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Table of Contents
1. Reminder: LSTA grant applications due September 12
2. BadgerLink featured at the Wisconsin Alumni Association's 'Wednesday Nite @ the Lab'
3. Wisconsin museums receive funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services
4. IMLS Announces New Round of the Connecting to Collections Bookshelf competition
5. September is Library Card Sign-up Month
6. Boys and Girls Club Day for Kids
7. Website of the Week - Digital History
8. Calendar
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1. REMINDER: LSTA GRANT APPLICATIONS DUE SEPTEMBER 12
Today is August 28th ... just two weeks away from the LSTA grant application submission deadline on September 12, 2008. Please call Terrie Howe at 608-266-2413 or by email at teresa.howe@dpi.wi.gov if you have any lingering grant questions. Please note: September 12th is also the deadline for supporting application letters and signature pages.
2. BADGERLINK FEATURED AT THE WISCONSIN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION'S 'WEDNESDAY NITE @ THE LAB'
"Wednesday Nite @ the Lab" is a weekly program featuring sessions by University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty and staff researchers. On September 3, 2008, Karen Dunn (Steenbock Agricultural Library), Ulrike Dieterle (Health Sciences Library), and Betsy Vogel (Rayovac Remington) will offer a session on the periodical and reference resources available to all Wisconsin citizens through the BadgerLink program.
With BadgerLink, users have direct access to approximately 4,000 periodical titles, 700 newspapers (including Wisconsin newspapers), children's and adult literature, business, medical, and education resources. BadgerLink is a project of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's (DPI) Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning. Its goal is to provide access to quality online information resources for Wisconsin residents in cooperation with the state's public, school, academic, and special libraries and Internet Service Providers.
Admission to the program is free. The session will be held Wednesday, September 3, 2008, from 7 to 8:15 p.m. at the Genetics/Biotechnology Center, Room 1111, The Auditorium, 425 Henry Mall on the UW-Madison campus. Free parking is available in Lot 20, 1390 University Avenue. Lot 20 is a three-level parking structure on the right side of University Avenue, just before Henry Mall. Lot 20 is attached to the Genetics/Biotechnology Center. For a map, see http://map.wisc.edu and type in "Lot 20" in the Search box in the upper right-hand corner of the webpage.
WN@TL runs every Wednesday night, 50 times a year, and the topics cover the full range of science, engineering, and technology research at by University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Genetics/Biotechnology Center is at the intersection of University Avenue and Randall Avenue and is served by over a dozen Metro bus lines.
If you do not live near Madison or are not able to attend WN@TL, you can still view each WN@TL lecture live through videostream. It is available starting at 7 p.m. Central Time every Wednesday, 50 times a year. To view the lectures, it is recommended that you use Firefox and the latest version of QuickTime. The link is http://www.biotech.wisc.edu/webcams/Index.aspx .
3. WISCONSIN MUSEUMS RECEIVE FUNDING FROM THE IMLS
Three Wisconsin museums have received 2008 Museum for America grants from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The IMLS awarded a total of $16.9 million through the program to 154 organizations. It is the largest museum grant program administered by IMLS and supports institutions interested in strengthening their services in the following areas: engaging communities (education, exhibitions, and interpretation); building institutional capacity (management, policy, and training); and collections stewardship. The three Wisconsin grantees for 2008 are:
Circus World Museum - Baraboo, WI
Grant category: Collections Stewardship
Award Amount: $18,831; Matching Amount: $25,831
Project Title: "Digitization and Cataloging of Photography from the Golden Age of Circus"
The Circus World Museum will use its grant to purchase the tools to digitize and catalog 1,377 glass negatives that date from 1880 through 1938, a period often described as the Golden Age of American Circus. The images and information will be made available online for research and purchase, making the collection accessible to many audiences. While many of the images have been available in print for researchers, this will be the first time they have been available for browsing online. The project marks an important step forward in the museum's commitment to sharing information about the place of the circus in American history.
Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College - Beloit, WI
Grant category: Collections Stewardship
Award Amount: $114,521; Matching Amount: $119,780
Project Title: "Catalogue Conversion and Accessibility Project"
Beloit College's Logan Museum of Anthropology will convert approximately 53,000 paper-based catalog records to electronic format using Re:discovery Proficio, a collections management system, and CONTENTdm, a digital collections management system. Through this project, the museum will improve public access to collections, reach a broader audience, increase points of access to collections for educational use, inspire collaborations on and off campus, and facilitate data sharing. The museum houses approximately 15,000 ethnographic and 160,000 archaeological objects from 12 countries and 169 Native American tribes. The museum and associated researchers and educators use these collections extensively for object-based learning, contributing to Beloit College's leadership in undergraduate anthropology and museum studies.
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art - Madison, WI
Grant category: Collections Stewardship
Award Amount: $24,000; Matching Amount: $24,625
Project Title: "MMoCA Permanent Collection Digital Photography Project (MMoCA PCDPP)"
The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art will design and equip a photography studio and workstation and then create a substantially improved image library of artworks from the permanent collection. This library of several thousand digital images will enable the museum to provide enhanced stewardship to works in its care and organize more inclusive and targeted exhibitions from its holdings. The project will also allow the museum to improve and expand its education programming, create more compelling marketing campaigns, monitor the care of collected works through image-based condition reports, and plan for future programming based on the permanent collection.
4. IMLS ANNOUNCES NEW ROUND OF THE CONNECTING TO COLLECTIONS BOOKSHELF COMPETITION
Based on the enthusiastic response to the "Connecting to Collections Bookshelf," the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) will offer a third round of the competition to distribute the Bookshelf to an additional 1000 qualifying institutions. Applications can be submitted to the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) between January 5, 2009 and March 9, 2009 at http://www.aaslh.org/Bookshelf. Priority will be given to smaller institutions, but large museums and large libraries with special collections are also eligible to apply. Please note that federally operated institutions, for-profit institutions, and libraries that do not hold special collections are not eligible to receive the Bookshelf. For more information, please contact Terry Jackson at jackson@aaslh.org or 615-320-3203.
The following Wisconsin museums and libraries were among the 776 recipients of the second round of Connecting to Collections grants, announced August 5, 2008:
Hearthstone Historic House Museum - Appleton, WI
Sauk County Historical Society - Baraboo, WI
Dodge County Historical Society - Beaver Dam, WI
Logan Museum of Anthropology - Wright Museum of Art - Beloit, WI
Bonduel Community Archives - Bonduel, WI
Indianhead Federated Library System - Eau Claire, WI
Hoard Historical Museum - Fort Atkinson, WI
Chazen Museum of Art - Madison, WI
University of Wisconsin-Madison Zoological Museum - Madison, WI
Milwaukee County Zoo Library - Milwaukee, WI
University of Wisconsin-Platteville Department of Museums - Platteville, WI
Vilas Historical Museum - Sayner, WI
Sheboygan County Historical Museum - Sheboygan, WI
Wauwatosa Historical Society - Wauwatosa, WI
5. SEPTEMBER IS LIBRARY CARD SIGN-UP MONTH
Held in September, Library Card Sign-up Month is a time to remind parents and children that a library card is the most important school supply of all.
Library Card Sign-up Month was launched in 1987. Since then, thousands of public and school libraries join each fall in a national effort to ensure every child does just that. Free tools to help libraries promote Library Card Sign-up Month are available at http://www.ala.org/librarycardsignup.
6. BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB DAY FOR KIDS
Libraries are once again invited to participate in the Boys and Girls Club (BGC) Day for Kids celebration on September 20, 2008. BGC Day for Kids is a day set aside each year to celebrate America's children through the gift of meaningful time with a positive adult.
The Boys and Girls Clubs of America is interested in working with public libraries to participate in this celebration by distributing their complimentary Making Memories Family Activity Calendar. In addition, libraries are encouraged to incorporate programming around BGC Day for Kids.
The mission of the Day is about galvanizing national attention on the importance of spending meaningful time with children, something libraries do so well all year long. Further information is available on the Boys and Girls Clubs Web site at http://www.dayforkids.org/.
To receive your complimentary Making Memories Family Activity Calendar (limit of 200), please contact Linda Mays in the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) office at 800-545-2433 x1398 or at lmays@ala.org.
7. WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
Digital History -- http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ -- This Web site was designed and developed to support the teaching of American History in K-12 schools and colleges and is supported by the Department of History and the College of Education at the University of Houston. It provides a U.S. history textbook, essays, documents, maps, photos, audio files, and more for teachers and students of American history in schools and colleges.
8. CALENDAR
September 5, 2008 - Wisconsin Public Library System Directors Annual Meeting, Madison
September 9, 2008 - Fall Interlibrary Loan Meeting for public library system and resource library staff, Madison
September 12, 2008 - Council on Library and Network Development, Fennimore
September 26, 2008 - Children's Consultants Annual Meeting, Madison
September 30, 2008 - Certification & Continuing Education Consultants Meeting, Madison
October 9, 2008 - Delivery Services Advisory Committee, WisLine web
October 10, 2008 - Library Information Technology Advisory Committee meeting, Madison
November 4-7, 2008 - Wisconsin Library Association Annual Conference, Middleton
November 11-12, 2008 - Library Services & Technology Act (LSTA) Meeting, Madison
November 14, 2008 - Council on Library and Network Development, location to be announced
March 22-24, 2009 - Wisconsin Educational Media and Technology Association (WEMTA) Spring Conference, Madison
Roslyn M. Wise
Editor, Channel Weekly
Department of Public Instruction
Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning
PO Box 7841
Madison, WI 53707-7841
Phone: (608) 266-6439
FAX: (609) 266-8770
For questions about this information, contact Roslyn M. Wise (608) 266-6439
Last updated on 8/29/2008 3:27:45 PM
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