NEW laptop loan period

Posted on January 19, 2017 by Rebecca Jones

Four-hour laptops are now a Screen Shot 2017-01-18 at 2.59.25 PMthing of the past.  All laptops are available for overnight borrowing and must be returned by 3pm the following day. Don’t need it that long? Just return it early!

Windows computers are loaded with several browsers (including Lockdown), various media players, and Microsoft Office. Macs are loaded with several browsers (including Lockdown), iLife, Microsoft Office, and Adobe Creative Suite.

Laptops are available only to patrons with a UW-W ID. Patrons must have a loan agreement on file and may not have excessive fines on their library account. Availability of laptops is limited so these items cannot be renewed and are available on first-come, first-serve basis. Due to limited supply, you must wait a day between checkouts.

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Featured Resources: Ebook Central

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Martha

Ebook Central database logo

Ebook Central is the new platform for Ebrary Academic Complete Collection. It offers over 120,000 ebooks in many subject areas including the arts, business/management, education, health & medicine, history & political science, psychology, law, literature & language, religion & philosophy, science & technology, and the social sciences. The ebooks can be downloaded to devices or may be read online. The single sign-on feature means that whether you’re on-campus or off, you can access all your customizations within ebrary by signing in just once. To find these ebooks, either search Ebook Central directly or use Research@UWW, then use the facets on the left to select “Whitewater Online Resources” and “Books.”

In Ebook Central you can:

  1. Look for books by doing one of the following:
    • Enter an author name, title, ISBN, or any other keywords into the search box
      • Put quotes around exact keyword phrases such as “autism spectrum disorder”
    • Use the “Advanced Search” and fill in relevant boxes
    • Browse dozens of subjects at the click of your mouse
  2. Narrow search results by publication year, subject, and other facets
  3. Select a book to read or select its table of contents to jump directly to the part you want. Check for book availability for online reading and downloading, copy and print allowances, and bibliographic data
  4. After you open the book to read, you can search for keywords within the book and jump to relevant chapters
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New Books for a New Semester

Posted on January 17, 2017 by Martha

A new batch of books for the book sale have been put out and will be there until the end of February. Most of them are literature, including children’s literature, but there are also educational children’s games and books in a smattering of other topics. These items are on sale for the low, low price of $1 each.

Hope you have a great semester!

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New Stuff Tuesday – January 17, 2017

Posted on January 17, 2017 by Diana

You Could Look It Up bookcover

You Could Look It Up:
The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia
by Jack Lynch
Z1035.1 .L96 2016
New Arrivals, 2nd floor

Have you ever wanted to know everything? Or at least wanted a single place to look up any information you ever wanted to know? That is one of the driving forces behind the creation of reference books (or reference databases, websites, or other ways to collect and share information).

Jack Lynch, a scholar of English literature during the Enlightenment, recounts the history of 50 of the world’s greatest reference works. He analyzes the scholars, authors, and business people behind the attempts at collecting, displaying, and sharing large amounts of information. The works he covers range from law (The Code of Hammurabi), to language (Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language), to medicine (the DSM-5), to anything deemed important by the editors of Wikipedia.

This humorous and lively, yet deeply researched and scholarly, volume sheds light on some of the ways in which humans have attempted to collect and preserve information since the invention of writing.

 

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Library Closed Jan 14-16, Spring Hours Begin Jan 17

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Barbara

Andersen Library is closed Sat.-Mon., Jan. 14-16, 2017, because of the break between terms and the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.

Andersen Library Spring Semester hours begin on Tues., Jan. 17:

  • Mon-Thurs: 7:30am-2am
  • Fri: 7:30am-6pm
  • Sat. 10am-6pm
  • Sun 11am-2am

The Food for Thought Café will be open again, starting on Tues., Jan. 17.

Please plan ahead! Remember that even when the physical Library is closed, you can:

  • Search the article databases (login when prompted with your campus Net-ID, same as for your campus email or D2L),
  • Search for Andersen Library’s holdings of Books, Media and more (UW Whitewater) and use links to online titles, including ereserves for classes,
  • Renew checked-out books, DVDs, etc. (once) through your Account,
  • Consult online guides for help, including citation guides for APA, MLA, and Turabian format, and course assignment guides, and
  • Ask a librarian for help using email or chat (UWW librarians respond to the emails when the Library is open, but chat is covered 24/7 by non-UWW staff).
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New Stuff Tuesday – January 10, 2017

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Carol

The Cyber Effect

The Cyber Effect: A Pioneering Cyberpsychologist Explains How Human Behavior Changes Online
by Mary Aiken
BF199 .A37 2016
New Arrivals Island, 2nd floor

Why do people do creepy things online — stuff they wouldn’t do in person? According to world-renowned cyberpsychologist, Mary Aiken, it’s due to the online disinhibition effect (ODE): people become uninhibited online because they are (or think they are) anonymous. ODE has the same effects on people as alcohol in impairing their judgment.

Cyberpsychology is “the study of the impact of emerging technology on human behavior” (p. 4). The author is also an expert in forensic cyberpsychology which combines the disciplines of psychology, sociology and criminology. Not only does Aiken look at online criminal behavior, but at all aspects of our interaction with emerging technology. She describes, for instance, an encounter she witnessed on a train, where a young mother was bottle-feeding her infant. For a half an hour, the mother lovingly and attentively doted upon — her phone! Not once did she look at, let alone made eye contact, with her child — and the author points out the importance of eye contact in parent-child bonding. The phone incident is just one of many concerns about how new technology is affecting children. Another problem area is safety: because people are entering cyberspace from familiar surroundings they mistakenly feel safe when they are anything but.

Be prepared to be a teensy bit disturbed by what you read here – but if it prevents you from turning into a cyborg, it will be well worth it!

You can learn more about Mary Aiken’s groundbreaking work in cyberpsychology in this YouTube video:

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International Year of Sustainable Tourism

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Barbara

Right around now, with temperatures so low, seems like a fine time to think about travel, especially to warmer places, doesn’t it?

The United Nations (UN) has designated 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism (A/RES/70/193), intended to highlight the potential tourism offers for combating poverty and improving understanding among people while protecting the environment. You can learn a bit more about sustainable tourism from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Also, the UN has a specialized agency for tourism, the World Tourism Organization. The WTO’s press release says that the designation of 2017 provides

12 months to celebrate and promote the contribution of the tourism sector to building a better world.

cover of book Tourism in the Green EconomyAndersen Library can help you learn more! Search Books, media and more in Research@UWW on the Library home page to find titles such as The practice of sustainable tourism: Resolving the paradox (online via Taylor & Francis eBooks), Romancing the wild: Cultural dimensions of ecotourism (3rd-floor Main Collection, G156.5.E26 F54 2014), and Tourism in the green economy (online via Taylor & Francis eBooks). Both ecotourism and “sustainable tourism” are subject headings and yield relevant results, and a search for tourism AND “environmental aspects” might be fruitful as well. Examples of the many relevant articles that may be found include “Ecotourism as an integral part of sustainable tourism development” (Economics & Management, 2013, vol.18:no.3, pp.449-456), “Ecotourism as a conservation tool and its adoption by private protected areas in Brazil” (Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2014, vol.22:no.4, pp.604-625), “Sustainable tourism and its use as a development strategy in Cambodia: A systematic literature review” (Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2015, vol.23:no.5, pp.797-818), “GOAL 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns” (UN Chronicle, vol.51:no.4, pp.28-29), and “International sustainable tourism policy” (Brown Journal of World Affairs, vol.22:no.1, pp.25-36).

If you’d like assistance with finding additional resources, please ask a librarian (choose chat or email, phone 262-472-1032, or visit the Reference Desk).

Andersen Library is a federal and Wisconsin depository library with federal and state 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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T3: Lynda.com

Posted on January 5, 2017 by Diana

Lynda-1Lynda.com‘s tutorial videos provide excellent opportunities to brush up on technology skills or acquire new ones. Tutorials on ideas and projects like building leadership skills, career planning, and stress management also exist. If you have some extra time over winter break, try out a new skill, get a head start on your job hunt, or brush up on your Excel knowledge.

Lynda.com:

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New Stuff Tuesday – January 3rd

Posted on January 3, 2017 by James Castrillo

The Transgender Teen book cover

The Transgender Teen
by Stephanie Brill and Lisa Kenney
HQ77.9 B753 2016
New Arrivals, 2nd floor

2016 was a year marked by increased visibility and acceptance of trans people into the mainstream. With this acceptance comes a lot of questions from people who don’t identify as such and which the authors of this book identify predominantly as a “generation gap.” Brill and Kenney’s work serves as both a 101 guide book for understanding the basics of transgender and other non-binary identifications. The book goes beyond just definitions though and coaches readers whose children or young people they work with can serve as allies and be supportive of trans people. By walking through different scenarios and explaining the myths of being trans, Brill and Kenney hope to be your guides in understanding the complexities of the gender spectrum.

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What is January 4th?

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Martha

What is January 4th? This year it’s Hump Day, but it’s also National Trivia Day!

Want to play trivia on topics major and minor? Try out these online games:

The Library has trivia games you can play:

  • Trivial Pursuit (2008)
    • Board Game: Curriculum Collection, Teaching Tools (Call Number: GV1469.T77 T7 2008)
    • Pop Culture 2 DVD: Curriculum Collection, Teaching Tools (Call Number: GV1469.T77 T73 2005)
  • Scene It
    • Movie Scene It?: The DVD Game (2007) – Curriculum Collection, Teaching Tools (Call Number: GV1469.S34 M7 2007)
    • TV Scene It? The DVD Game (2005) – Curriculum Collection, Teaching Tools (Call Number: GV1469.S34 T8 2005)
  • You Don’t Know Jack: The Irreverent Trivia Party Game – (2010) – Browsing Collection, Video Games (Call Number: Xbox360 You 2010)

The Library also has books you can read that will be enormously helpful for finding little known, but often important, facts such as:

  • Chase’s … Calendar of Events (2017) – Reference Collection (Call Number: GT4803 .C48) (older editions in the Main Collection)
  • Famous First Facts
    • Famous First Facts about Sports – (2001) – Access eBook
    • Famous First Facts: A Record of First Happenings, Discoveries, and Inventions in American History
      • Book (2006) – Reference Collection (Call Number: AG5 .K315 2006)
      • eBook (1997) – Access eBook
  • Guinness Book of World Records (2014) – Curriculum Collection, Nonfiction (Call Number: 031.02 Gui) (older editions in the Main Collection)
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