Volume 1 Issue 4, December 2016 Gina Calia-Lotz Editor-in-Chief Bridget Zawitoski Design & Layout Editor
HCC Library Message from the Director
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As we all race toward the end of the fall semester, I invite you to take a few minutes to see what your Library is up to these days. We strive constantly to offer our students, faculty, staff and community borrowers the most up-to-date services and resources possible. To that end, we will open a One Button Studio during the spring semester, thanks to generous support through the HCC Foundation’s Grants for Innovation program! We will be only the second community college in Maryland to offer this innovative resource, which many four-year colleges already provide. We invite you to give it a try and to encourage your students to use it, along with the half-dozen digital media production workstations we will install in the Library Computer Lab. Be on the lookout also for digital media workshops for students and faculty, which will be offered this spring in the Digital Media Classroom (also on the first floor), in partnership with the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Another exciting change coming up in spring is the relocation of the Learning Center to the Library. We could not be more delighted about this transition, which will enable students to move easily and seamlessly as they seek help from two of the major academic support services at HCC. Paraphrasing Rick Blaine from Casablanca, we think this will be the start of a “beautiful partnership” with the single-minded goal of student success. We send our wishes to you for a relaxing and cheery holiday season! And, as always, we welcome your suggestions for ways that we can offer new and improved services to you and your students.
One-on-One Research Consultations While HCC librarians are always available at the Reference Desk to help students, the One-on-One Research Consultation service is scheduled so students can work with a librarian uninterrupted for up to an hour at a time. The student indicates on the request form what their assignment topic is so that the librarian can prepare ahead or clarify any information about the student’s needs. Request forms are available at the Library Reference Desk and on the Library’s “As a Librarian” webpage. Students may select to have either a virtual (via online chat) or in-person consultation.
Coming Soon: One Button Studio A One Button Studio will be opening at Harford Community College Library! Funded by the HCC Foundation’s Grants for Innovation program, the One Button Studio is a digital media resource that allows students and faculty to quickly and efficiently record a video with little technological know-how. Users will bring in a USB drive, plug it into a USB hub, press a button and record their video. When finished, the user just presses the button again and removes the USB. A student might use the Studio to help with the recording of a speech or a presentation for class, or an instructor might use it to create a video to put in an online course. Look for the One Button Studio on the first floor of the Library in spring 2017.
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Whooo Do I Ask?
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“In the Stacks” Learning Center New Employee
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Community College Resources The Hays-Heighe House
Volume 1 Issue 4, November 2016
Whooo Do I Ask? The Library Expo September 13 and 14 Why should I come to the HCC Library to study? How can the Library help me do research? Does the Library provide cultural enrichment? What technology and printing services does the Library provide? These and other questions were answered at the HCC Library’s second annual Library Expo. The Expo highlighted the core resources and services available at the Library to meet students’ needs. Students visited tables set up around the themes of study, research, cultural enrichment, and technology & printing to learn about what the Library has to offer in each of these areas, while collecting informational materials and other freebies. Students had paper “passports” stamped at each station they visited, and could hand in the completed passport for a mini tote bag. The event has been a resounding success each year, and the Library plans to continue this tradition each fall.
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HCC Library Quarterly
“In the Stacks”
Learning Center Move
But What If We’re Wrong? Chuck Klosterman E169.12 .K5548 2016 / 3rd Floor / Main Collection Can we know the importance of our own era in our time? Is there a concept, theory, artistic movement, or personality developing now that will one day define the early 21st century, even though we now fail to recognize it? How absurd will our tested hypotheses seem in 500 years? What is dismissed now that could one day be an unquestioned truth? These and other fascinating, intangible questions are explored by pop culture essayist Chuck Klosterman in his new nonfiction work, But What If We’re Wrong?, an irreverent but thought-provoking discussion of how the future judges the past (and how often our assumptions collapse). Although Klosterman explores dense theories and historical complexities, the book itself is a casual read, peppered with self-deprecation, snark, light-hearted conspiracy, and personal anecdotes, with celebrity commentary from the likes of Neil Degrasse Tyson and David Byrne added for good measure. Although not a scholarly, scientific approach to the nature of history and human experience, But What If We’re Wrong? is a fun, compelling read that will remind you of an intense conversation with an informed, quirky friend.
We in the Library are delighted to welcome HCC Learning Center colleagues to our building this spring! Renovations are underway right now, and the new space promises to be a wonderful enhancement to the already excellent support that the Learning Center offers students. Library Director Carol Allen and Learning Center Manager Pamela Runge are confident that placing the Learning Center within the Library will serve students well and may form the nucleus for an emerging learning commons at HCC. Specific Learning Center enhancements made possible by the move include spaces designed for one-on-one and group learning sessions, more computers, and more whiteboards for students to use. The Library and the Learning Center are developing strategies for collaborative support services, especially with regard to research and writing. We welcome your suggestions for even more ways that we can team up to foster student success.
New Employee Thomas Ebel My name is Thomas Ebel and I am the new Digital Media Specialist at the HCC Library. I will be working with you in its newest department that is currently under development: The Digital Media Lab and One Button Studio. I have worked in the eLearning Department of the HCC Library since 2010 helping students and faculty with Blackboard and other Library Computer Lab challenges. I received my associate degree from HCC in 2011 and my Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Media and Film from Towson University in 2013. I enjoy doing digital media work and gaming in my free time and look forward to meeting you in the near future to discuss what will be available to you once the lab and studio open.
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Library Hours
Community College Resources Check out some of the books and periodicals pertaining to community colleges, available through the HCC Library. For more information, ask a librarian!
Fall Semester (Aug. 29–Dec. 15) Mon-Thurs: 7:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Fri: 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Sat: 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Sun: 12 p.m.-4 p.m. Dec. 16: 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Dec. 17: CLOSED Dec. 18: CLOSED
Winter Term (Dec. 19 - Jan. 20) Mon-Thurs: 8 a.m.–7 p.m. Fri: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Sat: 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. Sun: CLOSED Dec. 24-Jan. 2: CLOSED Jan. 16: CLOSED
See the Library website for exceptions to these hours: http://www.harford.edu/ academics/library/about/ hours.aspx
Holiday Open House at the Hays-Heighe House Thursday, December 1, 2016 10 AM - 2 PM Saturday, December 3, 2016 10 AM - 2 PM Free and open to the public! No reservations required.
Christmas Tea at the Hays-Heighe House Tuesday, December 13, 2016 12:30-1:30 p.m. Tuesday, December 20, 2016 12:30-1:30 p.m. Limited seating. $15 per person. Free to students with HCC ID.
Contact Us Circulation Desk Library, 2nd floor circdesk@harford.edu 443-412-2268 Reference Desk Library, 2nd floor referenc@harford.edu 443-412-2131 Library Computer Lab Service Desk Library, 1st floor
Call 443-412-2539 to purchase your ticket.
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