1. "Invisible" wins Burr/Worzalla Award
2. New resources at UW Digital Collections
3. Health Information Outreach Summit scheduled for August 16
4. Technology grants available from the SMARTer Kids Foundation
5. Website of the Week - Television News Archive
6. Calendar
1. "INVISIBLE" WINS BURR/WORZALLA AWARD
The Children's Book Award Committee of the Wisconsin Library Association's Youth Services Section recently selected Pete Hautman's fiction title, "Invisible," as the winner of the 2006 Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla Award. The story, written for adolescents, is a haunting combination of mystery and psychological thriller that readers will remember long after they turn the final page. Mr. Hautman lives in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and was the recipient of the 2004 National Book Award for his novel, "Godless."
Five Honor Books were selected for Outstanding Achievement in Children's Literature:
"Crackback" by John Coy
"Leaf Man" by Lois Ehlert
"Leonardo Da Vinci" by Kathleen Krull
"The Lioness & Her Knight" by Gerald Morris
"White is for Blueberry" written by George Shannon and illustrated by Laura Dronzek
The winner of the 2006 Notable Wisconsin Author/Illustrator for her contribution to the world of children's literature is Betty Ren Wright. For 55 years, Ms. Wright has been a prolific and popular writer of quality literature for young people.
Members of the Children's Book Award Committee are Sonja Ackerman, Marathon County Public Library; Roxane Bartelt, Kenosha Public Library; Geri Ceci Cupery, E.D. Locke Public Library (McFarland); Leah Langby, Indianhead Federated Library System; Pamela Penn, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; and Chair, Maryann Owen, Racine Public Library.
2. NEW RESOURCES AT UW DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
The following new resources were recently added to the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. For more information about digital resources at UW, contact Peter Gorman (pgorman@library.wisc.edu) or visit the UWDC Web site at http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu.
THE STATE OF WISCONSIN COLLECTION
The Home Front: Manitowoc County in World War II
1 issue / 50 pages / 53 images / 20 video minutes, added 6/27/2006
The Home Front: Manitowoc County in World War II is a digital collection of photographic images, oral histories, published sources and documents, artifacts, and other resources which help to document and explain the history of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin during the period from 1939 to 1947-both the more universally shared home front experiences and activities as they played out in this specific county, and those more unique activities which especially defined the area during the War. New content includes text, images and videos that further document shipbuilding in Manitowoc County during WWII. http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.HomeFront
NEW RESOURCES WITHIN EXISTING COLLECTIONS
ECOLOGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES COLLECTION
Crandon Mine Reports
99 volumes / 42479 pages, added 6/13/2006
The Crandon Mine Reports provide researchers access to information about the Crandon Mine permit process that occurred from between 1976, when the Exxon Coal and Minerals Company discovered a zinc-copper ore body located in northeastern Wisconsin near the city of Crandon, to 2003, when the Nicolet Minerals Company withdrew its permit applications after purchase of the project lands by the Mole Lake Sakaogon Chippewa and the Forest County Potawatomi Tribes.
The physical documents in the Crandon Mine reports collection are located at the UW-Madison Wendt Library and are comprised of 100 reports, occupying approximately 25 linear feet. A summary of the history of the mine permitting process is located on a Web site maintained by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/EcoNatRes.CrandonMine
THE HISTORY COLLECTION
Playing House: Homemaking for Children
5 volumes / 1,402 pages, added 6/13/2006
American domestic advice or homemaking manuals emerged in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and served to advise the housewife in the care and upkeep of the home and its contents and occupants. While most of these manuals were written to assist the "woman of the house," others aimed at educating young girls, the homemakers of the future.
This collection includes digitized versions of books from the UW-Madison collections spanning 1877 to the 1930's. These books provide instruction on a wide range of topics including cooking, cleaning, laundry, household management and occupational training for young maids. Through them, young girls could learn among other things, the proper way to make a bed, polish the silver, decorate a table, and prepare and serve a nice meal. Volumes include:
* Gilman, Elizabeth Hale. Housekeeping (1916)
* Keech, Mabel Louise. Training the little home maker, by kitchengarden methods (1912)
* Betty's scrapbook of little recipes for little cooks : saved from
Wisconsin Agriculturist and Farmer ([Between 1930 and 1939?])
* Kirkland, E. S. (Elizabeth Stansbury), 1828-1896. Six little cooks, or, Aunt Jane's cooking class (1877)
* Gilman, Elizabeth Hale. Things girls like to do (1917) http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.ChildHomeEc.
3. HEALTH INFORMATION OUTREACH SUMMIT AUGUST 16, 2006
Health and information professionals supporting research, patient care, education, training, and outreach activities are invited to attend a Health Information Outreach Summit at the University Union, UW-Green Bay, on Wednesday, August 16, 2006. The purpose of the Summit is to demonstrate quality evidence-based practices, tools and applications; present information about statewide health-based outreach initiatives; stimulate communication and collaboration among health and information professionals; and update Informed Caring Partners and advance their knowledge/skill in the use of IC resources.
For registration information and more, see the Summit Web site at: http://projects.hsl.wisc.edu/outreach/summit_2006/. The summit is co-sponsored by the Northern Wisconsin Area Health Education Center (NAHEC) and the Ebling Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The summit is supported by a National Network of Libraries of Medicine grant.
4. TECHNOLOGY GRANTS AVAILABLE FROM THE SMARTER KIDS FOUNDATION
The SMARTer Kids Foundation provides grants/discounts for technology products and are available to all public or private, accredited and not-for-profit educational institutions, as well as authorized home-schoolers, museums, science centers, and libraries involved in K-12, college, university, vocational, and technical instruction or administration. Grants are available for:
"eInstruction" educational technology products;
SMART Products such as SMART Board interactive whiteboard and SMART Ideas
concept-mapping software;
SMART products discounts for teacher professional development facilities; and
Visual Presentation Products, such as NEC projectors.
For more information, visit the SMARTer Kids Foundation web site at
http://www.smarterkids.org. Application deadline is September 30, 2006.
5. WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
Television News Archive -- http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/ -- The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989.
6. CALENDAR
September 8, 2006 - Council on Library and Network Development, Kenosha
September 29, 2006 - Delivery Services Advisory Committee, via video-conference at various sites
October 13, 2006 - Public Library System Youth Liaisons annual meeting, Madison
October 31-November 3, 2006 - Wisconsin Library Association, Wisconsin Dells
November 10, 2006 - Council on Library and Network Development, location TBA
November 29-30, 2006 - LSTA Advisory Committee meeting and public hearing, Madison
January 12, 2007 - Council on Library and Network Development, location TBA
For more details about these and other meetings, see the WISDOM calendar at http://dpi.wi.gov/pld/wisdom.html and the BadgerLink and WISCAT training site at http://www.wiscat.lib.wi.us/training.html.
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