Savory Sounds on Thursdays

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Barbara

Tired of packing a lunch and eating it in Andersen Library while you study?

Take a break! You can enjoy your lunch at Savory Sounds, a series of free lunchtime music concerts at the Birge Fountain in Whitewater (in front of the White Building at 402 W Main St) on Thursdays from 11:30am-12:45pm:

  • June 29: Main Street Big Band (big band music)
  • July 6: Bill Hill (jazz)
  • July 13: Stuart Stotts (children’s concert)

photo of Browsing CD racksOr, enjoy music with your lunch at the Library any day! Choose something unfamiliar from the Browsing CD collection on 2nd floor. It’s got everything from yodeling to opera, along with rock, folk, world music, classical, and more. There also are streaming music databases on the database list like DRAM; Music Online’s Jazz Music Library, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, African American Music Reference; and Naxos.

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New Stuff Tuesday – June 27, 2017

Posted on June 27, 2017 by Carol

Cafe Neandertal

Cafe Neandertal: Excavating Our Past in One of Europe’s Most Ancient Places
By Beebe Bahrami
GN285 .B34 2017
New Arrivals Island, 2nd floor

If you’re interested in human prehistory, travel writer Beebe Bahrami can introduce you to some long-lost relatives. Europeans and Asians whose ancestors migrated out of Africa 40,000-70,000 years ago, all carry some genes of Neanderthal humans, making them your long lost relatives.

The writer works alongside a research team that includes specialists from a variety of fields as they attempt to paint a complete picture of the Neanderthals who died — or were buried — in the caves in the Dordogne region of southwestern France. Geologists, paleoanthropologists, paleolithic archaeologists, and filmmakers among others, work together in the field by day. By night, they sip scotch and debate what Neanderthals were like – and whether they like what they speculate these earlier humans were like.

Researchers are slowly uncovering in the field and piecing together in the lab a more complete picture of the lives, culture and society of these human ancestors who disappeared from the fossil record 35,000 years ago while leaving their genetic imprint behind.

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New Stuff Tuesday — June 20, 2017

Posted on June 20, 2017 by James Castrillo

book cover image for Sex and the constitution featuring the title in black text over a blue image of lady justice on a yellow background

Geoffrey Stone’s work Sex and the Constitution is a compendium to understand the complex legal history of sex and sexuality within the United States. As the title suggests the book covers everything from the founding father’s thoughts about sexuality and takes us up to the most recent landmark case on sexuality, Ogberfell v. Hodges which legalized same sex marriage in 2015. Readers will be interested to learn how most laws regarding sexuality were not included in the first 100 years of the country as it was treated as a private matter. Stone brings his years of legal academic experience at the University of Chicago Law School to highlight this history that so often was influenced by the cultural influences of the day.

Sex and the Constitution:
Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the Twenty-First Century
by Geoffrey R. Stone
Call number: KF9325 .S76 2017
New Arrivals, 2nd floor

Geoffrey Stone was recently the featured guest on the podcast The Axe Files with David Axelrod. If this book sounds of interest, this podcast is a great chance to hear the author talk about his career in law and the book.

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T3: Wireless Printing

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Diana

wireless-printing icon

There are two ways to print from your laptop computers and personal devices to any General Access lab printer on campus.

  1. Email the file as an attachment to print@uww.edu
    • Use your uww.edu email address!
    • Total attachment file size should be less than 25 MB
    • Use this method from your mobile devices
  2. Upload the file(s) to labprint.uww.edu/MyPrintCenter

Visit iCIT’s website for detailed instructions and more information: www.uww.edu/icit/services/printing-students.

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New Stuff Tuesday — June 13, 2017

Posted on June 13, 2017 by Naomi Schemm

Othello DVD cover

Othello
(BBC & Time-Life Films)
by William Shakespeare
Call number: OTH
New Arrivals, 2nd floor

While this isn’t a new production (1981), it is a new addition to our collection, and the BBC’s series of all of Shakespeare’s plays is worthy of note, especially since in it we have some of his lesser-known and lesser-filmed plays. I personally had neither watched nor read this one of the Bard’s tragedies, and my only prior knowledge was that Othello is Shakespeare’s only minority protagonist, and that the antagonist Iago is sometimes considered Shakespeare’s most evil villain. Curious….

Anthony Hopkins (one of many actors to play the hero in blackface) is a compelling lead. While we don’t hear much dialogue from him in the first few acts, by the third act you have enough insight into his character to pity his tortured thoughts while also shaking your fist at his jealousy-inspired cruelty and impetuousness toward the beautiful Desdemona – played by the young Penelope Wilton, who might be more familiar to audiences today from a major role in Downton Abbey. Iago’s hatred for his once-beloved army commander is maniacal and nonsensical enough to earn him the “darkest villain” title in my book.

True to Shakespearean tragedy, the only characters I really liked by the end get killed along with some others, but I won’t spoil the ending for you. At over 3 hours, this film may not be one to sit down and devour in one sitting, and the close captions definitely were needed for me to follow the dialogue in some quieter scenes. But I enjoyed the story and the acting and am sure the other films – see the link above – in the series are just as good.

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T3: Guest Wireless Access

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Diana

Wireless symbol

Welcome to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater!

Did you bring your cellphone, personal laptop, or other wifi-enabled device to campus? You can connect to the campus wireless network by following these instructions:

  1. Connect your device to the “UWWGuestAndSetup” Wi-Fi network.
  2. Open a web browser and go to a NON-UWW webpage to launch the Wi-Fi registration page.
  3. Scroll down to enter your guest ID credentials and click Register or click the “Don’t have an account?” link to create a guest account.
  4. If creating a guest account, fill out the guest registration form to create a tempoary username and password. Write down or save the temporary guest account information given to you, then select Sign On to enter your temporary account information.
  5. Read and accept the license terms and conditions, then change your temporary password when prompted.
  6. After changing your password, you will be fully connected to the UW-Whitewater network.

Need detailed instructions? Click to download these PDFs:

 

 

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New Stuff Tuesday – June 6, 2017

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Martha

Movie Comics: Page to Screen / Screen to Page book jacket

Movie Comics:

Page to Screen / Screen to Page
by Blair Davis
PN1995.9.C36 D38 2017
New Arrivals, 2nd floor

Memorial Day has come and gone, heralding the summer season. What shall we do other than camp and bike and wear white? Why, watch movies of course! I’m a big fan of movies based on comic books and graphic novels, and this summer am very excited to see the new Wonder Woman film. It’s also nice to go back and watch older ones as well.

Movie Comics: Page to Screen / Screen to Page provides great information about the history of the comic/graphic novel connection with motion pictures, a mutually beneficial adaptation relationship going both ways. It began with comic book shorts in the late nineteenth century and continues to the present day. While the book focuses on the 1910s to the 1950s, Davis does mention the vast adaptation wasteland of the 1960s-1980s and the return of terrific comic book films in the late 1980s. The author feels that other books have done a great job covering the most recent few decades, so doesn’t venture much into that era. These books include Film and Comic Books (you can borrow using UW Request) and The Comic Book Film Adaption: Exploring Modern Hollywood’s Leading Genre.

Scholars and those in search of less rigorous reading material will all get something out of reading this book. Davis’ discusses dozens if not hundreds of films, comic strips and books, and graphic novels. I’d read it just to plump up my Netflix queue, but there’s a lot more to it. I recommend checking this book out.

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New Stuff Tuesday — May 30, 2017

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Diana

book cover image of The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell

The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell
Tales of a 6’4″, African-American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama’s Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian
By W. Kamau Bell
PN2287.B414 A3 2017
New Arrivals Island, 2nd floor

W. Kamau Bell is all the things in the subtitle of his new memoir and a keen social and political observer as well. His book traces his development as a comedian interested in how racism, classism, and sexism often work together to limit humanity’s potential.

If all of this sounds very dry, it’s not! Although he invites the reader to enter into awkward conversations to promote “real and lasting changes in the world,” Bell voices his thoughts here with humor and clarity and the book is a great read.

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T3: Apps for Car Trips

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Diana

Image of App Icon for States n Plates

It’s almost Memorial Day weekend and the beginning of summer road trip season. Since navigation apps are built into mobile devices, I’ve suggested a few things that you may not already have on your devices. Here are apps that will help you find fuel and constellations as well as fill those long hours in the car with games and trivia.

License Plate Game

Fuel Prices and Locations

Sky Maps (Especially useful if you are going camping or traveling through less populated areas.)

Remember that if you need to do any research on your travels, Andersen Library’s online resources are still available to you whenever you are off-campus. Start at Research@UWW and search for any topic to find online journal articles or ebooks.

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Friday Fun: Challenge Yourself!

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Barbara

Here’s some Friday Fun to get your brain warmed up for summer classes! Test your trivia mastery with a “fan-created” collection of Jeopardy!® game show questions called the J! Archive.

Start by selecting a season by number on the home page, then select a specific show from the list of show numbers (also displayed are the date that it aired and the names of the contestants). Once you’ve made a selection, you’ll see the clues board for all three rounds and the results for the contestants after each round. Hover on the dollar value of a clue and you’ll see the correct response, as well as any incorrect responses the contestants made. It’ll even tell you if it stumped all three contestants.

screen shot from J!-Archive

Have fun.

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