Bridging the Civil-Military Divide

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Barbara

Emily Núñez Cavness will talk about “Bridging the Civil-Military Divide” on Mon., Oct. 30, 2017 at 7 pm in the Irvin L. Young Auditorium. It’s part of the Contemporary Issues Lecture Series sponsored by the College of Letters and Sciences!

“Emily Núñez Cavness is the CEO and Co-Founder of Sword & Plough, a veteran-owned, socially conscious company that repurposes military surplus, works with U.S. manufacturers that are owned or partially operated by veterans, and donates 10% of profits to veteran initiatives. Cavness graduated from Airborne School, served in the 4th Engineer Battalion, deployed to Afghanistan, was the first female intelligence officer to serve in 10th Special Forces Group, and was one of the first 100 women to try out for the U.S. Army’s Ranger Training Assessment course. Business Insider named Sword & Plough one of the Top 20 Most Inspiring Companies of 2014 and Cavness was named a Forbes 30 Under 30 Fellow and White House Champion of Change.” (from the lecture series web page)

cover of book Life After the MilitaryYou may be able to learn more about related topics with Andersen Library resources! Possibilities include book or report titles such as Faith-based organizations and veteran reintegration: Enriching the web of support (online via JSTOR or the Rand Corporation), Life after the military: A handbook for transitioning veterans (3rd-floor Main Collection, UB357 .H55 2011; preview text at Google Books), Our army: Soldiers, politics, and American civil-military relations (online via Project MUSE; preview text at Google Books), The citizen-soldier: Moral risk and the modern military (online via Project MUSE or the Brookings Institution); government information including Congressional committee hearings Best practices in veteran hiring (online) and Is transition assistance on track? (online); and the video Service: When women come marching home (2nd-floor Academic DVDs, UB418.W65 S47 2012). Also available are articles such as “Bridging the military—civilian divide” (Yale Review, 2010, vol.98:no.2, pp.1-21) and “Exploring the civilian-military divide and how my role as displaced graduate student turned into a search for self” (Pedagogy, 2016, vol.16:no.3, pp.526-532).

Learn more about the Dept. of Defense (DoD) Transition Assistance Program (TAP) from the DoD online.

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 – October 24, 2017

Posted on October 24, 2017 by James Castrillo

The Vietnam War film cover

The Vietnam War
A film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
DS557.7 .V54 20167 v. 1-2
New DVD Arrivals Island, 2nd floor

Ken Burns latest documentary explores the most contemporary topic of the many documentaries he has comprised. A project that took the better part of ten years for filmmakers Burns and Novick. The result is perhaps the most comprehensive to date with a 10-part, 18 hours of film. This documentary is made for primarily an American audience, but spends as much time telling the American perspective (both civilian and military) as it does the Vietnam side (both North and Southern). The film features interviews with close to 80 different people who were both affected and involved with war in different ways. As is par for the course, Burns and Novick leave no stone unturned walking us through the full picture that was the Vietnam War. What starts out as a small advisory role for the United States in the region after France left post-WWII, the conflict begins as a slow burn that builds to breaking point by 1970. The stories told almost 50 years later show with ease where many American efforts went wrong. For other parts the contradictions exposed make the tag line “there is no single truth in war” all the more appropriate for this film. Not to mention it has a great 60s nostalgic soundtrack to boot.

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Boos & Brews

Posted on October 23, 2017 by Barbara

Christ Christon, brewmaster and operations manager at Second Salem Brewery Company, will share his knowledge about Whitewater’s local brews and the legends for which they are named, at “Boos & Brews” on Thurs., Oct. 26, from 6-7p.m. at the Irvin L. Young Memorial Library (Whitewater’s public library at 431 W Center St, Whitewater). The event takes place in the Library’s community room. Please note: Since samples of his brews will be available, this event is open only to those 21 years and older, and you must have valid ID to attend.

cover of bookYou can learn more about brewing with Andersen Library’s help! Check out books such as Beer: Tap into the art and science of brewing (3rd-floor Main Collection, TP577 .B34 2003 or online via EBSCOhost’s eBook Collection) and Handbook of brewing processes, technology, markets (online via Wiley), videos such as The love of beer (2nd-floor Browsing Academic DVDs, HD6073.L62 N77 2012), and even an audiobook, Proof: The science of booze (2nd-floor Browsing Audiobooks, TP505 .R64 2014; preview via Google Books).

Travel Wisconsin.com offers suggested stops to “Tour Wisconsin’s Craft Breweries,” a searchable directory to plan your own brewery tour, and a page of “Sconnie Brews: 5 Beers with Wisconsin-Inspired Names” (which includes Second Salem in Whitewater).

Please enjoy responsibly.

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).

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Gravitational Waves from Colliding Neutron Stars (or where do heavy elements like gold come from)

Posted on October 20, 2017 by Barbara

Professor Bob Benjamin, Physics Dept., will talk about “The First Detection of Gravitational Waves from Colliding Neutron Stars: When an Irresistable Force Meets an Unmovable Object” at 7 p.m. on Fri., Oct. 20, in Upham Hall 140. Come to hear about how astronomers came to discover neutron stars, to predict that such mergers should happen, their unsolved mysteries, and what we have learned recently.

You can learn more about related topics with Andersen Library! See, for example, “Gravitational waves: Whispers of neutron stars and the big bang” in the book Secrets of the universe: How we discovered the cosmos (3rd-floor Main Collection, QB982 .M87 2009; summary at Google Books), articles such as “Wolf–Rayet stars, black holes and the first detected gravitational wave source” (New Astronomy, 2018, vol.58, 33-46, http://www.elsevier.com/locate/newast), and news sources announcing the recent observation of colliding neutron stars a few days ago, such as the audio and transcript from “Astronomers Strike Gravitational Gold In Colliding Neutron Stars,” heard on NPR’s All Things Considered on Oct. 16, 2017.

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).

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New Stuff Tuesday – October 17, 2017

Posted on October 17, 2017 by Martha

Post Grad Audiobook cover

Post Grad:
Five Women and Their First Year Out of College
by Caroline Kitchener
read by Amanda Dolan
HD6053.6.U5 K58 2017
New Arrivals Island, 2nd floor

Post Grad is an account of the trials and tribulations of five Millennial Generation women. Kitchener tells about herself and also follows four of her female classmates over the course of the year following their graduation from Princeton. Their careers include: writer, documentarian, singer, programmer, and aspiring doctor. Kitchener writes of their challenges, setbacks, and successes in their independence, relationships (both of the familial and romantic kind), mental illness, finances, and more in this nonfiction book. She also takes a look at the broader sociological context of their post-college graduation year.

If you enjoy this book and also like novels, you may also appreciate:

  • Mary McCarthy’s 1963 novel The Group about four Vassar students during the 30 years after their graduation (Main Collection PS3525 .A1435 G7 1963)
  • Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus’ 2004 novel Citizen Girl about a young woman who enters the business world post graduation and struggles to earn her dream job in spite of a host of co-workers who refuse to acknowledge her abilities (use UW Request to borrow)
  • Mei Ng’s 1998 novel Eating Chinese Food Naked about a young woman returning to her family’s home in Queens after graduating from Columbia University who confronts her emotions, parents, and sexual maturation as she comes to grips with post-college life (use UW Request to borrow)
  • J. Courtney Sullivan’s 2009 novel Commencement about four women who meet as college freshmen and over a period of six years experience both happiness and disappointment as they to find fulfilling relationships, deal with family change, and pursue successful careers (use UW Request to borrow)

Post Grad is an MP3 CD that you can download onto your device or play in your CD player.

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Book Sale – October 2017

Posted on October 12, 2017 by Martha

This month we are featuring travel related materials, including vintage travel guides, atlases, non-English fiction and dictionaries. We also have materials related to travel through time, not just space. These include history books, Minneiskas (UW-Whitewater yearbooks), Wisconsin Blue Books, and bound volumes of National Geographic from the early 20th century. As always we have a smattering of materials in other subject areas, and this month these include law and health.

Come on over and peruse the books! They are $1 each until October 23, when the price drops to $.25 each.

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New Stuff Tuesday — October 10, 2017

Posted on October 10, 2017 by Diana

Play Anything Cover Image

Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, & the Secret of Games
by Ian Bogost
BF408 .B566 2016
New Arrivals Island, 2nd floor

Bogost, a philosopher and game designer, writes about everyday life and the strategic way that everyone should approach mundane tasks. He argues that if we treat grocery shopping like playing sports (that is, accepting the seemingly arbitrary rules and restrictions inherent in games as also applicable to mundane tasks) we can learn to “play anything” by having fun interacting with the world around us. He hopes that by following his advice we can learn to interact with the world and the things in it in ways that give us feelings of comfort, not boredom or frustration.

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New Stuff Tuesday – Oct. 3, 2017

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Naomi Schemm

Hum if you don't know the words

Hum if you don’t know the words
by Bianca Marais
PR9199.4.M3414 H86 2017
New Arrivals Island, 2nd floor

There are so many levels of “not knowing” in this book, and it all combines to make a heartbreaking and funny and very satisfying book. The girl child, Robin, not knowing how to deal with her parents’ death, or why her black caretaker’s experience with the South African gold mines is so different from her own, or how her self-centered decisions will echo down into others’ lives, or how love and joy will eventually come back to her from the most unexpected sources, if she lets it. The woman, Beauty, in the agony of not knowing what is happening to her own daughter, and not knowing if she can reconcile that eventual knowledge with her own ideals about how to address the apartheid regime. Many of the adults have little to no knowledge of the secret internal life of Robin as well as some other kids in the book (which led to some of the most humorous scenes, in my opinion).

For me, this was also a very compelling personal story to introduce me to a historical time period that I knew very little about prior to this reading – the Soweto Uprising of June 1976.

The narrative alternating between Robin and Beauty makes this a more interesting and multifaceted read, and all the supporting characters are well-rounded and enrich the story.  I was happy to read recently that Marais is planning a followup novel with the same characters. Highly recommended.

 

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New Stuff Tuesday – September 26, 2017

Posted on September 26, 2017 by Ellen Latorraca

Spaceplane HERMES

Spaceplane HERMES: Europe’s Dream of Independent Manned Spaceflight
by Luc van den Abeelen
TL795 .A24 2017
New Arrivals Island, 2nd floor

It’s a little early in the semester to be thinking about far away escapes, but this new arrival may spark the thought. Spaceplane HERMES tells the story of how Europe aspired and planned for independent manned spaceflight. Planning began in 1975 for the development of a small ten ton spaceplane to be launched on top of a rocket which would give Europe the capability for shuttling crews between Earth and space stations. While poor organizational and management choices, and unexpected geopolitical changes (German reunification for one), recession, and the Challenger accident were among the many factors that played a role in the end of the program in 1993, space enthusiasts, engineers, makers and dreamers will find this a fascinating read.

Locate articles from the period in publications such as Aviation Week & Space Technology, Nature, and Wall Street Journal by searching Research@UWW.

Visit the European Space Agency website for and introduction to the project and additional video documentary.

 

 

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T3: Wireless Printing

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Diana

wireless-printing

There are two ways to print from your laptop computers and personal devices to any General Access lab printer on campus. This only works for files 25 MB or less in size.

  1. Email the file as an attachment to print@uww.edu
    • Use your uww.edu email address!
    • Use this method from your mobile devices
    • Go to the nearest print-release station, log in using your NetID and password, and release your job
  2. Upload the file(s) to papercut.uww.edu/user
    • Make sure your computer is connected to the campus wifi
    • Navigate to papercut.uww.edu/user
    • Log in to PaperCut with your NetID and password
    • Click on Web Print
    • Select Submit a Job and follow the steps to upload the file
    • Go to the nearest print-release station, log in using your NetID and password, and release your job
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