What's New December 2003/January 2004 |
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Library Displays
Currently showing in the Library lobby display cases (2nd floor, near Library entrance/exit doors):- "In Honor and Memory of John F. Kennedy"
- A handout Selected Resources on President John F. Kennedy in the University Library and bookmarks commemorating JFK Week (Nov. 14, 16-22) are available. For more information, visit the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum.
- "100 Years of Powered Flight"
- This is a celebration of the anniversary of the Wright brothers' achievement at Kitty Hawk, NC on December 17, 1903 (Wilbur's flight of 120 feet). For more information, visit the U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission website and The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress.
Library Display cases on the 1st floor (at the entrance to the Media Center), provided by students in the Children's Literature course taught by Dr. O'Brien in the College of Education:
- "Celebrate Holidays Around the World"
- "Snow"
"How to Find Anything on the Internet" Workshop
Martha Stephenson, Reference & Instruction librarian and coordinator of the University Library's instruction program, will repeat the Friends of the Library program she conducted in December, due to popular demand.
When & Where |
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| Fri., Feb. 6, 2004 1:30-3 p.m. |
University Library Bibliographic Instruction Lab, room L2211 |
Please call (262) 472-1032 to reserve your seat!
UW Digital Collections Easy to Find
Links to the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections have been added to the University Library's database listings and the Andersen Library Catalog. Search the Andersen Library Catalog for titles of specific collections (such as the James Joyce Scholars' Collection, Portal to Asian Internet Resources, and A History of the Crusades), or to see a list of the collections do a keyword search for UWDC?. On the Library's alphabetical list of databases see the collective entry "University of Wisconsin Digital Collections."
Faculty Checkouts at UW-Madison
UW System faculty and staff will again receive semester loan with 6 renewals for books from selected UW-Madison libraries (including Memorial Library).Thirty UW-Madison libraries had agreed to provide 28-day book loans (with one renewal) to UW System faculty, staff and students through Universal Borrowing. This was a change in practice for some Madison campus libraries, such as Memorial Library, which previously had offered a semester loan with 6 renewals for UW System faculty and staff; the same loan privileges as given to UW-Madison faculty and staff. In response to complaints about this reduction in service, the former policy has been reinstated. UW System faculty and staff will again receive semester loan with 6 renewals for books from these UW-Madison campus libraries: Business, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics, Memorial, Music, Physics, Social Science Reference and Wendt Engineering. Other UW-Madison libraries continue to provide 28-day loan with one renewal. UWS students will continue to receive 28-day loans with one renewal.
Questions? Please contact Dineen Grow at (608) 263-1721 or Brian Beecher, UW-W Circulation/Reserves Coordinator, at (262) 472-5673.
Database News
- Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC)
- ERIC is a national information system providing bibliographic access to journals articles and other published and unpublished materials in the field of education. It is funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education. When Congress reauthorized funding for ERIC, funding was not provided for continuing the system of subject-specific clearinghouses, each of which had been responsible for acquiring, indexing and abstracting resources in its area of expertise for inclusion in the ERIC database. The clearinghouses closed on December 19, 2003. As of January 2004 no new materials will be received and selected for the ERIC database, however, materials already selected by the clearinghouses in 2003 will be added. In the future ERIC will be provided by a single contractor. Jennie Vano, liaison to the College of Education, has created a webpage to track the migration of ERIC clearinghouse information & services and the status of the ERIC database at http://library.uww.edu/subject/ericchanges.htm.
- NEW!
Gerritsen Collection -Women's History Online, 1543-1945
Off-Campus access requires a UW-W login.- The Gerritsen Collection delivers two million page images of original printed works, spanning 4 centuries and 15 languages. The collection includes periodicals, books and pamphlets.
- Discontinued: Gartner IntraNet
- UW-Whitewater's access to this resource ended when UW-Madison decided to discontinue its subscription.
- Discontinued FirstSearch Databases
The databases below had been available through the FirstSearch system, as pay-as-you-go databases, i.e., the library purchased searches in advance. However, the database provider has decided to discontinue this access as of December 17, 2003.- Book Review Digest
- This continues to be available in the University Library as a print subscription, along with the print index Book Review Index. In addition, many book reviews, especially more recent ones, can be located through other periodical index databases.
- Essay & General Literature Index
- Index to Legal Periodicals
- Two databases provide indexing to law reviews and legal journals: Westlaw Campus and LexisNexis Academic. Off-Campus access requires a UW-W login.
- Library Literature
- This database will be unavailable only temporarily. The University Library plans to subscribe to it in January 2004, when it will be added to the databases available via EBSCOhost.
- Book Review Digest
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