Library Editions March 2017 Vol. 26 Issue 2

VOL. 26 ISSUE 2

From the Dean

MAR. 2017

sources. Libraries are key to education. Help turn the tide.

Library resources are on the chopping block. On March 10, the PostDispatch described how Governor Greitens’ $2 million budget cuts to libraries would mean fewer books for children and less internet access at public libraries. By March 17, President Trump introduced budget cuts to approximately nineteen federal agencies including the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL), which provide funding to federal, state, and local libraries.

Contents New Resources………….2 Book Sale………………...2 Book Club………………...2 Fake News……………….3 WiFi Hotspots……………4 Award Winners…………..4 Web Sites………………...5

Exactly, how will this affect us? Imagine the loss of Academic Search Premier (EBSCO), ERIC (the education database), and the Learning Express Library just to name a few.

The SCC Library receives several of its databases thanks to IMLS funding that comes to the state. The Institute receives its funds through the annual appropriations process of Congress. Encourage your Representative and Senator to sign Dear Appropriator Letters asking them to support IMLS and IAL. Please visit the American Libraries Association Legislative Action Center http:// cqrcengage.com/ala/ for assistance.

It is time to act, so that our students will continue to access library databases. If funding at the federal level is lost, we will lose valuable re-

Stephanie Tolson, Dean Learning Resources & Academic Support

Library Book Sale Please help us celebrate National Library Week at the annual library book sale: Monday—Wednesday, April 10—12 7:30 a.m.—10:00 p.m.

Hardcovers $1.00 Paperbacks $0.50

Awesome treehouse!

We still welcome your donations!

Please drop off donated books at the LRC by the end of the day on Thursday, April 6. We appreciate your help and hope to see you at the book sale!

And the Winner Is...

As they become available, the SCC Library will have all of the Oscar-nominated Best Picture films! Available now are Best Picture winner Moonlight, and nominees Manchester by the Sea, Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, Hell or High Water, and Arrival. Best Documentary nominee Life, Animated is also available. Reserve your spot for these films in the library catalog today!

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Coming soon...Best Picture nominees Hidden Figures, La La Land, and Lion, and Best Documentary winner, O.J.: Made in America.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) —the accepted authority on the English language—offers the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words. SCC students and faculty now have access to the digital version of the OED through the library web site. Updated every three months, the OED Online also provides several features for teachers, including lesson plans and quizzes to help students learn to use the OED. The 20-volume print edition is also still available on the first floor of the library in the Reference area.

Between the Covers Book Club Please join the Multicultural Programming Committee to discuss You’ll Grow Out of It

by Jesse Klein, which “hilariously and candidly explores the journey of the twenty-first century woman.”

April 26 2:30 p.m.

Information Commons in the LRC All students, faculty, and staff are welcome. Enjoy refreshments and giveaways at every meeting!

Evaluating News in a Fake News Era

by Theresa Flett You can’t get away from the term “fake news,” and I’m sure many of you have personally experienced your students struggling to identify the fake news stories they encounter (Students Have 'Dismaying' Inability To Tell Fake News From Real, Study Finds). Fake news is making news right now, but it really isn't anything new; it just feels more pervasive with the our increased reliance on social media. The Washington Post cited a study that showed that, "59 percent of links shared on social media have never actually been clicked." Over half the time people share stories without even reading them, much less making sure they are true. We all need to be reminded (and especially remind your students) that before you share, verify your news.

Blue Feed, Red Feed: See Liberal Facebook and Conservative Facebook, Side by Side Students need to be on the lookout for fake news but they also need to know that they should evaluate all of the sources they use in their research projects with the understanding that all information is not created the same way. A librarian from

Claremont College in California recently observed in a blog post that students are starting to doubt what would traditionally be considered reliable sources: “My hypothesis is that we all took the concept of ‘evidence’ (and, consequently, ‘good’ information being rooted in evidence) for granted. And now, thanks to world events, we discover that a concept that we implicitly thought everyone understood the same way… well, we don’t. And now we have to face that.”

We have to feel comfortable saying that not all information is the same and to have a common understanding of what qualities make a good source. For librarians, teaching information literacy is a fundamental objective. The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) new Framework for Information Literacy provides six foundational ideas that can help us get students on the same page:

Blind date with a book!

“Over half the time people share stories without

even reading them, much less making sure they are true.”

Authority is Constructed/Contextual Information Creation as a Process Information Has Value Research as Inquiry Scholarship as Conversation Searching as Strategic Exploration For example, with the first concept (Authority is Constructed and Contextual), “novice learners come to respect the expertise that authority represents while remaining skeptical of the systems that have elevated that authority and the information created by it.”

I have created a guide for students on evaluating news sources, which includes helpful links and more.

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WiFi Hotspots Coming Soon Thanks to a grant from the SCC Foundation, beginning Summer 2017, the library will be offering ten WiFi hotspots for semester-long checkout to students who do not have internet access at home. Students must have a referral from faculty or staff, so if you know of a student who doesn’t have internet access at home, you can email Theresa Flett with your referral. The hotspots are available on a first come first serve basis; the email will count as their place in line. The student will then be contacted to arrange for a time to come to the library to check out the hotspot.

Our students have very busy lives and without internet access at home, they are dependent on using outside sources; they don’t have the flexibility that online learning promises. By providing mobile hotspots, these students will be able to complete school work on their own timetable and enroll in online courses.

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American Library Association Announces 2017 Notable Books List The Notable Books List is an annual best-of list comprised of 26 titles written for adult readers and published in the U.S., including literary fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Following are the non-fiction selections available at the SCC Library: Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are / by Frans de Waal Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America / by Patrick Phillips The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland / by Dan Barry The Gene: An Intimate History /

by Siddhartha Mukherjee Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution / by Nathaniel Philbrick In the Darkroom / by Susan Faludi

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped win the Space Race / by Margot Lee Shetterly Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life / by Ruth Franklin Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams / by Louisa Thomas Evicted: Poerty and Profit in the American City / by Matthew Desmond The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship / by Patricia Bell-Scott At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others / by Sarah Bakewell

Interesting Web Sites AAPB: American Archive of Public Broadcasting http://americanarchive.org “A collaboration between the Library of Congress and WGBH in Boston ‘to preserve for posterity the most significant public television and radio programs of the past 60 years.’ Both audio and video from around the country are archived and searchable, with more than 17,000 clips. Curated collections on special topics include the First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, and the right to protest.”

Audiosear.ch https://www.audiosear.ch/ “A free service from Pop-Up Archive, Audiosear.ch is a full-text search ‘and intelligence engine’ for podcasts. Participating podcasts are loaded into the searchable database, allowing rich and deep keyword searching. Users can filter content by show, network, category, people, or topic and share clips on social media. The organization recently partnered with the Digital Public Library of America.”

BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine https://www.base-search.net/ “Operated by the Bielefeld University Library in Germany, this voluminous search engine allows users to search over 100 million documents from more than 4,000 sources.

Users can access the full texts of about 60 percent of the indexed documents (open access).”

Webrecorder.io https://webrecorder.io/ “A digital preservation tool developed by an arts group based in New York.

By using the Webrecorder interface, individuals can browse the web while recording their searches. They can then save and view ‘collections’ via the Webrecorder platform or download saved sessions.”

Reviews from Library Journal

To recommend materials for the library, please contact the library liaison for your department: Ying Li  Nursing  Health Information Management  Occupational Therapy  Physical Education  Biology  Chemistry  Physics Theresa Flett  Communications/Speech  Journalism  Political Science  History  Geography  Geology  Engineering  Business Administration  Economics  Finance  Math/Computer Science Julia Wilbers  Child Care & Early Education  Education  English/Literature  Foreign Language  Philosophy  Religion  Reading Kelly Mitchell  Art  Music  Theater  Anthropology  Human Services 5  Psychology  Sociology/Criminal Justice