50 years ago – JFK’s Inauguration

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Susan

It was 50 years ago today that John F. Kennedy became the 35th President of the United States and said these famous words during his inaugural address: “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country will do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”

You might want to check out the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum’s  website for more information about this president, including a link to the Digital Archives.

The Andersen Library has many books about this president’s life. Here are just a few.

  • Averting ‘The Final Failure’ : John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings by Sheldon M. Stern (Main Collection, 3rd floor: E841 .S757 2003)
  • An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek (Main Collection, 3rd floor: E842 .D28 2003)
  • The Crisis Years : Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963 by Michael R. Beschlos (Main Collection, 3rd floor: E183.8 .S65 B469 1991)

For more books, search in HALCAT, the Library’s online catalog using the subject browse: kennedy john f

In the mood for a film about this president? Check out the DVD, JFK, a Presidency Revealed (Browsing DVD, Academic, 2nd floor:  E842 .J45 2003)

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Featured Resource: America’s Newspapers

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Carol

If you’re looking for fulltext articles from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel or Chicago Tribune, you’ll be disappointed to learn that these newspapers were recently withdrawn from LexisNexis and EBSCO Newspaper Source Plus.

But don’t despair. The Library now subscribes to America’s News from NewsBank. Not only does America’s News cover the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel starting in 1990 and Chicago Tribune starting in 1985, but it covers more than 1,500 news sources from across the U.S. and its territories. Ten Wisconsin newspapers are represented along with videos from Wisconsin news channels. The database also offers hundreds of newspapers, news magazines, and national publications like the Wall Street Journal and Christian Science Monitor. Users may search the entire database or limit to publications from certain states or regions.

So take a closer look at America’s News to find more news that you can use.

Literature Criticism Online - Gale

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Spring Semester Library hours

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Barbara

Welcome to Spring Semester at UWW and Andersen Library! We are looking forward to working with you this spring.

The Library is closed over the Martin Luther King weekend (January 15-17).

Andersen Library’s Spring Semester hours start on Tuesday, January 18:
Library Spring 2011 hours image

  • M-TH: 7:30am-midnight
  • F: 7:30am-6pm
  • Sat: 9am-5pm
  • Sun: 1pm-midnight

New for Spring 2011: Reference Desk hours will end at 9pm Sunday-Thursday, because of a staff vacancy.

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,
  • 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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New teaching staff info…

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Barbara

Are you joining the teaching staff at UWW for spring semester? You may be wondering about Library services such as course reserves or library instruction sessions. There’s a web page for you at http://library.uww.edu/guides/faculty.html.

Feel free to contact us too! Each academic department has a librarian liaison. You can find yours at http://library.uww.edu/aboutus/staff.html#liaison, or just contact the Reference Desk at 262-472-1032 or email refdesk@uww.edu

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New Stuff Tuesday – January 11

Posted on January 11, 2011 by kyle

Spend Shift

Spend Shift:
How the Post-Crisis Values Revolution
Is Changing the Way We Buy, Sell & Live
by John Gerzema & Michael D’Antonio
HC110 .C6 G475 2011
New Book Island, 2nd floor

Continuing on the theme of new year’s resolutions [hopefully you’re still sticking to them!], money issues also top the list of changes for the coming months. The economic downturn has everyone’s purses and wallets a little tighter, and this week’s featured title explores the effects of a recession on consumer spending.

Gerzema, an expert on consumerism, and D’Antonio, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, team up to analyze just what an ailing economy does to the people living and working in those conditions. Visiting spots all over the United States, from Detroit to Dallas to San Francisco, the authors detail how spending habits have gone from mindless to mindful. These shifts not only affect an individual’s lifestyle, but also companies’ approaches to attracting and retaining their customer bases. They provide a mix of consumer and business insights to provide an intriguing look into how the Great Recession is changing how Americans spend their hard-earned dollars.

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Universal Borrowing Down Jan 7-14

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Barbara

Universal Borrowing, the free service by which UWW students and staff may borrow books and DVDs from other UW libraries, is down because of a system upgrade. It’s expected to be operational again on Friday, January 14th.

In the meantime, you can see whether titles are held by other UW libraries by searching WorldCat. WorldCat actually lists libraries worldwide holding a title, but the libraries will be grouped by state so that you can scan Wisconsin.

For example, if you wanted to read The routes of man: How roads are changing the world and the way we live today, but Andersen Library’s copy was checked out, you could search WorldCat to find:
WorldCat title listing

Click on “Libraries Worldwide” to see other libraries that have the title:

WorldCat holding libraries listing

You can click on the link to a specific library to see if it is checked out.

Specific Library's catalog record via WorldCat link

Then you could use ILLiad interlibrary loan to request the title. (Use the “Return” button in the top right corner when displaying a specific library’s catalog record. That will return you to the WorldCat library holdings display.) Scroll to see the purple “Find It” button. On the menu that displays next, look for

“Can I get it from another library?
Request item via ILLiad ”

and click on the link to ILLiad. You’ll be prompted to login with your campus Net-ID (same as your campus email or D2L login). The ILLiad request form should b filled in, so scroll down to the “Submit” button.

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New Stuff Tuesday – January 4

Posted on January 4, 2011 by kyle

Against Health

Against Health:
How Health Became the New Morality
edited by Jonathan Metzl & Anna Kirkland
RA418 .A53 2010
New Book Island, 2nd floor

This is by far my favorite time of year. It’s the perfect opportunity to come up with all of the ways in which I am going to change my life for the better in the coming year [whether they are accomplished is a completely different story]. Like many of you, the resolutions that I think of revolve around the issue of health and personal wellness. And hey, what do you know? That’s what this week’s featured title is all about.

Metzel and Kirkland, professors at the University of Michigan, have assembled a compilation of essays delving into the topic of health. Rather than examining the trials and tribulations endured to live a ‘healthy’ life, the chapters focus on the sociological and economic factors that propel individuals to eat right, exercise and take their daily vitamins. Divided into sections, the contributors look the issue as a cultural phenomenon, viewing it through the lens of morality. This book certainly brings a different perspective to the debate surrounding the definition of health and what it means to you.

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Isaac Asimov

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Barbara

Jan. 2nd is the anniversary of Isaac Asimov’s birth in 1920. He’s one of my favorite authors of science fiction, but he wrote nonfiction books for adults and youth too before he passed away in 1992.

A search for asimov as an author in Andersen Library’s HALcat online catalog will get you a list of about 90 titles (he wrote hundreds of books), including The clock we live on, an explanation of the origin of calendars and how we measure time (3rd-floor Main Collection QB209 .A8 1965) and Beginnings: The story of origins–of mankind, life, the earth, the universe (3rd-floor Main Collection QH325 .A73 1987).

Oh, and the science fiction? My personal favorites have been the titles in the Foundation series. I always think of the original trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation), but it expanded later to include even titles written by others, and the Foundation series absorbed Asimov’s empire and robot titles too, such as I, Robot, a collection of stories that was the basis (loosely) of the movie with the same title that starred Will Smith. Andersen Library doesn’t have that title, but UWW students and staff may request either the book or the movie from other UW libraries via the free Universal Borrowing service. There’s a BBC radio adaptation of the original Foundation trilogy you can listen to via the Internet Archive.

In honor of Isaac Asimov, enjoy!

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Winterim Library Hours

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Barbara

Library hours - Winterim

Andersen Library Winterim hours (Dec. 29, 2010-Jan. 17, 2011):

  • M-W 7am-6pm
  • Th-F 7am-4:30pm
  • Sat. CLOSED
  • Sun. noon-8pm

Exceptions:
Fri. Dec. 31-Sun. Jan. 2: CLOSED

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,
  • 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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Another source of country info

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Barbara

The United Nations Development Programme is the UN’s “global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life” (from Guidelines for an Assessment of Development Results (ADR)).

The UNDP issues “Assessment of Development Results” reports for various countries each year. 2009 reports were issued for Afghanistan, Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Barbados and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), Burkina Faso, Chile, Guatemala, Peru, Philippines, Seychelles, Tajikistan, Uganda, and Uzbekistan. Reports are available online.

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