Polk Circulation news

Polk Library Hours during Finals Week

2009-04-06T13:00:00.001-07:00

The first floor of Polk Library will be open 24 hours during the last week of classes, starting FRIDAY, May 8th at 7 am and ending FRIDAY, May 15th at 6 pm.

We will again be brewing free coffee each night that week from 10 pm to 7 am. Stop by for a late-night studying pick-me-up.

Bring your own covered coffee mug and save landfill space.

Polk Library will be closed Graduation Weekend, Saturday-Sunday, May 16 - 17, 2009.

Polk Library is on Facebook

2009-04-06T12:55:00.000-07:00

Check for the latest:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Oshkosh-WI/Polk-Library-UW-Oshkosh/54591482475

No ILL or UB delivery today

2008-02-18T06:42:00.000-08:00

Due to snow and poor road conditions, our contracted Library Delivery service provider has had to cancel the Northeast Wisconsin route today, Monday,
February 18th. They plan on resuming our normal delivery
schedule on Tuesday, depending on the weather.

We apologize for any inconvenience this cancellation may
cause.

No UB or ILL delivery today

2008-02-14T09:12:00.000-08:00

Due to snow and poor road conditions, our contracted Library Delivery service provider has had to cancel the Northeast Wisconsin route today, Thursday,
February 14th. They plan on resuming our normal delivery
schedule on Friday, depending on the weather.

We apologize for any inconvenience this cancellation may
cause.

Please stay safe on the roads, and have a happy Valentine's Day!

December 11, 2008, Tuesday--no ILL or UB

2007-12-11T06:30:00.000-08:00

Today due to icy and snowy road conditions in southern Wisconsin our statewide delivery trucks have cancelled routes. They will resume tomorrow.

InterLibrary Loan and Universal Borrowing items will take one extra day.

New Year's Resolution -- I will avoid library fees in 2008

2007-12-10T08:12:00.000-08:00

What do you do when you get a Library email?

Do you hit the delete button and wonder why the library is sending you spam?

Or do you delete it thinking that you will return overdue items today and then get busy, forget and rush out of the house to make it to class...without the materials?

FACT: Email is official university correspondence and Library email is not spam. You receive a courtesy reminder days BEFORE your items are due to help you avoid overdue charges. This email reminds you to renew or return your borrowed items RIGHT NOW before they are overdue.

The courtesy Library email includes a link to click on that takes you to the Library webpage so you could easily renew any items, by clicking on "Your Record."

Take ONE MINUTE and renew your library items, even if you think you'll remember to bring them back, because you will be giving yourself a little extra time in case life gets hectic.

Consequences of ignoring library emails:
1) blocked from registering, adding or dropping a course or getting transcripts,
2) blocked at the Library from checking out items, Using Interlibrary Loan and Universal Borrowing,
3) unpaid charges sent to collection

FACT: Every semester there are patrons who rack up overdue charges because they ignore their Library emails and forgot to renew or return their items until they get a University invoice detailing replacement costs.

Take advantage of your Library courtesy emails -- RENEW RIGHT NOW.

Return Library materials:

1) 24/7 to either of the two outside material return slots,
2) to any University of Wisconsin library,
3) through the U.S. mail, UPS or FedEx. You will be pleasantly surprised to see how little it costs to send items back via Post Office's Library Mailing rate http://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/183.htm

FINALS WEEK LIBRARY INFO -- LONGER HOURS & FREE COFFEE

2007-12-10T08:03:00.000-08:00

SIX special tips for scholars:

1st: The library will be open 24/7 during finals week starting
Sunday, Dec. 9 at 11 am and ending Friday, Dec. 14 at 6 pm.

2nd: During Finals week, every night from 10 pm - 7 am,
there will be FREE COFFEE available at the Circulation Desk.
Bring your covered coffee mug to the Circulation desk for
coffee refills during those late night hours.

3rd: One night this week there will be free cookies!

4th: We have (8) laptops and (4) calculators for
3-hour checkout at the Circulation desk with your Titancard.

5th: Return all library books and videos
before you head for home.

6th: Finally, don't forget to pick up that bestseller or game you've been wishing you had time for. Visit the Browsing room on second floor for relaxing material.Or checkout some holiday or classical music from the large CD selection on first floor in the EMC.

Thanksgiving Hours

2007-11-23T13:03:00.000-08:00

Hope you had a good Thanksgiving Day. Now it's back to assignments, right, so here are the Library hours:

Friday 7.30 am - 6 pm
Saturday closed
Sunday 4 pm - midnight

The Computer Lab follows closely:

Friday 8 am - 5.30 pm
Saturday closed
Sunday 4 pm - 11.30 pm

Change your TitanMail password before Nov. 15, 2007

2007-11-09T08:19:00.000-08:00

Please note that after November 15th, if you have not changed your TitanMail password, it will be automatically re-set to your 7 digit Campus ID. If you try to log into the Library with your old password after November 15th you will be blocked from using Library resources, UB and ILL from your home computer.

Go to the TitanMail log in site and chose 'change password.' Enter your 7 digit Campus ID in the "Old Password" box, then pick a new password, and type it again to Validate the New Password.

Your 7 digit Campus ID is found on their TitanCard. If you do not know your 7 digit Campus ID, you will need to call the Registrar (920-424-3454) or the Computer Help Desk (920-424-3020) and they can provide it to you.

This mandatory password change is an attempt to reduce spam mail.

Wisconsin National Guard book presentation at Oshkosh Public Library

2007-10-30T08:12:00.000-07:00

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.

Madison Author Speaking at Oshkosh Public Library

2007-10-25T11:03:00.000-07:00

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.

Wisconsin author, Michael Perry, 2007 WLA Award Winner

2007-10-24T11:13:00.000-07:00

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.

WLA CONFERENCE 2007 NOTABLE BOOK MARATHON

2007-10-24T08:52:00.000-07:00

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)

High library use in September

2007-10-08T12:11:00.000-07:00

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

Read NET LIBRARY E-BOOKS on your computer ANYTIME

2007-10-08T10:17:00.000-07:00

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.

Artists exhibit in Polk Library

2007-09-05T10:26:00.000-07:00

Polk Library Art Gallery is fortunate to host works of two artists,

Karla Lauden, graduate of UW Oshkosh
Successions Series: Works on Paper, Variable Sizes

and

Weatherby Ornutt (AKA Wm. Greider)
Bar Series: Collagraphs and Pen & watercolor

Polk Library Art Gallery is on first floor, north.
Polk Library is open over 90 hours per week during the Fall semester.

Fall '07 WELCOME BACK

2007-08-31T14:16:00.000-07:00

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"

2007-08-29T14:19:00.000-07:00

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

2007-08-29T08:58:00.000-07:00

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

2007-08-29T08:33:00.000-07:00

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

2007-08-29T07:21:00.000-07:00

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?

2007-08-29T06:50:00.000-07:00

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?

2007-08-27T13:01:00.000-07:00

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?

2007-08-27T11:38:00.001-07:00

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

Display space is still available

2007-08-24T11:40:00.000-07:00

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

2007-08-21T14:43:00.000-07:00

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

2007-08-21T14:09:00.000-07:00

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

2007-08-21T13:54:00.000-07:00

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

2007-08-21T13:52:00.000-07:00

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

2007-08-21T12:43:00.000-07:00

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.

Borrow a Book on Tape for your next driving trip

2007-06-22T08:24:00.000-07:00

Did you know UW Stout has a wonderful collection of over 200 books on tape?
Just click on http://www.uwosh.edu/library/
select Universal Borrowing, then scroll down to Stout and search their catalog by typing "audiobooks" or a specific author.

Here are a few examples of the many adult and children fiction and non-fiction titles:

Current:
21 indispensible qualities of a leader by John Maxwell
Last Juror by John Grisham
Maigret: a man's head by Georges Simenon (BBC)
All over but the shoutin' by Rick Bragg
Making of a chef by Michael Ruhlman

Classics:
Stranger in a strange land by Robert Heinlein
Flight of the phoenix by Elleston Trevor
Agatha Christie (several)
Around the world in eighty days by Jules Verne
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
How to stop worrying by Dale Carnegie
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Children:
Great cheese conspiracy by Jean Van Leeuwen
Classic fairy tales read and song by Peter Combe
Rascal the dragon by Paul Jennings
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Click, clack, moo: cows that type by Doreen Cronin

SPECIAL FINALS WEEK LIBRARY INFO -- LONGER HOURS & FREE COFFEE

2007-04-26T08:27:00.000-07:00

FOUR special tips for our scholars:

1st: The library will be open 24/7 during finals week starting
Sunday, May 6 at 11 am and ending Friday, May 11 at 6 pm.

2nd: During Finals week, every night from 10 pm - 7 am,
there will be free coffee available at the Circulation Desk.
Bring your covered coffee mug to the Circulation desk for
coffee refills during those late night hours.

3rd: We have (8) laptops and (4) calculators for
3-hour checkout at the Circulation desk with your Titancard.

4th: Finally, return all library books and videos
before you head for home.

Check out a calculator

2007-04-20T14:07:00.000-07:00

You asked--we listened.

Some library patrons inquired if calculators could checked out for use in the library.
The Library purchased 4 calculators and they can be checked out for 3 hours at the Circulation desk with your Titancard.

Models: TI-30X IIS (2) and TI-83 Plus (2)

We have GAMES to check out

2007-04-09T11:01:00.000-07:00

The following games have been donated to Polk Library by the UW Oshkosh Gaming Society.
Games have a 28-day checkout period and are shelved in the Browsing Room on second floor by the magazines.

1. Axis & Allies / a strategy game by Larry Harris
2. Carcassonne : a clever tile-laying game for 2-5 players aged 10 and up / by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede.
3. Battle cry : Civil War battle field game.
4. Twilight Imperium : an epic board game of galactic conquest, politics and trade / a game by Christian T. Petersen.
5. Doom : the boardgame / by Kevin Wilson.
6. GURPS basic set: characters / GURPS game design by Steve Jackson ; cover design by Victor R. Fernandes ; illustrated by Abrar Ajmal.
7. Guillotine.

Conducting a Simulated Tornado Warning

2007-04-09T10:46:00.000-07:00

Per U.P. Chief Mellon:
On Thursday, April 12, 2007, around 1:00 PM the National Weather Service will issue a simulated Tornado Watch. A watch means that weather conditions are favorable for the formation of a tornado. It does not mean that a tornado has been sighted or is considered imminent.

Between 1:10 PM and 1:15 PM the simulated watch will be upgraded to a simulated Tornado Warning. Winnebago County will sound the civil defense sirens which in a real situation may be the only warning you would receive. A Tornado Warning means that a tornado has been sighted in the area visually or on radar and you should take cover immediately. Do not leave the building, stay in the Library's sheltered basement.

We must conduct an actual drill.
When you hear the public address announcement telling you to collect your belongings and to to the basement of the library, do help assist others down to the first floor lobby and then down into the basement. An 'all clear' announcement will be made 5 minutes after the last person arrives in the basement.

Doing research can be expensive

2007-02-09T07:08:00.000-08:00

It is probably hard to believe but we cannot Google everything. Here's an interesting example of how expensive it can be to do research.

Last November, 2006, new copyright fees from American Scientific Publishing Company were released and their scientific information got a bit more expensive. The copyright fees for articles in their journals increased from $118 to $250 per article. Yes – you just read that correctly. It was double checked with the Copyright Clearance Center.

Below you will find a list of their titles.
Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience

Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology

Journal of Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics

Journal of Low Power Electronics

Sensor Letters

Journal of Bionanoscience

Journal of Biopharmaceutics and Biotechnology

Journal of Biobased Materials

Journal of Scanning Probe Microscopy

Journal of Holography and Speckle

Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing

Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence

Journal of Genome Science and Technology

Finals week Free Coffee Experiment Results are in

2007-02-05T11:42:00.000-08:00

With a sign on the Circulation service desk on Sunday, Dec.10th, 2006, Polk Library quietly began an experimental free coffee bar during finals week for students pulling ‘all-nighters.’

Five days later, we had made approximately 988 cups of coffee.
And, we exceeded last fall's total for All Night Study users by 336! Our grand total was 2,368.

So we are going to assume that our coffee experiment was a success by the numbers and the smiles. Quite possibly we’ll try that again in Spring.

Never having to buy coffee supplies we had to guess what the demand would be.
We used:
5 large cans of coffee
12 pounds of sugar
2 1/2 large creamers
700 coffee cups
1 large pkg. napkins
5 pkgs. stir sticks

Say it isn't true!

2007-01-29T06:50:00.000-08:00

In a recent international library organization publication, NextSpace,* there was a statistic that seemed unbelievable.

It stated that 42% of college graduates never read another book after college.

*NextSpace analyzes industry trends and technology developments.
As its name implies, NextSpace is about the next idea or the next trend affecting libraries. It is also about the next step that will help libraries create value and shape their future.

Scanner in the library

2007-01-29T06:05:00.000-08:00

There is a self-service scanner hooked up to a PC computer available for student use in the Polk Computer Lab.

Lab hours are posted on the Academic Computing website
http://www.acs.uwosh.edu/acslabs/polk.shtml

Spring semester hours* for the Polk general access computer lab are:
Monday-Thursday 7.45 am-11.30 pm
Friday 7.45 am-5.30 pm
Saturday 11.30 am-5.30 pm
Sunday 11.30 am-11.30 pm.
*Reduced hours during Spring break week.

Authorize your research assistant

2007-01-22T07:17:00.000-08:00

If you are busy and want to save research time you can authorize someone to pick up your items, including InterLibrary Loans.

One easy step:
Print and fill out the Proxy Patron Authorization form
below and send to Polk Circulation.
Fill out one form this year and the Circulation staff will send you a reminder for next year.
http://www.uwosh.edu/library/pdf/proxypatron.pdf

This form is also found on the Library home page by clicking on the ‘online forms’ link.

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

This one step ensures that you will get email reminders when your items are due and need to be renewed.

UB is back :-)

2007-01-16T09:58:00.000-08:00

Universal Borrowing (UB) is back in business.
All UW System libraries have completed their upgrades.
Thank you for your patience during this period.

Group Study Room

2007-01-12T07:51:00.000-08:00

Brainstorming room available.

If you need to work on a group project or practice giving your group speech there is a special room on 2nd floor, north, that is set up like a classroom with all the equipment.

There is a blackboard, whiteboard/easle and computer hooked up with an additional flat screen which is mounted on the wall for projection.

This room can be reserved at the Circulation desk for up to 2 hours.

Polk Library has FEDERAL & WISCONSIN TAX Forms

2007-01-11T13:38:00.000-08:00

Federal and Wisconsin tax forms are available on 3rd floor, South,
just outside of the Government Documents Room.

Wisconsin instruction booklets for the forms most in demand are also available.

Where is YOUR favorite place to study in the Library?

2007-01-10T14:21:00.000-08:00

Are you looking for that perfect place to study?

Do you prefer a "room with a view," a quiet area, a group study room or a noisy area?

Polk Library has them all.

Window views are plentiful in the Reference room on first floor. Also on second and third floors.

Quiet areas are established in the two 'official' Quiet Study rooms found on 2nd and 3rd floor, north. Also, 2nd floor, south by the periodicals and 3rd floor in the Government Documents room are good spots to quietly study.

If you need to work on a group project or practice giving your group speech there is a special room on 2nd floor, north, that is set up like a classroom with all the equipment. There is a blackboard, whiteboard/easle and computer hooked up with an additional flat screen which is mounted on the wall for projection. This room can be reserved at the Circulation desk for up to 3 hours.

Then there is a popular high traffic, noisy study area that many students prefer. It is on first floor across from the Circulation counter.

Explore the library to find your favorite spot to study. Then tell us YOUR favorite library place to study.

Music CD Collection

2006-12-22T11:44:00.000-08:00

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

2006-12-22T11:02:00.000-08:00

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

2006-12-22T07:41:00.000-08:00

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.

What are YOU watching for FUN?

2006-12-21T06:06:00.000-08:00

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

2006-12-21T05:44:00.000-08:00

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.

Check out a Laptop

2006-12-20T12:02:00.000-08:00

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

2006-12-20T11:56:00.000-08:00

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

2006-12-20T11:54:00.000-08:00

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

2006-12-20T11:45:00.000-08:00

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.