Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Work:
A Research Companion
By Mustafa Özbilgin
HF5549.5 .M5 E68 2009
New Book Island, 2nd floor
Equality has become a major issue at the forefront of every debate, whether it be health care, education or civil rights. Many people strive to ensure that the voices of everyone are respected and represented, and rightfully so. Our university system has taken to gauging the campus climate at each institution, and we’re currently undergoing that process (and by the way, take the campus climate survey if you haven’t – you have until Thursday!). Of course, the workplace is another venue in which battles can still take place, and this week’s featured title examines the current state of equality in that setting.
Özbilgin, professor of HR management in the UK, has pulled together thirty-one chapters on equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI for short) in the office, which cover the sociological and psychological aspects of the topic. The edited volume includes a section on the education of others, such as diversity trainings or seminars and their effectiveness, as well as a part dealing with the role of men in EDI. With scholars contributing from all over the world, the book provides an excellent international perspective to the subject of diversity.
As part of the Library’s Banned Books Week events, Carin Bringelson will speak on “40+ Years of the Right to Read” at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 29, on the Library’s Main Floor. Ms. Bringelson works for TeachingBooks.net and is the Director of Friends of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) at UW-Madison.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
For more about the Library’s Banned Books Week events, see our previous post.
What’s a card catalog, you say? It’s OK, you must be a freshman.
Beloit College has released their annual Mindset List, a listing of interesting factoids about the incoming class of new students that arrive in approximately twelve days. According to the list, the card catalog, arguably one of the most identifiable objects associated with our fine establishment, is practically a dinosaur to the fresh crop of kids. They also have never understood what RSVP stands for (I don’t either), only known postal abbreviations for states to contain two letters and (this one’s probably the saddest) have never been Saved by the Bell, in prime-time anyway.
As a precaution, please make sure that you’re in a good mood because it may be a little depressing to think how well you remember some of the things that the class of 2013 never experienced.
Adventures in Tornado Alley:
The Storm Chasers
By Mike Hollingshead & Eric Nguyen
QC955 .H74 2008
New Book Island, 2nd floor
Given this weekend’s crazy weather, with the sloppy mix of rain and snow here in Wisconsin and tornadoes elsewhere, it reminds us what it’s like to live in the Midwest. And it’s not even spring yet. Therefore, our fitting featured title gives a preview of more extreme possible in the place we call home.
“It’s hard for me to step back and see how crazy chasing storms is,” writes Hollingshead in his introduction. While some would argue that you must be missing a few crayons from your box of 64, there are some that are willing to risk their lives for the exhilaration and experience of capturing volatility in its purest form. The book chronicles Hollingshead and Nguyen’s journeys as storm chasers through seventeen storms from New Mexico to Iowa, with a play-by-play commentary from the authors. The best part of the book: the amazing photography. Just paging through takes your breath away at the ultimate display of nature’s wrath and destruction.
If you read his entry on Wikipedia in the last week, you might have found out that Ted Kennedy passed away. He, along with fellow Senator Robert Byrd, got to experience the trauma of reading their own obituaries. Of course, that didn’t actually happen. The two politicians are alive and doing alright.
This isn’t the first time that events such as this have happened to the community-edited encyclopedia, but the latest incident seems to have served as the catalyst for limiting the number of edits and the approval of edits. Cnet News reports that the change in policy comes at an interesting time, with the traditional encyclopedia publisher Britannica to begin offering ‘user entries’ for topics. It would appear that two extremes of publishing information (edited by users versus by experts) are learning a thing or two from each other.
Full story: Wikipedia considers limiting user edits – cnet News
Thanks to Ronna for the link!
The financial and economic meltdown of the past year has caused many to reassess their financial health. If you set a goal to start saving money and/or spending your income more wisely (I know I did), there are plenty of ideas out there. One of the more visible personal finance advice-givers, Suze Orman, has a new book out, aptly titled 2009 Action Plan. You can download the entire book for FREE from Oprah’s website until this Thursday (January 15).
You can also get Orman’s last book, Road to Wealth, here in the Library, or her other books from other UW libraries through Universal Borrowing.
Thanks to Patty for the link!
The Inauguration Committee is creating a wiki, UW-W: Then and Now, as a place where past and present members of the campus community can share their memories and stories of the campus and explore the University’s history. If you have suggestions about topics for inclusion or stories to share, please leave a comment on this blog or contact the University Archives (archives@uww.edu), for more information.
