Are you a user of ScienceDirect? If so, please note that it is expected to be down for approximately 19 hours beginning early on Saturday, August 25th, for implementation of enhancements.
How will this benefit you? The changes are supposed to include “a new design for journal article and book chapter pages as well as improved user experience for RSS feeds, image search, and other features.” More details about the ScienceDirect release are online.
Paddling Southern Wisconsin:
85 Great Trips by Canoe and Kayak
by Mike Svob
GV776 .W6 S8 2012
New Arrivals, 2nd floor
Looking at the calendar, it’s hard to believe that the faculty and staff orientation begins this week, and the students come back to campus in eight days. If you’re looking for a way in which to not think about the impending school year, this week’s featured title will give you a way to get away from it all [for a little bit, anyway].
Svob, a retired college administrator, has taken his knowledge of traversing Wisconsin rivers and put it together in not just one, but two, books on the subject. Divided by geography, the books cover the northern and southern portions of the state and provide over one hundred and sixty routes to take in the natural beauty of the state’s waterways. The author goes into the basics of water travel, skill levels of the rides, and safety considerations in the introductory matter. The trips vary from five to fifteen miles and guarantee an adventure for everyone. Just make sure to keep the book dry if you take it!
While Paddling Southern Wisconsin is the one shown in the image, you can find Paddling Northern Wisconsin on the New Arrivals Island as well!
Summer session is ending, and fall semester starts Sept. 4. Where has the time gone?!
Library hours during the “intersession” period (Aug. 18-Sept. 3) are:
Fall Semester hours start on Tues., Sept. 4, at 7:30 a.m.!
Another Olympic season has passed, and now everyone is going through withdrawal symptoms and finding it hard to come up with the conversation starters [good thing there’s a Packers game tonight]. However, here’s one more tidbit of the Games – the final medal count. The fine folks at Euromonitor, the people behind Passport GMID, sent me this cool visualization of the world distinguished by their athletic performance in London.
Make sure to check out Passport GMID for all things international – there’s tons of information about the countries and their cultures, industry and company profiles, and much more!
The Universal Borrowing (UB) service, which allows UWW students and staff to borrow materials from other UW libraries, is down for a system upgrade.
All UW System libraries are undergoing an upgrade to the “Voyager” system that powers their catalogs, which includes UB. The catalogs will still be available for searching, however, borrowing between libraries will not be possible during this time. UB will resume in mid-August (August 17 or soon after).
Local check-out will be unaffected by the upgrade. However, online renewal of items checked out from Andersen Library will not function until the system upgrade is completed.
Questions? Please contact Circulation staff at 262-472-5511 (or email circdesk@uww.edu)
The Great American Cereal Book:
How Breakfast Got Its Crunch
by Marty Gitlin & Topher Ellis
TX393 .G58 2011
New Arrivals, 2nd floor
I can remember one of the first times that I went to the grocery store by myself as an adult, and I went nuts in the cereal aisle. All of a sudden, I had the power to purchase ANY cereal that I wanted and didn’t need approval from my mother. Yes, adulthood does has its perks, and this week’s featured title profiles one of those – choosing your own breakfast [or lunch or dinner] of champions for yourself.
Gitlin and Ellis, the writing pair of journalists and cereal fanatics, have created a veritable encyclopedia of nearly all of the cereals concocted here in the United States. Utilizing the archives of libraries and collectors for advertisements and photos, the authors reconstructed the breakfast landscape back to the mid-1800s. They detail the industry’s start with the basic flake and its imposters, all the way to the addition of addictive substances known as sugar and toys in the box to the mix. Sprinkled with side stories of the marketplace’s biggest achievers, the book brings life to the foods and characters that we’ve all grown to love. Take a trip down memory lane and spark nostalgia for your childhood, even if you’re only interested in the pictures.
The Social Security Act (H.R. 7260, Public Law No. 271, 74th Congress) was signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 14, 1935, guaranteeing income for the unemployed and retirees. You’ll recall your history lessons about the Great Depression and Roosevelt’s New Deal programs to put people back to work (like the Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration).
You can read the text of the original legislation and about the history of the Social Security program on the Social Security Administrations’ web site.
If you would like to read a guide to the social security programs today, see the online Social Security Handbook.
And if you want to learn more, Andersen Library can help! Search HALCAT to find books and government publications such as Social security: A fresh look at policy alternatives, Social security in contemporary Japan: A comparative analysis, The woman behind the New Deal: The life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and his moral conscience, and Fulfilling the mission of health and retirement security: Hearing before the Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, March 17, 2011 (hearing chaired by Rep. Paul Ryan).
Search article databases to find articles such as “The gender impact of Social Security reform” (Journal Of Health Politics, Policy & Law, vol.35:no.1, pp.138-143) and “Social Security reconsidered” (National Tax Journal, vol.64:no.2, pp.385-414).
For assistance with finding additional materials, please ask a librarian.
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 print, microfiche, CD-ROM, and online. Check out your government at Andersen Library!
Sociology of Globalization:
Cultures, Economies, and Politics
by Keri Iyall Smith
JZ1318 .S636 2013
New Arrivals, 2nd floor
Our state and nation was rocked by a senseless tragedy over the weekend with the shooting at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek. The event brings to light the mixing of cultures and the negative effects of racism and xenophobia in the United States. With that in mind, this week’s New Stuff Tuesday takes a look at globalization from other angles that solely focus on business.
The editor, a professor of sociology at Suffolk University, has compiled articles from leading scholars and journalists that revolve around social, economic, and political aspects with respect to globalization. The text introduces each of the major topics and presents six to seven essays, both classic and contemporary, that cover theories and case studies of the effects of becoming an increasingly global society. Written primarily as a reader for students, this book provides an excellent overview of our world today, and in addition, provides additional resources for further research.
The Andersen Library’s monthly book sale has gotten a new infusion of titles for the month of August. The content includes calculus, algebra and other math, programming, geography, music, art, k-12 textbooks and a plethora of other topics. Come on in and look them over…it’s likely there’ll be something to spark your interest.
Forthcoming:
In September the main book sale theme will be fiction, from science fiction to romance and just about everything in between. Don’t worry if you’re a non-fiction kind of person, because there’ll be some of that as well.
Are you a history buff, an anglophile, or a royal watcher? You may be interested in perusing the digitized journals of Queen Victoria, which are being made freely available for a limited time. They cover her life since she was 13. Several of the journals are in her handwriting, though most were transcribed by her daughter Princess Beatrice. Keyword searching of the journal entries right now is possible only for the period from Queen Victoria’s first diary entry in July 1832 to her marriage to Prince Albert in February 1840. You can read more about the digitization project and the different versions of the journals online. The site does not provide the cutoff date for the free access, so better look them over now!
