VOL. 24 ISSUE 1
From the Dean The start of fall is a refreshing time of year. We welcomed new students and launched new services aimed at increasing student success. Librarians worked diligently over the summer to enhance the single search features of the online catalog to include Films on Demand streaming video to the collection. Aren’t those librarians awesome! We welcomed the Adult Education & Literacy Department to the Learning Resource Center (LRC) over the summer. The LRC is bustling with High School Equivalency (HSE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) classes. In this Issue: New Catalog Search………….2 Film Literature Database…….2
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Introducing Library Resources Video Designed to give a taste of what the library has to offer, the video Introducing Library Resources provides a quick overview (under 2 minutes) of library resources for students getting started on their research assignments. The library offers instruction to students in many different ways (face-to-face, embedded in Canvas, online tutorials, etc.), but this video can easily be placed into any Canvas course, allowing faculty to promote library resources in a quick, introductory manner.
ACE Tutoring launched a pilot for online tutoring, promoted tutoring services to math and English classes, and developed several workshops to aid student success. Remaining workshops include the following:
Textbooks on Reserve……….3 New Library Staff……………..3 Book Club……………………...3 Award Winners………………..4 Web Sites………………………5
Solutions and Acid/Base Chemistry Workshop 6 p.m. Nov. 24, 2014 SSB 2201 CHM 101 Final Exam Review Workshop 6 p.m. Dec. 1, 2014 and Dec. 3, 2014 SSB 2201
Stephanie D. Tolson, Dean Learning Resources & Academic Support
For more information on scheduling class instruction or embedding a librarian into your Canvas course, see the For Faculty link on the library home page.
Presenting Encore Duet The library recently acquired a product called Encore Duet that allows students and faculty to search the library catalog for books, e-books, streaming video (Films on Demand), DVDs, and articles all in one search. Options to search only books/films or just articles are also available. A search for articles yields results from most of the library databases at one time. The option to search databases individually is still available through the library database page.
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Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text The library recently acquired the Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text from EBSCO to support students with film analysis assignments. This database provides abstracts for nearly 400 publications, as well as full text for more than 120 journals and books. In addition, the Film & Television Literature Index includes Variety movie reviews from 1914 to present and over 36,300 images from the MPTV Image Archive, one of the largest collections of entertainment photographs from Hollywood’s Golden Age to the present day.
catalog for books, e-books, streaming video (Films on Subjects include:
Cinematography
Film & Television Theory
Preservation & Restoration
Production
Reviews
Technical Aspects
Screenwriting
Demand), DVDs, and articles all in one search.”
The Film and Television Literature Index can be accessed from the library database page. In addition, a search in Academic Search Premier (also an EBSCO database) concurrently searches the Film and Television Literature Index.
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Textbooks on Reserve at the Library Each semester the library gets dozens of requests by students to check out textbooks for classes. At the beginning of the semester, students are often waiting for books to arrive in the mail, or for financial aid to come in. Sometimes it’s just a hardship to purchase a textbook. During the semester, it might be difficult to carry around a backpack of
textbooks all day! The library has several textbooks on reserve, and we’d love to have more! Putting a textbook on reserve allows a student to check out the book for a two-hour time period for use in the library. This way the textbook is available to several students over the course of a single day. If you are faculty and would like to put a copy of your course’s textbook on reserve at the library, please stop by or contact the Circulation Desk at x8434.
Backpack photo used under Creative Commons license from Ken Nickerson
“Putting a textbook
on reserve allows a student to check out the book for a two-hour time period for use in the library.”
Welcome Carolyn! Please welcome Carolyn Ehlers to SCC! Carolyn began working part-time as a Library Assistant at the Circulation Desk in August.
Carolyn loves spending time with her two children and four grandchildren. She also loves to cook, read, and travel. In September she went to Germany and attended Oktoberfest along with visiting many of the beautiful cities there. You will often see Carolyn in the library on Tuesday and Thursday, so stop by and say hi!
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Between the Covers Book Club Join us Dec. 3 at 2:30 p.m. in the library to discuss the graphic novel, Saga Vol. 1, by Brian K. Vaughn with artwork by Fiona Staples. This sci-fi/fantasy is the story of young lovers from opposite sides of a galactic war who struggle to raise their baby daughter in a dangerous universe. The Saga series has won numerous awards since its publication in 2012. We hope you’ll join us to discuss this popular graphic novel. As always, refreshments will be served!
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were established in 2012 to recognize the best fiction and non-fiction books published in the U.S. the previous year. The finalists and winners are selected by a committee of library professionals from across the country who work closely with adult readers.
2014 Non-Fiction Finalists WIINNER! The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns-Goodwin E 757 .G66 2013
Acclaimed historian Goodwin offers a superb re-creation of a period when many politicians, journalists, and citizens of differing political affiliations viewed government as a force for public good.
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On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-ThousandYear History by Nicholas A. Basbanes Z 247 .B34 2013 Combining crisp technical explanations with vivid historical and contemporary profiles, Basbanes unfolds the two-thousand-year story of paper, revealing in the process that paper is nothing less than an embodiment of humanity. Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a StormRavaged Hospital by Sheri Fink RA 975 .D57 F56 2013 As the floodwaters rose after Hurricane Katrina, patients, staff, and families who sheltered in New Orleans’ Memorial Hospital faced a crisis far worse than the storm itself.
2014 Fiction Finalists WINNER! The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt PS 3570 .A657 G65 2013 In the wake of his nefarious father’s abandonment, Theo, a smart, 13-year-old Manhattanite,
is extremely close to his vivacious mother—until an act of terrorism catapults him into a dizzying world bereft of gravity, certainty, or love. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie PR 9387.9 .A34354 A44 2013 To the women in the hair-braiding salon, Ifemelu seems to have everything a Nigerian immigrant in America could desire, but the culture shock, hardships, and racism she’s endured have left her feeling like she has “cement in her soul.” Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat PS 3554 .A5815 C57 2013 In interlocking stories moving back and forth in time, Danticat weaves a beautifully rendered portrait of longing in the small fishing town of Ville Rose in Haiti.
“I don’t deserve all these kind words, but, as a friend of mine said, I’ve got arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.” —Jack Benny (1959)
Interesting Web Sites TED-Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing http://ed.ted.com/ “TED-Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing, the offspring of TED.com: Ideas Worth Spreading, is a nonprofit site dedicated to the proliferation of great ideas in
education. Geared to high school and college levels, TED -Ed lessons are delivered through YouTube and can be changed to meet the needs of teachers and students. The site is easy to navigate, with clear explanations in the FAQ section. It is divided into four areas. The Lessons section may be searched by subject and filtered by content, duration, or student level. Series groups videos by topics. Community is a platform from which to ask questions, participate, and share experiences. Finally, Clubs allows students to create and collaborate with others worldwide. Although many sites feature information on creating lesson plans, the distinctive aspect of TED-Ed is
that the lessons are presented through multimedia and can be modified. The site also provides subscriptions to a blog and newsletter that give subscribers access to experts in the field of education. The inclusion on the advisory board of educational pioneers such as Melinda Gates and Salman Khan further supports the quality of the content. Viewers will be mesmerized by the amount of information, the ingenuity, and the ideas this site offers for use in teaching and learning.” --A. Zanin-Yost, Penn State Altoona Digest of Education Statistics http://nces.ed.gov/Programs/ digest/
“The online version of the Digest of Education Statistics provides access to statistics compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics from 1990 to the present. These statistics, which track issues in pre-K through graduate education in the United
States, have been compiled from surveys and projects conducted by government and private entities. Statistical tables are organized by broad categories, represented by chapters: All Levels of Education, Elementary and Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, Federal Programs for Education and Related Activities, Outcomes of Education, International Comparisons of Education, and Libraries and Adult Education. Within these categories users will find statistics on topics such as educational attainment, degrees conferred, or labor force status of high school completers and dropouts. Each statistical table indicates the original source of the data and the date on which it was prepared for inclusion in the Digest. The Digest may be browsed by year. Digests from 1990 to 2012 may be downloaded in PDF format, and individual data tables opened from 1995 to the present. Data tables created after 1996 may also be downloaded in Microsoft Excel format. This is one of the major sources for governmental educational statistics.” --S. R. Rosenblatt, Cerritos College All reviews are from Choice Reviews Online (http://www.cro3.org/)
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Happy Holidays from Your Friends at the Library