Private Soldiers : A Year in Iraq with a Wisconsin National Guard Unit
November 10, 2007, 1:00 pm Oshkosh Public Library Meeting Room
Meet Sgt. Joseph Streeter, squad leader for the 2-127th Gator Battalion of the Wisconsin National Guard and one of the photographers of the book Private Soldiers, will share a first-hand account of life in Iraq. Area soldiers also will attend. This is a free program and open to the public.
Books will be available for purchase. All royalties from sales of Private Soldiers will go to the 2-127th's family support groups and to funds established in memoriam of the battalion members who gave their lives in the Iraq war.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Madison Author Speaking at Oshkosh Public Library
Author Jennifer Chiaverini will speak, November 29, 7:00 pm at Oshkosh Public Library
Best-selling Madison author, Jennifer Chiaverini, of the popular Elm Creek Quilts series, will be appearing at the Oshkosh Public Library. The library is collaborating with Apple Blossom Books, to bring Chiaverini to Oshkosh. Pick up her latest book, The New Year's Quilt, for a book signing.
Polk Library has two of her books and her other titles can be delivered to Polk Library from Universal Borrowing UW libraries.
Best-selling Madison author, Jennifer Chiaverini, of the popular Elm Creek Quilts series, will be appearing at the Oshkosh Public Library. The library is collaborating with Apple Blossom Books, to bring Chiaverini to Oshkosh. Pick up her latest book, The New Year's Quilt, for a book signing.
Polk Library has two of her books and her other titles can be delivered to Polk Library from Universal Borrowing UW libraries.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Wisconsin author, Michael Perry, 2007 WLA Award Winner
Michael Perry told the audience his mom taught him to read at age 4. “I grew up very poor, “up North,” without TV, but we had lots of books."
Michael Perry was in Green Bay last week at the Wisconsin Library Association (WLA) conference to accept the RR Donnelley Award winner for 2007. The Literary Awards Committee of the WLA chose the New Auburn author of Truck: A Love Story for the highest literary achievement by a Wisconsin author for a work written in 2006.
Perry earned a nursing degree and decided he also wanted to become a writer. He moved back home to New Auburn, Wisconsin and joined the volunteer fire department and wrote about rural Wisconsin life in
Population 485: Meeting your neighbors one siren at a time, Truck, and
Off Main Street.
Perry writes freelance advertising in between “because it pays the bills.” Perry described a couple of articles he wrote about snowmobile ‘water skipping’ (over large ice holes) and a monster truck show. Those two recollections actually gave you the feeling you were right on the snowmobile and in the big truck. Perry uses words well.
Perry said he used to have waist length hair but now sports a buzz cut because: a) “crop failure,” and b) while doing some volunteer EMT fire fighting his hair caught on fire. Perry reminded me of Garrison Keillor…slow talking, hilariously funny and very easy to listen to.
Perry said his perky NYC publicists find Wisconsin mysterious…so when they call him, he tells them he was out cleaning his gun or making tallow candles in that slow, quiet voice. The Wisconsin audience smiled.
When Perry decided to become a writer he said he read The Writer’s Market. (Polk Library has this: PN 161 .W83). In closing Perry shared
his best writer’s advice: you must read your writing out loud because your mouth trips you where your eyes slide over. I just did and hope this reads well.
I wish you could have been there in the audience smiling and laughing.
Perry's books are available through Polk Library and Universal Borrowing from the UW System libraries.
Michael Perry was in Green Bay last week at the Wisconsin Library Association (WLA) conference to accept the RR Donnelley Award winner for 2007. The Literary Awards Committee of the WLA chose the New Auburn author of Truck: A Love Story for the highest literary achievement by a Wisconsin author for a work written in 2006.
Perry earned a nursing degree and decided he also wanted to become a writer. He moved back home to New Auburn, Wisconsin and joined the volunteer fire department and wrote about rural Wisconsin life in
Population 485: Meeting your neighbors one siren at a time, Truck, and
Off Main Street.
Perry writes freelance advertising in between “because it pays the bills.” Perry described a couple of articles he wrote about snowmobile ‘water skipping’ (over large ice holes) and a monster truck show. Those two recollections actually gave you the feeling you were right on the snowmobile and in the big truck. Perry uses words well.
Perry said he used to have waist length hair but now sports a buzz cut because: a) “crop failure,” and b) while doing some volunteer EMT fire fighting his hair caught on fire. Perry reminded me of Garrison Keillor…slow talking, hilariously funny and very easy to listen to.
Perry said his perky NYC publicists find Wisconsin mysterious…so when they call him, he tells them he was out cleaning his gun or making tallow candles in that slow, quiet voice. The Wisconsin audience smiled.
When Perry decided to become a writer he said he read The Writer’s Market. (Polk Library has this: PN 161 .W83). In closing Perry shared
his best writer’s advice: you must read your writing out loud because your mouth trips you where your eyes slide over. I just did and hope this reads well.
I wish you could have been there in the audience smiling and laughing.
Perry's books are available through Polk Library and Universal Borrowing from the UW System libraries.
WLA CONFERENCE 2007 NOTABLE BOOK MARATHON
Here are the top titles to check out according to American Library Association (ALA) and Wisconsin Library Association (WLA) librarians:
Bigsby, Christopher. BEAUTIFUL DREAMER. St. Martin’s/Thomas Dunne. 2006. ISBN 0-312-35583-1 ( ALA)
Dean, Debra. MADONNAS OF LENINGRAD. Morrow. 2006. ISBN 0-06-082530-8 (ALA)
Desai, Kiran. THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS. Grove/Atlantic. 2006. ISBN 0-87113-929-4 (ALA)
Dietz, Maggie. PERENNIAL FALL. University of Chicago Press. 2006. ISBN 0-226-14849-1 (WLA )
Egan, Timothy. THE WORST HARD TIME: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THOSE WHO SURVIVED THE GREAT AMERICAN DUST BOWL. Houghton. 2006. ISBN 0-618-34697-X (ALA)
Feige, David. INDEFENSIBLE: ONE LAWYER’S JOURNEY INTO THE INFERNO OF AMERICAN JUSTICE. Little Brown and Co. 2006. ISBN 0-316-15623-X (WLA)
Hamilton, Jane. WHEN MADELINE WAS YOUNG. Doubleday. 2006.
ISBN 0-385-51671-1( WLA)
Hessler, Peter. ORACLE BONES: A JOURNEY BETWEEN CHINA’S PAST AND PRESENT. Harper/Collins. 2006. ISBN 0-06-082658-4 (ALA)
Khadra, Yasmina. THE ATTACK . Doubleday. 2006. ISBN 0-385-51748-3 (ALA)
Meek, James. THE PEOPLE’S ACT OF LOVE. Cannongate. 2006.ISBN 1-84195-730-5 (ALA)
Phillips, Julie. JAMES TIPTREE, JR. : THE DOUBLE LIFE OF ALICE B. SHELDON. St. Martin’s. 2006. ISBN 0-312-20385-3 (ALA)
Savage, Sam. FIRMIN: ADVENTURES OF A METROPOLITAN LOWLIFE.
Coffee House. 2006. ISBN 1-56689-181-7 (ALA and WLA)
Bigsby, Christopher. BEAUTIFUL DREAMER. St. Martin’s/Thomas Dunne. 2006. ISBN 0-312-35583-1 ( ALA)
Dean, Debra. MADONNAS OF LENINGRAD. Morrow. 2006. ISBN 0-06-082530-8 (ALA)
Desai, Kiran. THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS. Grove/Atlantic. 2006. ISBN 0-87113-929-4 (ALA)
Dietz, Maggie. PERENNIAL FALL. University of Chicago Press. 2006. ISBN 0-226-14849-1 (WLA )
Egan, Timothy. THE WORST HARD TIME: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THOSE WHO SURVIVED THE GREAT AMERICAN DUST BOWL. Houghton. 2006. ISBN 0-618-34697-X (ALA)
Feige, David. INDEFENSIBLE: ONE LAWYER’S JOURNEY INTO THE INFERNO OF AMERICAN JUSTICE. Little Brown and Co. 2006. ISBN 0-316-15623-X (WLA)
Hamilton, Jane. WHEN MADELINE WAS YOUNG. Doubleday. 2006.
ISBN 0-385-51671-1( WLA)
Hessler, Peter. ORACLE BONES: A JOURNEY BETWEEN CHINA’S PAST AND PRESENT. Harper/Collins. 2006. ISBN 0-06-082658-4 (ALA)
Khadra, Yasmina. THE ATTACK . Doubleday. 2006. ISBN 0-385-51748-3 (ALA)
Meek, James. THE PEOPLE’S ACT OF LOVE. Cannongate. 2006.ISBN 1-84195-730-5 (ALA)
Phillips, Julie. JAMES TIPTREE, JR. : THE DOUBLE LIFE OF ALICE B. SHELDON. St. Martin’s. 2006. ISBN 0-312-20385-3 (ALA)
Savage, Sam. FIRMIN: ADVENTURES OF A METROPOLITAN LOWLIFE.
Coffee House. 2006. ISBN 1-56689-181-7 (ALA and WLA)
Monday, October 8, 2007
High library use in September
The first month of Fall semester is already gone!
How busy is everyone? Here's a snapshot of September services:
23 calculator checkouts
37 instructors put 1,590 e-items on reserve
280 laptop checkouts
1,300 periodicals shelved
1,740 InterLibrary Loan requests
2,100 books shelved
5,100 items checked out
42,640 visitors in the library
How busy is everyone? Here's a snapshot of September services:
23 calculator checkouts
37 instructors put 1,590 e-items on reserve
280 laptop checkouts
1,300 periodicals shelved
1,740 InterLibrary Loan requests
2,100 books shelved
5,100 items checked out
42,640 visitors in the library
Read NET LIBRARY E-BOOKS on your computer ANYTIME
Whenever you are looking for one more book on your topic don't forget to browse through the electronic book collection database. It is title, author, subject and keyword searchable and once you find a book that interests you, you can keyword search the entire book!
Log in to the Polk Library webpage www.uwosh.edu/library and click in the Library Search Tools Box in the middle of the page, scroll down to Netlibrary and pick any of the 9,714 ebooks.
Here are some sample titles in several majors:
BUSINESS MAJORS:
The 100 Greatest Business Ideas of All Time
by Langdon, Ken.
COMMUNICATION MAJORS:
101 Secrets of Highly Effective Speakers: Controlling Fear, Commanding Attention
by Krannich, Caryl Rae.
2-4-6-8, How Do You Communicate?: How to Make Your Point in Just a Minute
Communicators
by Khan-Panni, Phillip.
COUNSELOR EDUCATION MAJORS:
100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever
by Chandler, Steve.
101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens: Using Metaphors in Therapy
by Burns, George W.
EDUCATION MAJORS:
100 Most Popular Children's Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies
by McElmeel, Sharron L.
The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies
by Drew, Bernard A.
HUMAN RESOURCES MAJORS AND JOB HUNTING GRADUATING SENIORS:
101 Dynamite Answers to Interview Questions: Sell Your Strengths!
by Krannich, Caryl Rae.; Krannich, Ronald L.
101 Dynamite Questions to Ask At Your Job Interview
by Fein, Richard.
101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions
by Fry, Ronald W.
101 Great Resumes: Winning Resumes for Any Situation, Any Job, Any Career
by Fry, Ronald W.
201 Ways to Turn Any Employee Into a Star Performer
McGraw Hill Professional
by Hawley, Casey Fitts.
IT MAJORS:
101 Ways to Promote Your Web Site: Filled With Proven Internet Marketing Tips, Tools, Techniques, and Resources to Increase Your Web Site Traffic 5Th Ed.
by Sweeney, Susan.
MATH MAJORS:
100% Mathematical Proof
by Garnier, Rowan.; Taylor, John
NURSING MAJORS:
The 36-hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for Persons With Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementing Illnesses, and Memory Loss in Later Life
Johns Hopkins Health Book
by Mace, Nancy L.; Rabins, Peter V.
PHILOSOPHY MAJORS:
101 Philosophy Problems
by Cohen, Martin.
WOMEN STUDIES MAJORS:
The 10 Smartest Decisions a Woman Can Make Before 40
by Tessina, Tina B.; Williams, Elizabeth Friar.
Log in to the Polk Library webpage www.uwosh.edu/library and click in the Library Search Tools Box in the middle of the page, scroll down to Netlibrary and pick any of the 9,714 ebooks.
Here are some sample titles in several majors:
BUSINESS MAJORS:
The 100 Greatest Business Ideas of All Time
by Langdon, Ken.
COMMUNICATION MAJORS:
101 Secrets of Highly Effective Speakers: Controlling Fear, Commanding Attention
by Krannich, Caryl Rae.
2-4-6-8, How Do You Communicate?: How to Make Your Point in Just a Minute
Communicators
by Khan-Panni, Phillip.
COUNSELOR EDUCATION MAJORS:
100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever
by Chandler, Steve.
101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens: Using Metaphors in Therapy
by Burns, George W.
EDUCATION MAJORS:
100 Most Popular Children's Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies
by McElmeel, Sharron L.
The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies
by Drew, Bernard A.
HUMAN RESOURCES MAJORS AND JOB HUNTING GRADUATING SENIORS:
101 Dynamite Answers to Interview Questions: Sell Your Strengths!
by Krannich, Caryl Rae.; Krannich, Ronald L.
101 Dynamite Questions to Ask At Your Job Interview
by Fein, Richard.
101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions
by Fry, Ronald W.
101 Great Resumes: Winning Resumes for Any Situation, Any Job, Any Career
by Fry, Ronald W.
201 Ways to Turn Any Employee Into a Star Performer
McGraw Hill Professional
by Hawley, Casey Fitts.
IT MAJORS:
101 Ways to Promote Your Web Site: Filled With Proven Internet Marketing Tips, Tools, Techniques, and Resources to Increase Your Web Site Traffic 5Th Ed.
by Sweeney, Susan.
MATH MAJORS:
100% Mathematical Proof
by Garnier, Rowan.; Taylor, John
NURSING MAJORS:
The 36-hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for Persons With Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementing Illnesses, and Memory Loss in Later Life
Johns Hopkins Health Book
by Mace, Nancy L.; Rabins, Peter V.
PHILOSOPHY MAJORS:
101 Philosophy Problems
by Cohen, Martin.
WOMEN STUDIES MAJORS:
The 10 Smartest Decisions a Woman Can Make Before 40
by Tessina, Tina B.; Williams, Elizabeth Friar.
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