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Thursday, April 16, 2009

TRying an advanced search Google Books Initiative shapes role of libraries By Sarah Nance THE DAILY CARDINAL

There is a project on campus spanning over 100 countries and 35 languages, involving a partnership between UW-Madison and a leading Internet company, but most students on campus don’t even know how it works. As part of the Google Books Initiative, the UW-Madison Library System was the eighth library worldwide to join with the information powerhouse Google to bring books into the digital age, scanning them to be used online. The initiative, which now has over two dozen library partners and thousands of publisher and author partners, has a mission to “create a comprehensive, searchable, virtual card catalog of all books in all languages that helps users discover new books and publishers discover new readers,” according to their website. The project at UW-Madison, which has also partnered with the Wisconsin Historical Society,

has no direct costs, according to Edward Van Gemert, Deputy Director of the General Library System at UW-Madison. “Google pays for the actual digitization,” Irene Zimmerman, project manager for the Google Initiative, said, referring to the process of digitally scanning pages of books from the university’s libraries to be placed in a database and online at books. google.com. The books are collected and shipped to an off-site location where Google does the actual scanning and digitization. Although Google pays for the process, Zimmerman said the university incurs costs “on either end of gathering the material [and] reshelving the material.” Thus, much of the cost is associated with staff wages. According to Jeanne Witte, head of Access Services at Steenbock Memorial Library, the Google project has three full-time employees who are employed by the library system, with their total salary approximately $87,400 annually. The initiative also calls on the support of library staff across campus. “There are many librargoogle books page 5

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Many of the protesters Wednesday spoke out about fiscal issues, including federal bailouts for large companies.

Thousands rally at Capitol ‘Tea Party’ By Charles Brace THE DAILY CARDINAL

Thousands of protestors converged on the Capitol Wednesday to protest the Obama administration and state Democrats in power. The rally, intended by event organizers to evoke the spirit of the Boston Tea Party, was on April 15 to coincide with the day when many Americans file their taxes. “This is an uprising, a groundswell of enthusiasm from the people,” said Vicki McKenna, a conservative Milwaukee talk show host who spoke at the event. Other speakers included U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., 24 year-old La Crosse Mayor Matt Harter and Pastor David King of Milwaukee. “I came today to raise hell,”

King said, who operates the group Milwaukee God Squad. “It’s time to take out the garbage.” King also said Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle was “smoking crack” when he prepared the proposed state budget. Mark Block, state director of the group Americans for Prosperity-Wisconsin that helped to organize the rally, said the event exceeded expectations in the amount of protestors. Capitol police did not provide an estimate for the crowd size and Department of Administration official Emily Winecke said she could not give an estimate of the crowd, with event organizers estimating it was around 5,000. Numerous protestors held up signs mocking Doyle and Obama, with one sign stating “Obama is the Anti-Christ.”

The rally included a spectrum of residents, including some supporters of U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-TX, motorcycle bikers and some dressed in Revolutionary War costumes. UW-Madison senior Michael Seaman said he attended the rally because government spending is out of control. “People here today are very fired up, this is not something that is going to fall by the wayside,” he said. Milwaukee resident Shawn Larkin, 26, said he drove to Madison for the event because he was upset with the passage of the federal stimulus bill and bailouts for large companies. A small group of counterprotestors dressed in yachting clothes and formal attire protests page 3

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ASM spring election results postponed By Erin Banco THE DAILY CARDINAL

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Jenna McLennan of California and Madison native Austin Josephs balance on a “slackline” tied between two trees on Bascom Hill.

The Associated Students of Madison’s Student Judiciary Committee and Student Elections Committee were unable to meet quorum Wednesday to release the results of the 16th session election results. Voting for student representatives took place April 13-15 with an online ballot on the ASM website. Polls closed at 5

p.m. Wednesday. According to Claire Lempke, member of the ASM Press Office, there was a “miscommunication” between the two committees, disallowing the members to meet quorum. Lempke said Student Elections Commission Chair Katherine Tondrowki was at the Student Activity Center at 5 p.m. Wednesday to review results. She left at 7 p.m. because of prior commitments, at which point

there was still not a quorum. Hannah Karns, ASM vice chair, said at least five justices of eight from the Student Judiciary Committee are required to attend a quorum for results to be released. According to Lempke, there were at least five justices present throughout the evening, but there were only four present at elections page 4

“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”


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