{"id":8305,"date":"2012-01-10T16:49:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T22:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=8305"},"modified":"2012-01-11T10:45:37","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T16:45:37","slug":"librarians-favorite-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/8305","title":{"rendered":"Librarians&#8217; favorite books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for some recommended books to fill your limited time for unrequired reading, how about these? Librarians were invited to contribute to <a title=\"Librarians' Best Books of 2011 blogs\" href=\"http:\/\/reviews.libraryjournal.com\/tag\/librarians-best\/\" target=\"_blank\">Librarians&#8217; Best Books of 2011<\/a> by <em>Library Journal<\/em>. The list includes both fiction and nonfiction:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The art of fielding<\/em> by Chad Harbach <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">(UB)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em>The orchard: A memoir<\/em> by Theresa Weir (available at the <a title=\"ILY Library web site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitewater.lib.wi.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Irvin L. Young Memorial Library<\/a>, Whitewater&#8217;s public library)<\/li>\n<li><em>Ready player one<\/em> by Ernest Cline <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">(UB)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em>The long goodbye<\/em> by Meghan O\u2019Rourke <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">(UB)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em>A discovery of witches<\/em> by Deborah Harkness (2nd-floor Browsing Books, PS3608.A7436 D57 2011)<\/li>\n<li>Claire DeWitt and the city of the dead by Sara Gran <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">(UB)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em>Killing the cranes: A reporter&#8217;s journey through three decades of war in Afghanistan<\/em> by Edward Girardet<\/li>\n<li><em>The tiger\u2019s wife<\/em> by T\u00e9a Obreht (3rd-floor Main Collection, PS3615.B73 T54 2011)<\/li>\n<li><em>The call<\/em> by Yannick Murphy <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">(UB)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em>The restorer<\/em> by Amanda Stevens<\/li>\n<li><em>The swerve: How the world became modern<\/em> by Stephen Greenblatt (3rd-floor Main Collection, PA6484 .G69 2011)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Call numbers are provided above for those titles available from Andersen Library. UWW students and staff may request those marked <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">(UB)<\/span> above from other UW libraries by using the free <a title=\"Universal Borrowing\" href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/vwebv\/selectDatabase\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Borrowing<\/a> service. Those titles not available from any UW campus library might be available from area public libraries, or UWW students and staff could request them by using the <a href=\"https:\/\/wisconsin.hosts.atlas-sys.com\/illiad\/gzt\/logon.html\" title=\"ILLiad interlibrary loan service for UWW students and staff\" target=\"_blank\">interlibrary loan service<\/a> (students pay $1 per request).<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for some recommended books to fill your limited time for unrequired reading, how about these? Librarians were invited to contribute to Librarians&#8217; Best Books of 2011 by Library Journal. The list includes both fiction and nonfiction: The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/8305\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[13961,178,1491,176,1492,2087],"class_list":["post-8305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-fiction","tag-librarians","tag-non-fiction","tag-recommended-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8305"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8328,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions\/8328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}