Tuesday, February 26, 2008

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.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

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.

Thursday, February 7, 2008

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.

Saturday, February 2, 2008

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/