Deals galore await you. This month we are giving some of our sale books a second chance and selling them for $.25 or $1 per bag. This is your last chance to get them!
We’re also selling vintage binders, primarily 1″-2″ deep and mostly, to use the words of Henry Ford, you can have any color you want as it is black. The few alternately hued binders have been going fast. These are priced at a mere $1 each.
Pete the Cat may wear no hat, but he does sport cool white shoes and groovy buttons.
Eric Litwin’s Pete the Cat may be too recent to children’s picture book scene for UW-W students, but the lucky ones will have met him if they’ve read to a younger family member or been anywhere near a children’s library or elementary school in the past few years. Through simple, grooving’ lyrics, Pete has been teaching children not to sweat the small stuff. In I Love My White Shoes, no matter how he manages to stain his new white shoes, he won’t cry (“Goodness, no!”) he’ll “keep walking and singing, because it’s all good.” As Pete the Cat loses one groovy button after another in Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons, he doesn’t cry (“Goodness, no!”) because “it simply goes to show that stuff will come and stuff will go,” and you may as well just keep singing.
Young Auditorium and the Early Childhood Conference will host performer, composer, and children’s book author Eric Litwin, on Friday, April 10, 2015, at 10:00 AM and 12:30 PM for an active, fun performance, sure to have audience members of all ages singing and dancing. Visit the Young Auditorium website for reservations.
Search Research@UWW to locate other Pete the Cat books which you will find in the Children’s Collections at Andersen Library, and keep your eye out for the new series, The Nut Family, introducing a new cast of characters, Hazel and Wally Nut.
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The West Without Water:
What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell Us About Tomorrow
by B. Lynn Ingram and Frances Malamud-Roam
QC903.2 .U6 I54 2013
New Arrivals, 2nd floor
With its 15,000 lakes, Wisconsin is a land rich in fresh water resources, so it may be hard for us to picture a climate where water is a rare commodity. But dusty terrain is familiar turf to Univ. of California geologists B. Lynn Ingram and Frances Malamud-Roam. In this book they explore the historical weather patterns of the American West to see what they portend for the future of water in their region.
Just last week, California Governor Jerry Brown, ordered the first-ever mandatory reduction of water use in his state when he issued Executive Order B-29-15. The order seeks to curb urban water use by 25% to combat the water shortage brought on by a five-year drought that shows no signs of relenting. So even though this book was published two years ago, the topic is as timely as ever.
After learning more about this, perhaps you’ll find yourself reaching for the faucet to turn off the water next time you’re brushing your teeth.
Rob Smith, openly gay Iraq war Army veteran, journalist and author of Closets, combat, and coming out, will speak about his experiences on Tues., Apr. 7, at 6:30pm in the UC’s Hamilton Room. It’s a Pride Week event!
Andersen Library has resources, including books such as The last deployment: How a gay, hammer-swinging twentysomething survived a year in Iraq (3rd-floor Main Collection, HQ75.8.L46 A3 2011), Conduct unbecoming: Gays and lesbians in the U.S. military: Vietnam to the Persian Gulf (3rd-floor Main Collection, UB418.G38 S55 1993), and Gays and lesbians in the military: Issues, concerns, and contrasts (3rd-floor Main Collection, UB418.G38 G36 1994). There also are articles including “Don’t drop the soap”: Organizing sexualities in the repeal of the US military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy” (Communication Monographs, 2012, vol.79:no.3, pp.269-91), “Readiness and DADT repeal: Has the new policy of open service undermined the military?” (Armed Forces & Society, 2013, vol.39:no.4, pp.587-601), and “Gays in the military: How America thanked me” (Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, 2012, vol.16:no.4, pp.322-333).
If you’re interested in finding more materials, please Ask a librarian for assistance.
IBISWorld, a great library resource for analyzing industries, just released a list of the top 9 industries for 2015 graduates. These industries were chosen because of their projected annual revenue growth rate (2015-2020) and the 2015 average salary. Check out the list below!
All UW libraries, including UWW’s Andersen Library, are migrating from one library system to another during Spring Semester. The system is used for circulation, cataloging, acquisitions, etc., but the migration affects all library users:
UWW students and staff must borrow books and DVDs from other UW libraries using ILLiad interlibrary loan from Thurs., Apr. 9, through May 21. Universal Borrowing through Research@UWW will be DOWN, and once the new system is functional it will have a new name.
UWW instructors must request any additional Course Reserves needed for the rest of Spring Semester by Mon., Apr. 13.
My Account will be frozen from May 15 through May 21. Although you will be able to check out and return items, this information will not be synced with your online account during the migration period, so some of the My Account information may be inaccurate. You will not be able to renew materials during this week either, so make your renewals before May 15th. In addition, materials checked out in late April-early May might have slightly longer-than-usual loan periods.
New materials won’t be processed until the new system is functional on May 21st.
In addition, once the new system is up, Research@UWW will look a bit different! For example, Instead of a “Request” tab there will be a tab called “Get it” that you’ll click to make requests for items from other UW campus libraries. Permalinks from the previous Research@UWW will need to be updated with new links, e.g., http://uw-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/WW:WW_VOY17051 is an example of a link that will no longer work because it contains the string WW_VOY.
Please bear with us! We’ll all be learning to navigate the new and improved system and Research@UWW together.
Questions? Please ask a librarian via email or chat, or contact the appropriate department:
It’s time for the 3rd annual…
Stuffed Animal Sleepover Campout 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 3rd annual Stuffed Animal Campout in the Library 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 campfire song or two, of course! Their stuffed animals get to camp out in the library and explore the library after hours. Children will pick up their stuffed animal and a photo memory book of their animal’s overnight camping adventures on Saturday, April 11th, or Monday, April 13th.
Note: Children need to be accompanied by an adult, but the library will provide camp counselors for the stuffed animals’ overnight excursion.
Please fill out this form to register: http://goo.gl/nYNa2
When? Friday, April 10th, 2015
Session 1: 3.30-4.20 PM
Session 2: 4.30-5.20 PM
Where? Andersen Library, 2nd Floor
Questions?
Contact the Reference Desk
When it finally feels like spring outside many people take the opportunity to tidy up their living spaces. Why not tidy up your digital living spaces as well? Your email inbox is one place that can accumulate a lot of virtual clutter. A cleaner inbox lets you work more efficiently and focus on the emails that actually matter.
If you use a Gmail, Outlook.com (Hotmail, MSN, or Windows Live), Yahoo, iCloud, or AOL account then you can easily unsubscribe from any email newsletters or subscriptions you’ve inadvertently accumulated over the years by using service called Unroll.Me. You can also “roll up” any subscription emails you still want to receive into a single message delivered once per day. The process is very fast and takes only a few minutes to clean up your subscriptions.
The snow season seems to have made way for spring at last, so everyone’s bikes are emerging. It’s important to ride safely, however, and to share the roads and sidewalks lawfully and politely.
The March 2015 newsletter from UW-Whitewater Police Services spells it out for all of us:
BICYCLE RIDERS:
When operating a bicycle always remember to signal your direction of travel so vehicles know what your intended direction is. (See illustrations in the newsletter, or from Hand signals provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which also provides additional related information, such as fitting a bike helmet.)
MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVERS:
The newsletter also reminded us that “Long boards and skateboards are not allowed in the roadway.”
More information is available from the Wisconsin Dept. of Transportation web site, including specific guidance for “path/street crossings” and bicycle crash facts in section IV of Wisconsin Traffic Crash Facts. There’s also a special two-page item on Bicyclists (part of the Wisconsin Traffic Safety Facts series) that says, “In Wisconsin, in 2012, one bicyclist was injured or killed every 8.3 hours.” It also says both bicyclists and motor vehicles should allow three feet of clearance when getting around each other, and bicyclists traveling at speeds under the normal speed should be as close to the curb as possible. It is important to know the rules of the road, which are in Wisconsin Statutes. For example, “No pedestrian, bicyclist, or rider of an electric personal assistive mobility device shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk, run, or ride into the path of a vehicle which is so close that it is difficult for the operator of the vehicle to yield.” is Wis. Stats. 346.24(2). Also see the City of Whitewater’s Municipal Code, Chapter 11.40 Bicycles.
Want to learn even more? Ask a librarian for assistance.
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!
Were you sad when Spring Break ended? Well, have a Spring Mini-Break! Here are Andersen Library’s Mini-Break hours for Thurs.-Sun., Apr. 2-5:
The Food for Thought Café will be open 8:45am-2pm on Thurs. Apr. 2, then closed until Mon. Apr. 6. Spring Mini-Break hours for other campus dining spots are online in Dining News.
Remember that even when the Library is closed or you are traveling, you can:
