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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 experienc...

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 ...

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!

EXAM CRAM! Monday, May 14th 7:00 p.m. - midnight Free coffee, cookies and chair massages! Paper & research help from reference librarians and the TLC tutors!

Big congratulations to UWSP students from History 217, Michael Bixby, Julienna Hagan and John Lenz, who presented their research at the Council on Undergraduate Research's Posters on the Hill event in Washington D.C. on 24 April 2012, and to their faculty advisors History Professor Valerie Barske and University Archivist Ruth Wachter-Nelson.   Out of 850 applications, the Council accepted 74 posters to be presented, and only 12 were from the humanities, which included Bixby, Hagan and Lenz. (L to R: Ruth Wachter-Nelson, Julienna Hagan, Michael Bixby, Valerie Barske, John Lenz)  The students’ research project represented the first study analyzing primary source materials on East Asia from the Malcolm L. Rosholt Archival Collection held in the UWSP Archives. Rosholt covered the Japanese invasions of China as a journalist, publisher, and editor of an English-language newspaper in Shanghai, from 1932-1937. While in China, Rosholt focused on achieving a complex understanding...