Congratulations Graduates! - Watch graduation here

Winona State University Fall 2008 Commencement takes place Friday, Dec. 12, in McCown Gymnasium, on the Winona campus.

The ceremony begins at 10:30 a.m. Doors open at 9:30 a.m.

The commencement ceremony can be viewed via live video streaming on the Web at: http://www.winona.edu/itv/stream/fall/.

The ceremony is also broadcast live over Hiawatha Broadband Communications (HBC) television channel 20 in Winona and in markets served by HBC.

HBC Cable will rebroadcast the Commencement ceremony at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 13-14, on channel 25.

Library Hours: Winter Break

Check out the Library's hours for the winter break 2008-2009.

http://www.winona.edu/library/about/hours.html#winter

Finals Student Study Break - Monday, December 8, 2008

Library Hours: Finals Weekend and Week

The Library is open extended hours on the Friday and Saturday before finals week (till 10:00pm each evening). Please see the Library's hours page for official hours.

http://www.winona.edu/library/about/hours.html#finals

Library Hours: Thanksgiving week

Check out our library hours and plan for your studies and research now.
Check the special hours at: Library hours

http://www.winona.edu/library/about/hours.html

11/19 Athenaeum at 1pm - Treasures of Three by Joyati Debnath

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 1:00 pm"Treasures of Three" by Joyati Debnath

Debnath is a WSU Professor of mathematics. She will discuss the following:
We count in ten’s (decimal system), computers count in two’s (binary system), but who counts in three’s (ternary system)? This presentation will focus on counting in threes – Treasures in Three. It has been found that the notion of counting in threes was already implicit in Hindu Vedas (1500 BC), making the idea to be very old. Thomas Fowler in 1840 constructed a wooden calculating ternary machine to ease his calculations as a treasurer. It just happens that in the numbering system, when the base 10 is too big and base 2 is too small, base 3 is just right. There are multiple uses of base-three systems. It is used in counting Islamic prayers, to denote fractional parts of an inning in baseball, and to understand the self-similar mathematical structures like Sierpinski Triangle or a Cantor set. In this presentation, there will be something interesting for students and faculty all across the campus.

The Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the WSU Library.

11/12 Athenaeum at 1pm - The Dhaka Slums by Cathy Jo Faruque and Tom Hill

Join us on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 1:00 pm for Cathy Jo Faruque and Tom Hill's presentation on "The Invisible People: Life in the Dhaka Slums".

Professor Faruque and Mr. Hill are working on a documentary featuring the lives of the Dhaka slum dwellers and the impact made by the services provided from the NGO-ARBAN. They will be discussing our work in the slums and provide a preview of the documentary

The Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the WSU Krueger Library, bluff side.

Fall 2008 Athenaeum schedule can be found at: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/

Library Hours - Veterans Day

The Darrell W. Krueger Library will be closed on Monday, November 10th, and will have shortened hours on Sunday, November 9th, 1:00pm-6:00pm. The library will be open regular hours on Saturday, November 8th, 10:00am-6:00pm.

Today! Election Information Display: Polling locations, registration and more

The WSU Library has an election information display located on the first floor of the Library. It will help you figure out questions like:

Where do I vote?
What do I need to register on election day?
Who are the candidates on your ballot?
Where can I research my candidates?

11/5 Athenaeum at 1pm - Eastern European Integration into the EU by Kathryn Ready

Join us on Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 1:00 pm for Kathryn Ready's presentation titled "Eastern European Integration into the EU."

Professor Ready will share her experiences and understanding of EU integration activities in Poland, Croatia, Czech Republic and Bulgaria. She has recently been on a study tour of businesses, universities and parliaments in the region (in May 2007) and will be going again in May 2008.

The Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the WSU Krueger Library, bluff side.

Fall 2008 Athenaeum schedule can be found at: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/

10/29 Athenaeum at 1pm - Taking the Devil Into Your Mouth - April Herndon

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 1:00 pm
"Taking the Devil Into Your Mouth: The Christian Weight Loss Movement Meets Mainstream American Weight Loss Narratives"by April Herndon

This talk examines narratives of the U.S. Christian weight loss movement alongside secular U.S. weight loss narratives and explores how these two movements express similar themes. In particular, the talk investigates shared themes of sin, the impurity of the body, the body as a temple for the self—a temple that can be defiled—salvation, and the need to prove that one is saved or at least trying to be saved. By examining stories from individuals who have lost weight, this paper explores how a “spiritual hunger” (essentially unrelated to physiology but that suggests personal pathology and responsibility) is central to mainstream stories of weight loss.

The fall 2008 schedule can be found at: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/The Library Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the WSU Library.

10/22 Athenaeum at 1pm - Understanding Muslim and Islamic Culture by Ahmed El-Afandi

Join us on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 1:00 pm for a presentation by Ahmed El-Afandi titled "Understanding Muslim and Islamic Culture."

Emeritus Professor El-Afandi (Political Science), who was a founding member of the Winona Islamic Center, will discuss Muslim and Islamic cultures to help foster a better understanding of significant cultural differences and similarities between Muslim and non-Muslim beliefs.

The fall 2008 schedule can be found at: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/

The Library Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the WSU Library.

10/15 Athenaeum at 1pm - Costa Rica's Environmental Movement - by Downs and Hawkins

Join us Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 1:00 pm for this week's Athenaeum. Darrell Downs and Tex Hawkins will present "Costa Rica's Environmental Movement - Round Two."

Professor Downs (Political Science) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife biologist Tex Hawkins will discuss their perspectives on Costa Rica's "Peace with Nature" initiative. Their remarks will be based upon interviews with political leaders and conservation advocates in Costa Rica. Downs and Hawkins will also discuss the Costa Rica travel-study course on environmental policy they led in May of 2008.

The Athenaeum Schedule can be found at: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/

10/8 Athenaeum at 1pm - Why I Read and Write Poetry by Orv Lund

Join us on Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 1:00 pm for Orv Lund's presentation on "Why I Read and Write Poetry." Emeritus Professor Lund (English) discusses the importance of poetry in his personal life and professional life as a scholar/professor.

Then Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the WSU Krueger Library.

The fall 2008 Athenaeum schedule can be found at: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/

10/1 Athenaeum at 1pm - The Inclusive Excellence Initiative at WSU by Hines and Ripley

Join us Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 1:00 pm for the Athenaeum titled "The Inclusive Excellence Initiative at WSU" by Alex Hines and Chuck Ripley.

Mr. Hines and Professor Ripley will explain the WSU Inclusive Excellence Initiative and the scholarly research behind it.

For the full Athenaeum schedule please go to: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/ The Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the WSU Krueger Library (the bluff side).

9/24 Athenaeum at 1pm - Degooglization by Allison Quam

Join us on Wednesday (9/24) at 1pm for Allison Quam's presentation on "De-Googlization: Where to Begin?"

Allison Quam will explore how Google has influenced our assumptions about research, its influence on the dissemination of information, and its monopoly on the web. Also, explore whether citizens should trust a billionaire dollar company that includes in its philosophy, “You can make money without doing evil.”

For the full Athenaeum schedule please go to: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/ The Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the WSU Krueger Library (the bluff side).

9/17, 2:30p Student Study Break & Voter Registration Campaign

At 2:30pm today the library will host a student study break on the first floor of the library. Also, representatives from the WSU Student Senate will be available to answer questions about voter registration.

For information about voting in the upcoming general election, Tuesday, November 4, for voter registration, and for information about the candidates, please visit the following: http://www.winona.edu/library/eref/vote.html

If you haven't registered to vote, the WSU Student Senate has voter registration cards, or you can download a form.

9/17 Constitution Day at WSU

The American Democracy Project is hosting the large sized images and the reading of Constitution of the United States in the WSU Library rotunda.

Please contact Kara Lindamin (klindamin@winona.edu) for more information or about the American Democracy Project at WSU.

9/17 Athenaeum at 1pm - From Winona to Argentina by Vanessa Fernandez-Greene

Join us for Vanessa Fernandez-Greene's presentation "From Winona to Argentina at the Turn of the Century: Women Who Changed Education in the Americas."

Professor Fernandez-Greene will talk about several female graduates from the Normal School who traveled to Argentina between the late 19th century and the beginning of the 20th to teach in the “wilds” of Argentina. Some actually founded Normal Schools in Argentina and had a profound impact on the educational there that continues to this day.

For the full Athenaeum schedule please go to: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/
The Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the WSU Krueger Library (the bluff side).

Want to know how to register to vote?

For information about voting in the upcoming general election, Tuesday, November 4, for voter registration, and for information about the candidates, please visit the following: http://www.winona.edu/library/eref/vote.html

If you haven't registered to vote, the WSU Student Senate has voter registration cards or you can download a form.

9/10 Athenaeum at 1pm - Emilio DeGrazia and Intellectual Honesty

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 1:00 pm
The fall 2008 first Library Athenaeum presentation is titled "Intellectual Honesty"by Emilio DeGrazia, Emeritus Professor DeGrazia (English). He will discuss intellectual honesty as a core value in the university. Intellectual honesty is assummed to be operative in the university, but what is it? How is it discussed? How is it taught? Is it under threat? And what forms does "intellectual dishonesty" take?

The Athenaeum is located in the Darrell W. Krueger Library, second floor, bluff side.

For the full Library Athenaeum Schedule please visit: http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/

8/21 Where is my class? WSU Building Abbreviations

WSU Campus Map
http://www.winona.edu/parking/2843.htm

WSU Building Abbreviations:
GI: Gildemeister Hall
HO: Howell Hall
LO: Lourdes (West Campus)
MA: Maxwel Hall
ME: Memorial Hall
MI: Minne Hall
MR: Maria (West Campus)
NL: Darrell W. Krueger Library (New Library)
PA: Pasteur Hall
PC: Performing Arts Center (PAC)
PH: Phelps Hall
SL: Science Lab Building
SO: Somsen Hall
ST: Stark Hall
WA: Watkins Hall

8/14 Library Athenaeum Series - Fall 2008 Schedule

The fall 2008 schedule for the Athenaeum lecture and event series is now available online. Check out the great events we have and plan on joining us for a few or all events, which are on Wednesdays at 1:00pm. The Athenaeum is located on the second floor of the Library, with the amazing view of the bluffs.

http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/

8/12 Information for New Faculty - Web Page

Information for New Faculty - A Customized Web Page

This web page highlights information about library services for new faculty.
http://www.winona.edu/library/guides/informationfornewfaculty.html
We hope that this page will get you up to speed on some of the basic services and resources you will need in the first few months of the semester.

For more extensive information, the Library also provides a web page for returning faculty and staff information. http://www.winona.edu/library/guides/informationforfaculty.html

This link is located on the left hand side of the Library's homepage at:
http://www.winona.edu/library/

8/5 Welcome! New Dean of the Library -- Thomas Bremer

Thomas Bremer joined the WSU Library as its new Dean in July 2008. Please help us in welcoming Dean Bremer to the WSU community.

Contact information for Tom Bremer:
http://www.winona.edu/library/about/personnel.html#thomas

6/2 Interlibrary Loan Forms Change this Week

Interlibrary Loan Forms Change this Week

Due to a system upgrade in the WSU Library’s software, the forms you use to fill out interlibrary loan requests will change on Monday, June 2, 2008.

What is the major difference? The new forms will have you, the patron, fill in your ID barcode number and password before seeing the rest of the form. They will be laid out slightly differently, and they will have a default value for the “Not needed after?” date. For articles, you will need to scroll to the bottom of the form in order to check the copyright box.

We will cut over to the new forms on Monday, June 2, 2008.

For the weekend of May 31, we are continuing to use the old forms, but the Interlibrary Loan system is down, so the requests you submit during this time will be collected by the Access Services staff and loaded into the Interlibrary Loan system when it comes up on Monday.

Access Services Department: http://www.winona.edu/library/services/ill.html

5/12 Summer Library Hours

The Library's summer hours can be found at this web page:
http://www.winona.edu/library/about/hours.html

For research assistance please contact a librarian on duty between 9:00am and 5:00pm in May and between 9:00am and 9:00pm in June and July.

150 Best Minnesota Books: A blog by MHS

The Minnesota Historical Society librarians are blogging about the top 150 books of Minnesota. Check it out and learn from those that collect, preserve and use them.
http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/?cat=72

Celebrate Minnesota's 150 Anniversary: MN Historical Society's site

Minnesota's 150 Anniversary: Check out the Minnesota Historical Society's (MHS) site: http://www.mnhs.org/exhibits/mn150/
Learn about MHS's Minnesota 150 years exhibit, wiki and other resources.

And the Minnesota Sequicentennial Committee site for events: http://www.mn150years.org/

4/28 at 2pm Free Rootbeer Floats for all!

Stop into the Library rotunda area at 2pm Monday (4/28) for free rootbeer floats. Special appearances by ice cream scoopers Allison Quam, Brian Ohm and Russ Dennison. They'll scoop and serve floats till the rootbeers gone.

4/16 Athenaeum at 1pm Jim Armstrong -the Meaning of the Book in My Life

On Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 1:00pm

Celebration of the Book Series Awards

Jim Armstrong - Winona Poet Laureate and Professor, English
The Celebration of the Book Lecture Series presents Winona's Poet Laurate. He will speak about the meaning of the book in his life.

The WSU student essay contest awards will be presented before Jim's presentation.
Website for the Celebration of the Book Lecture/Event Series

4/9 Athenaeum at 1pm - The Compositional Process -- Libby Larsen

Join us in the PAC Recital Hall this Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 1:00pm for an Athenaeum presentation about The Compositional Process by Libby Larsen. NOTE: Location is the Recital Hall, PAC.

Libby Larsen is "one of America's most performed living composers. She is a created a catalogue of over 220 works spanning virtually every genre from intimate vocal and chamber music to massive orchestral and choral scores." Her work is Grammy award winning and widely recorded, including over 50 CDs. Ms. Larsen will describe the compositional process especially as it applies to the piece she is writing for the Winona Symphony Orchestra for performance on April 18, 2008.

Website for Libby Larson

This event is co-sponsored and organized by the WSU Music Department.

4/2 Athenaeum at 1pm - Winona State University Scrapbook 1858-2008: Celebrating 150 years

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 1:00pm

Winona State University Scrapbook 1858-2008: Celebrating 150 years
Presentation by: Nancy Peterson, Rill Reuter, and Beth Halleck

Winona State University Scrapbook 1858-2008: Celebrating 150 Years was published in early 2008 as part of the sesquicentennial. In this forum Peterson and Reuter will discuss how pictures were chosen for inclusion in the book and how those selections dictated what text was included. Sesquicentennial Coordinator Beth Halleck will explain the book’s scrapbook concept and discuss working with the publisher. Examples of representative and interesting pictures will be shown.

3/26 Athenaeum at 1pm - The Sordid Past of the Piano Recital by Deanne Mohr

Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 1:00pm

The Sordid Past of the Piano Recital: A Brief and History and Personal Reflections
Deanne Mohr a WSU Professor of Music will present on the history of the piano recital as a performance vehicle and reflection on my own experience in programming repertoire, preparing for a recital and performing as a solo pianist. Performance of works by Frank Martin and Cesar Franck.

3/19 Athenaeum at 1pm - Dusty Archives & Fond Memories: A WSU Sesquicentennial History by Peter Henderson

On Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 1:00pm Peter Henderson, WSU Professor of History will present Dusty Archives & Fond Memories: A WSU Sesquicentennial History. This event is co-sponsored by the WSU Celebration of the Book Series.

Please join us at 12:45 for a piano recital by WSU Music major Kate Hujda.

3/12 Athenaeum at 1pm - Culture Shock and Political Correctness by Juan Fernandez Iglesias

On Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 1:00pm Juan Fernandez Iglesias, WSU Professor of Foreign Languages, will present Culture Shock and Political Correctness: The Challenge of Teaching Foreign Cultures in America.

Culture is often perceived as something that, well, other cultures have. Think, for example, of the French, with their “peculiar” culinary and social eccentricities. We, on the other hand, (whomever that “we” may be in any particular instance) tend to behave and interact with each other and interpret the world around us following the sometimes vague but generally accepted rules of what could be described as “common sense.” This stance makes us look at other cultures as literally eccentric, that is, out of center, not normal. Since they behave differently than us, and our behavior is determined by common sense, then their behavior has to be motivated by something else, something strange. When two cultures interact, this clashing of two different systems of “common sense” results in what has come to be known as “culture shock,” the seed of stereotypes and ultimately of ethnic and cultural chauvinism.

Spring Break! - Library Hours

The Krueger Library will be closed:
Saturday & Sunday, March 1 & March 2

The Krueger Library will be open:
Monday, March 3 through Friday, March 7 - 7:30am-5:00pm

The Krueger Library will be closed:
Saturday, March 8

The Krueger Library will resume regular hours on Sunday, March 9th, starting at 1pm and closing at 2:00am

For more information about hours, please visit the Library's Hours web page.

2/20 Athenaeum at 1pm - Open Educational Resources: Are They Right for WSU? By Jim Reineke

On Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 1:00pm Jim Reineke, Professor of Education, will present Open Educational Resources: Are They Right for WSU?

Reineke will provide an overview of open educational resources issues of copyright, and intellectual property associated with open educational resources. He will review OER websites including MIT's open courseware, Notre Dame's OER Commons, and WSU's pilot educommons site. This presentation will concluded with a call for WSU Departments to participate in the open educational resources movement by adding their instructional materials to the WSU educommons site.

Tax Forms! Get a jump start on your refund

Tax Forms! Get a jump start on your refund

Online access is available for tax forms:http://www.winona.edu/library/gov/govtaxes.html

2/13 Athenaeum at 1pm - Basics of Modern Art: Impressionism and Moving Through Post-Modernism by Vittorio Colaizzi

Basics of Modern Art: Impressionism and Moving through Post-Modernism

At 1pm February 1, Vittorio Colaizzi, WSU Professor of Art, will discuss the emergence and development of non-representation in Western art by starting with Impressionism and moving through Post-Modernism. He will suggest ways for the non-specialist to understand and enjoy abstraction. These include the growing desire for art's autonomous existence, the application of different standards than fidelity to likeness, and the comparison of different works of non-representational art, to emphasize the concept that art is a conversation conducted throughout history.

2/06 Athenaeum at 2pm - For the Love of Cricket - by Santosh Chandrabalan

At 2pm (note time), Santhosh Chandrabalan- WSU Student, Composite Engineering ,will talk about All Things Cricket: The Sport and Life.

What is cricket? How is it played? And what does it mean in the life of a WSU student? This presentation will provide an introduction to the sport of cricket and Chandrabalan will be open for questions about the game and cricket at WSU.

Please join us on the second floor of the library. For further information about the Library Athenaeum, please visit the following:http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/

01/30 Athenaeum at 1pm - Corruption and the Campaign Finance System - Kurt Hohenstein

When: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 1:00pm
Event: Corruption and the Campaign Finance System
Presenter: Kurt Hohenstein - Professor, History

Hohenstein will talk about the history and evolution of the American campaign finance system with emphasis on the current presidential campaign. He will also discuss his new book Coining Corruption: The Making of the American Campaign Finance System (Northern Illinois University Press, 2007).

Please join us on the second floor of the library. For further information about the Library Athenaeum, please visit the following:
http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/

01/23 Athenaeum at 1pm - Classical Music and the Crass and Ignorant World of Rock and Roll - Paul Vance

Title: Classical Music and the Crass and Ignorant World of Rock and Roll

Presenter: Paul Vance - Professor, Music

This presentation will attempt to show parallel compositional procedures in "classical" music and rock and roll, especially in the music of the Beach Boys.

Please join us on the second floor of the library for the first Athenaeum event of the Spring Semester.

http://www.winona.edu/library/athenaeum/

Library Hours for Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday - Starting Sunday

The Krueger Library will be open from 1:00pm to 6:00pm on Sunday, January 20th.

The Krueger Library will be closed on Monday, January 21st in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday.

For more information about library closings and hours, please visit the following:
http://www.winona.edu/library/about/hours.html#closings

Tax Forms! Get a jump start on your refund

Online access is available for tax forms:
http://www.winona.edu/library/gov/govtaxes.html