HCC Library Quarterly, January 2020

Happy New Year! We unfortunately had a failed search for the Director for the Library position, so Lois and Gina will remain as Interim CoDirectors while a new search is underway. In the meantime, the Library continues to carry out its daily operations and to provide the excellent service to students, faculty, and the community for which we are known!

Some highlights of the fall semester are included in this issue, including a fantastic turn-out for the Hays-Heighe House event, “Women of the Turf” exhibit opening reception and award ceremony (pgs.

2-3). There is so much more, however, that the Library undertakes every day to make improvements to the resources, spaces, and services we provide. For example, one of our most popular services is our laptop lending. As demand for laptop check-out has increased, this fall we purchased nine additional laptops, for a total of 31, available for loan to students for seven days at a time. In addition, we offer 22 HP notebooks and three Macbooks available for four-hour loans.

In the spirit of the impending Middle States Self-Study, and as we look ahead at the evolution of the Library into a Learning Commons model, Library staff have been engaging in various reflection and assessment projects. We have begun using Gimlet, a service desk statistics software program, in order to improve the types of assessment data we compile and report on. We have also been analyzing our workflow to determine if there are areas upon which we can improve.

As always, HCC librarians are available whenever the Library is open to assist students, staff, and faculty with research. Just ask!

Information Literacy Instruction HCC librarians provide information literacy and research instruction in our 26-seat computer lab.

Information literacy instruction supports HCC’s General Education goal : “Students will be able to define information needs, access information efficiently and effectively, evaluate information critically and use information ethically.”

Librarians customize these instructional sessions based on course learning outcomes and faculty requests. Concepts covered may include steps to the research process, developing topics, evaluating source credibility, integrating sources into a research paper, using online databases, citing and using sources ethically, and analyzing primary sources. Faculty may request an instructional session using the form on the Library’s website under Services— Instructional Services or by contacting the Instructional Services Librarian, Gina Calia-Lotz (x2052).

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More than 125 community members, guests, and College employees attended the “Women of the Turf” Opening Reception and Award Presentation that was held recently at the Hays-Heighe House at Harford Community College. The “Women of the Turf” exhibit honors women in Maryland and beyond who have excelled in all aspects of equestrian sport, including thoroughbred farm owners, trainers, jockeys, and journalists.

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Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred, Bloodhorse, and Daily Racing Form continue to rely on her photographs.

Also in attendance was special guest Kathy Kusner, winner of several gold and silver Olympic equestrian team and individual competitions. She participated in a Q & A

with the audience, touching on her groundbreaking lawsuit to earn her jockey license and on her “Horses in the Hood” Attendees had the opportunity to view the program for at-risk youth. Kusner was the exhibit before the reception and catch up first women to receive a jockey license in with old friends and acquaintances. Harford the United States, to race in the Maryland Community College President Dr. Dianna G. Cup, and to commercially pilot Lear Jets.

Phillips opened the event with a welcome Michael Hopkins, Executive Director of the address. Following her comments, Maryland Racing Commission, presented Photojournalists Cappy Jackson and Lydia A. Kusner with a Proclamation of Appreciation Williams accepted their 2019 Robert & Anne from the Maryland Department of Heighe Awards for Excellence in Equestrian Agriculture. The evening ended with closing Journalism from Cindy Deubler, Associate remarks from Hopkins.

Editor for Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred magazine and Cricket Goodall, Executive The Robert & Anne Heighe Award for Director of the Maryland Horse Breeders Excellence in Equestrian Journalism was Association and the Maryland Million. inaugurated in 2012 to celebrate the equestrian heritage of the Hays-Heighe For more than four decades, Cappy Jackson House and Prospect Hill Farm – the land on has been a professional photographer. While which Harford Community College is now she has photographed for the international located. The Heighes ran a successful fashion industry and the NFL, she is best thoroughbred race horse breeding and known for award-winning equestrian training operation from the 1920s through photography. Jackson’s work has appeared the 1940s headquartered here. Their green in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and GQ, and white racing silks were recognizable and appears regularly in Western along the Eastern Seaboard, and Anne Horseman, Horse & Rider Magazine, and Heighe was the first woman nominated as Practical Horseman. Jackson became an Vice President of the Maryland Horse assistant to Peter Winants, the staff Breeders Association. photographer for Maryland Horse, when she was just 14. Much of her early work is in Past recipients of the award include Joe black-and-white, and her emphasis is on Kelly, 2012; William Boniface, 2013 unobtrusive photojournalism. She covered (awarded posthumously); Humphrey S. equestrian events at the Olympics in the Finney, 2014, (awarded posthumously); 1970s and 1980s, and continues to do Pierre “Peb” Bellocq, 2015; and Jim McKay, commercial work today for clients such as 2017 (awarded posthumously).

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Despite a day job in another industry, Lydia A. Williams had a passion for the track. She formally combined her two loves, photography and horses, when her photograph of J.O. Tobin at Santa Anita was published in The Maryland Horse. Since then, her work has appeared in Sports Illustrated and The Baltimore Sun, and could formerly be found in the pages of The

This was the fifth equestrian exhibit curated for the Hays-Heighe House by Maryanna Skowronski, director of the Historical Society of Harford County. A woman of the turf herself, Skowronski strives to preserve and promote the equestrian history of this region.

Hello, I'm Shaune Young, and I am a part-time Reference and Instruction Librarian. I graduated from Cedarville University in 2017 with a B.A. in English and a minor in German Literature & Language. I went straight to grad school after graduation and completed my M.L.I.S. at University of Maryland, College Park in Spring 2019. I spent my time at UMD working in many different internships and jobs, some of which were school librarian, archival assistant, and assessment intern at institutions such as the National Archives and Records Administration and the National Parks Service. Some of you may have seen me here over the summer working with Julie Mancine in the Archives. I have enjoyed my time here immensely, and I hope to grow myself and my career by working with such lovely and passionate people. On a more personal note, I grew up in Harford County and spent a lot of time at the HCC sports fields watching my parents play various sports. In my spare time, I like to read, watch old movies, and travel with friends and family. I look forward to getting more involved with students and faculty at HCC!

Exhibit and Programming – The Land: Harford County

A Season of Feasting Can you complete the food missing from the following titles?

1. Coffee, _____ or Me? The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses by Trudy Baker 2. Fried Green _______ at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg 3. Green Eggs and _______ by Dr.Seuss 4. The Guernsey Literary and _____ Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows 5. On the Banks of _____ Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilde 6. The _______ Girls by Dorothy Koomson 7. Like Water for ______ by Laura Esquivel 8. The Particular Sadness of Lemon _____ by Aimee Bender 9. Serving Crazy with _____ by Amulya Malladi 10. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the ____ by Alan Bradley Answers:

1) Tea; 2) Tomatoes; 3) Ham; 4) Potato; 5) Plum; 6) Ice Cream; 7) Chocolate; 8) Cake; 9) Curry; 10) Pie