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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Does Facebook help you learn?

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Barbara

Facebook logoAll that time you spend on Facebook may not be wasted after all!

There have, of course, been studies about the effects of the Internet, Facebook, and other online applications. Some have found that we are suffering negative effects (see, for example, the previous blog post “Has your brain been Googled?“). But one of my iGoogle science widgets informed me about a forthcoming article in International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations reporting on research suggesting “that students’ online social networking directly influences social learning and can positively influence academic learning.” Students surveyed about their use of Facebook “reported that Facebook allowed them to connect with the faculty and other students in term of friendship/social relationship, provide comments to peers/share knowledge, share feelings with peers, join Groups established for subjects, collaboration: notification, discussion, course schedule, project management calendar and to use educational applications for organizing learning activities.”

Would you like to learn more? Search the Library’s article databases to find articles such as “Lolita, Facebook, and the third space of literacy teacher education” (Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, Jan. 2010, vol.46:no.1, pp.67-84), which describes preservice teachers creating a Facebook profile for the main character of a novel; “Students’ and teachers’ use of Facebook” (Computers in Human Behavior, Mar. 2011, vol.27:no.2, pp.662-676), which reviews “current published research studies focusing on the use of Facebook by students and teachers;” and “Modeling educational usage of Facebook” (Computers & Education, Sept. 2010, vol.55:no.2, pp444-453). Search HALCAT, Harold Andersen Library’s catalog, for books such as Social networking> (3rd-floor Main Collection, HM742 .S629 2011), which includes a chapter on “IV. Tweeting is fundamental : Social media in the schools.”

Please ask a librarian for assistance with finding materials.

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Featured Resource: Passport GMID

Posted on May 5, 2011 by kyle

Researching countries can be a tricky thing. Using Google to pull together information presents its own pitfalls, with a lot of seemingly bogus sites out there filled with ads and usually only basic facts about countries. What if you need MORE than just the size and population of the country and don’t want to worry about whether or not you can trust the source?

That’s where Passport GMID from Euromonitor comes in really handy. It’s one of the best places to start when looking for country information. You can get economic statistics and demographics, analysis of current events and a look into the people and culture of over seventy-five countries. You can even compare countries with the ability to download the data available in the database. In addition, there is also industry coverage for over twenty consumer market categories, with in-depth detail of market forces and major players.

While the focus of the content skews towards business, anyone with an international research topic will find invaluable insight into the international marketplace. If you’ve used Passport GMID (formerly called Passport Reference & Markets) in the past, you’ll want to check it out again. They recently redesigned the website to make it more user-friendly and accessible. I personally love the changes that they’ve made, and you will too.

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Milky Way Galaxy talk F May 6

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Barbara

Dr. Robert Benjamin, UWW Dept. of Physics, will talk about “The 3D Milky Way Galaxy” on Friday, May 6th, at 8pm (Upham Hall 140). This is the final spring 2011 Whitewater Observatory Lecture. A public viewing session at Whitewater Observatory will follow the lecture at 9:15pm, weather permitting.

LECTURE ABSTRACT

“Spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way Galaxy are very thin compared to their radius, similar to a DVD. But as it turns out, they are not perfectly flat. It has been known for years that the gas in between the stars warps above and below the mid-plane in the outer parts of the Milky Way. My own research this year shows that the layer of stars warps in a similar way. I will recount history of this research, talk about what causes these warps, and end with the newest map of the warped 3D structure of our Galaxy. As a bonus, I will be able to provide the inside story on the discovery of a new section of spiral arms in our Milky Way. It’s not my discovery, but it’s a pretty interesting story.”

Like to learn more? Andersen Library can help! Search the article databases to find articles such as “A Magellanic origin for the warp of the Galaxy” (The Astrophysical Journal, 2006, vol.641, pp.L33-L36).

Please ask a librarian for assistance with finding materials.

 

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