New Stuff Tuesday – August 30, 2016

Posted on August 30, 2016 by James Castrillo

How Would You Like To Pay? Cover

How Would You Like To Pay?:
How Technology is Changing the Future of Money
by Bill Maurer
HG 1710 .M38 2015
New Arrivals Island, 2nd floor

In Bill Maurer’s latest work, he explores the emerging and rapidly growing of online and mobile banking options. The book begins with a brief history of money in its physical forms over the centuries. While the growth of mobile banking provides flexibility and convenience to many in the first world, it is a transformative process for others. Anyone with a mobile device is capable of doing online banking allowing millions of people to enter the banking system for the first time. With any great change in a societal norm, this book also addresses many of the creative new ways people are using movie and addresses accessibility issues to using these new methods. Maurer’s book serves as a general overview of this topic and contains many images of “money in action.” It can be covered in one sitting if a reader is diligent.

Bill Maurer has written other books on money and banking. Other titles available through Andersen Library include Mutual Life, limited Islamic banking, alternative currencies lateral reasons.

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Library Hours – Aug 20-Sept. 9

Posted on August 28, 2016 by Barbara

Photo of Andersen Library building in the background and coneflowers in the foregroundSummer Session ends on Friday, August 19!

Andersen Library’s hours during Summer Break (August 20-September 6) will be:

  • Mon.-Fri.: 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
  • Sat.-Sun.: Closed
  • EXCEPTIONS:
    • Mon. Sept. 5 (Labor Day): Closed
    • Tues. Sept. 6: 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m.

image of blackboard with Welcome Back to School in white letters

Andersen Library’s hours for the first two days of Fall semester classes have earlier closing times than usual:

  • Wed.-Thurs., Sept. 7-8: 7:30 a.m.-10 p.m.

Regular Fall Semester Andersen Library hours begin on Friday, September 9:

  • Mon.-Thurs.: 7:30 a.m.-2 a.m.
  • Fri.: 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m.
  • Sat.: 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
  • Sun.: 11 a.m.-2 a.m.

Of course, even when the Library is closed, online access to databases including online full-text articles, library holdings listed in Books, media and more (UW Whitewater) including ebooks, and Ask a Librarian online assistance via chat will be available.

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Whitewater Fiber Guild/Quilt Show

Posted on August 27, 2016 by Barbara

The Whitewater Arts Alliance is hosting an exhibit of fiber art by the Whitewater Fiber Guild and art quilts by Kent Williams, Madison, at the Cultural Arts Center (402 W Main St, Whitewater) until August 28. The gallery is open from noon-5pm Thursday-Sunday. Viewing the exhibit is free, although donations are welcome. A public reception will be held on Sunday, August 28, from 1-3pm, at which the artists will be present.

cover of Art QuiltsYou can learn more, and Andersen Library can help! Search Books, media and more in Research@UWW to find titles such as Quilts: Their story and how to make them (3rd-floor Main Collection, NK9104 .W4 1948), The natural history of the traditional quilt (3rd-floor Main Collection, NK9104 .F67 1995), Art quilts of the Midwest (ebook via Project MUSE, preview via Google Books), Deana Harragarra Waters: Art quilts (2nd-floor Federal (U.S.) Documents, I 1.84:H 37x), Creative knitting; a new art form (3rd-floor Main Collection OVERSIZE, TT820 .P44; preview of newer ed. at Google Books), and Sheila Hicks: Weaving as metaphor (3rd-floor Main Collection, NK3012.A3 H52 2006; preview via Google Books).

Please ask a librarian for assistance with finding additional materials.

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Andersen Library @ Orientation Week Events!

Posted on August 24, 2016 by Barbara

Welcome (back) to UWW! Find us at various Orientation Week events:

Andersen Library entrance photoMonday, August 29

  • 9:30-10:30am: Involvement Opportunity Fair for UWW employees (Kachel Center)
  • 1-2pm: Library Services & Online Resources for UWW faculty & staff (Library Instruction Lab, L2211)
  • 5-7pm: Graduate School & Nontraditional Student Orientation (UC Hamilton Center)

Wednesday, August 31

  • 9am-11:30am: RA Resource Fair (UC Hamilton Room)

Thursday, September 1

  • 3-5:30pm: Children’s Center fall open house

Tuesday, September 6

  • 12:30-2:30pm: HawkFest for first year students (parking lot 11)

Don’t see an event for you? Can’t make it?

Well, c’mon in, or give us a call or an email! We’ll be happy to set up a time to meet with you! Call the Reference Desk at (262) 472-1032 or email refdesk@uww.edu.

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New Stuff Tuesday – August 23, 2016

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Martha

The Geek Feminist Revolution book cover

The Geek Feminist Revolution
by Kameron Hurley
PS3608.U769 A6 2016
New Arrivals, 2nd floor

Kameron Hurley has already won two Hugo Awards and a British Fantasy Society Award for her thought provoking essays. This book contains over 35 essays, nine new, with intriguing titles such as “When the Rebel Becomes Queen: Changing Broken Systems from the Inside” and “Where Have All the Women Gone? Reclaiming the Future of Fiction,” and the remainder republished mostly from her blog. She’s also been published in The Atlantic, Locus, and on Tor.com, to name a few places. This is “her manifesto and call to arms” according to the book jacket, addressing her personal experiences and ongoing conversations in the scifi community. Above and beyond that are universal themes thrown together with humor, seriousness, and joy.

In a serious and moving essay, “Terrorist or Revolutionary? Deciding Who Gets to Write History,” she states, “who’s the good guy and who’s the bad guy can change depending on the day and the new enemy.” Think about Nelson Mandela, Saddam Hussein, and Jefferson Davis, to name a few. They were seen differently by different people at different points in time. How have you thought about them? She concludes by encouraging us to write our own stories, because if we don’t someone else will.

If you’d like to read one of the included essays before committing to this book, check out We Have Always Fought, Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative.

You may also want to listen to this audio-only Kameron Hurley Interview where she talks about the book on YouTube.

Hurley has also written a fantasy series and a science-fantasy series of books and has more on the way. One of those novels, God’s War, is available via UW Request.

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New Stuff Tuesday – August 16, 2016

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Diana

Show Me All Your Scars Cover

Show Me All Your Scars:
True Stories of Living with Mental Illness
Edited by Lee Gutkind
RC464.A1 S563 2016
New Arrivals Island, 2nd floor

This searing collection of personal stories illuminates the struggles, triumphs, and everyday realities of living with mental illness, whether the authors’ own illness or that of a loved one. The stories here are raw, real, and moving–as the author of the forward writes, “with each essay, I met a new acquaintance who quickly felt like a good friend.”

Books like this one help protest the silence and stigma that surrounds mental illness. Living with mental illness is not easy but sharing our stories can only help to advance the conversation.

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Summer Reading – Truly Madly Guilty

Posted on August 15, 2016 by Martha

Truly Madly Guilty book cover

Truly Madly Guilty
by Liane Moriarty
PR9619.4.M67 T78 2016
Browsing Collection, Books, 2nd floor

Australian Liane Moriarty’s recently released latest novel is about a barbecue and is also near the pinnacle of the New York Times Best Sellers list this week. It seemed a timely book worth investigating this week.

Barbecuing is a perfect summer activity. It’s fun, doesn’t heat up the house, and results in eating yummy grilled food afterwards. Unfortunately, the backyard barbecue happening here takes a turn for the worse. Seemingly happy couples and their children get together one afternoon in Sydney only to have tragedy strike. This fast-moving, intricately plotted novel follows three very different couples Erica and Oliver, Tiffany and Vid, and Sam and Clementine, interspersing the events of that day and those months later when they’re looking back at what happened, slowly revealing the details to us. The theme of guilt flows through the complexities of marriage, friendship, and sex as the novel proceeds to its end. You can read an excerpt here.

If you want to read Moriarty’s other novels (The Husband’s Secret, The Hypnotist’s Love Story, The Last Anniversary, Little Big Lies, Three Wishes, What Alice Forgot), some are available through UW Request.

Intrigued? You can Browse Inside the book on the Simon and Schuster website.

You may want to check out the book reviews on YouTube, as well as this video of Liane Moriarty answering five questions about the book.

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New Stuff Tuesday – August 9, 2016

Posted on August 9, 2016 by Amanda Howell

The Revenant DVD Cover

The Revenant
Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, performance by Leonardo DiCaprio & Tom Hardy
Browsing DVD Rev
New Arrivals Island, DVD, 2nd floor

Every year I like to watch all of the films nominated for Best Picture at the Oscar’s (because I’m pretentious and also like movies). One of the last nominees I watched was The Revenant, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. This film was beautifully shot and gives an incredible portrayal of the fortitude of the human spirit. If you haven’t watched it yet and would like the chance to see Leo wrestle a bear, I highly recommend you stop by Andersen Library and check it out.

You can get these other 2016 Best Picture nominees at the Library, too:

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Summer Reading – All the Light We Cannot See

Posted on August 5, 2016 by Martha

All the Light We Cannot See book cover

All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

PS3604.O34 A77 2014

Main Collection, 3rd floor

This wonderfully moving novel was 10 years in the making and was well worth the wait. Doerr has won many awards over time, including the Pulitzer Prize and Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for this historical novel. It was also a National Book Award for fiction finalist. The novel is set in World War II era Europe and follows the lives of two children, Marie-Laure, a blind French girl, and Werner, a German boy with a talent for radios. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris. Blind since the age of six, her father builds her scale models their environs so she can learn how to navigate the streets. Eventually they have to flee and end up in Saint-Malo. Meanwhile, Werner’s technical abilities and expertise cause him to get involved with the Hitler Youth. Their paths cross and become intertwined when the Nazis come to Saint-Malo.

Intrigued? You can Browse Inside the book on the Simon and Schuster website.

There are also some great clips on YouTube, like this one where Anthony Doerr talks about his inspiration for the novel:

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New Stuff Tuesday – August 2, 2016

Posted on August 1, 2016 by Ellen Latorraca

The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy

The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy
by Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber
LB2331.7 .B47 2016
New Arrivals Island, 2nd floor

As August rolls in, the days shorten, and many of us would insist that the clock speeds along more quickly as well. Why do we always reach this point of the summer wondering why we haven’t accomplished all we “should”? Have we used our time as efficiently as possible? Have we met ever increasing goals set for us and by us? Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeber challenge us to question this push towards a frantic pace, a symptom, they assert, that is a result of the corporatization and standardization of academia.

Forms of the Slow Movement philosophy have been explored in the context of Slow Money, Slow Medicine, have been researched in the context of information behavior and more. Berg and Seeber extend Slow principles to academia, emphasizing that professors and students need what they refer to as “timeless” time to above all think. Time for reflection and open-ended inquiry is not a luxury, but crucial to what academics are and do.

This encouraging 90-page volume speaks not only to professors, but all instructional staff, graduate students, and those in academia who balance precious student contact time with other institutional responsibilities and expectations.

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