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The association between university students and beer drinking has a long history; therefore, it is appropriate that one of the titles on Winona State’s retention list explores the hoppier side of the life of the mind.

Hales, Steven D. Beer and Philosophy: The Unexamined Beer Isn’t Worth Drinking. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007.

Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. This is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection.

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Story Sixty-Six: Tune in, Turn on, Get that prescription filled

In the early 1960s, psychedelic drugs were used to treat patients. In the later 1960s, activists promoted their wide-spread use without medical supervision; they were made illegal; and they were placed on the same drug schedule as heroin. Now, there is a renewed interest in exploring their therapeutic qualities. This early text, featuring Timothy Leary no less, is on the Krueger Library retention list, … and you can read it without your insurance insisting on a co-pay.Leary, Timothy Francis, Ralph Metzner, and Gunther M Weil. The Psychedelic Reader; Selected from the Psychedelic Review. New York: Citadel Press, 1965.Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. This is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection....

Story Sixty-Five: Max Weber, the Exhibition Catalogs

Max Weber (1881-1961) was a successful and well-respected artist whose media included oil paintings and sculpture. His son, Maynard "Mo" Weber, who passed away in 2019, was a Winona State alumnus and a generous benefactor to the university. In addition to donating money for scholarships, Mo Weber donated a number of pieces of his father’s artwork to Winona State and a number of exhibition catalogs from his father’s career to the library. Many of those exhibition catalogs, as well as other books by and about Max Weber, are on the Krueger Library’s retention list. Max Weber was born on April 18, 1881, which means that this Friday marks his 144th birthday. (A series of these exhibition catalogs sets a new record for the number of monographs in a row that are on the retention list. The old record was five; these catalogs break that record with six.)For more information about Max Weber and his works at Winona State, follow this link to the collection at OpenRiver: Weber Art CollectionWeber, Max et al. First Comprehensive Retrospective Exhibition in the West of Oils, Gouaches, Pastels, Drawings, and Graphic Works by Max Weber (1881-1961): The Art Galleries, University of California at Santa Barbara, February 6 through March 3, 1968.Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. This is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection....

Story Sixty-Four: Chomsky, Rumors of his Death are Slightly Exaggerated

At age 96, Noam Chomsky is a major American scholar. Last year, he was rumored to have died, but he was later discharged from the hospital.In the later 20th century, Chomsky's linguistic framework became the dominant theory for how humans acquire language and process it in their brains (although his ideas have now been called into question by the new AI Large Language Models). His leftist politics also challenged American culture. Chomsky spoke at Winona State on March 20, 1998, a little over 27 years ago. The video of that lecture can be viewed on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC2JWvgMiR4One of our many books about Chomsky is on the Krueger Library’s retention list. Chomsky: language, mind, and politics / James McGilvray. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1999.(Our student newspaper, the Winonan, has been digitized and can be found on the Krueger Library’s OpenRiver repository. At the time of his lecture, there were letters to the editor of the Winonan discussing some of Chomsky’s ideas. Those letters can be found here: https://openriver.winona.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1200&context=thewinonan1990s) Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. This is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection....

Story Sixty-Three: Keep Calm in the Eye of the Storm

For those distraught by the downward slide of the stock markets over the last two days, this book on the Krueger Library retention list might help (or make it worse). Understanding the psychological mechanisms related to financial markets might help foster a sense of stoic calm.Cohen, David. Fear, Greed and Panic: The Psychology of the Stock Market. New York: Wiley, 2001.Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. This is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection. ...

Story Four: "Wer kein Bier hat, hat nichts zu trinken." – Attributed to Martin Luther