New Library Catalog!

• The Reference Collection has been shifted because of new low shelving added behind the Reference Desk.
  This means, for example, that the encyclopedias aren't where they used to be. The Reference Collection titles with call numbers that start with A are on the new shelving behind the Desk--on the row facing the study tables. We'll have new call number signs up as soon as possible!
• Indexes (paper format)

  No doubt many of you are aware that most of the Library's indexes are now in electronic format. Of course, we don't dispose of the paper volumes that cover publications from years before the electronic indexes began.

  • Paper indexes replaced by electronic databases are on new tall shelving against the south wall behind the Reference Desk ("Index Stacks").
  • A handful of indexes still arriving in paper format are on the remaining two index tables (also behind the Reference Desk, but across from the study tables).
    These two tables also hold the few local telephone directories and college catalogs received in paper.
• The collections of Curriculum Guides, Tests, and Documents Reference titles are on new tall shelving on the south wall behind the Reference Desk.
• Wisconsin Documents are at the beginning of the Documents collections on the Main Floor, on the shelving immediately east of the Reference Desk.
• Main Collection books with call numbers beginning with the letters A, B, and C are on the Main Floor of the Library, on the shelving at the far east end of the floor (past the documents collections, by the windows). The rest of the Main Collection (D-Z) will stay on the upper level of the Library, but will be shifted during the semester to take advantage of the space vacated by the A-C's.

Joeseph Schneider became the newest reference librarian in Andersen Library last November. In addition to covering assigned hours at the Reference Desk, teaching some library instruction classes, and maintaining some of the Library's WWW pages, he'll be a liaison to some departments on campus such as Marketing, Finance & Business Law, Economics, and Philosophy & Religious Studies.

Nancy Schroeder, a long-time senior library assistant who in recent years had been helping library staff and campus & community patrons in both reference and in the archives/Area Research Center in addition to her behind-the-scenes work, retired in December. Every time people who've been around a while leave it's hard to compensate for the knowledge carried around in their heads and the work they accomplished without anyone else ever having to worry about it. In addition, Nancy was one of our strongest supporters of a "human-centered" workplace. She will be sorely missed.

Audrey Zak, another long-time library assistant in Circulation retired on January 23rd. She, too, will be missed. Many faculty knew her as the person who set up course reserves, a major responsibility that will be handled by Nora Neumeister now.