UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 31 No. 19



Library switches to web-based catalog Library training sessions begin State Assembly hearing is here MLK celebration on campus Construction aerials Dhuey scholarship fund SBDC gets positive press Students win System grants Researchers demonstrate NASA technology Athletics Alumni Day Girl Scout cookies Reminders	Vol. 31, No. 19 / Jan. 10, 2000 This e-mail news digest is distributed each week to faculty and staff of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Links are included to more detailed stories at the Marketing and University Communication website. Library switches to web-based catalog The UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library is scheduled to switch today to the new automated library system. The move significantly changes the look of the online catalog and all staff functions (circulation, reserves, cataloging, serials processing and acquisitions). The online catalog, which is web-based, has more functionality and an easy-to-use interface. Among its features: • Checks books you have borrowed and when they're due or if fines are owed • Places a recall on library items (a request for an item that is checked out) • Searches other UW library catalogs either independently or simultaneously • Prints, downloads or e-mails result of catalog searches • Connects directly to web sites that are associated with items in the collection You can connect to the catalog via the library's revised web site at http://www.uwgb.edu/library/ or at http://cofrinweb.uwgb.edu *** * * * * Library training sessions begin this week The Library will begin training sessions later this week for the new online catalog. Faculty and staff members can choose from a variety of times to take the one-hour session, which will take place in the Library Instruction Room on the third floor. To sign up, call 2303 or visit the web site at http://www.uwgb.edu/library/dept/ris/training.html * * * * * State Assembly hearing is Wednesday, with UW-Green Bay a site The Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities, chaired by state Rep. Rob Kreibich, will hold a public hearing at 10 a.m. Wednesday (Jan. 12). Among the sites where testimony will be accepted via distance technology is IS1034 on the UW-Green Bay campus. Bills scheduled to receive hearings? Proposed tax credits for businesses that cover educational expenses (AB 244); "auditing" for citizens 60 years of age or older who would like to sit in on courses with space available and instructors' permission (AB 432); grants for high school students who have received an International Baccalaureate Diploma (AB 592); and amendments to the college tuition prepayment program and the college savings program board (LRB 4017/2). For text on these bills, search the Legislature's home page at http://www.legis.state.wi.us/ Those interested in testifying will be asked to submit a registration slip and reserve a slot as part of the compressed-video proceedings. Dan Spielmann at ext. 2622 has more information. * * * * * Coates is featured speaker at MLK celebration here on Jan. 21 UW-Green Bay will observe the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at noon on Friday, Jan. 21 in Phoenix Room B. The free event will be followed by a reception. Chancellor Perkins will open the ceremonies, followed by keynote speaker James R. Coates Jr., an associate professor of education who joined the UW-Green Bay faculty in September. The theme for the celebration comes from Dr. King's words, "Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve." The Office of Student Life will announce a service project to collect materials for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Green Bay. More. * * * * * Construction aerials provide confirmation: It's a big project Here is a different perspective on the construction project under way on the UW-Green Bay campus. Courtesy of a flyover from Wisconsin Public Service Corp., several aerial-view images are now online. (WPS is helping document the project because the new academic facility will be a demonstration site for several energy-conservation innovations.) Visit the University Communication photo page at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/page/photo.htm * * * * * Dhuey scholarship fund is established The Ron Dhuey Memorial Scholarship Fund has been established in memory of the University's former registrar and associate vice chancellor for institutional research, who died last week at the age of 67 following a lengthy illness. Those wishing to contribute to the fund may do so by sending a check to University Advancement; checks should be made payable to "UW Foundation" with a note on the memo line stating "for the Ron Dhuey Scholarship Fund." Advancement will inform the Dhuey family of the contribution. * * * * *** Small Business Development Center gets positive press Local entrepreneurs have good things to say about the assistance available from the Small Business Development Center at UW-Green Bay. In case you missed it, they said it in an article published in last Monday's Green Bay Press-Gazette. For more, go to http://www.pressgazettenews.com/archive/articles/0001/0103entrepreneurs.html *** * * * * UW-Green Bay students win UW System waste research grants UW-Green Bay students Meleesa Johnson of Mishicot and Katie Parmentier of Green Bay are among eight undergraduates from throughout the state to be awarded $2,500 grants from the UW System Solid Waste Research Program. Johnson will examine existing legislation, rules and regulations that govern the use of leftover food generated by the hospitality industry, grocery stores, and other sources as animal feed. Her faculty adviser is Scott Furlong. Parmentier will survey the cheese industry in Wisconsin to learn how cheesemakers dispose of by-products. Her adviser is UW-Extension's Keith West. Here's more. * * * * * Researchers will show NASA technology applied to local planning Researchers working with space-age technology will demonstrate its application to local and regional planning in Northeast Wisconsin on Monday morning, Jan. 24, in Phoenix C. The program is free. Wil Orr and Hoyt Johnson of Prescott College will present NASA and Prescott College's "Decision Support System for Land Use Planning and Growth Policy Development," and show how it could be applied here. Six cities around the country already are using the system to aid in managing issues of growth, sprawl, water, transportation, economic growth, and land use. Persons who want to attend should make reservations no later than Friday, Jan. 21 to the Bay-Lake Regional Planning Commission, 448-2820. Local sponsors include several UW-Green Bay units. More. * * * * * Alumni Day includes reception, 'old-timers' games, national TV showdown Saturday, Jan. 29, is the date the UW-Green Bay Alumni Association will celebrate its annual Alumni Day. The day begins with a pair of alumni basketball games on campus at the PSC, with the men at 10 and the women at 11 a.m. Action shifts across town to the Brown County Arena for the 1 p.m. varsity game between Midwestern Collegiate Conference rivals UW-Green Bay and the University of Detroit Titans. The game will be nationally televised by ESPN. An alumni reception in the lower concourse will follow the men's game and precede and overlap with the second game of the doubleheader, between the Phoenix women and UIC. More on alumni players, ticket availability for the Detroit game, etc. * * * * * Forget the Girl Scout cookie hotline — buy local Last week's LOG carried an item on the Lac Baie Girl Scout Council and its cookie hotline. Well, our correspondents have since informed us there are plenty of Girl Scouts (or at least their sales associates) on campus. One place to try is the cookie signup sheet in ES 301. Or call Illene Noppe at 2703. Cookies are $3/box and will be delivered in early March. * * * * * Reminders: Jazz Fest, community MLK celebration Already noted here but worth repeating are these weekend events. Tickets are available for the 30th anniversary UW-Green Bay Jazz Fest, set for Saturday, Jan. 15, at the Weidner Center. Trumpeter Melton Mustafa is the guest artist with the UW-Green Bay Jazz Ensemble, the Vocal Jazz Ensemble and an outstanding high school jazz ensemble. Tickets are $12 at the door or $10 if purchased in advance. More. Also, UW-Green Bay is a co-sponsor of the popular community celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, scheduled for 10:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Jan. 15, at NWTC. Keynote speaker is Dr. G. Manns, senior pastor of Appleton Sanctuary Outreach Ministries. Admission is free. A reception with light refreshments follows the program. * * * * *** LOG ONline is prepared for University of Wisconsin-Green Bay faculty and staff by the Office of Marketing and University Communication. To submit a Brief, a Publication, a news item, an announcement, or just plain feedback, UW-Green Bay employees can call ext. 2626 or e-mail us at Log@uwgb.edu.

Library switches to web-based catalog

Library training sessions begin

State Assembly hearing is here

MLK celebration on campus

Construction aerials

Dhuey scholarship fund

SBDC gets positive press

Students win System grants

Researchers demonstrate NASA technology

Athletics Alumni Day

Girl Scout cookies

Reminders

Vol. 31, No. 19 / Jan. 10, 2000

This e-mail news digest is distributed each week to faculty and staff of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Links are included to more detailed stories at the Marketing and University Communication website.

Library switches to web-based catalog

The UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library is scheduled to switch today to the new automated library system. The move significantly changes the look of the online catalog and all staff functions (circulation, reserves, cataloging, serials processing and acquisitions). The online catalog, which is web-based, has more functionality and an easy-to-use interface. Among its features:

• Checks books you have borrowed and when they're due or if fines are owed
• Places a recall on library items (a request for an item that is checked out)
• Searches other UW library catalogs either independently or simultaneously
• Prints, downloads or e-mails result of catalog searches
• Connects directly to web sites that are associated with items in the collection

You can connect to the catalog via the library's revised web site at http://www.uwgb.edu/library/ or at http://cofrinweb.uwgb.edu

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Library training sessions begin this week

The Library will begin training sessions later this week for the new online catalog. Faculty and staff members can choose from a variety of times to take the one-hour session, which will take place in the Library Instruction Room on the third floor. To sign up, call 2303 or visit the web site at http://www.uwgb.edu/library/dept/ris/training.html

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State Assembly hearing is Wednesday, with UW-Green Bay a site

The Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities, chaired by state Rep. Rob Kreibich, will hold a public hearing at 10 a.m. Wednesday (Jan. 12). Among the sites where testimony will be accepted via distance technology is IS1034 on the UW-Green Bay campus. Bills scheduled to receive hearings? Proposed tax credits for businesses that cover educational expenses (AB 244); "auditing" for citizens 60 years of age or older who would like to sit in on courses with space available and instructors' permission (AB 432); grants for high school students who have received an International Baccalaureate Diploma (AB 592); and amendments to the college tuition prepayment program and the college savings program board (LRB 4017/2). For text on these bills, search the Legislature's home page at http://www.legis.state.wi.us/ Those interested in testifying will be asked to submit a registration slip and reserve a slot as part of the compressed-video proceedings. Dan Spielmann at ext. 2622 has more information.

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Coates is featured speaker at MLK celebration here on Jan. 21

UW-Green Bay will observe the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at noon on Friday, Jan. 21 in Phoenix Room B. The free event will be followed by a reception. Chancellor Perkins will open the ceremonies, followed by keynote speaker James R. Coates Jr., an associate professor of education who joined the UW-Green Bay faculty in September. The theme for the celebration comes from Dr. King's words, "Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve." The Office of Student Life will announce a service project to collect materials for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Green Bay. More.

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Construction aerials provide confirmation: It's a big project

Here is a different perspective on the construction project under way on the UW-Green Bay campus. Courtesy of a flyover from Wisconsin Public Service Corp., several aerial-view images are now online. (WPS is helping document the project because the new academic facility will be a demonstration site for several energy-conservation innovations.) Visit the University Communication photo page at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/page/photo.htm

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Dhuey scholarship fund is established

The Ron Dhuey Memorial Scholarship Fund has been established in memory of the University's former registrar and associate vice chancellor for institutional research, who died last week at the age of 67 following a lengthy illness. Those wishing to contribute to the fund may do so by sending a check to University Advancement; checks should be made payable to "UW Foundation" with a note on the memo line stating "for the Ron Dhuey Scholarship Fund." Advancement will inform the Dhuey family of the contribution.

* * * * *

Small Business Development Center gets positive press

Local entrepreneurs have good things to say about the assistance available from the Small Business Development Center at UW-Green Bay. In case you missed it, they said it in an article published in last Monday's Green Bay Press-Gazette. For more, go to http://www.pressgazettenews.com/archive/articles/0001/0103entrepreneurs.html

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UW-Green Bay students win UW System waste research grants

UW-Green Bay students Meleesa Johnson of Mishicot and Katie Parmentier of Green Bay are among eight undergraduates from throughout the state to be awarded $2,500 grants from the UW System Solid Waste Research Program. Johnson will examine existing legislation, rules and regulations that govern the use of leftover food generated by the hospitality industry, grocery stores, and other sources as animal feed. Her faculty adviser is Scott Furlong. Parmentier will survey the cheese industry in Wisconsin to learn how cheesemakers dispose of by-products. Her adviser is UW-Extension's Keith West. Here's more.

* * * * *

Researchers will show NASA technology applied to local planning

Researchers working with space-age technology will demonstrate its application to local and regional planning in Northeast Wisconsin on Monday morning, Jan. 24, in Phoenix C. The program is free. Wil Orr and Hoyt Johnson of Prescott College will present NASA and Prescott College's "Decision Support System for Land Use Planning and Growth Policy Development," and show how it could be applied here. Six cities around the country already are using the system to aid in managing issues of growth, sprawl, water, transportation, economic growth, and land use. Persons who want to attend should make reservations no later than Friday, Jan. 21 to the Bay-Lake Regional Planning Commission, 448-2820. Local sponsors include several UW-Green Bay units. More.

* * * * *

Alumni Day includes reception, 'old-timers' games, national TV showdown

Saturday, Jan. 29, is the date the UW-Green Bay Alumni Association will celebrate its annual Alumni Day. The day begins with a pair of alumni basketball games on campus at the PSC, with the men at 10 and the women at 11 a.m. Action shifts across town to the Brown County Arena for the 1 p.m. varsity game between Midwestern Collegiate Conference rivals UW-Green Bay and the University of Detroit Titans. The game will be nationally televised by ESPN. An alumni reception in the lower concourse will follow the men's game and precede and overlap with the second game of the doubleheader, between the Phoenix women and UIC. More on alumni players, ticket availability for the Detroit game, etc.

* * * * *

Forget the Girl Scout cookie hotline — buy local

Last week's LOG carried an item on the Lac Baie Girl Scout Council and its cookie hotline. Well, our correspondents have since informed us there are plenty of Girl Scouts (or at least their sales associates) on campus. One place to try is the cookie signup sheet in ES 301. Or call Illene Noppe at 2703. Cookies are $3/box and will be delivered in early March.

* * * * *

Reminders: Jazz Fest, community MLK celebration

Already noted here but worth repeating are these weekend events. Tickets are available for the 30th anniversary UW-Green Bay Jazz Fest, set for Saturday, Jan. 15, at the Weidner Center. Trumpeter Melton Mustafa is the guest artist with the UW-Green Bay Jazz Ensemble, the Vocal Jazz Ensemble and an outstanding high school jazz ensemble. Tickets are $12 at the door or $10 if purchased in advance. More.

Also, UW-Green Bay is a co-sponsor of the popular community celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, scheduled for 10:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Jan. 15, at NWTC. Keynote speaker is Dr. G. Manns, senior pastor of Appleton Sanctuary Outreach Ministries. Admission is free. A reception with light refreshments follows the program.

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LOG ONline is prepared for University of Wisconsin-Green Bay faculty and staff by the Office of Marketing and University Communication. To submit a Brief, a Publication, a news item, an announcement, or just plain feedback, UW-Green Bay employees can call ext. 2626 or e-mail us at Log@uwgb.edu.