John Lennon was shot to death on December 8, 1980. I always think of Lennon at this time of year, not because this is when he died, but because “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” is one of my favorite songs, and it’ll be on the radio a lot now. You also can search on YouTube to hear many, many renditions of it, including videos with Lennon’s recording.
Andersen Library has materials on John Lennon, if you’re interested. Search the HALCat catalog to find titles such as “I read the news today”: The social drama of John Lennon’s death (3rd-floor Main Collection, ML420.L38 F64 1994) and Come together: John Lennon in his time (3rd-floor Main Collection, ML420 .L38 W5 1991). A search of the UW System Libraries finds a recording of the Happy Xmas number on the Shaved Fish album, available to UWW students and staff through the free Universal Borrowing service. Article databases can be searched to find articles such as the front-page New York Times article “John Lennon of Beatles is killed; suspect held in shooting at Dakota” (Dec. 9, 1980).
Please ask a librarian for assistance with finding materials.
UWW will honor Veterans Recognition Week (Nov. 3-11, 2009) with several events.
“Letters Home” on Tues., Nov. 3rd, at 7:30pm (Young Auditorium) is a performance of stories of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan and their families. It’s inspired by The New York Times articles, The Things They Wrote.
Mon., Nov. 9, 6-8 pm: Student panel on UWW Veterans’ Firsthand Accounts (location: Involvement Center, University Center).
Wed., Nov. 11, 5 pm: Guest speaker Ben Collins shares his experience as a Green Beret in Afghanistan (location: Summers Auditorium, University Center).
There are also materials in Andersen Library. A search of HALCat, Andersen Library’s catalog, would find titles such as When war becomes personal: Soldiers’ accounts from the Civil War to Iraq (3rd-floor Main Collection, E181 .W565 2008) and Stolen voices: Young people’s war diaries, from World War I to Iraq (2nd-floor Curriculum Collection, Juvenile Non-Fiction, 302.23 Sto).
Please ask a librarian for assistance with finding materials.
I’ve gotten a few questions about needing to find articles from the Wall Street Journal. Conveniently enough, we have access to WSJ back to 1984 through Proquest’s ABI/Inform.
Once you’ve gone to ABI/Inform, there are two ways in which you can search for articles from only the Wall Street Journal:
- Use the advanced search: in one of the boxes, enter wall street journal and then select Publication Title from the drop-down menu to the right of the search box.
- The Publications tab at the top allows you to view the list of newspaper, magazine and journal titles that are contained in ABI. Search for wall street journal – the resulting link will take you to a page in which you can exclusively search the WSJ.
If you want to know if you have access to articles in particular journals, magazines, or newspapers, consult the Journal Holdings List. To look up a title, hover on “Find” on the gray horizontal bar on the Library home page and then click “Journal Holdings” on the list that appears. Those of you familiar with the Journal Holdings List from last year will see that it has a very different look.
In the Journal Holdings List you can either search for a title or browse an alphabetical list.
Once you’ve found a title you’ll see links to databases providing access to full-text articles (with an indication of how far back full text is available). If no online full text is available for the date you need, click the “Find it” button, and then click the catalog link to see if there are print or microform holdings in the Library’s 1st-floor Periodicals Collection.
Questions? Please ask a librarian!
On July 30, 1928, George Eastman demonstrated his “kodacolor” process that allowed anyone to make color motion picture films. He was 74 at that time and had never even finished high school. But his inventions, such as roll film, brought photography to the masses. I even remember my parents having a cheap Brownie camera. One wonders what he would have done with the technologies we have now.
It was front-page news in the New York Times of July 31, 1928 – you can read it by searching for “home movies in colors” in the ProQuest Historical Newspapers – The New York Times database.
There is more relevant material in Andersen Library’s collections; please ask a librarian for assistance.
For example, the Library Catalog lists books with entries for Eastman such as The Reader’s companion to American history (2nd-floor Reference Collection, E174 .R43 1991) and They made America: From the steam engine to the search engine: Two centuries of innovators (3rd-floor Main Oversize Collection, T39 .E83 2004).
John Dillinger was killed as he left Chicago’s Biograph Theatre after attending the gangster film Manhattan Melodrama on this date (July 22nd) in 1934.
You may have seen the currently-playing film Public Enemies starring Johnny Depp (I did!), which was partially filmed in Wisconsin. It’s based on the book Public enemies: America’s greatest crime wave and the birth of the FBI, 1933–34. The book is available to UWW students and staff from other UW campus libraries by using the free Universal Borrowing service (requested materials arrive in 2-4 weekdays). Other titles, such as Dillinger: The untold story, are also available.
More information is available from Library article databases and reference materials, such as full-text newspaper databases including NewspaperARCHIVE or ProQuest Historical Newspapers – The New York Times.
Other article databases provide access to articles such as Public enemies keystone cops (American History, Aug. 2009, vol. 44:no. 3, pp. 34-39).
You can also read a 20-page entry (with several photos) on Dillinger in the 2nd-floor Reference Collection title Bloodletters and badmen (Ref HV 6785 .N37).
And check out The FBI: A Centennial History, 1908-2008 which details Dillinger and other gangsters as well as other intriguing cases encountered by the FBI in its history. It’s in our 2nd-floor Federal Government Documents collection (call number J 1.14/2:C 33/3) and available online at http://fbi.gov/book.htm. Dillinger is on the cover. Can you spot him?
Please ask a librarian for assistance in finding materials.
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!
“Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. The first steps by humans on another planetary body were taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 20, 1969.” – NASA’s “Apollo 40th Anniversary” web pages (Didn’t see it? You can watch NASA’s videos of the 1969 event).
Andersen Library has many related materials for children and adults. Search the library catalog for children’s materials such as the pop-up book Moon landing (2nd-floor Curriculum Collection, Oversize Juvenile Nonfiction, 629.45 Pla) and Buzz Aldrin’s autobiography Reaching for the moon (2nd-floor Curriculum Collection, Oversize Easy Book, E Ald). 
Adults may be interested in items such as the 29-minute NASA video The Eagle has landed (2nd-floor Browsing VHS, TL799 .M6 E2x), Michael Collins‘ autobiography Carrying the fire: An astronaut’s journeys (3rd-floor Main Collection, TL789.85 .C64 A33 1974), or The moonlandings: An eyewitness account (3rd-floor Main Collection, TL789.8.U6 A5844 2003).
There also are many articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers about Apollo 11, and spaceflight in general. For example, read articles from the New York Times using the ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times database (pictured at right is part of the front page from July 21, 1969).
Please ask a librarian for assistance with finding additional materials.
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!
If you’re a frequent user of the ProQuest Newspapers database, you’ll know it’s missing! We had access to that database through BadgerLink, a selection of databases the WI Dept. of Public Instruction provides to residents of the state. Well, they’ve negotiated for a different newspaper database, starting this July:
Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCOhost) includes over 1,500 full-text newspapers and newswires, providing more than 27 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 583,100 television and radio news transcripts, videos & podcasts. Several Wisconsin newspapers are in the database, including full-text staff articles from
- Eau Claire’s Leader-Telegram (since mid-Feb. 2008),
- The Janesville Gazette (since mid-Mar. 2005),
- La Crosse Tribune (since Dec. 2005),
- Madison’s Wisconsin State Journal (since Sept. 1997),
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (since Sept. 1997), and
- Superior’s Daily Telegram (since mid-Jan. 2005).
We also continue to have access to newspapers through the LexisNexis Academic and Campus Research databases.
But give the new resource a try! We hope you’ll like it.
Take a break from your classes…or find a topic for that English 102 paper…in the Library’s Browsing Collections. Walk straight ahead as you enter the Library toward comfortable seating, current newspapers, and a selection of current magazines (also DVDs, VHS, audio books, recent fiction & non-fiction books, CDs, and graphic novels). The Food for Thought café is close by as well.
Happy browsing!
New for Spring semester: The Library’s “Browsing” collections on the 2nd (main) floor. When you enter the Library, walk straight ahead into the Browsing collections, which include:
Browsing DVDs: Popular feature films have been separated and are arranged by their titles for easy browsing (some of these are still in process, getting their labels). The rest are still arranged by call numbers.
Browsing VHS tapes: These are arranged by call numbers. We are still in the process of moving them from the 1st-floor Media Center to the 2nd floor, so bear with us. Everything is listed in the library catalog, of course.
Browsing Books: This set includes recent print fiction and non-fiction, audio books, and graphic novels, as well as the New Book Island, which contains books received in the last 2 months.
In the future the Browsing are will include the CDs (also in order by call numbers). Right now they are still in the 1st-floor Media Center.
There is also comfortable seating, and the newest issues of newspapers and several magazines are at hand too. The Food for Thought cafe is available nearby for a snack and beverage.
Coming soon: a large-screen TV that can play DVDs or cable channels like CNN.
You are invited to join us…relax, get the latest news, find something enjoyable to read, listen to, or watch. Let us know how you like it! And if you have any questions about finding anything, please Ask a Librarian for help.
