If you ever wondered (as I so often have) whether ancient Chinese proverbs about the weather were actually borne out by scientific data, look no further. This book on the Krueger Library retention list investigates that very question. While the authors are from China, the translator lived for many years in Minnesota and passed away in Woodbury in 2014.
Houghton, Barbara Coan, translator. Application of Weather Proverbs to Long-Range Weather Forecasting. Beijing, China: China Meteorological Press, 2012.
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.
The late WSU Professor Jacob Steigerwald, who died in 2022, taught students how to teach languages other than English. One of the workbooks he authored was printed by the WSU Press and is on the Krueger Library retention list.
Steigerwald would frequently return to his native Austria during the summer and would often purchase and donate to the library books in German, regardless of the subject. This is one reason why we have a wide variety of books in German scattered throughout our collection (such as the book on futurology which was featured in story number nineteen Back to the Future).
Exploring French, German, and Spanish / by Jacob Steigerwald. Winona, Minn: Translation & Interpretation Service, 1987.
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.