Holiday Gift Buying (Book Sale)

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Martha

December is smack full of holidays and the gift buying season has begun. Are you looking for presents for those special people in your life? If so, check out the new items in this month’s library book sale. As with last month, we’ll be selling albums, both spoken word and music, for 25 cents a piece or 10/$1. Good for people deep into the resurgence of vinyl. Books will be $1 a piece. A holiday bargain if there ever were one, and you don’t have to be in line at 5 am to get it!

The books’ subjects run the gamut from fiction to nonfiction about far away lands. There is quite of bit of popular literature, education related materials, folklore and anthropology, with some geography, history and assorted other topics thrown in.

Come look for that hidden treasure worthy of being given a new home.

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Remote control library

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Carol

Andersen Library in snow

Jack Frost is already tapping on the window panes — and Winterim is just around the corner. Cold, snowy weather can pose problems for getting to campus. And since many Winterim classes are taught online, you might be planning to hunker down and do your schoolwork from home.

But even when a trip to the Library seems out of reach, many Library services and resources are just a click away.

Ebooks and Edocuments

HALCAT, the Library’s catalog lists many electronic books and government documents. To find them, just add on the term “electronic resource” to your keyword search. Here are a few examples:

  • Iraq and war and “electronic resource”
  • autism and “electronic resource”

Online Articles

The Library’s article databases offer millions of scholarly journal articles as well as newspaper and magazine articles. You can select databases based on the subject you are researching. Or if you’re not sure where to begin, use EBSCO’s Academic Search Complete.

Not all articles are available in full-text online. The Library’s ILLiad interlibrary-loan service, can deliver articles to you online. Requests are made online and it takes 3-5 business days to get the article. Articles are delivered online to your ILLiad account for the bargain price of $1 per article.

Special Delivery – Pick Up Your Books at Other UWs

Did you know you can pick up books from other UW libraries? The Library’s Universal Borrowing service allows you to use HALCAT to search for books or media owned by us or by other UW libraries and have them delivered to the UW Library that is most convenient to you. Here’s a short screencast to show you how to make a request and have it sent to another library for pick-up.

Reference Librarians At Your Service

The Reference Desk is open every day that the Library is open during the winter break and the Winterim session. So give us a call at 262.472.1032 if you need to jump start your research. For a complete list of Reference Desk hours, see the Library’s Hours page.

Librarians are also available by email or 24/7 chat reference service. So you’re never more than a keystroke or phone call away from professional research assistance.

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Global Cafe Series – 11/30

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Rebecca

Global Café is a monthly informal gathering of students, faculty and staff that promotes cross-cultural awareness through the exchange of ideas and experiences. Presentations will be given by international, travel study and study abroad students. If you’re interested in global topics and learning about other cultures, then the Global Café is a great way to meet people who also have international interests!

This event is sponsored by the Center for Global Education and Co-Sponsored by the International Student Association (ISA).

The topics for 11/30 include Germany, Greece, Turkey, and Ireland.

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New Stuff Tuesday – November 29

Posted on November 29, 2011 by kyle

Always On

Always On
How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future
— and Locked Us In
by Brian Chen
HM851 .C45 2011
New Arrivals, 2nd floor

If you’ve been reading New Stuff Tuesday for a while, you’ll know that I like road trips. Well, I just got back from driving out to Virginia with my cousins to visit my grandparents for Thanksgiving. They live in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, which provides amazing scenery and sadly, zero 3G coverage [or any cell phone reception for that matter]. That made the visit of a few days torturous because I couldn’t use my iPhone. This week’s featured title is a no-brainer, as it helped me realize that I might just have a problem.

Chen, columnist for Wired.com, starts out with claiming that even Steve Jobs didn’t realize the power his company’s revolutionary product that combines three essentials into one would amass. However, the author contends that the electronic device reaches far beyond our technological appetite and affects our society as a whole. The whole ‘there’s an app for that’ mentality has infiltrated our psyches and caused us to give up more than just a few brain cells from too much Angry Birds. He delves into Apple’s vertical business model and the competition’s race to clone their success, as well as the attacks on users’ privacy and freedom as a result. Chen brings out the implications and dangers for the ‘oh, shiny!’ techno-crowd in an easily digestible fashion and lists references for further research.

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“Enrique’s Journey” talk Nov. 28

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Barbara

Sonia Nazario will talk about Enrique’s Journey: The Story of Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with his Mother on Monday, November 28th, at 7 p.m. in the Young Auditorium. It’s the last fall 2011 Contemporary Issues Lecture.

From the lecture series web site:
“Sonia Nazario has spent 20 years reporting and writing about social issues. In 2003, her story of a Honduran boy’s struggle to find his mother in the U.S., entitled “Enrique’s Journey,” won more than a dozen awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, the George Polk Award for International Reporting, the Grand Prize of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Guillermo Martinez-Marquez Award for Overall Excellence. In 1994, she won a George Polk Award for Local Reporting for a series about hunger among schoolchildren in California. Nazario has been named among the most influential Latinos by Hispanic Business Magazine. She has a master’s degree in Latin American studies from the University of California, Berkeley and an honorary doctorate from Mount St. Mary’s College.” http://www.enriquesjourney.com

Looking for more on children and immigration? Search HALCat (Harold Andersen Library’s catalog) to find titles such as Growing up Hispanic: Health and development of children of immigrants (3rd-floor Main Collection, E184.S75 G76 2010)

Please ask a librarian for assistance with finding materials.

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Scholarly Inspiration (Friday video fun)

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Barbara

I was tipped off by another librarian that this “Study like a scholar, scholar” video from the Harold B. Lee library (Brigham Young University) inspires students to study in the library to get better grades! The video is amusing, but it’s also true! Thanks, Ellen.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ArIj236UHs[/youtube]

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What is the Internet doing to our brains?

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Barbara

clip art of brainI just read a news item about Nicholas Carr shutting off his Facebook and Twitter accounts and not carrying a smartphone because of how they affect our minds. He believes that our “intellectual technologies” encourage some ways of thinking while discouraging others. The computer, he says, “encourages the division of attention, distraction, and multitasking.” This leads to less deep reading and contemplation.

Carr is the author of The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (2nd-floor Browsing Books Collection, QP360 .C3667 2010) as well as an article Is Google Making Us Stupid? that appeared in Atlantic magazine. The article was the subject of a Library blog entry in 2008!

Please ask a librarian if you are interested in finding additional material on this topic.

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Kermit and PBS LearningMedia

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Ellen Latorraca

OK. So, I admit it: I’m a closet Kermit fan. I’ve had a stuffed Kermit in my proud possession since somewhere just before Kyle was born (and if you can’t figure that out, then you clearly missed his last New Stuff Tuesday.) Although Kermit was around before his Sesame Street debut and has been active in commercial television and film since, I still thank PBS for my introduction to character education.  I now can thank PBS for another educational tool, albeit rather more purposefully designed for teachers and students of grades preK-16: PBS LearningMedia. Education students and teachers will find videos, interactives, audios, lesson plans, multimedia, and professional development resources, searchable by topic or curriculum standard. From PreK “Dinosaur Train” music videos and lesson plans, to Teacherline videos and resources for professional development, this is an especially notable free resource for all levels.

Yes, I will be including it in our Online Teaching Tools LibGuide, and yes, I look forward to enjoying a certain upcoming film with a few little family members of mine.

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Thanksgiving week hours…café & Library

Posted on November 21, 2011 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 café has shortened hours Mon.-Tues. (9:15am-4pm) 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. 22nd: 7:30am-2am (normal hours)
  • Wed., Nov. 23rd: 7:30am-5pm
  • Thurs., Nov. 24th: Closed all day
  • Fri., Nov. 25th: 8am-4:30pm
  • Sat., Nov. 26th: Closed all day
  • Sun., Nov. 27th: 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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Andersen Library is on Facebook!

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Rebecca

Did you know that your favorite library has a Facebook page?  Visit us online to see our current hours, photos of library events, new items available and much more!

We would love to hear what you are thinking! Feel free to send us comments and questions!

https://www.facebook.com/andersen.library

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