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The college Personal Counseling Services Office has created a post-election empowerment plan.

This is a worksheet designed to help you stay involved in the issues that are important to you.  Our civic duty does not stop at the ballot box, and the impact of elections does not end once the outcome is certified.

This plan can also help you navigate your feelings about the election and the issues involved, as well as empower you to develop strategies to support and care for your community as well yourself.  Download a copy from the link below.

• Post-election empowerment plan [PDF]

If you need further support, don't hesitate to reach out to the Personal Counseling Services office here on campus.

• 608-663-4148
• PCSNotifications@edgewood.edu

From Jonathan Bloy, Librarian - Head of Digital Initiatives

Do you have questions about using generative AI tools like ChatGPT in your college work?  Try our new student guide for using artificial intelligence.  This resource can help you with: 

• Deciding if it's appropriate to use an AI tool
• Evaluating content that AI tools create
• Citing work that was created by AI
• Understanding the ethics of using AI
• Creating successful AI prompts
• Finding links to various AI tools that are available

You'll find links to Artificial Intelligence: A Student Guide in our Research Guides under the subject areas, General & Interdisciplinary and Computer & Information Science.

The election coming up on Tuesday, November 5 is on the minds of many of us these days.  Are you registered to vote?  Have questions about the election?

If you live on campus

Your polling place is:

Society Of Friends, Community Room
1704 Roberts Ct, Madison, WI 53711
(in the neighborhood behind Trader Joe's)
Get Directions

Hours for voting are 7am until 8pm. The college is providing transportation to this polling place on election day. Check with the Office of Student Involvement for more info.

Early voting is happening on the Edgewood Campus (in Wingra Commons) October 28 through November 1.

If you're not registered to vote, you can do so on election day, or at early voting.

What's on the ballot?

• U.S. President
• U.S. Senator
• U.S. Congressional Representative
• State Senator
• State Assembly
• Dane County Executive, and other county races
• Several referenda from the State, City, and local school district.

You can check your voter registration and see a sample ballot at MyVote Wisconsin.

Information on the election and the candidates can be found on our Elections & Voting research guide, and also by searching the local news links on our Local Interest research guide.

Your voice is important.  Please Vote!

from Bonita Dickman, Librarian & Head of E-Resources and Automation Systems

Even though summer seems to be hanging around for an extended stay this year, we can move into October with the promise of crisp autumn days ahead. Consider taking a break from studying to welcome the season with one of our spooky selections and your favorite warm beverage.

Titles with an asterisk * are available as ebooks or audiobooks via Libby.  

Horror & Suspense

Do What Godmother Says by L.S. Stratton
Middle of the Night by Riley Sager
Lone Women by Victor LaValle
The Honeys by Ryan La Sala

Cozy British Murder

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman *
A Most Agreeable Murder by Julia Seales
The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray *
Miss Morton and the English House Party Murder by Catherine Lloyd

Mystery

Too Close to Home by Brenda Chapman *
Velvet was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia *
The Fury by Alex Michaelides *
Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak

Supernatural & Paranormal

The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo *
Bride by Ali Hazelwood *
The Book of Love by Kelly Link *
Book of Night by Holly Black

From Andrew Holbrook, Operations and Archives Librarian

Pencils, pens, and puzzles. Coffee mugs and candies. Even a yo-yo.

In honor of the recent Homecoming festivities, the library is pleased to present “Always an Eagle: Alumni Memorabilia from the Edgewood College Archives.”

When you graduate, most of what you’ll take with you will be your friendships and memories plus the knowledge and experiences gained from courses and extracurriculars. But maybe there will be a keepsake as well, some small item to serve as a reminder of your time on campus. Each object in our display does just that. From buttons to bumper stickers, they tell the stories of the Eagles who came before us.

“Always an Eagle” is located on the first floor of the library. When you come through the main entrance, turn left at the book display, head toward the Learning Lab, and look for our exhibit case along the wall.

Back in June, we put a prompt on the large library whiteboard to find out what the Edgewood community is reading. We got a lot of responses! So many that we decided to create a book display from titles that were shared. Stop by and check one out today.

Here's the list of books that were written down.

• What the Robin Knows by Jon Young
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by by Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond
• The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen
• The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
• The Magician by Michael Scott
• 11/22/63 by Stephen King
• Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
• Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton
• A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
• Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
• A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
• The Women by Kristin Hannah
• Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams
• Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi
• If Only I Had Told Her by Laura Nowlin
• Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Spawn by Todd McFarlane
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelide
• You're Not Old Until You're Ninety: Best to Be Prepared, However by Rebecca Latimer

Unfortunately we don't own every one of these titles, but you can check the Library Catalog for print books, Libby for ebooks, or you can request any of these through Oscar Express.

The library is now open for our regular semester hours.

• Monday through Thursday: 7:30am to 11pm
• Friday: 7:30am to 5pm
• Saturday: 12 noon to 4pm
• Sunday: 4pm to 11pm

The Writing Center will be open

• Monday & Tuesday: 10am to 5pm
• Wednesday: 10am to 8pm
• Thursday & Friday: 10am to 5pm
• Sunday: 5pm to 8pm

The Learning Lab will be open

• Monday through Thursday: 10am to 5pm
• Friday: 10am to 3pm
• Sunday: 5pm to 8pm

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The library will be closed on Wednesday, August 21 for College Assembly (along with all other college offices), to help us prepare for the new school year.

We're eager for the fall semester to start!  Just as these students were at their orientation in 1960.

Freshmen Orientation, 1960

From Jonathan Bloy, Librarian - Head of Digital Initiatives

The 2024 edition of Lost/Found, the student creative arts journal, is now available online. You can browse the 2024 edition, as well as previous student arts publications in our Edgewood College Creative Arts Journals collection.

The Edgewood College Creative Arts Journals collection features digitized copies of the various literary and creative arts magazines published at Edgewood College.  These magazines contain fiction, non-fiction, and poetry written by Edgewood College students, as well as student-created photographs, digital art, paintings, and other artistic work.  The collection includes the following journals:

• 2020 - 2024 (Lost/Found)
• 2007 - 2019 (Edgewood Review)
• 1990 - 2006 (The Cerebral Café)
• 1984 - 1986 (Portraits, Odyssey, Left of Center)
• 1962 - 1969 (Signature)
• 1932 - 1943 (The Conifer, Vignettes)