Library Newsletter March 2015

LIBRARY NEWS March 2015

Wallace State Community College Library

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In This Issue 

Library Director Attends Conference

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Library Spotlight

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Library Research Skills and Orientation Class

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From the Dust Jacket

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New Arrivals

Library Spotlight

Library Director Attends Professional Conference WSCC Library Director Lisa Hullett recently went to the Alabama Two-Year College Library meeting, attending sessions that included vendor demonstrations, best practices in libraries, a business meeting, and a personal meeting with Dr. Mark Heinrich, the system Chancellor.

Two representatives of the Alabama Virtual Library (AVL) board spoke on changes coming to the AVL and its collection. Although a budget increase for the AVL has been requested, the board will probably have to make some cuts to the number of databases offered. If instructors, students, or patrons have databases that are often used or well-liked, please let Ms. Hullett know. Postcards are available at the circulation desk of the library for anyone to contact the AVL Board.

Another session was held on the change in activities, the focus, and the environment within libraries to better make them the center of campus life. Another presentation on strategic planning continued this theme of planning and focusing attention on the library through the campus administration.

Two vendor demonstrations highlighted new ways of providing information, including Blackboard, that could be made available to students on any electronic device.

A most interesting and thoughtprovoking session was a one-onone talk with Dr. Heinrich, the Chancellor of the Alabama Community College System. He discussed the newly-passed Reciprocity Bill, the needs of Alabama’s future workforce, and retirement and the System. He then generously opened the floor to listen to librarians’ questions and concerns.

Ms. Hullett was much impressed with the ideas and information that she gained in attending these meetings and feels that the WSCC Library, staff, and students will benefit from them.

Additionally, new students are encouraged to stop by the front desk to ask any and all questions, whether they involve how to find scholarly information or perhaps just how to find the way to a particular classroom. The library plays an important role in a student’s academic and career success.

How is the New Year’s exercise resolution going?

Read and learn how runners adapt and continue to run through their thirties, forties, fifties, sixties, and beyond in the March issue of Running Times. The article is entitled “Mastering the Ages," and the magazine may be found on the periodical shelves on the main floor of the WSCC Library.

Library Offers Research Skills/ Library Orientation Class To help students with a successful start, the 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, as well as printing, photocopying, and loading money on the student ID card, using the Alabama Virtual Library and other online data bases to find articles, and other ways to take advantage of the library’s holdings and facilities.

The twenty minute class is free and is now being conveniently offered any time the library is open.

Students should come to the front desk on the library’s main floor and sign in to learn how to “work smarter.”

From the Dust Jacket The Most Dangerous Man in America: The Making of Douglas MacArthur Written by Mark Perry

(Published by Basic Books) “Douglas MacArthur is one of the most controversial generals in American history – and one of its most brilliant. His legacy was colored by his outsized personality, his selfimportance, and his disregard for civilian authority. Yet he conquered more territory with fewer men than any general in World War II. In The Most Dangerous Man in America, celebrated historian Mark Perry rehabilitates this paradox of a man, examining how he led America to victory in the Pacific and reshaped modern warfare in the process.

On July 29, 1932 – just weeks after winning the Democratic Party’s nomination for the presidency – Franklin Roosevelt dubbed MacArthur “the most dangerous man in America.” MacArthur, an admired hero of the Great War, commanded enormous respect from Republicans and the American people, and Roosevelt rightly feared that any bid for the presidency by MacArthur could prove deadly for his fledgling New Deal. But Roosevelt shrewdly tamed MacArthur by making him an advocate of one of his key domestic programs and shunted him aside as Military Advisor to the Commonwealth of the Philippines, where he was assisted by future President Dwight Eisenhower, and officially went into retirement. Yet, when faced with a mounting threat from Japan in the Pacific. Roosevelt recalled him to service and appointed him as Commander of the United States Armed Forces in the Far East.

Supported by a team of brilliant but unacknowledged leaders, including combat commanders Robert Eichelberger and Walter Krueger, MacArthur fought one of the most visionary campaigns of all time. The Pacific theater saw the first combined-arms operation in the history of warfare, a bold innovation that paved the way for the defeat of Japan and the end of the war. This coordination of land, air, and sea forces was unprecedented in history, and later codified by the U.S. Congress in passage of the Goldwater-Nichols Reorganization Act. A compelling new appraisal of Douglas MacArthur, The Most Dangerous Man in America is a penetrating account of a true military genius, a man who continues to be celebrated and misunderstood in equal measure.”

This book, as well as several others on MacArthur, is available to check out from the WSCC Library.

New Arrivals

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Non-Fiction

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The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee, by Marja Mills

256-352-8260

The DIM Hypothesis: Why the Lights of the West Are Going Out, by Leonard Peikoff

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Human Trafficking, Human Misery: The Global Trade in Human Beings, by Alexis A. Aronowitz

library@wallacestate.edu

America the Edible: A Hungry History, From Sea to Dining Sea, by Adam Richman

The Playful Brain: The Surprising Science of How Puzzles Improve Your Mind, by Richard Restak Obstacles Welcome: Turn Adversity to Advantage in Business and Life, by Ralph de la Vega Strategic Customer Care: An Evolutionary Approach to Increasing Customer Value and Profitability, by Stanley A. Brown The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness, by Harlow Giles Unger

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The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization, by Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith

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Storm and Conquest: The Clash of Empires in the Eastern Seas, 1809, by Stephen Taylor An Edible History of Humanity, by Tom Standage If You Want to Write, by Brenda Ueland The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life, by Julia Cameron Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free, by Charles P. Pierce If Nuns Ruled the World: Ten Sisters on a Mission, by Jo Piazza Expressive Writing: Foundations of Practice, edited by Kathleen Adams Women of the Constitution: Wives of the Founders, by Janice E. McKenney

Fiction Small Plates, by Katherine Hall Page My Mother’s Secret, by J.L. Witterick Dangerous Women, edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois

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