Looking for some “good reads” this summer? We have suggestions…
Check out the display cases in the Library lobby to see samplings of government documents, and Library resources on gardening and the outdoors.
More information is available in the Library collections and online.
For example, if you are planning a trip within Wisconsin–to save gas many people are vacationing near home this year–you might check the Wisconsin Outdoor Report (updated every Thursday by the Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources with information you can use, such as fishing reports, wildfire conditions, birding reports, and more) and the State Park Conditions Report. Or forget the gas and check the online Wisconsin county bike condition maps! Another useful site is TravelWisconsin.com which includes a searchable event listing.
The University Library is a federal depository with many federal, state, local, and international documents on a variety of current and relevant issues available to you in print, microfiche, CD-ROM, and electronically. Come check out your government at the University Library!
Our newspaper readers may have noticed that The Capital Times has disappeared from our current newspaper shelves. This is because the print edition has ceased. However, the paper still exists in an online version which is updated daily. You can access this material at captimes.com or through the Wisconsin State Journal homepage, as both are owned by the same company. Another convenient way to find full-text articles published by the Capital Times is through ProQuest Newspapers. You can browse both current issues and back issues a far back as 1991. Or just go to the Journal Holdings List and type in Capital Times to go straight to the newspaper.
Yes, we’re open! The west-side Library building entrances are closed off for work being done on the mall all summer, but we’re still here for you so c’mon in!
Following the red arrow on the map above, enter from the courtyard on the east side of the Andersen Library building (entrance #3), or enter from the north end of McGraw (on the mall corner entrance go down the stairs) and walk the tunnel that links McGraw to Andersen, then come up the stairs to the Library entrance).
Have you ever struggled to say something and wanted to put it nicely? Or, have you ever wondered about the euphemisms you’ve heard?
Well, R.W. Holder’s How not to say what you mean : a dictionary of euphemisms (2nd-floor Reference Collection, PE1449 .H548 2007) might be the book for you!
You can look up a word or phrase and get its meaning, or you can look up a subject area (like death or religion).
For example, you can learn that pick (as in to steal) is noted in the OED (Oxford English Dictionary) as being used in 1300, and in continuous usage since. According the Holder book that “makes it one of the oldest euphemisms in the language.”
Congratulations to all UWW graduating students!
…and so long for now to all the students who are not going to be on campus again until fall.
Want to keep up with the goings-on in the City of Whitewater this summer? There are a couple of online options:
And of course, you’ll want to keep reading the University Library blog! At the bottom of every entry you can click on “Entries Feed” to have new blog entries sent to you.
If you listen to the WSUW, you may have heard an advertisement unlike any other. That’s right, the University Library has their own sixty-second spot. The ad highlights just some of the reasons for visiting us here in the Library. If you haven’t heard the ad, we’ve got it right here for you.
Library Radio Spot - MP3 (1 MB)
writing credits: Leigh Otten
Thanks to WSUW for producing and airing the ad!
The Library will have extended hours for exams (and free coffee when the Food for Thought Cafe is closed):
- Sat. May 10: 9am-10pm
- Sun. May 11: 9am-2am
- Mon.-Thurs. May 12-15: 6am-2am
- Fri. May 16: 6am-10pm
- Sat. May 17: 9am-10pm
- Sun. May 18: 9am-midnight
- Mon. May 19: 7:30am-midnight
- Tues. May 20: 7:30am-4:30pm
Good luck everyone!
This week we will be interviewing 2 candidates for Library Director. On Wednesday May 7th we will meet Myrna McCallister.
You are welcome to come to the campus open session at 3pm in University Center 275A.
This week we will be interviewing 2 candidates for Library Director. On Monday we will meet Laurene Zaporozhetz.
You are welcome to come to the campus open session at 3pm in University Center 275B.
Today we reluctantly say farewell to Joyce Huang, Director of the University Library since 1995, and a member of the staff since 1985.
Joyce accomplished a great deal here, including creating the Bibliographic Instruction lab (most students have spent some time there for English 102, New Student Seminar, or other courses) and starting the Friends of the Library and the annual book sale. She and her husband, professor emeritus I-Ning Huang, participated in the host program for international students for many years. She has worked in many different capacities in the Library and also has served on numerous University committees such as the Chancellor’s Committee for Disability Concerns and the Faculty Senate. In 2006 she was honored as one of the Women in Leadership by the campus Women’s Issues Committee, and in 2008 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chancellor’s Committee for her dedication to accessibility. She’ll be sorely missed…
There is a congratulatory celebration in her honor from 2-4pm (Apr. 30) on the Library’s 3rd floor. Faculty, staff, and students who wish to join us to thank her for all she’s done and wish her well are welcome to join us.
