The Library is involved in several events during Orientation Week and we’d like you to know about them!
Google for Scholarly Research
Presented by Martha Stephenson, Reference & Instruction Librarian
27 August 2009 (Thursday) — 9-10 AM — UC 261
Google is ubiquitous, yet constantly evolving. Advances and improvements in Google products offer opportunities to more effectively and efficiently find information on the internet. This Googleology workshop features Google Scholar, Books, and Reader, which offer vital contributions to scholarship. By participating in this workshop, you’ll learn to:
- Personalize Google Scholar to hybridize Andersen Library resources and the free internet:
→ Search with Google simplicity and find quality articles and books available through the Andersen Library
→ Interlibrary Loan materials not available in our library system
- Use Google Books to find relevant books, book chapters and quotes.
- Use Google Reader to aggregate pertinent RSS feeds.
Library Services & Online Resources
27 August 2009 (Thursday) — 2:30-3:30 PM — Andersen Library 2211 (BI Lab)
We’ll provide an introduction and overview of library services & online resources for new faculty and instructional academic staff (if you need a refresher, that’s OK too!). You’ll also get a chance to meet the library director and your librarian liaison. There will be refreshments served and the first fifteen attendees will receive a FREE t-shirt!
For all the hardworking staff in the Library…a Friday present to reward your efforts all year long. There is a plug for the Library in a video on YouTube, produced by the 2008 Hawk Squad (skip to 2:24)!
E. Benjamin Skinner will speak about “A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery” at 6 pm on Wed., April 29th, in the Summers Auditorium (James R. Connor University Center).
It’s hard to believe, but some practices you think are merely historical, like piracy, still exist today. The forward to Skinner’s 2008 book, A Crime So Monstrous, states
Of course, we all know what slavery is. We’ve read about it in countless history books, seen it in documentaries and movies. Slavery is awful. Slavery is inhuman. Slavery is dead.
But that last point isn’t true. In fact, slavery is very much alive on every continent. In fact, as Ben Skinner points out, there are more slaves in the world today than ever before…
Andersen Library does not own a copy of Skinner’s book, but UW-W students and staff may borrow it from other UW campus libraries using the free Universal Borrowing service. Requested items arrive in 2-4 weekdays. A search of the Library Catalog for keywords such as slavery or “human trafficking” will find other titles available locally, such as The war on human trafficking: U.S. policy assessed (3rd-floor Main Collection HQ125.U6 D47 2008).
Meg Gaines, ovarian cancer survivor and national advocate for cancer patients, will deliver this year’s John Kenneth Kyle lecture “The Best of Times and the Worst of Times: Getting Health Care in America” at 7 pm on Mon., April 27, in the Summers Auditorium (James R. Connor University Center).
She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer that had also infected her liver. Her doctors told her the cancer was inoperable and that she should go home and think about the quality of her remaining days. The mother of two toddlers, Gaines felt that diagnosis was unacceptable and conducted a national search for treatment. She eventually was treated in Texas and remains healthy today.
Gaines’ story reminds me of the affecting TV ad I’ve seen for Cancer Treatment Centers of America by pancreatic cancer survivor Peggy Kessler, in which she says she was basically told by her doctor to go home and prepare to die. But after working with Cancer Treatment Centers of America she was told she had no expiration date.
Andersen Library has resources on topics related to this lecture. For example, if you are interested in reading other cancer survivor’s stories, there are books like It’s not about the bike: my journey back to life by Lance Armstrong (3rd-floor Main Collection GV1051.A76 A3 2000) and Deanna Favre’s Don’t bet against me!: beating the odds against breast cancer and in life (2nd-floor Browsing Books Collection RC280.B8 F38 2007). The web site of the National Cancer Institute also has information about different types of cancer. If you are researching particular kinds of cancers there are books such as Dr. Susan Love’s breast book (3rd-Floor Main Collection RG491 .L68 2005). And if you’re interested in access to health care in the United States, there are books including Critical: what we can do about the health-care crisis (3rd-floor Main Collection RA395.A3 .D375 2008) and Health care politics, policy, and services: a social justice analysis (3rd-floor Main Collection RA395.A3 A4795 2007). The Library’s article databases can yield relevant reading also, such as “Awash in information, patients face a lonely, uncertain road” in the New York Times (Aug. 14, 2005, p. 1).
Please ask a librarian for assistance in finding materials.
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!
Kwame Anthony Appiah will receive the Distinguished Scholar Award and speak on “Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers” on Tues., April 7, at 7pm in the Young Auditorium.
Kwame Anthony Appiah is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. His book, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (3rd-floor Main Collection BJ1031 .A635 2006), was the 2007 winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award. Other books of his include Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race (3rd-Floor Main Collection, E185.615 .A77 1996, or online via NetLibrary) and The Ethics of Identity (available to UWW students & staff from other UW System libraries by using the free Universal Borrowing service). He has published widely in African and African-American literary and cultural studies. Search the Library’s article databases for examples, including “Cosmopolitan patriots” in Critical Inquiry (Spring 1997, vol.23, no.3, pp.617-639). Appiah has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society and also is a trustee of Ashesi University College in Accra, Ghana.
UWW & surrounding communities are taking part in “The Big Read” featuring the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Events are scheduled throughout April at sites such as local libraries and museums, and in the UWW’s Young Auditorium. See the blog http://youngauditorium.wordpress.com/
Andersen Library has the Oscar and Golden Globe-winning movie (2nd-floor Browsing DVD, Feature Film Collection) and will show it on the 2nd floor on April 1st. The novel is available in Andersen Library’s 3rd-floor Main Collection (PS3562 .E353 T6).
Free copies of a reader’s guide, bookmarks, and an audio guide CD will be distributed starting April 1st. Andersen Library also is raffling off 5 free t-shirts — drop off your name and contact info at the Circulation Desk for the drawing.
More information about author Harper Lee, along with an analysis of her novel, is available via the MagillOnLiterature database, and there are many other relevant resources in the Library, such as an early review in the New York Times (July 13, 1960, p.33) available from the ProQuest Historical Newspapers database. Please ask a librarian for assistance in finding additional information.
Next in the UWW Observatory Lecture Series is “Mapping the Milky Way” by UWW Physics Professor Robert Benjamin at 8 p.m. on Fri., March 20, in Upham Hall 141, followed by (weather permitting) a public viewing session at the Whitewater Observatory. Both events are free and open to the public.
Interested in more information? A search of the Library’s article databases such as Academic Search Premier and MasterFILE Premier (both available via EBSCOhost) would find articles such as “How astronomers glimpse the naked galaxy” (Astronomy, Feb. 2007, vol.35, no.2, pp.58-63). Also see “The Milky Way Remapped” (Sky & Telescope, June 6, 2008).
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The International Astronomical Union has declared 2009 the International Year of Astronomy, dedicated to bringing the universe down to Earth through lectures, exhibits and observing sessions for people of all ages.
The Southeast Asian Heritage Lecture Series, sponsored by the UWW Southeast Asian Organization and Southeast Asian Support Services, has the theme “We are the voices that break boundaries.” There are two presentations, both at 4:30pm:
- March 17: “Southeast Asians in the Media” by Mai Hlee Xiong, Editor-in-Chief of 18XEEM Magazine and a community activist (University Center, room 259A)
April 7: “What it Means to Write” by Kao Kalia Yang, author of the novel The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir (Upham Hall, room 140). A copy of the novel is available from the Library’s 2nd-floor New Book Island, E184.H55 Y36 2008.
Relevant resources are available in the University’s Library. Search the Library Catalog to find titles such as Bamboo among the oaks: contemporary writing by Hmong Americans (2nd-floor New Book Island, PS508.H63 B36 2002)
UWW Sociology Professor Ron Berger will discuss and read passages from his book, “Hoop dreams on wheels: disability and the competitive wheelchair athlete” on Fri., March 13th, at 3:30 pm, in Williams Center room 185. The book chronicles the lives of 13 current and former UWW students with disabilities who play basketball. Berger will sign copies of his book at the event. The Library has a copy of this book (3rd-floor Main Collection, GV886.5 .B47 2009), and copies are also for sale at the University Bookstore. This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
Seven-time National Champion UW-Whitewater is hosting the 2009 National Intercollegiate Wheelchair Basketball Tournament March 12-14, with the national championship game at 2 pm on Sat., March 14th (Williams Center).
