Immigrant teenagers: Contemporary Issues Lecture Dec 3

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Barbara

Author Brooke Hauser will talk about “The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens” at 7 p.m. on Monday, December 3, in the Irvin L. Young Auditorium. It’s the last Fall 2012 Contemporary Issues Lecture.

Google Books summarizes this work of “narrative journalism” as a chronicle of a year in the lives of teenagers who are new to the United States and its culture, as they are adjusting to this culture and surviving various obstacles (war, pressures to marry or work, etc.).

New Kids book coverAndersen Library has a copy of Hauser’s book, and related information as well, if you’d like to learn more. Search HALCAT to find that Hauser’s book is at the 2nd-floor New Arrivals Island, LC3746.5.N7 H38 2012. Search for phrases like “children of immigrants” to find additional titles with related information, e.g., Learning a new land: Immigrant students in American society (3rd-floor Main Collection, LC3746 .S83 2010), Inheriting the city: The children of immigrants come of age (3rd-floor Main Collection, JV6600 .I64 2008), and Identity Formation of Vietnamese Immigrant Youth in an American High School (eBook). Search article databases to find articles such as “Promoting Academic Engagement Among Immigrant Adolescents Through School-Family-Community Collaboration” (Professional School Counseling, 2010, vol.14:no.1, pp.15-41) and “Parental Contributions to Southeast Asian American Adolescents’ Well-being” (Youth & Society, 2008, vol.40:no.2, pp.289-306).

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

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Anniversary of partitioning Palestine

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Barbara

On November 29, 1947, the United Nations voted to partition Palestine, creating an independent Jewish state. Both Jews and Arabs had claimed the area, and Jews from all over the world had been immigrating to the area in significant numbers in the first half of the 20th century (one article cited the increase in Israel’s Jewish population from a Census count of 83,790 in 1922 to a registration of 713,000 in 1948*). Of course war broke out, and as we know, conflicts and ceasefires in the area are ongoing.

The United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine (UNISPAL) provides access to a wealth of documents on the “question of Palestine,” including “Resolution 181 (II). Future government of Palestine” dated November 29, 1947, and the 1937 report of the Palestine Royal Commission (aka Peel Report), in which the British Royal Commission of Inquiry recommended partition.

Interested in learning more? Andersen Library can help. Search HALCat to find titles such as The case for Palestine: An international law perspective (3rd-Floor Main Collection, DS119.7 .Q7219 2005), The Israel-Palestine conflict: One hundred years of war (3rd-Floor Main Collection, DS119.7 .G3895 2005), How Israel was won: A concise history of the Arab-Israeli conflict (3rd-Floor Main Collection, DS126.5 .T495 1999), and The 50 years war: Israel and the Arabs (2nd-floor Browsing VHS videos, DS126.5 .A15 2000). Search article databases for articles such as “Jewish Peoplehood, ‘Jewish Politics,’ and Political Responsibility: Arendt on Zionism and Partitions” (College Literature, 2011, vol.38:no.1, pp.57-74), “Alternatives to partition” (Foreign Affairs, 1937, vol.16:no.1, pp.143-155), and “Appeasement in the Middle East: The British white paper on Palestine, May 1939” (The Historical Journal, 1973, vol.16:no.3, pp.571-596).

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

*Bachi, R. (1950). Statistical research on immigrants in the State of Israel. Population Studies, 3(4), 45-58.

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How old is the Milky Way and how do we know it? Nov. 30

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Barbara

A talk called “How old is the Milky Way and how do we know it?” will be presented by Dr. Robert Benjamin, associate professor of physics, on Fri., Nov. 30, at 8 p.m. in Upham 140. It’s the penultimate entry in the Observatory Lecture Series, which has the theme “The Age of Life, the Universe and Everything” and is meant to explain “how biologists, geologists and astrophysicists answer questions about the age of the universe and its contents.” The series is sponsored by the UW-Whitewater Science Outreach Office and the College of Letters and Sciences. The talks are free and open to all! Following the talk there may be a viewing session at the observatory, weather permitting.

Lecture abstract:
Every star that you can see in the sky is part of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Although it common to think of the sky as timeless, stars are constantly forming and dying over the billions of years of years of the Sun’s past and future existence. In this lecture, I will describe how we determine the age of the Milky Way and other galaxies like the Milky Way. The age of the Milky Way comes down to determining the ages of the oldest clusters of stars, and of the oldest individual stars. The oldest stars indicate that the Milky Way started to form approximately 13 billion years ago, not very long after the Big Bang (13.7 billion years ago). But there is a great deal of evidence that the Milky Way formed over a rather long period, with the disk of the Galaxy forming significantly later than the first stars. I will contrast this with the picture of we have of the formation of other galaxies. Modern telescopes are now detecting galaxies so far away that we are seeing what galaxies look like when the light left the galaxy billions of years ago. Understanding the rate at which the different parts of galaxies have formed over the history of the universe is one of the frontiers of modern astrophysics.

How Old Is the Universe coverLike to learn more? Andersen Library can help! Search HALCat to find books like How old is the universe? (3rd-Floor Main Collection, QB501 .W45 2011). Search the article databases to find articles such as “Astrophysics: Young dwarfs date an old halo” (Nature, 2012, vol.486:no.7401, pp.38-40), “Milky Way faces midlife crisis” (New Scientist, 2011, vol.210:no.2814, p.8), and “Age Estimates of Globular Clusters in the Milky Way: Constraints on Cosmology” (Science, 2003, vol.299, pp.65-69).

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

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New Stuff Tuesday – November 27

Posted on November 27, 2012 by kyle

Getting to Graduation

Getting to Graduation:
The Completion Agenda in Higher Education
edited by Andrew Kelly & Mark Schneider
LA227.4 .G49 2012
New Arrivals, 2nd floor

For the past several years, including the latest round of budget talks, there has been plenty of discussion about the Growth Agenda, the University of Wisconsin System initiative aimed at producing more graduates from UW schools over the next decade. Much of it centered around helping students not only get to college, but stay in through receiving the degree. This week’s featured title should shed some light on the focus of a major point of contention in higher education.

Kelly and Schneider, researchers at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy, pulled together a number of chapters from leading thinkers in higher education to address the issues and challenges with getting all students to walking across the stage. The scholars address the topics of America’s lagging performance against the rest of the world, the effectiveness of sub-baccalaureate (two-year / community college) programs, and the barriers to completing degrees, such as financial aid and credit transferability. There is also consideration from a public policy standpoint, examining three cases from Ohio, Texas, and Colorado, all with possible implications for government. This book serves as an excellent starting place for researching a current debate that impacts our society.

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Deck the Library’s wishing tree!

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Barbara

treeAre there books, graphic novels, audio books, videos, video games, CDs, etc., that you wish Andersen Library would consider acquiring? Let us know by hanging your wish(es) on the tree!

The tree is located near the Circulation Desk and the Food for Thought Café. Paper “ornaments” on which you can write your wishes are provided.

Thanks!

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Book Sale Extravaganza

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Martha

Mayan CalendarCome one, come all and do your holiday gift shopping in the Andersen Library. For December, starting on Cyber Monday actually, all book sale books will be sold for $.25 each or $1 per bag. Bags are provided at the book sale carts and at the circulation desk. Subjects fall all over the place, so you are likely to find something that you, a special friend or family member would like to read. Buy early and buy often as we will replenish the books when the supply gets low.

Happy Hannukah, Solstice, Festivus, Christmas, and Kwanzaa. May the end of the world not interfer with your celebrations.

Happy reading!

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Scholastic Book Fair Nov. 26-30

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Barbara

Student Wisconsin Education Association (StWEA) will again be hosting a Scholastic Book Sale within the Andersen Library.

The sale will be held daily:

  • 9am – 5pm Monday, Nov.26 – Thursday, Nov.29
  • 9am – 3pm on Friday, Nov. 30

Books make great gifts for birthdays, holidays, and everyday!

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Racquetball, Anyone?

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Ellen Latorraca

No, not in the library, of course, but some of the Andersen librarians have been known to find their way to the racquetball courts in the Williams Center, armed with key strategies and techniques they picked up in Norton & Bryant’s Beginning Racquetball(2011). Who knows? By next semester they may even be able to move up to Championship Racquetball (Davis, 2011). How about some bowling at Warhawk Alley? Bowling Execution (Jowdy, 2009) will show you how you can gauge just the right amount of hook so as not to be shown up by those librarians that might be spotted at Warhawk Alley on certain Mondays. As far as we know, none have taken up pole vaulting, but it can be guaranteed that if one of them does, he or she will be intently watching some of the recent DVD additions such as World Class Pole Vault  (Championship Productions, 2010) and other coaching and sport DVD series recently added to HALCat.

 

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Thanksgiving: Library hours

Posted on November 20, 2012 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 4pm on Tuesday, and then closes for the rest of the week. You can see other Thanksgiving Week hours of service for campus dining online.

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

  • Tues., Nov. 20th: 7:30am-2am (normal hours)
  • Wed., Nov. 21st: 7:30am-4:30pm
  • Thurs., Nov. 22nd: Closed all day
  • Fri., Nov. 23rd: 8am-4:30pm
  • Sat., Nov. 24th: Closed all day
  • Sun., Nov. 25th: 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, DVDs, 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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New Stuff Tuesday – November 20

Posted on November 20, 2012 by kyle

Generation Extra Large

Generation Extra Large:
Rescuing Our Children from the Epidemic of Obesity
by Lisa Tartamella, Elaine Herscher, & Chris Woolston
RJ399 .C6 T37 2004
New Arrivals, 2nd floor

This is the week that everyone in my family anticipates throughout the year. Given that we live all over the United States, we come together for the holiday weekend, and what’s the main thing that we do? Eat. Eat. And eat. And then eat some more. Did I mention that we eat? With my sweatpants in one hand and running shoes in the other, this week’s featured title will probably make me think before reaching for that fourth helping.

Tartamella, Herscher, and Woolston, a dietician and editors at Consumer Health Initiative, respectively, tackle the crisis that is hitting the waistlines of the world’s children. Pulling together the research on the topic, the authors look to pinpoint the source of the issue, and believe it or not, they don’t completely blame McDonald’s. The researchers include interviews with kids themselves about what it’s like to be overweight at a young age, as well as stories of extraordinary people and places that working tirelessly to fight this epidemic head-on.

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