New Stuff Tuesday – October 15, 2019

Posted on October 14, 2019 by James Castrillo
Teaching U.S. History Through Sports Book Cover

Teaching U.S. History Through Sports
edited by Brad Austin and Pamela Grundy
New Arrivals Island, 2nd Floor
GV583 .T43 2019

This book sets up a way of related history through our popular past time of sports. In mind the audience of this book is classroom teachers. While sports are often viewed in a very 1 dimensional way of who wins or loses according to a set of rules, this book shows how actions by athletes, coaches, and fans have pushed forward the country. Our nation’s games can highlight the changes of our social fabric. While not always positive in result, the book also highlights the tremendous social costs that athletes pay when they speak up for their beliefs and are rejected or condemned. An example of this is shown on the cover. In 1968 at the Olympic Games in Mexico City, Tommie Smith and John Carlos received death threats when they silently raised their fists in protests of civil rights in the United States. This book will highlight important historical events through sports, and guide teachers how to navigate the teaching of social change.

For more on Smith’s, check out his autobigography from our main collection.

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Early Days of Animation & Cinema

Posted on October 14, 2019 by Martha

Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the birth of Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau, whom it credits with inventing a device that shows the earliest form of animation. That device is called a phénakistiscope. The true story of the first animation is more complicated than given there and involves several other inventors. Want to read more about the topic? Check out this thorough article by Richard J. Leskosky in Film History: Phenakiscope: 19th Century Science Turned to Animation. I only meant to read the first page, but got pulled in to reading more of the research article. Fascinating!

Thank Sean Hollister’s Verge article for enlightning us to the back story: Google Doodle Pays Tribute to Joseph Plateau, Who Paved the Way for Cinema with the Phenakistiscope.

Eadweard Muybridge’s Phenakistoscope: A Couple Waltzing. From Wikimedia
The Zoopraxiscope – A Couple Waltzing. From Wikimedia
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Learn about Census 2020

Posted on October 14, 2019 by Barbara

On Thursday, October 17th, at 6:30pm, the League of Women Voters of the Whitewater Area will host a public program in the Whitewater Municipal Building’s Council Chambers (312 W Whitewater St, Whitewater) about the 2020 Census and how to participate in the process.

Program speakers include Patricia Gillette, Partnership Specialist with the Chicago Regional Office of the Census Bureau and US Census representative for the Whitewater area and Miguel Aranda, UW-Whitewater graduate student, member of Whitewater’s Complete Count Committee and advisor for the UW-Whitewater chapter of Voto Latino.

The program will explain the process of the count and will address lingering concerns over the confidentiality of personal information and distrust following recent heated debates of adding a citizenship question, which will not be a component of the Census. Learn more about it at the Census Bureau’s website for Census 2020.

Census2020 web site screenshot

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UW-W Staff – Grouping Together

Posted on October 11, 2019 by Shannan Lojeski

It’s back – the UW-W Staff Book Group at Andersen Library! This club meets every Wednesday from 12-1 pm until November 6th to discuss new books and share some coffee and treats over bookish conversation.

The Club’s current read is MAID: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive by Stephanie Land, a gritty and raw memoir on her life as a single mother and maid clawing herself out of poverty. Land’s book not only empowers women, but also explores the foundation of the upper-middle class of America and what it really means to be the servants underneath them.

Andersen is happy to see staff grouping together and hitting the books again and can’t wait to hear what their next read will be!

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New Stuff Tuesday – October 8th

Posted on October 8, 2019 by Jennifer Motszko
College Hi Yearbook

Whitewater College High School Yearbooks, 1940-1942
Archives & Area Research Center, 1st Floor

From the very beginning of the Whitewater Normal School (now UW-Whitewater) until the 1960s, the college offered a training or laboratory school for local children, kindergarten through eighth grade, where student teachers could practice. From 1915 to 1959, a high school program was also offered.

Recently, three volumes of the Whitewater College High School yearbook were donated to the Archives. Like the University yearbook, the high school yearbooks were also titled The Minneiska. The College High yearbooks, while thinner in size, document many of the same events and organizations, including class photos and activities.

College Hi Yearbook

These books provide a unique look at what it was like to be a high school student on a college campus. Stop by the Archives & Area Research Center to view these items and learn more about the history of the training schools on campus.

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Catching Dreams

Posted on October 4, 2019 by Shannan Lojeski

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As you all know, Andersen Library likes to get crafty. All throughout the year we facilitate various workshops that encourage students to share their artistic talents while also providing them a space to de-stress – even if just for a short time.

While they’re always fun, Andersen tries to make our craft workshops mean more than just glitter and popsicle sticks.

Last Thursday on September 26th from 5:00-6:30 pm, Andersen Library hosted the Native American Cultural Awareness Association (NACAA) for their Dream Catcher Workshop. Titled “Finding Beauty Within”, the workshop was led by Karen Hartman of the Brothertown Nation. Inspired by her novel “Dream Catcher: The Legend, the Lady, the Woman”, Hartman led 38 students through a brief history on the importance and cultural relevance of the dream catcher to Native Americans. Students were then taught how to make their very own dream catcher which they got to take home!

We all know how important good sleep is which is why each dream catcher was uniquely created by every student to catch their bad dreams and allow the good ones to pass through. Here at Andersen we hope that students enjoyed this workshop and learned something new about a culture that they may not be completely familiar with.

Thank you to the NACAA for sharing their wisdom, Karen Hartman for teaching her beautiful techniques, and to Martha Stephenson for organizing the event.

Sweet dreams Warhawks!

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Welcome the Systems and Equipment Assistant Candidates to Andersen Library!

Posted on October 2, 2019 by Andy KRAMER

Over the next few days, the library will be interviewing candidates for the open Systems & Equipment Assistant (LSA-Advanced). This position provides support for students and staff using library equipment at the Andersen and Lenox Libraries. Other responsibilities also include maintenance of the libraries’ lending technology, and public and staff hardware as well as providing public services in the Access Services Department.  This is an important position and we are excited to have such strong candidates. 

The three finalists are:

  • Nicole Coonen
  • Christopher Perez
  • Andrea Sather

Please greet and welcome our candidates as they will be touring the Andersen Library during their interviews.

Systems & Equipment Assistant

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Oct. 1: International Day of Older Persons

Posted on October 1, 2019 by Barbara

In 1990 the United Nations designated October 1 as the International Day of Older Persons to educate the public, raise awareness, and celebrate the older segment of the population. The portion of the population that is over 60 is growing fast, and it is expected to grow by 46% between 207 and 2030. As the UN’s webpage for this day says, this may be “one of the most significant social transformations of the 21st century.”

As university students prepare themselves for future careers, this trend may be something to consider. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that by 2030 1 in 5 people in the United States will be at least 65 years old. That’s a lot of people consuming goods and services, and affecting our economy, health care system, politics, workforce, educational system, and more.

book coverWould you like to learn more? UW-Whitewater’s Libraries may be able to help, with books such as 101+ careers in gerontology (3rd-floor Main Collection, HQ1064.U5 G66 2015), Quality in ageing and older adults: Promoting excellence in services through research, policy and practice : Older people as voters, citizens and changemakers (online via ProQuest Ebook Central) and many articles including “Why older workers work beyond the retirement age: A qualitative study” (BMC Public Health, 2017, vol.17:no.1, pp.1-9), “A social work perspective on how ageist language, discourses and understandings negatively frame older people and why taking a critical social work stance is essential” (British Journal of Social Work, 2017, vol.47:no.7, pp.2068-2085), “Multidimensional comparison of countries’ adaptation to societal aging” (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018, vol.115:no.37, pp.9169-9174), “Retaining an ageing workforce: The effects of high‐performance work systems and flexible work programmes” (Human Resource Management Journal, 2018, vol.28:no.4, pp.585-604). and “Attitudes toward aging: Using drawing as a teaching tool to prepare undergraduate students to work in an aging world (College Student Journal, 2019, vol.53:no.2, pp.216-228).

For assistance with finding additional resources, such as articles or books, please ask a librarian (visit or contact staff at the Reference Desk, email, chat, or make an appointment).

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Book Sale October 2019

Posted on October 1, 2019 by Martha

The first day of Halloween has arrived! Come on over to the Andersen Library to see what the library has for sale this month. Each book on the carts has spooooky black letters on ghostly pale pages. Some have illustrations (grim or otherwise). Lots for you to peruse and potentially buy for $1. The monthly 25¢ treat sale starts on the 25th day of the month and runs through the 31st. Don’t delay too long, as your perfect book could be sold before you get here, which would be very sad. 🙁

Jack-O'-Lanterns

Books this month have the subjects of religion, philosophy, psychology, politics, law, mathematics, and statistics. There are a few literature titles thrown in as well. First person to find Pulitzer Prize winning Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout wins the day! If you do not find it there, you can always borrow our copy from the Great Minds Collection or use UW Request in Research@UWW to borrow the book or the HBO Miniseries from one of our sister campuses. Good luck!

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New Stuff Tuesday – October 1, 2019

Posted on October 1, 2019 by Martha
Whiskey Words & a Shovel Book Cover

whiskey words & a shovel
by Author r. h. Sin
New Arrivals Island, 2nd Floor
PS3619.I56674 W5 2016

This well-received book of poetry is the first in a trilogy. The Andersen Library owns all three books in the Main Collection under the same call number shown here. Borrow them and get cozy with r.h. Sin.

This first volume was originally self-published in 2015, but was picked up by Andrews McMeel Publishing and updated the next year. The publisher states, this book “is about reclaiming your power on the path to a healthy relationship. It is a testament to choosing to love yourself, even if it means heartbreak.” All the poems are dedicated to Sin’s muse, and now wife, Samantha King Holmes.

Primarily short, perhaps a result of frequently writing and posting tweets, Sins’ poetry is visceral and emotional. It packs a definite punch. If you love his words and want to see what he’s doing now, check out his latest posts on social media. Should you wish to wear his words, he has had them emblazoned on clothing.

Want to read more about r.h. Sin? Check out The Life of an Instagram Poet in the online New Yorker.

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