Patty Bailey from Patty’s Plants will talk about Organic Gardening:Herbs and Vegetables on Fri., Mar. 20, from 1:30–2:30 pm in the International Education Conference Room (Andersen Library, L2254).
This informational talk for the home gardener will cover everything from building the soil to the kinds of herbs and veggies to grow. Patty’s Shop is in Milton, WI on Highways 59 & 26. Email questions in advance to patty@pattysplants.com
This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
Bottlemania:
How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It
By Elizabeth Royte
HD9349 .M542 R69 2008
New Book Island, 2nd floor
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! While the topic of this week’s featured title does center on drinking, it does not focus on the green variety of liquid that people (of legal age) are consuming as we speak. No, this liquid constitutes 60% of your body mass and its popularity is second to only soda as the leading beverage. That means it could only be… water.
Royte, a journalist that has written for the New Yorker and National Geographic (among others), takes a hard look at the bottled water phenomenon and the stakeholders of the industry. It explores not only the obvious environmental impact from the billions of plastic bottles, but also the financial implications of corporations bottling and selling a diminishing natural resource. Who owns the water and is it just that the companies profit from this? All in all, reading this will make you think twice the next time you reach for the dollar and a quarter to purchase some Aquafina.
FYI – Royte’s previous book, Garbage Land, is also available in the Main Collection – HD4484.N7 R68 2005.
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:
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)
The Library now offers two collaboratories for student use on the first floor. These spaces are designed to facilitate group work and provide the technology needed in order to brainstorm, practice presentations and work together with your classmates. It’s a great place to prepare for the end-of-semester final projects.
The collaboratories can be reserved up to a month in advance and are available for a maximum of three hours at a time. The Collaboratories page has all the information you need to know about reserving and using the the labs, as well available equipment in the rooms.
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).
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.
The Wisconsin Historical Society and the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Area Research Center invite you to a workshop on these topics.
Date and Time: Saturday, April 25, 2009
Workshop: 9:30 am to 12:30 pm
Area Research Center open for research: 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Place: Andersen Library Building-Room:BI Lab L2211
UW Whitewater Area Research Center L2210A
Ticket Info: Pre-registration is required due to space limitations.
$15.00 registration fee.
Registration forms
Contact Info:
Lori Bessler
608-264-6519
Lori.Bessler@wisconsinhistory.org
Karen Weston
262-472-5520
Westonk@uww.edu
Swethaa Ballakrishnen, a research fellow at the Harvard Law School and an expert on international law, will speak on opportunities and pitfalls of doing business in India on Thursday, March 5th, at noon in the University Center, room 69.
If you are interested in this topic, or interested in doing business in other countries, your University’s Library has resources you could consult. A Library Catalog search would find titles such as An American’s guide to doing business in India: a practical guide to achieving success in the Indian market (3rd-floor Main Collection, HD2899 .M345 2008). A search of the Library’s article databases for business such as ABI/Inform Global would find articles such as “The Rise Of Indian Manufacturing” in Industry Week (Dec. 2008, vol. 257, no. 12).
Please ask a librarian if you would like assistance in finding materials on on doing business in other countries.
