Friday, November 23, 2007
Got Leftovers?
Take advantage of Steenbock Library’s cookbook collection to find a few recipes for tasteful reinvention.
The cookbook collection is shelved in the stacks and vertical files
(filing cabinets) on the first floor of the library. The collection
includes titles that reflect various historic and cultural periods as
well as contemporary food topics, trends and international flavors.
A sampling of a few cookbooks featuring “leftovers” follows below:
Title: The Camden connection cook book : a collection of kitchen tested recipes featuring luscious leftovers and creative desserts, submitted by residents of midcoast Maine to help pay for a children's room at the Camden Public Library.
Publisher: Camden, ME : Cricketfield Press, c1989.
Location: Steenbock Stacks -1st Floor
Catalog: UW Madison
Call Number: TX715 .C34 1989
Author: Wooding, Loyta
Title: Leftovers cookbook
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, 1972
Location: Steenbock Library Vertical File
Catalog: UW Madison
Call Number: VF (Budget)
Author: Field, Michael, 1915-1971.
Title: Culinary classics and improvisations. Illus. by Mozelle Thompson.
Publisher: New York, Knopf, 1967.
Location: Steenbock Stacks -1st Floor
Catalog: UW Madison
Call Number: TX725.A1 F48 1967
Author: Brunner, Lousene Rousseau.
Title: Magic with leftovers. Illustrated by Paul Callé.
Publisher: New York, Harper [1955]
Location: Steenbock Stacks -1st Floor
Catalog: UW Madison
Call Number: TX740 B73
Author: Berolzheimer, Ruth
Title: 500 Delicious dishes from leftovers
Publisher: Culinary Arts Institute, 1950
Location: Steenbock Library Vertical File
Catalog: UW Madison
Call Number: VF (General)
Author: Newman, Clare.
Title: A cook book of leftovers, by Clare Newman and Bell Wiley [pseud.]
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and company, 1941.
Location: Steenbock Stacks -1st Floor
Catalog: UW Madison
Call Number: TX715 N566
Consult with librarians at the reference desk to find other cookbook themes.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Breaking News in Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine
Direct reprogramming of human skin cells may lend itself to myriad medical applications in a potentially less controversial manner than the use of embryonic stem cells.
Two journals, Cell and Science are reporting the findings from two research teams, one led by Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University and the other led by Junying Yu of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
News articles:
UW-Madison News: http://www.news.wisc.edu/14474
Monday, November 19, 2007
Organize your e-life! Try iGoogle
Google now offers iGoogle, a free interactive Web personalization tool that allows you to individualize a Web page to meet your needs with a number of useful applications.
Applications range from finance and technology to lifestyle and entertainment. iGoogle makes Web browsing simple by organizing your favorite Web sites into one Web page that you can thoroughly navigate. Users can watch their favorite YouTube videos, listen to music or enjoy live streaming television. iGoogle also provides a variety of news, weather and resource applications (Wikipedia, Dictionary, etc.). To create your own iGoogle homepage, click here (http://www.google.com/ig).
Applications include:
--Live streaming TV
--Wikipedia, dictionary, thesaurus
--To do list
--Live weather
--Google map search
--YouTube video search
--ESPN news
--Financial tips
--Daily news from a variety of newspapers
Other customizable Web portal products include netvibes and Pageflakes, among others.
Do you use iGoogle or another product? What are your favorite applications? Reply to this blog post to tell us more.
With thanks to ISIP intern, Jacob M, for this blog post.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Off-Campus Access
Will you be leaving campus during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend or during the winter break? If so, did you know that UW-Madison students, faculty and staff have off-campus access to library databases and full-text resources?
Stay productive and continue your pursuit of information. Select the resource you need to use from the Library system’s homepage. Licensed resources will prompt you to log in with your campus NetId. In some instances, alternatively and apart from NetId, you may still be asked to submit your University ID number and last name as a password. Once you have entered either of these two pieces of identifying information, you will be able to use the resource as if you were on campus.
Consult the Libraries’ off-campus access page for more information or assistance.
Monday, November 12, 2007
Software Training for Students

Classes offered this week (November 12-16) include Word, Excel, and Access.
Class information can be found at http://www.doit.wisc.edu/training/student/. Create a user profile to enroll in classes and to access class manuals and files.
Individual help from software trainers is also available in a variety of ways including instant messaging, phone, E-mail or in person at the Open Book Café located on the first floor of College library.
With thanks to ISIP intern Jacob M for this blog post.