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Friday Fur Day!
Daisy, the Golden Retriever pet therapy dog will be back for another visit at the Andersen Library on Friday, March 15, 2013, from 12 noon to 2pm! Stop in at the Library and have all of your stress that has … Continue reading
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Tagged dog therapy, Friday fun, fun stuff, pet therapy
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Friday Fun: Are You Ready to RUMBLE?
There’s all sorts of stereotypes about librarians. You’ve got the glasses, hair in bun, nose in book at all times, quiet and meek nature – you all know them. That’s pretty much how we’re portrayed in popular culture. Occasionally we … Continue reading
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Racquetball, Anyone?
No, not in the library, of course, but some of the Andersen librarians have been known to find their way to the racquetball courts in the Williams Center, armed with key strategies and techniques they picked up in Norton & … Continue reading
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Historic Aerial Photos of Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Historic Aerial Image Finder allows users to experience Wisconsin from the air as it looked in the late 1930s. The web site provides provides free online access to over 38,000 aerial photographs of Wisconsin that were taken from … Continue reading
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New Stuff Tuesday – March 13
All Business Is Local: Why Place Matters More Than Ever in a Global, Virtual World by John Quelch & Katherine Jocz HF5415.1265 .Q45 2012 New Arrivals, 2nd floor As I was browsing the Whitewater Banner this morning, I came across … Continue reading
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Tagged books, business, companies, globalization, local business, new stuff
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UWSAC MEETING
Special Collections hosted the annual UW-System Archives Council meeting on Thursday, Nov 10th, 2011. The Wisconsin Historical Society is in the process of barcoding all their collections to make borrowing between the various Area Research Centers easier. Two Civil War sites were discussed. … Continue reading
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Tagged Area Research Center, civil war, special collections, UW-River Falls, UWSAC, Wisconsin Historical Society
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Kermit and PBS LearningMedia
OK. So, I admit it: I’m a closet Kermit fan. I’ve had a stuffed Kermit in my proud possession since somewhere just before Kyle was born (and if you can’t figure that out, then you clearly missed his last New Stuff … Continue reading
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New Book Sale Materials
This month we’re selling a wide variety of books, from botany to geography to popular fiction and much, much more. In addition, we’ve got some multimedia materials for sale: popular VHS videos and “Great Courses” cassette tapes, including How to … Continue reading
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Still time to write a Library Haiku!
During the week of April 10-16, 2011, the Andersen Library celebrated National Library Week with displays including writing your own “Library Haiku” and do-it-yourself “Velcro Poetry”. Stop in this week for your last opportunity to enter the Haiku contest! Top … Continue reading
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Tagged contest, Haiku, National Library Week, poetry
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Miss the February L&S Lecture?
If you didn’t get a chance to make it to the first Letters & Sciences Lecture of the semester two weeks ago, don’t worry! The College has kindly allowed the Library to hold two copies of the video from the … Continue reading
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