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The Library is happy to announce the addition of more JSTOR titles to our collection of our JSTOR profile.  We now have acces to the following (click on the links to see journal titles in each collection): Arts & Sciences VIII Arts & Sciences IX Arts & Sciences X These are now integrated in our system and available through our " Find Databases " link on the Library's Homepage.

Thanks to ProQuest and UW-Madison, we now have access to Legislative Insight.  Legislative Insight is comprised of fully searchable PDFs of full-text publications generated in the course of congressional lawmaking. These include the full text of the Public Law itself, all versions of related bills, law-specific Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, and prints. Also included are Presidential signing statements, CRS reports, and miscellaneous congressional publications that provide background material to aid in the understanding of issues related to the making of the law.  We have perpetual access to this content. You can access Legislative Insight through our " Find Databases " link on the Library's Homepage .

Shouting Won't Help : Why I - and 50 Million Other Americans - Can't Hear You By Katherine Bouton Call Number:  RF 290 .B58 2013 Review from the Sunday NY Times Book Review Publisher's Description :  For twenty-two years, Katherine Bouton had a secret that grew harder to keep every day. An editor at The New York Times , at daily editorial meetings she couldn’t hear what her colleagues were saying. She had gone profoundly deaf in her left ear; her right was getting worse. As she once put it, she was “the kind of person who might have used an ear trumpet in the nineteenth century.” Audiologists agree that we’re experiencing a national epidemic of hearing impairment. At present, 50 million Americans suffer some degree of hearing loss—17 percent of the population. And hearing loss is not exclusively a product of growing old. The usual onset is between the ages of nineteen and forty-four, and in many cases the cause is unknown. Shouting Won ’ t Help is a deftly

Need help with citations? Especially this week?  Check out our handy and helpful Citation Guide! Good luck with your finals and don't forget EXAM CRAM tonight from 8-midnight!

Memories and treasures should last a lifetime and be passed on to future generations. Preservation Week is designed to highlight this need. Sponsored by the ALA’s Association of Library Collections and Services and partner organizations, Preservation Week inspires actions to preserve personal, family and community collections of all kinds, as well as library, museum and archive collections. To celebrate, check out our University Archives and the ALA's Preservation Tool Kit

It's that time of year again.... Need help with citations? A statistic? Help with a paper or final exam?  The Library and Tutoring Learning Center will be here on Monday, May 12 from 8:00 pm - midnight to help you! We will also have free coffee, cookies, fruit, ear plug giveaways, and other surprises! Good luck with studying from all of us at the Learning Resource Center!