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This isn’t a far-fetched fairy tale. We’re on AOL Instant Messenger. Just add us (uwwedlibrarian and uwwbizlibraryguy) to your buddy list. And if we’re not on, there’s always Ask a Librarian, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
WisconsinEye contracted with the Wisconsin State Government in 2005 to provide broadcast coverage of the State Legislature, and more recently it began broadcasting the state Supreme Court. Eventually it plans to cover all three branches of state government.
More information, including the current schedule, links to live and archived video, and links to political news, is available online at http://www.wisconsineye.com/. In addition to being available on the Internet, WisconsinEye’s coverage is available on cable television.
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!
How do you expand your publishing business and make more money? Most would not respond by giving away your product for free, but that’s just what Reed Elsevier is going to do. They’ve decided to go out on a limb and offer the latest articles and research from 100 of their top medical journals for free. Oncology by OncologyStat targets doctors and other practitioners to register to receive access to hundreds of thousands of dollars of content. Like other free web services, like Facebook or MySpace, they’re looking to survive and profit from advertising sold for the site as well as selling user information.
Why does this matter? It’s huge because it is shifting costs from the institutions and professionals that need that information to perform their critical work to the advertisers that want to sell them stuff. Furthermore, it’s an opportunity for others to get a hold of cutting edge research (if they can sift through the medical jargon).
Now you may be familiar with Elsevier, as we subscribe to ScienceDirect College Edition (
). You already have access to over four years worth of content from more than 1800 journals, which means you probably don’t need to sign up for the website.
original story reported in the New York Times
Americans:
[1940-2006]
Edited by Kunsthalle Wien, Peter Weiermair, & Gerald Matt
Oversize TR644 .A48 2006
New Book Island, 2nd floor
Studying recent history is fun, but it’s even better when there are pictures. Today’s featured item is a collection of photographs from some of America’s most provocative and influential photographers. As the curator of the exhibition on which the book is based, Peter Weiermar writes that [the exhibition] “is about America, its social problems, its outsiders, its conflicts and processes in a half century from the mid 20th century until today.” The artists have captured daily life in the United States - not the glitz and glamor that you see on TV - kids playings in New York in the 1940s, the beat generation in the 1960s, and up to life in New Hampshire today. I find this collection to be interesting because it has been assembled by Europeans, people that have a perspective of the US different than our own.
Week 1 Question
How many hours is the Library physically open each week?
Week 1 Bonus Question
If you are having problems locating resources for your assignments, in what ways can you contact a librarian for assistance? List two of the four.
You’ve got the questions, now go find the answers! We have answer forms available at any of the service desks (Circulation, Reference, & Periodical Help Desks), which is also where you need to turn them in.
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… and you could win! The Library is sponsoring a trivia contest in which students have a chance to win great weekly prizes or an even better grand prize. All you have to do is come into the library and answer some questions. How hard is that?
Here’s the deal. Starting Monday (September 10), the Library will post the question of the week as well as a bonus question - here on the blog and in the library near the entrance. Answer the question correctly and you’ll be entered into the weekly prize drawing. If you answer the bonus question correctly, you double your chances of winning!
The contest will run for 4 weeks, so keep coming in for your chance to win big!
Check out the contest home page for complete details, including prizes and deadlines.
“They Take Our Jobs!”:
And 20 Other Myths About Immigration
By Aviva Chomsky
JV6455 .C46 2007
New Book Island, 2nd floor
Immigration, one of the hot-button topics of the last few years and major key issues of the upcoming election, gets the full attention of this book. Chomsky, coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University, takes the stage in disproving many of the preconceived notions that people may have about immigration. I’m sure that everyone has heard (or said) arguments against immigration - such as the one that immigrants are not assimilating and are not learning English. The author looks to quash those negative sentiments by referencing her sources while making it readable.
