The History Channel dares you to try its “Ultimate History Quiz.”
Ten questions to every game. Twenty seconds to answer each question. The faster you answer, the higher your score. But no pressure. Really.
Need to brush up? Andersen Library has LOTS of books and articles on history, politics, and current issues, including many newspapers and news magazines. Please ask a librarian for assistance with finding them!
Fri., Sept. 17, is Constitution Day, anniversary of the day Constitutional Convention delegates signed the U.S. Constitution in 1787. Once ratified by the states, it established the federal government we know today. I’ll bet there’s a lot about this document that you don’t know. See “10 fast facts on the Constitution” from the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Constitution of the United States: Questions & Answers from the National Archives. Sept. 17 is also Citizenship Day, honoring all who have attained U.S. citizenship and reminding all of the rights, responsibilities, and privileges of citizenship.
There are many federal government web sites with additional information, including:
There are also many materials in Andersen Library about the Constitution, including the four-volume Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (2nd-floor Reference Collection), and there are also materials about citizenship, such as A new engagement? Political participation, civic life, and the changing American citizen (3rd-floor Main Collection) and Civics flash cards for the new naturalization test (2nd-floor U.S. Documents collection and online).
Please ask a librarian for assistance with finding materials.
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!
UWW students are eligible to participate in the LexisNexis Quiz Whiz competition from now until Nov. 15, 2010.
Register for a quiz account, then correctly answer multiple choice trivia questions (on news, legal & business topics, etc.) posted once or twice each week to earn points that can be redeemed for gift cards from national chains like Starbucks or Target. Questions have different point values, e.g., this week’s first question is worth 50 points. A minimum of 250 points is needed to redeem points for a gift card. Better get started! Good luck!
Hint: The LexisNexis Academic database should help you answer the questions…and when you’re in that database you should see an invitation to enter the competition.
Join us for the Grand Opening of Andersen Library’s redesigned Children’s Collection on Wed., Sept. 15, at 2 p.m. The event will feature Wisconsin children’s author and UW-W alumna Sharon Hart Addy speaking on “Way leads on to way: How an education degree led to a writing life,” displays, and a ribbon cutting at 2:45 p.m. Refreshments will be served. Willie Warhawk, who is rumored to love reading children’s books, is expected to attend. You’re all invited!
Read more about it on the Library’s events web page and the news release from University Marketing and Media Relations.
Falls Aren’t Funny:
America’s Multi-Billion-Dollar
Slip-and-Fall Crisis
by Russell Kendzior
RD93 .K46 2010
New Book Island, 2nd floor
As a huge fan of FAILBlog, I’ve become accustomed to seeing cringe-inducing stunts-gone-very-wrong on a daily basis, some of which may be humorous. So when I saw this week’s featured title on the shelf, I couldn’t help but give it a look.
Kendzior, CEO of Traction Experts and founder of the National Floor Safety Institute, isn’t laughing when it comes to the slips and falls. He takes this $80 billion issue very seriously. In three parts, the author examines the accidents themselves and the damage caused, the cause of the falls and then what can be done to address them. Kendzior provides plenty of data and statistics to back up his claims, pulling from his own organization, the National Safety Council, the Occupational Safety and Health Agency (OSHA) and others to illustrate the severity of slips and falls.
It’s important to look up from your textbooks once in a while…so here’s a weekly quiz to see if you know what’s been going on lately around the country and the world! It’s “Calling All Newshounds” from USA Today.
If you don’t do very well, you might want to make a habit of visiting some bookmarked news sites, catching the news on the radio or TV, or even reading a newspaper or news magazine (Andersen Library has several, and the most current issues are on the 2nd floor–you can even read a couple of papers on the newspaper Kindle).
The Library received many entries for its recent Welcome Back! door prize contest. Following is the list of the lucky winners! Please come to the Reference Desk on the main floor of the Library to claim your prize, and don’t forget to bring your student ID.
Congratulations to the winners!! Thank you to all of the students who participated!
Tired of waiting for your Google search results? Well, Google read your mind! According to the CNN Tech article “New Google Instant shows search results as you type,” Google rolled out Google Instant in the U.S. yesterday. As you type a search into the Google search box, it will suggest results you might be wanting. If the right thing appears you can just click it and quit typing. What a timesaver! According to the article,
Google says the average web search currently takes about 25 seconds: nine second to type it, less than one second for Google to return a result and 15 seconds to pick the best result.
They say Google Instant will shave two to five seconds off of that time.
Thank Ronna for bringing it to my attention.
Andersen Library has trials of three streaming music databases running during the month of September. Try them out and send us feedback as to whether they’d be useful in your classes!
All three databases are capable of delivering CD-quality sound and provide links for individual tracks as well as albums and playlists (where applicable). They offer multiple ways to search, including browsing by composer, instrument, label, etc.
– DRAM includes nearly 2,300 albums from independent record labels and sound archives (“From folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond”)
– Music Online includes a large jazz collection (about 5,000 albums), but also includes libraries of American song, classical music, and contemporary world music
– Naxos Music Library includes a large classical collection (45,000 albums) and a jazz collection of about 3,500 albums, and synopses of over 700 operasLooking for an inexpensive book to purchase? Well, you’re in luck! The Andersen Library has a continuous book sale. New items were just added on Friday, and books sell for only $1 all month long. In addition, there are some withdrawn items from the Curriculum Collection for only 25¢ each. The book sale carts are located near the Library’s entrance, right across from the Circulation Desk.
