Andersen Library is closed Sat.-Mon., July 2-4! What should you do with yourself?!
On Mon., July 4th Whitewater offers a run, a parade, and a festival:
The Whippet City Mile run precedes the parade, starting at about 9:45 a.m. on July 4. The registration form is online. Registration by June 25 guarantees a t-shirt.
More information about the parade and festival is online at http://www.ww4th.com/4thParade.php, including the parade route. The parade starts at 10am.
Enjoy the holiday!
You may have noticed that there is some work being done in the Andersen Library. Noise so far has been kept to a minimum, but in the event work being done while you are in the Library is interfering with your concentration, seek out Library spaces that are farther away from the work being done (ask the staff if you need suggestions).
For the rest of the summer:
We hope that the Library’s proximity to the Writing Center, Honors, and Undergraduate Research will prove to be beneficial to students!
Special Library Hours for the July 4th holiday weekend:
Remember that even when the Library is closed or you are traveling, you can:
Enjoy the holiday safely, everybody!
Do you enjoy gardening, or looking at others’ gardens? Well, here are a couple of suggestions for this weekend:
(1) Blodgett Garden Center (Fort Atkinson) is having its grand (re)opening this weekend. They had a terrible fire earlier this year, but now have arisen from the ashes. The celebration this weekend includes live music, tours of the newly rebuilt store, food, prize drawings and give-aways, and specials.
(2) Rotary Botanical Gardens (Janesville) is always a treat for the eyes. This year there’s a display of more varieties of marigolds (more than 200) than most people would guess exist!
If you want more, Andersen Library has books on gardens. Search the HALCAT (Harold Andersen Library Catalog) and find titles such as Wisconsin gardens & landscapes (3rd-floor Main Collection, QK73.W6 S35 2008), The Chinese garden : history, art and architecture (3rd-floor Main Collection, OVERSIZE, SB457.55 .K47 2003), Ortho’s all about plans for beds & borders (3rd-floor Main Collection, SB423.7 .O78 2002), and many more.
Please ask a librarian for assistance with finding materials.
We had a little excitement this morning! The fire alarms sounded and everyone trooped out to the lawn for a brief while. At least it was nice out! It’s all over now, and there was no actual fire. It seems dust from some renovations set off the alarms. Thank you to everyone for your cooperation! We have to evacuate when the alarms sound to be sure everyone is safe.
Sometimes when this happens we don’t even get to see the fire engine before we get the “all clear” to re-enter the building, but this time we did! One of our staff captured it:
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Conversation and Gender
edited by Susan Speer & Elizabeth Stokoe
P120 .S48 C66 2011
New Book Island, 2nd floor
I remember when I first starting taking Spanish in high school and learning that the words for inanimate objects possess a gender (Really? Why should it matter that the table is feminine and the knife is masculine?). Well, this week’s featured title goes much deeper, examining gendered language and its context in conversation.
Speer and Stokoe, professors at UK universities, have collected the work of eighteen scholars (including their own) on the intersection of conversation analysis and gender. The compilation features cutting-edge research and utilizes unscripted interactions from all sorts of scenarios to investigate the relationship of the two themes. Sections include how people use language to describe themselves, engendered linguistics between children, and much more. This text is valuable not only for the mind-expanding content, but also the detailed methods performed assist the reader in understanding the process.
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has collaborated with the Library of Congress to digitize volumes of the United States Statutes at Large, which contains all of the laws and resolutions enacted during each session of Congress. Now available online:
You can search the contents. Select the Statutes in the “Available Collections” box and click the “Add” button. Then type a search for keywords in the full text, or use other search terms such as a citation. You also can add a date restriction.
Need more recent public laws? You have a couple of options (neither of which has older legislation as far back as GPO):
Need really old laws? The Library of Congress provides digitized text of the first 18 volumes, containing the laws of the first forty-three Congresses (1789-1875).
Please ask a librarian for assistance with finding materials.
Discoveries of the Census of Marine Life:
Making Ocean Life Count
by Paul Snelgrove
QH91.8 .B6 S64 2010
New Book Island, 2nd floor
The United States Census Bureau finished up the decennial census last year. They pulled out all the stops, with field workers and clever marketing tactics (even a Super Bowl advertisement). But I’m not going to lie – their job seems a little bit easier to do than the undertaking in this week’s featured title, given that they were dealing with people and not slippery aquatic creatures.
Snelgrove, director of the NSERC Canadian Healthy Oceans Network, has detailed the process of trying to tackle the ocean and everything that lives in it. As part of the massive project that involved researchers from more than eighty nations, he explains the reasoning for documenting the impressive variety of marine life, as well as the methods used to take on just a project. With advances in technology, the team was able to cover a lot of ground… er, water. However, the author also discusses the great unknown and the unknowable. This book is a fascinating look at what takes up approximately 70% of the Earth’s surface (and the photos are pretty mind-blowing as well).
This came across one of the fantastic librarian listservs that I’m on: a series of articles from IEEE Spectrum, a leading trade magazine on all things technology, on social media and the Internet. The Special Report: The Social Web features a collection of articles on various areas of interest with regards to Web 2.0, such as the business side of social networking, the impact of social networks in other countries, as well as emerging trends and technologies (the next Facebook?). It provides for some pretty interesting reading, so check it out!
Also worth mentioning, our library has access to many more IEEE publications through IEEE Xplore, which focuses on electrical engineering, computer science and electronics. It’s an excellent place to find articles from high-quality scholarly sources in those fields.
Read on: Special Report: The Social Web
Hoo’s Woods Raptor Center, a nonprofit organization “dedicated to environmental education and the conservation of birds of prey through public education,” is holding its annual open house on Sat., June 11th, from 10am-3pm. It’s free, but donations to support the care and feeding of the raptors will be welcome. Other than the annual open house, the Center is not open to the general public except for scheduled group tours, so this is quite an opportunity!
If you go, please bear in mind:
If you’d like to do some research on raptors, Andersen Library has materials. A search of HALCAT, our catalog, would find books such as A photographic guide to North American raptors (3rd-floor Main Collection, QL696.F3 W48 1995) and Birds of prey: Natural history and conservation of North American raptors (3rd-floor Main OVERSIZE Collection, QL696.F3 S678 1991).
Please ask a librarian for assistance with finding materials.
