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From the Dean The library is a place where students often seek resources to complete academic assignments, but did you know that it is a place to engage student creativity too? For a few years, I have been researching “makerspaces,” places that foster people’s creative thinking. Maura Smale said,
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way. 3D printers are becoming more popular in libraries because the libraries support creative exploration. The costs of 3D printing has not yet come down enough for the library’s budget. I found that there were less expensive ways to bring creativity into the library, so we purchased Lego bricks. Lego bricks have been engaging builders, young and old, for decades. At the beginning of fall 2015, the SCC Library initially invested $152 in sets of Lego Creative Bricks and put them out on a library table for self-initiated creative engagement. After receiving a $300 Wellness Grant, the library added Lego Creative Suitcases, the Apple Tree House, and a couple of extralarge baseplates.
CINAHL with Full Text………..2 New DVD Location……………2 New Library Staff……………..2 Book Club………………………2 New from EBSCO……………..3 Bookface Contest……………..4 Award Winners………………..5 Websites……………………….6
“Makerspaces can also provide a gathering place for like-minded hobbyists to create and collaborate” (http://acrlog.org/2012/10/16/ making-things-in-academic-libraries/). I envision the future SCC Library as a place of student engagement, a place where the light bulb turns on, where students not only learn, but also teach others about what they have learned. The library will become a place of creativity. Initially, I explored the idea of adding a 3D printer to the library. This would allow students to print objects, explore new things and bring math and science to life in a practical
Several students have been creating with Legos in the library. Research shows that when students actively create, they become better problem solvers, i.e., more successful learners. I challenge faculty to incorporate Lego creativity into their assignments. For more information, visit https:// education.lego.com/en/lesi/university/.
Stephanie D. Tolson, Dean Learning Resources & Academic Support
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The New CINAHL The SCC library has upgraded CINAHL to CINAHL with Full Text. This database
provides full text for 550 nursing and allied health journals and covers a wide range of topics including nursing, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Pre-fall COL101 students received fortune cookies with special library fortunes inside.
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The database also includes the CINAHL index of over 3,000 nursing and allied health journals, including publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses’ Association. In addition, it provides access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, audiovisuals, book chapters and more.
New Location for Library DVDs Over the summer our circulation staff transferred the library’s DVD collection into locking cases so that it could be displayed on shelves on the library’s first floor in front of the Reference books. The DVDs, which were previously housed behind the Circulation Desk, can now be easily browsed, which has increased their circulation during the fall semester. When a DVD is checked out, its case is unlocked by library staff. Stop by and see our collection; you might be surprised by what we have! All DVDs on reserve for classes remain in locked cabinets behind the Circulation Desk.
Welcome Our New Cataloger
Between the Covers Book Club
Meet our new cataloger, Rebecca Klemme Eliceiri. Current president of the Greater St. Louis Library Club, Rebecca has an M.Div. from Eden Theological Seminary and an M.A. in Information Science & Learning Technologies from the University of Missouri -Columbia. She enjoys reading and writing about where theology, education, and libraries meet. Her favorite authors include Rosemary Radford Ruether, L.M. Montgomery, and Dorothy Sayers. She also enjoys gardening with her family and exploring all that St. Louis and the surrounding areas have to offer. Stop by and say “hi” to Rebecca!
Please join the Multicultural Programming Committee for the following book club discussions at 2:30 p.m. in the Information Commons in the LRC: Oct. 28 The Shining by Stephen King (preceded on Oct. 21 by a panel on The Shining (1:00 p.m.) and film showing (6:30 p.m.) in the SSB Auditorium) Dec. 2 The Martian by Andy Weir (currently a blockbuster film starring Matt Damon) All students, faculty, and staff are welcome! Enjoy refreshments and giveaways at every meeting!
EBSCO Reading Lists in Canvas Curriculum Builder by EBSCO allows you to create and add reading lists easily in Canvas from our EBSCO subscription database content (e.g., Academic Search Premier). Curriculum Builder also allows you to add websites to your reading lists, annotate reading list items, and make your lists public to other users. To create a reading list, go into your course in Canvas and choose Modules. Click the + to add a Module. From the drop-down menu, choose External Tool and then EBSCO Reading List. After naming your page and publishing it, click your new list and then Click for Readings. Enter your topic in the EBSCO search box. To choose
an article for your reading list, click Add to Reading List under the article title. To view the reading list and add annotations, click See Current Reading List.
Students showcase their creative talents at the Lego table.
For more information on creating EBSCO reading lists in Canvas, watch our video (https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=rpAtEkPAJOA&feature=youtu.be) or contact the Reference Desk at (636) 922-8620.
EBSCO eBooks App Available Now With the new EBSCO eBooks app you can:
Search and browse our entire EBSCO eBook collection
Download titles to the app and read even when you’re offline
Sync bookmarks and recent position in the same title across mobile devices
Customize the reading experience by adjusting font size, brightness, margins, and more
The EBSCO eBooks app is available from the iTunes app store, Google Play, or for Kindle and Nook via http:// support.ebsco.com/knowledge_base/ detail.php?id=7610.
Without the app you can find eBooks by searching the library catalog or by going straight to “eBooks from EBSCO” on our database page. If you need help downloading eBooks, call the Reference Desk at (636) 922-8620.
“One technology doesn’t replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.” — Stephen Fry, English actor & writer, 2009
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#SCCBookface At this year’s Fall Fun Blitz the library decided to sponsor a contest for who could come up with the best #bookface. The #bookface trend really took off thanks to the New York Public Library and libraries all over the country sharing their pictures on Instagram. To create one you take the cover of a book and line it up with your face or some other part of your body so that it appears you’re an extension of the cover. These can be artsy, hilarious, or just eerily spot on (check out #bookface on Instagram or Twitter for some quality examples).
The Shining by Stephen King—the next Between the Covers Book Club selection.
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We had a number of students, faculty and staff participate in our contest and were able to give away some great prizes. All they had to do was take a picture with one of the books we displayed, tag the SCC Library on Twitter (@TheSCCLibrary) or Facebook (www.facebook.com/ StChasLibrary), and use the hashtag #SCCBookface. It was a lot of fun; feel free to keep that hashtag going! Next time you’re in the library and either need a study break or have some downtime, pull off a #bookface. It’s harder than it looks, but the end result really pays off!
Pulitzer Prize Winners FICTION
BIOGRAPHY The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David Kertzer
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
GENERAL NONFICTION
HISTORY Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
National Book Award Nominees Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs by Sally Mann
A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems, 1994-2014 by Marilyn Hacker
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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Mourning Lincoln by Martha Hodes
To recommend materials for the library or to schedule library instruction for your class, please contact the library liaison for your department: Ying Li (yli@stchas.edu) Nursing Health Information Management Occupational Therapy Physical Education Biology Chemistry Physics Theresa Flett (tflett@stchas.edu) Communications/Speech Journalism Political Science History Geography Geology Engineering Business Administration Economics Finance Math/Computer Science Julia Wilbers (jwilbers@stchas.edu) Child Care & Early Education Education English/Literature Foreign Language Philosophy Religion Reading Kelly Mitchell (kmitchell@stchas.edu) Art Anthropology Human Services Psychology Sociology/Criminal Justice Theater/Music
Outstanding Academic Web Sites 2014 Each year, CHOICE, a publication of the American Library Association, selects a group of “exceptional web resources” for its Outstanding Academic Titles list. Below are some of the websites selected from those reviewed in 2014. For more information about the selection process, visit ALA’s website at http://www.ala.org/acrl/choice/outstanding. AI (Artificial Intelligence) Topics http://aitopics.net/ Collins Dictionaries http://www.collinsdictionary.com/ Cary Graphic Arts Collection at The Wallace Center http://library.rit.edu/cary/ DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/ EJView US EPA http://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice/mapping.html Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) http://oatd.org/ Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/ Gifts of Speech: Women’s Speeches from Around the World http://gos.sbc.edu/ Global Shakespeares http://globalshakespeares.mit.edu/ UCLA Language Materials Project: Teaching http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/ Undercover Reporting: Deception for Journalism’s Sake: A Database http://dlib.nyu.edu/undercover/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/ Environmental Health and Toxicology Information http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro.html Kaiser Family Foundation http://www.kff.org/ KnowledgeDoor http://www.knowledgedoor.com/ Resources for the Future http://www.rff.org/ USGS National Geologic Lexicon Database http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/ USGS National Geologic Map Database http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/ngm-bin/ngm_compsearch.pl Virtual Cell Animation Collection http://vcell.ndsu.nodak.edu/animations/ Doing Business http://www.doingbusiness.org/ Economic Census http://www.census.gov/econ/census/
United States Courts http://www.uscourts.gov/
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Interesting Websites Menus: The Art of Dining http://digital.library.unlv.edu/ collections/menus/ “The wellexecuted online website and collection (one of numerous regionally relevant digital collections developed by University Libraries staff at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas) is truly a delight to experience. Its simple, user -friendly, thoughtfully designed interface provides evidence that great care was given to the selection and digitization of the approximately 1,700 digital images as well as the organization of the archive that holds them. One may study all aspects of the dining arts—from history to graphic design—while experiencing an exemplary level of authenticity in this unique collection of images and documents. Visitors can delve into details about the collection and enjoy the remarkable scope it covers, and they are invited to submit feedback and comment on the contents. Searching is simple, useful, intuitive, and accurate. Printing of images is restricted by copyright but details regarding these restrictions is presented along with information about how to purchase copies. For students of graphic design and
cultural history or those in programs related to hospitality management, the site provides rich subject matter. For the merely curious, the collection will amplify knowledge of aesthetic history. All will leave the site a little hungry for more and with a much greater awareness and appreciation for the often-overlooked but ubiquitous system of information graphics known as menus.” --J. C. Burns, Dixie State University
The Mike Wallace Interview http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/ collections/film/holdings/wallace/ “From 1957 to 1960, Mike Wallace hosted the nationally televised interview program The Mike Wallace Interview. Notable individuals from politics, academia, the military, and the sports and entertainment fields were asked unrehearsed, probing questions while being photographed in tight closeups. The discussions covered the gambit from politics, economics, and race relations to relations between the sexes and even UFOs. This format served as a precursor to such TV programs as 60 Minutes. In the early 1960s, Wallace donated 65 of the programs along with the prepared questions, research materials, and corre-
spondence to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. The website was subsequently produced to provide access to these fascinating materials. Five interviews are available as audio files and others as kinescopes or digitized 16mm films. Transcripts of the interviews are embedded in video files as subtitles or available as text files. The 30-minute-long programs are organized by broadcast date. Entries list the name of subject, the broadcast date, and subjects covered in the interview. The site's simple design makes navigation very straightforward, and the audio quality and video quality are quite good. Individuals interviewed include Steve Allen, Henry Kissinger, Erich Fromm, Kirk Douglas, Oscar Hammerstein II, Bob Feller, and Pearl Buck. Wallace's tough questioning made some individuals, such as Eldon Edwards, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, visibly uncomfortable. This terrific collection will interest historians and journalists alike.” --S. L. Hupp, West Virginia University at Parkersburg
Reviews from CHOICE Reviews Online http://www.cro3.org/
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LRC Art Gallery (a.k.a., library staff members having fun with #SCCBookface)