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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New Stuff Tuesday – November 13

Posted on November 14, 2012 by kyle

Remixthebook

Remixthebook:
by Mark Amerika
PS3551 .M37 R46 2011
New Arrivals, 2nd floor

I don’t watch much television, but I will admit here that I do watch one show religiously: Glee. That’s right – I’m a total Gleek, and I’m not ashamed. Of course the story lines are riveting, and the singing is pretty awesome. However, one of my favorite things about the teen dram-com is the song selection, and more specifically, the mashups. This week’s featured title dives into the culture of putting your own spin on the original.

Amerika, an art and art history professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, pushes the envelope with his latest work. Remixthebook, as explained in the introduction, is more of the print version that grew out of a multimedia project from his Professor VJ blog. The digital technology revolution has not only given people access to information, it has given them power to manipulate it and make it their own. The author/creator does this as well, remixing the work of the likes of Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs. This book also serves as a call to everyone to collaborate in the discourse of mashing up popular culture, through the book’s companion website.

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Media and its Impact on Changing Hearts and Minds (Nov. 12)

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Barbara

Joan Garry will talk about “Media and its Impact on Changing Hearts and Minds” at 7 p.m. on Monday, November 12, in the Irvin L. Young Auditorium. It’s the next Fall 2012 Contemporary Issues Lecture.

“Joan M. Garry, former Executive Director of GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), is recognized as one of the most vocal, passionate and effective civil rights leaders in America. Garry began her professional career as part of the management team that launched MTV in 1981. Currently a featured blogger at The Huffington Post, she offers commentary on issues of relevance to the gay community as a columnist with The Washington Blade and on a number of television and radio outlets, and her personal essays have been published in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and other national publications.” –from the lecture series web site

Coloring the news coverAndersen Library has related information if you’d like to learn more, either before or after the lecture. Search HALCAT for books or videos such as Queer airwaves: The story of gay and lesbian broadcasting (3rd-floor Main Collection, PN1990.9.H64 J64 2001), Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It (3rd-floor Main Collection, P94 .D393 2006), Coloring the news: How political correctness has corrupted American journalism (3rd-floor Main Collection, PN4888.M66 M39 2003), and Images that injure: Pictorial stereotypes in the media (3rd-floor Main Collection, P96.S74 I45 2003). Search article databases to find articles such as “Joan Garry” (Our States: U.S. Government & Civic Leaders, 2011, p.1), “Growing pains at GLAAD” (Advocate, 2005, April 26, pp. 33- 37), “Stereotype or success? Prime-time television’s portrayals of gay male, lesbian, and bisexual characters” (Journal of Homosexuality, 2006, vol.51:no.2, pp. 19-38), “Gay Marriage in Television News: Voice and Visual Representation in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate” (Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 2010, vol.54:no.1, pp.24-39), and articles written by Garry, such as “Taking on Dr. Laura and ‘The Times’ ” (Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, 2008, vol.15:no.6, pp.27-28).

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

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The Library Honors Veterans

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Carol

On November 11, we celebrate Veterans Day. President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the Armistice Day holiday in 1919, on the first anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I (at the time it was called the “Great War”). In 1938, Armistice Day became an official national holiday and in 1954 its name was changed to Veterans Day, to commemorate all veterans of the U.S. armed forces. [Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia.org].

The Library is currently conducting displays of books and videos relating to veterans and the military in the Lobby and across from the Circulation Desk. If you see anything you’d like to check out, ask at the Circulation Desk and they will help you out.

The Library has many more books and DVDs on military topics. Here are a few HALCAT searches to identify books and videos on topics related to veterans and the military:

EBSCO Military & Government Collection

EBSCO’s Military & Government Collection offers news related to all branches of the military and government from 300 full-text publications.

But many other library databases will include topics of interest to veterans, active service members and anyone researching military topics. For instance, Historical Abstracts, America: History and Life and JSTOR all include articles from military history journals. And other subject-specific databases will include articles related to veterans and the military from the perspectives of their fields.

For assistance with your research, Reference librarians are available in to help you in person, by phone or via online chat.

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Honoring Joni Mitchell

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Barbara

On November 7, 1943, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell was born. I love her music, both when she sings it and when others record it, e.g., Counting Crows recorded Big Yellow Taxi and Judy Collins recorded Both Sides Now. If you saw the movie Love Actually (available in 2nd-floor Feature Film DVDs), Emma Thompson’s character loved her music too, and credited Joni with teaching her to feel.

You can listen to Joni’s music, too! In addition to her music used in Love Actually, Andersen Library has three of her albums in CD format: Blue, Court and spark, and Night ride home (all in 2nd-floor Browsing CDs, POP category, call number “Mit”).

Girls Like Us coverThere also are books that can be found by searching HALCat: Girls like us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon–and the journey of a generation (3rd-floor Main Collection, ML400 .W35 2008) and Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell, and the torch song tradition (3rd-floor Main Collection, ML400 .S658 2004). There are entries for Joni Mitchell in various reference sources, including the Oxford Music Online database. Additional resources may be available to UWW students and faculty/staff from other UW libraries by using the free Universal Borrowing service, e.g., the book The music of Joni Mitchell. Requested items arrive in 2-4 weekdays.

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

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New Stuff Tuesday – November 6

Posted on November 6, 2012 by kyle

Social Media is Bullshit

Social Media is Bullshit:
by BJ Mendelson
HM742 .M4596 2012
New Arrivals, 2nd floor

I found myself watching TV this weekend, a rare occurrence for someone that doesn’t have cable. Since it was late, Saturday Night Live was on, and specifically, the Weekend Update with Seth Myers. The segment included Kourtney Barnes giving a rundown of the election according to social media. After seeing it, I knew exactly which book to feature this week.

Mendelson, contributor to a number of major online publications, doesn’t think that everything’s sunshine and rainbows when it comes to social media. In fact, he has some pretty strong feelings about all the tweets and status updates, if the title is any indicator. His quick read seeks to demonstrate that social media is worthless without the common business sense that has separated the successful companies from the failing ones. The author then explains the best ways to leverage the rage of the century to your advantage without breaking the bank. As long as you’re OK with a little strong language and dry humor, Mendelson provides an interesting counterpoint to the social media bandwagon.

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Global Café Nov. 7

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Barbara

The Fall 2012 Global Café series continues on Wed., Nov. 7th, from 5-6pm with a focus on China, Ecuador, Japan, Scotland, and Peru (location: Andersen Library’s big-screen TV area, 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 coverSearch HALCat, the online catalog, for books or videos, such as Manners and mischief: Gender, power, and etiquette in Japan (3rd-floor Main Collection, BJ2007.J34 M36 2011), Kiss, bow, or shake hands: Asia : how to do business in 12 Asian countries (2nd-floor Reference Collection, HF5389 .M667 2007), CultureShock! Japan (3rd-floor Main Collection, DS821 .B63 2008), 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), and Culture shock! Scotland (3rd-floor Main Collection, DA870 .G73 2001).

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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Faculty/Staff: Library Research Fellowship Deadline Nov. 19

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Barbara

A limited number of Library Research Fellowships are provided for 2012-2013. Through this program, faculty/staff fellows are granted access to selected UW-Madison Library licensed electronic library resources. Would access to electronic library resources available at UW-Madison, but not already available via UW-Whitewater, help your research projects?

The submission deadline for Winter/Spring 2013 Library Research Fellowship applications is November 19, 2012.

The program was developed in 2010 in order to expand access to UW-Madison’s electronic collections in support of faculty research across UW System. Program outcomes:

  • Attract and retain a highly accomplished faculty whose expertise and drive contribute to the discovery and dissemination of knowledge;
  • Support the production of technologies and products that generate license fees and spur the creation of start-up companies;
  • Accelerate grant awards and related revenue flows to the University of Wisconsin by providing faculty with access to the most comprehensive, up-to-date knowledge base; and
  • Foster more research and development at state and local government agencies through connections with UW library resources.

Questions about submitting proposals? Contact Denise Ehlen, ORSP Director: 262-472-5212 or ehlend@uww.edu

Questions about UW-Madison’s electronic resources available to Fellows? Contact Barbara Bren, Andersen Library: 262-472-5521 or brenb@uww.edu

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