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Horoscopes for the Dead: poems  by Billy Collins. Library Call Number: PS3553.O47478H67 2011.The 2001-03  United States Poet Laureate, Collins writes seemingly simple verse, that somehow remains enigmatic.  The Publisher’s Weekly Review states:   Collins's gently ironic, gently elegiac work…has slowly constructed a pitch-perfect purgatory, and this death-themed ninth collection seems to want to

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Over the Hedge, A DreamWorks animation directed by Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick.  With the voices of: Bruce Willis, Gary Shandling, Wanda Sykes, Nick Nolte, Allison Janney and Steve Carrell, among others. 2006.Library call number: PN1995.5.A5O93 2006.           A clever, very funny movie from the creators of Shrek.  When a crew of forest animals awaken from hibernation, they not only find a

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Jana Reeg-Steidinger will conduct a Thesis Writing Workshop from 5:00-6:00 p.m., Monday, February 6th in room 111 of the University Library, located in the Robert S. Swanson Learning Center. The hands-on workshop covers (1) APA — American Psychological Association — style/6th edition for UW-Stout theses; (2) a research paper template based on APA style/6th edition, (3) RefWorks — a bibliographic

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Kingdom of War, parts 1 and 2, starring Sarunyu Wongkrachang and Sorapong Chatree, directed by Chatreechalerm Yukol. 2006. (Thai with English subtitles.)  Library Call Number: PN1995.9.F67K56 2011.                                                 One of the few movies out of Thailand to make a splash, Kingdom of War is a grand epic biopic about King Naresuan, who won Siamese independence from

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 Pacific Air: how fearless flyboys, peerless aircraft and fast flattops conquered the skies in the war with Japan by David Sears.  Library Call Number: D773.S43 2011.        David Sears brings to life the air war in the Pacific, through the stories not only of the combat pilots, but of the engineers in America responsible for designing the wartime aircraft at Grumman. Alternating his narration

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Looking for the WilsonWeb database link and can't find it?  Use the EBSCO link!  As of January, EBSCO will have transitioned all Wilson databases onto the EBSCOhost platform. What this means for you is: One easy access point for most databases through the EBSCO link Ability to select multiple databases from both vendors simultaneously One search engine and results for ease of use In some

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The University Library announces a new Web 2.0 interface for RefWorks, a web-based bibliography and database manager which allows creation of a customized personal database by importing references from online databases and text files. It includes APA and MLA styles as well as 100 other citation styles. The references can be formatted into a bibliography and also inserted as in-text citations

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Beyond Babyland, a documentary by David Appleby and Craig Leake. University of Memphis; Distributed by Cinema Guild. Library Call Number: RJ60.U52T3 2010.From the Container insert: "Of the thirty most industrialized nations, the U.S. has the worst record of infant mortality, with African American babies dying at three times the rate of whites. In some places, that rate equals those of many

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Girls to the Front: the true story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus. Library Call Number: ML3534.3.M37 2010.A Brooklyn-based journalist gives a brash, gutsy chronicle of the empowering music and feminist movement of the early 1990s led by young women rock groups like Bikini Kill and Bratmobile. Politicized by such national events as the backlash against feminism in the press, the first

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"Library" is on the top navigation bar. Have questions? Contact us: Via email: Ask a Librarian 715/232-1215 (Circulation) 715/232-1353 (Reference) Please note Library hours this weekend: Sat. Dec 10 -- 11am-8pm Sun. Dec 11 -- noon-1am Reference Hours (Ask a Librarian): Sat. Dec 10 -- Closed Sun. Dec 11 -- 1pm-4pm and 5pm-8pm We hope the new website makes locating information easier and

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Bad Dog (a love story) by Martin Kihn.  Library Call Number: SF426.2.K49 2011.          Martin Kihn, a former television writer, was working as a management consultant, when alcoholism got the best of him.  On the verge of losing his job, family and home, he was also burdened by his pet, a huge 5-year old, untrained Bernese Mountain Dog, who knocked down visitors, chased buses, drug dealers and

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Out of the Past, starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas and Virginia Huston. Directed by Jacques Tourneur. 1947.          Chosen for the National Film registry in 1991, (along with King Kong, Chinatown and others) this noir classic features Mitchum as Jeff Bailey, a private detective hiding from his past in a small California town, running a gas station and in love with a nice girl

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Kings of Pastry, a film by Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker.  2009.Library Call Number: TX773.K56 2011Follow a Chicago pastry chef in his quest to win the most prestigious prize of his profession in this recent documentary.  The collar awarded to the winners of the Meilleur Ouvrier de France (Best Craftsman in France) is more than the ultimate recognition for every pastry chef - it is a dream

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The Sisters Brothers by Patrick Witt. Library Call Number: PS3604.E923S57 2011.          Eli and Charlie Sisters are hired guns, instructed by their boss, the Commodore, to head down from Oregon City to San Francisco and there shoot an old prospector named Herman Kermit Warm.  It’s a long ride on horseback to San Francisco, though, and Eli, being the introspective type, has come to question their

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          The Ragged End of Nowhere, by Roy Chaney. Library Call Number: PS3603.H35726R34 2009.          Bodo Hagen, late of the CIA, has come back home to Las Vegas after ten years.  His brother has been murdered.  Ronnie had just survived a stint in the Foreign Legion, only to be gunned down in the desert near Hoover Dam.  But Ronnie didn’t end his service empty-handed.  He had a relic from

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Being John Malkovich starring John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener and John Malkovich, directed by Spike Jonze.(1999.) Library Call Number: PN1995.9.S85B44 2003.         In this truly weird movie from the great director Spike Jonze, Cusack plays Craig Schwartz, a struggling puppeteer forced to take a day job as a filing clerk in a nondescript doctor’s office.  His desk and the files are

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Hidden Battles, directed by Victoria Mills, distributed by VSM Productions. 2010.  Library call number: RC550.H53 2010.    Interviewing five soldiers from around the world, this documentary looks at the single most affecting act of soldiering—that of killing another human being.  An Arab man who began as a boy in the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade,  tells how the struggle took his whole family and

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The Last Bridge by Teri Coyne. Library Call Number: PS3603.O975L37 2009.           "For ten years, Alexandra 'Cat' Rucker has been on the run from her past. With an endless supply of bourbon and a series of meaningless jobs, Cat is struggling to forget her Ohio hometown and the rural farmhouse she once called home. But a sudden call from an old neighbor forces Cat to return to the home and

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     The Research Fellows Program has been created to expand the research tools available to interested faculty members involved in scholarship at the comprehensive UW campuses.  Up to ten researchers at each campus will be selected to receive access for one year to all electronic resources available from the UW-Madison Libraries.        This is a great opportunity for individual researchers at

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        Dying for Heaven: Holy pleasure and suicide bombers—why the best qualities of religion are also its most dangerous by Ariel Glucklich.  Library Call Number: BP190.5.T47G57 2009.     From the Library Journal review, (11/1/09):          With profound clarity, insight, and skill, Glucklich (Hinduism, Georgetown Univ.; Sacred Pain) e nters into the fray of post-9/11 discourses on religion…

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Vera Drake, starring Imelda Staunton, Richard Graham and Eddie Marsan. Directed by Mike Leigh. 2004. Library Call Number: PN1995.9.S6V46 2005.          Best known for her later work as the creepy, sadistic Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter movies, Imelda Staunton shows her great range by playing a sweet, working-class housewife in 1950’s England.  Kind to her friends and devoted to her family,

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Senso, starring Alida Valli, Farley Granger and Heinz Moog. Directed by Luchino Visconti. (From the Criterion Collection.) 2010. Library Call Number: PN1995.9.L6S46 2010.     Senso has something for foreign movie lovers, designers and cinema buffs. Luchino Visconti’s lavish historical romance takes place in 1866 Venice, occupied by the Austrian Army of the Hapsburg Empire.  All is not well,

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Heaven’s Keep by William Kent Krueger. Library Call Number: PS3561.R766 H43 2009.          St. Paul writer Kent Krueger has turned his Cork O’Connor mysteries into a top-tier series and he outdoes himself in Heaven’s Keep.  The story this time begins with O’Connor’s attorney wife, Jo, traveling west with clients when their charter plane flies into a blizzard and disappears in a wild part of the

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The Town that Food Saved: how one community found vitality in local food by Ben Hewitt. Library Call Number: HD9008.H37 H49 2009.          From the publisher’s description: The captivating story of a small town coming back to life, grounded in an idea that will revolutionize the way we eat. Over the past 3 years, Hardwick, Vermont, a typical hardscrabble farming community of 3,000 residents,

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Top Gun: Video Gaming Obsession and Addiction. producer/director Marie Caloz; written by Gillian Findlay.  Library call number: GV1469.17.S63T67 2009.     “When the Crisps confiscated their teenage son Brandon's Xbox, they never expected him to run away from home…or to die from injuries sustained while in hiding. Using Brandon's story as a case study, this program delves into the growing

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Riding Bean Rules the Road created by Sonoda Kenichi, directed by Hasegawa Yasuo.  Library Call Number: PN1997.5.S87R52 2002.        An anime classic, with designs by the iconic Sonoda Kenichi, Riding Bean has all the action and style of a classic in the genre and could have been the inspiration for Jason Statham’s Transporter movies.      The Product description states: "In Chicago, ace courier

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The Quiet War by Paul McAuley. Library Call Number: PR6063.C29Q54 2009.          Earth in the 23rd century has been decimated by ecological catastrophe. Dissidents fleeing the corporate nations of the home planet have long ago terraformed and colonized the far corners of the solar system and reaped huge benefits through biogenetic alterations to the human body.  The corporations, complete with

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Games that Changed the Game: the evolution of the NFL on seven Sundays  by Ron Jaworski, with Greg Cosel and David Plaut. Library Call Number: GV955.5.N35 J39 2010.     Ron Jaworski, former Philadelphia Eagle quarterback turned sportscaster, gives the football fan a chance to look at seven innovations in the pro game that made big differences in the current state of football.  Interested readers

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Inside Job, produced, written & directed by Charles Ferguson; co-written by Chad Beck & Adam Bolt. Library Call Number: HB3717 2008 .I57 2011.          Back in 2008, when the dust cleared, over $20 TRILLION dollars had been lost in the bursting real estate bubble and the ensuing global financial meltdown.  Iceland, Greece, Spain, Portugal and several other European countries now hover on the

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Annie Hall, Starring Woody Allen and Diane Keaton. Directed by Woody Allen. (Released 1977.) Library Call Number: PN1995.9.C55A55 1998.        Woody Allen had made several previous, funny, but uneven movies before Annie Hall came along and gave him his groove. Winner of three Academy Awards—for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress—the movie follows Allen’s semiautobiographical character,

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Juliet by Anne Fortier. Library Call Number: PS360.O7487J85 2010.Itinerant theater director Julie Jacobs is shocked when her beloved great-Aunt Rosa dies, leaving almost everything to Julie’s twin sister Janice.  Julie receives only a letter and a key—the letter tells her the lock for the key is in a safe-deposit box in Siena, Italy.  Traveling there, she discovers her roots go all the way back

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Never Enough: a Documentary  by Kelly Anderson. Distributed through New Day Films.  Library Call Number: RC533 .N48 2010 (36 minutes.)From the package liner notes: "Do we own our things, or do they own us? [This film] probes our relationship with the material world through three Americans' relationships with their 'stuff.' Michele Gitlin has 700 sweaters. In touch with the pain as well as the

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 Sugar: a Bittersweet History by Elizabeth Abbott. Library Call Number: TX560.S9A23 2009.          A comprehensive social history of the taste most craved. Abbott’s book takes the reader from the origins of cultivated sugar cane—likely in Indonesia or Polynesia—to the huge agribusiness of beet and cane production today. Supplanting honey in the sweetening of tea, sugar began as a treat for the

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September 24-October 1, 2011 Celebrate the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment.  Learn more about banned and challenged books at the American Library Association's website. Also visit the University Library's lobby area to view their exhibit and browse some of the books on the challenged list.

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The Narrow Margin, starring Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor and Jacqueline White. Directed by Richard Fleischer. 1952. Library Call Number: PN1995.9.F54N37 2005.             One of the best pictures ever made in the noir  period of Hollywood gangster pictures, Fleischer’s film features plenty of twists and surprises as a pair of detectives are assigned the task of escorting a gang boss’ girlfriend

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What the Night Knows by Dean Koontz.  Library Call Number: PS3561.O55 W48 2011.     Dean Koontz, one of America’s premier suspense and horror authors, began 2011 with this ghost story of terrifying dimensions.  Homicide detective John Calvino finds a serial killer is stalking and murdering whole families, in a fashion similar to a previous killer twenty years before.  What shakes the detective

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A Thesis Writing Workshop is scheduled for Wednesday, September 21st,5:00-6:00 p.m., in Rm. 111 of the University Library, located in the Robert S. Swanson Learning Center. Jana Reeg-Steidinger is the presenter. The hands-on workshop covers (1) APA style format for UW-Stout theses; (2) a research paper template;  (3) RefWorks — a bibliographic management tool; and (4) IRB/Human subjects. 

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Winners of the Stout Bucks drawing are Claire Quade, Todd Zimmerman, Cassandra Tock, Ashley Schubert, Jada Schmidt, Steve Schlough, Hong Rost, Erika Peterson, Marlann Patterson, Cole Meyer, Laura McCullough, Brian McAlister, Carol Mooney, JoDee Martin, Jameson Lee, Beth Janetski, Shoua Her, Pauline Ceulemans, Beau Becker, and Autumn! Thanks to all Stout Community staff and students who attended

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Textbooks for classes may be checked out starting on Monday August 29, 2011 during the hours of 7:45 AM to 4:30 PM. The Instructional Resources Service (IRS) is located on the 2nd floor of the Robert S. Swanson Learning Center (RSSLC). There are two entrances for IRS: from the front lobby of the building, take the stairs before entering the Library portion OR the use the second floor

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University of Minnesota University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The information commons concept is popular in academic libraries throughout the nation. It involves transforming library spaces to meet the multifaceted needs of learners.  The libraries at UW-Milwaukee, the University of Minnesota, California State Polytechnic University, and Northwestern University have adopted the

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Simplify and improve your search for images with Image Quest. Now you can access two million rights-cleared images for educational use from over 50 of the best collections in the world. Dorling Kindersley Images, Getty Images, the National Portrait Gallery of London, the National Geographic Society, Oxford Scientific, and other leading names have joined with Britannica to provide the best and

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Cornered: The new Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction by Barry C. Lynn, Library Call #:HD2757.2.L96 2010.In his study of American business, Lynn writes, ”Consolidation of power by financiers over the basic institutions of our political economy has resulted in the dreangement not merely of our financial systems but also of our industrial systems and political systems.  Most

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(All synopses from Amazon Product descriptions)Mother and Child, starring Naomi Watts, Annette Bening and Samuel L. Jackson, directed by Rodrigo Garcia. Call Number: PN1995.5.M63M68 2010.      Three women's lives share a common core of being profoundly affected by adoption. At age fourteen, Karen placed a baby for adoption, and has been haunted ever since by the daughter she never knew.

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During this time of summer sunshine, be sure to check out the intersession library hours . The library is closed evenings and weekends until the beginning of Semester 1. Remember, you can continue to enjoy the sunshine while dipping into library resources using the our Mobile Lib and our Ask-A-Librarian service. Let the sun shine in!

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The ACT Student Opinion Survey was conducted in spring 2011 to determine the level of satisfaction with certain services and the overall college environment at UW-Stout. There were 22 college services listed on the survey.  The service with the highest average rating of 4.24 was Library Facilities and Services. Results for the 2011 ACT Student Opinion Survey are available at http://www2.

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Top Ten Reasons Students Cannot Cite or Rely on Wikipedia Ever have an instructor tell you that you can't use Wikipedia as a source for your paper?  Read this for reasons.

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Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America by Robert Whitaker. Call Number: RC443.W437 2010. Getting What We deserve: Health & Medical Care in America by Alfred Sommer, MD, MHS. Call Number: RA445.S66 2009. Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical exposure in the United States by Steve Lerner. Call Number: RA1226.L47

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Ride the High Country, starring Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea, with Mariette Hartley. Directed by Sam Peckinpah. 1962. Library Call Number: PN1995.9.W4R54 2006.      Considered by some Peckinpah’s finest film, the story involves two aging lawmen sent into the mountains to escort gold from a mining site back to a banker in the town below. Their journey is complicated by love, sex, fistfights, a

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Bill Johnston has been appointed interim director of the library effective July 1. Johnston has been Collections Development librarian at UW-Stout since 2003. Paul Roberts has been appointed university and Area Research Center archivist on an interim basis effective July 1.

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Kevin Thorie retired as Archivist at UW-Stout after 29 years of service.  He discusses the changes in retrieval of information over that time in this article.

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 Saving Alma Mater: a rescue plan for America’s Public Universities by James C. Garland.  Library Call Number: LB23452.G37 2009.          In this quartet of books about education, the state of American education is seen from many angles.  James C. Garland, former President of Miami University of Ohio, outlines the cost pressures on the American public University in Saving Alma Mater. As the

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 The Score, starring Robert DeNiro, Edward Norton and Marlon Brando. Directed by Frank Oz.  2001. (Library Call Number: PN1995.9.C66S36 2001.)     Four films on the theme of robbery are featured for June. In The Score, DeNiro plays master thief Nick Wells, who’s ready to retire until his partner (Marlon Brando in his last film appearance) pleads with him to make one last, big score: a priceless

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View the 2010-11 Student Artist-in-Residence artwork online.  Derek Huber was this year's recipient; one of his art pieces will be on permanent display in the University Library. The 2011-12 Student Artist-In-Residence applications are due July 1st, 2011.

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The Children of Huang Shi, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh. Directed by Roger Spottiswoode. 2009.  Library Call Number: PN1995.9.C47C45 2009.      One of the many virtually unknown gems released in recent years, this film—set in 1937 China and based on a true story--revolves around George Hogg (Meyers), an ambitious British journalist, who sneaks into

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Real Education: Four simple truths for bringing America’s schools back to reality by Charles Murray. Call Number: LB2806.22 .M87 2008. Why School: Reclaiming education for all of us by Mike Rose. Call Number: LA217.2.R723 2009.      Two divergent looks at American education are featured in these slim volumes. Murray, controversial author of The Bell Curve, presents four points for argument:

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The Blind Side, starring Quentin Aaron, Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw and Kathy Bates. Directed by John Lee Hancock. 2009. Library Call Number: PN1995.9.S67 B55 2010.           Tip-toeing through what could be saccharine/maudlin territory, and managing to mostly avoid it, The Blind Side is based on the true story of Michael Oher, an abandoned, shy and gentle teen-aged boy who is literally plucked

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The Garden of Betrayal by Lee Vance. Library Call Number: PS3622.A58595 G37 2010.           From the book jacket:   Manhattan, 2002: Mark Wallace has it all--he's married to Claire, the love of his life; they have two bright, beautiful children, and his is a high-powered Wall Street job. Until one night while on a neighborhood errand by himself, his twelve-year-old son, Kyle, vanishes, brutally

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Bad Blood by John Sandford. Library Call number: PS3569.A516 B33 2010.                 This novel features Flowers investigating a murder in southern Minnesota that looks, at first glance, fairly open and shut. A soybean farmer is found buried in the beans at a grain elevator. It doesn’t take long to see the accident was staged, and only a few hours more before the elevator employee, arrested on

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Restrepo: One Platoon, One Valley, One Year, a documentary directed and produced by Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger. An Outpost Films production in association with National Geographic Channel. Library Call Number: DS371.4123.K67R47 2010.           Anyone wanting a better understanding of the trials of our military in Afghanistan should spend an hour and a half with this documentary.

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Chungking Express, a film by Wong Kar-Wai. Starring Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Takeshi Kanishiro, Brigitte Lin, Faye Wong and Valerie Chow. In Cantonese and Mandarin. English Subtitles. 2008. Library Call Number: PN1995.9..F67 C48 2008           Director Wong made this art film while editing a completely different type of movie; Express follows the lives of two Hong Kong policemen, both at the end of

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Half-Broke Horses: A true-life novel by Jeannette Walls. Library Call Number: PS3623.A3644 H35 2009.           Author Walls introduces us to her grandmother, Lily Casey Smith, by way of an autobiographical/fictional rendition of her life. Growing up in the early 20th century on a ranch in Texas, Lily’s first home was a dugout in the bank of a creek, with a sod roof browsing goats occasionally

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The RefWorks-COS database provides tools for every phase of research, from discovering the very latest developments, finding grants, identifying collaborators and thought leaders, managing research information, sharing resources, writing papers, or locating opportunities to present or publish findings. COS is a database from the vendor, ProQuest.  On the Library Home Page's Articles/Databases

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CELEBRATE LIBRARIES! To celebrate National Library Week, the University Library is sponsoring a Facebook Survey Contest.  Just take a quick survey and  "Like" the UW-Stout Library on Facebook and you may win an Amazon.com gift card. You can access the UW-Stout Library Facebook page here. You can access the National Library Week survey here. Hurry up if you want to win a prize!

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 CELEBRATE LIBRARIES! In celebration of National Library Week 2011, the University Library has published a special "Library Tech" issue of the library newsletter.  This newsletter features library technology news, features, and information.  Please check it out!  You can download it here. For past issues of the Library Newsletter go to   http://libguides.uwstout.edu/newsletter  Please enjoy!

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Pond Hockey, a Northland films Production, Directed by Tommy Haines.  Library Call Number: GV847.5.P66 2008.           Although this documentary covers the Pond Hockey Championships in Minneapolis Minnesota, it’s more about the changing face of American sports. Before Playstations and X-boxes, there were fathers who, every year, would build a wooden containment fence and flood their back yards in

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Deep Shadow by Randy Wayne White. Library Call Number: PS3573.H47473 D46 2010.           Latest in White’s long-running Doc Ford adventures. There is a legend how an overloaded plane fleeing Castro’s takeover and carrying Batista’s Cuban gold, crashed in the rugged backwoods of Florida. Arlis Futch, one of Ford’s friends, believes the plane went down in an inland lake. He’s so sure, in fact, he’s

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          Jeanette Schermann is this year’s recipient of the Barnard Outstanding Service Award. Jeanette is a Library Service Assistant working in Instructional Resources. She was cited as being a tireless worker who is integral in maintaining Instructional Resources Service’s strong customer service reputation throughout the UW-Stout community.           The Outstanding Service Award was

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  Bob Butterfield Bob Butterfield has assumed duties as Director of the Instructional Resources Service as of  April 1, 2011.  Bob comes to Stout from UW-Eau Claire’s McIntyre Library where he worked for the last three years in the collection development department.  His background includes over twenty years management and acquisitions experience in both the retail industry and the

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Kevin Thorie, the University Library 's archivist since 1992, is retiring.  His last day of work was April 1, 2011. He worked at Stout for ten years as a limited term employee before becoming a full time academic staff member.  As archivist, he oversaw both the University Archives and the Area Research Center (a cooperative effort between the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and the

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The Fabulous Baker Boys, starring Michelle, Pfeiffer, Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges, a Mirage production ; produced by Paula Weinstein and Mark Rosenberg ; written and directed by Steve Kloves. (1989). Library Call Number: PN1995.9.M86F83 2006.           For over fifteen years, Frank and Jack Baker have played duo pianos in a small lounge act. For awhile life was good, now, the venues are getting

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The Subtle Body: the story of yoga in America, by Stefanie Syman. Library Call Number: B132.Y6S96 2010.           A spiritual discipline which has become a multimillion dollar American business is examined in this scholarly work on yoga.           “Yoga’s history in America is longer and richer than even its most devoted practitioners realize. It was present in Emerson’s New England, and by the

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Prom Night in Mississippi, a documentary by Paul Saltzman. HBO documentaries. 2008. Library Call Number: E185.61.P82 2009.           Though the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education ruling by the Supreme Court in 1954 banned segregation in the schools, Charleston Mississippi refused to integrate for nearly 20 years. Even then, when it came to the senior prom, the high school held two: one for

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Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner. Library Call Number: PS3573.E3935 B47 2009.           From Publishers Weekly: Chick lit doyenne Weiner offers airtight proof that the genre thrives with this clever, sad and sweet turn on Thelma and Louise–style rage. Juggling the politics of broken families, heartbreaking betrayal and shaky self-esteem, two girlhood pals—ugly duckling Addie and wounded

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Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death and Country Music by Dana Jennings.  Library Call Number: ML3524 .J45 2008 “The years from about 1950 to 1970 were the golden age of twang. Country music's giants all strode the earth in those years: Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, George Jones and Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette. And many of the standards that still define country were recorded then.

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The Dragon Hunters, voices of Forest Whitaker, Mary Mouser and Rob Paulsen. Directed by Guillaume Ivernel and Arthur Qwak. Animated. 2008.  Library Call Number PN1995.9.F34 D73 2009.           This movie version of a long-running French television cartoon series fills in the background of the main characters, and at the same time provides a visual feast and strikingly original and awe-inspiring

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National Library Week Photo Contest! The University Library is celebrating National Library Week (NLW). First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April. This year NLW is from April 10th, 2011 to April 16th, 2011. To celebrate NLW, the University Library will hold a photo

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Pictures at a Revolution: five movies and the birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris. Library Call Number: PN1993.5.U6 H37 2008.          Mark Harris looks at the five Academy Award nominees for Best Picture in 1967 and the pivotal changes they represented in movies and American culture.           The Oscar nominees for that year included two stories about race: In the Heat of the Night, a

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The Man in the Glass Booth, starring Maximillian Schell, Lois Nettleton and Luther Adler. Directed by Arthur Hiller. 1975.  Library Call number: PR6069.H39 M36 003.        From the American Film Institute series of theater into film, comes this complex psychological drama about vengeance and justice, written by actor Robert Shaw. Schell plays millionaire Jewish businessman Arthur Goldman, who

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Online tax forms: Federal: IRS Website   http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/ Wisconsin: WI Dept. of Revenue   www.dor.state.wi.us/ Minnesota: MN Dept. of Revenue   www.taxes.state.mn.us/

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The University Archives/Area Research Center staff have developed a new database featuring recipes from cookbooks that were published by the institution as textbooks for students in the home economics department.  This database of recipes is established in honor of the University's heritage. Other recipes, which are from the older cookbooks found in the University Library's extensive cookbook

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These feature films circulated more than any others in the library last year: 1) Snatch--British crime film in the mode of Pulp Fiction; fixed fights, hungry pigs, a lot of crazies and a stolen diamond. 2) Wonder Boys--Ever had a problem finishing something?  Meet Prof. Grady Tripp; his 2nd novel is 2,500 pages long--and he can't find an ending. 3) Taxi Driver--the essential film of the

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The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry, a Reel Deal Productions film for American Experience; produced and directed by Jacqueline Shearer; narrated by Morgan Freeman. Story by Jacqueline Shearer. Library Call Number: E540.N3 M37 2006.      The American Experience presents the true story of one of the first African-American regiments fighting in the Civil War. Formed in Boston, Massachusetts,

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The God of the Hive by Laurie R. King. Library Call Number: PS3561.I4813 G64 2010      There are a great many people who have used Sherlock Holmes as the protagonist of their novels in the past 25 years, with various levels of success. King’s tenth book in a series succeeds for two reasons: Mary Russell, the wife of Sherlock Holmes, has the prominent role here, and the author is more interested

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The Making of African America: the four great migrations by Ira Berlin. Library Call Number: E185.B473 2010.           Beginning with the Middle Passage, when Africans were forcibly taken from their homeland, Berlin traces the movement and migrations of Black Americans from Colonial times to the present. After slave ships arrived, slaves were transported across the South in huge numbers to work

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Daughters of the Dust, starring Alva Rogers, Barbara O. Jones and Cora Lee Day. Directed by Julie Dash. Library Call Number: PN1995.9.N4D29 1999.           An independent film recently named to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, Daughters of the Dust traces the history of the Gullah people, former slaves who lived an isolated existence on the barrier islands of Georgia. With a

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For Love of Liberty: the story of America’s Black Patriots, directed by Frank Martin. Written by Frank Martin and Jeff Stetson. Hosted by Halle Berry, with contributions by Colin Powell, Bill Cosby, Morgan Freeman and others. Library Call Number: E185.63 .F67 2009.           The numbers are impressive: 5,000 African-Americans fought for the American Rebellion, more than 200,000 fought in the

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Slumming: Sexual and racial encounters in American nightlife, 1885-1940 by Chad Heap. Library Call Number: F128.5.H43 2009.           "''Slumming'' is the concept of people seeing ''how the other half lives.'' People went slumming either as an academic pursuit or with prurient interests, or both. Beginning in the 1880s with white males visiting prostitutes or gamblers in the working-class and

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Many library resources of your University Library are now available from your own pocket using your mobile device. Our new mobile website enables users quick access to full text articles in Ebsco and Wilson databases, librarian-developed subject guides to online resources in Stout's programs, library hours, facebook, and more. So if you need to do some quick research on the run, just pull out

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Precious, based on the novel Push by Sapphire, starring Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz. Directed by Lee Daniels.  2009.  Library Call Number: PN1995.9.C39 P74 2010.               There are two basic kinds of movies: escapist action or comedy the viewer might or might not take seriously; and difficult movies that may or may not have the ending you’d like to

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Jackie Ormes: the first African American woman cartoonist by Nancy Goldstein.  Library call number: PN6727.O74 G65 2008.                Like Brenda Starr, Torchy Brown hit the comics’ pages as an independent woman with a career, adventure, and romance. But appearing exclusively in African American-targeted newspapers, she is not so widely known. Torchy Brown: Dixie to Harlem ran in 1937–38 and

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The Last American Hero: A life of Henry Aaron by Howard Bryant.  Library Call Number: GV865.A25 B79 2010.               From the front jacket: In the thirty-four years since his retirement, Henry Aaron's reputation has only grown in magnitude: he broke existing records (RBIs, total bases, extra-base hits) and set new ones (hitting at least thirty home runs per season fifteen times, becoming the

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Against the Odds: the artists of the Harlem Renaissance. A PBS documentary. Producer/director, Amber Edwards. Library Call Number: N6538.N5 A32 2004.              After the 1919 race riots in New York, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was formed, to promote black self-image, but partially in order to change white perceptions of African Americans. One of the

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More open hours and an expanded menu are new at the food cart in the Library's lobby.  Hours are: Monday-Thursday   9:30-7:00 Friday                   9:30-2:00 With the closing of Memorial Student Center for renovations, the library's food cart has added Friday hours and increased open hours from 5:00-7:00 in the evenings. The expanded menu includes soup and decaf coffee. Enjoy some food and

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The University Library announces the Library Research Scholars for this year: Lopa Basu, John Kirk, Matthew Kuchta, Amanda Little, Joan Navarre, Matthew Ray, Susan Staggs and Robert Zeidel. The program, under the auspices of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Council of University of Wisconsin Libraries, allows the scholars access to all electronic resources at the UW-Madison Library.

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The University Library will be open an additional 15 hours per week during the spring semester. Sunday 11 a.m. to Monday, 1 a.m. Monday 7:30 a.m. to Tuesday, 1 a.m. Tuesday 7:30 a.m. to Wednesday, 1 a.m. Wednesday 7:30 a.m. to Thursday, 1 a.m. Thursday 7:30 a.m. to Friday, 1 a.m. Friday 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Refer to Library Hours for a live calendar.

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The Man Who Pushed America to War by Aram Roston. Call Number: DS79.66.C45 R67 2008.           Meet Ahmad Chalabi, who sat behind President Bush during the 2004 State of the Union address, leader of the Iraqi National Congress, a group formed by the U.S. to foment rebellion against Saddam Hussein. Chalabi’s INC was given $33 million between 2000 and 2003; in return, they provided most of the

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Disfigured, starring Laurie O’Brien, Dedra Edwards and Staci Lawrence. Directed by Glen Gers. Library Call Number: PN1995.9.F75 D57 2008.           From the Internet Movie Database: Lydia is an overweight sales clerk in a trendy home furnishings store, nearing 30. Though she is a member of a Fat Acceptance Group (a movement dedicated to fighting prejudice against overweight people), she is still

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UW-System Libraries have employed the concept of One System, One Library in order to maintain and impove collections that advance teaching, learning and research.  And now the libraries are developing a new interface, called Forward to access these collections and request materials between libraries.  Take a look, try a search, and/or view the introductory video at http://

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Troublemaker: A personal history of school reform since Sputnik by Chester E. Finn, Jr.   Call Number: LA209.2.F54 2008.           From the Google E-book description: “Few people have been more involved in shaping postwar U.S. education reforms--or dissented from some of them more effectively--than Chester Finn. Assistant secretary of education under Ronald Reagan, and an aide to politicians as

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The Good Fight: the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, written, produced and directed by Noel Buckner, Mary Dore, & Sam Sills. Call Number: DP269.47.A46 G66 2008.           In 1936, after the election in Spain of a socialist government, a group of conservative generals led by Francisco Franco attempted to stage a coup, overthrow President Manuel Azaña’s Republican government and

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