Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize winner and founding coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, will speak at 7p.m. in the Young Auditorium on Wed., Mar. 19, 2008 on “An Individual’s Impact on Social and Political Change.”
You can find some articles by Ms. Williams in the Academic Search Premier database (search for au williams, jody).
This is the latest installment of the 2007-2008 Contemporary Issues Lecture Series, offered by the College of Letters and Sciences.
We’re GOOgle for gadgets!
We’re all becoming converts to iGoogle. If you’ve not heard of it yet iGoogle is a fabulous productivity tool that Google released a while back. It allows users to add all kinds of useful “gadgets” to their homepage. Imagine having all your RSS feeds, blogs, to-do-lists, calendars, and images in one place! Neatly arranged! You can also choose nifty themes to decorate your page.
We love iGoogle so much that we made a gadget for the Library. Now you can have access to books, articles and all your library accounts right at your finger tips!
Check out our gadget and tell us what you think!
You can also search for our gadget under “whitewater” at add new stuff.
A Container Gardening program will be presented on Fri., Mar. 14, 2008 from 1:30–2:30 pm by Amy Sanders, perennial grower, and Patty Kuper, sales manager, of Pesche’s Greenhouse, Floral & Gifts. Location: International Education Conference Room (Andersen Library, L2254)
During the session they will have a handout called “Container Design Book for Gardeners” by Proven Winners, a major supplier of bedding, grasses, shrubs and potted plants that are often featured on P. Allen Smith‘s public television gardening show. There will also be examples of containers, container soils, soil amendments, etc.
This program is sponsored by the Friends of the University Library, just in time for spring, which starts March 20th!
This is your last chance to take the LibQUAL library service survey !
Students are eligible for a $50 gift certificate to Amazon.com (four will be awarded to randomly-selected student survey participants).
Many (not all) of you, are getting an email asking you to take the survey, which is used to measure your perceptions of the quality of the library services you receive. It looks at gaps between your minimum expectations, your perceived expectations, and your desired expectations. You can also use the link to the survey on the left side of the library home page.
Comments are very welcome also. In fact, when we used the survey in 2004 we got many useful comments and took action on them, including adding new database subscriptions and comfortable seating, and removing the entrance turnstile.
Thank you for your help! We are looking forward to your feedback.
Did you know blogging is good for you?
I saw it on my Discover News iGoogle gadget. Researchers James Baker and Susan Moore have been investigating the psychological benefits of blogging and regularly updating personal Web pages, likening it to journal-keeping.
Read more about it:
Wow, I knew there had to be a reason I felt so good today! You could try it–posting a comment to a blog probably works too.
The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture‘s Agricultural Research Service publishes Agricultural Research, a science magazine online since 1996. Selected articles have been collected in ARS Entomology Research Highlights 2000-2006 (available in the Library’s Federal documents collection at A 77.2/A:EN 8).
Now, let me disclose up front that I am not fond of bugs. But these articles and the work they discuss are fascinating even to me. And it isn’t quite all bugs either–plant and animal tidbits are mentioned too (like Annie the Jersey cow who has a bioengineered defense against mastitis).
One article is: “We don’t cotton to boll weevil ’round here anymore” (pp. 16-20)
Abstract: The boll weevil has plagued the U.S. cotton industry since it entered the U.S. from Mexico in 1892, costing more than $22 billion. Georgia’s 1915 cotton production (pre-weevil) was 2.8 million cotton bales, which dropped to 112,000 bales by 1983. The weevil has been considered by many experts as “second only to the Civil War as an agent of change in the South.” Enterprise, AL, even erected a Boll Weevil Monument in 1919! But thanks to research and hard work since the 1970’s, boll weevil eradication has almost become a reality. Georgia began its eradication program in 1987, and in 2000 its cotton production was up to 1.66 million bales. Very good news, because the cotton industry in Georgia provides 53,000 jobs and has an annual economic impact of more than $3 billion. How does eradication work? Read the article…
Other articles discuss a whole host of creepy crawlies (termites, honey bees, Africanized honey bees, fire ants, wheat aphids, mealybugs, whiteflies, red flour beetles, and many more), genetic engineering of crops to increase pest resistance, and the search for alternatives to DEET to provide a more pleasant insect-repelling experience.
Check it out!
Interested in more information on these topics? Try searching the Library’s science databases.
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!
Raymond A. Winbush, Director of the Institute for Urban Research, a social science research institute at Morgan State University (MD), will speak on Tuesday, March 11, 2008, at 4pm in Upham 145. His talk on “Challenging African American Males” is part of the African American Heritage Lecture Series.
Mr. Winbush is the author of The warrior method : a program for rearing healthy Black boys. The synopsis from Barnesandnoble.com reveals that the program described in this book is designed to help boys become strong, self-reliant men and instill the values of self-respect, dignity, and honor by drawing on such African traditions as the “Birthing Circle” and a “Young Warriors Council.”
UWW students and staff may borrow this title free from other UW libraries using the Universal Borrowing service. Requested materials arrive in 2-4 weekdays.
You Have No Rights:
Stories of America in an Age of Repression
by Matthew Rothschild
KF4749 .R68 2007
New Book Island, 2nd floor
Martha has a sign on her door that reads, ‘The FBI has not been here.’ She says that if it disappears, then agents have paid her a visit. Although made in jest, today’s featured book highlights over 80 breaches of civil liberties.
How would you respond to a visit from law enforcement because of possible left-leaning connections? One man responded, “I’m very liberal and sometimes my friends say I’m giving them some kind of paranoid, nutty stuff, and I agree, but then the FBI shows up,” after being reported for reading a leftist article in line for coffee. Rothschild, editor of The Progressive and Madison resident, has compiled stories from regular people that have experienced their rights being violated – all in the name of national security. These personal accounts put a face on the effects of the increased powers in the anti-terrorism age and require the reader to think, “How far is too far?”
If you receive an email about the LibQUAL+ survey, and you have not already completed it, please take a few minutes to do so!
Many (not all) of you, are getting an email asking you to take the survey. LibQUAL was developed by the Association of Research Libraries and is used by many libraries nationally to measure users’ perceptions of the quality of the library services they receive by identifying gaps between minimal, desired, and perceived levels of service.
Students will be eligible for a $50 gift certificate to Amazon.com (four gift certificates will be awarded to randomly-selected student survey participants).
Comments are welcome also. In fact, when we used the survey in 2004 we got many useful comments and took action on them, including adding new database subscriptions and comfortable seating, and removing the entrance turnstile.
Thank you for your help! We are looking forward to your feedback.
Dr. Daniel N. Nelson, Senior Fellow, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, Washington, DC, will talk on “A New American Foreign Policy?” on March 4, at 4p.m. in Hyer 320. His talk will be followed by discussion.
UWW students and staff may borrow (free) several of his books from other UW campus libraries using the Universal Borrowing service. Requested materials arrive in 2-4 weekdays.
He has written articles also, many of which may be found by searching Library databases. Newspaper articles, for example, may be found by searching the ProQuest Newspapers database for AU(nelson, daniel n).
