Off the Shelf: Official Newsletter of UWEC Libraries, 40th Anniversary Issue: 1982-2022, Fall 2022

In This Issue: From the Director's Desk - Around the Libraries: The McIntyre Library Catalog: A Timeline, The Eleanor Jones Papers, 1943-2017 - Let the Music See You Outro - Barron County Library Highlights + Updates - Welcome, Jennifer! - Recent Acquisitions - Protecting Your Right to Read - Save the Date: Toya Wolfe Author Talk - Updates From the Blugold Makerspace - After Dark 2022 - Welcome, Eva! - Welcome, Sarah! - Staff News.The 40th Anniversary Issue of Off the Shelf, Fall 2022, Issue 96

Off the Shelf: Official Newsletter of UWEC Libraries, Spring 2024

In This Issue: From the Director's Desk: Library "Invisible Labor" - New Digital Project Unlocks Access to Volume One - Around the Libraries - Tools of the Trade: Repairing, Protecting Books Persists Even As Digital Collection Grows - Recent Acquisitions - Updates from the Blugold Makerspace - Big Changes at the University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Barron County Library! - Behind the Scenes: Spotlight on Carrie Butler Becker, Book Buyer - Strike a Pose: Yoga at McIntyre Library - Brie-hind the Scenes: Our Student Workers are Cheddar Together - 2023 Student Employee Scholarship: Kaylee Michaels - April is the Cruelest Month - Library Staff and Student News.The Spring 2024 issue of Off the Shelf, Issue 99.Includes the following articles: From the Director's Desk: Library "Invisible Labor," -- New Digital Project Unlocks Access to Volume One -- Tools of the Trade: Behind the Scenes -- New Acquisitions: Books, Ebooks, and Audiobooks -- Updates From UWEC-BC Library

On the global solvability of a class of fourth-order nonlinear boundary value problems

ABSTRACT. This paper is concerned with the global solvability of a class of fourth-order nonlinear boundary value problems that govern the deformation of an elastic beam which is acted upon by axial compression, lateral forces and is in contact with a semi-infinite medium acting as a foundation For certain ranges of the acting axial compression force, the solvability of the equations follows from the coerciVity of their linear parts. Beyond these ranges this coercivity is lost It is shown here that the coercivity which ensures the global solvability can be generated by the nonlinear parts ofthe equations for a certain type offoundation. KEY WORDS AND PHRASES: Global solvability, fourth-order nonlinear boundary value problems, homogeneous nonlinearity, Leray-Schauder fixed point theorem, coercivity 1991 AMS SUBJECT CLASSIFICATION CODES: 49G99, 73H05, 73K15