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The 21st Century Library
Friday, May 3rd, 2013

By: Paula Ganyard, Library Director

What will the library of the future look like? Won’t everyone walk around with all of the information in the palm of their hand? Will there still be a need for libraries in the future? I am asked these questions rather frequently and my simple answers are I don’t know, possibly, and YES!  

Libraries have existed for hundreds of years, and I predict that they will exist for many more years to come for two reasons. First, the core mission of any library is to organize, provide access to, and assist in the use of information. Second, libraries are ever evolving institutions that continue to change as the way information is made available changes.

An easy prediction is that we will continue to see growth in electronic forms of information. Libraries and users adapted rather quickly to e-journals. The availability and use of e-books have been a bit slower, but this resource has been changing rapidly, too, in the last couple of years. There will also be more digitization and preservation initiatives, such as the Hathi Trust. When you have libraries that are evolving to meet the needs of the dynamic information environment in which we live, it is very difficult to predict what they will look like.

“The Cofrin Library advances the UW – Green Bay mission of teaching, research, and service by providing services and resources to meet the needs of its community and by serving as an intellectual and cultural asset for both the University and Northeast Wisconsin.”

It is very possible that the library of the distant future no longer will be a physical building; however, I believe there always will be a physical library as long as human beings find value in coming together in one location to exchange knowledge, regardless of where or how the information was obtained. When I think of the future of libraries, I think of the last part of the mission of the Cofrin Library, “serving as an intellectual and cultural asset.” I believe you will see libraries collaborating and merging with community cultural centers, such as museums, theatres, and community centers, to form the cultural-library of the future.

Finally, I strongly believe that as long as there are vast amounts of information overloading users, there will be a need for librarians to help them sift through it. Searching for information and the systems used will continue to evolve at a rapid rate and will become more complex which will make the professional librarian even more important.

Will there still be a need for libraries in the future? YES!

Cofrin Library, UW-Green Bay

New Books for May
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013

   

Looking for something to read? Here’s our list of new books for May:

Search our library catalog for the book title where you can get the call number and location of the book.

Crooked paths to allotment : the fight over federal Indian policy after the Civil War / C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa.

Wheel of fortune : the battle for oil and power in Russia / Thane Gustafson.

Killer fat : media, medicine, and morals in the American “obesity epidemic” / Natalie Boero.

Atlas of the great Irish famine / edited by John Crowley, William J. Smyth, and Michael Murphy ; GIS consultant, Charlie Roche.

Long shadow of antiquity : what have the Greeks and Romans done for us? / Gregory S. Aldrete and Alicia Aldrete.

Environmental policy : new directions for the twenty-first century / edited by Norman J. Vig, Michael E. Kraft.

Public policy : politics, analysis, and alternatives / Michael E. Kraft and Scott R. Furlong.

Sticks and stones : defeating the culture of bullying and rediscovering the power of character and empathy / Emily Bazelon.

Quiet : the power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking / Susan Cain.

Alexander I : the tsar who defeated Napoleon / Marie-Pierre Rey ; translated by Susan Emanuel.

Of Africa / Wole Soyinka.

American empire : the rise of a global power, the democratic revolution at home, 1945-2000 / Joshua B. Freeman.

Girls of Atomic City : the untold story of the women who helped win World War II / Denise Kiernan.

Dreaming the future : reimagining civilization in the Age of Nature / Kenny Ausubel ; foreword by David W. Orr.

Wisdom of failure : how to learn the tough leadership lessons without paying the price / Laurence G. Weinzimmer, Jim McConoughey.

Scattered sand : the story of China’s rural migrants / Hsiao-Hung Pai ; preface by Gregor Benton.

Rebuilding the foodshed : how to create local, sustainable, and secure food systems / Philip Ackerman-Leist.

Racing for innocence : whiteness, gender, and the backlash against affirmative action / Jennifer L. Pierce.

Impact of disruptive students in Wisconsin school districts / by Michael Ford.

Local dollars, local sense : how to shift your money from Wall Street to Main Street and achieve real prosperity / Michael H. Shuman ; foreword by Peter Buffett.

Dimensions of crime as a social problem / edited by Robert Hartmann McNamara and Keith J. Bell.

American lynching / Ashraf H.A. Rushdy.

Juvenile in justice / Richard Ross ; [foreword by Ira Glass ; preface by Bart Lubow].

Slow democracy : rediscovering community, bringing decision making back home / Susan Clark and Woden Teachout.

U.S. immigration made easy / Ilona Bray.

Artificial hells : participatory art and the politics of spectatorship / Claire Bishop.

Accursed / Joyce Carol Oates.

Hallucinations / Oliver Sacks.

Beyond health, beyond choice : breastfeeding constraints and realities / edited by Paige Hall Smith, Bernice L. Hausman, Miriam Labbok.

Seed underground : a growing revolution to save food / Janisse Ray.

Paradise lot : two plant geeks, one-tenth of an acre and the making of an edible garden oasis in the city / Eric Toensmeier ; with contributions from Jonathan Bates.

Taste, memory : forgotten foods, lost flavors, and why they matter / David Buchanan ; foreword by Gary Paul Nabhan.

New horse-powered farm : tools and systems for the small-scale, sustainable market grower / Stephen Leslie ; foreword by Lynn Miller.

Small-scale poultry flock : an all-natural approach to raising chickens and other fowl for home and market growers / Harvey Ussery ; foreword by Joel Salatin.

Natural beekeeping : organic approaches to modern apiculture / Ross Conrad.

Power from the people : how to organize, finance, and launch local energy projects / Greg Pahl ; foreword by Van Jones.

Art of fermentation : an in-depth exploration of essential concepts and processes from around the world / Sandor Ellix Katz ; foreword by Michael Pollan.

Good morning, beautiful business : the unexpected journey of an activist entrepreneur and local economy pioneer / Judy Wicks.

Game changers : education and information technologies / edited by Diana G. Oblinger.

Etched in clay : the life of Dave, enslaved potter and poet / Andrea Cheng ; woodcuts by the author.

Earth-honoring faith : religious ethics in a new key / Larry L. Rasmussen.

Shock of America : Europe and the challenge of the century / David W. Ellwood.

Paint the White House black : Barack Obama and the meaning of race in America / Michael P. Jeffries.

Amskapi Pikuni : the Blackfeet people / Clark Wissler and Alice Beck Kehoe ; with the collaboration of Stewart E. Miller.

Active bodies : a history of women’s physical education in twentieth-century America / Martha H. Verbrugge.

Free time : the forgotten American Dream / Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt.

Key concepts in leadership / Jonathan Gosling, Stephanie Jones and Ian Sutherland with Joost Dijkstra.

Redistribution recession : how labor market distortions contracted the economy / Casey B. Mulligan.

More than they bargained for : Scott Walker, unions, and the fight for Wisconsin / Jason Stein and Patrick Marley.

Sexual harassment : an introduction to the conceptual and ethical issues / Keith Dromm.

Goodvertising : creative advertising that cares / Thomas Kolster.

Fathers in cultural context / edited by David W. Shwalb, Barbara J. Shwalb, Michael E. Lamb.

Disability history of the United States / Kim E. Nielsen.

Women on ice : methamphetamine use among suburban women / Miriam Boeri

Intercountry adoption : policies, practices, and outcomes / edited by Judith L. Gibbons and Karen Smith Rotabi.

Bullying hurts : teaching kindness through read alouds and guided conversations / Lester L. Laminack and Reba M. Wadsworth.

Inequality for all : the challenge of unequal opportunity in American schools / William H. Schmidt, Curtis C. McKnight.

American art song and American poetry / Ruth C. Friedberg, Robin Fisher.

Schumann / Eric Frederick Jensen.

Conducting women’s choirs : strategies for success / edited and compiled by Debra Spurgeon.

What was contemporary art? / Richard Meyer.

Framed spaces : photography and memory in contemporary installation art / Monica E. McTighe.

Rural fictions, urban realities : a geography of Gilded Age American literature / Mark Storey.

Hawks in flight : the flight identification of North American raptors / Pete Dunne, David Sibley, and Clay Sutton.

Health care reform and disparities : history, hype, and hope / Toni P. Miles.

Everyday ethics : voices from the front line of community psychiatry / Paul Brodwin.

Alcohol and its role in the evolution of human society / Ian S. Hornsey.

Reconstructing ancient linen body armor : unraveling the linothorax mystery / Gregory S. Aldrete, Scott Bartell, Alicia Aldrete.

Hammer of witches / by Shana Mlawski.

Awakening : a Tankborn novel / Karen Sandler.

Vision and brain : how we perceive the world / James V. Stone.

Francis of Assisi : the life and afterlife of a medieval saint / André Vauchez ; translated by Michael F. Cusato.

Atlantic in world history / by Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Visions of power in Cuba : revolution, redemption, and resistance, 1959-1971 / Lillian Guerra.

Full planet, empty plates : the new geopolitics of food scarcity / Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute.

Carbon crunch : how we’re getting climate change wrong–and how to fix it / Dieter Helm.

Taxes in America : what everyone needs to know / Leonard E. Burman and Joel Slemrod.

From Cairo to Wall Street : voices from the global spring / edited by Anya Schiffrin and Eamon Kircher-Allen ; foreword by Jeffrey D. Sachs ; introduction by Joseph E. Stiglitz.

Handbook of father involvement : multidisciplinary perspectives / edited by Natasha Cabrera, Catherine S. Tamis-Lemonda.

Addiction by design : machine gambling in Las Vegas / Natasha Dow Schüll.

Fire in the ashes : twenty-five years among the poorest children in America / Jonathan Kozol.

Changing face of world cities : young adult children of immigrants in Europe and the United States / Maurice Crul and John Mollenkopf, editors.

Projecting possibilities for writers : the how, what & why of designing units of study, K-5 / Matt Glover & Mary Alice Berry.

Motion, emotion, and love : the nature of artistic performance / Thomas Carson Mark.

John Philip Sousa’s America : the patriot’s life in images and words / by John Philip Sousa IV with Loras John Schissel.

Bassoon / James B. Kopp.

Making musical meaning : unlocking the value of music education in the age of innovation / Elizabeth Sokolowski.

Tanglewood II : summoning the future of music education / edited by Anthony J. Palmer and André Quadros ; with a foreword by Wynton Marsalis.

Can journalism survive? : an inside look at American newsrooms / David M. Ryfe.

Becoming the gentleman : British literature and the invention of modern masculinity, 1660-1815 / Jason D. Solinger.

Toni Morrison : writing the moral imagination / Valerie Smith

Vietnam and beyond : Tim O’Brien and the power of storytelling / Stefania Ciocia

Community ecology / Gary G. Mittelbach.

Historical environmental variation in conservation and natural resource management / edited by John A. Wiens … [et al.].

Wildlife conservation in a changing climate / edited by Jedediah F. Brodie, Eric Post, and Daniel F. Doak.

Medicine and social justice : essays on the distribution of health care / edited by Rosamond Rhodes, Margaret P. Battin, Anita Silvers.

Vaccine : the debate in modern America / Mark A. Largent.

Ditch in time : the city, the west, and water / Patricia Nelson Limerick with Jason L. Hanson ; and the assistance of Timothy Brown … [et. al].

Community organizing and community building for health and welfare / [edited by] Meredith Minkler.

Big squeeze : a social and political history of the controversial mammogram / Handel Reynolds.

Baltic facades : Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania since 1945 / Aldis Purs.

Video surveillance of nesting birds / Christine A. Ribic, Frank R. Thompson III, and Pamela J. Pietz.

Contemporary grandparenting : changing family relationships in global contexts / edited by Sara Arber and Virpi Timonen.

Moving data : the iphone and the future of media / edited by Pelle Snickars & Patrick Vonderau.

Berthe Morisot : 1841-1895 / Marianne Mathieu, curator.

Should Wisconsin allow commercial bail in pretrial release? / by Kate Lind.

Tamalitos : un poema para cocinar / escrito por Jorge Argueta ; ilustrado por Domi ; traducción de Elisa Amado = Tamalitos : a cooking poem / words by Jorge Argueta ; pictures by Domi ; translated by Elisa Amado.

Hold fast / Blue Balliett.

Tea cakes for Tosh / Kelly Starling Lyons ; illustrated by E.B. Lewis.

I know the river loves me / Maya Christina Gonzalez = Yo sé que el río me ama / Maya Christina Gonzalez.

Pluto’s secret : an icy world’s tale of discovery / by Margaret A. Weitekamp with David DeVorkin ; illustrated by Diane Kidd.

Me and Momma and Big John / Mara Rockliff ; illustrated by William Low.

No crystal stair : a documentary novel of the life and work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem bookseller / Vaunda Micheaux Nelson ; art work by R. Gregory Christie.

Green / Laura Vaccaro Seeger.

As fast as words could fly / by Pamela M. Tuck ; illustrations by Eric Velasquez.

Riptide : the new normal for higher education / Dan Angel and Terry Connelly.

Funner grammar : fresh ways to teach usage, language, and writing conventions, grades 3-8 / Sandra Wilde.

History of women in Russia : from earliest times to the present / Barbara Evans Clements.

What a writer needs / Ralph Fletcher.

Improbable scholars : the rebirth of a great American school system and a strategy for America’s schools / David L. Kirp.

Telling genes : the story of genetic counseling in America / Alexandra Minna Stern.

North American freshwater mussels : natural history, ecology, and conservation / Wendell R. Haag.

Spirituality in dark places : the ethics of solitary confinement / Derek S. Jeffreys.

Most Popular Course & Research Guides
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013

Many courses make use of the library’s Guides (aka course guides, research guides, or LibGuides) which are created by the librarians to direct students to pertinent and valuable academic sources for their assignments and projects. In some respects, these guides serve as “one stop shopping” for students’ research needs. The guides are popular–over 74,000 views this academic year!

So which guides got the most views? Here’s a look at our most heavily used guides of the 2012-2013 academic year:

Course Guides:

  1. Business Administration 490: Strategic Decision AnalysisLarry McGregor – 6,452 views
  2. English Composition 105: Expository Writing (Topic: Presidential Candidates)Dianne Gordon – 2,111 views
  3. English Composition 105: Expository Writing (Topic: Photos)Dianne Gordon – 1931 views
  4. History 480: Seminar in HistoryKevin Kain - 1,441 views
  5. History 104/Humanistic Studies 104: World Civilizations 2Clif Ganyard – 1,211 views
  6. English Composition 100: College Writing (Topic: Social Media)Karla Larson – 727 views
  7. English Composition 105: Expository Writing (Topic: Researched Argument)Dianne Gordon – 660 views
  8. Art 490: Contemporary ArtCarol Emmons – 598 views
  9. English Composition 100: College Writing (Topic: Ethnography)Jenny Ronsman – 588 views
  10. Human Development 353: Family DevelopmentJennifer Smith – 466 views

Research/Topic Guides:

  1. Cite Your Sources – 11,044 views
  2. Adult Degree Students: Library Services – 3,482 views
  3. Research Help – 2,726 views
  4. Frequently Asked Questions – 2,249 views
  5. 9/11 Research Guide – 1,987 views
  6. Plagiarism Guide – 1,886 views
  7. Equipment Guide – 1,651 views
  8. Election 2012 Research Guide – 1,556 views
  9. Government Publications – 1,203 views
  10. Library Instruction for Classes – 1,163 views

Instructors can request a guide for their course by contacting librarian Joe Hardenbrook at hardenbj@uwb.edu.

New Research Guide: Gun Control
Friday, April 19th, 2013

We have a new research guide on the topic of gun control and gun violence. Created by students in Joe Hardenbrook’s Information Science 410: Advanced Information Problems class, students worked in teams to compile library databases, books, websites, media, and government information relating to guns. The end result? A non-biased and informational guide on a controversial topic. A panel of Cofrin Library staff selected the best research guide in the class and we have published it on our site. Check it out!

http://libguides.uwgb.edu/guns

National Library Week
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013

Upcycled crafts for National Library Week.  Stop by the library’s 4th floor and repurpose an old book into a bird, a puppy, or a poem!  And to celebrate National Poetry Month, check out the oversized magnetic poetry set on the library’s 5th floor.  Happy National Library Week!

Events will run all week, April 15th through April 20th.

Correlating Academic Achievement & Interlibrary Loan
Sunday, April 14th, 2013

Can the value of a library’s services be measured? Most of us would confidently wager that the students who use the library and take advantage of its services are at a distinct academic advantage over the students who do not. Can the advantage that library users gain by using a specific service be quantified? The Cofrin Library recently asked this question and carried out a research project that investigated the institutional use of interlibrary loan at UWGB and what correlations might exist between interlibrary loan use and student academic achievement.

Overall, we found that 19% of the student population uses interlibrary loan and that interlibrary loan use increases as students progress through the university: 12% of freshman use ILL, 16% of sophomores, 22% of juniors, and 27% of seniors.  ILL use also varies within academic disciplines: 39% of social science majors, 32% of humanities majors, 27% of natural science majors and 22% of arts and communication majors.  ILL use also spikes for upper level students in certain academic disciplines: 41% of junior social science students, 46% of senior social science students, 38% of senior humanities students and 35% of senior natural science students.

As for what correlations exist between ILL use and academic achievment, we found that ILL users achieve .20 GPA points higher than the students that do not use Interlibrary Loan.  ILL users averaged a GPA of 3.18 while non-users averaged a GPA of 2.98.  Further division of ILL users revealed even greater gaps in academic achievement with freshman ILL users achieving .42 GPA points higher than non-users and sophomores achieving .29 GPA points higher. Significant gaps also existed when ILL users were divided into their academic disciplines. Overall, we found the largest gaps in GPA to exist for adult degree ILL users (.35 GPA points), humanities ILL users (.29), social science ILL users (.25), natural science ILL users (.23), and professional studies ILL users (.22).

Two exciting institutional developments could arise from this study. First, if we consider the information seeking and research behaviors displayed by ILL users to be the type of model behaviors taught and reinforced in library instructional sessions across campus, we hope to further partner with faculty to incorporate this important library service into more courses.  Second, we hope this institutional analysis of interlibrary loan allows us to make informed collection development decisions that focus on the user groups that have proven to be heavy users of materials that lie outside of the Cofrin Library collection.

If you have any questions about this study or would like a more complete picture of the data and its analysis, please feel free to contact:

Mitchell Scott
Resource Sharing Librarian
scottm@uwgb.edu

Edible Book Fest
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013

Cofrin Library’s Edible Book Fest winners announced! 

Check out our flickr set to see who won: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cofrin_library/sets/72157633251502389/ 

 

Cofrin Library’s Edible Book Fest Monday April 15th 12-2 PM

Love books?  Handy in the kitchen?  Then register to bring an edible book to the Cofrin Library’s Edible Book Fest on Monday April 15th!  To register or to find out more about Edible Book Fest check out: http://libguides.uwgb.edu/EdibleBooks

Enter our raffle for a chance to win an edible book! Stop by the Cofrin Library 3rd floor on Monday April 15th between 12-2 PM to view the entries in this year’s Edible Book Fest and enter for a chance to win a treat to take back to the office or home. Raffle tickets are 1 for $1 or 10 for $5. All proceeds go to a local food pantry. Raffle sponsored by Student Government Association.

New Books for April
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013

Smoke Signals Changing Lanes Reading 1759 Hidden Hunger

Looking for something to read? Here’s our list of new books for April:

Search our library catalog for the book title where you can get the call number and location of the book.

On psychoanalysis / Paul Ricoeur ; Translated by David Pellauer.

Archaeology of mind : neuroevolutionary origins of human emotions / Jaak Panksepp, Lucy Biven ; foreword by Daniel J. Siegel.

My Lai : an American atrocity in the Vietnam War / William Thomas Allison.

Group dynamics and team interventions : understanding and improving team performance / Timothy M. Franz.

Leaving to learn : how out-of-school learning increases student engagement and reduces dropout rates / Elliot Washor, Charles Mojkowski.

Amino acid metabolism / David A Bender.

Hidden hunger : gender and the politics of smarter foods / Aya Hirata Kimura.

Titanic : voices from the disaster / by Deborah Hopkinson.

Monet paints a day / Julie Danneberg ; illustrated by Caitlin Heimerl.

No go sleep! / by Kate Feiffer ; illustrated by Jules Feiffer.

Spike : the mixed-up monster / words by Susan Hood ; pictures by Melissa Sweet.

Oh, no! / words by Candace Fleming ; pictures by Eric Rohmann.

Underground / Denise Fleming.

We march / Shane W. Evans.

Flabbersmashed about you / by Rachel Vail ; illustrated by Yumi Heo.

Subliminal : how your unconscious mind rules your behavior / Leonard Mlodinow.

Nature-nurture debates : bridging the gap / Dale Goldhaber, University of Vermont.

Are we getting smarter? : rising IQ in the twenty-first century / James R. Flynn.

Mni sota makoce : the land of the Dakota / Gwen Westerman & Bruce White ; foreword by Glenn Wasicuna.

Crucible of pueblos : the early Pueblo period in the northern southwest / edited by Richard H. Wilshusen, Gregson Schachner and James R. Allison.

Rice talks : food and community in a Vietnamese town / Nir Avieli.

Misunderstanding financial crises : why we don’t see them coming / Gary B. Gorton.

Children of Eve : population and well-being in history / Louis P. Cain and Donald G. Paterson.

Smoke signals : a social history of marijuana : medical, recreational, and scientific / Martin A. Lee.

Tough luck constitution and the assault on health care reform / Andrew Koppelman.

When can you trust the experts? : how to tell good science from bad in education / Daniel T. Willingham.

Bully nation : why America’s approach to childhood aggression is bad for everyone / Susan Eva Porter.

Text and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll : the Beats and rock culture / Simon Warner.

This much is true : 14 directors on documentary filmmaking / James Quinn.

Black comics : politics of race and representation / edited by Sheena C. Howard and Ronald L. Jackson II.

Understanding Austen : key concepts in the six novels / Maggie Lane.

Annotated Frankenstein / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ; edited by Susan J. Wolfson and Ronald L. Levao.

Lion’s world : a journey into the heart of Narnia / Rowan Williams ; illustrations by Monica Capoferri.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s In this our world and uncollected poems / edited by Gary Scharnhorst and Denise D. Knight.

Textual life of airports : reading the culture of flight / Christopher Schaberg.

Mobile wave : how mobile intelligence will change everything / Michael Saylor.

Field manual of Michigan flora / Edward G. Voss and Anton Reznicek.

Placing animals : an introduction to the geography of human-animal relations / Julie Urbanik.

Northern pike : ecology, conservation, and management history / Rodney B. Pierce.

Milk money : cash, cows, and the death of the American dairy farm / Kirk Kardashian ; foreword by Senator Bernie Sanders.

Collection development in the digital age / edited by Maggie Fieldhouse and Audrey Marshall.

Building and managing e-book collections : a how-to-do-it manual for librarians / edited by Richard Kaplan.

No shelf required 2 : use and management of electronic books / edited by Sue Polanka.

Extra yarn / by Mac Barnett ; illustrated by Jon Klassen.

Too hot? Too cold? : keeping body temperature just right / Caroline Arnold ; illustrated by Annie Patterson.

Bomb : the race to build and steal the world’s most dangerous weapon / Steve Sheinkin.

Martín de Porres : the rose in the desert / written by Gary D. Schmidt ; illustrated by David Diaz.

We’ve got a job : the 1963 Birmingham Children’s March / written by Cynthia Levinson.

Tito Puente, Mambo King = Tito Puente, Rey del Mambo / By Monica Brown ; Illustrated by Rafael López ; Translated by Adriana Dominguez.

One and only Ivan / Katherine Applegate ; illustrations by Patricia Castelao.

One cool friend / story by Toni Buzzeo ; pictures by David Small.

Sleep like a tiger / written by Mary Logue ; illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski.

Ellen’s broom / Kelly Starling Lyons ; illustrated by Daniel Minter.

Poet upstairs / by Judith Ortiz Cofer ; illustrations by Oscar Ortiz.

Creepy carrots! / words Aaron Reynolds ; pictures Peter Brown.

Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe / Benjamin Alire Sáenz.

Look Up!: : Henrietta Leavitt, pioneering woman astronomer / Robert Burleigh ; illustrated by Raúl Colón.

I love our earth = Amo nuestra tierra / Bill Martin Jr. y Michael Sampson ; fotografías de Dan Lipow ; [translation by Yanitzia Canetti].

Spectacles of reform : theater and activism in nineteenth-century America / Amy E. Hughes.

Comics versus art / Bart Beaty.

Stem cells : new frontiers in science & ethics / editors, Muireann Quigley, Sarah Chan, John Harris.

From melancholia to prozac : a history of depression / Clark Lawlor.

Presumed incompetent : the intersections of race and class for women in academia / edited by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs … [et al.].

Augustine and science / edited by John Doody, Adam Goldstein, and Kim Paffenroth.

Family or freedom : people of color in the antebellum South / Emily West.

Up against a wall : rape reform and the failure of success / Rose Corrigan.

Positive psychology in the elementary school classroom / Patty O’Grad.

Reading 1759 : literary culture in mid-eighteenth-century Britain and France / edited by Shaun Regan.

Changing lanes : visions and histories of urban freeways / Joseph F. C. DiMento and Cliff Ellis.

Teenage citizens : the political theories of the young / Constance A. Flanagan.

STEM lesson essentials, grades 3-8 : integrating science, technology, engineering, and mathematics / Jo Anne Vasquez, Cary Sneider, Michael Comer ; foreword by Rodger W. Bybee.

Moonbird : a year on the wind with the great survivor B95 / Phillip Hoose.

Game for swallows : to die, to leave, to return / Zeina Abirached ; art by Zeina Abirached ; translation by Edward Gauvin.

Back to front and upside down! / Claire Alexander.

Son of a gun / Anne de Graaf.

This is not my hat / Jon Klassen.

In darkness / Nick Lake.

Dog called Homeless / Sarah Lean.

Revolution of Evelyn Serrano / Sonia Manzano.

Somebody, please tell me who I am / Harry Mazer and Peter Lerangis.

H.O.R.S.E. : a game of basketball and imagination / Christopher Myers.

Splendors and glooms / Laura Amy Schlitz.

Each kindness / Jacqueline Woodson ; illustrated by E.B. Lewis.

Military history of the Cold War, 1944-1962 / Jonathan M. House.

Afghanistan : a cultural history / St John Simpson.

Egypt’s Tahrir revolution / edited by Dan Tschirgi, Walid Kazziha, Sean F. McMahon.

Rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks / Jeanne Theoharis.

Land of too much : American abundance and the paradox of poverty / Monica Prasad.

Evolving role of China in the global economy / edited by Yin-Wong Cheung and Jakob de Haan.

Leaders make the future : ten new leadership skills for an uncertain world / Bob Johansen ; foreword by John R. Ryan.

Displaced : life in the Katrina diaspora / edited by Lynn Weber and Lori Peek ; with Social Science Research Council Research Network on Persons Displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Surveillance in America : critical analysis of the FBI, 1920 to the present / Ivan Greenberg.

Death penalty / Jenny Cromie and Lynn M. Zott, book editors.

Defending American religious neutrality / Andrew Koppelman.

Healthy children, healthy lives : the wellness guide for early childhood programs / Sharon Bergen and Rachel Robertson.

Reawakening the learner : creating learner-centric, standards-driven schools / Copper Stoll and Gene Giddings.

Home is where the school is : the logic of homeschooling and the emotional labor of mothering / Jennifer Lois.

Raphael : a passionate life / Antonio Forcellino ; translated by Lucinda Byatt.

Shakespeare’s London theatreland : archaeology, history and drama / Julian Bowsher.

There and back again : J R R Tolkien and the origins of the Hobbit / Mark Atherton.

Reclaiming nostalgia : longing for nature in American literature / Jennifer K. Ladino.

Contemporary narrative poem : critical crosscurrents / edited by Steven P. Schneider.

Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and race / edited by Harriet Pollack.

Feather chronicles : a collection of creative works / by students and staff of the College of Menominee Nation.

October mourning : a song for Matthew Shepard / Lesléa Newman.

Environmental health ethics / David B. Resnik.

Run, swim, throw, cheat : the science behind drugs in sport / Chris Cooper.

Missile next door : the Minuteman in the American heartland / Gretchen Heefner.

College libraries and student culture : what we now know / edited by Lynda M. Duke and Andrew D. Asher.

Reflecting on the future of academic and public libraries / [edited by] Peter Hernon and Joseph R. Matthews.

Transformed library : e-books, expertise, and evolution / Jeannette Woodward.

Award Winning Children’s Books
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

Creep CarrotsCofrin Library now has the latest award winning children’s books from the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.

These books are great for student teachers and children at home. Check one out at the 3rd floor New Books display!

Women’s History Month: Research Guide
Tuesday, March 5th, 2013

March is Women’s History Month. The library has put together a guide with resources for finding books, videos, articles, websites, and primary sources covering women’s and gender studies: http://libguides.uwgb.edu/women. Check it out!