Fall '07 WELCOME BACK

Welcome back students and faculty.
This blog is packed with helpful library information
to make your Fall semester a success. Enjoy.

"What to read next"

overbooked.org

Overbooked is a web site for ravenous readers. Overbooked provides timely information about fiction as well as readable nonfiction.

National Book Festival--Sept.29, 2007

www.loc.gov/bookfest

National Book Festival in Washington, D. C., on Saturday, September 29, 2007.
The Library of Congress celebrates the Joy of Reading
The 2007 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by First Lady Laura Bush will be held on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2007,
on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., between 7th and 14th streets
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The festival is free and open to the public.

About 70 authors, poets and illustrators will be speaking, including N. Scott Momaday, Jodi Picoult, J.A. Jance, Lisa Scottoline, David Baldacci, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Cat Cora, Mercer Mayer, Nancy Pearl and U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic to name a few.

Check Polk BadgerCat for these authors' books:
www.uwosh.edu/library/

Wisconsin Book Festival in Madision, Oct. 10-14, 2007

The Wisconsin Humanities Council is pleased to announce that critically acclaimed writers Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Rick Bass, T.C. Boyle, Michael Cunningham, Jane Hirshfield, Rabbi Harold Kushner, Zakes Mda, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Terry Tempest Williams will appear at the sixth annual Wisconsin Book Festival, Oct. 10-14, 2007.

Polk Library has books by all of the above authors for your reading pleasure.

Here for more info:
www.wisconsinbookfestival.org/

Their book club:
www.wisconsinbookfestival.org/bookclub/index.php

Wisconsin Book Club: Read On Wisconsin

readon.wi.gov/index.asp?locid=138

This new website contains helpful reading lists for teachers, parents, literacy tutors and students--kindergarten through high school.

Read On Wisconsin is a statewide book club for everyone who enjoys reading and talking about good books.

Check the Polk Library catalog for these titles and more in the Polk Library Educational Media Collection (EMC) on first floor Polk, north.

Where do you fall in poll of U.S. reading habits?

One in four Americans read no books last year according to an Associated Press poll released Tues., Aug. 21, 2007.

Among those who said they had read books, the median figure -- with half reading more, half fewer -- was nine books for women [per year] and five for men.
The figures also indicated that those with college degrees read the most,
and people aged 50 and up read more than those who are younger.
To read the complete article go to: http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/08/21/reading.ap/index.html

To find the latest books in Polk Library on any subject go to the Library web page, http://www.uwosh.edu/library/ and click on "New Library Materials" in the middle left side of the page.

What happens when a professor assigns a paper to a student?

I read an interesting article by Scott Carlson in the Chronicle of Higher Education on Aug. 17, 2007,

An Anthropologist in the Library, The U. of Rochester takes a close look at students in the stacks.

The U. of Rochester wondered how current undergraduate students handled their research assignments so they hired a campus anthropologist, Nancy F. Foster, to make an assessment.

...Ms. Foster and the librarians at Rochester never realized how often their students are in contact with parents until they started asking about the paper-writing process. They found that soon after getting a paper assignment, many students called their parents to ask what they should write about. And as the students were researching and writing their papers, they were checking in with their parents to talk about the paper or even asking parents to edit their work

The article announced that Ms. Foster's study will be published in a book due out next month from the Association of College and Research Libraries. Her study helped guide a library renovation, influenced a Web-site redesign, led to changes in the way the library markets itself to students, and, in some cases, completely changed the image of undergraduates in the eyes of Rochester librarians.

This may not be the way it is at our campus but to parents reading this blog, please know librarians and library resources at standing by ready to assist.

What are you reading?

You are invited to share your current favorite book on this blog.
Click on 'comments.'

Display space is still available

Would you like to showcase your department news in a high traffic campus area?

Over 30,000 people visited the library each month in 2006-7!

Display space is available for October, November and December.

Promote department upcoming classes or trips abroad, completed summer projects, or a current research topic.

Four separate display areas are located in the library entrance.
Three of them are locked cases.

Informational website to get details and a request form:
http://www.uwosh.edu/library/pdf/displayrequest.pdf

For your convenience--when the library is closed

Use either of the two outside book returns, open 24/7:

• Polk mall front entrance -- on the right
• Elmwood Street courtyard

Just look for the large red signs

Faculty Time Saver requires one easy step

Busy instructors who want to save research time can authorize someone to pick up library items, including InterLibrary Loans, with one easy step:

Print and fill out the Proxy Patron Authorization form below and send to Polk Circulation. http://www.uwosh.edu/library/pdf/proxypatron.pdf

Filling out one form this year will prompt the Circulation staff to send you a reminder next year.
This form is also found on the Library home page by clicking on the ‘online forms’ link. http://www.uwosh.edu/library/forms.html

Without this form your items cannot be picked up by anyone else.

Fall 2007 Semester Library Hours

Library hours are posted in several places for your convenience:
Library website, outside glass cases, inside handouts at all service desks
or phoning 424-3320.
September 5 - December 14, 2007

Building Hours
Monday - Thursday . . ..... 7:30 AM - Midnight
Friday. . . . . . . . . . . ..........7:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Saturday . . . . . . . . . ........11 AM - 6:00 PM
Sunday . . . . . . . . . . .........11 AM - Midnight
Reference Service
Monday - Wednesday . . ...7:45 AM - 9:00 PM
Thursday & Friday . . . .... .7:45 AM - 4:30
PMSaturday . . . . . . . . .....Noon - 4:00 PM
Sunday . . . . . . . . . ....... ….2:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wisconsin Area Research Center and University Archives
Monday - Friday . . . . . ... 9:00 AM - 12:00 Noon and 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Tuesday (evening) . . . . .. 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Saturday - Sunday . . . . . CLOSED

Daytime and Overnight Library Lockers are available

Daytime lockers can be found near the Circulation desk for a returnable deposit of .25 by re-inserting the key.

Overnight-semester lockers are located on the 3rd floor (north) and can be rented from the Library Office located on the 2nd floor, P204. $10 returnable deposit when supplied lock is returned.

More games to check out

UW Oshkosh Gaming Society has donated the following games to the Library. They can be found in the second floor Browsing Room and they can be checked out for 28 days.

• GURPS basic set campaigns / game design by Steve Jackson; cover by Victor R. Fernandes; illustrated by Abrar Ajmal ... [et al.]
• Dungeons & dragons dungeon master's guide:core rulebook II v.3.5 / Monte Cook, Jonathan Tweet, Skip Williams.
• Dungeons & dragons monster manual:core rulebook III v.3.5 / [by Skip Williams, Jonathan Tweet, and Monte Cook].
• Dungeons & dragons player's handbook: core rulebook I v. 3.5 / [Monte Cook, Jonathan Tweet, Skip Williams].
• Dungeon twister [game] / a Christophe Boelinger game.
• Paladins & dragons [game] / a Christophe Boelinger game.
• 3/4 players [game] / a Christophe Boelinger game.
• Railroad tycoon [game]: the boardgame / designed by Martin Wallace and Glenn Drover.
• Ticket to ride [game]: Germany / Alan R. Moon.
• Trans America [game] / from Franz-Benno DeLonge.
• Tigris & Euphrates [game]: a game of culture, crisis, conflict and civilization / by Reiner Knizia.
• Tsuro [game]: the game of the Path.
• Ebola monkey hunt [game].
• Arkham Horror [game]: a call of Cthulhu boardgame / by Richard Launius, Kevin Wilson.
• Battle Lore [game]: epic fantasy adventures / Richard Borg.