Cathy Palmini  Reference, Wisconsin Documents Liaison to Natural Resources, Peace & International Studies Email: cpalmini@uwsp.edu Tel: 715-346-4725

Education | Library Experience | Publications | Conference Presentations

Grants  | Current Research | Professional Activities/Service
 

Education
 

Certificate of Advanced Study, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• School of Library and Information Studies (1999)
   

MST - University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

• English (1991)

Certification as School Librarian - University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (1986)

M.S. - University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign

• Library Science (1970)

B.A. - Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa

• English (1969)

Library Experience

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (University Library)

• Associate Professor (2000 - present)

             Reference, Wisconsin Documents Librarian - half-time (2005 - present)

             Collection Development Coordinator, Reference, Wisconsin Documents Librarian (2000-2005)

• Assistant Professor (1996-2000)

             Reference, Wisconsin Documents, Instruction Librarian

• Librarian - temporary (1995-1996)

             Main Reference/Government Publications

• Library Services Assistant (1988-1995)

             Government Publications 

Publications
 

The Archives, Common Wisconsin Women, and Me.  Wisconsin Humanities Council website http://www.wisconsinhumanities.org/palmini.html .  April 2007.

"The Broad Lakes Roll Between Us": Wisconsin Women's Letters Home.  Inland Seas: Journal of the Great Lakes Historical Society.  Spring 2003, p. 46-57.

Across the Unknown Waters to Wisconsin: the Migration Narratives of Women Settlers.

Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. December 2000, p. 105-120.  Also online at http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WT2000 .

"Across Unknown Waters to Wisconsin: Migration Writing of Women Settlers."  In conference proceedings collection of Women's Private Writing/Writing Women's History Conference. Portland, Maine: University of New England, Maine Women Writers Collection, 2000.  

The Impact of Computerization on Library Support Staff: A Study of Support Staff in Academic Libraries in Wisconsin. College & Research Libraries, March 1994, p. 119-127.

Pioneer Women of the Prairie: Portraits from the Novels of O. E. Rolvaag and Willa Cather and the Personal Writings of Pioneer Women. MST/English thesis, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 1991.

The Books by Mail Programs of Bur Oak, Corn Belt, and Rolling Prairie Library Systems. 

Beatrice Winston, joint author. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Library Research Center, 1974.

A Selected Bibliography on Continuing Education, 1965 to Date. Mary Michael, joint author.  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Library Research Center, 1973.

A Study of Urban Library Needs. Prepared for the Urban Library Trustees Council.  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Library Research Center, 1972.

Conference Presentations

"Women and the Struggle for Community and Identity."  Session chair and paper discussant.  Women's and Gender Historians of the Midwest Conference, Maryville College, St. Louis, MO.  June 2, 2006.

"Three Uncommon Schoolmarms from Wisconsin."  Northern Great Lakes History Conference, Eau Claire, Wisconsin.  September 30, 2005.

"Redheaded Schoolmarm and Associates: Early Wisconsin Teachers Speak."  Wisconsin Library Association Annual Conference, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.  November 4, 2004.

"Women School Teachers Speak: Education in Early Wisconsin."  Women's and Gender Historians of the Midwest Conference, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois.  June 12, 2004.

"Images and Stories from our Immigrant Past."  Women's History Month Program, UW-Stout, Menominee, Wisconsin.  April 2, 2004.

"Across Unknown Waters to Wisconsin: Migration Writing of Women Settlers." Women's Private Writing/Writing Women's History Conference, University of New England, Portland, Maine. June 16, 2000.  

"Over the Waters to Wisconsin: The Migration Narratives of Women Settlers." Wisconsin Library Association Conference, LaCrosse, WI. October 21, 1999.

"Wisconsin on the Web." WAPL (Wisconsin Association of Public Librarians) Conference, Wausau, WI. May 7, 1998

"The Joys and Sorrows of Teaching the Internet." WAAL (Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians) Conference, Wisconsin Dells, WI. April 18, 1997.

"Settling of the Midwest--in the Words of Pioneer Women." WAAL Conference, Fontana, WI. April 18, 1996.