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Ask Bucky

Do you have questions? Ask Bucky has answers! Ask Bucky is a service provided by the Campus Information and Visitor Center — your one-stop shop for information about the UW–Madison campus and surrounding community, and your centralized source for off-campus housing listings. E-mail Bucky at askbucky@redgym. wisc.edu. Below are two questions Ask Bucky recently answered.

I am shopping for a birthday present for my son who attends UW–Madison. What are some good Web sites to find Badger gifts?

Fortunately, there are many places to find gifts for Badger fans online. I have included some links below. Happy shopping!

• Bucky’s Locker Room: Official Wisconsin sportswear Web site: http://www.buckyslockerroom.com/
• Babcock Dairy Store online catalog (Babcock Dairy cheese boxes, apparel and Wisconsin novelty items): http://www.wisc.edu/foodsci/store/gifts.html
• UW Marching Band (UW Band clothing, audio/visual materials and other accessories): http://www.badgerband.com/store/store.html
• Wisconsin Alumni Association (Badger clothing, furniture, golf equipment and other UW–Madison gifts): http://www.uwalumni.com/store/
• Wisconsin Union Terrace merchandise (Terrace apparel, furniture, art and other gifts): http://www.union.wisc.edu/terracestore/

A class I am taking requires that I attend a dance performance. Where can I find a list of UW–Madison dance performances?

The UW–Madison School of Dance offers many performances each semester, including student and faculty recitals, “Friday Forums” with guest artists and more. Most performances are held at Lathrop Hall on University Avenue. You can find a complete calendar of events by visiting http://www.soemadison.wisc.edu/dance and clicking on “current calendar.”

Libraries ranked fifth in cataloging contribution

The Online Computer Library Center ranked the UW–Madison Libraries as the fifth highest worldwide contributor of original cataloging to WorldCat, the world’s largest virtual catalog.

Last year, staff in the UW–Madison Libraries generated 24,073 original records for the database.

The Online Computer Library Center’s 2003-04 annual report notes that WorldCat holds more than 55 million records for materials dating from 2150 B.C. to the present.

For more information, visit: http://www. library.wisc.edu/libraries/news/releases/ 2004/images/2004OCLC.pdf

The library center is a nonprofit worldwide library cooperative that offers services used by more than 50,540 libraries in 84 countries and territories.

Continuing studies offers language courses

Noncredit courses in beginning language and culture for French, Spanish, Italian and Norwegian will begin this month.

With these courses from the Division of Continuing Studies, participants learn to communicate in various social and cultural situations. Taught in an informal and relaxed atmosphere, the courses are for travelers and others who want to learn a new language.

For information about French, Italian and Norwegian classes, call 262-4873 or e-mail igeller@dcs.wisc.edu. For the Spanish class, call 262-5929 or e-mail anoguera@dcs.wisc.edu.

Classes for reading knowledge are available in French and Spanish. Advanced classes are offered in all languages except Norwegian later in the semester.

Backward Glance

From Wisconsin Week of Jan. 18, 1995 … UW–Madison was asked by Gov. Tommy Thompson to respond to a budget lapse affecting all state agencies. The university was asked to return to the state treasury 1.25 percent of the General Purpose Revenue portion of its current budget … UW–Madison was among the top U.S. universities in attracting federal and nonfederal money for research.