UWSP Libraries

October 2019 will be the 125 th anniversary of UW-Stevens Point. The University Library and the campus Historic Preservation Committee has items on display highlighting Pointers from the past. We hope you have a chance to visit the lobby display to see some of these wonderful artifacts. Mildred Davis  came to UWSP in 1928 as a French professor. She was a campus fixture for 56 years who sketched the photo of Old Main on diploma covers and used her calligraphy skills for the names of graduates. Davis loved art and was known for sketching dress designs. Three of these unique sketch books that she had given her mother are now housed in the UWSP University Archives. Four of her “chip carving” pieces are currently on display.   John Anderson  was director of the UW-Stevens Point News and Publications Office. He arrived in Stevens Point in 1967 and was considered UWSP’s “unofficial historian.” He published a weekly faculty & staff newsletter as well a bi-annual ...

The Fair Chase:  The Epic Story of Hunting in America By Philip Dray Call number:  SK 41 .D73 2018 New York Times Book Review Publisher's description :   An award-winning historian tells the story of hunting in America, showing how this sport has shaped our national identity. From Daniel Boone to Teddy Roosevelt, hunting is one of America's most sacred-but also most fraught-traditions. It was promoted in the 19th century as a way to reconnect "soft" urban Americans with nature and to the legacy of the country's pathfinding heroes. Fair chase, a hunting code of ethics emphasizing fairness, rugged independence, and restraint towards wildlife, emerged as a worldview and gave birth to the conservation movement. But the sport's popularity also caused class, ethnic, and racial divisions, and stirred debate about the treatment of Native Americans and the role of hunting in preparing young men for war. This sweeping and balanced book offers a definitive acc...

Open Access Week , Oct. 22-28, is celebrated globally and provides an opportunity for academic communities to learn about open access to information and its potential benefits, and to share what they know with others. What is Open Access precisely? Open access is the free and immediate online access to the results of scholarly research. Open access initiatives remove the price barriers of traditional academic publishing model. The intent is to create a model that makes scholarly works freely available by eliminating the cost associated with obtaining and using them. Other open initiatives, such as open educational resources and open publishing models, also work to reduce permission barriers, allowing users to copy, redistribute, and adapt the works. Open access has many benefits for students and researchers, as well as the public. It increases the ability of anyone to find, use, and distribute knowledge, alleviates some cost burdens, and enables innovation and cross-collaborati...

The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story By Christie Watson Call number:  RT 37 .W38 A3 2018 Review from The New York Times: "Christie Watson is a lovely writer - and, judging from this book, a gifted nurse." Publisher's Description :   Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably powerful book, she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its secrets. She takes us by her side down hospital corridors to visit the wards and meet her unforgettable patients.  In the neonatal unit, premature babies fight for their lives, hovering at the very edge of survival, like tiny Emmanuel, wrapped up in a sandwich bag. On the cancer wards, the nurses administer chemotherapy and, long after the medicine stops working, something more important--which Watson learns to recognize when her own father is dying of cancer. In the pediatric intensive care unit, the nurses wash the hair of a little girl to remove the smell of smo...