New in Browsing - Book by UWM Graduate and former Special Collections Staffer

The Tattooed Lady: A History





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- 11:16 AM

Film Studies Resources from the UK

"intute is a free online service that helps you to find the best web resources for your studies and research"  Intute is maintained by a consortium of seven British universities, including Oxford, and their partners.  According to the site's sponsors, "With millions of resources available on the Internet, it can be difficult to find useful material. Our subject specialists review and evaluate thousands of resources to help you choose the key websites in your subject." Communication and Media Studies, which includes film, animation, and broadcasting, is just one of the many areas analyzed by the subject specialists.
- 10:27 AM

New in the Media Library Browsing Collection

The book-publishing season is in full swing, which means the Browsing Collection shelves are filled with new books.   The Media staff felt the following titles were particularly noteworthy:

Angel Time (Anne Rice)     Preview selected pages
The Atlantic Century ( Kenneth Weisbrode)     More information about this book
Ayn Rand and the World She Made (Anne C. Heller)    More information
The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism (Nicholas Fox Weber)  More information about this book
Chronic City (Jonathan Lethem)   Preview selected pages  
Invisible (Paul Auster)    Preview selected pages
Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King (Brad Matsen)   More information
Last Night in Twisted River (John Irving)   Preview selected pages
Look at the Birdie (Kurt Vonnegut)   Preview selected pages
Louisa May Alcott. The Woman Behind Little Women (Harriet Reisen)  More information about this book
No Time to Wave Goodbye (Jaquelyn Mitchard) Preview selected pages
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall (Kazuo Ishiguro)  Preview selected pages
The Pattern in the Carpet (Margaret Drabble)   Preview selected pages
Stylized (Mark Garvey)  Preview selected pages 
Who was Jacques Derrida: An Intellectual Biography  (David Mikics)  Preview selected pages
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto (Stewart Brand)   More information
You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas  (Augusten Burroughs)   Preview selected pages

For a complete list of new browsing books see:  Browsing Collection 
- 10:00 AM

L'âge de la mort du chien: Three Free Films By Luis Buñuel

"The Auteurs is now showing 3 films by Spanish surrealist Luis Buñuel for FREE in the US to celebrate the release of the beautiful remastering of the filmmaker’s unheralded 1956 French/Mexican co-production Death in the Garden, shot in gorgeous Eastmancolor and starring Michel Piccoli, Simone Signoret, and Charles Vanel.

Death in the Garden and two classic Buñuel films from his earlier and most vividly surreal period, Un chien andalou (1929) and L’âge d’or (1930) are available to watch for free in the US. The Auteurs is presenting the 1956 film alongside more renowned films made before and after to put it on the context of his career."
- 2:22 PM

New Equipment in the Media Library Microtext Research Collection

- 9:36 AM

Media Library Film Display Coincides with the LGBT Film/Video Festival

- 1:15 PM

Flip Camcorders, Calculators, and Webcams Ready for Checkout in the Media Library

- 2:37 PM

New in the Media Library DVD Collection - Chinese Classic Animation: The Te Wei Collection.

Te Wei, born in Shanghai in 1915, began his career as a cartoonist, but quickly developed an interest in animation. He went on to devote his life and career to making "Chinese animation reflective of Chinese customs, tales and techniques." He was inspired by traditional ink and water drawings, landscape paintings, Peking opera and ancient folktales to create beautiful and uniquely Chinese films. Although he was prevented from working during the Cultural Revolution, he and his work are now considered national treasures. To honor Te Wei's 90th birthday in 2005, the Shanghai Animation Film Studio released this two-disc set featuring five beloved films, including Where is Mamma or Tadpoles in Search of Their Mom, ". . . a homage to the water-color paintings of Qui BaiShi."
- 3:59 PM

New Cameras Available for Check Out

The Canon FS 22 is a dual flash memory camcorder with 32 GB internal memory and 48x advanced zoom.  Movies and photos can also be saved to a commercially available SD or SDHC memory card, which is not included with the camera. The maximum recording time is 11 hr. 5 min. with SP and 20 hr. 50 min. with LP. An optional tripod is also available. Students and staff with a current UWM ID can check out a camera for two days, without the option of renewal. Detailed information is available on the Media Library web page.

- 11:51 AM

How Historians-in-Training Use the Media Library Microform Research Collections

Students in Prof. Margo Anderson's senior capstone history seminar, Incarcerated: Japanese Americans in World War II, use many library resources during the semester they spend researching and writing ". . . a piece of history." One heavily used primary source is the 35-reel microfilm set Papers of the U.S. Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Part 1, Numerical File Archive. This Commission was created in 1980 and charged with reviewing facts surrounding the 1942 Executive Order 9066 ". . . authorizing the War Department to evacuate and incarcerate civilians 'as a protection against espionage and against sabotage.'" Thousands of written documents accumulated during the Commission's tenure have been collected from archives and libraries across the country and preserved for scholars in this valuable microfilm collection.Primary Sources in the UW-Milwaukee Microform Collection provides more information about this and other research collections.
- 11:44 AM