to this season of sun, fun, and freedom.

1. Celebrate Independence Day by learning more about American institutions. We will highlight books, videos, and other items that focus on American government and history.

2. A second display will highlight items that discuss summer and summertime activities.

3. July is National Park and Recreation month. The CIMC will host a display that talks about national parks and geography.

4. Finally, The American Library Association and Major League Baseball have teamed up to promote a joint program promoting childhood literacy: "Join the Major Leagues @ your library." Taking a cue from their recommendations, this display will look at baseball-related items at the CIMC.

Posted by Kelly Haferman on July 1, 2005

The CIMC instruction team is pleased to announce the summer schedule for CIMC workshops focused on information and technology literacy. The full schedule with workshop descriptions, dates and times, and registration is available online.

Summer workshop titles include:

• Introduction to Learn@UW (Catherine Stephens)
• Introduction to EndNote (Jim Jonas)
• Introduction to Dreamweaver (Chris Dowling)
• Dreamweaver Web Site Management (Chris Dowling)
• Dreamweaver and Cascading Style Sheets (Chris Dowling)
• Creating Online Instruction with Captivate (Catherine Stephens)
• Building a MyWebSpace Site (Chris Dowling)
• Introduction to RefWorks (Jim Jonas)
• Introduction to Large Format Printing (Anna Lewis)

In addition to the workshop schedule, CIMC instruction staff offer sessions to SoE courses or programs. For more information, visit our course-integrated information online, or contact Catherine Stephens at cstephens@education.wisc.edu .

Posted by Catherine Stephens on July 1, 2005

After more than a year of inactivity, the ERIC database was updated with new citations on June 26th. The new information includes citations from over 100 journal titles and over 50 non-journal (government and NGO publications) sources.

Currently, this information is ONLY available through the Dept. of Education's ERIC website located at: http://eric.ed.gov/ The citations located there only link to the full-text of articles that are freely available on the Internet and NOT those available in full-text through campus subscriptions. It is anticipated that the UW's version of ERIC (through EbscoHost) will be updated late in August.

Posted by Jim Jonas on July 1, 2005