New Stuff Tuesday – November 6

Posted on November 6, 2007 by kyle

Don't Get Scrooged: How to Thrive in a World Full of Obnoxious, Incompetent, Arrogant and Downright Mean-Spirited People

Don’t Get Scrooged:
How to Thrive in a World Full of Obnoxious, Incompetent, Arrogant and Downright Mean-Spirited People
By Richard Carlson
MCN Car
McNaughton Collection, 2nd floor

I went to Target this weekend and found myself in the holiday section with my friend, as she was excitedly planning her Christmas decorations and tree. I thought to myself, I guess it’s that time a year again. And then I come to the library and see this book displayed on the McNaughton shelves. Perfect.

Dr. Carlson, who wrote the hugely successful book Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff, brings us the festive edition, the survival guide for getting through the end of November through the beginning of January unscathed and, well, happy. The author takes fifty common problems encountered during the ‘most wonderful time of the year’ and advises the reader how to handle the situation. For instance, what do you do when you face line jumpers while waiting to pay for the carefully chosen gifts for your loved ones? This quick read might just be your ticket to heading into the new year intact and ready to tackle those bold, possibly impossible resolutions.

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We’ll Fit in Your Carry-ons

Posted on November 5, 2007 by kyle

That is, if you have a laptop with you.

But seriously…

Are you going to be studying abroad for part or all of the spring semester? First of all, I’m incredibly jealous because I would love to study abroad again (the picture to the right is of me in Nice, France while I was studying in Barcelona). But the other thing to consider is that you have to prepare – you have to know about the place where you’ll be spending some quality time broadening your horizons. The Library has plenty of information on particular countries and even travel guides. Make sure to check them out before you’re off traveling to distant lands.

And of course, don’t forget that you can use the online resources available from the Library both here in Wisconsin as well as wherever you have internet access. Just a heads-up, the libraries don’t work the same in other countries and may be a tad confusing. You always have us to fall back on if you need help.

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What’s Going On in Whitewater?

Posted on November 1, 2007 by Barbara

What’s going on in Whitewater? How do you find out?

City of Whitewater's logo

One place to look is the official municipal web site (includes links to Whitewater videos, minutes of the Common Council and citizen committees, public service announcements, and more), or the Chamber of Commerce’s web site.

Another option is The Whitewater Banner: News, Photos, Comments, Events, and Calendar site, maintained by City Common Council at-large member Jim Stewart.

Finally, the University Library has a subscription to the local weekly newspaper, The Whitewater Register. A fresh issue is available every Thursday–come on down to the Library’s first floor newspapers area and peruse it!

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Happy Halloween!

Posted on October 31, 2007 by kyle

Happy Halloween from the Library! And just a word of advice… watch out for dog-eating crocodiles. Exhibit #1:

dog with crocodile costume

I know, I know. It’s not Friday, but I couldn’t resist. Image courtesy of Cute Overload.

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Laurie Lawlor program Nov. 13

Posted on October 31, 2007 by Barbara

This Tender Place cover

Laurie Lawlor, author of This Tender Place: The Story of a Wetland Year, will read from her book on Tuesday, November 13th, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kachel Center. The book, set in southeastern Wisconsin and based on research conducted in the University Library’s archives, is “a story of refuge and renewal refracted through the lens of life within wetlands – among the most productive, yet most endangered, ecosystems in the world.” The book was honored with a 2006 Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Achievement Book Award. More information about this award-winning book and Ms. Lawlor is available online from the publisher, the University of Wisconsin Press.

This Friends of the University Library program (open to all) will be preceded by a dinner and business meeting at 6 p.m. Dinner reservations may be made until Monday, November 5th, and cost $20. Call or email Anne Kimball (262.472.5518 or email kimballa@uww.edu) for details.

Please join us!

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New Stuff Tuesday – October 30

Posted on October 30, 2007 by kyle

Forensic Analysis on the Cutting Edge

Forensic Analysis on the Cutting Edge:
New Methods for Trade Evidence Analysis
Edited by Robert Blackledge
HV8073 .F557 2007
New Book Island, 2nd floor

I was looking for a scary book to feature today with it being Halloween tomorrow, but unfortunately, I couldn’t find one. So I thought that I’d focus on crime instead (think ‘Friday the 13th’ and its sequel ‘Saturday the 14th: The Police Investigation’ or something like that).

If you want to know the latest trends in forensic analysis, then this book is for you. The editor that compiled the readings was the senior forensic chemist at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service Regional Forensic Laboratory in San Diego (nice credentials). This volume covers the up-to-date developments in trace evidence analysis, from what airbags can tell you in an automobile accident to using ultraviolet laser to analyze ink. Don’t worry, there aren’t any pictures of horrific crime scenes. Criminals, don’t read this book because if CSI helps you evade the police, this book will too.

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Images & Photos in the Public Domain

Posted on October 29, 2007 by Barbara

Guernsey cow photo from U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

Looking for an image to spice up a class presentation? Say, perhaps a map of the 1924 Presidential election? A photo of the USS ARIZONA burning after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941? Images of plants native to the Great Lakes region? An AIDS virus image? A photo of the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site in Pennsylvania?

Cowboy photo, taken 1888 in Dakota Territory

Believe it or not, your Federal Government may be of assistance! Go to U.S. Government Photos, Graphics, and Multimedia and select “U.S. Government Photos and Graphics.”

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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Laurie Garrett @ UWW Nov. 5

Posted on October 26, 2007 by Barbara

Author Laurie Garrett will speak at the Young Auditorium on Monday, November 5, at 7 p.m., on “Betrayal of Trust: Critical Issues in Global Health Care.” She is the Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations and a past president of the National Association of Science Writers. She won a Pulitzer prize in 1996 for explanatory journalism for reporting from Zaire about an Ebola outbreak.

newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance

The University Library has a copy of her 1994 book The coming plague : newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance (Main Collection, 3rd floor, RA651 .G37 1994). Other books she has written, and a videorecording based on The coming plague, are available from other UW campus libraries by using the free Universal Borrowing service. Requested items arrive in 2-3 weekdays.

You can read several articles she has written for various periodicals by searching for her as an author in EBSCO’s Academic Search Premier database.

More information about her and her work is available from Ms. Garrett’s web site or her biography on the Council’s website.

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Terry Gross @ UWW Oct. 30

Posted on October 25, 2007 by Barbara

Terry Gross, host of the Peabody Award-winning program Fresh Air on National Public Radio, will speak at the Young Auditorium on Tuesday, October 30th, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets must be purchased to attend this event.

Her 2004 book All I did was ask: Conversations with writers, actors, musicians, and artists contains transcripts from 39 interviews with individuals such as Gene Simmons, Chris Rock, Nicolas Cage, and Conan O’Brien. It’s available to UWW students and staff from other UW campus libraries through the Universal Borrowing service (free!).

Fresh Air provides interviews with a mix of interesting people, including authors (novelist Alice Sebold and Jeffrey Toobin who wrote The Nine: Inside the secret world of the Supreme Court are recent examples), musicians (British rocker Thom Yorke of the group Radiohead), actors and directors (Mark Ruffalo), journalists, political figures, and many others. You can read transcripts from Fresh Air installments using the LexisNexis Academic database. On the search page, select “TV and Radio Broadcast Transcripts” and use this search: show(fresh air) and anchors(gross)

NPR provides her biography online, accompanied by links to audio samples of her work.

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Celebrate United Nations Day Oct. 24th

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Barbara

October 24th is United Nations Day. …um, what’s that?

It’s the anniversary of the entry into force of the United Nations Charter on October 24, 1945, and it has been celebrated as United Nations Day since 1948. In other words…Happy Birthday, United Nations!

UN flag

You can learn more about the United Nations and its history from its web site http://www.un.org/aboutun/. The site includes links to live webcasts (and an archive of past webcasts). You could, for example, click to the climate change event “The Future in our Hands: Addressing the Leadership Challenge of Climate Change” that took place at the UN headquarters on September 24, 2007.

Your University Library also has information on the UN. There are books in the Main Collection, Reference materials, articles in journals and newspapers, and selected publications from the UN itself, including the annual Yearbook of the United Nations (shelved in the International Documents collection, 2nd floor, at UN YU) and the magazine UN chronicle (shelved in the 1st floor Periodicals collection, and online through the Ebsco Academic Search Premier database).

Government Printing Office logo

The University Library is a federal and Wisconsin 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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