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.
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Cinco de Mayo (May 5th) is the anniversary of the 1862 Battle of Puebla, in which outnumbered Mexican troops defeated Napoleon III’s invading French army (despite this defeat the French weren’t actually stopped until 1867). The date is observed today by many in the U.S. and other countries as a celebration of pride in Mexican heritage.
UWW observance:
The Interested Ladies of Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority will host UWW’s “First Annual Cinco de Mayo Celebration” May 5th, 2008, from 7-8 pm in the UC Summers Auditorium. The UWW community is invited to this opportunity to learn the importance of the events that took place on Cinco de Mayo, 1862 in Mexico. A pinata celebration will follow after the program outside the UC.
More information is available from the University Library:
Books include The Latino holiday book: from Cinco de Mayo to Dia de los Muertos– the celebrations and traditions of Hispanic-Americans (3rd-floor Main Collection, GT4803 .M45 2000) or The Oxford encyclopedia of Latinos & Latinas in the United States (2nd-floor Reference Collection E184 S75 O97 2005, v.1, pp.345-346). For the very serious, there are related books such as The French experience in Mexico, 1821-1861: a history of constant misunderstanding (3rd-floor Main Collection, DC59.8 .M6 B37).
Articles may be found in a variety of library databases, including Academic Search Premier. Here’s an example: “America’s growing observance of Cinco de Mayo” published in the Journal of American Culture (vol. 21, no. 2).
A sampling of Undergraduate Research posters is on display in the University Library. Come take a look! You also can browse a small sample of projects online as part of the institutional repository called MINDS@UW.
Your poster could be displayed next year! Get information online about the Undergraduate Research Program at UWW, including basic information about how you get started! This program is for everyone–sciences, arts, business, social sciences and humanities. It’s also a chance to get to know your faculty better.
UWW celebrates undergraduate research projects at “Undergraduate Research Day” every spring, and also sends students to the National Conference on Undergraduate Research every spring.
Daniel Maguire, Marquette University Ethics Professor, will present “Paranoia and the Roots of War: Unmasking the Illusions of a ‘Superpower” on Monday April 21st, 7 p.m., in the Hamilton Center (James R. Connor University Center). This is the Political Science Department’s 23rd Annual John Kenneth Kyle Lecture.
Professor Maguire’s specialty is religious ethics, focusing upon issues of social justice and medical and ecological ethics.
He has authored several books, five of which are available from the University Library. Search the catalog for the author maguire daniel to see the list. Additional titles may be requested free by UWW students and staff from other UW libraries using the Universal Borrowing service. His 2007 book Horrors we bless: Rethinking the Just-War Legacy is not available in the UW System, but could be obtained through the ILLiad interlibrary loan service (for $1). There are preview pages available online through Google Book Search.
There also are many articles in magazines, newspapers, and journals by or about him. For example, search for au maguire daniel c in Academic Search Premier (Ebsco). Or search for LPER({MAGUIRE, DANIEL}) in ProQuest Newsstand, finding there, for example, an article “War urge: Ingrained in humanity” (Charleston Gazette, June 2007), which discusses Horrors we bless and includes the quote “Humans have been at peace for only 8 percent of the past 3,400 years of recorded history.”
I expect this to be a thought-provoking talk.
Terre Golembiewski, Laboratory Manager, Biological Sciences, will talk about “Carnivorous Plants: Wonders of the Natural World” on April 21st at 3 pm, the last spring 2008 Fairhaven Lecture. It’s open to everyone at Fairhaven Retirement Community’s Fellowship Hall (435 West Starin).
If you can’t make it, lectures in the series can be heard and viewed from the lecture series web site.
If you’re interested in learning more, the University Library has articles and books on this topic.
Search science databases such as Biological Abstracts for “carnivorous plant*” to identify articles such as “Prey availability directly affects physiology, growth, nutrient allocation and scaling relationships among leaf traits in 10 carnivorous plant species” published in the January 2008 issue of Journal of Ecology (Vol. 96, Iss. 1, pp. 213-221). UWW students and faculty have online access to the full text of this article.
Search the University Library catalog for “carnivorous plants” and you’ll find books such as the 2002 Carnivorous plants of the United States and Canada (3rd-floor Main Collection QK917 .S36 2002).
I knew someone who had one of these plants in her office–I suppose it’s an option for those of you who are allergic to furry pets!
Every April 22nd we celebrate Earth Day. Information about UWW’s Earth Day conference on April 22nd and other campus events is online.
The federal government’s earthday.gov web site has suggestions for things you can do at home, at work or in the classroom. The Environmental Protection Agency provides a history of Earth Day, which was proposed by Gaylord Nelson, then U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, and first celebrated in 1970 (the same year the EPA was created). The web site includes listings of major U.S. environmental legislation and links to articles and reports related to Earth Day history.
Library resources are available for more information:
A keyword search of the Library catalog for “earth day” finds some materials that could be used with children, as well as Gaylord Nelson’s 2002 book Beyond Earth Day: fulfilling the promise (3rd-floor Main Collection, GE195 .N45 2002). Some materials are government publications, including State of Wisconsin’s natural resources (Wisconsin documents NAT 1/2:S 73/2001).
Catalog searches for other keywords find additional related materials. A search for environmentalism, for example, brings up the book Blessed unrest: how the largest movement in the world came into being and why no one saw it coming (3rd-floor Main Collection GE195 .H388 2007). Here’s a quote from it:
“Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a liberal or conservative activity; it is a sacred act. It is a massive enterprise undertaken by ordinary citizens everywhere, not by self-appointed governments or oligarchies.”
A keyword search for “environmental policy” finds titles like The economics of climate change: the Stern Review (3rd-floor Main Collection QC981.8.C5 G738 2007) and First along the river: a brief history of the U.S. environmental movement (3rd-floor Main Collection, GE195 .K578 2007).
Articles are also available through Library databases such as EBSCOhost’s Academic Search Premier and WilsonWeb’s General Science Full Text. In the latter database, for example, a search for environmentalism finds “Where the Green is: examining the paradox of environmentally conscious consumption,” an article in Electronic Green Journal. In both of these databases results may be limited to scholarly/peer-reviewed articles if desired.
Finally, you can locate organizations and their websites by using the Associations Unlimited database. A search for earth day finds Earth Day Network, and many other organizations.
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!
Anything you read about careers, interviewing and landing that first job (or any job for that matter) says that you need to prepare, prepare, prepare. Well, what do you have to do to prepare?
If you answered ‘I don’t know’ to that question, then you might consider coming to the Career & Leadership Development presentation entitled Researching Employers this evening at 5 PM in L2211 (BI Lab near the Reference Desk). Laura Morrow, Internship Coordinator, and Kyle Naff, Business Librarian (hey, that’s me!), will be talking about the reasons why you should research employers, not only to find the job, but to land the job, as well as how to go about doing the research yourself.
Robert Putnam will lecture on “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community” on Monday, April 7th, at 7 p.m. in the Young Auditorium.
Several of his books are available in the University Library, including Bowling alone: the collapse and revival of American community (3rd-floor Main Collection HN65 .P878 2000) and Better together: restoring the American community (3rd-floor Main Collection HN65 .P877 2003). If UWW’s copies are checked out, use the free Universal Borrowing service to request titles from other UW libraries. Requested items arrive in 2-4 weekdays.
Robert D. Putnam is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the British Academy, and past president of the American Political Science Association. More information about him is available from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
