Andersen Library (University of Wisconsin Whitewater)
The Harold Andersen Library is the university library of the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater. The building was named after Harold Gilbert Andersen, and ground breaking and construction for the building began on April 9, 1951.
Creation and Dedication
Andersen Library is the second oldest building on the University of Wisconsin- Whitewater campus, and was named in honor of Harold Gilbert Andersen. Andersen was the president of the First Citizens State Bank in Whitewater, Wisconsin, and represented the Whitewater State Teachers College on the Board of Regents from 1947 to 1960, as well as a 1917 graduate of Whitewater Normal School. Andersen was a main proprietor in convincing the Board of Regents to create a new building at Whitewater, and as a result Whitewater became the first college in the University of Wisconsin system to have a dedicated Library building.The ground breaking for the new $725,000 building began at April 9, 1951. On February 25, 1953, faculty and students manually carried 41,000 volumes into the new building. The original building now houses the Instructional, Communication and Information Technology offices, Andersen Computing Lab, and the Center for Students with Disabilities. The library is now located in the south wing of the building, which was built in 1966 and expanded in 1970. Further renovations were done in 1989 and 1995.
Functions and services
The Andersen Library provides resources and services for the students, faculty, and staff of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, including providing a variety of study spaces, equipment, scholarly resources, research instruction and assistance.Hours
Please consult the Andersen Library's official to confirm service hours and any exceptions to the hours listed below.| Fall and Spring Semesters | ||
| Monday-Thursday | 7:30 am | 2 am |
| Friday | 7:30 am | 6 pm |
| Saturday | 10 am | 6 pm |
| Sunday | 11 am | 2 am |
| Winterim | ||
| Monday-Wednesday | 7:30 am | 6 pm |
| Thursday-Friday | 7:30 am | 4:30 pm |
| Saturday | Closed | Closed |
| Sunday | 12 pm | 8 pm |
Circulation Services
The Circulation Department is responsible for day-to-day maintenance of the library's physical collections, check-out of the diverse items in the collections, enforcement of access policies, reservations of group study rooms, and managing course reserves and resource sharing services.Check-out of library materials is done at the Circulation Desk, which is located near the entrance/exit on the buildings' second floor. Check-out requires a current UW-Whitewater ID, while visiting patrons from other campuses of the University of Wisconsin system are allowed to use their current "home" ID. Residents who are not part of UW-Whitewater or the UW System may purchase a Community Borrower Card in order to check out materials.
Andersen Library provides UW-Whitewater students and staff with access to the materials of other libraries either from other UW schools or other libraries not associated with the UW system via ILLiad.
In addition, the library provides access to the wireless internet and a variety of equipment with the possibility of overnight check-out of laptops.
Equipment
There is a variety of equipment available at the Andersen Library available for anyone with a valid UWW ID. In order to check out items patrons must have a loan agreement on file and should not have an excessive amount of fines on their library account. All equipment provided is available on a first-come, first-served basis and items cannot be renewed or be reserved. In case the item consists of several parts, the item is only considered returned, if all parts have been returned.Overview of available Equipment:
- Cameras
- Computers
- Tablets & E-readers
- Video Game Equipment
- Adaptive Equipment
- DVD & VHS Equipment
- Miscellaneous Equipment
- Laptop Availability
Learning Spaces
1st Floor
The lower level of Andersen Library, accessible from within the library via stairs or elevator, contains Special Collections., microforms, bound periodicals, current periodicals, government documents, a library classroom, as well as two collaboratories. One of the collaboratories contains a SMARTBoard, the other has a large monitor. Both may be reserved through Circulation. Special Collections includes the university archives, campus records management, and public records from Jefferson, Rock, and Walworth counties (as part of the Area Research Center Network of the Wisconsin Historical Society. This is a quiet floor.2nd (Main) Floor
The main floor is the "talking floor" where group work, moderate conversation, listening to music, sound on computers, and respectful use of cell phones is allowed. A gaming room is available. The Veterans and Service Members Lounge and a campus police substation are located on 2nd floor.On this floor the library provides group study rooms, which are ideal for group projects or group work. They contain whiteboards and wall-mounted monitors.
The collections on 2nd floor include reference collection; current magazines and newspapers; graphic novels; children's books; PreK-12 textbooks and teaching tools; browsing collections of books, DVDs, audio books, CDs and video games; as well as an area dedicated to new items.
Students can also equipment such as power strips, dongles, webcams, video games, laptops, flip video cameras, iPads, Nexus 7s, calculators, headphones, video game consoles, kindles, and even umbrellas. There are strict restrictions on who can check out these items, as well as how long the items can be checked out.