Busy researchers have another reason to appreciate WilsonWeb full-text databases. The ReadSpeaker tool converts words in a journal article into audio files for immediate listening or downloading to iPods or other devices.
No special software is necessary, and researchers can hear the text spoken as they read along or if they are on the go.
The Karrmann Library provides access for the UWP community to WilsonWeb databases through the library’s web pages. Databases such as Applied Science Full Text, General Science Full Text, Art Full Text, or Social Sciences Full Text offer access to thousands of journal articles published over many years.
Click "Articles full text and more" and then "Wilson Databases" from the library’s homepage.
Your library provides access for the UWP community to newly expanded coverage through ABI/INFORM Complete, a database of almost 5,000 journals in the field of business. Full text articles cover topics including economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, and product information — often with international coverage!
To access this wealth of information in the business and economics fields, visit the library homepage, click "Articles full text and more" and then click ABI/INFORM Complete.
The library is open EVEN MORE than the typical 97 hours each week during exam time.
Call the Reference Desk 342–1668 or click "Library Hours" from the homepage.
Wisconsin Statutes Third Floor: KFW2430 .A2
The Wisconsin Statutes is a cumulative publication consisting of the Statutes of 1898 and all the additions, changes and repeals that have been made by the Legislature since then. The Wisconsin Statutes is the "body of law" for the state, that is, a compilation of all the statutes that are currently "in force".
Wisconsin Administrative Code Main Floor, Reference KFW2455 1956 .A225
The Wisconsin Administrative Code is a set of administrative rules promulgated by the executive state agencies based on the statutes currently in force in The Wisconsin Statutes. The rules in each section of the Code interpret the statutes into practical applications and govern agency procedures so that the agency can implement, administer, and enforce the statutes, that is, they spell out the practical application of the laws of the state for the executive state agencies and the citizens of the state.
For Example: Statutes dictate buildings must be accessible. The Code dictates how many inches wide doorways must be. |
Book may be found on the library’s 3rd Floor-- RC388.5 .T387 2008
Reviewed by Zora Sampson, Library Director
One of my favorite books to read to children is Byrd Baylor’s picture book I’m In Charge of Celebrations. It demonstrates accessible joy in nature and describes ways any child (or anyone) can claim that joy and make it personal and enduring. Jill Bolte Taylor’s book My Stroke of Insight offers an equally exciting description of accessible joy. But Taylor’s source is internal not external.
Most readers are attracted to this book because it offers the singular understanding she gained as a neuroanatomist from Harvard who experienced a stroke. Her detailed knowledge of brain structure and function allowed her to categorize and analyze the steps of a stroke and the paths to recovery. She takes the reader through the experience, and the value of this new knowledge is considerable.
But relieved by the stroke of all duties to perceive and react to the world, her left brain ceded function to her right brain. Thus she found herself swimming in an ocean of joy connected through her right brain’s kinetic and intuitive tethers to all things. The peace and comfort she found there was a gift she was reluctant to release in order to take on the work involved in the therapeutic healing her left brain needed. Her goal is to retain that awareness and offer to each reader the possibility to tap into such a vast store of energy and connection.
The author’s website is a rich resource for further exploration.
Kay Young, Editor
608.342.1134
young@uwplatt.edu