It’s less than a month to Thanksgiving and less two months to finals! Aiee!!! Feeling any stress? What can you do? Here’s some Friday fun to the rescue.
Try Kaleidoscope Painter – Select color patterns and background color below the black canvas, then just move the mouse over the canvas. Click “Clear” to start over.
Andersen Library also offers coloring pages on a table near the Circulation Desk/entrance doors if you prefer to put crayon/colored pencil to paper.
Enjoy.
If you are trying to print from a library computer (or any other general access lab computer on campus) and you do not see the Q-GA lab printer, this is how you print:
Andersen Library’s Featured Resource blog installments usually point our patrons to a research database, a particular library collection, a library space or technology resource. One purpose of these posts is to ensure our UW-W students, faculty and staff are aware of the vast array of resources available to them as Andersen Library patrons. After all, these resources are selected after much consideration as to whether they align with the Mission and Goals of the Library, and in turn, the University. Selecting these resources and promoting their use is just the beginning. The work continues as we “promote information literacy at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater by providing instruction in effective access, evaluation, organization, synthesis and application of information from a variety of sources and formats in a variety of contexts” (UW-W Andersen Library, Goal 6). We do this when we work with our patrons at the Reference Desk, when we respond to a question through our 24/7 Ask a Librarian chat service or email, and collaborate with course instructors on research instruction.
As other disciplines do, we look to research and professional guidelines to inform our work. In 2015, the Association of Colleges & Research Libraries introduced the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. This framework shifts the emphasis of instruction and learning from skills-based objectives to essential concepts, dispositions and practices. These six “frames” guide us to develop a deep understanding of how information is created, shared, and valued within specific contexts:
In order to make sense of these frames for our students and for our instruction, the Andersen Library Reference and Instruction Librarians have formulated model questions for each frame. These questions illustrate how understanding information within this framework guides the research process and our evaluation of information we find. For example, the frame “Authority Is Constructed and Contextual” leads us to question:
Rather than simply learning to efficiently navigate a specific database or how to properly format a citation (both which may be essential, and neither of which is necessarily simple), the Framework for Information Literacy prompts us to ask questions as we seek and work with information. The questions we ask are those which both lead us to become and demonstrate us to be information literate. The Framework describes what it is to be critical consumers of information in our discipline and in our daily lives.
We have designed posters illustrating each frame. These will be posted in the Library instruction spaces as reference and to remind us of our focus for information literacy teaching and learning. We invite you to view the complete text of our Information Literacy Framework posters – the Featured Resource for the month. Feel free to use and share these as guides to learning, teaching, and thinking about research.
Getting Gamers:
The Psychology of Video Games and Their Impact on the People who Play Them
by Jamie Madigan
GV1469.34.P79 M33 2016
New Arrivals, 2nd floor
Do you like games and gaming? As you play and participate in games, you may want to reflect on the psychology of gaming. The author of Getting Gamers wants to help you understand the ways that game designers, publishers, and marketers use psychological principles to design and sell games. The book covers topics like in-game purchases, violence in games, and the art of fostering competition. As an avid gamer himself, Madigan wants players and consumers of games to understand these principles so that they can derive even more enjoyment out of participating in gaming culture.
Also remember that Andersen Library is celebrating International Games Day this Friday, November 11 starting at 4pm!
Tonight (Monday, November 7th) at 7 p.m., in the Young Auditorium, Chancellor Kopper will present the 2016 Chancellor’s Regional Literary Award to novelist and U.S. Army veteran Tim O’Brien, who wrote The things they carried, a work of fiction about soldiers’ Vietnam War experiences that won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing, and also was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Read more about The things they carried: PEN America talks about the book being challenged in three high schools because of profanity, National Public Radio interviews O’Brien, SparkNotes provides context and summary, and you can preview the text at Google Books. You can access a biography of O’Brien in Literature Criticism Online, an Andersen Library subscription database.
But the best way to know a work is to read it! Andersen Library has a print copy of The things they carried, and if that copy is checked out, UW-Whitewater students and staff may request a copy from other UW campus libraries by using the free UW Request service. Requested items arrive in 2-5 weekdays. An audiobook copy is available also (2nd-floor Browsing Audio Books, PS3565.B75 T482 2013). In addition, O’Brien has written other works that are available from Andersen Library and other UW campus libraries, such as If I die in a combat zone; box me up and ship me home (3rd-floor Main Collection, DS557.A69 O27 1973) and Going after Cacciato (3rd-floor Main Collection, PS3565.B75 G6), which are also about the Vietnam War.
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).
The American Society of Mammalogists hosts a digital mammal image library containing more than 2,500 images. Browse a numbered list for a random delight, select a mammalian order (e.g., Proboscidea) at the bottom of the screen, or search the image library for keywords. Information provided with each image includes location and year of the image, as well as the mammal’s geographic distribution and group, order, family, and genus.
Also on the Society’s web site is a searchable Mammal Species List. Search scientific name, common name, or keyword, and apply filters by U.S. state, family, order, or status (e.g., endangered). What comes up if you just specify the state of Wisconsin? A list that starts with the American Badger and ends with Woodland Vole! Alas, no photo for the meadow jumping mouse. Maybe it jumps too fast? Thank goodness the Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources (DNR) can supply a photo! The DNR maintains lists of rare and “watch list” mammals, and you can report sightings online. (The woodland vole, by the way, is on the rare list.)
Enjoy.
Andersen Library can help you learn more about mammals! Search Library tools to find books such as the 6th edition of Walker’s mammals of the world (2nd-floor Reference Collection, QL703 .N69 1999, or earlier editions in 3rd-floor Main Collection), The origin and evolution of mammals (online via ebrary), Mammalogy: Adaptation, diversity, ecology (3rd-floor OVERSIZE, QL703 .M36 2015), and The wild mammals of Wisconsin (3rd-floor Main Collection, QL719.W5 L67 2008).
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!
Ever wonder what your faculty or colleagues are reading? Here’s your chance to find out! Warhawk Book Talks is a series where professors, staff, and students at UWW talk about their favorite books!
Ben Pike, The Fine Art of Small Talk
Asmahan Sallah, This I Believe
Dale Kaminski, On The Road
Jeannine Rowe, I Know This Much Is True
Praveen Parboteeah, The Namesake; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; Brick Lane; & The Russian Debutante’s Handbook
Dr. Paul Rybski, UW-Whitewater Dept. of Physics, will talk about Choosing and Using an Amateur Telescope: So Many Choices, So Little Time! on Fri., Nov. 4, at 8pm in Upham 140. It’s the first installment of the Fall 2015 Whitewater Observatory Lecture Series. A public viewing session at Whitewater Observatory will follow the lecture at 9:15pm, weather permitting.
LECTURE ABSTRACT
Popular astronomy articles published in magazines, newspapers and even blogs are frequently accompanied by outstanding photographs of astronomical objects. We have hard-working amateur astronomers around the world, the wildly successful Hubble Space Telescope and even the technological miracle of the Internet to thank for these pictures. But suppose you want to observe these objects with your own eyes. Where do you begin?
Tonight’s lecture addresses three basic subjects in visual observing. First, what telescope design is best for observing planets and which design is best for observing faint objects like bright and dark nebulae, star clusters and galaxies? Secondly, what type of telescope mount best suits the telescope you have selected? Finally, what are the price ranges for each type of telescope and mount combination? On display and discussed during the lecture will be one refracting telescope and three different reflecting telescope designs. And each telescope will have a different style of mount that best suits the type of objects you want to observe.
Andersen Library can help you learn more, with resources such as the books Celestial objects for modern telescopes (3rd-floor Main Collection, QB63 .C7 2002) and Star ware: The amateur astronomer’s guide to choosing, buying, and using telescopes and accessories (online via EBSCOhost’s eBook Collection), and articles such as “Five performance killers” (Sky & Telescope, 2012, vol.124:no.2, p.70) and “10 tips for choosing your first telescope” (Skynews: The Canadian Magazine Of Astronomy & Stargazing, 2016, vol.22:no.4, p.14).
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).
LATER LECTURES IN THIS SERIES
Are you thinking of taking a selfie with your ballot or at the polling place? Will you take a photograph of your absentee ballot? Be aware that Wisconsin state law prohibits a voter from showing “his or her marked ballot to any person or plac[ing] a mark upon the ballot so it is identifiable as his or her ballot” (Wis. Stat. Ann. § 12.13).
You can read more about Wisconsin’s law and the laws of other states at these links:
Disclaimer: This blog post does not constitute legal advice. The information is provided without any guarantee of its completeness and legal effect. Although every effort has been made to provide information from reliable sources, when seeking legal information please be aware that you should carefully evaluate the information.
Happy Dia de los Muertos everyone!
This month’s sale includes books about sociology, religion, anthropology, anatomy, physiology, health, history including military history, law, criminology, political science, and art. They are on sale for $1 each.
Also included this month are a few cassette tapes and a lot of VHS tapes on a variety of topics. These are going for the low, low price of $.25 each and will be of particular interest to people who still have a VCR.
