Veterans Recognition Week – lounge dedication 11/11

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Barbara

US FlagNov. 8–Nov. 12 is Veterans Recognition Week, including Veterans Day on November 11th. Do we all remember why *that* day is Veterans Day?? If not, the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs has a web page explaining its history. It’s a day to remember and “reflect on the sacrifice that veterans have made in service to their country.” A variety of events are scheduled all over campus:

  • On exhibit until Nov. 15: Historical Military Uniforms, featuring uniforms, photos, and awards (Roberta A. Fiskum Art Gallery, James R. Connor University Center, mall level). Gallery hours are M-Th 10am-6pm, F 10am-3pm, closed Sat. & Sun.
  • Mon. Nov. 8: Women’s Issues in the Military (10-11am, University Center 261) and Transitioning from Combat to Campus (12-1:30pm, also in UC 261) presented by Lieutenant Colonel Cynthia Rasmussen, who has served as a Mental Health Nurse in the Army Reserves for 20 years and is currently serving in her 6th year of being mobilized to support the Global War on Terrorism.
  • Tues., Nov. 9, 2-3pm: A student panel will provide UWW Veterans First Hand Accounts (UC Involvement Center).
  • Wed., Nov. 10:
    • 9am-1pm: Veterans Benefits and Resources Fair (UC commons) will feature representatives from a variety of veterans’ state, county, community and campus resources, and the Dryhootch.org mobile coffee house will be parked outside the UC. Dryhootch.org is a “nonprofit formed by combat veterans to help veterans returning home.”
    • 7-10pm: Watch the award-winning film The Hurt Locker (UC Summers Auditorium) – free admission! Or, if you can’t make it to the public showing, Andersen Library has a copy of the film on DVD that UWW students & staff can check out (2nd floor Feature Film DVDs, alphabetical by title–so look for it under “Hur”).
  • Thurs., Nov. 11:
    • 11am-2pm: Free lunch for veterans–with their military ID or DD214–at any UWW dining facility
    • 11am: Veterans Recognition Ceremony with student and community speakers on the importance of Veteran’s Day (Alumni Center)
    • 12noon: Veteran’s Center Dedication in Andersen Library, 2nd floor
    • 12:30pm-1:30pm: reception for Fiskum Gallery exhibit Historical Military Uniforms
  • Sat., Nov. 13, 9am-halftime: Military Appreciation Day at the football game (vs. UW-La Crosse, game starts at 1pm). Everyone is invited to show their appreciation of veterans in the parking lot at Perkins Stadium, and there will be halftime recognition of student and community veterans. The athletic department is providing free tickets to veterans: contact Jan Nordin at nordinj@uww.edu or Andrew Browning at BrowningAR29@uww.edu; free ickets will also be available by will call before the game with presentation of a new or old military ID or DD214.

Note: Information is subject to change, if you have any questions, comments or concerns please contact Andrew Browning at BrowningAR29@uww.edu. UWW is an inclusive campus. If you are an individual who needs an accommodation please contact Andrew Browning at BrowningAR29@uww.edu
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UWW’s Andersen Library is a federal depository with many federal, state, local, and international 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!

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Jessica Jackley @UWW 11/8

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Barbara

Jessica Jackley, co-founder of Kiva, an international P2P (peer-to-peer) microfinance lending non-profit, will present “Harnessing the Power of Perspective: Kiva and the Worldwide Microlending Movement” @7pm on Mon., Nov. 8 (location: Irvin L. Young Auditorium). It’s the second of the fall 2010 College of Letters and Sciences Contemporary Issues Lecture Series.

You can listen to a podcast of an interview with Jessica Jackley by Phorecast (Feb. 2008). There’s also free access to “Entrepreneurship in Peace Operations” (Journal of Civil Society, 2010, vol.6:no.1, pp.1-21) that dicusses Kiva (see the section “The Case of Kiva: A Social Enterprise”).

microfinance book coverFor additional information, you can search Andersen Library’s article databases such as ABI/Inform Complete for more articles, such as “The Profit in Nonprofit” (Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2009, vol.7:no.3, pp.68-71). A search of HALCat (Harold Andersen Library’s catalog) would find titles such as Microfinance: Emerging trends and challenges (3rd-floor Main Collection, HG178.3 .M5336 2008) and the online book The economics of microfinance (NetLibrary ebook)

Please ask a librarian for assistance with finding or requesting materials.

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Peer Reviewed Articles, Anyone?

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Barbara

Are you required to find “peer reviewed” (aka refereed) articles for your paper(s)? What the heck does that mean?!

Peer review is a quality control process used by some scholarly journals to ensure that they only publish articles containing excellent scholarship. The journals’ editors send each submitted article to other experts in the discipline who read it critically and decide: the article is acceptable as is, the article needs revisions, or the article is just not acceptable or appropriate for publication.

This North Carolina State University Libraries’ video explains peer review:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twogpmM-SfY[/youtube]

screenshots of peer review limits in article databasesSo, if you must use such articles for your research paper, how do you find them?

♦ Several article databases, including EBSCOhost, WilsonWeb, and ProQuest databases, have a limit you can apply to restrict your search results to scholarly/peer-reviewed journals (note: not all scholarly journals are peer reviewed).

♦ You can look up a journal title in the Ulrichsweb database to see if it is peer reviewed:
Ulrischsweb screenshot

♦ Finally, there are distinguishing characteristics that you can look for to identify an article as scholarly rather than popular. See the Library web page “Scholarly Journal v. Popular Magazine Articles.”

Please ask a librarian for more assistance.

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Find UWW Masters Theses

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Barbara

Kristen Froemming ’03, ’09 is the recipient of the 2010 UWW Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award for Listen Up! You’re Tuning Out!: Emotional Triggers that Serve as Listening Barriers in Senior Populations. Previous award winners are listed online by the School of Graduate Studies and Continuing Education.

Are you going to be writing a thesis? Would you like to see some examples of successful theses? You can search the HALCat (Harold Andersen Library catalog) to find theses by UWW students. More recent theses, like Froemming’s, are available online (there’s a link in the catalog). A keyword search for whitewater and thesis will result in a list. Copies of older theses are kept in the 3rd-floor Main Collection. Special Collections (1st floor) also keeps a copy of each thesis, but those copies are non-circulating.

Please ask a librarian if you’d like assistance with finding theses.

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Don’t forget to VOTE! Tues. Nov. 2

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Ronna

If you’re like me, you are sick and tired of all the political ads that have been running on TV, on the radio, in newspapers, etc., etc. for the past several months. Well, today all that stops because….it’s ELECTION DAY! On Tuesday, November 2, the polling places are open from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Not sure where your polling place is located? Use the State of Wisconsin Voter Public Access website. It allows you to “look up the polling place location, and sample ballot (for a recent or upcoming election) for anyone who lives at a specific address (anonymous search).”

Answers to other questions about voting in Wisconsin can be found on the Frequently Asked Questions page of the State of Wisconsin website. There’s also a Top 10 Things a Wisconsin Voter Should Know for Election Day list….check it out!

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New Stuff Tuesday – November 2

Posted on November 2, 2010 by kyle

The World According to Monsanto

The World According to Monsanto:
Pollution, Corruption and the Control of Our Food Supply:
An Investigation into the World’s
Most Controversial Company
by Marie-Monique Robin
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New Book Island, 2nd floor

There has been lots of debate in the past decade with regards to what’s in the food that we eat and where it comes from. The growing popularity of the organic and ‘buy local’ campaigns have highlighted that people care of these issues. This week’s featured title focuses on one of the giants on the other side of the coin, advocating for genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) throughout the world.

Robin, a French journalist and filmmaker, set out to profile one of the largest companies (ranks in the Fortune 200) in the country, with operations extending all over the world. However, Monsanto, as the author details, has had a sordid past with hazardous chemicals. After a image clean-up and re-brand, the agribusiness behemoth has emerged as a ‘green business,’ but Robin would beg to differ. Her journey across four continents tells a story of how Monsanto maintains its stronghold on the market and why it should matter to you.

PS: DON’T FORGET TO VOTE!

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Primary Search & Middle Search Plus

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Martha

So, you’ve used EbscoHost before and are familiar with the bounty of all its 53 databases? Well, then, skip over this entry. If perhaps you haven’t ventured much beyond Academic Search Complete or ERIC, we’ve got some great resources for you! These two classic education databases are geared towards the younger set and those who work or will work with them. Primary Search provides full text articles from more than 70 popular magazines for elementary school research. Middle Search Plus provides full text articles from more than 140 popular middle school magazines and also contains nearly 84,800 biographies, 105,800 primary source documents, and a collection of photos, maps and flags. Most full text articles included in these databases are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexile). Also, if you don’t want to read an article yourself, try out the nifty Listen feature wherein you have one of several voices read the article to you at a slow, medium or fast pace.

Check’em out!

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Library Gaming Week- Nov. 8-11

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Ronna

In honor of National Gaming in Libraries Day on Saturday, November 13, the Andersen Library is having a Library Gaming Week! Gaming Week will be held Monday, November 8-Thursday, November 11, 2010.

Monday, Nov. 8: The documentary Get Lamp will be shown in the TV area on the Library’s main floor. Showings are at Noon, 2 pm, 4 pm, 6 pm, and 8 pm. Get Lamp is a documentary about the creation of text-based “computer adventure games” in the early 1980s.

Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2 pm-5 pm: Free Play! PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360 consoles will be set up near the library entrance. Stop over and play!

Wednesday, Nov. 10, 3:30 pm-5:30 pm – Medium difficulty Guitar Hero tournament

Thursday, Nov. 11, 3:30 pm-5:30 pm – Expert difficulty Guitar Hero tournament

Wednesday, Nov. 10 & Thursday, Nov. 11, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm – Battle of the Bands! Form your own team of four players taking on lead guitar, bass, drums and singing.

Advance registration is required for all tournaments. Space is limited, so sign up early! Sign up sheets are available on the Andersen Library’s main floor in front of the Circulation Desk. Or, contact Rebecca Schaller at SchaLLerrL22@uww.edu .

Interested in more events at Andersen Library?  Visit http://library.uww.edu/events.html.

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Reuse, recycle…books

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Martha

Borrowing books from the library is great. So great in fact that we’re in the business. But sometimes you just want to hold onto that beloved tome and take it home with you to keep. For just this occasion we have our monthly book sale. Come to the library and buy a book from the sale for $1. That’s right folks, just $1. What a deal!

Wondering where the recycle bit from the headline comes in? If you’re thinking of clearing out your personal book stash, bring the gently used books to the Andersen Library so we can add them to our collections or sell them at the book sale. A little can truly go a long way.

These two carts of books will be on sale for four weeks starting today.

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Quiz yourself: Plagiarism

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Barbara

part of CQ issueDo you understand plagiarism? Why is it such a big hairy deal anyway? Well, it’s only right and fair to be credited for your own work while giving others proper credit for their work. It’s also important beyond your student years–see the CQ Researcher “Combating Plagiarism” issue from Sept. 19, 2003, that talks about reporters, musicians, and historians getting into hot water for claiming others’ words and ideas. And it’s not just words and ideas, but also images and sources of factual information that need to be cited. Basically, to do otherwise is intellectual theft, behavior both dishonest and unethical. Oh, and you can suffer consequences for plagiarism at UWW (see the Student Handbook‘s section on UW System Policies and specifically UWS Chapter 14.03 “Academic misconduct subject to disciplinary action”).

So, do you know what to do, or do you need some help understanding how to avoid plagiarism? What’s considered common knowledge? Is everything online fair game? Is anything in an encyclopedia “common knowledge” that doesn’t need to be cited? If you change the wording, do you still need to cite the source? If an image is of a really, really old painting, is it ok to just paste it into your presentation? Not so sure? You aren’t alone! Students at universities and colleges all over have the same uncertainties. Here are some tutorials and videos developed at other academic institutions that may help:

  • Rutgers University Libraries developed some videos, including a 5-item quiz you can take online (The videos are actually entertaining): The Anti Plagiarism Game Show Cite is Right! (At the bottom of the screen you can see the links to the other videos in the series.) These are available via YouTube too.
  • Indiana University Bloomington’s School of Education provides an online tutorial “How to recognize Plagiarism,” with both a test and a 5-minute quiz.
  • The University of Texas Libraries, University of Texas at Austin, have a series of online questions to see how well you understand plagiarism and how to avoid it.
  • Lycoming College’s Snowden Library provides a “Goblin Threat” plagiarism game to teach students about recognizing plagiarism, which was “created by Mary Broussard with assistance on question writing from Jessica Urich.” Killing each goblin requires the correct answer to a plagiarism-related question.
  • University Libraries at The University of Southern Mississippi offers a plagiarism tutorial with a pre- and post-test.

You can find many other similar sites by searching Google. Ask a librarian for assistance.

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