HCC Library Quarterly, September 2020

Gina Calia-Lotz, Editor-in-Chief

Volume 5 Issue 2, September 2020

Bridget Lukas, Design & Layout Editor

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Happy Fall Semester! As of August 24 , the Library has reopened on a limited basis, by reservation, to serve HCC students and employees; see page 2 for detailed information about the Library’s available resources and services. Be sure to also read about some important events taking and the accompanying resources provided by the Library.

Library Database Access

HCC students and employees have access to over 80 databases to which the Library subscribes, providing content to online journals and other periodicals, streaming video, The Library has been working hard this summer putting encyclopedias, ebooks, and more! A together a reopening plan that aligns with the College’s Stage library card number is NOT needed to 2A guidelines, and helping to provide resources to support online teaching and learning, most gain access to these databases from notably with a new subscription to Kanopy, a streaming video service; see page 3 for more off-campus; simply log in using your information about Kanopy. Please note, our subscription is on a “pay-per-use” basis, so we want HCC username and password when prioritize this service for instructional use only. prompted. Databases can be accessed Since reopening, the Library has been coordinating distribution of devices to students who have without logging in while on campus.

Visit the Library’s website (http:// requested one, processing a backlog of periodicals received and items returned, and fulfilling www.harford.edu/library) and click on pages of book requests, mainly from Harford County Public Library borrowers who have “Research Resources” for a list of all requested HCC Library materials through our reciprocal borrowing agreement. We are so very of the databases available. As always, thankful for our competent, student-centered Library staff members who have worked together to think through all of the details in order to make it possible to re-open the building safely while if you have any questions about content provided by the Library, ask a providing study space, computer workstations, printers, course reserves, and other needed librarian! resources to help students be successful in their courses. Good luck to all!

HCC Library Fall Celebration Events Are Coming to YOU!

By Andie Craley, Manager for Technical Services & Government Documents Librarian

Welcome back to our campus community!

Fall is a time of many special events and celebrations and the Library wants to share

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several informational resources that will serve Women’s Right to Vote! - The passage of as our “Virtual Events Celebrations” at this the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution time. Please share these with your students! promised “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or If students do make a reservation at the abridged by the United States or by any state Library for either computer usage or study on account of sex.” See the HCC Library space during the Fall term, they ae welcome LibGuide “Women’s Suffrage” at https:// to pick up a free goody bag of swag from the harford.libguides.com/womens_suffrage attendant at the Library Computer Lab desk which is a companion to an exhibit held in for any of the following Virtual Events! spring 2019 at the Hays-Heighe House to August was the 100th anniversary of mark the occasion. passage of the 19th Amendment of

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Volume 5 Issue 2, September 2020

Fall 2020 Library Services & Resources The Library has re-opened physically on a very limited basis,  Online guides to resources in various subjects and/or for but we have many services and resources available to support individual courses are available at https:// online teaching and learning in the Fall 2020 semester. harford.libguides.com .

Contact Lois Entner, lentner@harford.edu or Gina Calia-Lotz, One Button Studio gcalialotz@harford.edu with any questions. Visit https://  Available for faculty use only by appointment Mondayharford.libguides.com/online_learning_support for links to Thursday during the following timeslots: 10:00-11:00 the databases and other resources mentioned below. a.m., 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 1:00-2:00 p.m. Please use Library Building the online reservation form: http://www.harford.edu/  The Library building is now open to HCC students and Academics/library/technology/obs.aspx employees only, by reservation for the fall semester Request an Embedded Librarian in Blackboard (assuming the College remains in Stage 2A). Access is  Librarians can be embedded in Blackboard classes as a limited to the first floor of the Library. support service. Request form: http://  HCC students and employees need to make a reservation www2.harford.edu/CMS/OnlineForms/Library/Requestfor a specific computer workstation or individual study Embedded-Librarian.asp table during the following timeslots: Information Literacy Monday-Thursday: 9:30-11:30 a.m, 12:30-2:30 p.m.  CREDO information literacy modules, tutorials, and Wednesday and Thursday: 5-7 p.m. quizzes can be incorporated into Blackboard courses. See  Details about how to make a reservation and how to what content is available along with direct links at http:// request an item for curbside pick-up are available on the harford.libguides.com/credo. For help connecting quizzes Library’s website. with your Blackboard Gradebook, please contact Gina Calia-Lotz (gcalialotz@harford.edu).

Borrowing Library Materials  Information literacy videos will be made available, and  Books and other circulating Library materials may be synchronous information literacy presentations can be requested through the Library Catalog’s “Request It” arranged; contact Gina Calia-Lotz function, and will be made available for curbside pickup. (gcalialotz@harford.edu).  Students may check out textbook or course reserves, but Student ID Cards must make a reservation to use the Library to access these.  Student ID cards will NOT be produced by the Library during Stage 2A.  All late fines for Library materials will be waived for due dates between March 2020 and December  Students do NOT need an ID card/library barcode 2020. Replacement fees for lost items will still be in number to access online databases from off-campus. All effect. databases and other subscription-based content through the Library are accessible off-campus using HCC login  The Library is providing online-only Interlibrary Loan credentials (username and password). services (no physical materials lent or borrowed).

Databases and Textbook Content Research Help for Students  Unfortunately, as of right now, publishers are no longer  HCC reference librarians are available via online chat, providing the free access to online textbooks that they text, or email from the Library’s website: http:// made available temporarily in the spring. harford.edu/Academics/library/help/ask-a-librarian.aspx during the following hours:  Databases, ebooks and streaming video are all available 24/7 via the Library’s Research Databases page: http://  Monday – Thursday: 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. ww2.harford.edu/CMS/Library/Articles.asp .  Friday 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.  You might also want to check out our OER guide: http://  Saturday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. harford.libguides.com/oer 

Information literacy tutorials, citation style guides, and the NoodleTools citation tool are available at: http:// www.harford.edu/Academics/library/help/tutorials.aspx

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Per faculty request, the Library has subscribed to the streaming video service Kanopy; for more information, see the article included in this issue of the Quarterly.

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Featured Database: Kanopy

By Jess Dahl, Electronic Resources Librarian

Kanopy is now available for HCC Faculty to use in their distance learning courses and in the classroom. Choose from a selection of award-winning documentaries and films from The Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation, The Great Courses, Women Make Movies, Kino Lorber, New Day Films, A24 Films, Grasshopper Films, Frederick Wiseman, Zeitgeist Films, Oscilloscope, Music Box Films, Psychotherapy.net, First Run Features, Cinema Guild, Bleecker Street Films, and many other acclaimed producers and distributors.

NOTE: After your account has been created, you will just need to click LOGIN the next time you visit the platform.

Kanopy also makes it easy to share URLs with your students.

When you have found the video you would like to share, just click the Share tab below and copy and paste the Share Link into Blackboard, email, etc. Students will be prompted to log in with

Kanopy is compatible with apps such as Roku, iOS, Android, Apple TV, etc. and meets full accessibility standards.

To get started, go to https://harford.kanopy.com and click LOG IN TO HARFORD to authenticate with your HCC username and password.

Next, create a personal Kanopy account. All HCC faculty, staff, and students must complete this step. their personal Kanopy username and password. NOTE: Please do not use the embed code, as it does not work correctly within Blackboard .

For more information or if you or your students encounter access issues, please contact Jessica Dahl, Electronic Resources Librarian, at jeambrose@harford.edu.

Watch a demo of Kanopy at https://harford.libguides.com/ online_learning_support. (Scroll down to the Streaming Video section.)

One Maryland, One Book This fall, readers across Maryland will engage in virtual discussions of the book, The Island of Sea Women, by Lisa See, as part of the Maryland Humanities’ One Maryland, One Book program. From the Maryland Humanities website: “The book chronicles the lives and friendship between Young-sook and Mi-ja, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju. They become the closest of friends[…] From the Japanese occupation of the 1930s and 1940s, World War II, to the Korean War, events will push their seemingly unbreakable bond to its breaking point.” Harford Community College Library plans to host one of the book discussions; for a list of the virtual discussions taking place across Maryland, as well as other Maryland Humanities events, visit https://www.mdhumanities.org/events/.

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“I have a Dream Speech” August 28th – 2020 marked the 57th Anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where over 200,000 people gathered in peaceful demonstration to promote Civil Rights. See the HCC Library LibGuide “57th Anniversary of the ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech” at https://harford.libguides.com/ ihaveadream.

Constitution Day Thursday September 17th – a day designated by Congress originally as Citizenship Day in 1940, then later in 1952 and recently in 2005 adding in the commemoration of the signing of the U.S. Constitution. See the HCC Library LibGuide “Constitution Day & Voting Rights” at https://harford.libguides.com/ government_information which includes links to interactive and digital copies of the U.S. Constitution, Voter Registration in Harford County, Maryland Census 2020, and several exhibits and videos showcasing the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights and subsequent amendments, and Voting Rights.

National Voter Registration Day Tuesday September 22nd – a nonpartisan civic holiday promoting awareness of voter registration opportunities all over the country. Exercise your Right to Vote! See Facebook.com/votinginformationcenter to add your location for voting information relevant to your area. See the HCC Library LibGuide “Constitution Day & Voting Rights” at https://harford.libguides.com/government_information for links to Voter Registration in Harford County and Voter Services information from the League of Women Voters of Maryland.

Census 2020 deadline is September 30th!! – It is time for the census, held every 10 years as mandated by Article 1, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution. Everyone Counts! You can respond online, by phone, or by mail! It is important to have an accurate snapshot count to assure proper federal funding of schools and food programs, daycare centers, libraries, hospitals, fire and police departments, critical community support programs, and for determining proper state legislative and congressional districts and the number of seats each state has in the U.S. House of Representatives. See these links for responding to the Census: https://2020census.gov/en/ways-to-respond.html and https://census.maryland.gov/Pages/ default.aspx .

September is #LibraryCardSignupMonth! In a great tribute, as 2020 is the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote, the American Library Association has chosen Wonder Woman as its Library Card Sign-Up Month Honorary Chair! See Library Card Policies at Harford County Public Library at https://hcplonline.org/policies.php. For all returning credit students and employees, your HCC Library card is the barcode number on the back of your HCC ID. For new student and employees, do not worry! During the Fall term, the campus and Library are unable to produce ID cards, but you can sign up for a temporary library barcode number when requesting materials for curbside pickup, if needed. All online resources, such as databases and the NoodleTools citation program, are available for credit students and employees with their HCC network user name and password.

Library Hours Fall Semester Aug. 24, 2020 – Dec. 12 2020

Library Building Hours Open to HCC students & employees by reservation only.

Mon-Thurs: 9:30 am-11:30 am, 12:30 pm-2:30 pm Wed & Thurs: 5:00 pm-7:00 pm

Online Reference / Ask a Librarian Hours: referenc@harford.edu Mon-Thurs: 8:00 am-8:00 pm Fri: 8:00 am-4:00 pm Sat: 8:00 am-2:00 pm See the Library website for exceptions to these hours:

http://www.harford.edu/academics/ library/about/hours.aspx

Contact Us Circulation Desk circdesk@harford.edu 443-412-2268 Library Computer & Digital Media Lab Service Desk 443-412-2068

Follow the HCC Library on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HarfordCCLib Or Twitter: @HarfordCCLib

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