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The University Library is pleased to announce the installation of Prof. Susan Morrison’s student art work on the 5 th  floor based on the game of chess. Beginning drawing students from ART 103 sections worked with acrylics, paint, charcoal and ink to design 40 chess-like boards that  cover the wall.  Congrats to all of the students for their creative work!  Come check it out on your next visit to the Library.

Wave By Sonali Deraniyagala Call Number:  CT 1528 .D47 A3 2013 Named one of the 10 best books of 2013 by the New York Times Book Reveiw Publisher's Description:  On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She has written an engrossing, unsentimental, beautifully poised account: as she struggles through the first months following the tragedy, furiously clenched against a reality that she cannot face and cannot deny; and then, over the ensuing years, as she emerges reluctantly, slowly allowing her memory to take her back through the rich and joyous life she’s mourning, from her family’s home in London, to the birth of her children, to the year she met her English husband at Cambridge, to her childhood in Colombo; a...

Old Gateway to Databases - Quick Search The Library’s subscription to our current database gateway will be ending December 31, 2013. This will mean the pathway (or gateway) to our databases will be changing, but the content still remains.  Functions such as “Article Quicksearch” and custom searches will no longer be available, but you may perform the same search in the Search@UW interface or by combining Ebsco databases, through the “Choose” databases function.  New Gateway to Databases - Search@UW We will also have a new pathway guide that  will provide access to all of our databases by subject, alphabetically by name, and provide a search box to find a specific database.   This guide will be available from our Library Homepage by the beginning of the Winterim session.    If you have any questions, please contact Terri Muraski at tmuraski@uwsp.edu or ext. 3349.

The Men Who United the States : America's explorers, inventors, eccentrics, and mavericks, and the creation of one nation, indivisible By Simon Winchester Call Number:  E 178 .W8 2013 Review from the New York Times  and an Author interview from NPR Publisher's Description:  Simon Winchester, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman , delivers his first book about America: a fascinating popular history that illuminates the men who toiled fearlessly to discover, connect, and bond the citizenry and geography of the U.S.A. from its beginnings. For more than two centuries, E pluribus unum —"Out of many, one"—has been featured on America's official government seals and stamped on its currency. But how did America become "one nation, indivisible"? In this monumental history, Simon Winchester addresses these questions, bringing together the breathtaking achievements of those American pion...

It's that time of the semester again for our internationally known EXAM CRAM!!!!!!  Monday, December 16th from 7 p.m. - midnight.   Free Coffee, Free Cookies, Free Fortunes, Quiet Study Areas, Not So Quiet Study Areas, Group Study Areas, Reference Help, Tutoring Help, Staplers, Paper Clips, Citation Help, Copier Help.  We will help you CRAM!!!!!!!!!!!