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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