New Stuff Tuesday – March 5

Posted on March 5, 2013 by kyle

Bet the Farm

Bet the Farm:
How Food Stopped Being Food
by Frederick Kaufman
HD9000.5 .K3725 2012
New Arrivals, 2nd floor

You know how they say that it’s dangerous to go to the grocery store when you’re hungry? The same goes for writing blog posts. You can put money on the fact that I was hungry when searching for books to spotlight for New Stuff Tuesday, just like this week’s featured title.

Kaufman, contributing editor for Harper’s and lecturer at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism, sets out to uncover the reasons why quality food, in terms of nutritional and economic value, isn’t available to everyone. His search leads him around the world, from corporate headquarters and mega-farms to the United Nations meetings, and he finds that the investment in grain futures as the source is wreaking havoc on the dinner table. The writer seeks to expose the drive to put profitability before anything else, filling up corporate pockets and emptying the plates of millions.

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Dog Therapy @ the Library

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Kate

Are you in desperate need for some stress relief? Come to the Andersen Library tomorrow, Friday, March 1st, from 12 noon to 2pm, to meet and play with Daisy, the friendly and adorable Golden Retriever. You won’t be able to resist playing with and petting this beautiful dog as all of the week’s stress just melts away with each moment you spend with Daisy.

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New Stuff Tuesday – February 26

Posted on February 26, 2013 by kyle

Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat

Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat:
The Science Behind Drugs in Sport
by Chris Cooper
RC1230 .C59 2012
New Arrivals, 2nd floor

There’s nothing like a good scandal to make the world go round. The sports world is not without its slip-ups, and unnatural performance enhancement is one that is sure to make headlines. After all, fans expect professional athletes to be in top physical condition without any help from steroids and other banned substances. This week’s featured title goes into the ‘how?’ behind making those supplements effective in the game of unfair advantages.

Cooper, a biochemist and sports scientist, begins his work by detailing the most ‘corrupt’ races ever, the 1988 Men’s 100m Olympic final and the 2005 Women’s 1500m World Championship, in which eleven of the thirteen competitors would caught doping. Using this as a springboard, he explores the limits to human performance, the physiological factors, and then into biochemistry of steroids and stimulants. The author wraps up with looking at cheating and the measures taken to detect foul play. This book serves as an excellent current edition to the research into doping in sports.

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International Education Week / Global Café

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Barbara

It’s International Education Week! There are events planned all week, including the next Global Café at Andersen Library on Thurs., Feb. 28, from 5-6 p.m. (2nd floor big-screen TV area straight ahead from the entrance and Circulation Desk).

graphic from Center for Global Education web page

Andersen Library has many resources about other countries to explore, from cookbooks to resources on countries’ customs, politics, and culture. The Andersen Library guides on “How to Find Resources on Intercultural Communication” and “Orientation to International Studies Major” may be helpful.

Relevant online resources include Countries and Their Cultures (also available in print, 2nd-floor Reference Collection, GN307 .C68 2001) Global Road Warrior! The Ultimate Guide to the World, and Europa World Plus database. There also are authoritative free sources online, such as the State Dept.’s Country Background Notes or Fact Sheets and the CIA’s World Factbook.

Culture and Customs of Kenya coverSearch HALCat for books about cross cultural communication or customs and background on specific countries or regions, such as APA handbook of intercultural communication (3rd-floor Main Collection, HM1211 .A65 2010), East and West (2nd-floor Browsing Academic DVDs, GN345.6 .E37 2009), Language, identity, and study abroad: Sociocultural perspectives (3rd-floor Main Collection, P53.41155 .J33 2008), Kiss, bow, or shake hands. Latin America (2nd-floor Reference Collection, HF5389.3.L3 M67 2007), Culture shock!: Saudi Arabia (3rd-floor Main Collection, DS215 .T75 2003), and Culture and customs of Kenya (3rd-floor Main Collection, GN659.K4 S63 2003).

Search the Library’s article databases to find relevant articles. There are even journals that focus on relevant topics, e.g., Journal of intercultural communication research.

Please ask a librarian if you’d appreciate assistance with finding materials.

FDLP logo Andersen Library is a federal and Wisconsin depository library with many federal and state government documents on a variety of current and relevant issues available to you in many formats, including online. Check out your government at Andersen Library!

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Research on Eating Disorders

Posted on February 25, 2013 by kyle

This week is National Eating Disorders Week, and University Health & Counseling Services is hosting a number of events on campus to raise awareness and reduce the stigma around this issue. Make sure to check them out:

  • Monday, Feb. 25: a screening of “Missrepresentation” will be shown in Summers’ Auditorium at 7PM. The film exposes some of the ways that mainstream media contributes to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America. Refreshments will be provided before the movie.
  • Tuesday, Feb. 26: from 1-3PM, UHCS will host a live Twitter chat with psychologist Jill Mallin. Questions and comments about body image or eating disorders can be tweeted to @UHCSUWW using #uwwNEDAW.
  • Wednesday, Feb. 25: registered dietitian Karen Woodland will be presenting “Trends in Nutrition: Buy It or Not?” in the University Center, room 259B at 7PM.

Eating disorders tends to be a popular topic for research, and the Andersen Library has plenty of resources to help. A quick search in the library’s catalog finds book titles like Body Shots: Hollywood and the Culture of Eating Disorders [Main Collection, 3rd Floor – PN1995.9.B62 F69 2011] and The Psychology of Eating: From Healthy to Disordered Behavior [Main Collection, 3rd Floor – RC552.E18 O47 2010], as well as DVDs like Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising’s Image of Women [Browsing DVD, Academic, 2nd Floor – HF5827 .K59 2010].

If you’re looking for scholarly research, take a look at Academic Search Complete, PsycINFO, and Communication & Mass Media Complete, all EBSCOhost databases, for academic articles on the topic.

Of course, a reference librarian would be happy to help finding information, make sure to stop by and see one at the Reference Desk, call during Reference Desk hours at 262.472.1032, or anytime, day or night, online at Ask a Librarian.

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Dog Days of Winter

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Kate

Daisy’s visit on Friday, February 22nd was cancelled. Sorry!

Are you tired of these cold and snowy winter days? Are you feeling gloomy and bummed out and in need of a mood lifter? Come to Andersen Library on Friday, February 22nd from 10:30am to 1:00pm and you will experience the mood enhancing joys of pet therapy! Just one visit with “Daisy” the adorable, cuddly, friendly and playful Golden Retriever and you will feel all of your stress disappear immediately!

If you aren’t able to make this date, Daisy will return to the Andersen Library once again on Friday, March 8th, from 10:30am to 1:00pm. So mark your calendars for this Friday as well as the future date and come in to say “hi” to Daisy. Just a few minutes playing with and petting an adorable dog will help cure those winter blues and stress blahs you are experiencing!

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New Stuff Tuesday – February 19

Posted on February 19, 2013 by kyle

Custom Nation

Custom Nation:
Why Customization Is the Future of Business
And How to Profit from It
by Anthony Flynn & Emily Flynn Vencat
HF5415.127 .F59 2012
New Arrivals, 2nd floor

Technology has opened the floodgates of possibility when it comes to communication. We can quickly and effortlessly keep in touch with our networks through a variety of devices. This extends to the way in which consumers connect with businesses, with instant feedback on Facebook and Twitter. It also gives companies to come out with personalized products that much more easily, and this week’s featured title deals with the wave of the future in consumer goods.

Anthony Flynn, founder of YouBar, and Emily Flynn Vencat, journalist, detail just how businesses can take advantage of customization to improve their bottom lines. Pulling from experience of building a business on customizable products, they show readers the ropes with their how-to guide of what to do and not do. The authors provide plenty of case studies from the most successful custom brands like Pandora and Netflix. It’s also not just for the start-ups, as more established companies could inject new life into their business. This book is a must for learning about the power of customization.

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Terrariums

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Barbara

Looking for something to do to break up all the studying? Would you like something green growing in your room (and no, I’m not talking about mold!)?

Clip art of setting a plant into a glass container for a terrariumPatty Bailey will give a hands-on workshop on “Fun With Terrariums and Miniature Memory Gardens” on Tues., Feb. 19, at 6pm at Patty’s Plants Natural & Organic Garden Supply (819 E. High St., Milton). Following a short program on types of plants to use, and how to care for, trim and maintain a new mini garden, you can work with your own container and any special items you’ve brought to add to your gardens. Soil and drainage material will be provided. The event is free and open to the public, but sign up in advance is required and space is limited. For more information, call (608) 580-0066 or email patty@pattysplants.com.

Can’t make this session but you’re interested in creating a terrarium? In Patty’s Plants’ January 2011 newsletter you can find information about containers and plants. Andersen Library has a brief UW-Extension document called Terrariums and dish gardens (2nd-floor Wisconsin Documents, Wis UNI 2 Ex/Agr 3/2:A2900). UWW students and faculty/staff may request books from other UW campus libraries via the free Universal Borrowing service, such as Terrariums: A handbook (UW-River Falls) and The complete book of terrariums (UW-Madison’s Steenbock Library). Whitewater’s public library (431 W Center St) has Terrariums & miniature gardens in its nonfiction section (call number 635.965 S958). You can search the Library’s article databases for additional resources and inspiration, such as “Small world” (Horticulture, vol.107:no.1, pp.45-51).

Making a terrarium can be a fun and educational activity with children, too. Web sites such as Creating a Terrarium (MN Dept. of Natural Resources) and Make a terrarium mini-garden (NASA), the book Terrarium habitats: Teacher’s guide (Andersen Library’s 3rd-floor Main Collection, QH68 .T47 1994), and articles such as “Classroom Terraria” (Science Scope, vol.33:no.8, pp.20-26) can be helpful guides.

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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Friday Fun: The Lives and Deaths of Academic Library Staplers

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Barbara

Thank you to Diana for sharing this! As some of you know, the Reference Desk staff is a bit protective of our staplers. There are good although undocumented reasons (the fates of the staplers that are no longer with us). So yes, the “good” Reference Desk staplers need to be used at the Desk, and the “other” staplers from the Desk can only go to your table if you leave us your ID. And now, proof that we are not alone:

Title of The Lives and Deaths of Academic Library StaplersThe Lives and Deaths of Academic Library Staplers: Documenting the Destruction of Public Staplers at an Academic Library Reference Desk (from Jason Vance, librarian and assistant professor at Middle Tennessee State University’s James E. Walker Library)

← Start at the bottom and work your way forward.

Enjoy.

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Academy Awards at the Andersen Library

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Rebecca

To help celebrate the upcoming Academy Awards, participate in activities all week long at Andersen Library. Oscar-themed activities will be available for the week leading up to the Awards. Cast your own ballot of who you think will win and have fun with trivia, word games and the always popular coloring contest! Winners will be chosen from the ballot submissions and the coloring contest.
All activities will be placed at the display near the circulation desk. Don’t forget to stop in on Sunday, February 24, for the showing of the Oscars on the big screen tv located on the main floor of the Library. When you need a study break, cast your ballot and watch the Oscars with the Andersen Library!

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