| Murphy Library offers a safe and enduring
repository for published and unpublished content created at UW-L. Through a
portal to UW System’s MINDS@UW, Murphy Library wishes to collaborate with
faculty, staff, and students to provide permanent, broad access to their
materials in any format. Content may include commercially published articles
(institutional self-archiving is often allowed by commercial publishers),
pre-prints, teaching materials, datasets, photographs, videos, learning objects,
newsletters, annual reports, theses, seminar papers, honors papers, Journal of
Undergraduate Research, student projects, posters, guest lectures, conference
papers, or other pieces of intellectual property produced by students, staff,
and faculty of the University.
Through this UW-L institutional repository, UW-L's combined intellectual
output can be made visible not only to the rest of the university but to a
worldwide audience. It also serves as an online archive of university material,
permanently storing and preserving content in a technologically safe and
continuously updated environment. For example, in addition to regular backups,
content is migrated to keep it viable as technology changes, such as with later
versions of Microsoft Word and other Office products, Adobe’s PDF, etc.
We would like answer your questions about how you could use
MINDS@UW with your published or unpublished
material. If you have any questions or if you are interested in participating in
the project, please contact: William Doering, Murphy Library,
doering.will@uwlax.edu.
Thus far, Murphy Library has a mounted the annual reports and course
schedules from the UWL Office of Continuing Education and Extension and is
testing a space for the deposit of UWL theses. Take a look: (http://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/81.
William Doering,
Integrated Systems/Cataloging Librarian
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March
19 was the opening day for Murphy’s Mug, the library’s new café. It is already
proving to be very popular. Like the Collaborative Learning Information Commons
(CLIC Lab) created when the first floor was remodeled last summer, Murphy’s Mug
is designed to be an intellectual, communal space. Students, faculty, and staff
can collaborate on projects, discuss what they have been reading, talk about the
issues of the day, and socialize. The café features a variety of seating and
comfortable lounge furniture for a casual, relaxed atmosphere. The menu includes
Caribou coffee, including fair trade and certified organic coffee choices, and
an assortment of sandwiches, soups, salads, snacks, and pastries perfect for a
light lunch or break (check the
The
Endowment and Recognition Committee is pleased to announce the 2007 Murphy
Library Award winner, D. Timothy (Tim) Gerber, Associate Professor of Biology.
Area
educators are invited to the
Murphy
Library will be highlighting its children’s book collection on Wednesday, April
25th when it presents a program
Public
policy that is designed to discourage smoking is on the rise. Government may
make cigarettes expensive via taxation, make them unavailable to children, or
establish limits on cigarette advertising. Local communities, including both the
City of La Crosse and La Crosse County, have established ordinances limiting the
rights to smoke in public places. Both La Crosse County and the State of
Wisconsin have recently considered banning smoking in all public places, and
this is a trend across the country.
August
Moon by Michael Blaser