Global Café Feb. 13

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Barbara

The Global Café series continues during Spring 2013! Join us on Wed., Feb. 13th, from 5-6pm, when the discussion will focus on Ecuador, Thailand, and the Dominican Republic (location: 2nd-floor big screen tv, near the Food for Thought café). In this series, co-sponsored by the Center for Global Education and and International Student Association, international, study abroad, and travel study students talk about their home countries or international experiences.

graphic from Center for Global Education web page

Check it out! Andersen Library has resources on cross-cultural communication and travel.

Mexico and Latin America book cover Search HALCat, the online catalog, for books or videos, such as The global etiquette guide to Mexico and Latin America: Everything you need to know for business and travel success (2nd-floor Reference Collection, BJ1838 .F673 2002, or online via EbscoHost eBook Collection), Dominican Republic (Culture smart! series) (3rd-floor Main Collection, F1935 .B44 2010), Kiss, bow, or shake hands: Asia: How to do business in 12 Asian countries (2nd-floor Reference Collection, HF5389 .M667 2007), and Thailand (2nd-floor Browsing Academic DVDs, DS563.5 .T33 2004, or online via Films on Demand database).

Or, check out the information on these and other countries in Library resources such as the 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.

Please ask a librarian for 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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New Stuff Tuesday – February 12

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Diana

Paul Rand: Modernist Design

Paul Rand:
Modernist Design
by Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo
NC999.4.R36 N86 2003
New Arrivals, 2nd Floor

Can’t wait for the return of television’s Mad Men and its portrayal of 60’s advertising and design on April 7th? Brush up on everything Modernism and learn more about one of the giants of twentieth-century design, Paul Rand. Rand created many of the iconic designs for major corporations that we still recognize today, such as logos for IBM, ABC Broadcasting, UPS, and Enron.

Nunoo-Quarcoo, Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, assembles images, interviews, essays, and photographs in this comprehensive work on Rand’s life and design philosophy. The beautiful and striking images will inspire you to bring a touch of Modernism to your life even if you don’t put on a suit and start having 3-martini lunches.

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Darwin Day talk Feb 12

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Barbara

Benjamin C. Campbell, UW-Milwaukee Anthropology Dept., will provide the keynote address at UWW’s observance of the annual Darwin Day on Tues., Feb. 12, from 6:30-8pm in Hyland Hall’s Timmerman Auditorium. This year’s focus is on “Darwin’s Unfinished Revolution,” the human branch in the evolutionary tree of life.

Andersen Library has many resources on Darwin and evolution.

cover of Genetics of Original SinSearch HALCat for books or videos such as Lone survivors: How we came to be the only humans on earth (3rd-floor Main Collection, GN286 .S77 2012), Becoming human: Unearthing our earliest ancestors (2nd-floor Academic DVDs, GN281 .B43 2010), Genetics of original sin: The impact of natural selection on the future of humanity (3rd-floor Main Collection, QH325 .D41313 2010), and Darwin’s The descent of man (3rd-floor Main Collection, QH365 .D2 1925 or online via either Google Books or Darwin Online). Search Films on Demand for film segments such as Overlapping Hominids and Theory of Human Evolution. Search article databases for resources such as “The ongoing evolution of humanness: Perspectives from Darwin to de Chardin” (South African Journal of Science, vol.105:no.11/12, pp.427-431) and “Charles Darwin on human evolution” (Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol.71:no.1, pp.10-19, doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2006.09.005).

Visit the web site of the International Darwin Day Foundation for additional resources (even the opportunity to send a Darwin Day ecard!).

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

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Food in Literature

Posted on February 10, 2013 by Barbara

The Spring 2013 Fairhaven Lecture Series has the theme “Food for Thought” and will have us thinking about our relationships with food. Yes, we need food to sustain us, but it has cultural, environmental, economic, and political aspects. All lectures in this series are free, open to the public, and take place on Mondays at 3 p.m. in Fellowship Hall of the Fairhaven Retirement Community (435 West Starin Road, Whitewater). Faculty from all across campus are delivering these interesting talks! If you can’t attend in person, eventually the podcasts are available online (from the web page linked above).

The series kicked off on January 28, and if you missed the first two talks you can watch the videos! Videos from other lectures will be posted shortly after they occur.

  • Jan 28: Food in literature: Memory and social connection (by Mary Pinkerton, Dean, College of Letters & Sciences)
  • Organic farming at Standard Process (by Christine Mason, Manager at Standard Process)
  • Feb 11: The health benefits of vacuum tumbling foods (by John Ejnik, Chemistry Dept.)
  • Feb 18: Atlantic counterpoint: Foods that changed the world (by Tony Gulig, History Dept., and Seth Meisel, School of Graduate Studies & Continuing Education)
  • Feb 25: The role of corn in indigenous Mexican cultures (by Bert Kreitlow, History Dept.)
  • Mar 4: Blue-plate special: Foodborne illness (by Donna Vosburgh, Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health Dept.)
  • Mar 11: The flavor of Wisconsin: An informal history of flood and eating in the Badger State (by Liz Hachten, College of Letters & Sciences)
  • Mar 18: American culture: “Big Food” and our health (by Michael Oldani, Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminal Justice Dept.)
  • Apr. 1: Beer Matters (by Karl Brown, History Dept.)
  • Apr 8: Ramadan: The Islamic month of fasting (by Jala Nawash, Physics Dept.)
  • Apr 15: Health eating simplified (by Ann Wertz Garvin, Health , Physical Education, Recreation,and Coaching Dept.)
  • Apr 22: The essence of food: The evolution and nourishing source of life (by Sharon Roy, Marketing Dept.)

Food for Thought Fairhaven Lecture Series, Spring 2013

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Food! Community events on Feb 8 & 25, and cookbooks

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Barbara

You can learn about these and other community events and news at the Whitewater Banner:

  • What’s for dinner tonight (Friday Feb 8)? It could be soup! The Washington Elementary School (506 E Main St) is offering a soup dinner from 4:30-6:30pm as a fundraiser for the Whitewater Food Pantry. Also available: art activities from 5-7pm, pie sale, music, and more. Suggested donation for the dinner is $5 , and carryouts are available for $8. You’re also encouraged to donate non-perishable food items for the pantry.
  • You also can sign up for a cooking demonstration at the local Daniels Sentry on Monday Feb 25, 6:30-7:30pm. You’ll learn to make simple recipes. Details are inside the store at its customer service desk. Cost: $5.

cover of Barefoot Countessa bookAnd did you know? Andersen Library has cookbooks! Search HALCat for cookbooks or cooking to find titles such as Comfort food fix: Feel-good favorites made healthy (2nd-floor Browsing Books, TX714 .K748 2011), Mexican made easy: Everyday ingredients, extraordinary flavor (2nd-floor Browsing Books, TX716.M4 V334 2011), Lidia’s favorite recipes: 100 foolproof Italian dishes, from basic sauces to irresistible entrées (2nd-floor Browsing Books, TX723 .B31898 2012), and Barefoot Contessa, how easy is that?: Fabulous recipes & easy tips (3rd-floor Main Collection, TX714 .G3643 2010).

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

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Friday Fun: What do you know about the news?

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Barbara

Do you keep up with the news? Do you recognize “prominent people?” Take the Pew Research Center’s “The News IQ Quiz” and compare how you do with other Americans.

screen shot of Pew News IQ Quiz web page

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Research in African American Studies

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Carol

February is Black History Month and the Library has many resources to support research on African-American culture and life. Here are a few specialized sources for your research.

Frederick Douglass

African American Biographical Database

  • The African American Biographical Database contains biographical sketches of African-Americans from 1790-1950 taken from rare biographical dictionaries and other reference works
  • The database is available to all Wisconsin residents via Badgerlink

African American Newspapers

  • African American Newspapers, 1827-1998, enables users to search more than 270 African American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • Created in partnership with the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress, African American Newspapers chronicles a century and a half of the African American experience.

African American Periodicals

  • African American Periodicals, 1825-1995, features more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans.
  • Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and poltical journals,commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations’ bulletins, annual reports and other genres.

Ethnic News Watch

  • Ethnic News Watch is a bilingual (English/Spanish) database of magazine, newspaper and journal articles from the ethnic and minority press in the United States
  • Presents perspectives different from those found in the much of the mainstream media
  • Search by ethnic group, subject, document type (interview, editorial, etc.), geographic location and more

Black Drama 1850-present

  • Black Drama contains the text of 1200 plays by 215 playwrights
  • Search for plays by title, author, character (including occupation and race), scenes, literary period and theater
  • Locate unique and hard-to-find plays from the African-American theater.

African American Music Reference

  • African American Music Reference provides access to text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music.

Reference Universe can help you find articles in specialized encyclopedias, biographical sources, handbooks and other reference-type books. And don’t forget the HALCAT, the Library’s online catalog and the many other research databases available via the library’s Articles & Databases page that can help you with your research.

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How the World Works talk

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Barbara

Author and journalist Andrew Leonard will talk about How the world works: the interconnections between globalization, energy policy, economics, the environment, and politics… and everything else in between (Wow!) at 7 p.m. on Monday, February 11, in the Irvin L. Young Auditorium. It’s the first Spring 2013 Contemporary Issues Lecture.

cover of BotsLeonard, author of Bots: The origin of new species (3rd-floor Main Collection, QA76.76.I58 L46 1997), also writes and blogs for Salon.com.

You can search for articles by Leonard by searching for him as an author in the Library’s article databases. Examples of his articles include titles as varied as “Slow deduction” (Yoga Journal, 2011, no.241, pp.35-38) about Leonard’s experience learning to cook authentic Indian food, “The Road to Salvation” (Sierra, 2009, vol.94:no.2, p.24) about issues associated with developing energy efficient automobiles, and an interview with William Gibson for Rolling Stone (Nov. 15, 2007, no.1039, p.162).

If you’d like assistance with finding additional materials, please ask a librarian.

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Of Mice and Men

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Barbara

On February 6, 1937, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men was published, a book that he also made into a play. I vividly remember seeing a production of the play at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis as a school trip. It was a fantastic experience, which is why I’m glad UWW also provides productions for school groups.

Steinbeck wrote other works, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath. That novel became a classic film that won a couple of Academy Awards (although Henry Fonda did not win the Best Actor Oscar).

If you’ve never read these works, I highly recommend them (but not as lighthearted reading). Andersen Library has both titles:

    DVD case Of Mice and Men

  • Of Mice and Men (print: 3rd-floor Main Collection, PS3537.T3234 O2 1993; video: 2nd-floor Feature Film DVDs, alphabetical by title; sound recording of an opera based on the tale: 2nd-floor Browsing Academic CDs, M1500.F67 O36 2003), and
  • The Grapes of Wrath (print: 2nd-floor Great Minds Collection, PS3537.T3234 G8 2006; video: 2nd-floor Feature Film DVDs, alphabetical by title)

The Literary Reference Center database can reveal more about Steinbeck and his works.

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

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Book Sale is Winding Up

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Martha

This month’s “book” sale is about half audiovisual materials, primarily VHS tapes, but also some CDs. Most of the tapes have been wound to the beginning, and all are wound up tightly. We would have wound up the CDs if we could have, but, well, they are CDs after all.

As for books, come on over and you’ll find a County and City Data Book from 1994, a Physicians Desk Reference from 1997, and a Kaplan ACT study guide from 2003. These are just a few of the swell books that have been discarded from our collections or donated to the library. What we have out is on a wide variety of subjects, in a wide variety of sizes, and of a wide variety of ages. Hopefully something of interest to everyone, and specifically to you.

Come, browse, and buy while the selection is good. New books and audiovisual materials will be put out near the beginning of March.

Books are $1 a piece and audiovisual materials are $.25 each.

Enjoy!

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