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The Rain in Portugal: Poems By Billy Collins Call Number:  PS 3553 .O47478 A6 2016 Publisher's Description:   From former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering nearly fifty new poems that showcase the generosity, wit, and imaginative play that prompted The Wall Street Journal to call him “America’s favorite poet.” The Rain in Portugal —a title that admits he’s not much of a rhymer—sheds Collins’s ironic light on such subjects as travel and art, cats and dogs, loneliness and love, beauty and death. His tones range from the whimsical—“the dogs of Minneapolis . . . / have no idea they’re in Minneapolis”—to the elegiac in a reaction to the death of Seamus Heaney. A student of the everyday, here Collins contemplates a weather vane, a still life painting, the calendar, and a child lost at a beach. His imaginative fabrications have Shakespeare flying comfortably in first class and Keith Richards supporting the globe on his head. By turn

Today kicks off  Open Access Week 2016 . Open Access Week is an annual week-long event that highlights the importance of sharing scholarly research and data. Its goal is to educate people on the benefits of open publishing, advocate for changes to policy and practice, and build a community to collaborate on these issues.  This year, we feature Prof. Kevin Hefferan, Geology, who recently published his article, " Determining age of Pan African metamorphism using Sm-Nd garnet-whole rock geochronology and phase equilibria modeling in the Tasriwine ophiolite, Sirwa, Anti-Atlas Morocco" in the Journal of African Earth Sciences , an Elsevier journal that supports content innovations, such as open access and open data.   What is Open Access? "Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder." The Univer

Description:  Learn how to build a workset of texts from the HathiTrust Digital Library, run analyses on them using algorithms of the main portal, and generate visualizations based on these analyses. Intended Audience:  Campus wide Date & Time:   Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016 at noon-1:00 p.m. Location:  LRC 107 (now Albertson Hall) Presenter:  Mindy King  The workshop is free, but we would like you to  register here .   We hope to see you there!

Dear students, Below are helpful links for voting locations, identification required, polling places, and registration.  Nonpartisan Special Registration Deputies will be assisting students every weekday in various locations across the campus until October 19 . To avoid long lines on election day, students are encouraged to register to vote early.  Questions about voting location, candidates and registration can be answered online at www.myvote.wi.gov .   Voter ID information is available at www.bringitwisconsin.com .  Student Voting Guide from the UW System https://www.wisconsin.edu/voting

The Association of Small Bombs:  A Novel By Karan Mahajan Call number:  PS 3613.A34925 A93 2016  Publisher's Description :   When brothers Tushar and Nakul Khurana, two Delhi schoolboys, pick up their family’s television set at a repair shop with their friend Mansoor Ahmed one day in 1996, disaster strikes without warning. A bomb—one of the many “small” bombs that go off seemingly unheralded across the world—detonates in the Delhi marketplace, instantly claiming the lives of the Khurana boys, to the devastation of their parents. Mansoor survives, bearing the physical and psychological effects of the bomb. After a brief stint at university in America, Mansoor returns to Delhi, where his life becomes entangled with the mysterious and charismatic Ayub, a fearless young activist whose own allegiances and beliefs are more malleable than Mansoor could imagine. Woven among the story of the Khuranas and the Ahmeds is the gripping tale of Shockie, a Kashmiri bomb maker who has forsa

Description: Learn about several authoritative business databases available via the Library and take your research to the next level.  Intended Audience:  Students (Approved for SBE Events credit) Date & Time:   Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016 at noon-1:00 p.m. Location:  LRC 316 (now Albertson Hall) Presenter: Mindy King  The workshop is free, but we would like you to  register here.   We hope to see you there!

Oct. 25: UPDATE! Due to the overwhelming success of the first screening of "This is Our Town," there will be more showings. Please reserve your seats for these showings by contacting the UWSP ticket office for the DUC Theatre screenings at 715-346-4100 and the Portage County Public Library for the Nov. 12th showing at 715-346-1548. All are free and open to the public! Tue, Nov. 1st @ 5:00 p.m. (DUC Theatre) Mon, Nov 7th @ 6:00 p.m. (DUC Theatre) Sat, Nov. 12th @ 2:00 p.m. (Pinery Room, Portage County Public Library) Oct 6: We are excited to announce an upcoming movie about Stevens Point hosted by the University Archives with an intro by Dr. Neil Prendergast, History Department.  Please join us for this free and public showing, and spread the word!  Movie: “This is Our Town: Stevens Point, WI” When: Tuesday, October 18 th Time: 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Where: DUC Theatre Cost : Free and open to the public. Spread the word! Contact: Brad Casselberry