July-August 2023 Library Newsletter

LIBRARY NEWS

Wallace State Community College Library July/August 2023

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

―Harry S. Truman

True patriotism springs from the belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom, and equality not only for Americans, but for all people on earth.

―Eleanor Roosevelt

Hours For July & August Contact

Monday 7:30am-9:00pm Phone: 256-352-8260

Tuesday 7:30am-9:00pm

Wednesday 7:30am-9:00pm

Thursday 7:30am-9:00pm

Friday 7:30am-2:00pm

Saturday 8:00am-4:00pm

Sunday CLOSED

Library Adjusted hours for July

July 1 and July 4 Closed

July 7 7:30 a.m.- 2:30 p.m. August

No Adjusted Hours

E-mail: library@wallacestate.edu

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In This Issue:

• A to Z Maps Online

• Library Adjusted Hours

• Who Am I? - Literary Stars

• A Moment in History...

• It’s Our Pleasure

• From the Dust Jacket

• AVL-Discover Pronunciator

• Let Us Know

• New Arrival

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A to Z Maps Online

Overview for A to Z Maps Online

Ato Z Maps Online is a unique online database that provides the world’s most extensive collection of royalty-free, downloadable maps for schools. Students, teachers, and administrators can use our more than 60,000 maps in school reports, lesson plans, and personal research projects.

Ato Z Maps Online provides students and teachers with maps to download for school reports and lesson plans. It also provides patrons access to download maps for historical and genealogical research. Business library patrons can download maps to use in marketing reports and presentations.

Features in A to Z Maps

Online

• 60,000+ Royalty-Free Maps

• World Maps

• Regional Maps

• Country Maps

• State Maps

• Provincial Maps

• Territory Maps

• Antique Maps

• Climate Maps

• Geology Maps

• Historical Maps

• NASA Maps

• Library of Congress

Who Am I?

A Name Game of Literary Stars

(Answers on page 6)

I was born Pearl Gray on January 31, 1872, in Zanesville, Ohio.

Even though I spent much of my life on the upper East Coast (originally as a dentist), my writing helped define a genre.

Who am I?

I was born Daniel Handler on February 28, 1970, in San Francisco, California.

Using my real name, I wrote an “unauthorized biography” of my alter ego, just one of the many “events” in my life.

Who am I?

A Moment in History…

On July 4, 1776, the second continental congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence, announcing the colonies' separation from Great Britain. The Constitution provides the legal and governmental framework for the United States; however, the declaration, with its eloquent assertion that "all men are created equal," is equally beloved by the American people. The Fourth of July became a federal holiday in 1941. It has been celebrated as the birth of American independence with fireworks, concerts, parades, and family barbeques.

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It’s our Pleasure to provide Access to our Resources

IT'S OUR PLEASURE to WELCOME you to the Wallace State Library for the start of a new semester. In the WSCC library, we strive to help our patrons succeed academically and professionally. IT'S OUR PLEASURE to provide patrons ACCESS to printing, copying, testing rooms, study rooms, laptop loans, and resources to accommodate patrons’ library needs for a successful start to the new semester. These resources are available to enrolled WSCC students who need research assistance, a place to study or take a test, check out a laptop, or to work on a class project. Our services and resources are available Monday-Thursday 7:30 am9:00 pm, Friday 7:30 am-2:00 pm, and Saturday 8:00 am-4:00 pm. Students should come to the front desk on the second floor to ask about our library services and resources.

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Library Offers Research Skills/Library Orientation Class

To provide a successful start to the new semester, WSCC library is offering a brief class on library and research skills. The session covers such topics as using the online ILS (catalog) to find books, e-books, and other materials, using the Alabama Virtual Library and other online databases to find articles, and taking advantage of the library’s holdings and facilities.

The twenty-minute class is free and is now conveniently offered whenever the library is open. Students should come to the front desk on the library’s main floor and ask about the “Research Class.”

Additionally, new students are encouraged to stop by the front desk to ask any questions, whether they involve finding scholarly information or finding the way to a particular classroom. The library is essential to a student’s academic and career success.

From the Dust Jacket

Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House

Written by Alex Prud’homme (Random House)

A journalist shows us what our presidents liked to eat. Prud'homme, the author of several books about Julia Child, brings his interest in cuisine to a lively consideration of the culinary preferences of 25 presidents, from George Washington to Joe Biden. In the White House, he notes, food is both "sustenance and metaphor," reflecting the tastes of the nation's top leader and the country's economic, agricultural, political, and social conditions. The author reveals each president's attitude about food, which ranges from abstemious (Woodrow Wilson, who suffered from chronic indigestion) to disinterested (Nixon) to adventurous. In the author's estimation, Obama, both praised and criticized for being a "foodie," had "the most globally informed palate." Some men preferred the food they grew up eating:

• Lincoln loved "raw honey and cornbread."

• James Garfield and Eisenhower were partial to squirrel stew.

• Jimmy Carter loved grits, with a few eggs dropped in.

Eisenhower was an accomplished cook of hearty American cuisines, such as grilled steak, boiled potatoes, and apple pie. Truman, like Ike, was a meat-and -potatoes man, and Lyndon Johnson served guests traditional Texas barbecue. Whatever they ate in private (jelly beans, Mexican food, and sweet desserts for Reagan; cottage cheese for Nixon), they realized the significance of the menu at state dinners: occasions for the president to assert his power, showcase "the best of American ingredients," and display the prowess of the White House cooks. The Kennedys, comfortable with an international palate, were, to their guests' delight, masters of the art. Prud'homme appends the history with ten recipes all of which he tried and some of which he updated-including George Washington's grilled striped bass; Martha Washington's preserved cherries; Thomas Jefferson's Tarragon Vinegar salad dressing.

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Discover Pronunciator

Pronunciator provides access to the world’s largest language-learning resource that provides self-directed lessons, live teachers, movies, music, and more in 163 languages. Pronunciator content includes:

• Thousands of language courses for all ages and skill levels.

• Travel prep courses.

• ESL for 51 languages.

Please let us know what you want or need in the library.

If there is a book or resource that you would like us to see about purchasing, we’d love to hear about it!

Also, if you are interested in reading a book we own and providing a book review for the newsletter, we’d love to hear from you.

Our walls and display units are great for showing off your artistic skills, your hobbies and interests, cool artifacts, etc. We love to let students, faculty, and staff have a place for display.

renee.marty@wallacestate.edu or kayla.aaron@wallacestate.edu

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