On May 21, UW-Madison Libraries will officially launch its new library catalog. This new catalog, which has engaged the talents of campus library staff in its design, development and user-testing, will serve as the primary catalog interface. Catalog users will enjoy a more effective searching experience to successfully retrieve resources from the wealth of campus and UW-System library collections.

The new catalog is also designed for a mobile lifestyle, working seamlessly with iPads and other mobile devices. Although this new catalog interface has been developed, access to “MadCat” will remain available.

Search the catalog
Get a bit of training

Library liaisons can provide assistance with your use of the catalog and supply a customized orientation to students, faculty and staff. For Ebling Library contact Heidi Marleau, hmarleau at library.wisc.edu to schedule instruction.

Enjoy discovering this new supplement to MadCat and send them your feedback.

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Ebling Library is your home away from home while studying for finals. Bring your covered drinks, reasonable snacks (small amount of stir fry, yes; entire pizza, no), highlighters, laptops, etc., and make yourself comfortable with a window view on the second floor, and quieter space on the 3rd floor. The 3rd floor Reading Room has communal tables in a quiet space. The south side journal area has couches, carrels and communal tables in a quiet zone.

Group study rooms can be reserved during the finals schedule. Lap tops and other equipment can be checked out based on availability. Our staff can help with nearly any request, including enforcing the quiet (we don’t like to reinforce the librarian stereotype, but we can remind patrons to keep their voices down). For assistance, contact Joe King, jking@library.wisc.edu or call 608 262-2020.

Good luck on finals. Enjoy your summer…See you in the fall (or, best wishes on your future endeavors). For a “head’s up” when there are snacks by the entrance of Ebling during finals, friend us on Facebook….

Photo of Amalia Londono (sitting on the windowsill) and Sneha Shrestha taken by Micaela Sullivan-Fowler. Stir fry by Sneha’s mother. Both are studying for their boards. “This is the best library” said Amalia. We agree.

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Our Goal? To make Ebling Library users the most effective grant seekers in the country….
Our Plan? Our new drop-in workshops, Wednesday, May 2nd from 12:00-1:00 and Friday, May 4th from 12:00-1:00 in Room 3268.

Librarian Ann Combs will facilitate a hands-on class, “Funding: A Grants Overview,” that helps participants search for government and private funding opportunities using a variety of databases as well as resources to track funding outcomes. Includes details on funds for research, equipment, travel, training and more. This is not to be missed if you are seeking to initiate or fine-tune your search for funding opportunities.

Questions? Contact Ann Combs for more information: amcombs at wisc.edu or 263-4414 or contact our Drop-In Team at eblingdropins at library.wisc.edu

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Ebling Library hosts the 6th annual Health Sciences Student Art exhibit from April 12th to May 4th, 2012. The Opening Reception will be from 4:00-6:00 on Thursday, April 12th. Bring yourself, friends and family to ooo and ahhhh at the artwork these talented students have rendered.

Students from the Schools of Nursing, Pharmacy, Veterinary Medicine, SMPH, Physical Therapy and Physician Assistants have submitted photographs, sketches, paintings, glass, fabric, prints and jewelry for this year’s show. Some of the pieces are also for sale. Join us for what promises to be a banner year in Art!

This year’s artists…Holly Crowley, Laurel Legenza, Elizabeth Longmier, Kevin Stutt, Warren Chang, Sarah Polenska, Kitt Rhiner, Heather Nennig, Yang He, Cecile Resop, Kristin L.W. Nyren, Liz Robinson, Jonathan Fricke, Susan Frikken, Kim McBride, Justin Palumbo, Andy Stevens, Molly Day, Kacey Kronenfeld, Bretta Schmidt, Natalie Weisensel, Rachel Puda, Kelly Schultz, Layla Barkal, Nayeli Dault, Christina Nussbaum, Caitlin Regner and Aos Karim.

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Our 3rd author in the Authors@HSLC series… Join us for Barron Lerner, M.D. who will talk about the history and present issues surrounding drunk driving.
April 19th, 2012: 12:00-1:00. Auditorium 1306.

One For the Road: Drunk Driving Since 1900 is a compelling read, especially for residents and practitioners in Wisconsin, a state rife with the issues Professor Lerner has researched. This is an important subject for the public and health care professionals. Please join us for what promises to be a thoughtful presentation and lively discussion.

From the book jacket…

Don’t drink and drive. It’s a deceptively simple rule, but one that is all too often ignored. And while efforts to eliminate drunk driving have been around as long as automobiles, every movement to keep drunks from driving has hit some alarming bumps in the road.

Barron H. Lerner narrates the two strong—and vocal—sides to this debate in the United States: those who argue vehemently against drunk driving, and those who believe the problem is exaggerated and overregulated. A public health professor and historian of medicine, Lerner asks why these opposing views exist, examining drunk driving in the context of American beliefs about alcoholism, driving, individualism, and civil liberties.

Angry and bereaved activist leaders and advocacy groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving campaign passionately for education and legislation, but even as people continue to be killed, many Americans remain unwilling to take stronger steps to address the problem. Lerner attributes this attitude to Americans’ love of drinking and love of driving, an inadequate public transportation system, the strength of the alcohol lobby, and the enduring backlash against Prohibition. The stories of people killed and maimed by drunk drivers are heartrending, and the country’s routine rejection of reasonable strategies for ending drunk driving is frustratingly inexplicable.

This book is a fascinating study of the culture of drunk driving, grassroots and professional efforts to stop it, and a public that has consistently challenged and tested the limits of individual freedom. Why, despite decades and decades of warnings, do people still choose to drive while intoxicated? One for the Road provides crucial historical lessons for understanding the old epidemic of drunk driving and the new epidemic of distracted driving.

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A few of our guest book comments…”Wonderful exhibit!” Provides very good introduction on diverse topics.” “Loved it!” The Seaworthy: A History of Maritime Health & Medicine ends on March 31st. Please come see the collection of rare books and special collections examining the subjects of sea monsters and congenital anomalies, James Lind and scurvy, horseshoe crabs and sea urchins in scientific research, the health of slaves on the Middle Passage, decompression and diving helmet development, the treatment of seasickness, etc. Something for everyone, yes? In Ebling’s 3rd floor Historical Reading Room. Please contact Micaela with questions. msullivan@library.wisc.edu

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From March 2nd to March 29, 2012, Ebling will host the photographs of Pulitzer prize winning photographer, Don Bartletti. Mr. Bartletti’s photographs illustrated UW-Madison’s current Go Big Read selection, Enrique’s Journey, the story of undocumented Central American youths, facing enormous obstacles as they try to get to the United States. The evocative Bound for El Norte will be on Ebling’s 3rd floor galleries. Please come see the show for which one observer commented, “I had no idea how beautiful, yet unsettling a photograph could be…”

For additional information, contact Micaela @ (608) 262-2402 or msullivan@library.wisc.edu

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Our second author in the popular Authors@HSLC series… Join us for J Timothy Harrington, MD who will talk about the enlightening and engaging Great Health Care. March 8th, 2012: 12:00-1:00. Auditorium 1325.

Great Health Care is a must read for physicians, patients, health policymakers and administrators, and the interested public—anyone who wants to understand what great health care is, and how we might build it together. Dr Harrington and his co-authors explored how we got into this (health care) mess, how we can get out of it, and the barriers to making it happen.

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The spring semester’s Authors@HSLC series started off with a bang. Author David Finch, a funny, introspective writer, informed and entertained a full house with his telling of how his book, The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man’s Quest to Be a Better Husband, came to be. His life up to the point of learning that he had Apserger’s (not until he’d been married for 3 years), his dynamic relationship with his wife, Kristen, how he copes in a world that expects “normative social interactions, and how he mended his relationship with Kristen, might well be his story- but his tale resonated with anyone in the audience who has loved, wants to be loved, or cares about their loved ones. David told the audience that his book has especially resonated with readers who have Asperger’s (a syndrome with a very broad range of social aptitudes) and with the parents, friends and loved ones of those who are close to someone with Asperger’s. For anyone who missed this auspicious writer, see the IME video

Audience members also wondered where information could be found about local Asperger’s support groups.

Finally, the Ebling Library has copies for check out and HSLC’s UBS bookstore has copies for sale. Enjoy, it’s a compelling read…

Next up: J. Timothy Harrington and Great Health Care. March 8th. Auditiorium 1325, 12:00-1:00.

Photo: David signed books afterwards. Photo by Micaela Sullivan-Fowler

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Beginning the Authors @HSLC Spring series…join us for Author David Finch…February 23 –12:00-1:00 pm – 1325 HSLC
Finch talks about his book “The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man’s Quest to Be a Better Husband”(Scribner)
Five years after he married Kristen, the love of his life, they learn that he has Asperger syndrome. The diagnosis explains David’s ever-growing list of quirks and compulsions, his lifelong propensity to quack and otherwise melt down in social exchanges, and his clinical-strength inflexibility. Filled with humor and surprising wisdom, The Journal of Best Practices is a candid story of ruthless self-improvement, a unique window into living with an autism-spectrum condition, and proof that a true heart can conquer all.

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