The Gamma Alpha Omega sorority’s annual Mitten Tree is up now through Dec. 16th. Please donate new and/or gently used winter hats, gloves, mittens, and scarves for the tree, which is located just inside Andersen Library, near the Food for Thought cafe and the Circulation Desk. Donations will go to the Whitewater Food Pantry.
Thank you for your generosity!
December 7 is “a date which will live in infamy.” Do you recognize this quote? 70 years ago President Franklin D. Roosevelt said that about the day of Japan’s bombing of the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in his speech to Congress on December 8. Congress then passed a declaration of war against Japan, bringing the U.S. into World War II. Italy and Germany declared war on the U.S. on December 11.
Roosevelt’s speech is provided online by the National Archives. You can find additional materials related to the air raid on Pearl Harbor at the Library of Congress American Memory web site, including a link to recorded “man on the street” interviews about the raid. The National Park Service maintains the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument in Oahu, and also provides an online gallery of photos of the attack, and a YouTube channel of videos including Pearl Harbor survivor stories and underwater footage of the USS Arizona (sunk in the attack).
Looking for more? Search HALCAT, Harold Andersen Library’s catalog, for books such as Pearl Harbor and the coming of the Pacific War: A brief history with documents and essays (3rd-floor Main Collection, D742.J3 I76 1999), Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt and the coming of the war (3rd-floor Main Collection, E183.8 .J3 W24 1976), and Remembering Pearl Harbor: Eyewitness accounts by U.S. military men and women (3rd-floor Main Collection, D767.92 .R38 1991).
Search the Library’s article databases to find articles–both historical and modern–in magazines, journals, and newspapers. Articles you could find include “Al Brick: The Forgotten Newsreel Man at Pearl Harbor” (Moving Image, 2010, vol.10:no.2, pp.30-59) and “The Pearl Harbor Attack and the Origins of the Pacific War: Contested Memories in the United States and Japan” (Nanzan Review Of American Studies, vol.32, pp.21-31).
Video about the attack can be found by searching either FedFlix or Films on Demand.
Please ask a librarian for assistance with finding materials if needed.
UWW’s Andersen Library is a federal depository with many federal and state documents on a variety of current and relevant issues available to you in print, microfiche, CD-ROM, and online. Come check out your government at Andersen Library!
It’s back! The “Suggestion Tree” is waiting for you to decorate it with ornaments that list the books, graphic novels, audio books, videos, video games, CDs, etc., that you wish Andersen Library would consider acquiring! It’s located near the Circulation Desk, so please stop by!
Thanks.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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I 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.
