OCT 2012
Points of Interest · One-Search Box · Pinterest · Nooks · Banned Books Week · ebrary e-Books
Inside this Issue One-Search Box.……...2 Pinterest………………..2 Nook Colors……………3 ebrary e-Books………..4 Banned Books Week....5 National Book Awards..6 Web Sites……………...7 Book Cover Challenge..8
From the Dean
Your Vote Counts!
Learning has always been a passion of mine. With the onset of the fall semester, new responsibilities have come my way and I welcome them. The Library and the ACE Tutoring Center have an outcome in common: specifically to enhance the student’s learning experience. We encounter students every day and do our best to support their learning. Moreover, I think the students who return seeking additional service have a passion for learning too.
Since the beginning of the fall semester, dozens of students have stopped by the library to register to vote in the upcoming presidential election.
ACE Tutoring Center
Since assuming additional responsibilities, I have become more involved with the Success Semester Course (COL 101), promoting tutoring to students, faculty, and staff, learning about revisions in the college entry assessment, and identifying the strengths of our learning specialists. I am devoting time and energy to the Library and the ACE Tutoring Center, both centers of learning that work towards greater student success. I do not claim to know it all. My passion for learning leaves me open to learning and leading forward.
Paul and Helen Schnare Library
Stephanie D. Tolson Dean of Learning Resources & Academic Support
In order to register to vote, a student must be a resident of St. Charles County and have a valid form of identification showing his or her current address. Several library staff members are Deputy Voter Registrars in St. Charles County. Library Public Services Manager Yi Li stated, “Students are excited because this is the first time some of them will be able to vote in a presidential election.” October 10th was the last day to register to vote in the November election. This month’s library display, “Why Your Vote Counts,” includes books on voting and presidential elections. The voting display is behind the Reference Desk. Any of the books on display may be checked out. For a historical look at presidential campaign commercials from 1952 to the present, check out The Living Room Candidate (http:// www.livingroomcandidate.org) from Museum of the Moving Image.
LIBRARY EDITIONS · VOL 22, ISSUE 1 · OCT 2012
New Library One-Search Box The library home page has a new singlesearch box that allows you to retrieve books, e-books, DVDs, and articles with one search. Previously a search done on the library home page did not retrieve articles; library databases had to be searched individually.
“...a new single-search box...allows you to retrieve books, e-books, DVDs, and articles with one search.”
With the new search box, articles are retrieved from the following databases:
SCC Library on by Julia Wilbers Have you jumped on board the Pinterest bandwagon yet? Pinterest is a visual bookmarking site that allows you to organize and share things you find on the web. You can also browse boards created by others who share your interests. Pinterest has been used to plan weddings, decorate homes, and find recipes and good books to read! People have become obsessed with Pinterest, and the SCC Library has followed suit. We’ve got boards on a wide range of topics, though a number of them are (shockingly) library/book-related.
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You can join Pinterest by connecting with your Facebook or Twitter account or just by
Academic Search Premier (and all EBSCO databases)
LexisNexis
Opposing Viewpoints
Literature Resource Center
U.S. History in Context
Note that not all library databases are searched with the one-search box, but the option to search databases individually is still available by clicking Search for ArticlesDatabases on the library home page. The library has produced a short video to show how the new search box works. If you need assistance, please call the Reference Desk at x8620.
using your email address. Friend us on Pinterest (www.pinterest.com/scclibrary), and we’ll do our best to keep you entertained and expose you to fun/unique things! It can be addicting, so be careful. And be on the lookout for the addition of new boards throughout the year!
Got Nooks? by Julia Wilbers The SCC Library does! In fact, we have six Color Nooks available for our SCC Community to check out (this means SCC students, faculty and staff). The Nooks are preloaded with popular literary fiction and non-fiction titles. To see which titles are available simply search Nook in the library catalog and they’ll be listed there. The Nooks are a great way to not only familiarize yourself with an eReader but also to enjoy some quality leisure reading of titles that are still a little hard to get at the public libraries. We will continue adding titles throughout the year so keep your eyes peeled! Our Nooks check out for one week at a time with the option for an additional one week renewal. So far they’ve been flying off the shelves. Come see what the SCC campus has been raving about! Current titles (as of 10/15/2012):
All Roads Lead to Austen: A Year-Long Journey with Jane by Amy Smith
Billy Lynn’s Long Half Time Walk by Ben Fountain
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin
How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read by Pierre Bayard
John Dies at the End by David Wong
Lizz Free or Die by Lizz Winstead
No Easy Day by Mark Owen
NW by Zadie Smith
Rather Outspoken by Dan Rather
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
The Leftovers by Tom Perotta
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison
The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Trivia Lover’s Guide to the World: Geography for the Lost and Found by Gary Fuller
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
What is the What by Dave Eggers
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
We also have a number of titles for the Spanish-language enthusiast
“The Nooks are a great way to not only familiarize yourself with an eReader but also to enjoy some quality leisure reading of titles that are still a little hard to get at the public libraries.”
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“e-Books may be checked out and downloaded to computers and most mobile devices for use offline for 14 days.”
ebrary: The New e-Book Collection!
National Academies Press
World Bank
a variety of university presses
The library recently acquired a new database of e-books called ebrary College Complete. eBrary contains over 27,000 titles from major publishers including:
You will find ebrary by clicking “EBook Collections to view online or download” on the library home page under the one-search box. e-Books may be checked out and downloaded to computers and most mobile devices for use offline for 14 days. To check out a book, you must first create an account in ebrary with your name and email address. In addition to checking out books, you may add titles of your favorite books to your “Bookshelf.”
AMACON (division of the American Management Association)
Cambridge University Press
John Wiley & Sons
Oxford University Press
McGraw-Hill
Downloading e-Books (the basics) In order to download e-Books to a mobile device, you must first:
create an account with the e-Book vendor (e.g., ebrary, EBSCOHost)
download (for free) Adobe Digital Editions to your computer
Your mobile device must be compatible with Adobe Digital Editions. Popular devices compatible with Adobe Digital Editions include:
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Barnes & Noble Nook
iPad (works with third-party apps Blue-
This video will show you how to navigate ebrary. Search for your favorite topic and see what you find!
Fire and Txtr)
Kindle Fire (works with third-party app BlueFire)
For help downloading e-Books, call the Reference Desk at x8620.
Pay-for-Print Since the beginning of the fall semester, students have been required to pay for their print jobs in the computer labs across campus. In the LRC we are happy to report that all is well! To pay for printing students need their student ID number and cash or change (a $5 or smaller). An ATM is available in the Administration Building, and students can get change from the Cashier’s Office (ADM 1117) or the Bookstore. The pay-for-print program has cut down significantly on wasted paper and use of expensive toner.
Banned Books Week From Sept. 28Oct. 5, libraries across the country battled censorship and celebrated the freedom to read during the 30th anniversary of Banned Books Week. SCC held a [fake] bonfire and contest for students to win great prizes, including a banned books field bag. Since 1990 there have been over 10,000 attempts to remove books from libraries across the U.S. for reasons such as sexually explicit, offensive language, and unsuited for age group. The most frequently challenged classics include The Great Gatsby, The Catcher in the Rye, The Grapes of Wrath, and To Kill a Mockingbird. The American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom reported 326 challenges in 2011. To find challenged books and e-books at the library, search banned books in the search box on the library home page.
Top 10 Challenged Books of 2011 The American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom reported the top ten challenged books of 2011:
1. ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series) by Lauren Myracle (offensive language; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group) 2. The Color of Earth (series) by Kim Dong Hwa (nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group) 3. The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins (anti-ethnic; anti-family; insensitivity; offensive language; occult/satanic; violence) 4. My Mom's Having A Baby! A Kid's Monthby-Month Guide to Pregnancy by Dori Hillestad Butler (nudity; sex education; sexually explicit) 5. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (offensive language; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group) 6. Alice (series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (nudity; offensive language; religious viewpoint)
“Since 1990 there have been over 10,000 attempts to remove books from libraries across the U.S.”
7. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (insensitivity; nudity; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit) 8. What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones (nudity; offensive language; sexually explicit) 9. Gossip Girl (series) by Cecily Von Ziegesar (drugs; offensive language; sexually explicit) 10. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (offensive language; racism) http://www.ala.org/advocacy/banned/ frequentlychallenged/21stcenturychallenged
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National Book Award Finalists The 2012 National Book Award Finalists have been announced for Fiction, NonFiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature. Winners will be announced on November 14. Below are four of the finalists that can be found at the library. This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz PS 3554 .I259 T48 2012 On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In the heat of a hospital laundry room in New Jersey, a woman does her lover’s washing and thinks about his wife. In Boston, a man buys his love child, his only son, a first baseball bat and glove. At the heart of these stories is the irrepressible, irresistible Yunior, a young hardhead whose longing for love is equaled only by his recklessness―and by the extraordinary women he loves and loses: artistic Alma; the aging Miss Lora; Magdalena, who thinks all Dominican men are cheaters; and the love of his life, whose heartbreak ultimately becomes his own. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain Nook Color A ferocious firefight with Iraqi insurgents at "the battle of Al-Ansakar Canal"— three minutes and forty-three seconds of intense warfare caught on tape by an embedded Fox News crew—has trans-
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formed the eight surviving men of Bravo Squad into America's most sought-after heroes. For the past two weeks, the Bush administration has sent them on a mediaintensive nationwide Victory Tour to reinvigorate public support for the war. Now, on this chilly and rainy Thanksgiving, the Bravos are guests of America's Team, the Dallas Cowboys, slated to be part of the halftime show alongside the superstar pop group Destiny's Child. Poignant, riotously funny, and exquisitely heartbreaking, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is a devastating portrait of our time. The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers Nook Color "The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one -year-old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. Bound together since basic training when Bartle makes a promise to bring Murphy safely home, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for. In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that
press in on every side: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes actions he could never have imagined. The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4 by Robert A. Caro E 846 .C37 2012 The fourth installment in Robert Caro’s monumental work on President Lyndon Johnson, The Passage of Power follows Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career: 1958 to 1964. For the first time, we see the Kennedy assassination through Johnson’s eyes. We watch Johnson step into the presidency, inheriting a staff fiercely loyal to his slain predecessor, a Congress determined to retain its power over the executive branch, and a nation in shock and mourning. This is not only the story of how he surmounted unprecedented obstacles in order to fulfill the highest purpose of the presidency but is also a revelation of what can be accomplished when the chief executive has the vision and determination to move beyond the pragmatic and initiate programs designed to transform a nation.
Interesting Websites The Browser: Writing Worth Reading http://www.thebrowser.com “The Browser is distinguished from other news or literary aggregators by its subtitle. Not limited to news only, it brings together
well-written material of varying lengths on a wide range of topics from online journals, newspapers, and blogs. Samples of aggregated sources include The Economist, The New York Times, and The Atlantic, with web -based writing from Palate Press, Ars Technica, and The Huffington Post. The Browser offers both print and video content. Users may navigate easily via subject tabs or a search box. The navigation bar includes Best of the Moment (recommended writing updated frequently throughout the day); FiveBooks (interviews with "renowned" persons who recommend the five best books to read in their field; updated Monday-Friday); and Special Reports (subject grouping of items covered). The content is diverse. Access includes articles and blogs from as far back as 2009. Much of The Browser's content is freely available to the general public; however, paid membership options are available to
access protected content and other extras. This website's free access portions could be useful to augment materials in undergraduate classes.” — E. M. Bentsen, Baylor University Libraries
Digital Trends http://www.digitaltrends.com “Digital Trends (DT) describes itself as a resource for technology news and products and apps reviews. It delivers on all counts. This is a well-designed, easyto-use website...with pertinent and current articles. Each page has consistent tabs located at the top of the screen that allow quick navigation to major site categories such as Product Reviews, Computing, Mobile, Videos, Gaming, Lifestyle, and, of course, Social. The main page lists top stories chronologically. Many of these have proven to be especially interesting to college students always looking to satisfy their endless fascination with technology. The [product] reviews are excellent, and readers may publish comments and score the products. A How To section (under More) offers useful information on how to manage and use a wide array of devices from phones to iPads. Despite the enormous surge of social media sites, DT's lack of emphasis on sites such as Facebook and Twitter is refreshing. Overall, Digital Trends is an impressive website with a seemingly unending list of current stories from the vast world of ever-changing electronic technologies. It should be a regular resource for all those who seek information on current technologies and those who need to make intelligent technologyrelated decisions.” — M. Connell, SUNY College at Cortland
States Perform http://www.statesperform.org “Sponsored by the Council of State Governments, this website aims to provide users "access to interactive, customizable and up to date comparative performance measurements for the 50 states," and it succeeds in achieving this end. The data cover fiscal and economic matters, public safety and justice, energy and environment, transportation, health and human services, and education. The Compare mode allows users to select the US as a whole or one of four geographical regions, and then search for up to ten measures from the main categories. Search results appear in easy-to-read charts that may be downloaded as Excel files. A Profile section allows users to select a state from a graphic map and view its collected data. The Customize section allows users to select one of the key areas, choose from several subcategories, select a date range, and produce charts or maps to display these data. Depending on the data, the date range runs from 2002 to 2012. The site's simple design and clear-cut instructions make it easy to use. Scholars, students, government officials, and members of the public will find States Perform invaluable for locating a wide range of information with minimal time and effort.” — S. L. Hupp, West Virginia University at Parkersburg
All reviews were adapted from CHOICE Reviews Online (http://www.cro2.org/)
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