Several new databases now available

McIntyre Library's array of databases has seen several changes and additions this summer, as a result of ongoing efforts to best meet users' needs. Some databases are subscribed to by UW-Eau Claire, some are consortial purchases with other UW System libraries, and some come to us through the Department of Public Instruction's Badgerlink:

• Academic Search Complete: an upgrade of Academic Search Elite and Academic Search Premier that covers a broad range of disciplines and offers indexing and fulltext access to many more journals.
  
• Alt Health Watch: coverage of complementary, alternative and integrated approaches to health care
  
• Auto Repair Reference Center: Repair, care, recalls, specifications for autos dating back to 1945.
  
• Book Collection Nonfiction: thousands of fulltext nonfiction books. Available at the elementary, middle and high school levels.
  
• Business Source Premier: upgrade of Business Source Elite, including more journals, industry surveys and market information.
  
• Consumer Health Complete: consumer-oriented health content and patient information
  
• Education Administration Abstracts: covers areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, and educational research.
  
• Encyclopedia of Animals: variety of topics relating to animals
  
• Environment Complete: journal and monographic coverage of environment, energy, agriculture, natural resources and related subject areas.
  
• Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text: Coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
  
• History Reference Center: cover-to-cover full text for more than 650 historical encyclopedias and other non-fiction books
  
• Humanities International Complete: comprehensive coverage of humanities topics
  
• LexiPALS Drug Guide: a database of Patient Advisory Leaflets that provides vital education on medications for patients, including some in Spanish.
  
• Literary Reference Center: broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes
  
• LitFinder: full-text access to thousands of poems, short stories, essays, plays, and speeches in the areas of Literature, History, Economics, Sociology, Art & Architecture, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, and Drama dating back to the 9th Century BCE.
  
• MAS-Ultra School Edition: full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines.
  
• MergentOnline: company finanical data, annual reports, industry information, county profiles and more
  
• Military & Government Collection: current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government from periodicals, academic journals, and other sources
  
• MLA Directory of Periodicals: detailed information on over 5,500 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the MLA International Bibliography
  
• Newspaper Source Plus: fulltext database of regional, national and international newspapers. Replaces ProQuest Newspapers.
  
• NoveList: a reader's advisory service for fiction. Also available for K-8 literature.
  
• Nursing Reference Center: patient and practice resources, evidence-based care sheets, drug information, continuing education and other nursing reference materials.
  
• Political Science Complete: journal, full-text reference books and conference proceddings covering political science and related topics.
  
• Professional Development Collection: Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles
  
• Science Reference Center: full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.
  
• SocINDEX with Full Text: covers broad range of social science disciplines, going back as far as 1895.
  
• SPORTDiscus with Full Text: covers kinesiology, sports, sports medicine, exercise, health education and more.

To browse all library databases by title or by discipline, please visit our Research page.

Test Drive 3 Great Databases!

The library has been given a trial of three great databases, and we encourage you to give them a test drive and let us know what you think. These database trials will be available until the end of July.

Academic Search Complete: the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 7,000 full-text periodicals, including nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 11,000 journals and a total of more than 11,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 journals.

Business Source Complete: the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals.

Nursing Reference Center: a comprehensive reference tool designed to provide relevant clinical resources to nurses and other health care professionals, directly at the point-of-care. This database offers staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, nurse faculty and hospital librarians the best available and most recent clinical evidence from thousands of full-text documents.

Work Study Jobs in the Library

Do you have work study funding?

Have you always wanted to work in the library?

Library departments are hiring students with work study funding for the fall semester. It's a great place to work: we train you, schedules are flexible, it looks good on your resume, and more.

Apply online at: http://www.uwec.edu/Library/aboutus/employment/index.htm
or ask for an application at the Circulation Desk on 1st floor.

MergentOnline database now available

MergentOnline is now available through McIntyre Library. Mergent (formerly Moody's) provides extensive data on more than 36,000 publicly-traded companies worldwide and additional information on more than 1 million private companies; industry reports covering North America, Asia Pacific, Europe and Latin American; annual reports for more than 300,000 companies; profiles on more than 200,00 U.S. corporate executives, and much more. Give it a test drive: MergentOnline.

Summer Hours

For all summer hours, check Hours


Summer Hours June 8-August 2

Main Library*
Mon-Thurs 7:30am-10:00pm
Fri 7:30am-9:00pm
Sat 9:00am-5:00pm
Sun 1:00pm-10:30pm

Reference
Mon-Tues 9:00am-4:00pm & 6:00pm-8:00pm
Wed-Fri 9:00am-4:00pm
Sat-Sun Closed

Special Collections
Mon-Fri 9:00am-4:00pm
Sat-Sun Closed

Periodicals
Mon-Fri 10:00am-3:00pm
Sat-Sun Closed

* July 4 - Library Closed
* July 31 - Library hours: 7:30am - 4:30pm
* August 1, 2 - Library Closed

McIntyre Library In the News Again

Yesterday's Spectator mentioned the Library in Natalie Saeger's "Ask Anything" column. Natalie responded to a student's, Hunny Hunter's, question asking where were the best spots on campus to meet female students. It looks like the 4th floor of the Library is a great place to meet good looking and dedicated students. Natalie reminds Hunny that, "hat you don't want to meet just anyone; you want to meet someone with dedication."

Good advice Natalie!

John

Swine flu: all the latest news

McIntyre Library has put together a resource guide for finding all the latest news, professional and personal recommendations, travel guidelines, statistics and more regarding the Swine (H1N1) flu pandemic. Check it out at http://libguides.uwec.edu/swineflu.

Gender Neutral Restrooms

As some of you may have noticed McIntyre Library now has gender neutral restrooms located on the second floor right next to the elevators. These restrooms are designed to be private personal. Just remember to lock the doors when you use them.

For news on other campus gender neutral restroom locations, see http://www.uwec.edu/newsreleases/09/june/0604GenderNeutral.htm

John

Schedule a research consultation

For students, faculty, and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, the library has a new service available: Research Consultations. You can schedule to meet with a library staff member at your convenience using this online form.

What can you expect from a research consultation?

• assistance in selecting the best resources for your subject area
• strategies for searching specific databases
• help identifying and locating primary source materials
• developing research strategies
• help searching the web for relevant and reliable information
• explanations on how to gain access to materials held in other libraries

This service is available during normal business hours. Keep in mind that many research questions can be effectively answered at the McIntyre Library reference desk seven days a week without an appointment.

We look forward to working with you!

New Room Key and Equipment Checkout System

Last week we implemented a new and improved system for checking out study rooms, laptops, cameras and other equipment.

To reserve equipment and group study room keys go to the library website and click on "equipment checkout" on the left hand side of the page. This takes you to the Equipment Checkout page. Once there, click on new system. That will take you to our new Voyager reservation system. Remember, you will need your private id to reserve the equipment.

The reservation system is new and with all software changes problems surface. Please be patient with us as we learn how to make this work better for you. We are confident that soon you will see improvements and the process will work much smoother. One of the improvements that you will see immediately is that the checkout period for laptops is now one week. This was something students were asking for and now we can provide.

The history behind implementing the new system

The primary reason is that the old system was software that was created here years ago. It had become very difficult to work with and impossible to enhance. The current system has undergone so many small tweeks and changes that it would need an entire rewriting to fix many of its problems. Here is a good example of the problem that we experience. Because the software was created before the government changed the dates when we switch from Standard Time to Daylight Savings time, for the past two years every time this happens hundreds of students get overdue fines and notices that are not their fault. Another problem in the software was that we could not easily control how it registered and held group study rooms open. I’ll bet that you have been in the situation where a room was unoccupied that you could have used for just a short time, maybe half an hour. Well the old software would hold rooms open for about an hour prior to a reservation (I’m not sure of the time but I have seen this happen) and we could not over-ride that setting to let someone in to use the room until the people who made the reservation came to use the room. Finally, another reason we went with this system is because it is part of our circulation system and it brings all of our information together. You should be able to go into your library records and see what you have reservations for.

John Pollitz

It's National Library Week!

Check out local book groups:

•L.E. Phillips Public Library
Mystery, children’s, evening, morning, progressive, online, etc…

•Crossroad Books
Chapter & Verse—adults discuss children’s & YA books

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Taxes, Taxes, Taxes!

U.S., WI, and MN tax forms are available at McIntyre Library.

They are located on the 1st floor near the DVDs and music CDs.

Tax materials are for personal use only, as supplies are limited.

Forms may be downloaded from Web sites using these URLs:

www.irs.ustreas.gov/

www.dor.state.wi.us/
www.taxes.state.mn.us/

National Bike to Work Week

May 14 is Ride Your Bike to Work Day. Get ready to come on over to the library using pedal power on Thursday--or, better yet, all week.

Library Extends Hours and FREE Coffee!

McIntyre Library will be open 24 hours the week before and of finals. After Library Grounds closes free coffee will be served to students studying in the library finals week. For more information visit http://www.uwec.edu/newsreleases/09/may/0506LibraryHours.htm

www.recovery.gov

Read all about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Stimulus Plan) at the Recovery.gov site. The FAQ page explains how individuals can participate in the process and provide suggestions, comments, and ideas.

Links are provided to the state plans; for Wisconsin see http://www.recovery.wisconsin.gov/

There are scammers offering to help businesses and people file for their stimulus money, so beware of fake sites! The Small Business Administration has issued warnings about scammers contacting small businesses asking for financial information that is supposedly needed for the business to qualify for tax rebates under the stimulus plan (www.sba.gov and click on "Scam Alert").

Spring Newsletter--Off the Shelf

What's a Blugold?

Why is it hard to find a print article in the library?

Would you like to laugh at more strange documents?

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Do you have any movies about women and women's history?

What' a LibraryThing?

Find the answers to these and other burning questions in the latest edition of the library newsletter, Off the Shelf.

Apply Now for the Library Diversity Internship!

McIntyre Library seeks a junior or senior UW – Eau Claire student with an interest in librarianship and the ability to bring a diverse perspective to our library and our profession. The McIntyre Library Diversity Internship provides 10 hours per week of professional library work under the direction of a mentor librarian, and the intern will be paid $12.00 per hour.* The internship begins September 1, 2009 and ends May 14, 2010, with time off during the winter and spring breaks. The intern may choose to focus on one of the following areas of librarianship: Reference and Instruction, Collection Development, Education / Curricular Materials / School Librarianship, or Special Collections & Archives. The internship also offers the following benefits:

**Travel, room, board, and registration fee for a state or regional librarian conference.

**Travel, room, and board for visiting the UW – Madison and/or UW- Milwaukee Graduate Schools of Library and Information Science as a prospective student.

You are warmly invited to apply if you:

**Are a junior or senior enrolled at UW – Eau Claire
**Have a interest in a career in librarianship
**Can bring diverse perspective to McIntyre Library
**Have experience working with diverse communities

Application procedure:

**Write a brief essay (no more than 500 words) addressing your interest in a career in librarianship, the area of librarianship that most interests you, and your ability to enhance the diversity of McIntyre Library.

**Submit the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses of two references: one UW – Eau Claire faculty member, and one work or volunteer supervisor.

Please submit applications to Colleen McFarland, Head of Special Collections & University Archivist, McIntyre Library (mcfarlcd@uwec.edu). Application due date is April 1, 2009. Decisions will be announced no later than April 30.

Valentine's Contest Winners

McIntyre Library wants to congratulate its How I Met My Valentine contest winners. First prize goes to AnnaRae Soderberg for her story "Falling Head Over Heels."

Runners up were: John Lydon (A Fishy Love Story) & Kim Vaughter (Practice Makes Perfect).

Thanks to all who participated. There were so many great entries and it was hard to pick just three.

A special thanks to Acoustic Cafe and Sammy's Pizza for donating runner-up prizes!

Read AnnaRae's story below, or go to the Facebook group to read the other stories.

It was the fall of 2005; my freshman year at UWEC. Since I needed to take a fitness credit, and I ran competitively in high school, I decided to take jogging class. It was the second week of class. On nice days we ran the fitness trail around the track located behind McPhee. I was running behind two guys, when all of a sudden one of them tripped on a tree root and fell right down to the ground. There is a saying, “be careful what you wish for,” which was the case for Joseph. His intent was to turn and talk to me, wishing to make a good impression. Instead, I laughed to myself and kept running. At the end of class we were required to enter the indoor track and run until all of the students got in from the trail. Well, once inside I passed the same guy that had fallen, so I said “Come on!” He ran with me and we started to talk. I found out his name was Joe. Later that day I went on good old Facebook and added him as a friend. A year later we started dating. On December 31, 2007 he proposed, and we will be getting married on June 20, 2009. We always laugh when we think back on how he literally “fell head over heels” for me! There is a song which states: the Lord will provide, but sometimes the blessing is in disguise. That tree root turned out to be our blessing in disguise.

UWEC jogging class was the beginning of our journey to finding our soul mates. Therefore, we would be especially honored if we win the contest. Not many couples can say a tree root in jogging class was the start of something so amazing!

How I Met My Valentine Contest

Win a $50 gift certificate to Mona Lisa's or a variety of runner up prizes by entering the McIntyre Library's "How I Met My Valentine" contest.

If you think you've got a good "how we met" story that reads like a good romance novel or maybe a funny quirky tale of love, search Facebook for "How I Met My Valentine" for details on how to enter, click this link: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=115915310421 and follow the instructions.

The contest ends February 8.

Suggestion Box - Search Only Computers

There is a new answer to a question in the library suggestion box.

A student commented on the need for computers that just search the library catalog. Check the Library Suggestion Blog for the answer.

John Pollitz

Welcome, Mary!

We welcome Mary Hable, our new cataloging assistant. Mary worked in the library as a student assistant, than as an LTE. For the past seven years, Mary was the administrative coordinator for the Friends of the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library and worked on their capital campaign. We are happy to have her back!

Student Art Display in the Library

Sara Ipsen and Erin Cyr have installed their final installation project for Art 382 in the main stairwell on the first floor of McIntyre Library. There are three pieces of photo-mosaics on fabric. Each are portraits of soldiers that are composites of many images. The installation will remain up until the end of the first two weeks of the new semester. Stop by and see this unique works of art.

Congratulations Sara and Erin!

Congratulations Graduating Student Staff

We are always so proud of the excellent students work here in McIntyre Library. They have excellent dedication and provide great service to their fellow students. All of the rest of the staff look upon their graduation with some sadness that they will be leaving us but with great happiness for their many accomplishments as students.

This semester we have decided that we need to recognize their scholarly accomplishments in a tangible way. We have begun a tradition of dedicating a book to each of our graduating student staff as a way of thanking them for their service and recognizing their educational achievement. Each will have their name placed on a bookplate in a book related to their area of study. This semester we had five graduates.

They are very busy people so we were only able to find a time when two of them could come and get their pictures taken with their books. Pictured are Jessica Leigh Crandall with her book, Ocean, an illustrated atlas, and Dominic Thomas Slauson with his book, Good video games + good learning : collected essays on video games, learning, and literacy. Our other graduating students and their books are:

Nicole Lynn Kriener, Carlos is gonna get it .

Anne Betz, Books a memoir.

Talia Celeste Steuding, Abuelos.

Thank you for working with us and good luck with your future plans!

From,

Everyone at McIntyre Library.

Computers in McIntyre Library

Near the end of the semester every desktop computer in McIntyre Library is often in use.

Don't forget, (during the semester) we have over 100 laptops available for student check out. When workstations are full see if a laptop is available.

See my reply on the Library Suggestion Blog to a student who commented that we need some rules about Facebook use on Library computers.

John

Gaming on Display

Stop in the library grand corridor to visit Hans Kishel's gaming displays. Take your turn viewing games for all ages and interests, see books related to gaming topics. View his impressive dice collection, roll over to the war games, and win with the display on game design .

Hans suggests gamers might like these sites:

Board Game Geek (BGG)– website that has large amounts of information on all games
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/

My collection of games as listed at BGG
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/hkishel?own=1&ff=1

Consim World – website about wargames
http://consimworld.com/

Online Retails for games that you probably won’t find at the mall
http://www.funagain.com/
http://www.thoughthammer.com/
http://www.fairplaygames.com/

Website that rates children’s games by age category
http://www.kidgameratings.com/index.aspx

After the Election: Transitioning to a New Government

Watch for updates on our election page. At the bottom of the page, under "After the election: transitioning to a new government," you will find the latest in transition sites.

http://www.uwec.edu/markgrjs/Elections.htm

Library fundraiser to buy rice

It's time again for McIntyre Library’s annual holiday giving project, which as in years past is a fundraiser to purchase rice for the Hmong Mutual Assistance Association (HMAA). The current economic crisis, combined with a worldwide rice shortage that has driven the cost of rice up by as much as 50 percent in recent months, makes the need great this year.

The HMAA is a social service agency that serves the local Hmong community in a number of ways. HMAA operates a food pantry and assists in housing, employment and translating services. It works in concert with other area services to assist our Hmong community.
For more than a decade, the McIntyre Library Staff Association has held the annual fundraiser through which voluntary contributions have totaled thousands of dollars. Last year the effort raised $485 to purchase 925 pounds of rice. Many families rely on this service for their basic sustenance.

The project is open to anyone wishing to contribute. Please make checks payable to: McIntyre Library Staff Association, and submit to Dan Hillis, Staff Association Treasurer, 5012 McIntyre Library, by Friday, Dec. 12. Names of contributors will be included on a card accompanying the donation and given to the HMAA. Contributors who wish to remain anonymous should indicate so. Please contact Jill Markgraf (36-5357) with questions.

Author Celebration Display in Grand Corridor

Posters that highlight the publishing accomplishments of UW-Eau Claire faculty and staff are on display. Stop in to see them today in the library entrance, near the new Library Grounds coffee shop.

Story Times Are Back!

Education reference librarian Kati Tvaruzka leads a free monthly story time session for children attending UW-Eau Claire Children's Center, but the children and grandchildren of faculty, staff, students and the general public are also invited.

The 30-minute sessions are held at 10 a.m. on the last Tuesday of every month (September through April) in the Instructional Media Center.

Any UW-Eau Claire student interested in children's literature or reading aloud to young children, or anyone who would like to participate in this program, should contact Kati Tvaruzka at tvaruzke@uwec.edu or 715-836-4522.

Also, to learn more about this program or others offered in the IMC visit: http://www.uwec.edu/library/imc/programs.htm

New people in the library--GET THE SCOOP in our newsletter

The Fall 2008 issue of Off the Shelf in online at:

http://www.uwec.edu/Library/aboutus/offTheShelf/upload/fall08.pdf

Read all about it!

• new books & databases
  
• staff changes
  
• chat reference
  
• censorship
  
• elections
  
• more news that you can use

"It's a Mystery" won by Scott Ritter

Congratulations to Scott Ritter, who won the "It's a Mystery" basket.

McIntyre Library's United Way Raffle Basket featured great mystery-related items, including a vintage Clue game, the DVD "The Illusionist" and even some delicious chocolate.

Thanks to everyone who contributed items for the basket and those who bought tickets.

Election Day is Nov. 4! Make an informed decision

The library has put together a guide to reliable, objective resources to use in preparing yourself to make informed decisions in the upcoming election. In addition to learning about the issues, you can find out how candidates have voted on issues, how to register, where your polling place is, whether or not the claims made in ads and debates are accurate and more. Make an informed decision.

Go directly to Wisconsin candidate profiles at: http://www.wisconsinvote.org/candidates.cfm

Special Collection Receives Attention During National Archive's Week!

The UWEC Special Collections & Archives will be featured on the Celebrating Wisconsin’s Archives blog on October 13. The blog address is: http://www.archivesmonth.blogspot.com/

Celebrate Banned Books Week by Checking Out the Censorship Exhibit in the IMC

McIntyre Library at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire will display "Censorship in Schools and Libraries," a new exhibit opening Sept. 29.

The exhibit will be displayed in the Instructional Media Center on the lower level of McIntyre Library in observance of the American Library Association's Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read.

Banned Books Week (Sept. 27-Oct. 4) is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual event reminds Americans not to take democratic freedom for granted.

The exhibit, which will be on display through Dec. 19, was developed by the Long Island Coalition Against Censorship. Through narratives and illustrations, it chronicles incidents of censorship dating back to the 19th century, as well as frequently challenged books and creative works. Included are descriptions of the censorship of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," "In the Night Kitchen," "The Catcher in the Rye," "The Color Purple," the novels of Judy Blume and Chris Crutcher, and most recently, the 2007 Newbery Prize winning novel "The Higher Power of Lucky" by Susan Patron.

Information on U.S. Supreme Court and lower court decisions is an integral part of the exhibit, including efforts to censor the popular Harry Potter children's books (Harry Potter books were burned in Alamagordo, N.M.) and the 2003 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the Children's Internet Protection Act.

For more information, contact Kati Tvaruzka, education reference librarian, at 715-836-4522 or tvaruzke@uwec.edu.

UW-Milwaukee Public Historian to Discuss Photos from Japanese Internment Camps

Jasmine Alinder, assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, will present a lecture titled "Concentrating Smiles: Confronting the Photographic Archives of the Japanese American Incarceration."

Alinder's presentation will begin at 5:15 p.m. Oct. 10 in Phillips Recital Hall of the Haas Fine Arts Center at UW-Eau Claire. The event is free and open to the public.

Alinder will speak about her research on photographic images of Japanese American internment camps during World War II. She will address problems that museum curators and historians face when incorporating these photographs in exhibitions and other public history venues. Exploring the tension between photographs depicting smiling Japanese Americans and contemporary historians' understanding of the incarceration, she will address the implications of keeping these problematic images confined to the archives and out of the public eye.

Co-coordinator of UW-Milwaukee's public history specialization, Alinder focuses her research on the history of photography. Her first book, "Moving Images: Photography and Japanese American Incarceration," will be published in February 2009 by the University of Illinois Press. Currently she is undertaking a new research project on photography and the law. Last year she organized a community conference on Milwaukee civil rights and is working on launching an educational Web site on the topic.

The lecture, which will be held in conjunction with Wisconsin Archives Month, is sponsored by the UW-Eau Claire McIntyre Library, the department of history, and the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.

http://www.uwec.edu/Library/archives/uploads/Archivist%20Month%20Poster%2010-08.pdf

Leader-Telegram online archive trial through Oct. 12

Search back issues of the Leader-Telegram now through Oct. 12, during which time McIntyre Library is engaged in a free trial of the newspapers online archive service. To access the Leader Telegram archive, go to (http://www.leadertelegram.com/) and click on Archive and Online Edition, on the left side of the screen. This trial will only work if you are on campus. Please note that there is a limited number of users who can access this service at one time, so if it's busy, try again later. Please let us know what you think about this service.

Laptop and Equipment Sale--Wed. 9/17/2008

The McIntyre Library will be teaming up with LTS and selling hundreds of computers, monitors, and other surplus equipment. Included will be the Library's yearly rotation of 3-year old laptops and cameras.

The sale is held in the Council Fire room in Davies Center. The sale will run from 9:00AM to 2:30PM Wednesday, September 17.

Library Grounds Brews Coffee

Library Grounds, the new Sodexho coffee cart has opened in the library. Stop by for Green Mountain coffee, salads, and fresh bakery items.

Hours
Monday-Thursday
7 a.m. - 1 p.m.
7 p.m. - 10 p.m.

Friday
7.a.m. - 1 p.m.

Sunday
4 p.m. - 10 p.m.

Library Tours for Students

Fall 2008 McIntyre Library Student Tours



No registration necessary! Times are varied to meet student schedules.
Tours start in the Grand Corridor outside the library entrance.
Tours will be conducted during the four weeks listed below.

Tour Times from September 15 through October 9:
Mondays at 5:30 pm
Tuesdays at 3 pm
Wednesdays at 10 am
Thursdays at noon

NO tours on Fridays

These students never did find their way around the library.

Bill Miller CDs

Bill Miller is a member of Earth Tones, a group which will appear at the State Theatre on September 12. See http://www.eauclairearts.com/calendar.phtml

Check out and enjoy the CDs we own by this Native American flute player:

Cedar Dream Songs

Ghostdance

Loon, Mountain and Moon

Native Suite

Raven in the Snow

Library Location: Compact Discs (1st Floor)
Call Number: M1669.M48

Welcome, Joy

Welcome to Joy Hopkins, our new reference assistant.

Library hours during August

The library will be open 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. during the month of August. For more information please see http://www.uwec.edu/library/aboutUs/hours.htm.

Universal Borrowing Unavailable 7/29-8/14

Univeral Borrowing will be unavailable Tuesday, July 29^th - Monday, August 14^th while Voyager is upgraded. Please use interlibrary loan.

Bryan, Systems Librarian

We are happy to welcome Bryan Vogh, new head of library systems. Email Bryan at voghbs, call 836-4962, or find him in his office, L-5013.

Ask Eric

Have a reference question? Ask Eric Jennings, our newest reference librarian. Eric can be reached by calling 836-4076, email jenninge, or stop in to welcome him in L1001E.

Welcome, Bob!

Bob Butterfield is the new library services assistant in the collection development department. He can be found on the 3rd floor of the library, in L3040. Call 836-5947 or email butterfr@uwec.edu.

Say Hello to Hans

We are pleased to welcome Hans Kishel, our newest reference/instruction librarian. Visit Hans in his office at L-1001A, or say hello by calling 836-2959 or emailing kishelhf.

Leslie & Betsy Retire

Best wishes for a great retirement to Leslie Foster, government publications librarian, and Betsy Richmond, reference librarian.

EBSCOHost Academic Search, now bigger and better!

McIntyre Library has upgraded from EBSCO's Academic Search Elite database to the more robust Academic Search Premier database. The Premier database offers access to about 5000 more peer-reviewed journals and provides more full-text than the Elite database. Because the Academic Search databases cover a broad range of disciplines and publication types (including scholarly and popular journals and newspapers), they are often a good starting point for research. If you have questions about the new enhanced EBSCOHost database, please contact the reference desk at 836-3858.

New Carpeting on 1st Floor - Limited Access, June 19-27

We're rolling out new carpeting later this month. We'll still be open but things will be messy! Because of this there will be limited access to the library's 1st floor from Thursday, June 19 through Friday, June 27.

• There will be no computer access on the first floor. Computer labs on other floors will be available.
  
• The Reference Desk will be closed. Ask at the Circulation Desk for research help or for help locating materials.
  
• Call 836-3858 or email library.reference@uwec.edu to set up an office consultation with a Reference Librarian.

We apologize for the inconvenience, but it’ll be worth it!

Fire System Maintenance

Work on the fire alarm & sprinkler system will be occurring in the library from June 4 to June 10.

Maintenance will begin on the 5th floor & work down.

If the area you are in is noisy, you may want to move to another floor.

We apologize for the inconvenience.