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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 rec...

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 21...

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 n...

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!