Gina Calia-Lotz, Editor-in-Chief Bridget Lukas, Design & Layout Editor
Volume 3 Issue 2, May 2018
HCC Library quarterly Message from the Director As this academic year draws to a close, we invite you to take a look back and a look forward in this issue of HCC Library Quarterly. We are looking back with pride at this year’s fun-filled celebration of National Library Week. We thank our Learning Center colleagues for partnering with us on the Research Party and we thank everyone who helped us raise $1,200 for our Library Textbook Scholarship through our Used Book Sale. It’s been a busy year for us, especially with our introduction of the Digital Media Lab, the One Button Studio, OwlSearch, and a greatly expanded array of equipment for HCC students to check out – as well as an outstanding celebration of fifty years in the Federal Depository Library Program, and four major exhibits at the Hays-Heighe House. I want to recognize and thank all the Library/HHH staff who worked so hard all year to bring these services and resources to HCC students, faculty, and staff. Looking ahead, we are transitioning to “Pay for Printing” starting with the summer semester; see the information in the “Did you know…?” column on this page. We encourage our faculty colleagues to help students manage their printing allowance wisely by creating printer-friendly documents for Blackboard and considering the use of course packets. We are also piloting a system to reserve study rooms, in response to student feedback.
Did you know…? Pay-for-Print System for Students Beginning May 29, HCC students will receive a $50 allowance for printing in the Library each academic year. This is equal to 1000 black and white print-outs (five cents per page) or 100 color print-outs (50 cents per page), or any number in between with a combination of b&w and color printing. Students will be able to add additional funds to accounts using credit card or cash. Here are some ways to help students “Print Smart” and get the most out of their free printing allowance:
If color print-outs are not needed, encourage students to select “black and white” when printing — this saves 45 cents per page!
Encourage and demonstrate to students how to print PowerPoints and PDFs as multi-slide or multi-page handouts.
Have course packets printed at the Copy Center for purchase at the College Store, which costs significantly less than the cost to print on the Library’s printers.
Do you have feedback for us about ways we can enhance your library? Our ears and our minds are open – just ask!
Survey Says! Students’ Views on Library Spaces Thanks to all of the students who completed the Library’s survey on student use of library space back in December 2017. Results are in! Students’ responses have helped the Library staff make shortand long-term plans to improve Library space and services.
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Students had three main requests that the Library has already started to address:
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Three new quiet study rooms will be built on the Library’s 3rd floor in summer 2018. 2.
Better access to study rooms.
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Computers in study rooms.
Students can check out laptops and HD cables that connect to study-room projectors. Ask at the Circulation Desk for more information.
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Volume 3 Issue 2, May 2018
2018 National Library Week: Libraries Lead The 2018 National Library Week celebration, Libraries Lead, was a week full of fun and learning. Over 200 people participated in the week’s activities and were entered to win a pair of Sony wireless headphones, valued at over $100. Eight runners-up won potted plants. The Library was proud to host Dr. Andrew Kellett as he discussed his new book, The British Blues Network: Adoption, Emulation, and Creativity (available for checkout!) Kellett’s book reveals the fascinating history of how British musicians like Keith Richards, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and Eric Clapton became obsessed with American blues music, and eventually incorporated it into their own uniquely British style of rock and roll. One lucky winner got to take home a copy of the book. Once again, the annual Used Book Sale raised over $1200 to support the Harford Community College Library Textbook Scholarship. Thanks so much to our book donors for leading the way by providing fantastic inventory, and to our customers for being enthusiastic shoppers. The Library hosted a daily Discovery Room to highlight
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the many ways Libraries Lead. On Monday, the librarians held a Research Party, complete with music, pizza, snacks, and drinks. Several students signed up for free Noodlebib accounts and others got help from a librarian or Learning Center assistant. At our Technology Petting Zoo on Tuesday, students got to explore some of the new A/V equipment that is now available for them to check out from the Circulation Desk. On Wednesday, the ‘90s were back with vintage video games, and on Thursday, students got to explore many of the cool items we have here at HCC’s Library by virtue of being a Federal Depository Library. Get your Zombie Preparedness Guide here, folks! Twenty-four lucky Secret Seat winners received a gift bag full of handy school supplies and candy. It pays to study in the Library!
Thank you to all the students, faculty, and staff who value the ways the Library Leads to learning, exploration, adventure, discovery, and more. We appreciate your support!
HCC Library Quarterly
Chautauqua: Eleanor Roosevelt On July 9, 2018, HCC Library and Harford County Public Libraries will co-sponsor a Chautauqua featuring Eleanor Roosevelt, portrayed by living history presenter Susan Marie Frontczak. The theme of this year’s Chautauqua is “Seeking Justice.” As the longestserving First Lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt played an important role in advocating for social justice. The performance will take place at 7 p.m. in the HCC Chesapeake Theater, with a pre-performance by HCC’s Benny Russell. Russell will perform an arrangement of “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen,” a spiritual sung by Marian Anderson on Easter Sunday in 1939 at a concert that Eleanor Roosevelt arranged for her because she was not permitted to sing at Constitution Hall and Central High School in Washington, D.C.
Admission is FREE and open to all! Additional Chautauqua presentations will take place in eight counties across Maryland, including “Frederick Douglass” at Elkton Public Library and “Thurgood Marshall” at Cecil College. According to the Maryland Humanities website, the Chautauqua movement began in 1874 in the Chautauqua Lake area of upstate New York. Initially organized as a Methodist summer retreat, “Chautauqua quickly grew to be a popular source of adult education as the lectures presented the latest thinking in politics, economics, literature, science, and religion” (Maryland Humanities). Chautauquas in Maryland first took place in the late 1800s at Mountain Lake Park in Garrett County and at Glen Echo Park in Montgomery County. In 1995, Chautauqua became a program of Maryland Humanities (previously called the Maryland Humanities Council) and was first held at Garrett College. For more information about the Chautauqua program, visit www.mdhumanities.org/programs/chautauqua/
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Survey Says! Students’ Views on Library Spaces Students were asked on a survey in December where in the Library they preferred to study. Results are shown in the chart below.
Digital Media Workshops
Digital Media Basics: One Button Studio & Adobe Premiere Wednesday 6/6 – 3:00-4:30 p.m. Monday 6/11 – 1:00-2:30 p.m. Thursday 6/21 – 4:00-5:30 p.m. Tuesday 6/26 – 5:00-6:30 p.m.
Digital Media Basics: Adobe Photoshop & Adobe Illustrator Thursday 6/7 – 4:00-5:30 p.m. Tuesday 6/12 – 5:00-6:30 p.m. Wednesday 6/20 – 3:00-4:30 p.m. Monday 6/25 – 1:00-2:30 p.m.
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From the Archives HCC News Stories Digitized The College Archives has 35 large scrapbooks full of thousands of newspaper clippings about Harford Community College, stretching from the College’s founding in 1957 into the 1990s. The stories cover drama productions, new buildings, our sports teams, graduations, the addition of new programs, changing administrations, outstanding students, and so much more. But newspaper yellows over time, adhesives weaken, and the strips of paper with the date
and the newspaper source were beginning to fall out like snowflakes when pages were turned. This spring and summer, Creekside Digital in Baltimore County will be digitizing these books for us, and they will be available online next school year.
Library Hours May 29-Aug. 4 Mon-Thurs: 8 a.m.– 7 p.m. Fri: 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Sat: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sun: CLOSED July 4: CLOSED
Aug. 5-Aug. 26 Mon-Thurs: 8 a.m.– 5 p.m. Fri: 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Sat: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sun: CLOSED Aug. 17 8 a.m.-11:30 a.m. See the Library website for exceptions to these hours: http://www.harford.edu/academics/ library/about/hours.aspx
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 & Digital Media Lab Service Desk Library, 1st floor 443-412-2068
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