Can’t take the time in the morning? Listen anytime to recordings (or watch videos) at the University of Utah’s Western Soundscape Archive. You can search for your favorites (I recommend the indigo bunting or house wren). The site provides information about the bird (or animal) including scientific name, kingdom, phylum, etc. There are non-animal sounds here, too, such as thunder at the Grand Canyon National Park or alpine stream in Albion Basin, Alta, Utah. And you can also find videos with birdsong at YouTube, such as this one of a house wren:

Click here to view the embedded video.

• Magazines like Audubon (current issue on 2nd-floor magazine racks)
• Reference titles including The birds of North America (2nd-floor Reference Collection QL681 .B625)
• Many, many 3rd-floor Main Collection books like The Sibley guide to bird life & behavior, Living on the wind: Across the Hemisphere with migratory birds, Birder’s conservation handbook: 100 North American birds at risk
• Federal and Wisconsin government information such as “For the birds” from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, which can tell you everything you need to know to feed and house birds in your backyard, and the Great Wisconsin Birding & Nature Trail maps from the Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources.

Please ask a librarian for assistance with 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!

Remember that even when the Library is closed or you are traveling:

• The Library’s article databases are available…just login when prompted with your campus Net-ID (same as for your campus email or D2L).
• You can search the HALCat Library Catalog and use links to the titles that are online, including ereserves for classes.
• You can renew your checked-out books, DVDs, etc., online (once) through your Personal Record.
• You can consult online guides for assistance, including citation guides for APA, MLA, and Turabian format, and class assignment guides.
• You can ask a librarian for help using email or chat, or phone us at the Reference Desk (262-472-1032) during Reference Desk hours (Mon-Fri 9am-4:30pm, Sunday March 28th 6-10pm).

Regular Spring Semester hours resume on Monday, March 29th.

Enjoy the break safely, everybody.

How do you use it? After doing a search in a database or SuperSearch, just click the button! However, not every article will have recommendations for additional articles, especially newer articles that not many researchers have looked at yet! See a screenshot below.

How do I provide feedback? Complete a brief online survey. Thank you!!

Still have questions? Ask for help at the Reference Desk, where librarians are available during regular desk hours, by telephone (262-472-1032), by email or by chat. We don’t proofread citations, but we can point you to sections in the style manuals. Style manuals located at the Reference Desk:

• MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th ed. (LB2369 .G53 2009)
• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th ed. (BF76.7 .P83 2010)
• A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 6th ed. (LB2369.T8 1996) (aka Turabian)
• Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. (Z253 .U69 2003)

And do yourself a favor as you do your research: gather the information needed as you go! That will save the time you might otherwise spend looking up your resources again to complete your citations. Some databases offer you help (but be sure you proofread the citations provided to make any needed corrections), e.g.,

Ebsco databases: Click the yellow page icon on the abstract display.
Proquest databases: Click the “Cite this” link.
See screenshots below:

The Battle of Ole Miss
Civil Rights v. States’ Rights
by Frank Lambert
LD3413 .L36 2009
New Book Island, 2nd floor

As we all know, the middle years of the twentieth century were a very tumultuous time for the civil rights struggle for African Americans. All aspects of life were affected by the color line, including education. This week’s featured title focuses on higher education – one with which we all can relate.

Lambert, history professor at Purdue University, brings us the story of James Meredith, an African American student that enrolled for classes at University of Mississippi in 1962. The riot that took place after his matriculation earned a spot in the record books as one of the deadliest clashes of the era. The author provides a first-hand account of many of these events, as he was a student at Ole Miss at the time. While Lambert highlights the local situation, he also explores the historical context of Mississippi and the South – the sociocultural factors that contributed to the blow-up.

A complete bracket of the teams playing will be available. The Library will show all the games that are on while we’re open. The games also will be streamed for those who can’t make in to see them on our TV. For live streaming see: http://mmod.ncaa.com/

2010 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Schedule
Opening Round Game March 16
1st Round March 18-19
2nd Round March 20-21
NCAA Sweet 16® March 25-26
Elite Eight® March 27-28
Final Four® April 3
National Championship April 5

Where the tournament will be played
(note some games will be played in Milwaukee, Providence & Syracuse)
Opening Round: March 16
UD Arena, Dayton, OH

First and Second Rounds: Thursday and Saturday, March 18 and 20
New Orleans Arena, New Orleans, LA
Dunkin Donuts Center, Providence, RI
HP Pavilion, San Jose, CA
Spokane Memorial Arena, Spokane, WA

First and Second Rounds: Friday and Sunday, March 19 and 21
HSBC Arena, Buffalo
Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena, Jacksonville, FL
Bradley Center, Milwaukee, WI
Ford Center, Oklahoma City, OK

Regionals: Thursday and Saturday, March 25 and 27
East: Carrier Dome, Syracuse, NY
West: Energy Solutions Arena, Salt Lake City, UT

Regionals: Friday and Sunday, March 26 and 28
Midwest: Edward Jones Dome, St. Louis, MO
South: Reliant Stadium, Houston TX

Final Four: Saturday and Monday, April 3 and 5
Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, IN

More information is available from the Time and Frequency Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Physics Laboratory. (The Division “maintains the standard for frequency and time interval for the United States, provides official time to the United States, and carries out a broad program of research and service activities in time and frequency metrology.” Who knew?!)

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!

Fallows has been a national correspondent for The Atlantic for over 25 years, based in Washington DC, Seattle, Berkeley, Austin, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, and now Beijing. You can read his “Voices” blog entries on the Atlantic site. In 2003 he won a National Magazine Award for his article “The Fifty-First State?” (The Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 2002, vol. 290:no.4, pp. 53-64), which talked about “the effects of military victory of the United States in the Iraq War.”

His work has appeared in many other publications as well. Search the article databases such as Academic Search Complete and MasterFILE Premier (Ebsco) to find some of his articles (try the search au fallows james).

His book, Postcards from Tomorrow Square, is available in Andersen Library’s 3rd-floor Main Collection (DS706 .F3 2009), or UWW students and staff may request it from other UW libraries by using the free Universal Borrowing service. Requested materials arrive in 2-4 weekdays.

Please ask a librarian for assistance with finding materials.

Like to learn more? Andersen Library can help! Search the HALCat online catalog for books such as The origin of stars (3rd-floor Main Collection, QB806 .S6 2004). Search article databases to find articles including “On the timescale for star formation in galaxies” (The Astrophysical Journal, Nov. 1, 2009, vol.705, pp. 650-658) and “Cloudy with a chance of stars” (Scientific American, Feb. 2010, vol.302:no.2, pp. 34-41).

Please ask a librarian for assistance with finding materials.

Mark your calendars for the rest of the observatory lectures:

• April 9: From Dust to Majority (taking a star from initial collapse in a molecular cloud to the onset of nuclear fusion)
• April 16: The Making of a Supernova (the evolution of stars more massive than eight solar masses to their demise in titanic explosions)
• April 30: The Making of a Celestial Flower (the evolution of stars less massive than eight solar masses to their demise as planetary nebulae)
• May 7: When Fusion Stops, What Follows (the long retirement of stars as white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes)

Here are some ideas for your research. You can also look at all the complete list of the Library’s science databases. UWW users can login with their netIDs when off-campus.

All Sciences

• ScienceDirect – 1,500 fulltext ejournals in life sciences, physical sciences and social and behavioral sciences
• Web of Science – Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences; find out who cites whom

Biology

• Biological Abstracts – covers thousands of journals in biology and the life sciences
• BioOne – fulltext articles from biology and environmental journals

Chemistry

• American Chemical Society Journals – fulltext of 48 journals
• ScienceDirect – includes 600 journals in the physical sciences

Computer Science and Engineering

• ACM Digital Library – 51 journals from the Association for Computing Machinery
• IEEE Xplore Digital Library – provides full text access to technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics

Earth and Environmental Sciences

• Environment Complete – contains almost 2 million records relating to the environment
• GeoRef (restricted to 1 user at a time) – geology and geophysics journals
• GEOBASE – geology, geography, and ecology articles

Health, Medicine, and Sports

• Medline with Full Text – adds full text of 1,470 journals to the regular MEDLINE content
• CINAHL Plus with Full Text – a database of nursing journals and one of EBSCO’s many health-related databases
• SPORTDiscus with Full Text – adds lots of full text articles to the regular SPORTDiscus product

Physics

• Intitute of Physics Electronic Journals – articles from 33 top physics journals
• ScienceDirect – includes 600 journals in the physical sciences