The Andersen Library Blog

Andersen Library Presents: Relaxathon (Fall 18′)

Posted on December 3, 2018 by Nancy Bennett

There’s no denying it, the weeks that follow Thanksgiving, leading up to the promise of Winter Break, are a stress filled journey of papers, projects, and tests. Juggling these due dates can quickly get overwhelming, so it’s important that you stop and take a break. The Andersen Library is here to help you do just that! From December 3 until December 20, there will be daily activities, offering several opportunities to take a quick break from the stress of finals, and rejuvenate your motivation.

Collaborating with several organizations across campus, the Andersen Library is excited to offer Relax Snax, with University Heath and Counseling Services (UHCS), Paint and Sip, with the Student Art Association (SAA), and an NBA 2K19 Tournament, partnered with and hosted at Warhawk Alley. As always, Pet Therapy will continue, increasing in frequency as we approach finals week.

Likewise, through several hands-on activities, there are many opportunities to allow your mind a much-needed break, whenever you need it. Make sure to visit our Stress Navigation Station to reevaluate your own, personal stress-coping mechanisms, and take a moment to color a picture, or complete a word search.

Navigating stress can be difficult, especially when schedules are stretched to the max and taking a break seems like an unproductive waste of time. But by allowing your mind a little time to relax, even just for a few moments, motivation and productivity will return, making finals week just a little bit easier.

Check out these visuals (Relaxathon, Paint and Sip, NBA 2K Tournament) to learn more. Also, visit us online for Relaxathon’s full line-up with dates and times: library.uww.edu/about-us/news-events

We look forward to seeing you here, at the Andersen Library. Best of luck with finals!

Pet Therapy

2K Tournament (Dec. 5th)

Paint N’ Sip (Dec. 6th)

Life-Sized Games (Dec. 7th- 11th)

UHCS Relax Snax (Dec. 11th)

Zen Rock Painting (Dec. 12th)

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New Stuff Tuesday — Nov. 27, 2018

Posted on November 27, 2018 by Naomi Schemm

Book cover for DIY Circus Lab for kids

DIY circus lab for kids: A family-friendly guide for juggling, balancing, clowning and show-making

by Jackie Leigh Davis

791.3 Dav
New Arrivals Island, 2nd Floor

This book makes me want to be a 10-year-old again with lots of spare time, creativity, willing neighbor kids, and a big backyard, so I could try out some of these fun creations!

The expected tricks – juggling, tightrope walking – make their appearances, but so too do the unexpected – the poi, the diabolo, the rola bola. Each section begins with step-by-step directions for how to make your own item in question, with adult help as may be needed. Then in the ABCs of…, the author starts practitioners with the most basic moves, working up to more complicated. Safety is demonstrated throughout, with clear directions for how and when to use a spotter or otherwise practice with less chance of injury.

Full-color photographs and helpful supply lists throughout make the Make Your Own tasks feel do-able to most kids with access to a hardware store and a helpful parent or friend. As for the circus activities, I am quite sure I would be a flop at anything more challenging than hula hooping, but it’d sure be fun to try! If you’re thinking it’d be hard to learn some of these skills just from seeing pictures, the author and her Circus Lab kids have also created excellent tutorials that mirror the book at https://www.diycircuslab.com/tutorials

The author also has several helpful resource lists at the end, including curriculum connections and how circus can be incorporated into all sorts of positive social empowerment movements.

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Indigenous Sustainability: Honoring Lands, Resurging Communities, Resisting Injustice

Posted on November 26, 2018 by Barbara

Dr. Kyle Whyte, Timnick Chair in the Humanities at Michigan State University and Associate Professor of Philosophy and Community Sustainability, will talk about “Indigenous Sustainability: Honoring Lands, Resurging Communities, Resisting Injustice” on Mon., Nov. 26, 2018 at 7pm in the Irvin L. Young Auditorium. It’s part of the Contemporary Issues Lecture series!

Andersen Library’s resources can help you read some of Dr. Whyte’s publications, such as the articles “Indigenous women, climate change impacts, and collective action” (Hypatia, 2014, vol.29:no.3, pp.599-616), “Justice forward: Tribes, climate adaptation and responsibility” (Climatic Change, 2013, vol.120:no.3, pp.117-130), and “Weaving Indigenous science, protocols and sustainability science” (Sustainability Science, 2016, vol.11:no.1, pp.25-32), and the 2015 Forest Service publication Climate change through an intersectional lens: Gendered vulnerability and resilience in indigenous communities in the United States (General technical report PNW ; 923). Dr. Whyte provides a list online of his forthcoming and currently published articles, and his website also offers essays, a video, teaching materials, and more.

There also are other resources such as the books Rethinking resource management: Justice, sustainability and indigenous peoples (online via EBSCO eBook Collection) and Seventh generation earth ethics: Native voices of Wisconsin (2nd-Floor New Arrivals Island, E78.W8 L654 2014).

If you’d like assistance with finding additional information, please ask a librarian (choose chat or email, phone 262-472-1032, or visit the Reference Desk).

Andersen Library is a federal depository library with federal government documents on a variety of current and relevant issues available to you in various formats (print, DVD/CD-ROM, online). Check out your government at Andersen Library!

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New Stuff Tuesday – November 20, 2018

Posted on November 20, 2018 by Ellen Latorraca

game box for Gravity Maze Logic Game Gravity Maze: Falling Marbles Logic Game
by ThinkFun GV1507.M3 G7 2014
New Arrivals Island, 2nd Floor

Did you know that the Curriculum Collection Teaching Tools contains board games in addition to math manipulatives, puppets, and robotics? Many items have a direct correlation to a teaching standard. Others simply support social interaction, collaboration, and play – for both the preK-12 crowd as well as the rest of us.

Teaching Tools will now be featured at the New Arrivals Island alongside the more scholarly fare. Test your visual perception and reasoning skills with this new one, Gravity Maze, a single player game. Choose a beginner, intermediate, advanced, or expert challenge card, place the starting block and red target block as shown in the challenge card, and using only the color cubes indicated on the card create a maze that will carry the marble from the start to the red target block. It sounds simple, but don’t get cheeky and skip from the #1 beginner card to an intermediate card as I did. I abandoned that shortcut after a few failed attempts, and humbled myself back to the beginner cards.

Stop in before taking off for Thanksgiving break, browse the New Arrivals Island and Teaching Tools collection on the 2nd floor, and pick a few games to check out for the holidays!

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Thanksgiving Hours (Library, Café)

Posted on November 16, 2018 by Barbara

clip art of horn of plenty Plan ahead! Hours of the Andersen Library and Food for Thought Café are affected by the Thanksgiving holiday.

The Food for Thought Café will be closed Wed. through Fri., Nov. 21-23 (and closed on the weekend, as is usual).

Andersen Library’s hours for the holiday week are:

Mon.-Tues., Nov. 19-20: normal hours (7:30am-2am)
Wed., Nov. 21st: 8am-4:30pm
Thurs., Nov. 22nd: CLOSED
Fri., Nov. 23rd: 8am-4:30pm
Sat., Nov. 24th: CLOSED
Sun., Nov. 25th: 3pm-2am

Please remember that even when the physical Library is closed, you can:

Search the article databases (login when prompted with your campus Net-ID, same as for your campus email or D2L/Canvas) or Research@UWW (sign in to access all possible full text),
Search the Library holdings of Books, Media and more and use links to online titles
Renew checked-out books, government documents, etc. through My Account (unless you’ve already used up your allowed renewals),
Consult online guides for help, including citation guides for APA, MLA, and Turabian format, and class assignment guides, and
Ask a librarian for help using email or chat (UWW librarians respond to the emails when the Library is open, but chat is covered 24/7 by non-UWW staff).

Happy Thanksgiving! Please be safe: Drive safely (tips from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration), cook that turkey safely (tips from the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services’ “FoodSafety.gov”), and see ReadyWisconsin’s “Are You Ready for Thanksgiving?” for more safety tips.

FDLP logo Andersen Library is a federal and Wisconsin depository library with federal and state government documents on a variety of current and relevant issues available to you in various formats (print, DVD/CD-ROM, online). Check out your government at Andersen Library!

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Flu Shot Clinic

Posted on November 9, 2018 by Nancy Bennett

University Health and Counseling Services (UHCS) is once again holding their Flu Shot Clinic here at the Andersen Library. At $10 for students and $15 for staff members, getting a flu shot is made quick, affordable, and easily accessible. Visit room 3102N in the library on either Monday, Nov. 12th from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. or Wednesday, Nov. 28th from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. and get your vaccination! Plus, you receive a FREE ‘Cold Care Kit’ compliments of UHCS with some essentials to ensure you fight the bad stuff and stay healthy this flu season.

For any questions or concerns, please call UHCS at 262-472-1300

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T³: Quickly Start New Google Doc, Sheet, Form…

Posted on November 8, 2018 by Diana

Google Icon

Start a new Google Doc, Sheet, Form, Slide, or Site by just entering doc.new, sheet.new, etc. into your browser URL bar. You don’t even have to be logged into Google Drive before you try this.

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International Games Week

Posted on November 6, 2018 by Nancy Bennett

International Games Week is here, and the Andersen Library is excited to host a number of gaming activities for patrons all week long!

What began as National Games Day in 2007 evolved into International Games Week (IGW) ten years later, an event where libraries across the globe participate in local and international gaming experiences. The intention of IGW is to not only raise awareness of games and gaming in libraries, but to simply remind people and communities of the fun that can be had playing games and interacting with others. This week long event also provides game companies with the opportunity to donate it’s games to libraries throughout the world in an effort to begin or further grow library game collections.

From Monday, Nov. 5th through Friday, Nov. 9th, Andersen Library is celebrating IGW with ‘Life-Size Games’ all week (chess, checkers, Jenga, Scrabble, bowling, and more!). The Super Smash Bros. Tournament headlines Tuesday, Nov. 6th, held a Warhawk Alley at 7 p.m., and Club EdIT brings Virtual Reality right to the library on Wednesday, Nov. 7th from 5-7 p.m. We round off the week on Friday with ‘Grab N’ Game’.

Check out the photos below from a successful Day 1! :

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New Stuff Tuesday – November 6, 2018

Posted on November 5, 2018 by James Castrillo

Remembering Muscle Beach book cover Remembering Muscle Beach
by Harold Zinkin
GV546.5 .Z56 1999
New Arrivals Island, 2nd floor

Remembering Muscle Beach is photographic memoir that covers the early days of the fitness and weight lifting craze that begin in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s in Santa Monica, California. The book focuses on a humble origin of Southern Californians that were obsessed with improving their “beach bods” before there was even a term for such things. While Zinkin himself was not the photographer of most featured, the book features his hard work of tracking down about 100 photos from the personal collections of the people who lived the life on muscle beach. Without the work of these early days, the mainstreaming of body building as featured in 1977’s Pumping Iron may never have occurred.

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Daylight Saving Time ends : Fall back Saturday night/Sunday morning

Posted on November 3, 2018 by Barbara

clock image Please remember to set your clocks and watches back an hour this Sunday, November 4, at 2am (or whenever you get up on Sunday, or before you go to sleep Saturday night), in observance of the end of Daylight Saving Time (DST). Whee! An extra hour for sleep or study!

Do you find the time change disruptive? Last March Popular Mechanics provided an article explaining the benefits of Daylight Saving Time, and it cites a book, Seize the daylight: The curious and contentious story of Daylight Saving Time, which UWW students and staff may get from other UW libraries by using the free UW Request service. Requested items arrive in 2-5 weekdays. A preview of some of the text is available from Google Books.

You can learn more about the history of DST from the U.S. Naval Observatory’s “Daylight Time” web page and the article “Standard and Daylight-saving Time” (Scientific American, 1979, vol.240:no.5, pp.46-53). Many studies have been done about the effects of DST, such as “Does the transition into daylight saving time affect students’ performance?” (Economics of Education Review, 2017, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2017.07.002).