Celebrate faculty & staff scholarly and creative achievements

Posted on November 26, 2013 by Barbara

A sampling of the articles, artwork, books, photos, compositions, and conference presentations produced by over 80 of UWW’s staff and faculty during the period July 2011-June 2012 will be displayed in the Crossman Gallery (Greenhill Center of the Arts) on Tues., Nov. 26, from 10am-5pm and 6pm-8pm. A reception will be held on Tues. from 3pm-4:30pm, with welcoming remarks by Chancellor Richard Telfer. Refreshments will be available during the reception.

This event is co-sponsored by the Chancellor, Andersen Library, Crossman Gallery, Office of Research & Sponsored Programs, and University Marketing and Media Relations.

Among this year’s honorees are two Library staff: Carol Elsen and Michael Johnson. Congratulations!

Photo from 2010 Scholarship & Creative Achievement reception

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Kennedy’s Assassination, 50 years later

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Ronna

Last week, I admitted to being a big fan of Abraham Lincoln. Well, I’m an even bigger fan of John F. Kennedy. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was 150 years ago on November 19. Kennedy’s assassination was 50 years ago today. Ask anyone who is old enough to remember that day, and I’ll bet they can still tell you exactly what they were doing when they heard the news.

The number of books, films, websites, and the like that are devoted to Kennedy is higher than I can count, and with the 50th anniversary, even more books are being published. A subject search on Kennedy, John F. in the Library’s catalog brings up a list of 94 titles. One of those, a one-volume biography titled An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, was called “the best of the full biographies” on Kennedy by The New York Times Book Review (October 27, 2013, p. 24). I’ve read it, and I agree, it’s a great work. It includes information on the health problems of the president, kept carefully guarded during his lifetime. The Library’s copy is in the Main Collection, call number E842 .D28 2003.

If you don’t want to read a book, maybe you’d like to listen to interviews with Jacqueline Kennedy about her life with JFK. Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy, Interviews with Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., 1964 is an 8-disc audio book, with an accompanying print book, located in the Browsing Books Audio collection, call number E842 .O63 2011.

Want to watch a film instead? How about, JFK: A Presidency Revealed, by the History Channel? It’s located in our Browsing Academic DVD collection, call number E842 .J45 2003.

To access digital collections, interactive exhibits, and more, check out the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum website.

Or maybe you’d like to read newspaper articles published during his presidency, or how about articles written right after the assassination? Check out our online databases, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2009) or ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune (1849-1989).

Want to see how quickly things can change? Open the New York Times database above. Go to the Advanced Search, and limit your search to November 22, 1963, front page articles. Click Search. In the newspaper that day, there was a front page article titled: “Kennedy Pledges Space Advances; Opens Texas Tour.”

Then do a new search, and change the date to November 23, 1963. The New York Times front page headline that day, in all capital letters, was: “KENNEDY IS KILLED BY SNIPER AS HE RIDES IN CAR IN DALLAS; JOHNSON SWORN IN ON PLANE.” Kennedy opened his Texas tour one day, and was gone the next.

Rest in peace, Mr. President.

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Friday Fun: Word of the Year!

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Barbara

Oxford Dictionaries announced its international Word of the Year on November 19:

selfie

The origin of selfie has been traced to an Australian online forum in 2002, and apparently there are spinoffs like helfie (a selfie of your hair) and welfie (a workout selfie). Good grief. I had no idea.

The shortlist for word of the year includes bedroom tax, binge-watch, bitcoin, olinguito, schmeat, showrooming, and (unfortunately) twerk. I’ve only heard a couple of these myself. Visit the site to learn their meanings if they unfamiliar to you too.

Andersen Library provides access to the OED (Oxford English Dictionary), and if you’re interested in building your vocabulary, you can visit the database to set up an RSS feed of the Word of the Day! Or, follow OED on Twitter.

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Thanksgiving: Library hours

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Barbara

clip art of horn of plentyPlan ahead! Hours of the Andersen Library and Food for Thought Café are affected by the Thanksgiving holiday.

The Food for Thought Café will be open until 3:30pm on Mon. Nov. 25, until 2pm on Tues. Nov. 26, and then closes for the rest of the week. You can see other Thanksgiving Break hours of service for campus dining online.

Andersen Library also adjusts its hours for the holiday this week:

  • Wed., Nov. 27th: 7:30am-4:30pm
  • Thurs., Nov. 28th: CLOSED
  • Fri., Nov. 29th: 8am-4:30pm
  • Sat., Nov. 30th: CLOSED all day
  • Sun., Dec. 1st: 3pm-2am

Please remember that even when the physical Library is closed, you can:

  • Search the article databases (login when prompted with your campus Net-ID, same as for your campus email or D2L),
  • Search the HALCAT Library Catalog and use links to online titles, including ereserves for classes,
  • Renew checked-out books, government documents, etc. (once) through your Personal Record (unless you’ve already used up your allowed renewals),
  • Consult online guides for help, including citation guides for APA, MLA, and Turabian format, and class assignment guides, and
  • Ask a librarian for help using email or chat (UWW librarians respond to the emails when the Library is open, but chat is covered 24/7 by non-UWW staff).
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T3: Easy Webpage Creation and Hosting with Google Sites

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Diana

Do you need to create a webpage for a class, project, or for your own personal use? As a student, faculty, or staff member of the university, you have access to software to help you design a webpage and storage space on UW-Whitewater’s servers to host your finished site. Sometimes, the idea of designing your own webpage and hosting it on a campus server is too daunting or time-consuming to contemplate. In that case, Google Sites may be the answer.

As part of UW-Whitewater’s suite of Google Apps, Google Sites allows you to create and publish webpages using a simple editing interface that works like Google’s document creator. Once you pick a template for your site, it is easy to quickly build a functional website in an hour or so. All you need are a few clicks of the mouse to publish your page after you finish filling in the content.

Log in to your UW-Whitewater Google Sites page and get started!

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Trans & Gender Identities

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Barbara

Mara Keisling, Founding Executive Director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, spoke to a crowd of students, staff, and administrators on Thursday morning last week, covering a lot of ground, including the intersection of gender identity and other characteristics like race and disability (if she isn’t supporting rights for people with disabilities, for example, she isn’t helping all trans people), issues transgender people have with insurance coverage, employment discrimination, and medical care. The one thing that all transgender people have in common…they’re people! So treat them like people! Keisling closed quoting Roger Ebert’s version of the Golden Rule:

“I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.”

Andersen Library can help you can learn more, either about topics Keisling brought up or about gender identity in general. Ask a Librarian if you’d like help.

Cover of Transgender VoicesSearching HALCat would find titles such as In a queer voice: Journeys of resilience from adolescence to adulthood (3rd-floor Main Collection HQ76.27.Y68 S23 2013), The transgender studies reader 2 (3rd-floor Main Collection HQ77.9 .T72 2013), I’m just Anneke: The family journey (2nd-floor Academic DVDs HQ77.9 .I4 2010), and Transgender voices: Beyond women and men (3rd-floor Main Collection HQ77.7 .G57 2008). You also would find government information, such as Employment Non-Discrimination Act ensuring opportunity for all Americans , a hearing of the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions that is available online. (See an update on ENDA from CQ Weekly dated Nov. 11, 2013.)

Search article databases, such as LGBT Life with Full Text, for articles such as “A Transwoman’s No Cakewalk” (Between the Lines, 2013:Jul.11, pp.8-9) and “Managing uncertainty: A grounded theory of stigma in transgender health care encounters” (Social Science & Medicine, 2013, vol.84, pp.22-29).

FDLP logo Andersen Library is a federal and Wisconsin depository library with federal and state government documents on a variety of current and relevant issues available to you in various formats (print, DVD/CD-ROM, online). Check out your government at Andersen Library!

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New Stuff Tuesday – November 19, 2013

Posted on November 19, 2013 by Carol

Toy time: From hula hoops to he-man to hungry hungry hippos: A look back at the most-beloved toys of decades past

Toy Time:
From Hula Hoops to He-Man to Hungry Hungry Hippos: A look Back At the Most-Beloved Toys of Decades Past
by Christopher Byrne.
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This tiny tome neatly encapsulates the essence of American childhood from the 1940s to the 1980s — at least for those kids brought up in mainstream culture. Even today’s college students can identify with many of the featured toys and games: Tonka Trucks (1947), Play-Doh (1956), Frisbee (1957), LEGO (arrived in US in 1961), NERF Ball (1969), UNO (1971) and Care Bears (1983), to name a few.

Toy industry expert, Christopher Byrne, takes a trip down memory lane to find out why these toys became popular and what became of them. Many of the toys are still in production and have burned their way into cultural memory. But some, like Thimble City and Crazy Clock (both introduced in 1964), were faddish and quickly vanished from the landscape.

The pictures will bring back lots of (hopefully) happy memories for anyone who played with these games or toys. And the Library’s Teaching Tools Collection (part of the Curriculum Collection) even sports a few: LEGO (1961), UNO, and Trivial Pursuit.

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T3: Digital Writing Month

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Diana

Have you heard that November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)? If you want to participate in a collaborative, tech-focused writing project check out this Digital Writing Month (DigiWriMo) project: the Digital Writing Makerthon.  The Digital Writing Makerthon, sponsored by UW-Madison Continuing Studies, is a “unique creative, artistic, multimedia attempt to make a text that is more than a text — what we’re calling a “makertext.” Hundreds of collaborators will work together to tell a single story using words, sound, video, hyperlinks, code, tweets, and more, in just 48 hours.”

The fun starts at 11:59 p.m. on Friday, 15 November and lasts for two days. You can participate by signing up at www.readmake.com and following @Jessifer, @slamteacher, and #readmake on Twitter.

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Get Your Game On: Mario Kart Tournament

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Diana

In honor of International Games Day (Saturday, 16 November) and the Playful Learning Summit happening on campus this Thursday and Friday, Andersen Library is hosting a Mario Kart Time Trial Tournament this Saturday from noon until 2:00 p.m. in the TV area.

  • Play up to 2 times each course (3 courses)
  • Best time on each course wins a prize pack
  • Free to participate—just show up!

All this week you can enjoy the many types of games we have in our collection by stopping at the tables near the circulation desk to try out some of our games.

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Veteran’s Day Celebration

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Kate

In honor of Veteran’s Day, Andersen Library has created a display highlighting the soldiers of the Civil War.

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The Civil War display was done in coordination with the Roberta Fiskum Art Gallery in the University Center. Another display featuring Library materials and artifacts from the Civil War era in honor of Veteran’s Day is located in the University Center, on the second floor, at the top of the stairs in the hallway. Feel free to drop by and check it out!

A book truck filled with books and DVDs about the Civil War era, along with personal stories and author insights on the history of the war and the life of the soldiers, is available for browsing near the Circulation Desk. If interested in more about the topic, feel free to stop by the Reference Desk to get more guidance about Civil War research.

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