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    The University Library is happy to announce a new student art display in the LRC atrium.  Professor Susan Morrison's (Art Dept.), 3-D art class, created two large-scale birds made of organza, which are now on display  in the Lobby. Stop by and look up!      

Enchanted Toys Display The University Library currently has a wonderful display, Enchanted Toys, located in the lobby. Perfect for this time of year.   Andy Pech, Circulation Supervisor, created the display of historic toys and games.   The display includes old board games, such as "Clue," and "Candyland," a 1950s Gilbert Chemistry Set, Celebrity Dolls (including the Spice Girls), Nintendo from 1983, Inuit dolls from the early 19th century, a 1959 Barbie and Ken doll, the "Chatty Cathy" doll, tea sets, TinkerToy, and more.   'Tis the season to check it out!         1950s Chemistry Set CandyLand! Celebrity Dolls  

The Library has had some interest in exploring other citation management tools, so we now have a trial to NoodleTools through the end of February. NoodleTools provides web-based integrated tools for note-taking, outlining, citation, document archiving/annotation, and collaborative research and writing. You will be asked to set up a Personal ID account before beginning a project. You can access NoodleTools through our Trial Databases . And let us know what you think! You can send your comments to treich@uwsp.edu More information about the product is available at http://www.noodletools.com/tools/index.php

Bottoms Up: A Toast to Wisconsin’s Historic Bars & Breweries (DVD) Call number:  TX 950.57 .W6 B688 2012  on the 3rd floor in the IMC General DVD Collection DVD Description :  Bottoms Up showcases the rich architecture and history of Wisconsin breweries and bars. This documentary produced by Wisconsin Public Television explores the rise of breweries, the effects of temperance and Prohibition, and attitudes about gender, ethnicity, and morality. It traces the development of the megabreweries, dominance of the giants, and the emergence of microbreweries in Wisconsin. Bottoms Up is a companion documentary to the Wisconsin Historical Society Press book of same name, which can also be found in the UWSP Library collection ( TX 950.57 .W6 D734 2012 ).  More info on both the book and the DVD can be found at the Wisconsin Historical Society website .

The H ealing Presence of A rt : a History of Western A rt in Hospitals By Richard Cork Call Number:  RA 967 C617 2012  (Currently on the New Book shelf) Publisher's Description :  Fascinated by the astonishingly rich history of art in hospitals, the well-known critic and art historian Richard Cork has written a brilliant account of the subject. These works, which include masterpieces of Western art, have been produced from Renaissance Florence and Siena to the 20th century. Piero della Francesca made a painting for a hospital in Sansepolcro, as did Hans Memling in Bruges, Matthias Grünewald in Isenheim, El Greco in Toledo, Rembrandt in Amsterdam, William Hogarth in London, Vincent van Gogh in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, and Marc Chagall in Jerusalem. The book's sumptuous images offer a rich range of subjects, from Francisco Goya's dramatic confrontations with suffering to Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's sublime, airborne celebrations of resurrection and heavenly ecs

It's that time of the semester again! The Library is happy to announce EXAM CRAM on Monday, Dec. 17th from 7:00 p.m. - midnight.   Stop by for last minute research help at the reference desk (and you can use CHAT), help from tutors from the Tutoring-Learning Center, free coffee, free cookies, fortunes, and Andy's famous announcements :-)   Wishing you all the best of luck on the final stretch!   The Library Staff

Meat Eater: adventures from the life of an American hunter By Steven Rinella Call Number:  SK17.R56 A3 2012 Review from the Boston Globe Publisher's Description: Steven Rinella grew up in Twin Lake, Michigan, the son of a hunter who taught his three sons to love the natural world the way he did. As a child, Rinella devoured stories of the American wilderness, especially the exploits of his hero, Daniel Boone. He began fishing at the age of three and shot his first squirrel at eight and his first deer at thirteen. He chose the colleges he went to by their proximity to good hunting ground, and he experimented with living solely off wild meat. As an adult, he feeds his family from the food he hunts. Meat Eater chronicles Rinella’s lifelong relationship with nature and hunting through the lens of ten hunts, beginning when he was an aspiring mountain man at age ten and ending as a thirty-seven-year-old Brooklyn father who hunts in the remotest corners of North Ame

Search@UW includes millions of global and regional e-resources, such as journal articles and e-books, across a wide range of topics and academic disciplines. What is Search@UW ? Search@UW is a new way of searching for items you may not have known about. It is a search engine and resource discovery tool that provides credible, relevance ranked results from e-resources, databases, indexes, Google Scholar, and other article resources. In your search results, facets appear on the left-hand side of the searchscreen and can help you refine your results.   Search@UW is not intended to entirely replace other search tools, and you can still access the native interface of databases and indexes, but we hope that it will be a much-valued addition to your research needs.   Some databases and journals allow full-text searching, others include only citation information (e.g., title, author, abstract, etc.), but may be accessible from Search@UW via SFX links.   In the near future, Search@

New titles from Films Media Group have been added to the following Films On Demand streaming video collections which you can access from our homepage : •   Health & Medicine Collection •   Humanities & Social Sciences Collection •   Science & Mathematics Collection •   Business & Economics Collection Including... Club Drugs: When the Party Is Over Subject: Diseases, Disorders & Disabilities Rett: There Is Hope—Case Studies, Family Portraits, and the Search for a Cure Subject: Diseases, Disorders & Disabilities, Health Care & Treatment Cures: Quirky Science Subject: Health Care & Treatment TEDTalks: Iain Hutchison—Saving Faces Subject: Health Care & Treatment And more!

The Shadow Scholar:  How I Made a Living Helping College Kids Cheat By Dave Tomar Call Number:  LB 3609 .T65 2012 Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education Publisher's Description:  Last fall, a writer using the pseudonym Ed Dante wrote an explosive article in The Chronicle of Higher Education , confessing to writing term papers for a living. Technically, they are "study guides," and the companies that sell them-there are quite a few-are completely legal and easily found with Google. For about $10-20 a page, Dante's former employers will give you a custom essay, written to your specifications. During Dante's career, he wrote made-to-order papers for everything from introductory college courses to Ph.D. dissertations. There was never a shortage of demand. The Shadow Scholar is Dante's account of this dubious but all-too-relevant career. In stories embarrassing, absurd, hilarious, and ultimately sobering, he explores not merely his own m

The Library is getting a virtual makeover    Now is your chance to preview the new site and tell us what you think!   The intent of the new website is to provide users with better search options to make looking for information simple and easy.  The new website incorporates campus-wide web design and branding to be consistent with the UWSP web experience.  It is also designed to be responsive to any mobile device you are using, so the site is easily readable whether you’re using a desktop computer, tablet, or smartphone. Please take a moment to review the new site and tell us what you think by using the “feedback” icon located on the new homepage.  Also remember this site is still under development and not all pages have been completed at this time.

The Flavor of Wisconsin for Kids By Terese Allen and Bobbie Malone Call Number:  TX 715 .A44275 2012 (located in the IMC on the 3rd floor) Wisconsin Historical Society Description:   What are some food favorites in Wisconsin, and why are they special to us? How have our landscape and the people who have inhabited it contributed to our food heritage? This unique blend of history book and cookbook gives kids a real taste for hands-on history by showing them how to create and sample foods that link us to the resources found in our state and the heritage of those who produce them. Designed for kids and adults to use together, “The Flavor of Wisconsin for Kids” draws upon the same source material that makes “The Flavor of Wisconsin” by Harva Hachten and Terese Allen a fascinating and authoritative document of the history and traditions of food in our state, and presents it in a colorful, kid-friendly format that’s both instructional and fun. Mindful of the importance of teaching k

bx Hot Articles App: Use Your Mobile Device to Discover Popular Scholarly Articles bx Hot Articles places the 10 “hottest” scholarly articles in a variety of fields on your mobile device.    Hot Articles is based on usage data from millions of researchers across journals, publishers and platforms. Mark your favorites, email individual articles and, if you sign in using your UWSP account, connect to the full-text of articles to which the UWSP library subscribes or request those that we do not have access to via Interlibrary Loan.    You can download the app from the Apple App Store or Google Play store .  Click here to learn more about the app…

The New New Deal: the Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era By Michael Grunwald   Call Number:  E 907 .G78 2012 Review from The Economist Publisher's Description : In a riveting account based on new documents and interviews with more than 400 sources on both sides of the aisle, award-winning reporter Michael Grunwald reveals the vivid story behind President Obama’s $800 billion stimulus bill, one of the most important and least understood pieces of legislation in the history of the country. Grunwald’s meticulous reporting shows how the stimulus, though reviled on the right and the left, helped prevent a depression while jump-starting the president’s agenda for lasting change. As ambitious and far-reaching as FDR’s New Deal, the Recovery Act is a down payment on the nation’s economic and environmental future, the purest distillation of change in the Obama era. The stimulus has launched a transition to a clean-energy economy, doubled our renewable power, and financed unpr

On a Farther Shore:  the Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson By William Souder Call Number:  QH 31 .C33 S68 2012 Currently on the New book shelf in the library lobby New York Times Book Review Publisher's Description : Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her seminal book, Silent Spring , here is an indelible new portrait of Rachel Carson, founder of the environmental movement   She loved the ocean and wrote three books about its mysteries, including the international bestseller The Sea Around Us . But it was with her fourth book, Silent Spring , that this unassuming biologist transformed our relationship with the natural world. Rachel Carson began work on Silent Spring in the late 1950s, when a dizzying array of synthetic pesticides had come into use. Leading this chemical onslaught was the insecticide DDT, whose inventor had won a Nobel Prize for its discovery. Effective against crop pests as well as insects that transmitted human diseases such as typhus and mal

John Blakeman , Associate Professor and Chair of the Political Science Dept., has recently published The Supreme Court and the New Federalism: From the Rehnquist to the Roberts Court ( Rowman & Littlefield , 2012) with his colleague Chris Banks of Kent State University. Prof. Blakeman’s research focuses on constitutional law, religion and politics, and federalism. He has also authored The Bible in the Park: Federal District Courts, Religious Speech and the Public Forum (Akron, 2005), and was the co-editor of The American Constitutional Experience (Kendall Hunt, 3rd ed, 2012). Prof. Blakeman grew up in southeastern Kentucky in the heart of Appalachia. While he's lost his hillbilly twang, he retains his Alvin York outlook on life. Prof. Blakeman loves to fish and from time to time tries to advise and coach the UWSP Men's Rugby Club . He's a former rugby player himself​ , having played for Wake Forest Univ., Univ. of Glasgow, Hampstead (North London), and the infamous

The University Library has had a number of interested spectators of the popular Zeppelin display located in the Lobby. The Zeppelin airship display includes materials from various sources and formats, including videos, old books, photos, magazines, and pamphlets. Many of the items in the display are from the collection of Rudolf Schmetzke, the father of Axel Schmetzke. Axel is a librarian at the University Library and is the Coordinator of Instruction.   Rudolf Schmetzke was born in Berlin in 1907 and was the son of a merchant. Fascinated by the emerging aviation technologies, he enthusiastically took to the air himself -- first in balloons, later in gliders, and finally in small engine-powered planes. He studied business and actuary science, and he worked in the insurance industry until WW II broke out. Drafted into the German air force (Luftwaffe), he spent six years in logistics, planning and setting up air fields in German occupied territories. After the war, he worked for

What the Robin Knows: how birds reveal the secrets of the natural world By Jon Young Call Number: QL 698.5 Y68 2012 (Currently on the New Book Shelf in the lobby) Publisher's Description :  A lifelong birder, tracker, and naturalist, Jon Young is guided in his work and teaching by three basic premises: the robin, junco, and other songbirds know everything important about their environment, be it backyard or forest; by tuning in to their vocalizations and behavior, we can acquire much of this wisdom for our own pleasure and benefit; and the birds' companion calls and warning alarms are just as important as their songs. Birds are the sentries—and our key to understanding the world beyond our front door. Unwitting humans create a zone of disturbance that scatters the wildlife. Respectful humans who heed the birds acquire an awareness that radically changes the dynamic. We are welcome in their habitat. The birds don't fly away. The larger animals don't

Did you know the UW Digital Collections includes published and archival materials on the history of UWSP ? The UWSP University Library Archives has also digitized past yearbooks and the UWSP Pointer student newspaper going back to 1895. Check it out here... The collection eventually will include additional books, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, maps and other resources deemed important to the study of our state's university system and its campuses. The materials included in this rich and growing collection were selected by librarians, scholars, and other subject specialists.

In honor of the 30th anniversary of Banned Books Week (September 30 - October 6) American Library Association (ALA) Banned Books Week Site List of Frequently Challenged Books of 2011 The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins Call Number: PZ 7 .C6837 Hun 2008 In the Instructional Materials Center (IMC) on the 3rd floor Publisher's Description:  Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When her sister is chosen by lottery, Katniss steps up to go in her place.

How Music Works By David Byrne Call Number:  ML 3830 .B97 2012 New York Times Book Review Publisher's Description:  How Music Works is David Byrne’s remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. In it he explores how profoundly music is shaped by its time and place, and he explains how the advent of recording technology in the twentieth century forever changed our relationship to playing, performing, and listening to music. Acting as historian and anthropologist, raconteur and social scientist, he searches for patterns—and shows how those patterns have affected his own work over the years with Talking Heads and his many collaborators, from Brian Eno to Caetano Veloso. Byrne sees music as part of a larger, almost Darwinian pattern of adaptations and responses to its cultural and physical context. His range is panoptic, taking us from Wagnerian opera houses to African villages, from his earliest high school reel-to-reel recordin

The University Library is pleased to announce that Jennifer Huffman is the new Serials/Inter-Library Loan Librarian. Her responsibilities in the Library will also include Reference and Instruction. Jennifer comes to the position most recently from UW Fox Valley where she worked as a Reference Librarian and Library Services Assistant, and she volunteered at the Appleton Public Library for five years.  Prior to coming to UWSP, Jennifer worked for a number of years for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources as a Hydrogeologist, Storm Water Specialist and Recycling Specialist. She was formerly a Hydrogeologist at Foth and Van Dyke Engineers and Architects and a Geologist for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. She brings to UWSP a rich background in natural resources. Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from Michigan State University, and a Master of Library and Information Science from UW-Milwaukee. Jennifer can be reached at her office, Room 211 (L

God's Hotel: a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine By Victoria Sweet Call Number:  R 154 .S925 A3 2012 New York Times Review of God's Hotel Publisher's Description :  San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God’s Hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves — “anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times” and needed extended medical care — ended up there. Dr. Sweet ended up there herself, as a physician. And though she came for only a two-month stay, she remained for twenty years. At Laguna Honda, lower-tech but human-paced, Dr. Sweet had the chance to practice a kind of “slow medicine” that has almost vanished. Gradually, the place and its patients transformed the way she understood the body. Alongside the modern view of the body as a machine to be fixed, her patients evoked an older notion,

Cronkite By Douglas Brinkley Call Number:  PN 4874 .C84 B75 2012 Review from the New York Times Publisher's Description :  For decades, Walter Cronkite was known as "the most trusted man in America." Yet this very public figure, undoubtedly the twentieth century's most revered journalist, was a remarkably private man. Drawing on unprecedented access to Cronkite's private papers as well as interviews with family and friends, Douglas Brinkley now brings this American icon into focus as never before. Brinkley traces Cronkite's story from his roots in Missouri and Texas, through the Great Depression and World War II, to his coverage of presidential elections, the space program, Vietnam, and the first televised broadcasts of the Olympic Games. Cronkite was also the nation's voice for many of the most profound moments in modern American history, including the Kennedy assassination, Apollos 11 and 13, Watergate, the Vietnam War, and the Iran hostage

  The Library will celebrate its annual Hootenanny event on Friday, September 14 th from noon-7:00 p.m. to welcome new and returning students to campus. We’re excited to have two of the best bluegrass bands around performing: Horseshoes & Hand Grenades will take center stage in the Lobby from noon-3:00 p.m., and Art Stevenson & High Water will perform from 4:00-7:00 p.m.   The bands are FREE and open to the public.   Students can enjoy food, drinks, music, cool t-shirts for sale and fun activities. Come on down and have some fun!

Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy By Christopher Hayes Call Number:  HN 90 .E4 H39 2012 Review from Inside Higher Ed Publisher's Description :  A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy. Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball – imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence. In the wake of the Fail Decade, Americans have historically low levels of trust in their institutions; the social contract between ordinary citizens and elites lies in tatters. How did we get here? With Twilight of the Elites , Christopher Hayes offers a radically novel answer. Since the 1960s, as the meritocracy elevated a more diverse group of men and women into power, they learned to embrace the accelerating inequality that had

Engines of Change:  A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars By Paul Ingrassia Call Number:  TL 23 .I54 2012 Currently on the New Book Shelf New York Times Book Review Publisher's Description :  A narrative like no other: a cultural history that explores how cars have both propelled and reflected the American experience— from the Model T to the Prius. From the assembly lines of Henry Ford to the open roads of Route 66, from the lore of Jack Kerouac to the sex appeal of the Hot Rod, America’s history is a vehicular history—an idea brought brilliantly to life in this major work by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Paul Ingrassia. Ingrassia offers a wondrous epic in fifteen automobiles, including the Corvette, the Beetle, and the Chevy Corvair, as well as the personalities and tales behind them: Robert McNamara’s unlikely role in Lee Iacocca’s Mustang, John Z. DeLorean’s Pontiac GTO , Henry Ford’s Model T, as well as Honda’s Accord, the BMW 3 Series, and the Jeep, am

Lives of the Novelists:  A History of Fiction in 294 Lives By John Sutherland Call Number:  PR 821 .S88 2012 (currently on the new book shelf) Read a review from the New York Times Book Review Publisher's Description :  No previous author has attempted a book such as this: a complete history of novels written in the English language, from the genre's seventeenth-century origins to the present day. In the spirit of Dr. Johnson's Lives of the Poets, acclaimed critic and scholar John Sutherland selects 294 writers whose works illustrate the best of every kind of fiction - from gothic, penny dreadful, and pornography to fantasy, romance, and high literature. Each author was chosen, Professor Sutherland explains, because his or her books are well worth reading and are likely to remain so for at least another century. Sutherland presents these authors in chronological order, in each case deftly combining a lively and informative biographical sketch with an opinionate

Local dollars, local sense : how to shift your money from Wall Street to Main Street and achieve real prosperity By Michael H. Shuman Call Number:  HN 49.C6 S58 2012 Publisher's Description :  Americans’ long-term savings in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, pension funds, and life insurance funds total about $30 trillion. But not even 1 percent of these savings touch local small business—even though roughly half the jobs and the output in the private economy come from them. So, how can people increasingly concerned with the poor returns from Wall Street and the devastating impact of global companies on their communities invest in Main Street? In Local Dollars, Local Sense , local economy pioneer Michael Shuman shows investors, including the nearly 99% who are unaccredited, how to put their money into building local businesses and resilient regional economies—and profit in the process. A revolutionary toolbox for social change, written with compelling personal stories, the b

Creating Innovators: the making of young people who will change the world By Tony Wagner Call number:  LB 1607.5 .W33 2012 Companion Website:  http://creatinginnovators.com/ Publisher's Description:   Education expert Tony Wagner provides a powerful rationale for developing an innovation-driven economy. He explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators. In profiling compelling young American innovators such as Kirk Phelps, product manager for Apple’s first iPhone, and Jodie Wu, who founded a company that builds bicycle-powered maize shellers in Tanzania, Wagner reveals how the adults in their lives nurtured their creativity and sparked their imaginations, while teaching them to learn from failures and persevere. Wagner identifies a pattern—a childhood of creative play leads to deep-seated interests, which in adolescence and adulthood blossom into a deeper purpose for career and life goals. Play, pas

The University Library now offers JSTOR Arts & Sciences IV Collection. This Collection focuses on the professions of business, education, and law, and includes titles in psychology and public policy and administration. Among the titles are diverse publications from leading professional organizations in the fields of business and the social sciences. You can find a link to JSTOR via " find article databases " on the homepage

Clark:  the autobiography of Clark Terry By Clark Terry, with Gwen Terry Call Number:  ML 419 .T375 A3 2011 Listed on NPR's Best Music Books of 2011 Publisher's Description :  Compelling from cover to cover, this is the story of one of the most recorded and beloved jazz trumpeters of all time. With unsparing honesty and a superb eye for detail, Clark Terry, born in 1920, takes us from his impoverished childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, where jazz could be heard everywhere, to the smoke-filled small clubs and carnivals across the Jim Crow South where he got his start, and on to worldwide acclaim. Terry takes us behind the scenes of jazz history as he introduces scores of legendary greats—Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Dinah Washington, Doc Severinsen, Ray Charles, Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Coleman Hawkins, Zoot Sims, and Dianne Reeves, among many others. Terry also reveals much about his own personal life, his experiences with rac

The End of Illness By David B. Agus, MD Call Number:  RA 776.5 .A38 2012 Review from The Washington Post Publisher's Description :  What if everything you thought about health was wrong? Can we live robustly until our last breath? Do we have to suffer from debilitating conditions and sickness? Is it possible to add more vibrant years to our lives? And has the time come for us to stop thinking about disease as something the body “gets” or “has” but rather to think of it as something the body does ? In The End of Illness , David B. Agus, MD, one of the world’s leading cancer doctors, researchers, and technology innovators, tackles these fundamental questions, challenging long-held wisdoms and dismantling misperceptions about what “health” means. With a blend of storytelling, landmark research, and provocative ideas, Dr. Agus presents an eye-opening picture of the complex and endlessly enigmatic human body, and all of the ways it works—and fails—ultimately showing us how a

Congratulations to Colleen Angel who is celebrating her retirement today and has over 30 years of service in Reference and Inter-Library Loan. In 2009, she received the prestigious Sargis Award for outstanding accomplishments and service. C ... olleen earned her BS in Psychology from UWSP, her MA in MLIS from UW Milwaukee, and a MA in Communication from UWSP. She's been active in the profession (WLA, WAAL and chairing various round tables), and is an active member in the community working with the Portage County Literacy Council and other groups. She's also active in the local Rock and Gem shows. Congratulations, Colleen!