Friday Fun: National Jukebox

Posted on March 25, 2016 by Barbara

Have some fun this weekend with this “oldie” online resource, in existence since 2011:

The National Jukebox is a project of the Library of Congress that streams historical commercial sound recordings. It includes “more than 10,000 78rpm disc sides issued by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1900 and 1925,” plus more content is added periodically. It has a “Day by Day” feature, and it’s searchable or browsable by performer, song, composer, genre, etc. Or take advantage of the featured content on the Jukebox’s home page.

Last November I toured the Sanfilippo Estate’s “Place de la Musique” and enjoyed looking at many, many music machines–a variety of American and European orchestrions, music boxes playing metal disks, fairground organs, and vintage phonographs (Victrolas, Edison players, and more)–which I was reminded of because the Jukebox includes images of some of the discs. Read about “Recording technology history” from the Audio Engineering Society’s web site.

We listened to an original recording of Caruso played on one of the phonographs at the Estate, so I looked up Caruso in the National Jukebox. Fantastic! Listen, for example, to him singing Vesti la giubba from Pagliacci in 1904.

Enjoy!

screen shot from National Jukebox

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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New Stuff Tuesday – March 22, 2016

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Ellen Latorraca

Yoga Anamtomy

Yoga Anatomy
by Leslie Kaminoff & Amy Matthews
RA781.7 .K356 2012
New Arrivals, 2nd floor

Spring break is the time to give the brain a different kind of cerebral workout than, perhaps, the regular semester grind offers. The New Arrivals shelves offers a number of items that might help make the transition. While not a “how-to” book, Yoga Anatomy is a reference guide which provides illustrations of the muscles and movements employed during yoga practice. Browse the New Arrivals shelves and next to it you’ll find the classic Light on Yoga – not for the beginning yoga attempt or faint of heart. If the idea of yoga intrigues, but these selections are beyond your current experience, try the Research@UWW virtual browse option. Scrolling to the left and right will allow you to view other items with similar call numbers, and which may be located in the Main, Oversize, or Browsing Collections.

Research at UWW Virtual Browse feature

If you are ready for a deep lunge into the research of yoga and psychology, search yoga AND (brain OR psych*) in Research@UWW.

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Friday fun: Lifelogging

Posted on March 18, 2016 by Barbara

I recently read a Computerworld technology blog entry about lifelogging: “Photographic memory made easy.” What is it? It’s essentially a diary of everyday moments, created with wearable devices that constantly record images and possibly audio throughout your day. Some use it to augment their memory. Others might use it to learn something about their habits.

My response is to wonder why I’d ever want to every slog through all that, because large parts of most of my days don’t seem to be worth reliving, and who has time to live those same moments repeatedly? Wouldn’t it waste lots of my life’s precious minutes searching for the image(s) I actually wanted for some reason? I prefer to continue to select the photos I take, even though sometimes I don’t have a camera at the ready for certain unplanned events. I guess that for those moments I will just have to rely on my old-style brain memory and risk forgetting.

If you’re interested in learning more about lifelogging, Andersen Library can help! Search Library databases to find articles like “Beyond total capture: A constructive critique of lifelogging” (Communications of the ACM, 2010, vol.3:no.5, pp.70-77), “Lifelogging: You’re wearing a camera?” (IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2014, vol.13:no.3, pp.8-12, doi:10.1109/MPRV.2014.53), “Dredging up the past: Lifelogging, memory, and surveillance” (University of Chicago Law Review, 2008, vol.75:no.1, pp.47-74), and “Reconstructing the past: Personal memory technologies are not just personal and not just for memory” (Human-Computer Interaction, 2012, vol.27:no.1/2, pp.92-123, doi:10.1080/07370024.2012.656062). The book Reality mining: Using big data to engineer a better world has a chapter on “Mobile phones, sensors, and lifelogging: Collecting data from individuals while considering privacy,” and UWW students and staff may borrow the book from other UW campus libraries via the free UW Request service (requested items arrive in 2-5 weekdays). You also can search for lifelogging and preview pages using Google Books.

Wikimedia has a page listing countries’ consent requirements for photographing identifiable people.

Please Ask a librarian (visit the Reference Desk, call 262.472.1032, or choose to email or chat) for assistance with finding additional materials.

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Spring Break! Library hours

Posted on March 17, 2016 by Barbara

SPRING BREAK! Mmmmm, can you feel the sun and hear the surf?
clip art of palm treeAndersen Library’s hours will be:

Sat-Sun Mar 19-20: CLOSED
Mon-Fri Mar 21-25: 8am-4:30pm
Sat Mar 26: CLOSED
Sun Mar 27: 6pm-2am (only 2nd floor is open midnight-2am)

Remember that even when the Library is closed or you are traveling, you can:

  • Search article databases …just login when prompted with your campus Net-ID (same as for your campus email or D2L),
  • Search Andersen Library’s holdings of books, media and more (part of Research@UWW) and use links to the titles that are online, including ereserves for classes,
  • Search Research@UWW for articles, books, and more all at one time–it’s best to login to get all possible results.
  • Renew your checked-out books, DVDs, etc., online (once) through your Account,
  • Consult online guides for assistance, including citation guides for APA, MLA, and Turabian format, and class assignment guides, and
  • Ask a librarian for help using email or chat, or phone us at the Reference Desk (262-472-1032) during Spring Break Reference Desk hours (Mon-Fri 9am-4:30pm, Sunday March 27th 3-5 & 6-10pm).

Regular Spring Semester hours resume on Monday, March 28th.

FYI – The Food for Thought cafe is closed for Spring Break as of 2 p.m. on Thurs., Mar. 17, so plan to bring in your snacks or lunch, or go out to eat. There are vending machines outside the Library, on the lower level. The Graham Street Cafe and Willie’s 360 have hours of service during Spring Break Week.

Enjoy the break safely, everybody. And don’t forget: You can get audio books or popular novels or feature films from Andersen Library to help enjoy your week off from classes!

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T3: Apps for Airport Info

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Diana

If you are traveling over Spring Break (lucky you!), you may find yourself in an airport. There are several apps available for iOS and Android that help you navigate airports, decide on transportation options, and manage your travel.

GateGuru

  • GateGuru
    Chock-full of useful information, GateGuru will keep track of all your flight information, provide airport maps, and real-time notifications of changes.

FLIO

  • FLIO
    This app allows you to join free airpot wi-fi networks right from the app without filling out more online forms. The app even saves your credentials for quicker access on your return flight. If you enable location services, the app will notify you with appropriate information as soon as you arrive at the airport. There are also some discount offers from popular airport restaurants and shops included in the app.

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New Stuff Tuesday – March 15, 2016

Posted on March 15, 2016 by Carol

Call the Midwife

Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
by Jennifer Worth
RG950 .W674 2012
Main Collection, 3rd floor

Although they didn’t make it to the New Arrivals Island, all three books in the Call the Midwife series were just delivered to the Library.

Birthing babies, in all its graphic details, probably isn’t on your top ten list of topics to read about. But the Call the Midwife series may change your mind about that. It’s not about the birthing, though. It’s more about the colorful world of London’s East End in the 1950s and how beautifully nurse-midwife, Jenny Lee, brings it to life.

Coming from a rural, middle class upbringing, she wasn’t culturally prepared for the world she was about to enter. The London dockworkers and their families had their own language and customs that were completely foreign to her. She also didn’t realize she’d be living in a convent and working alongside a group of Anglican nuns whose religious order was dedicated to providing medical care to London’s poorest. Other than being pious and hard-working, the nuns could hardly be typecast: one tells bawdy jokes to her patients, another studies astrology and a third gives advice to the convent handyman on breeding pigs. All the nurse-midwives, whether secular or religious have equally adventurous spirits and think nothing of cycling miles alone in the middle of the night to deliver babies in the crowded, unsanitary flats of the locals, while the policemen safely patrol in pairs.

PBS has produced a television series based on the books and Andersen Library has several seasons available on DVD.

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Economic development and the limits of indigenous sovereignty

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Barbara

Dr. Doug Kiel, UW-Whitewater alumnus and Assistant Professor of American Studies at Williams College (MA), will talk about “Economic development and the limits of indigenous sovereignty” on Wed., March 16, from 3:30pm-4:30pm in the UC Summers Auditorium. It’s the last 2015-16 Native Pride Lecture!

If you’d like to learn more, Andersen Library can help! Search Library databases to find articles such as “One hamburger at a time: Revisiting the state-society divide with the Seminole Tribe of Florida and Hard Rock International” (Current Anthropology, 2011, vol.52:suppl.3, pp.S137-S149), “Gaming sovereignty? A plea for protecting worker’s rights while preserving tribal sovereignty” (California Law Review, 2014, vol.102, p.1623-), “Economic development, Native Nations, and solar projects” (American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2013, vol.72:no.1, pp.122-144), and “Native American sovereignty, employee rights and federal labour laws” (Labor Law Journal, 2014, vol.65:no.4, pp.259-269). There also are books such as Re-creating the Circle: The renewal of American Indian self-determination (online via ebrary — See especially the section “Nurturing the Circle: American Indian Nation sovereignty and economic development” in chapter 5).

Please Ask a librarian (visit the Reference Desk, call 262.472.1032, or choose to email or chat) for assistance with finding additional materials.

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Celebrate Pi Day!

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Barbara

March 14 is Pi Day (Greek letter p or “π”)! That’s as good a reason to celebrate as anything else, but even better: It’s also Albert Einstein’s birthday!

Harken back to your geometry and remember that pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter (3.14…), which is always the same for every circle! We’ve know this for thousands of years. A brief history of pi is provided by the Exploratorium in San Francisco.

cover of The Number Pi bookWant more pi? Andersen Library can help you learn more with books like The number [pi] (3rd-floor Main Collection, QA484 .E9613 2004), [Pi]: A biography of the world’s most mysterious number (3rd-floor Main Collection, QA484 .P67 2004), and Pi-unleashed (3rd-floor Main Collection, QA484 .A7513 2001), or articles such as “I prefer pi: A brief history and anthology of articles in the American Mathematical Monthly” (a 2015 article available online from the Mathematical Association of America). Wow!

Or, you could always celebrate with some pie or some discounts provided in honor of pi today (see, for example, some suggestions collected by NBC News).

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Discount Book Sale

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Martha

Spring into action and get over to the library to get some great deals! For March, the book sale is featuring second chance books at $.25 each or a dollar a bag. These books cover quite a wide swath of subjects, so you’re sure to find something of interest.

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4th Annual Stuffed Animal Sleepover

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Rebecca Jones

It’s time for the 4th annual…

Stuffed Animal Sleepover Costume Party in the Library!

UW-Whitewater students, staff, faculty and Children’s Center families accompanied by a child 6 years of age or younger, are invited to join Andersen Library for the 4th annual Stuffed Animal Costume Party & Sleepover in the Library on Friday, April 8th, to celebrate the Week of the Young Child. Child participants bring a stuffed animal friend to join them in a library story time, a craft activity, and costume party shenanigans! Stuffed animals are invited to come in costume. Their stuffed animals get to sleep over and explore the library after hours. Children will pick up their stuffed animal and a photo memory of their animal’s overnight adventures on Saturday, April 9th, or Monday, April 11th.

Stuffed Animal Sleepover Poster

Note: Children need to be accompanied by an adult, but the library will provide chaperones for the stuffed animals’ overnight stay.

Please fill out this form to register:  http://goo.gl/nYNa2

When?      Friday, April 8th

  • Session 1:      3.30-4.30 PM
  • Session 2:      4.30-5.30 PM

Where?     Andersen Library, 2nd Floor

Have questions?  Contact the Reference Desk.

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