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The start of the semester is soon approaching, and the librarians are busy preparing for a successful start to the new academic year.  Here are some things we are up to: Archives: Scheduling archival instruction sessions for classes, meeting with professors to discuss class sessions, and designing sessions around topics or assignments. Returned Area Research Center materials to their repositories to make room for students’ new requests. Hiring new student workers to help with special projects throughout the academic year. Hiring a career-focused Pathways intern. Acquired new titles to add to our video games collection in anticipation of student and class use. Relocated Rare Books to the Archives to facilitate easier access to researchers. Processed archival records from UWSP at Wausau to make their collections available to students beginning this academic year. Cataloging: Completed the migration of branch campus records into one single catalog. Processed books, eBoo

Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis By Jared Diamond Call Number:   HN13 .D53 2019   (currently on the New Book Shelf) Book Review from National Public Radio Publisher's Description:    In his international bestsellers  Guns, Germs and Steel  and  Collapse , Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in his third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crises while adopting selective changes — a coping mechanism more commonly associated with individuals recovering from personal crises. Diamond compares how six countries have survived recent upheavals — ranging from the forced opening of Japan by U.S. Commodore Perry’s fleet, to the Soviet Union’s attack on Finland, to a murderous coup or countercoup in Chile and Indonesia, to the transformations of Germany and Austria after World War Two. Because Diamond has lived and spoken the language in five of these six countries, he