Happy Halloween from the Library! And just a word of advice… watch out for dog-eating crocodiles. Exhibit #1:
I know, I know. It’s not Friday, but I couldn’t resist. Image courtesy of Cute Overload.
Archive for October, 2007
Laurie Lawlor, author of This Tender Place: The Story of a Wetland Year, will read from her book on Tuesday, November 13th, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kachel Center. The book, set in southeastern Wisconsin and based on research conducted in the University Library’s archives, is “a story of refuge and renewal refracted through the lens of life within wetlands – among the most productive, yet most endangered, ecosystems in the world.” The book was honored with a 2006 Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Achievement Book Award. More information about this award-winning book and Ms. Lawlor is available online from the publisher, the University of Wisconsin Press.
This Friends of the University Library program (open to all) will be preceded by a dinner and business meeting at 6 p.m. Dinner reservations may be made until Monday, November 5th, and cost $20. Call or email Anne Kimball (262.472.5518 or email kimballa@uww.edu) for details.
Please join us!
Forensic Analysis on the Cutting Edge:
New Methods for Trade Evidence Analysis
Edited by Robert Blackledge
HV8073 .F557 2007
New Book Island, 2nd floor
I was looking for a scary book to feature today with it being Halloween tomorrow, but unfortunately, I couldn’t find one. So I thought that I’d focus on crime instead (think ‘Friday the 13th’ and its sequel ‘Saturday the 14th: The Police Investigation’ or something like that).
If you want to know the latest trends in forensic analysis, then this book is for you. The editor that compiled the readings was the senior forensic chemist at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service Regional Forensic Laboratory in San Diego (nice credentials). This volume covers the up-to-date developments in trace evidence analysis, from what airbags can tell you in an automobile accident to using ultraviolet laser to analyze ink. Don’t worry, there aren’t any pictures of horrific crime scenes. Criminals, don’t read this book because if CSI helps you evade the police, this book will too.
Looking for an image to spice up a class presentation? Say, perhaps a map of the 1924 Presidential election? A photo of the USS ARIZONA burning after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941? Images of plants native to the Great Lakes region? An AIDS virus image? A photo of the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site in Pennsylvania?
Believe it or not, your Federal Government may be of assistance! Go to U.S. Government Photos, Graphics, and Multimedia and select “U.S. Government Photos and Graphics.”
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!
Author Laurie Garrett will speak at the Young Auditorium on Monday, November 5, at 7 p.m., on “Betrayal of Trust: Critical Issues in Global Health Care.” She is the Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations and a past president of the National Association of Science Writers. She won a Pulitzer prize in 1996 for explanatory journalism for reporting from Zaire about an Ebola outbreak.
The University Library has a copy of her 1994 book The coming plague : newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance (Main Collection, 3rd floor, RA651 .G37 1994). Other books she has written, and a videorecording based on The coming plague, are available from other UW campus libraries by using the free Universal Borrowing service. Requested items arrive in 2-3 weekdays.
You can read several articles she has written for various periodicals by searching for her as an author in EBSCO’s Academic Search Premier database.
More information about her and her work is available from Ms. Garrett’s web site or her biography on the Council’s website.
October 24th is United Nations Day. …um, what’s that?
It’s the anniversary of the entry into force of the United Nations Charter on October 24, 1945, and it has been celebrated as United Nations Day since 1948. In other words…Happy Birthday, United Nations!
You can learn more about the United Nations and its history from its web site http://www.un.org/aboutun/. The site includes links to live webcasts (and an archive of past webcasts). You could, for example, click to the climate change event “The Future in our Hands: Addressing the Leadership Challenge of Climate Change” that took place at the UN headquarters on September 24, 2007.
Your University Library also has information on the UN. There are books in the Main Collection, Reference materials, articles in journals and newspapers, and selected publications from the UN itself, including the annual Yearbook of the United Nations (shelved in the International Documents collection, 2nd floor, at UN YU) and the magazine UN chronicle (shelved in the 1st floor Periodicals collection, and online through the Ebsco Academic Search Premier database).
The University Library is a federal and Wisconsin 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!
Connected:
24 Hours in the Global Economy
by Daniel Altman
HF1359 .A5475 2007
New Book Island, 2nd floor
What does a Chinese company have to do with the British economy? Do the financial markets in Japan dictate the success of the Western markets? This book looks at the phenomenon that we all know and love, globalization. Altman, scholar and journalist for the International Herald Tribune, takes a different approach to explain how every seemingly small action can affect the world economy. Instead of the usual discourse, the author takes events from one day, 15 June 2005, to explain the global consequences. For example, he utilizes Intel’s foreign investment in Vietnam to investigate whether or not countries benefit from multinational companies. This book is a great way to learn about global markets in a very easy to read fashion, complete with notes and references to other useful sources of information.
Governor Doyle named October 2007 Archives Month in Wisconsin.
2007 is the 10th year Archives Month has been celebrated. There is a different theme every year, and this year’s theme is “Celebrating our Stories,” which is broad enough to include personal records such as photographs as well as official records of communities, business and civic organizations, and government institutions.
The University Library manages the University Archives. It contains historical records from the campus, ranging from paper files (LOTS of paper files, like personnel records) to hats (yes, I said hats) to photos & slides. Questions about the archives may be emailed to archives@uww.edu, or call the Archives at 262.472.5520 between 9am and 5pm Monday-Friday.
More information about Archives Month is available online from the Wisconsin Historical Society.
A lot has been written about the Twin Towers on September 11th. Here’s your chance to find out more about the attack on the Pentagon and the rebuilding efforts. Published by the Defense Department, Pentagon 9/11 provides insightful details into the damage inflicted upon the Pentagon by the terrorist attack. Colored photographs, graphs, charts, and maps of the Pentagon before and after the terrorist attack give us a clear and shocking picture of what it was like to be at the Pentagon when this devastating event occurred and the efforts to repair the building and heal a nation.
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!
