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Milwaukee Repertory Theater Images Online
by Christel Maass and Krystyna Matusiak
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The UWM Libraries recently completed an extensive online digital collection, entitled Milwaukee Repertory Theater Photographic History: The Mark Avery Collection 1977-1994. Providing a visual chronicle through 17 seasons of artistic productions at the Milwaukee Rep, the database includes 1,800 images documenting 195 performances.
The images were selected from the Mark Avery collection, which is housed in the Archives at the UWM Libraries. Avery, who worked as a photographer for the Milwaukee Repertory Theater Company from 1976 to 1994, donated his extensive negative collection to the Archives in 1999. Only a small percentage of Avery's photographs have been placed on this Web site, which can be accessed at http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/digilib/milrep/index.htm.
Krystyna Matusiak, Digital Project Librarian, led the work on this photographic history Web site, assisted by digitization intern Cullen Carter. Cindy Moran and James Pickering of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater also provided invaluable assistance with research and indexing.
In addition to the Mark Avery collection, the Archives also hold the Milwaukee Repertory Theater records, 1953-1987, and the papers of noted Milwaukee playwright and actor Larry Shue, which date from 1968-1985.
For more information about the Milwaukee Repertory Theater Photographic History Web site, please contact Tim Ericson by phone at (414) 229-6980 or e-mail at tericson@uwm.edu. For more information about the Mark Avery collection and other theater-related holdings in the Archives, please contact the Archives at (414) 229-5402, Ask an Archivist, or visit the Archives on the Web at http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/arch. Finding aids for the collections are available on the Archives' Web site.
| UWM Libraries and Milwaukee Repertory staff view the new Web site. Standing, from left: Timothy Fields, Managing Director of the Milwaukee Repertory; Cindy Moran, Rep Audience Development Manager; Tim Ericson, head of the Libraries' Archives; Ewa Barczyk, Associate Director of Libraries; Cullen Carter, Libraries' digitization intern; and Peter Watson-Boone, Director of Libraries. Sitting, from left: Krystyna Matusiak, Digital Projects Librarian, and James Pickering, Rep Resident Company actor. |
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Library Custodial Staff Honored
The UWM Libraries honored the library custodial staff at a reception on January 14 in the Libraries' Conference Center. Among the speakers was Director of Libraries Peter Watson-Boone, who thanked the custodians for their valuable and excellent work. "The order and cleanliness of the building," Watson-Boone said, "is a critical part of the Libraries' ability to contribute toward our students' learning, and our faculty and staff's research." Provost and Vice Chancellor John Wanat, University Libraries Committee Chair Winston Van Horne, and Acting Friends President Bruce Fetter also spoke. This was the second Custodians Appreciation Ceremony; the first was held in 1997.
Speakers at the event and honorees, from left, were Edward Stark; Michael
Robinson; Professor Winston Van Horne, Chair of the University Library Committee;
Louis Tolbert; Charles Espitia (behind Louis Tolbert); Thomas Maciejewski; Lawanda
Jones; Keith Jackson; Edith Walker; Tora Farrington-Pittman; Thomas Blanco;
Lola Shaw; John Wanat, Provost and Vice Chancellor; Mark Bussian; Professor
Bruce Fetter, Acting President of the Friends of the Library; John Hamill; and
Peter Watson-Boone, Director of Libraries (not shown are David Kaminski and
Kent Wilburn).
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Middle School Students Access Archives
Eighth-graders from the West Milwaukee Middle School visited the UWM Libraries on December 20 for a presentation by the Archives Department, which included TV film footage and papers related to the civil rights movement in Milwaukee in the 1960's. The students were particularly excited to be able to hold actual archival materials and work with them. Several Archives staff followed up the presentation with a visit to the middle school in January.
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Digital Microform Scanner
The UWM Libraries have recently added the latest advancement in microform technology-a dual-purpose digital microform scanner-to complement the existing top-quality microform reader/printers. The Minolta MS 6000 functions as a traditional reader/printer allowing users to print to a high-resolution digital laser printer. This method is ideal for documents of average or good quality, when an unaltered copy of the item is desired.
Researchers with more complex needs will appreciate some of the MS 6000's advanced features. Utilizing Adobe Acrobat software on the attached computer, a user may crop text or pictures, adjust sharpness quality, control grayscale in photographs, or edit the document in other ways, before printing or downloading and e-mailing the file directly to the user's desktop. A zip drive and a CD burner allow users to save very large files.
The MS 6000 accommodates both microfiche and microfilm formats. Printing from all microform reader/printers costs 25 cents per page, though saving and e-mailing documents is free.
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2002 Moebius Awards
The 2002 Moebius Awards for the UWM Libraries employees of the year went to Carolynne Rosenberger (academic staff), Michael Benter (classified staff), and Charlie Kempker (student employee). Provost John Wanat presented the awards, established in 1983 through a generous gift to the university from Janet and Carl Moebius, at the October 1 ceremony in the Golda Meir Library's fourth floor Conference Center.
| From left: Provost John Wanat, Michael Benter, Carolynne Rosenberger, Charlie Kempker, and Director of Libraries Peter Watson-Boone. |
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New System for Interlibrary Loan Requests
In January the UWM Libraries installed ILLiad, a new interlibrary loan management system that offers many advantages over the old system. By accessing a personal interlibrary loan account with their UWM ID and last name, users may now place requests for articles, books, dissertations, etc.; track the progress of those requests; modify outstanding requests; and review the request history. Articles are delivered electronically through ILLiad, eliminating the need to memorize a PIN number and access a second URL.
In addition to normal interlibrary loan requests, faculty, staff, and graduate students may place rush requests for articles needed immediately by clicking on the request selection button in ILLiad which indicates "Faculty/Grad Student Rush." Currently there is no charge for this service. The Libraries request that this method be utilized only when the item is needed immediately, as costly commercial document suppliers may be used to assure timely delivery. Users should continue to employ the standard request forms for items that are not urgent. Please note that this free service is only offered for faculty, staff, and graduate students. If an undergraduate student requires a rush item, a $5.00 fee per request will be charged.
Both the paper request forms and the old web forms previously used to make requests have now been replaced by ILLiad. The new system may be accessed by clicking on "Request Materials Through InterLibrary Loan" on the Libraries' InterLibrary Loan web page at http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/ILL.
Please contact the InterLibrary Loan Office if you have any questions or need assistance. The Office is open from 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Phone 229-4493; email libill@uwm.edu.
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Spring Exhibits
Exhibits in the Libraries this spring included a collection of unusual musical instruments donated to the UWM Department of Music by the Hal Leonard Corporation and "Collective Charting," an exhibit of original prints by UWM students, based on a collection of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century biological wall charts in Special Collections at the UWM Libraries.
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AGSL Receives Rare Maps Donation
The American Geographical Society Library was pleased to receive the gift of two rare antique maps of South America from Friends of the Library Board member, Patricia Van Alyea. The maps are America Meridionalis, by Gerard Mercator (1606), and Amérique Méridionale, by the French royal geographer, Nicolas Sanson, as published by Hûbert Jaillot in 1691. The donation was facilitated by Acting Friends President, Professor Bruce Fetter.
| From left, AGSL Curator Christopher Baruth, Professor Bruce Fetter, and Mrs. Patricia Van Alyea. |
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WLA Conference 2002
At the 2002 Wisconsin Library Association Annual Conference in Middleton, October 29 to November 1, Jim Tobin, UWM Libraries Collection Manager, gave a presentation entitled "When Do You Drop the Print?" and Ahmed Kraima, Research & Instructional Support dept., participated in a panel discussion on "Understanding Islam and the Middle East: Meeting the Information Needs of a Diverse Community."
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UWM Receives Lloyd Barbee Book Collection
Milwaukee civil rights leader Lloyd Barbee, who died in December, has left his book collection to UWM's Africology Department faculty and to the UWM Libraries. Best known for his efforts in the fight against segregation in the Milwaukee Public School system, Barbee, an attorney, also served in the Wisconsin Legislature as a state representative and as an assemblyman. He taught in UWM's Afro-American Studies Department (now the Department of Africology) from 1976 to 1988, and received an honorary Doctor of Public Policy degree from the university in 2001. Barbee's papers, donated beginning in 1982 to the Wisconsin Historical Society, are held in the UWM Libraries' Archives.
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WisItalia Donates Books
WisItalia, an organization that promotes Italian language and culture in Wisconsin, recently presented the UWM Libraries with a donation of books. Pictured, from left, are Tony Bruno, WisItalia Vice-President; Al Rolandi, WisItalia Executive Administrator; Peter Watson-Boone, Director of Libraries; and John Wanat, UWM Provost and Vice Chancellor.
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New Chat Service Available
The UWM Libraries Ask a Librarian service now includes a Live Chat component.
With this service a user can converse with a librarian in real-time through
the user's Web browser. Live Chat is offered in addition to the existing telephone,
e-mail, and in-person services of the UWM Libraries. It is designed to benefit
distance education students and other users who are not able to come to campus.
Chat service hours for Spring 2003 are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday,
and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday. Depending on the hour, the user may be chatting
with a Wisconsin librarian outside UWM.
During other hours, questions can be sent by e-mail. To connect to the chat
service, click on the "Ask a Librarian" link from the UWM Libraries
homepage or access the service directly at http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/ask/.
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Mordecai Lee Delivers 2002 Fromkin Lecture
Prof. Mordecai Lee, a former UWM student and the recipient of the 2002 distinguished Fromkin Research Grant, presented the 33nd annual Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture this past October 17th. Dr. Lee's lecture was entitled "FDR's Forgotten Experiment: Communicating about the New Deal." Pictured is Dr. Lee (left) receiving a framed poster announcing the lecture from Director of Libraries Peter Watson-Boone.
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Ahrentzen Chosen as 2003 Fromkin Recipient
UWM Director of Libraries Peter Watson-Boone and the members of the Fromkin Research Grant Committee are pleased to announce that Dr. Sherry Ahrentzen, professor in the School of Architecture and Planning, is the recipient of the 2003 Fromkin Research Grant and Lectureship.
Ahrentzen's topic is a historical-comparative examination of the three communities (including the Milwaukee suburb of Greendale) in the Greenbelt Towns Program initiated by the federal government in the 1930's. This New Deal program, Ahrentzen says, "has often been referred to as a model community that served the needs of the working class and poor and encouraged a democratic, cooperative way of life."
Ahrentzen's lecture, which will be of particular interest to faculty, administrators, and students, as well as the broader metropolitan community, will be the 34th in the Fromkin lecture series. For more information about the Fromkin Research Grant, please visit the Archives Web site at www.uwm.edu/Libraries/arch/fromkin.
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UWM Authors
UWM authors who had published books or recordings in the last two years were honored at a book signing and reception in the Libraries' Conference Center on November 14. Among the 131 authors honored were UWM Libraries' staff Mike Benter and Max Yela, as well as Chancellor Nancy Zimpher and former Chancellor John Schroeder. It was the sixth such ceremony, which was initiated in 1992.
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Recent Donations
The Libraries gratefully receive book donations that allow us to expand our collections beyond what is possible with State funding alone. Below, we recognize and thank those who have donated books and related materials since September 2002. If your name should appear on the list below, but does not, please contact Jim Tobin, the Collection Management Librarian, at 229-6814. Individuals who wish to make donations should also contact Jim Tobin. Please note that the Libraries reserve the right to decline donations that do not fall within our collecting scope or that duplicate existing holdings.
| Dept. of Administrative Leadership J.H. Aldstadt Mohammed Aman Anonymous Lloyd Barbee Estate Christopher Baruth Karen Beaumont Carlton Beck John Bibby Thomas Bliffert Richard A. Brosio Priscilla Camilli Giulia Caspari Merrily Marson Dawley Mick Day Peter Doroshenko Bruce Fetter David Garnham Maureen Garrison Powless Jon Gartenberg Dennis Gensch Devin Gensch Richard R.Gesteland Ihab Hassan Roger W. Heinz John Heywood David Hotchkiss Douglas Howland |
Karel Husa Reinhold Hutz Yefim Iushin Carol Johnson August Jurishica Milla Kadaja Donald Kirschner Svetlana Korolev Donald C. Kress Robert J.Krueger Julia Kruse Priscilla Kucik Mordecai Lee Leonard Levine Frank Macek Judy Malkowski Markos Mamalakis Michael Mikos Elizabeth Miller Matthew Ramon Nelson Valters Nollendorfs Karen E. Owens Richard Passman Stephen Percy Carol Pociecha-Palm Polish Center of Wisconsin, Polanki Library Kathleen Pritchard |
Deborah Rael-Buckley Robert Burns Club of Milwaukee Joan Robertson James Rosenbaum Martin Sable Arlene Schwab John Snedeker Charles Snyder Abraham Spitzbart David Stack Pat Stewart Gertrude Stillman Ewa Thompson Pierre Ullman Allen J. Ullstrup Henrietta Umbs University of Toronto Robert Uschan UWM Bookstore Pat Van Alyea Ralf Vanselow Vantage Press, Inc. Mark Vetcher Marco Vriens John Waldmer Ronald Weber Edward Wellin Doreena P. Wilson
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Personnel News
Arrivals:
Jody Gray, Associate Academic Librarian (FTE 49%)-Research and Instructional Support
Charlie Kempker, Administrative Specialist (FTE 50%)-Archives
Susan Modder, Development Director (50%)-Administration
Emily Monty, Financial Specialist II (LTE)-Business Office
Jeffrey Weber-Reek, IS Network Services Professional-Automation
Jeffrey Wickert, Library Services Assistant-Senior (LTE)-Reserve Services
New Appointment:
Dawn Lee-Vue, Program Assistant-Advanced (Confidential)-Administration
Departures:
Eric Beaumont, Library Services Assistant-Senior-Reserve Services
Mike Benter, Financial Specialist III-Business Office/Shipping and Receiving
Carol Brill, Associate Academic Librarian (FTE 50%)-Research and Instructional Support
Sharon Hill, Senior Administrative Specialist-AGSL
Charles Snyder, Shipping and Mailing Clerk-Shipping and Receiving
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Upcoming Library Events
April 30, 2003, 5:00 p.m. (reception), 6:00 p.m. (lecture)
Maps and America: The Arthur Holzheimer Lecture Series. "Charting Louisiana: 18th Century French Mapping of the Mississippi Valley, or How the Louisiana Territory Came to be Defined." Dr. John Hébert, Chief, Geography and Mapping Division, Library of Congress. Held in the AGSL, 3rd floor, east wing.
April 30, 2003, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Great Books Roundtable Discussion: John Donne and John Milton, selection of poetry. Held in Special Collections, 4th floor
May 28, 2003, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Great Books Roundtable Discussion: William Shakespeare, Othello. Held in Special Collections, 4th floor.
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For a copy of the paper version of this newsletter, please email libadmin@uwm.edu or call (414) 229-6202. The UWM Libraries Web site may be accessed at http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries.
This edition of the UWM Libraries Newsletter was published April 21, 2003.