Category Archives: around the world

10 years later: September 11

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Ronna

If you’re old enough to remember when September 11 was just another day on the calendar, then you probably remember where you were on September 11, 2001. I was in graduate school at UW-Madison. I learned the towers had been … Continue reading →

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Welcome to UWW & Andersen Library!

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Barbara

Welcome to UWW and Andersen Library! I hope you’re excited to be here. After four college degrees (at four separate schools) and over 20 years at UWW, I still greet each new academic year with excitement and anticipation.  My colleagues … Continue reading →

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That’s Some Mindset You’ve Got There

Posted on August 24, 2011 by kyle

The incoming freshman class invades Whitewater starting next week [R U READY?!]. That also means that Beloit College has released their annual Mindset List for the Class of 2015. I both love and hate reading this list, and it will … Continue reading →

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Movies and Scientific Ethics

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Barbara

Movies and scientific ethics may seem an unlikely pairing, and maybe I just think too much when I see movies about scientific research, but when I saw Rise of the Planet of the Apes this weekend I had the same … Continue reading →

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Friday Fun: Online Jigsaws

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Barbara

Discovery News offers an online jigsaw Puzzle of the Week. You are shown the completed image (see “Diving with a whale shark” at right), and you can choose whether to turn off auto rotate in the lower left corner of … Continue reading →

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Carol Elsen: Reviewer of the Year!

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Barbara

Our very own Carol Elsen, Collection Manager and Reference & Instruction Librarian, was named one of Library Journal‘s five 2011 Reviewers of the Year! Here’s what LJ had to say about her: Carol Elsen, 2011 Nonfiction Reviewer of the Year … Continue reading →

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White House YouTube Channel

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Barbara

You can subscribe to the White House’s YouTube channel and see what’s going on! Among the offerings: “West Wing Week” videos, as well as various special topic videos. The University Library is a federal depository with many federal, state, local, … Continue reading →

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Bookless Libraries?

Posted on July 11, 2011 by kyle

That’s the topic of an article that appeared in Time today. There’s a trend of removing the print collections out and the study space and media in. So the question is… when you take the books out of a library, … Continue reading →

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Summertime: A Look at the Numbers

Posted on July 11, 2011 by kyle

Summer is officially in full swing. How do I know? As someone that lives in an apartment with no air conditioning, I measure it based on the number of showers required in the day. And, yesterday for example was a … Continue reading →

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Friday music video: Honoring Hubble

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Barbara

To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s millionth measurement logged on July 4th (and I’d say just to celebrate the beauty of the images it has provided us too), Daniel Pendick, a science writer at NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center, produced … Continue reading →

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