Past News - 2012
News
New Display Cases
Polk Library has two new exhibit cases for promotion of student organizations and University programs. The inside of the lit cases measure 4’ 8’’ wide x 21’’ deep x 3’ high. They are backed in cork for easy pinning of paper and light o... read more...
Historical Advance Titans now Online
Polk Library has partnered with NewspaperArchive to make historical campus news available online. Now, more than 110 years of content from the Advance and Advance-Titan newspapers can be easily searched with keywords and dates. University Archivist, Joshua Ranger, sees plenty of academic... read more...
All Night Study - December 2012
New War History DB
Polk Library has added a new trial to its database collection: The First World War - Personal Experiences. It consists largely of primary source material (letters, diaries, etc) of men and women who experienced the "Great War" firsthand. The trial will last until 12/28/12. Con... read more...
Polk Library's Fall 2012 Newsletter
Polk is Golden! Read all about it in the library's Fall newsletter: http://www.uwosh.edu/library/newsletter/fall-2012 read more...
1940 Census Data Released
by: Kim Parsons, Communications Intern On April 2 nd , the 1940 manuscript census was released for the first time by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). These records are different than the statistical information that Americans are familiar with that is released soon afte... read more...
Newly Renovated Leisure Reading Room
by: Kim Parsons, Communications Intern For those of you brave enough to venture to the second floor of Polk Library you may have noticed the newly renovated Leisure Reading Room. The Leisure Reading Room, which was created in 1978, is a comfortable space that offers a collection of books to g... read more...
NEW ERA Library Card
by: Kimberly Parsons, Library Communications Assistant Since opening in 1962, Polk Library has strived to serve the Oshkosh and regional community in addition to its main mission as a resource for students, faculty and staff. A change within Polk’s policy has kept this possible, but... read more...
Polk Book Sale=Success
by: Kimberly Parsons, Communications Intern On Tuesday, April 10 and Wednesday, April 11 Polk Library held its annual book sale. The sale, which has been going on for eight years, attracts many people from the university and also the Oshkosh community. Signs outside of Polk lead visitors to t... read more...
Films on Demand adds TED Talk videos to streaming video service.
Polk Library's licensed Films on Demand service now has TEDTalks! You'll find more than 200 new TEDTalks this month, with hundreds more added by the end of the year. read more...
