The Andersen Library Blog

T³: Adding Library Resources to a Canvas Course

Posted on September 6, 2018 by Diana

The Library Resources integration in Canvas syncs with our LibGuides system to automatically load the appropriate library research guide into your Canvas course. We use the course name and number to determine if a particular course guide or a subject guide is the best fit for your course. Please contact your liaison librarian if you want an individual course page or you have additional questions. You can see our full list of guides at: http://libguides.uww.edu.

Activate the Library Resources Integration (PDF with full screenshots):

Sign into Canvas (https://www.uww.edu/canvas)
From the Dashboard, select the course to which you will add the Library Resources integration.
From the course Home, select Settings
Select Navigation from the tabs across the top
Scroll down the page until you see Library Resources in the list of options. If you are adding it for the first time, it will be under “Drag items here to hide them from students.”
Select Library Resources and drag the rectangle up to the top portion of the page. Make sure Library Resources is somewhere in the top list so that it will show in the course navigation.
Make sure to select SAVE at the bottom of the page after you have moved Library Resources to the top list.
Library Resources will now appear in your course navigation and in the student view navigation. Student view:

Screenshot of student view of integrated library guide in Canvas course

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Summer Renovations Complete!

Posted on September 5, 2018 by Nancy Bennett

The month of September marks a new semester, and an even newer library! Summer renovations are complete, and from the renewed layout spawns renewed learning space and opportunities for students. Whether it be new carpeting, re-positioning of book shelves for heightened visibility, or the arranging of more collaborative study spaces, the library will continue to offer ideal study spaces for all students alike.

Here at the Andersen Library, we pride ourselves on extending the academic experience well-beyond the classroom. We hope with the completed renovations, we are sure to have done that!

Check out some photos of the new layout:

Cafe/TV Area
Soft Seating
Walkway
Collaborative Spacing

Worm's Eye View
More Collaborative Spacing
Overview
Carpet Dynamics

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New Stuff Tuesday — Sept. 4, 2018

Posted on September 4, 2018 by Naomi Schemm

Pedal Power book cover

Pedal power: How one community became the bicycle capital of the world

Allan Drummond

2nd floor, call number E Dru

In recent years I’ve become a bit of a bike aficionado: for five years now, at my previous job and this one, I’ve lived close enough to work to bike-commute every day, and thanks to Whitewater’s small size I can bike to 95% of my errands in town too.

So imagine my delight when I saw this children’s book on the “new” list! The inspiring story of how Amsterdam became the bike capital of the world is told through everyday people, mothers and children, who wanted a safer and more people-friendly way to travel through their city. The interesting text and whimsical, motion-filled illustrations are balanced by equally-as-interesting front- and end-papers and an Author’s Note with historical photos from Amsterdam’s protests. The result of this history is a city with bike-stoplights and an enduring love affair with its bikes, as shown in this mini documentary.

While our small college town may be not known as much of a bike mecca compared to neighbors like Madison or bigger cities, our city leaders have for years tried to improve the bicycle infrastructure – for example by developing our Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan, and indeed we can see the fruits of such planning in the many bike trails that leave from or near the UW-Whitewater campus. Try one of the routes around town, or even in the beautiful Kettle Moraine forest or in the rural areas outside of town if you’re up for a longer distance!

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New Stuff Tuesday — August 28, 2018

Posted on August 29, 2018 by Ellen Latorraca

Discurso el oso

Discurso del Oso
por Julio Cortázar; ilustraciones por Emilio Urberuaga
E Cor
New Arrivals Island, 2nd floor

While Cortázar’s Discurso del oso (Bear’s speech) is presented as a children’s picture book, the story was originally written for the children of a friend, and later published in his Historia de cronopios y famas. In Cortázar form – surreal, imaginative, absurd – the sounds and thumps the human inhabitants hear in the walls of their apartment building are not faulty pipes or noisy neighbors, but the bear, traveling through the pipes, and observing the humans and their curious behaviors. The reader can listen along to the story read by the author himself:

[youtube]https://youtu.be/XZBy8GhmUW8[/youtube]

New arrivals to the Curriculum Collection now include an increased number of Spanish language titles. These will be shelved alongside Curriculum Collection Easy, Fiction, and Nonfiction titles, and be quickly identified by the Spanish/Español spine label:

Titles can also be browsed in Research@UWW by typing the phrase “Spanish language” and then using the location limiter for Curriculum Collection Easy, Fiction, and Nonfiction.

Pinterest users may watch for new titles as we pin them to our Spanish Language Children’s Books board.

Do you have a favorite children’s book in a language other than English? We invite your recommendations! Please use our online suggestion form.

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September ’18 Book Sale

Posted on August 27, 2018 by Martha

The September book sale selection is out and ready for you to peruse. This month you’ll be able to choose amongst biography, gardening, health, history, and psychology books for the one (or two or three) that best suit you. Books cost just $1 each through September 25, then they’ll be $.25 through the end of that month.

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Andersen Library welcomes you!

Posted on August 20, 2018 by Barbara

Welcome (back) to UWW! Find us at various Welcome Week events:

Andersen Library entrance photo

Wednesday, August 22

9am & 1:30pm: RA Resource Fair

Friday, August 24

1-2pm: Library Services & Online Resources (Andersen Library L2211)

Monday, August 27

5-7pm: Graduate School & Nontraditional Student Orientation (UC Hamilton Room)

Wednesday, August 29

1:30-2:30pm: Involvement Opportunity Fair for faculty and staff (UC 259)

Monday, September 3

4-6pm: HawkFest for first year students

Don’t see an event for you? Can’t make it?

Well, c’mon in, or give us a call or an email! We’ll be happy to set up a time to meet with you! Call the Reference Desk at (262) 472-1032 or email refdesk@uww.edu.

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Library Hours, Aug. 20-Sept. 6

Posted on August 20, 2018 by Barbara

Photo of Andersen Library building in the background and coneflowers in the foreground Summer Session ended last week!

Andersen Library’s Summer Break (August 20-September 3) hours will be:

Mon.-Fri.: 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Sat.-Sun.: Closed
EXCEPTIONS:
- Mon. Sept. 3 (Labor Day): Closed

image of blackboard with Welcome Back to School in white letters

Andersen Library’s hours for the first three days of Fall semester classes have earlier closing times than usual:

Tues.-Thurs., Sept. 4-6: 7:30 a.m.-10 p.m.

Regular Fall Semester Andersen Library hours begin on Friday, September 7:

Mon.-Thurs.: 7:30 a.m.-2 a.m.
Fri.: 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sat.: 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sun.: 11 a.m.-2 a.m.

Of course, even when the Library is closed, online access to databases including online full-text articles, library holdings listed in Books, media and more (UW Whitewater) including ebooks, and Ask a Librarian online assistance via chat will be available.

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New Stuff Tuesday – August 7, 2018

Posted on August 7, 2018 by Martha

Ready Player One book cover

Ready Player One
by Ernest Cline
PS3603.L548 R43 2011
Main Collection, 3rd floor

You may have heard of a little blockbuster movie in the theaters this summer, called Ready Player One. We have not one, but TWO copies of the book that inspired the film available through Andersen Library for your reading pleasure. I like reading books related to movies I’ve seen or will see because they almost always to provide more detail that the movies possibly could. Although Cline was a screenwriter on this film version and could pick and choose the most relevant pages for it, how could even he possibly capture everything from the book in a mere 2 hours 20 minutes? That is why I read the books. I need to know!

This engrossing science fiction novel shows both dystopian and utopian sides of the foreseeable future. The protagonist Wade Watts finds little to love about his reality, but in virtual reality he, and many others, enjoy a far better world called the OASIS. Upon the death of the massive multiplayer game’s eccentric creator, a video is released in which he challenges users to find his “Easter Egg.” Wade is all game for this. If he solves the puzzles he will gain massive fortune and power, however, he’s not the only one putting the pieces together and those other people are out for blood. If you geek 1980s pop culture and classic video games you will surely like this book. A lot. It sucked me in from the first page. Oh, and don’t skip over the footnotes.

Check out this CBS Sunday Morning interview with Ernest Cline about the book.

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New Stuff Tuesday — July 24, 2018

Posted on July 24, 2018 by Naomi Schemm

How the Cookie Crumbled

How the cookie crumbled: The true (and not-so-true) stories of the invention of the chocolate chip cookie
by Gilbert Ford
E For
Curriculum collection, Easy books, 2nd floor

I’d heard the origin story – perhaps you have too – of how some baker had forgotten the vital ingredient, the baking chocolate, in her chocolate cookie recipe. She broke up a Nestle chocolate bar and hoped the chocolate pieces would melt while baking. They didn’t, and the chocolate chip cookie was born.

Well, turns out there are plenty of variants on that story, and like most stories, the truth is a bit different, as is explained in a minor authorial intrusion in the middle of the story. I won’t ruin the surprise for you, but suffice to say that the real story of baker and restaurant entrepreneur Ruth Wakefield’s invention – and its amazingly fast adoption as America’s classic cookie – is more interesting than the fantasy ones. The various other stories are probably more of a creative invention by Nestle than anything else. Within a few years after the recipe’s creation, Nestle was carrying the “Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie” recipe on every bag of its chocolate chips – a product they specially designed to match her recipe.

The bright and cheery illustrations (and a sprinkling of food puns throughout the text) make this book fun to read for adults and kids alike. And Ruth’s original recipe at the back makes me want to go make that simplest and best of home recipes. Mmmm!