Happy Holidays!

We'll be closed just two days this holiday season - Monday, December 26 and Monday, January 2. We hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday!!

Closed Thursday & Friday for Thanksgiving

WTS will be closed on Thursday and Friday, November 24 and 25, for the Thanksgiving holiday. Happy Turkey Day, everyone! Gobble gobble!

Halloween Treats

The staff saved their creativity this year for treats rather than costumes - yum!

Closed on Labor Day

WTS will be closed on September 5th for Labor Day. Enjoy the holiday!

WTS closing early

It is now over 90 degrees in our office and we're all starting to suffer, so we're closing a bit early today - 4:00 p.m. Central time.

If the cooling system isn't able to reduce the temperatures in our office soon, we may have to close early for the next few days. Please stay tuned in case we have to further reduce our hours.

Thanks - and we hope everyone out there is staying cool!

Hot in Here

WTS is heating up. Literally.

Due to a chilled water equipment failure and shortage, over 40 buildings on the west side of the UW-Madison campus have had their air conditioning shut off since yesterday morning, including Wendt Commons Library where WTS is located.

There's never a dull moment at WTS....

I scream, you scream....

Photos from the WTS Ice Cream Social. Wish you could all taste the deliciousness....

Thanks to our students Bridget and Alex for letting us post their pictures!

WTS Welcomes Rachel Watters as New Director

Rachel Watters has been appointed as Director of Wisconsin TechSearch (WTS). Deborah Helman, Director of Wendt Commons, says, "I believe her leadership ability will help position WTS to take advantage of new opportunities and build upon the outstanding service that WTS currently provides."

Rachel has worked at WTS as a Resource Sharing Librarian since 2002. In addition to providing outstanding document delivery services to WTS clients, she has lead WTS marketing efforts, including the implementation of the CashNet service that allows WTS to take many forms of credit card payments, as well as contributing to many service and work flow improvements. When she's not at WTS, Rachel and her partner Erik enjoy caring for their two young sons, Jack and Nate, working on real estate investments, and visiting their families in northern Wisconsin.

Please join us in congratulating and welcoming Rachel as she transitions into her new role.

WTS at SLA in Philadelphia

WTS will be at SLA in Philadelphia, June 12-14



We hope to see many of you at Booth 1133

To help make that happen, we'd like to extend the offer of a free SLA pass to you.
Here's how to register for the free pass:

1. Navigate to https://www.slaconference.org/portal/newreg.ww

2. In the New Registrations column under Non-Members, enter the following Registration Code: K5ANRS.

3. Enter your contact information.

4. At the bottom of the contact information page (Step 1) select Wisconsin TechSearch as the company that referred you.

5. Complete the rest of the registration process (Steps 2-5).

Please note that the registration process incorporates additional fee-based options, but it's not necessary to sign up for any of them to obtain the free pass. If you add any of the fee-based options, you would be responsible for those charges.When you have completed the process, you'll receive a registration confirmation email.

I look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia!

Karen

WTS Closed Monday, May 16

We will be closed for our last furlough day in this fiscal cycle on Monday, May 16.

Moving Data from MS Word to Excel

Thought some of you might be interested in this helpful bit from 3 Geeks and a Law blog:

Geeky Tip: Moving Data from MS Word to Excel

By the way, we love getting request lists in either Word or Excel if you don't want to copy and paste all of your cites into our request form. Just fill out our request form and in the citation box, note that you'll be sending the requests as an email attachment. Then send the file to wts@engr.wisc.edu. It's that easy!

WTS at Upcoming Conferences

Conference season is fast approaching, and WTS will again be exhibiting this year.

First up is SLA's Pharmaceutical and Health Technology Division Spring Meeting in Orlando next month. This is the first time we've been to this conference and Rachel is looking forward to telling the attendees about our services. More information about this meeting can be found at units.sla.org/division/dpht/meetings/
spring2011/spring2011main.shtml.

Karen will be exhibiting at the SLA conference in Philadelphia in June. If you'll be at the conference, please stop by booth #1133 and say hello! Conference information is at sla2011.tornado1.com.

Finally, we plan to be at the International Federated Library Association (IFLA) Interlending and Document Supply (ILDS) conference in Chicago in September. We've never been able to go to this conference before - past conferences have been in Singapore, Germany, Estonia, and Australia. Since Chicago is only about 2 hours from Madison, we're excited that we can go this year. You can find more information about the conference at ilds2011.org.

What conferences do YOU attend? Let Rachel know at rwatters@engr.wisc.edu and we'll consider them for next year.

WTS Closed on Friday, March 18

This is our penultimate furlough. The last one will be on May 16. We've been told that there won't be any furloughs in the next budget cycle, so we look foward to being open more days.

Presidents Day Closure

WTS will be closed on Monday, February 21. We will return to normal business hours on Tuesday, February 22.

WTS Closed Monday, January 17

WTS will be closed on Monday, January 17 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday.