The Andersen Library Blog

Becoming Ryan: Eating Disorder Recovery

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Barbara

Ryan Sallans will talk about “Becoming Ryan: Eating Disorder Recovery” at 7 pm on Mon, Feb 5, 2018 in the University Center’s Hamilton Room.

Ryan shares his transition story where he explores the intersections of identity as his identities changed. His story begins with his childhood and the struggles he had with his body, before moving into his college years where he struggled with anorexia nervosa. When he began coming out as transgender, he speaks to his experiences around rejection from family and his lesbian partner, discrimination from healthcare providers and employment, and struggles with financial resources to assist in his physical transition. — from the campus calendar

Sallans is a transgender speaker, author, trainer, and advocate who specializes in eating disorders, campus inclusion, and workplace issues impacting the transgender and LGBTQ community. He is the author of the book Second son: Transitioning toward my destiny, love and life (summary at Google Books).

Andersen Library has other resources to learn more, including books such as Coming out: An act of love (3rd-floor Main Collection, HQ75.2 .E53 1991), Crossing: A memoir (3rd-floor Main Collection, HQ77.8.M39 A3 1999; preview text available at Google Books), and Black LGBT health in the United States: The intersection of race, gender, and sexual orientation (3rd-floor Main Collection, RA564.9.S49 B53 2017). 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.

Learn more about Sallans at the website https://www.ryansallans.com/

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Resume Doctor here at the Andersen Library

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Nancy Bennett

The Spring Hawk Career Fair–featuring scores of potential employers–is slated to span over two days in February (Feb. 6 & 7). Clamoring to get those resumes in order? Don’t worry! The Andersen Library will be hosting CLD for two days of Resume Doctor on Thursday and Friday (Feb. 1 & 2), noon to 4 PM. This is your chance to heal your resume!

*Contact Amy Yang (CLD) at YangAT25@uww.edu or (262) 472-1167, or Sarell Martin (Andersen Library) at MartinSD27@uww.edu or (262) 472-7164 for more information.

Resume DR Poster

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T³: Evernote for College

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Diana

Evernote, a multimedia note-taking app, can help you organize and capture information in your studies, work, and daily life. You can set up different notebooks for your courses or projects. You can put almost anything into a notebook. You can view your notebooks and add notes on our own computer, on campus computers through the Evernote website, and on mobile devices. Everything is synced automatically across your computers to your Evernote account. With Evernote you can:

Capture everything (well, almost)
- Notes you type directly into Evernote
- Microsoft Word documents
- Microsoft PowerPoint documents
- PDFs and scanned files
- Photos of handwritten notes or documents you take with your smartphone or other mobile device
- Photos or screenshots
- Audio recordings (You can record lectures with your smartphone or mobile device from within the Evernote app.)
- Websites
Organize your stuff and find it fast
- You can separate your notes into different notebooks, but you can also tag notes with labels that you create.
- Evernote has a powerful search feature, which can even search the text inside a handwritten note you’ve scanned!
- You can share your notebooks with other Evernote users or email notes to anyone.

It’s Free!
Evernote has both free and Premium accounts. The free account should meet your needs—if you pay for a Premium account, you just get a few more features and more space.

Learn More

Evernote’s Getting Started Guide
“Expand Your Brain with Evernote,” Lifehacker Back to School
“A Brief Word from an Evernote Convert,” Profhacker

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Celebrate faculty and staff scholarship & creative achievements

Posted on January 29, 2018 by Barbara

Scholarship event graphic The 30th annual exhibition of scholarly & creative works by UWW faculty & staff will celebrate accomplishments of the past year across a range of disciplines.

A sampling of the articles, artwork, books, grants, and conference presentations produced by 93 of UWW’s staff and faculty during the period July 2016-June 2017 will be displayed in the Crossman Gallery (Greenhill Center of the Arts) on Tues., Jan. 30, from 10am-5pm and 6pm-8pm. A reception will be held on Tues. from 3pm-4:30pm, with welcoming remarks by Provost Susan Elrod. Refreshments will be available during the reception and the Chancellor’s String Quartet will perform. The listing of accomplishments being recognized is online.

This event is co-sponsored by Chancellor Beverly Kopper, Provost Susan Elrod, Andersen Library, Crossman Gallery, and the Office of Research & Sponsored Programs.

Questions or require accommodations? Contact Barbara Bren at 262.472.5521 or brenb@uww.edu.

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New Stuff Tuesday – January 30, 2018

Posted on January 29, 2018 by Ellen Latorraca

The Hate U Give Audiobook Cover

The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas, Performed by Bahni Turpin
PZ7.1.T448 Hat 2017
New Arrivals, Audiobooks, 2nd floor

Angie Thomas’ debut young adult novel opens to a recognizable scene: a high school party where feelings of awkwardness, reconnections with grade school friends, and cattiness abound. A traffic stop following the party turns tragic for 16-year-old Starr and her cousin, leaving him dead and Starr’s life, if not her community, irrevocably changed. She struggles with the decision of whether or not to speak out and open herself and her family to inevitable scrutiny.

Turpin’s engaging narration successfully conveys Starr’s ability to code switch as she navigates between her mostly black neighborhood and mostly white school, and gives voice to Thomas’s powerful, fictionalized story of the Black Lives Matter movement.

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T³: Mindfulness & Focus

Posted on January 25, 2018 by Diana

Image of stress

As a new semester starts, many of you are delighting in the short-lived experience of blank calendars, fresh journal pages, and short to-do lists. Although all of these will quickly fill up with assignments and activities, your headspace does not need to become similarly cluttered. While smartphones and other technology devices can be distracting, you can also use them to help you maintain your equilibrium and focus on success. These apps listed below can help you manage anxiety and stress in daily rituals that will hopefully prevent you from feeling overwhelmed now and in the future.

Headspace: Guided Meditation and Mindfulness (Free: iOS/Android)
This is “meditation made simple.” The app provides guided meditations suitable for anyone–even beginners. Meditation may help you improve your focus, exercise mindful awareness, relieve anxiety, and reduce stress.

Self-help for Anxiety Management (Free: iOS/Android)
This app was developed by a university team of psychologists, computer scientists, and student users. You can use this to help track your anxiety triggers, work through physical and mental relaxation exercises, and interact with other users of the app.

For more apps (some free and some costing a few bucks), see this blog post.

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New Stuff Tuesday – January 23, 2018

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Carol

Deep Work: Rules For Focused Success in a Distracted World

Deep Work: Rules For Focused Success in a Distracted World
by Cal Newport
BF323 .D5 N49 2016
New Arrivals Island, 2nd floor

Who couldn’t use a superpower?

Cal Newport, Georgetown computer science professor has written a lot about success. His books include How to Become a Straight-A Student, How to Win at College, and So Good They Can’t Ignore You. His latest work is along the same lines. This time he writes about deep work, a term he coined to describe the ability to focus intently on work, free from distractions. If that sounds like the opposite of your reality, you will have a lot of company. The author cites a scary study about knowledge workers: 60% of their work time is spent in searching online and electronic communication (p. 6). There is very little “think” time.

In the introduction, the author notes Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. And what is happening to our brains definitely interferes with deep work. So if you’re intrigued about developing the superpower of deep concentration on your work to combat the war on your brain, considering taking a deep dive into this book.

And if you’d like some help getting started on deep work, try watching Dr. Newport’s Ted Talk about getting off social media.

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Featured Resource: Library Classroom

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Diana

Image of L1105 Classroom

Do you need a space to work on an interactive presentation or test out a SMART Board project? We can help with that!

The Library Classroom (first floor, L1105) is open for the semester and has all new technology:

A typical classroom computer with a projector that displays on the main screen in the middle of the room. You can also bring your own computer and display it to this screen.
Two whiteboards on either end of the room become interactive presentation surfaces when used with the Epson BrightLink projectors and a computer (bring your own or use the one next to the board). These can be controlled individually or used in concert with the main computer and projector. You can check out the L1105 Smart Board Kit (with special dry erase markers to use with the boards) at the Circulation Desk.
Document camera set up for use with the main computer and projector.

If you need help using any of the technology in the Library Classroom, you can make an appointment with Diana Shull (the Instructional Technology Librarian, shulld@uww.edu) or Ellen Latorraca (the Education Librarian, latorrae@uww.edu).

The furniture in the Library Classroom is (mostly) on wheels so you can adjust it for your needs as well. Although–please put it back where you found it!

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Book Sale-Spring Semester Edition

Posted on January 19, 2018 by Martha

Welcome back!

Spring semester begins on Monday, so it’s time for new classes, new books, and new adventures.

Stack of Books

Our first book sale of the semester runs through the end of February and includes books on the topics of business, economics, health, history, non-English languages, and the sciences. Most of the books about non-English languages are not in English. There are also quite a few reference books, including a plethora of English and multilingual dictionaries. As always, I’m sure there are a few oddballs, so be sure to browse all the books on the carts to find those hidden gems.

These books will be on sale for $1 each through February 25th, at which point you can buy them for the low, low price of $.25 each. A new selection of books will be put out on March 1.

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New Stuff Tuesday — January 16, 2018

Posted on January 16, 2018 by James Castrillo

Driven to Distraction Book Cover

Mexicans in Wisconsin
by Sergio M. Gonzáles
F395.M5 G64 2017
New Arrivals, 2nd floor

Wisconsin Historical Press’s “People of Wisconsin” series have covered extensively many of the European immigrants who moved to Wisconsin. This is the first of the series to focus on a group outside of the European region. The series has a reputation of serving as an introduction into a population’s reasons for coming to settle in Wisconsin and how they establish themselves once they arrive. Sergio Gonzáles’ work on Mexicans in Wisconsin is a great overview to the diverse Mexican communities who have come to call Wisconsin their home in the past 100 years. Starting with many migrants who came to Wisconsin escaping the Mexican Revolution, Mexican migrants began communities in fields such as agriculture and working in tanneries. Families grew over time and became a part of Wisconsin’s culture history. Sergio highlights community leaders in the Mexican communities of Wisconsin from young Chicano movement leaders to labor leaders like Jesus Salas. With a heavy emphasis on the Mexicans who settled in Milwaukee, Gonzales describes how Mexicans became a part of the community. Add this book to your collection if you wish to learn more about the rich history of Wisconsin.