Fine Print Spring 2008 | Murphy Libary | UW-La Crosse
Recently, the Faculty Senate Library Committee presented a report to the Faculty Senate outlining the financial crisis faced by
Murphy Library. This crisis affects many areas of the library including periodical subscriptions, interlibrary loan/document delivery, student employment, and physical collections such as books.
In addition, the library's electronic resources, which consist primarily of article databases, are severely affected. What follows are some examples that highlight how e-resources are affected by shrinking budgets and higher user expectations.
In the past 5 fiscal years, the number of locally-purchased article databases decreased by 30 titles from 80 to 50.
At the same time, Murphy Library’s expenditures for article databases increased by $20,000 or 12.5%.
Because the library’s total acquisitions budget has been flat since 2001, an increase in e-resource expenditures means a decrease in the book purchases.
The average price increase for subscriptions in 2006/2007 was 9.31%.
Since 2004/2005, Murphy Library has lost 30 e-resources: 26 local subscriptions and 4 UW System Shared Electronic Collection subscriptions were cancelled. (A list of canceled resources is available at: http://eresources.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/cancellation-budgethistory/ ).
The decision to cancel a database subscription is never taken lightly and is usually considered for a combination of reasons that may include: budget shortfalls, changes in database pricing, duplication of resources, programmatic or curricular changes, low use statistics, interface problems, quality of vendor customer service, and more.
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Murphy Library is pleased to announce that Dr. Richard Gappa is this year’s
Eugene W. Murphy Library Special
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2004/2005* 66
2005/2006** 58
2006/2007 52
2007/2008+ 50
$155,081.26
$145,839.50
$172,353.05
$180,847.56
Murphy Library Award was established in 1986 by Murphy Library and the UW-L
Foundation to recognize notable contributions to the library’s mission, program, and purposes.
Dr. Gappa is a Professor in the English
Department and teaches the children’s and adolescent literature courses on campus. He has been the primary force behind the development of a first-rate juvenile collection, which is housed in the Alice Hagar Curriculum
Resource Center. These books make up one of the most highly used collections, certainly within the
Curriculum Center, and throughout the library.
We welcome you to join us as we recognize his accomplishments at the
Murphy Library Award Ceremony on
Thursday, May 1, 2008 at 7 p.m. in the
ARC/Special Collections, Room 156
Murphy Library Resource Center.
Michele Strange , Access Services Librarian
*2004/2005: Some of this year’s budget was used to pre-pay for subscriptions at a discounted rate so that there were no subscription payments for some resources in 2005/2006.
**2005/2006: This year’s expenditures were lower because some subscriptions were renewed in 2004/2005 at a reduced rate.
+2007/2008: Projected Budget
Galadriel Chilton, Electronic Resources Librarian
Murphy Library will be conducting a web-based survey this spring in conjunction with other
UW libraries. The survey is called LibQUAL+™ and evaluates library user perceptions of library service and collection quality. LibQUAL+™ was developed and extensively tested by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and has been used by hundreds of libraries since
2000. The data gathered from this study will benefit the library, university community, and the UW System as we explore ways to improve library services and ensure that we are setting appropriate priorities in our ongoing activities. In addition to learning how well the library measures up to the expectations of faculty, staff, and students, we will also learn how file:///Users/mmanke/Desktop/Fine%20Print%20Spring%202008%20%20%20Murphy%20Libary%20%20%20UW-La%20Crosse.html[6/12/13 2:59:45 PM]

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Murphy Library compares with the libraries of other UW institutions in terms of user satisfaction.
From March 31st until April 18th, we'll be asking faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students to complete the web-based questionnaire of 44 items; completing the questionnaire should take no more than 10 minutes. Invitations asking for your help have already been sent via e-mail. As incentives to increase participation, those who complete the questionnaire and submit their e-mail address will be entered into a drawing for iPods, certificates for iTunes, pizza, and more.
Survey responses are processed separately from e-mail addresses, ensuring survey anonymity. Likewise, the e-mail addresses entered for the drawing will be processed through an ARL partner institution and then deleted, so Murphy Library employees will never have access to the email address file.
Murphy Library participated in LibQUAL+™ in 2004 and implemented many improvements suggested by the results of the study. Results of the 2004 study can be found at http://www.uwlax.edu/murphylibrary/libqual/2004/ .
Please contact John Jax ( jax.john@uwlax.edu
or 785-8567) if you have questions or comments.
John Jax , Collection and Resource Development Librarian
What: Classroom teachers, LMC staff, reading specialists, special education teachers, administrators, and any others interested in teaching Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math
(STEM) topics at the PK-8 level are encouraged to participate.
When: Monday April 21, 2008. Choose from either
When: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 4:00 PM -
6:00 PM Murphy Library
Where: Alice Hagar Curriculum Center,
Murphy Library
What: “Books—New Immigrants - Embedding
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12:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Where: Alice Hagar Curriculum Center, Murphy
Library
Registration: Registration and campus parking, is free but spaces are limited. RSVP by phone 785-
8509 or email Tim Gerber gerber.dani@uwlax.edu
to reserve a spot.
Presentations by: Karen Nelson Hoyle, Curator,
Children's Literature Research Collections,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Pangjua
Xiong, Hmong Programs Manager, English
Language Learner Department, St. Paul Public
Schools; Bounthavy Kiatoukaysy Thao, Hmong
Community Specialist, English Language
Learner Department, St. Paul Public Schools.
Sponsored by Murphy Library and School of
Education at UW-La Crosse. With refreshments, door prizes, and resource materials.
Registration: RSVP to Michele Strange at
608-785-8943 or strange.mich@uwlax.edu
by
April 11th.
Government-produced information is highly valuable for academic research across many disciplines, including the social sciences, natural sciences, and business. Today, most information produced by the federal government is published online. How effective are popular free web search engines like
Google at providing access to online government publications?
What about the federal government’s own free web search engine, USA.gov
?
Researchers at two nonprofit government watchdog organizations, OMB Watch and the
Center for Democracy and
Technology (CDT), set out to answer this important question.
You might find the answers surprising.
According to their analysis, “many important information sources within the federal government are essentially hidden from the very search engines that the public is
History buffs, researchers, students and educators who share a fascination with steamboats have their first opportunity to view a portion of Murphy Library’s nationally significant historic steamboat photograph collection online. The University of Wisconsin Digital
Collections Center (UWDCC) in Madison has digitized the first batch of steamboat photographs. After quality review by Murphy Library and UWDCC staff, the site went live and is now open to the public.
Over 400 images are now available for online viewing at http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/LaCrosseSteamboat/
The Murphy Library steamboat collection contains over 50,000 steamboat related images so these first 400 images are just the first drops in the proverbial bucket. The entire collection includes photos of individual steamboats from the 1850s to the present; images of steamboat captains, engineers, pilots, passengers and crews; city file:///Users/mmanke/Desktop/Fine%20Print%20Spring%202008%20%20%20Murphy%20Libary%20%20%20UW-La%20Crosse.html[6/12/13 2:59:45 PM]

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Google and even USA.gov “miss critical information simply because of the manner in which the government agency has published the information.”
The full report,
“Hiding in Plain Sight: Why
Important Government Information
Cannot Be Found through
Commercial Search Engines,” was released on December 13, 2007, and is available here (requires
Adobe Reader).
Such analysis highlights the continued importance of the
Federal Depository Library program, the long-standing partnership between the
Government Printing Office and depository libraries such as Murphy
Library. Our mandate is to help make the full range of public U.S.
government information available and accessible to our local community. We maintain specialized collections and finding tools catered for this purpose. Plus, we continue to maintain staff expertise dedicated to supporting your access to the vast wealth of information produced by our government!
Michael Current , Government
Information Public Services Librarian and town waterfronts; levees; locks and dams; and river-related activities such as fishing and swimming. This massive and multi-year digitization project has started by digitizing images of individual steamboats in alphabetical order by name of steamboat. The first
400 images online, then, are mostly of steamboats beginning with the letter “A.” Murphy Library staff have already compiled metadata and cataloged an additional 2,000 steamboat images, however, and sent them to the UWDCC for scanning. These will be added to the site in the forthcoming weeks.
Images of the Queen City (pictured above), Natchez, Rob’t. E. Lee,
War Eagle and thousands of other steamboats will eventually be available online from around the world. Be on the outlook. Check the UWDC site frequently. Your patience will be rewarded!
Paul Beck Special Collections/Area Research Center Librarian
By now many people have heard of Amazon’s new wireless book and magazine reader,
Kindle. Kindle costs about $400, holds hundreds of books, magazines, and newspapers, and is said to read more like a real book than other such devices. Its pros and cons have been frequently discussed in mainstream media
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Less frequently mentioned, but perhaps more significant, is Amazon’s self-publishing model – developed for the Kindle – called Digital Text
Platform ( http://dtp.amazon.com/ ) or DTP. Amazon’s DTP allows anyone to publish a book and then sell it to Kindle users. The entire process, from uploading to Kindle and being available for sale at Amazon.com’s Kindle
Store can be done in about a day. The only requirements are to have a title, an author’s name, and content. The author suggests the initial price for the book, and Amazon keeps 65% of the purchase price for each copy sold. Authors retain rights to publish the title again in print format.
Amazon’s self-publishing model highlights the booming personal bookpublishing trend. While Amazon’s platform is 100% digital, other companies have focused on print publishing, where new technology has made it easier to publish commercial-quality books in very small quantities. One company, Lulu ( http://www.lulu.com
), provides both print and electronic self publishing. Lulu allows authors to print everything from a single paperback book to electronic books, CDs, and videos. The cost to print a single copy of a 200-page 6 x 9 inch paperback book is about $8.50, with discounts for larger volumes. In addition, Lulu sells these books online, printing them on demand and collecting commissions as they sell.
While Lulu provides a publishing platform for a wide variety of media, Blurb
( http://www.blurb.com
) sticks to physical books. Blurb focuses on lowvolume, bookstore-quality printing of art books, cookbooks, photo books, and poetry books, in addition to more traditional books. Blurb is more expensive than Lulu, but it still possible to print a single professional-quality book for as little as $12.95, and their free bookmaking software gives authors more design and formatting options up front.
All three of these self-publishing platforms make it possible for just about anyone to publish a work. They do not offer the same customization features as commercial printers, and their distribution and marketing models are completely different from commercial publishers, but they are filling a market that is growing significantly. In some ways, these products bring to books the same self-publishing opportunities seen in other online venues such as blogging, social networking and independent sharing of videos and music.
Stefan Smith, Outreach Librarian
The Fine Print is published fall and spring terms for UW-La Crosse faculty, staff, students, and friends of Murphy Library.
Stefan Smith
Editor
Paul Beck
Department Chair
Anita Evans
Library Director
Murphy Library
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Stephenson retired on January 2, 2008. We all wish Johanna the best - she will be missed.
Taking her place is Dirck Nagy, who transferred from Memorial Library, UW-Madison.
He joined the staff in mid-January and brings his expertise as Memorial Stacks
Manager to the position. One of his duties at Murphy Library is stacks maintenance.
Dirck comes from Colorado. He has a Master’s in Music Theory and Composition and has taught at the university level. His performance concentration is classical guitar. Dirck is also certified as a ski instructor with the Professional Ski Instructors of
America. He has been a ski racing coach, instructor trainer and ski instructor.
And, yes, he likes moles!
L a C r o s s e i n L i g h t & S h a d o w
Edited by Ed Hill and
Douglas Connell
Available for $40.00
plus $3.00 shipping and handling.
Proceeds for the book go to the
Murphy Library
Endowment Fund.
For more information and purchase instructions, visit Murphy
Library Special Collections
A u g u s t
M o o n b y
M i c h a e l
B l a s e r
This magnificent oil painting, commissioned for Murphy Library, hangs in the library’s Special Collections area.
Limited edition prints are available for sale.
More information is available through
Murphy Library, (608)785-8511, and at the library's August Moon Website
M a k e a D i f f e r e n c e ! S u p p o r t t h e
M u r p h y L i b r a r y E n d o w m e n t F u n d a n d H o n o r w i t h B o o k s P r o g r a m .
Maintaining the level of excellence expected in our academic community creates challenges for today's university libraries.
In 1989, Murphy Library at the University
F r e d r i c k s M e m o r i a l E n d o w m e n t
F u n d i n O r a l H i s t o r y
The Fredricks Memorial Endowment Fund was established in 1994 in honor of history professor and oral historian
Howard Fredericks. The fund supports the university's oral history program, which is an active and useful primary resource for the region.
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Help make a difference in the 21st century! One way to make that difference is honoring someone with a book plate in a newly purchased book. For more information and donation instructions visit the Honor with Books Program website.
For general information on other options for giving to the Endowment Fund, please visit the library Endowment Fund website
Contributions are greatly appreciated and may be sent to:
UWUW-L Foundation-Fredricks Fund
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