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What's New - November 2002

Database Cancellations

Databases available to UW-Whitewater faculty, staff and students are financed in various ways: a few are funded for statewide access by the WI Dept. of Public Instruction (e.g., EBSCOhost's Academic Search Elite), many are subscriptions paid out of Andersen Library's materials budget, some are UW-Madison subscriptions that other UW campuses "ride" (e.g., Contemporary Authors), and some are available as part of a UW System-wide electronic collection. Because of budget limitations and the rising cost of database subscriptions, some of the UW System shared databases must be cancelled.

The following databases will no longer be available as of January 2003:

  • Alt HealthWatch
  • Books in Print
  • Columbia Earthscape
  • Science Online & Science NextWave
  • Ulrichsweb (Ulrich's Periodicals Directory online) - Andersen Library may pick up this subscription locally.

It may be necessary to cancel additional shared databases later in the year. In addition, Andersen Library will be reviewing its subscriptions (online databases, standing orders, and periodicals) for possible cancellations.

Library Displays

  • "Wisconsin in Wartime" - 2nd floor display cases (near the Circulation Desk)
  • National Education Week - 1st floor display cases (near the entrance to the Media Center)
    Coming in December: Nobel Prizes

Staff Changes

Donna Lyons, Documents Assistant, is leaving the Reference & Instruction unit as of December 13, 2002.

University of Wisconsin Digital Collections

Among the 2001-2003 strategic directions for UW Libraries is providing access to digital information resources, including digitized materials from UW Libraries' existing collections. Visit the website of the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center for more information about projects (which originate from campuses throughout the UW System) and how they are proposed and developed.

Samples of digital projects:

  • Wisconsin Pioneer Experience
    This digital collection of diaries, letters, reminiscences, speeches and other writings of people who settled and built Wisconsin during the 19th century was created through a partnership of the Council of University of Wisconsin Libraries (CUWL) and the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS). Andersen Library's Area Research Center submitted the Uriah Hollister Papers, which consist of reminiscences of early Delavan and a very interesting letter about the trip from New York to Wisconsin written by his mother.
  • Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent
    This collection provides a selection of images and sounds that have been contributed over the years to the African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Belgian-American Research Collection
    One of the country's largest concentrations of Walloon-speaking Belgians is found in northeastern Wisconsin, resulting in a unique cultural and social flavor. The largest wave of Belgian immigration to Wisconsin occurred in the mid-1850s. This multi-media resource contains digitized photographs, e-facsimiles of books, and digitized audio from the Belgian American Resource Collection, established as a pilot project in 1975-1976 in the UW-Green Bay library's Special Collections Department. Manuscript materials and government records gathered by the project became the property of the Wisconsin Historical Society for permanent deposit in the Green Bay Area Research Center.
  • Great Lakes Maritime History Project
    This resource combines materials from several sources: Milwaukee Public Library's Great Lakes Marine Collection (containing over 7,000 files on ships that sailed since 1679 and some that sail on the Great Lakes today), Wisconsin Historical Society's visual materials, UW-La Crosse's collections of inland river steamboats and river life photographs (among the largest such collections in the country), and UW-Superior's Lake Superior Maritime Collections Archives (LSMCA).
  • A History of the Crusades (Kenneth M. Setton, ed.)
    A six-volume title published by the University of Wisconsin Press over a twenty-year period beginning in 1969 that was intended to serve as a collaborative and comprehensive treatment of the topic, ranging in time from the first 100 years of the Crusades to their ultimate impact on the histories of the Near East and Europe. The volumes may be browsed or searched by keywords.
  • Wisconsin Electronic Reader
    Stories, letters, poems, illustrations, etc. on Wisconsin history, such as The Wisconsin Idea (1912) and John Muir's The World and the University (chapter 8 from The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, 1917). This was a cooperative digital imaging project of UW-Madison and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

Friends of the Library Activities

  • Email Essentials
    December 6, 2002, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
    Bibliographic Instruction Lab (Andersen Library, L2211)
    Martha Stephenson, Bibliographic Instruction coordinator, will conduct a hands-on workshop. Topics covered include: sending new messages, forwarding, replying, saving, attaching documents and photographs, and adding friends to your address book. There will be plenty of time for experimentation. Platforms covered include Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, IDC and Ticon Net. Bring along your questions.

  • History and Architectural Style of a House
    March 21, 2003 (Friday), 1:30-3:30 p.m.
    International Education Conference Room (Andersen Library, L2254)
    Carol Cartwright, Historic Preservation Consultant, will be talking about investigating the history and architectural style of buildings and homes in the area using archival sources.

  • Library Book Sale
    April 7-10, 2003 (Monday-Thursday)
    Andersen Library Lobby

    Book Sale Hours
    Apr. 7: 6 p.m.-8 p.m.   Presale (UWW faculty, staff, students, & Friends only)
    Apr. 8-9: 8 a.m.-8 p.m.
    Apr. 10: 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

New Online Resources for Research

American Council of Learned Societies E-Book Project |
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries |
Corporate Affiliations | Essay Finder | Gartner IntraWeb | Story Finder

NOTE: Off-campus access to these databases requires UW-W login.

American Council of Learned Societies E-Book Project.

Contains over 500 books of major importance to the field of history. These are works that remain vital to both history scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature. 250 additional titles will be added to the Project each year.

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries.

The largest collection of British and Irish women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, it offers the personal experiences of more than 1,000 women  and will eventually include approximately 100,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from the 1500 to 1900. The collection represents all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous.

Corporate Affiliations.

This resource, previously in CD-ROM format in Andersen Library, provides instant insight into more than 174,000 parents companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, and divisions - all the way down to the seventh level of reporting relationships. All domestic and foreign subsidiaries are included.

Essay Finder. - Limited to one user in the Library Building at a time

Essay Finder is a unique database of full-text essays and discursive writing based on books published in the 20th century which have been analyzed in standard library indexes. The essays focus on the humanities and social sciences, and include biographies and literary criticism. Subjects include literature, history, economics, sociology, art and architecture, philosophy, psychology, science and drama.

Gartner IntraWeb. (1995 - to date, updated daily)

Gartner IntraWeb is an online service providing market research reports for the Information Technology (IT) professional. It provides reports on trends in the IT industry, available technologies, and analysis of products on the market, including reception by customers of the products.

Story Finder. - Limited to one user in the Library Building at a time

Story Finder provides thousands of full-text short stories including explanatory material such as biographies, explanations of stories, pictures and more. The collection includes stories from the classic to the most contemporary.

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