Earth Week events, photos Th 4/26

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Barbara

UW-W will have several events celebrating Earth Week on Thurs., Apr. 26, with the theme “We are All Connected by Rivers.”

Photos submitted by students, faculty/staff and community members will be displayed at a variety of venues around campus, including Andersen Library’s big screen TV (near the entrance and Circulation Desk)!

    Also on Thursday:

  • 9am-2pm (UC275): Earth Week Expo, focusing on sustainability, an important campus initiative, will consist of businesses and organizations displaying sustainability products and practices.
  • 9:30-10:45am (UC Hamilton Room): Chad Pegracke of Living Lands and Waters, will deliver a keynote talk about his years of experience cleaning America’s rivers.
  • noon-1pm (Timmerman Auditorium, Hyland Hall): Paul Scott, a founding member of Plug In America, speaks about the transition to electric transportation
  • 1-4pm (Upham Hall parking lot 14): Hybrid vehicle technology car show
  • 2-3:15pm or 3:15-4:30pm (depart from Upham Hall parking lot 14): Transportation will take you from the auto show to the LEED-certified Innovation Center for a 1-hour tour of the facility and the new trails surrounding it. George Clokey, Dept. of Biological Sciences, will lead the short trailwalks, so put your walking shoes on!
  • 4-5pm (Upham Hall 145): Representatives from Chevrolet, Ford, Honda, Nissan and Toyota lead an Automobile Forum on current and future hybrid technology.
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Historic Aerial Photos of Wisconsin

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Carol

historic photo of UWW

The Wisconsin Historic Aerial Image Finder allows users to experience Wisconsin from the air as it looked in the late 1930s. The web site provides provides free online access to over 38,000 aerial photographs of Wisconsin that were taken from 1937-41 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Geological Survey.

The photos, which are housed in the Robinson Map Library at University of Wisconsin-Madison, were digitized and indexed in a three-year project funded by the Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The Wisconsin Historic Aerial Image Finder can be searched by city, county, street address or geographic coordinates. Once the photos are located, the images may be downloaded in JPG or TIFF formats in varying resolutions.

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Earth Day & Frozen Planet

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Ronna

Earth Day is today, April 22. To celebrate, why not watch the Discovery Channel’s multi-part documentary, Frozen Planet? They are running the first 7 episodes today, beginning at 1 pm. The final episode premieres tonight at 7 pm CST.

Watch summer, spring, autumn, and winter in the Arctic and Antarctica. Follow polar bears, penguins, seals, and other wildlife as they live and survive the changing polar seasons. Breathtaking scenery, beautiful animals….you really want to see this.

You can also catch all episodes online, on the Discovery Channel website.

Want to learn more about our planet? The Library has lots of resources, e.g., Encyclopedia of the Antarctic, available in the Reference Collection on the main floor of the Library. Or try On Thin Ice: The Changing World of the Polar Bear, available in the Main Collection on the third floor. Or maybe you’d prefer Fraser’s Penguins: A Journey to the Future in Antarctica, also in the Main Collection. These and many other resources can be found by searching the Library’s online catalog.

Need help finding what you need? Ask a reference librarian.

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Tornado Drill statewide 1:45 today TH 4/19

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Barbara

Andersen Library will participate in the tornado drill at 1:45 p.m. on Thursday April 19.

So, if you are working (or socializing) in Andersen Library at that time, please be prepared to move to a designated tornado shelter area! That means you should save your work, etc., BEFORE 1:45 p.m.

Thank you for your cooperation. The drill should end at 2 p.m.

Of course, you don’t know where you’ll be when a real tornado warning happens! More information about tornado safety at home, work, or play is available from Ready Wisconsin. Additional tornado safety guidelines are available from the Wisconsin Dept. of Health Services.

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 electronically. Check out your government at Andersen Library!

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New Stuff Tuesday – April 17

Posted on April 17, 2012 by kyle

Colour Hunting

Colour Hunting:
How Colour Influences Why We Buy, Make and Feel
by Frame Publishers
NK1548 .C65 2011
New Arrivals, 2nd floor

All of this construction going on around here makes it a tad hard to concentrate. I find myself easily distracted, but not because of the saws and jackhammers. It’s because I can’t stop thinking about the finished product and what it’s going to look like. One of the major questions: what colors are they going to use? This week’s featured title tells me that the colors will impact how I feel about the new spaces.

Flipping through the pages of this book will put you on sensory overload, which is filled with amazing images of every shade and tone of color imaginable. Experts share their insights into what compels us to pick the shirt on the rack in the ‘Commerce’ section, the conceptual underpinnings of color in the ‘Aesthetics’ section, and finish up with touchy-feely side of the equation in the ‘Wellbeing’ section. It’s written and presented more in the coffee-table-book style of things, but that doesn’t mean that it won’t catch your eye as you learn about the nuances and idiosyncrasies of color.

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Media Arts and Game Development Expo April 16

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Barbara

The Media Arts and Game Development (MAGD) Expo will take place on Mon., Apr. 16, in the University Center. April 16th is also Foursquare Day (4sqDay), a social media holiday, so everyone is encouraged to check in at as many university locations as possible during the day!

Attendees will be able to test games and view 2- and 3-dimensional art, and listen to speakers from the game industry: Neil Glancy, vice president and creative director of the Fun Machine game studio, and Matthew Rathbone, lead engineer for Foursquare.

If you are interested in learning more about video games, Andersen Library has resources!

cover of bookSearch Andersen Library’s catalog to find books about the technology of game design, the history of gaming, or social and educational aspects of video games. Among the titles you could find are: Replay: The history of video games (3rd-floor Main Collection, GV1469.3 .D66 2010), Video games and learning: Teaching and participatory culture in the digital age (3rd-floor Main Collection, GV1469.3 .S76 2011), and Video game spaces: Image, play, and structure in 3D game worlds (3rd-floor Main Collection, GV1469.3 .N58 2008).

Andersen Library also has consoles (Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Wii and Nintendo 3DS) and a collection of video games (browse the 2nd-floor collection or search the catalog to find titles, e.g., xbox titles).

Search article databases for articles such as “Designing social videogames for educational uses” (Computers & Education, 2012, vol.58:no.1, pp.250-262, doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2011.08.014) and “Integrating dynamic full-body motion devices in interactive 3D entertainment” (IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, 2002, vol.22:no.4, pp.76-86), and “Bringing VR and spatial 3D interaction to the masses through video games” (IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, 2008, vol.28:no.5, pp.10-15).

Please ask a librarian for assistance with finding materials.

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Visit the Hoard Historical Museum

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Barbara

Hoard Historical Museum web site bannerNeed a break this weekend? Visit the Hoard Historical Museum in Fort Atkinson (401 Whitewater Avenue)! It’s open Tues through Sat, 9:30am-4:30pm. It’s free, but of course a modest donation would be most welcome.

Image of cover of Jan/Feb 2012 Columns  There’s something there for nearly everyone, including the National Dairy Shrine collection and exhibits; an exhibit on the poet Lorine Niedecker; information about Lincoln, Black Hawk, and Hoard (founder of the Hoard’s Dairyman); the “Bird Room” containing birds mounted by naturalist Thure Kumlein and taxidermist Walter Pelzerand; and a new exhibit, “Mysteries of the Mounds.” You can read a description of the Hoard on page 7 of the Jan./Feb. 2012 issue of Columns: The Newsletter of the Wisconsin Historical Society. The web site can tell you when events are taking place, such as garden education programs, art exhibitions, and programs on historical topics.

Also available during museum hours is the Knox Research Library and Archive, which contains “primary documents, personal and business records, photographs, maps, newspapers, and published materials that are of historical significance to the Fort Atkinson area.” Consult the web site for restrictions on the use of these materials and costs.

This can spark your interest in local history and whet your appetite for additional information!

For example, you can read more about Thure Kumlien in the Wisconsin Magazine of History by searching for his name on the publication’s web site. Andersen Library also has this magazine in the 1st-floor Bound Periodicals collection. The Library also has his biography, Thure Kumlien, Koshkonong: Naturalist, in Special Collections (1st-floor, call no. QH31 .K85 M34x), which is open M-F from 9am-4:30pm. You can always ask a librarian for help finding materials on taxidermy, Black Hawk’s War, Lorine Niedecker, and more!

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. Columns, the bimonthly newsletter of the Wisconsin Historical Society, is available in print in the 2nd-floor Wisconsin Documents Collection at Wis HIS 4/3:. Come check out your government at Andersen Library!

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Titanic: April 14, 1912

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Ronna

On Monday, April 15, 1912, the front page headline of the The New York Times read: “New Liner Titanic Hits an Iceberg; Sinking by the Bow at Midnight; Women Put Off in Life Boats; Last Wireless at 12:27 A.M. Blurred.”

Late in the evening of April 14, 1912, the Titanic–ship of movie fame and book lore–struck the infamous iceberg and began to sink, eventually going under in the early morning hours of April 15. The “unsinkable ship” had sunk. Only slightly more than 700 of those who had been on board were rescued from lifeboats. The rest, approximately 1,500 passengers and crew, were lost. In the 100 years since, countless books, articles, documentaries, and websites have been written or filmed about the tragedy.

To learn more, search the Library’s online catalog. A subject browse on the keyword Titanic leads to books such as Shadow of the Titanic: the Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived, in the Browsing Books collection, call number G530 .T6 W56 2012, and The discovery of the Titanic, in the Main Collection, call number G530 .T6 B49 1995.

For newspaper accounts in the days following the sinking, try searching in the library databases ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2008) or ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune (1849-1988). Limit your search by date. For magazine articles from that time period, search Readers’ Guide Retrospective (1890-1982).

Also, if you missed the Academy-award winning movie, Titanic, when it was released in 1997, you have a second chance. It was re-released this month and is in theatres now. The movie storyline is fiction (and whoever wrote the dialogue shouldn’t quit their day job), but the scenes of the ship breaking apart and going down are quite striking. The movie is also available in the Feature Films section of the Browsing DVD collection.

Need help finding information? Ask a reference librarian.

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Cite It Right from the Start!

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Ellen Latorraca

There are still seats available in both sessions! Drop-ins are welcome, but your RSVP is encouraged. Get in on a workshop and start…

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New Stuff Tuesday – April 10

Posted on April 10, 2012 by kyle

Ourselves Unborn

Ourselves Unborn:
A History of the Fetus in Modern America
by Sara Dubow
RG600 .D83 2011
New Arrivals, 2nd floor

With all the talk by legislatures at the federal and state levels about reproductive rights, coupled with my attendance at my first baby shower this weekend, I obviously have the little humans on the brain. While it’s fun to track the size of the little ‘peanut’ from conception to birth with an app on your smartphone, that ability has even changed what it means to be growing up inside the womb as well.

Dubow, history professor at Williams College, chronicles how the fetus has been viewed from a historical perspective. Starting back to the 1870s with the medical developments and understanding of the human reproductive process, she explains how the unborn human beings came to have their own identity. The author then spends the majority of the text in the later half of the twentieth century, detailing the process by which the fetus acquired personhood, rights, and feelings. Dubow’s work can be used to gain insight into the current debates surrounding abortion and other fetal issues. Also impressive, the notes and bibliography sections of the book are nearly longer than the text – an excellent starting point for research on this topic.

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