Welcome back students and faculty.
This blog is packed with helpful library information
to make your Fall semester a success. Enjoy.
Friday, August 31, 2007
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
"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.
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/
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
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.
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.
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.
Monday, August 27, 2007
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,
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.
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.
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