More Staff News — Winter 2009

January 2009—Scott B. Mandernack (right) was appointed head of Research and Instructional Services effective November 2008.  Scott was most recently at Purdue University, where he began as the undergraduate reference and instruction librarian in 1990 and took the position of head of the undergraduate library in 2002, as well as co-director of Purdue Libraries’ Diversity Fellowship Program since 2006.  Scott’s appointment brings him full circle back to his Wisconsin roots: he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UW-Parkside and UW-Milwaukee, respectively, and he served as Information and Instruction Librarian and Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater from 1985-1990.

As head of Research and Instructional Services, Scott will coordinate, direct, and promote the services, resources, and programs of the Research and Instructional Services department, including research services, information literacy instruction, e-learning, diversity, collection development, and a funding information center.  He has also been appointed collection librarian for the College of Education. Scott's strong background of professional service in management, planning and mentoring, as well as numerous publications on libraries and technology, brings opportunities for new initiatives in his department.

Bruce Cole (pictured at left), bibliographic control librarian and Jean Cujė Milwaukee Music Collection librarian, has recently been featured in several several local media.  The Jan. 7 edition of OnMilwaukee featured an article about the origins of the Cujė Collection and its surprising holdings in Milwaukee music history.  On Jan. 10 Bruce talked about the Cujė Collection with WMSE-FM (91.7) and also about History 125 (History of Rock and Roll), which Bruce has co-taught with Dr. Phil Naylor.  The interview may be streamed or downloaded here.  Bruce has been in charge of the collection since its 1993 founding in memory of MU librarian and musician Jean Cujė.  He has also been a drummer in Milwaukee bands since the 1960s.

Ann Hanlon, digital projects librarian, co-presented “Crowdsourcing Digitization: Harnessing Workflows to Increase Output” at the Library Information Technology Association National Forum in October 2008.  Ann and her co-presenter, Gretchen Gueguen (now digital initiatives librarian at East Carolina University), described the digitization initiative they led at the University of Maryland.

Alberto Herrera, diversity services librarian and Rose Trupiano, research and instructional services librarian, recently won election to offices in the Wisconsin Library Association.  Alberto is now vice president/president-elect of the statewide association.  Rose was elected vice chair/chair-elect of the Reference and Adult Services section.

Phil Runkel, archivist, spoke on the Dorothy Day-Catholic Worker Collection at a Fordham University symposium commemorating the 75^th anniversary of the Catholic Worker movement,  November 2008.

Mark Thiel, archivist, participated in the People to People Global Archives Management Delegation to China, October 2008.  The delegation of 24 archivists, most from religious or educational institutions, visited archives, and with archival educators and students in Beijing and Shanghai.  In both cities they visited the city archives and met with Chinese colleagues; they also also toured cultural sites, such as the Forbidden City and the Great Wall in and near Beijing.  Compared to the United States, the Chinese government retains for permanent preservation a much larger percentage of records and makes them Web-accessible.  Interestingly, a significant proportion of the online users of Chinese archives come from the United States, primarily California, which suggests that these are Chinese-Americans conducting genealogical research.

Jean Zanoni, associate dean of libraries, was elected vice president/president-elect of the Library Council of Southeastern Wisconsin.