Wisconsin's Water Library Launches New Web Site

Wisconsin’s Water Library is happy to announce the launch of its new web site at http://aqua.wisc.edu/waterlibrary .

This site provides one place for users to locate resources available for the Water Library. This site combines three earlier library sites—the original Water Resources Library site, a newer WWL site developed for Wisconsin’s Year of Water, and the Wisconsin’s Water Library for Kids.

The site is intended to extend the reach of the library’s services to residents across Wisconsin and offers new navigational tools to provide easier access to information. An important tool on the site is the “Recommendations” feature, which allows users to browse reading lists by topic, finding books and Web sites on frogs, fish, the Great Lakes, or water pollution. Any adult resident of Wisconsin can check out books online from the library and pick them up at their local public or university library. The site was constructed with the help of ASC staff members Tina Yao, Tom Dellinger, Rich Dellinger, Julia Cameron, and Jennifer Champoux.

A new Recent Acquisitions List for November 2008 is now available http://aqua.wisc.edu/waterlibrary/Default.aspx?tabid=87. Some new titles cover such topics as Climate Change, Ocean Science, and Invasive Species.

Check it out and let us know what your think. We’d love to hear from you--Anne Moser and Jennifer Champoux, Wisconsin’s Water Library staff

From Ask Water Resources 11/25/08