Friday, December 22, 2006

Music CD Collection

Polk Library has over 1,800 music CDs covering a wide variety of music.

Music CDs are shelved in Polk Library, first floor, North.

There is also quality listening equipment for in-house listening.

Check out period: 4 weeks for students, semester for staff.

Enjoy these and more in your office, car or home.

General Selections
Yo-Yo Ma
Romancing the violin
Fanfare for Los Angeles Philharmonic
Threepenny opera
Russian chamber music
Apocalyptica plays Metallica by four cellos
Double concertos / Brahms, Bach, Mozart
Toscanini conducts the music of France
Sam & Dave Greatest Hits
Close Your Eyes: Jazz Composers
Althea Waites, Piano
Frank Hoffmeister, Lyric Tenor
Joyce Andrews, Soprano

December CDs
An evening in December -- Air Force Band of the Midwest (U.S.)
An Old world Christmas holiday favorites from Europe
Ave Maria -- by J.S. Bach
A Christmas celebration
O come all ye faithful favourite Christmas carols -- King’s College (U of Cambridge) Choir
German Christmas candlelight hours
On Yoolis night medieval carols & motets

To get browse the entire list:

Basic Search: type in MC1 and choose "call number"
(MC stands for music collection.)

Newest additions listed last.

Universal Borrowing available again AFTER January 17, 2007---meanwhile use InterLibrary Loan

The entire UW library system will be installing the latest upgrade
December 27th, 2006 - January 17th, 2007.

This affects you if you use Universal Borrowing. Universal Borrowing has to be disabled during the upgrading period to prevent losing requests since each campus gets upgraded on a different schedule.

Polk Library Interlibrary Loan staff, Erin and Lin, will get the items you need in a speedy manner as they did before the UW System Universal Borrowing self-service module was created.

Interlibrary Loan requests can be made online at http://www.uwosh.edu/library/ill.html

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Try ebooks in your bunny slippers

So many ebooks (8,000+), so little time!

Want to get a library book without leaving the house?
Here's how you can access your library’s eBook collection 24 hours a days, seven days a week.

Go directly to the NetLibrary collection from the Polk Library web page, under "List of Library Search Tools." Select NetLibrary from the drop down menu. This drops you right into the NetLibrary database.

You can also get to these books by just typing in keywords "electronic books" and your keyword (e.g., taxes, computers, cooking, parenting, etc.)

I narrowed my search with an additional keyword of "recipes" and got a short list of 19 titles to pick from. "Entertaining for a veggie planet 250 down-to-earth recipes" was one example.

A Non fiction sampler of titles:

EBay Timesaving Techniques for Dummies
EBay Bargain Shopping
Ham Radio
Building your Business with Google
GPS
Frommer's Best Day Trips from London
No Nonsense Finance
The Mother of All Parenting Books
Best Jobs for the 21st Century

A fiction sampler:
Louisa May Alcott
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Willa Cather
Charles Dickens
Arthur Conan Doyle
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Zona Gale
Zane Grey
L.M. Montgomery
Olive Schreiner
Mark Twain

NetLibrary has useful features, too, such as a box where they suggest "Similar Items" to the one you are currently viewing. I was looking at Frommer's "Best Day Trips from London" and it led me to Frommer's "Irreverent Guide to London" where I learned "When to avoid London," "How to get theater tickets when they are sold out" and "Where the Queen gets her groceries"--all very important tips to know. (Answers: Christmas Day, at the Theater, Fortnum & Mason's.)

Adobe Reader® 4.0 or higher is required for online viewing. Can be downloaded free.

The next time you cannot sleep, log on and read some good books in your bunny slippers.

Thursday, December 21, 2006

What are YOU watching for FUN?

OVER 9,000 videos and DVDs to choose from.
They come with a free two-week checkout period!
You also get the liner notes :-), that you do not get at the video store.

Here is a small sample to enjoy.

Movies and Documentaries:
It's a Wonderful Life
12 Angry Men
And the Band Played On
Bend it like Beckham
Cadillac Desert
Citizen Kane
Fish
Forbidden City
Gentleman's Agreement
Hotel Rwanda
Inconvenient Truth
Into the Arms of Strangers
Kandahar
Lawrence of Arabia
Leo Buscaglia
Life and Debt
Love Actually
March of the Penquins
Mary Cassatt
Philadelphia Story (1940)
Pieces of April
Pilates Workout for Dummies
Rent
Sea Inside
Story of the Weeping Camel
The Third man
Triplets of Belleville
Whale Rider
W.I.S.O.R.
Wallace & Gromit: curse of were-rabbit
Winged Migration
Yoga Basics

TV Series episodes:
24
CSI
Ed Sullivan
Lost
Lost in Space
Twilight Zone

Leisure reading

Polk Library has a roomful of popular book titles and magazines. Over 7,000 bestsellers in both fiction (mystery, science fiction, Westerns, romance) and non-fiction (hiking, cookbooks, sports, exercise and diet books, and biographies). Located on the second floor, north side, in the cleverly named " Browsing Room."

You'll also find magazines such as Oprah's O magazine, Health, Rolling Stone, Glamour, People, etc.

So explore the Browsing Collection, in a comfortable, quiet room and escape for a half hour with a good book.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Check out a Laptop

Laptops are available to students for 3 hours in Polk Library. Check one out at the Circulation desk on first floor, north, with your TitanCard.

Renewing online 24/7 from home

Go to this page and renew your items quickly and easily:

http://polkweb.uwosh.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=pbLogon

Then just write the new due date on the due date card in the back of the item.

Holiday Library Hours

Polk Library will be open during semester break.

Library Hours

Building Admittance and Services end 15 minutes prior to closing

Holiday Schedule: December 16, 2006 - January 1, 2007

Polk Library is closed December 24, 25, 31, 2006 and Jan. 1, 2007


Building Hours
424-3320
Monday - Friday . . . . . . . . . . . 7:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Saturday & Sunday . . . . . . . . . CLOSED

Reference Service:
424-4333
Monday - Friday . . . . . . . . . . 7:45 AM - 4:30 PM
Saturday & Sunday . . . . . . . . . CLOSED
or 24/7 Research and Reference Help

Wisconsin Area Research Center and University Archives
424-0828
Dec. 18 - Dec. 22 . . . . . . . . . .9:00 AM - 12:00 Noon
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Dec. 25 - Jan. 1 . . . . . . . . . . CLOSED

Polk Computer Lab Hours
424-2297

Free coffee for all-nighters at Polk Library

Stop by the Polk Library Circulation Desk on first floor for some hot coffee. Polk Library will have free coffee from 10 pm - 8 am Sunday night, Dec. 10 - Friday morning, Dec. 15. Good luck on your final exams.