HLATC Progress

The Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection is now 64% packed! Slowly but surely we are making progress. You might notice some weeks we have huge jumps in numbers while other weeks show more modest increases. Rest assured we're working just as hard the entire time! Our progress rate depends heavily on the types of objects we're working with.

Here are a couple of the latest pieces to come out of storage. See more here.

Need More Crates?

If you need more crates during the period Aug. 3 - 10, please contact Linda Zwicker, lazwicker@wisc.edu, in the absence of Jonie Bonfield, building manager.

Books Move to New Home

Human Development and Family Studies faculty have purged many books from their offices, in preparation for the Department's August move. They placed the books in the Department's foyer, where other faculty and students could take them. But lately the number of books kept growing -- and growing!

At the suggestion of Professor Karen Bogenschneider, Department Admin Jane Weier contacted the Social Work Library, which was happy to take the books. Jane Weier packed them up and with Professor Bogenschneider wheeled them across Linden Drive to the library. It will take any books it can use to fill its collections and ship the remainder to Memorial Library.

Memorial Library will take what it or other campus libraries can use and donate the rest to the Friends of the UW-Madison Library for its next public sale in October. Proceeds from the sale support a lecture series, special purchases for the library collections, and visiting scholar program.

Packing -- Not Purging!

Since the beginning of the relocation process, Human Ecology has been purging and streamlining offices and spaces. But the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection is working not to get rid of materials, but to preserve them.

As of July 8, the HLATC is 62 percent packed, an extraordinary accomplishment! There are more than 13,000 pieces in the Collection, meaning that more than 8,000 have now been packed. In addition to flat pieces, the Collection includes almost 3,000 pieces on long rolls, which will make for a labor-intensive fall, since these will not fit on the elevator and will need to remain level while being carried down the stairs.