3rd Annual World AIDS Day meeting 12/3

Posted on December 2, 2008 by Barbara

The 3rd Annual Black Student Union World AIDS Meeting will take place on Tues., Dec. 2nd, from 5:15-6:15 p.m. in Upham Hall room 145. The event will take a look at the AIDS crisis around the world. The Rev. Adrian Malone of Higher Dimensions Church of God in Christ in Racine will be a guest speaker. The UW-Whitewater Gospel Choir, TIFU Cultural Ensemble and others will also perform.

AIDS Pandemic cover AIDS in the 21st Century coverYour University Library has resources on AIDS, of course. Search the Library Catalog to find titles such as The AIDS pandemic: complacency, injustice, and unfulfilled expectations (3rd-floor Main Collection RA643.8 .G675 2004) and AIDS in the twenty-first century: disease and globalization (3rd-floor Main Collection RA643.8 .B37 2002).

Search article databases to find journal, magazine, and newspapers articles such as those in International Affairs‘s special issue (March 2006, v.82, no.2) marking the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the HIV virus with a collection of articles from scholars on the challenges posed by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

You also can find informative web sites, such as that of UNAIDS: The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS which includes speech texts, news, events, and publications including the 2008 report on the global AIDS epidemic.

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New Stuff Tuesday – December 2

Posted on December 2, 2008 by kyle

Social Security

Social Security:
A Documentary History
by Larry DeWitt, Daniel Béland & Edward Berkowitz
HD7125 .D495 2008
New Book Island, 2nd floor

With the recent tumultuous financial market performance, many people are concerned about their futures, namely, their retirement. While some have separate accounts to fund their non-working lives, others have relied on the subject of this week’s featured title, social security.

DeWitt, public historian at the US Social Security Administration, along with Béland and Berkowitz, professors at the University of Calgary and George Washington University, respectively, have compiled an excellent resource on the formation and development of the social welfare system created by the Social Security Act in 1935 and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. While the authors do provide an introduction about the history and evolution of the program, the meat of the content is devote to primary source documents, the actual legislative materials that have guided the policy’s administration over the years. There is also an annotated bibliography for further research. Overall, Social Security: A Documentary History provides an outstanding reference for those researching the government program.

As an aside, the Wisconsin Historical Society at UW-Madison houses one of the three major Social Security collections used in gathering sources for this book.

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December Feature: Taking Suggestions

Posted on December 1, 2008 by kyle

Do you have to watch a particular film for class and Blockbuster’s out? Would you like to screen a video for a class that you’re teaching next semester? Have you put your own personal copy of a movie on reserve because the Library doesn’t own it?

STOP!

The Library would like to know the titles that we’re missing! If you feel that we should own a particular film or any other item, then use the Suggest a Book/AV Material Form to tell us that we don’t have what you need. We’re always looking to improve our collections and your input is incredibly valuable to us – so valuable that there’s a Suggestions? link on every page of the Library’s website.

This post is part of the Featured Resource, which was previously on the Library’s home page. The Featured Resources Archive contains the past spotlights from December 2002 – Summer 2008.

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Australia

Posted on November 28, 2008 by Barbara

I just saw the new Nicole Kidman/Hugh Jackman/Baz Luhrmann epic movie Australia, and enjoyed it very much. Critics seem to be split almost 50-50 on it. I wasn’t expecting it to be almost 3 hours long, but I didn’t notice until it was over because it keeps moving along.

In a Sunburned Country coverNow, if you’re inspired to learn more about Australia, your University Library has materials for that, including In a sunburned country by Bill Bryson (3rd-floor Main Collection DU105.2 .B83 2000), which I thought was very fun reading. Other titles have more to do with the serious topics in the movie, such as Australia at war, 1939-1945 (3rd-floor Main Collection, D767.8 .R63 1981) and Stolen generations (1st-floor Media Center Videos, GN666 .S87 2001 – VHS format), a film about the Australian policy of removing Aboriginal children from their parents that was in effect from the 1930s until the 1970s.

There is also the web site of the Australian Human Rights Commission, which includes the 1997 report Bringing them home: Report of the national inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families.

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Terrorism research

Posted on November 28, 2008 by Barbara

As you know, terrorism was in the news over Thanksgiving. It took place in India, which has experienced major terrorist attacks before (see “Safety and Security” on the State Dept.’s web page of country-specific information for India).

No End To War coverThe University Library has resources for learning more about terrorism. Search the Library Catalog to find book titles such as the 2003 No end to war: terrorism in the twenty-first century (3rd-floor Main Collection, HV6431 .L354 2003), which includes a section called “Battlefields of the future 1: India and central Asia,” and The Making of a Terrorist coverthe 3-volume title The making of a terrorist: recruitment, training, and root causes (3rd-floor Main Collection, HV6431 .M353 2006). Search the article databases to find titles such as “India and Southeast Asia in the age of terror: Building partnerships for peace” (Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International & Strategic Affairs, 2006, v.28, no.2, pp.297-321) and Inside the terrorist mind (Scientific American Mind, 20072008, v.18, no.6, pp.72-79).

Please ask a reference librarian if you’d like assistance in finding materials.

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Cristina Garcia @ UWW 12/1/08

Posted on November 26, 2008 by Barbara

Handbook to Luck coverCristina Garcia will be at Young Auditorium on Mon. Dec. 1st, 7 pm, for the Community Reading Initiative co-sponsored by the Auditorium and the College of Letters and Sciences. Her 2007 novel A Handbook to Luck tells the story of three teenagers from around the globe making their way in the world through the years, surviving war, disillusionment, and love, as their lives and paths intersect.

Born in Havana, Cuba and raised in New York City, Garcia is an important contemporary Latin American writer. Her first novel, Dreaming in Cuban, was nominated for a 1992 National Book Award. She also served as Time magazine’s bureau chief for Florida and the Caribbean and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton, and the Whiting Writers Award.

Your University Library has both of the novels mentioned above. Search the Library Catalog for the author for locations & call numbers. If the titles are checked out here, UWW students and staff may request them from other UW campus libraries by using the free Universal Borrowing service.

The University Library also has resources about Latin American writers and literature, such as The Cambridge companion to the Latin American novel (3rd-floor Main Collection, PQ7081 .L37 2005–searching the text using Google Book Search will show where Cristina Garcia is mentioned in this book) and Encyclopedia of Latin American literature (2nd-floor Reference Collection, PQ7081.A1 E56 1997). You can search the Reference Universe database to find mentions of Ms. Garcia in other reference works in the University Library. Searching article databases such as Project MUSE or MLA International Bibliography will find articles such as “An interview with Cristina Garcia” (Contemporary Literature, 2007, v.48 no.2). Biographical information about Ms. Garcia is available from WilsonWeb’s Biography Reference Bank Select Edition database as well as free sources such as Wikipedia.

Please ask a Reference librarian if you would like assistance in finding materials.

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New Stuff Tuesday – November 25

Posted on November 25, 2008 by kyle

Punishment and Inequality in America

Punishment and Inequality in America
by Bruce Western
HV9471 .W47 2006
New Book Island, 2nd floor

With news breaking about President Bush’s latest round of presidential pardons, this week’s featured title seemed appropriate to highlight the nation’s justice system.

Western, a Harvard sociology professor and director of the Program in Inequality and Social Policy, provides the results of an eight-year study on the constituents of the American penal system. Rather than focusing on the prisons as an institution, he and his colleagues examined the imprisoned individuals and the impact of their incarceration on themselves, their families and their lives. As the author states in the preface, the book is more about race and poverty than crime and deviance. This work is an excellent starting place when researching injustice in American prisons, as it offers not only original and empirical evidence, but also a lengthy list of references for further investigation of the issue.

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Thanksgiving Library hours

Posted on November 25, 2008 by Barbara

Please note the University Library’s special hours due to the Thanksgiving holiday:

Wed., Nov. 26th 7:30am – 4:30pm
Thurs., Nov. 27th CLOSED (Happy Thanksgiving)
Fri., Nov. 28th 8:00am – 4:30pm
Sat., Nov. 29th CLOSED
Sun., Nov. 30th 6:00pm – Midnight

Even when the Library is closed, you can search the Library Catalog (electronic resources such as ebooks don’t require a trip to the Library), search article databases, look up course ereserves, and ask reference questions using the “Ask A Librarian” chat service. You can renew your checked-out materials online (students may renew items once) in your Personal Record: Click on “My Accounts” on the Library home page and login to “Personal Record/UB Account” with your campus Net-ID (same as what you use for D2L).

Turkey dinner imageEnjoy the holiday, everybody!

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Celebrate UWW faculty/staff Nov. 25 & 26

Posted on November 24, 2008 by Barbara

SCA graphicCelebrate the scholarship & creative achievements of UWW faculty and staff at the 21st annual reception and exhibit in the Crossman Gallery (Greenhill Center of the Arts)! The exhibit is open on Tuesday, Nov. 25. The reception takes place on Wednesday, Nov. 26, between 10:30 and noon.

Articles, artwork, books, posters, and multimedia produced by staff and faculty of the University during the period July 2007-June 2008 will be on display. Refreshments will be available during the reception.

This event is co-sponsored by the Chancellor, University Library, Crossman Gallery, Office of Research & Sponsored Programs, and Photo/Graphics.

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Tracking the President-Elect’s Actions

Posted on November 21, 2008 by Barbara

OK, the election is over, and between now and Inauguration Day (January 20th, 2009) President-Elect Barack Obama has a lot of work to do and decisions to make before assuming his duties as our 44th President.

Change.gov graphicYou can track his transition to the White House at Change.gov, the Office of the President-Elect’s web site. Read the blog, watch weekly web video addresses, send Obama and his transition teams your advice, read bios of Obama, Biden, appointees, and more.

Audacity of Hope cover Dreams from My Father coverYour University Library has two books by Obama if you’d like to learn more about him: The audacity of hope: thoughts on reclaiming the American dream and Dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritance. If UWW’s copies are checked out, students and staff may borrow copies from other UW libraries using the free Universal Borrowing service. Requested items arrive in 2-4 weekdays. You can also use Library article databases such as Biography Reference Bank Select Edition (WilsonWeb) to search for additional information.

Please ask a reference librarian if you’d like some assistance in finding materials.

Government Printing Office logo

The University 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 electronically. Come check out your government at the University Library!

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