New Stuff Tuesday – June 7

Posted on June 7, 2011 by kyle

Discoveries of the Census of Marine Life

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).

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Special Report: The Social Web

Posted on June 6, 2011 by kyle

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!

IEEE Xplore

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

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Hoo’s Woods Open House Sat June 11

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Barbara

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:

  • Children must be supervised by an adult at all times.
  • Individuals must stay together in a group.
  • Contact with the birds is prohibited.
  • Cameras are permitted, but not video recording.
  • The Center is not accessible for persons with disabilities.
  • No public restroom is available at the Center.

Raptor book cover
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.

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New Stuff Tuesday – May 31

Posted on May 31, 2011 by kyle

It's Not Just Who You Know

It’s Not Just Who You Know:
Transform Your Life (and Your Organization) By Turning Colleagues
and Contacts Into Lasting, Genuine Relationships
by Tommy Spaulding
HF5386 .S7512 2010
New Book Island, 2nd floor

Is there anyone that can say that they’ve never heard that it’s not what you know, but who you know? In a tight job market, the difference between the chosen candidate and the rest may not just consist of what is on the resume. Therefore, the saying is now more relevant than ever. This week’s featured title looks at what you have to do to make the most of the ‘who you know’ part.

Spaulding, a leadership-development consultant, utilizes Dale Carnegie’s quintessential classic, How To Win Friends and Influence People, as the basis for his inspirational tale. He uses his own life experiences to add to Carnegie’s foundation for building relationships. Broken into five sections like ‘The Power of NetGiving and RelationShift, the author dispenses advice in short, manageable chapters. Spaulding’s insights help you think more proactively about your people skills and how best to manage the various types of friendships in your life.

FYI – the Library conveniently has three copies of How To Win Friends and Influence People, just in case you’d like to check that out too.

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New Stuff Tuesday – May 17

Posted on May 17, 2011 by kyle

Safari logo

Now that the semester has pretty much wrapped up, it might be the time when you can actually work on personal projects. Perhaps you’d like to be somewhat productive with your time away from homework or grading and learn something new. If that something has to do with technology, then I would highly recommend taking a look at Safari Tech Books Online.

The reason that I’m featuring Safari this week is because we recently revamped the titles that are available through our subscription and added a lot of great titles of interest for all skill levels. Whether you’re looking for basic help with using Microsoft Office 2007 or something more advanced, like creating Android apps, Safari’s got you covered.

Safari Tech Books Online
restricted to two users at a time

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Library Hours May 16-31

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Barbara

Andersen Library’s intersession hours May 16-22:

Mon., May 16: 7am-4:30pm
Tues.-Fri., May 17-20: 8am-4:30pm
Sat. & Sun., May 21-22: CLOSED

Summer session hours begin Mon., May 23:

Mon.-Thurs., May 23-26: 7am-9pm
Fri., May 27: 7am-4:30pm
Sat., May 28: CLOSED

Special Memorial weekend hours:

Sun.-Mon., May 29-30: CLOSED

Regular summer hours resume on Tues., May 31.

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WI in numbers

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Barbara

There are lots of statistics available about Wisconsin, and here are a few examples:

Wisconsin Agricultural Statistics

Wisconsin District and School Performance Reports

Wisconsin Energy Statistics

Public Health Profiles (for each county, region, or for the State as a whole)

Sexual Assaults in Wisconsin

Employment numbers: State and Local (See the Dept. of Workforce Development’s Labor Market Information web page for other available data)

The annual Wisconsin Blue Book has a section of statistics as well.

Please ask a librarian for assistance with finding information.

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Stress relief

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Barbara

Are you done, or almost done? Do you need to relieve some stress?? Well, cruising the web pages of College Library at UW-Madison alerted me to this stress-reliever:

Enjoy Virtual Bubblewrap! For extra fun, check the box for “Manic Mode!”
bubblewrap image

The College Library page has some other options, including making a virtual flower, if you are looking for more online stress-relieving options.

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Microsoft Word pagination help

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Barbara

A frequently-asked question by those writing papers is how to make “page 1” show on a later page of a document, e.g., how to number page three “page 1.”

Follow these steps (at least for Word 2007). Also see two screenshots below.

    Screenshot from Word 1

  1. Click at the top of the page you want to start numbering.
  2. On the “Page Layout” tab, click “Breaks.”
  3. Under “Section Breaks,” click “Next Page.”
  4. Double-click in the header area or the footer area (near the top or the bottom of the page, respectively, depending on whether you want page numbers to appear on tops or bottoms of pages). This opens the “Header & Footer Tools” tab.
  5. On the “Header & Footer Tools” tab, click “Link to Previous” to turn it off.
  6. Click “Page Number” and make selections for positioning your page numbers.
  7. To return to the body of your document, click “Close Header and Footer” at the far right.

Illustration for Steps 4-5:
Screenshot from Word 2

Do you have other questions? Try the in-application help (click the question mark in the top right corner) or the Word Help and How-to online.

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New Stuff Tuesday – May 10

Posted on May 10, 2011 by kyle

The Company Town

The Company Town:
The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills that Shaped the American Economy
by Hardy Green
HT123 .G723 2010
New Book Island, 2nd floor

When you think of Cupertino, CA, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? What about Redmond, WA? Bentonville, AR? If you thought of Apple, Microsoft and Wal-Mart, then you and I are on the same page. These cities have become defined by the companies that claim them as their own. This week’s featured title delves deeper into the relationship between a city and its local economy.

Green, former associate editor at Business Week, tells the story of the ‘company towns’ – the metropolitan areas that major multinational companies call home. He examines the way in which the two entities interact and divides them into two categories: one, in which the two exist in harmony, and the other, described as “Exploitationville,” in which the company only looks to reap the benefits of the city’s generosity. Filled with examples of each, the author tells their stories and the impact these relationships had on the local and national level.

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