New Stuff Tuesday – October 30, 2018

Posted on October 30, 2018 by Martha

Exit West book cover

Exit West: A Novel
by Mohsin Hamid
PS3558.A42169 E95 2017
New Arrivals Island, 2nd floor

This fine, fine book by Mohsin Hamid was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize in 2017, now it comes to our shelves and is available for you to check out.

“In a city swollen by refugees but still mostly as peace, or at least not yet openly at war a young man met a young woman in a classroom and did not speak to her…” So begins this tale of two furtive lovers, Nadia and Saeed, who live in a big city. Civil war looms on the horizon, coming closer and closer each day, and eventually knocking on their door. There are other doors though, strange black doors that are rumored to be hidden around the city. Doors that lead to London, San Francisco, Greece, or Dubai. Elsewhere. Soon the couple must flee from their city with the hope of finding a better place in the world.

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Wisconsin’s Most Haunted Places

Posted on October 30, 2018 by Barbara

Chad Lewis will talk about “Wisconsin’s Most Haunted Places” on Tues., Oct. 30th, from 6-7:30pm in the Community Room at the Irvin L Young Memorial Library (Whitewater’s public library at 431 W Center St).

Description from the library’s events calendar: “This presentation takes the audience on a ghostly journey to some of the most haunted places in the state. It covers the entire state, from wandering ghosts in the North Woods, to a haunted B&B in Milwaukee. From phantom creatures prowling the woods to graveyard apparitions located in your own backyard, no place in WI is without its own hauntings.”

You can read Mr. Lewis’s article “Wisconsin’s 10 most haunted places” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Oct. 18, 2013).

If you’d like more haunting enjoyment, try out some of Andersen Library’s resources, such as these books: Haunted Wisconsin (3rd ed.!) (3rd-floor Main Collection, BF1472.U6 S37 2011, or online via Project MUSE), Haunted: Tales of the grotesque (3rd-floor Main Collection, PS3565.A8 H38 1994), The Wisconsin road guide to haunted locations by Chad Lewis and Terry Fisk (3rd-floor Main Collection, BF1472.U6 L49 2004), The haunted looking glass; Ghost stories (3rd-floor Main Collection, PZ1.G655 Hau), and many others.

Please ask a librarian (choose chat or email, phone 262-472-1032, or visit the Reference Desk) if you’d like assistance with finding materials.

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Southeast Asian Heritage Lecture

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Barbara

Bee Vang, Program Director of the TRIO Upward Bound program at UW-River Falls and recipient of a UW System Board of Regents’ Diversity Award, will talk about “Participant to Practitioner: A Personal Narrative” on Tues., Oct. 30th, 2018, from 3:30-4:30pm in UC 275A. It’s part of the Southeast Asian Heritage Lecture Series.

event posterIf you would like to learn more, Andersen Library may be able to help! Use the Library’s resources to find books about barriers to education and ways to provide support for first-generation, low-income, or Asian American students, such as Bridging research and practice to support Asian American students (3rd-floor Main Collection, LC2632 .B754 2017; preview some text at Google Books) and Faculty and first-generation college students: Bridging the classroom gap together (3rd-floor Main Collection, LC4069.6 .F14 2011; preview some text at Google Books). Also available are Congressional committee hearings such as Improving college access and completion for low-income and first-generation students (online or in print in 1st-floor U.S. Documents collection, Y 4.ED 8/1:114-13), and Congressional Research Service reports such as The TRIO programs: A primer. Use Library databases to find articles such as “Remaking selves, repositioning selves, or remaking space: An examination of Asian American college students’ processes of “belonging.” (Journal of College Student Development, 2016, vol.57:no.2, pp.135-150, doi:10.1353/csd.2016.0016).

Please ask a librarian (choose chat or email, phone 262-472-1032, or visit the Reference Desk) if you’d like assistance with finding materials.

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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Spooky Season Book Display

Posted on October 26, 2018 by Nancy Bennett

It’s officially spooky season and here at the Andersen Library we like to keep it festive! Our new
Halloween display living in the library entrance serves as a reminder to you to ‘Read More Boo-ks’. It features a number of creepy stories that are sure to give you chills, and if you find any so bewitching you can check them out for your enjoyment. Just ask at the Circulation Desk!
Come check it out, it’s sure to leave you spellbound.

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Andersen Does #BookFaceFriday

Posted on October 26, 2018 by Nancy Bennett

It’s Friday, so you know what that means… It’s #bookfacefriday time! In recognition of the international trend, the Andersen Library has given our best shot at seeing what ‘bookfaces’ we could create. For those who don’t know, #bookfacefriday is a process in which libraries and book lovers alike find books with body parts, faces, or relevant objects and line them up with to capture an interactive image. In doing so, art is given life.

We hope we inspire you to try some #bookfacefriday posts of your own! Check out our many collections here at the Andersen Library to find the perfect subject. You never know, the book you find may just become your new favorite read.

Check out some of our most recent #bookfacefriday posts below. Follow us on Instagram, @uww_library to check out our upcoming posts.

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New Stuff Tuesday — October 23, 2018

Posted on October 23, 2018 by Diana

book cover for Final Fantasy V

Boss Fight Books
by Various Authors

GV 1469.3 B67 v. 1-18 New Arrivals Island, 2nd Floor

Boss Fight Books, founded in Los Angeles in June 2013, “publishes great books about classic video games. Each book takes a critical, historical, and personal look at a single game. Some books are about the history of the game’s creation, some focus on particular elements like level design, story, and music, some investigate the subculture that has formed around a game, some will bring in outside art, science, and media, and some have a strong autobiographical element.”

Andersen Library has volumes 1-18. Here are some of the other titles:

Earthbound by Ken Baumann
Spelunky by Derek Yu
World of Warcraft by Daniel Lisi
Super Mario Brothers 2 by Jon Irwin

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Janesville – An American Story

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Barbara

cover of Janesville bookAmy Goldstein, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, will talk about her first book “Janesville – An American Story” on Mon., Oct. 22, at 7pm in the Irvin L Young Auditorium. It’s part of the Contemporary Issues Lecture Series.

Andersen Library has a couple of copies of the book (3rd-floor Main Collection and 1st-floor Special Collections, HC108.J36 G65 2017 ), and other UW campus libraries have copies UWW students and staff can request (requested items usually aarrive in 2-5 weekdays). You can preview some pages via Google Books.

If you are inspired to learn more, Andersen Library can help. There are online resources, such as Janesville’s Economy at a glance from the U.S. Dept. of Labor Statistics, the city’s “Economic Development in Janesville, WI” website, and the Pew Research Center Report “America’s shrinking middle class: A close look at changes within metropolitan areas” (2016). There are articles such as Amy Goldstein’s “What is Janesville, Wisconsin, without General Motors?” (The Atlantic, 2017, Apr. 18), “An initial study of the economic impact of General Motors pension benefits on the Greater Anderson, Indiana, community” (Journal of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences, 2013, vol.16:no.2, pp.45–54), “What happens if pensions disappear? A case analysis” (Journal of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences, 2015, vol.18, pp.77–87), and “A retrospective look at rescuing and restructuring General Motors and Chrysler” (Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2015, vol.29:no.2, p.3-24). You also can find articles written by Ms. Goldstein in databases such as ProQuest Global Newsstream, e.g., “Rare agreement: Obama, Romney, Ryan all endorse retraining for jobless-But are they right?,” “Inside the Janesville data” (ProPublica, 2012, Oct 10) and “Is job retraining the magic bullet?” (The Washington Post, 2012, Oct 21).

Please ask a librarian (choose chat or email, phone 262-472-1032, or visit the Reference Desk) if you’d like assistance with finding materials.

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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Pathway for Success: Rest Stop- Paint N’ Chill

Posted on October 19, 2018 by Nancy Bennett

Yesterday, October 18th, the Andersen Library partnered with Pathway for Success and the Student Art Association to host “Rest Stop”, an event designed to give students an opportunity to relax in the wake of midterms. With activities such as ‘Paint and Chill’ and ‘Make a Stress Ball’, students were able to follow their inspiration, painting canvases, soothing the mind as they socialized, while creating a stress ball to relieve stress for the weeks to come.

Although Pathway for Success is an organization that predominately focuses its efforts on students undergoing the first year of their degree program, this event was attended by students at all stages of their educational journey. With over 50 people in attendance, the Andersen Library is excited to continue to create events that are beneficial for its students.

Interested in what’s to come? Visit our events page here or follow us on social media.

Check out some pics from “Rest Stop” below!

 
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Learn about political polling

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Barbara

Dr. Louis Fucilla, Political Science Dept., will talk about political polling on Thurs, Oct 18, at 6:30pm in the City Council chambers in Whitewater’s city hall (312 W Whitewater St). It’s the League of Women Voters® of the Whitewater Area‘s November program, but it’s open to all!

You can check out some of the latest polls at Real Clear Politics, PollingReport.com, FiveThirtyEight, or the Marquette Law School Poll. Andersen Library provides access to a public opinion database Polling the Nations, and the Library also is having a trial of the Roper Center’s iPOLL database (the trial runs until November 15, 2018). Try it out!

You can learn more about political polling and voting behavior with many articles in Andersen Library’s databases, such as “On public opinion polls and voters’ turnout” (Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2018, vol.20:no.2, pp.239-256, doi:10.1111/jpet.12274) and “Using Wikipedia to Predict Election Outcomes” (Public Opinion Quarterly, 2017, vol.81:no.3, pp.714-735, doi:10.1093/poq/nfx007) that advocates supplementing poll data with online information-seeking behavior to improve election forecasting accuracy.

Please ask a librarian (choose chat or email, phone 262-472-1032, or visit the Reference Desk) if you’d like assistance with finding materials.

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