{"id":10798,"date":"2012-11-07T16:32:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T22:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=10798"},"modified":"2012-11-09T11:15:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T17:15:27","slug":"the-library-honors-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/10798","title":{"rendered":"The Library Honors Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 11, we celebrate Veterans Day. President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the Armistice Day holiday in 1919, on the first anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I (at the time it was called the &#8220;Great War&#8221;). In 1938, Armistice Day became an official national holiday and in 1954 its name was changed to Veterans Day, to commemorate all veterans of the U.S. armed forces. [<em><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Veterans Day article in Encyclopedia Britannica\" href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/EBchecked\/topic\/627065\/Veterans-Day\">Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a><\/em> and <em><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Veterans Day article in Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Veterans_day\">Wikipedia.org<\/a><\/em>].<\/p>\n<p>The Library is currently conducting displays of books and videos relating to veterans and the military in the Lobby and across from the Circulation Desk. If you see anything you&#8217;d like to check out, ask at the Circulation Desk and they will help you out.<\/p>\n<p>The Library has many more books and DVDs on military topics. Here are a few HALCAT searches to identify books and videos on topics related to veterans and the military:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"HALCAT search for veterans books\" href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/vwebv\/search?searchArg=skey+veterans+or+skey+militar%3F+or+skey+war+or+skey+army+or+skey+marines+or+skey+%22air+force%22+or+skey+navy+or+skey+%22national+guard%22&#038;searchCode=CMD&#038;limitTo=LOCA%3DMain+Collection&#038;recCount=50&#038;searchType=1&#038;page.search.search.button=Search\n\">Books with subjects of military, veterans or the armed services<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"HALCAT search for veterans videos\" href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/vwebv\/search?searchArg=skey+veterans+or+skey+militar%3F+or+skey+war+or+skey+army+or+skey+marines+or+skey+%22air+force%22+or+skey+navy&#038;searchCode=CMD&#038;limitTo=MEDI%3Dv&#038;recCount=50&#038;searchType=1&#038;page.search.search.button=Search\">Videos with subjects of military, veterans or the armed services<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/ebsco_military.jpg\" alt=\"EBSCO Military &#038; Government Collection\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/p>\n<p>EBSCO&#8217;s <em><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Military &#038; Government Collection\" href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.asp?profile=web&#038;defaultdb=mth\">Military &#038; Government Collection<\/a><\/em> offers news related to all branches of the military and government from 300 full-text publications.<\/p>\n<p>But many other library databases will include topics of interest to veterans, active service members and anyone researching military topics. For instance, <em><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Historical Abstracts\" href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.asp?profile=web&#038;defaultdb=hia\">Historical Abstracts<\/a><\/em>, <em><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"America: History nad Life\"href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.asp?profile=web&#038;defaultdb=31h\">America: History and Life<\/a><\/em> and <em><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"JSTOR\" href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/jstor\/\">JSTOR<\/a><\/em> all include articles from military history journals. And other subject-specific databases will include articles related to veterans and the military from the perspectives of their fields.<\/p>\n<p>For assistance with your research, <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Reference Service\" href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/services\/reference\">Reference librarians<\/a> are available in to help you in person, by phone or via online chat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 11, we celebrate Veterans Day. President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the Armistice Day holiday in 1919, on the first anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I (at the time it was called the &#8220;Great War&#8221;). 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