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VOL. 24 ISSUE 1 NOV. 2014
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) clas-
ses.
ACE Tutoring launched a pilot for online tu-
toring, promoted tutoring services to math
and English classes, and developed several
workshops to aid student success. Remain-
ing workshops include the following:
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
From the Dean
In this Issue:
New Catalog Search………….2
Film Literature Database…….2
Textbooks on Reserve……….3
New Library Staff……………..3
Book Club……………………...3
Award Winners………………..4
Web Sites………………………5
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 assign-
ments. The library offers instruction to stu-
dents 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.
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.
2
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.
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 addi-
tion, 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 larg-
est collections of entertainment photo-
graphs from Hollywood’s Golden Age to
the present day.
“...search the library
catalog for books,
e-books, streaming
video (Films on
Demand), DVDs, and
articles all in one
search.”
Subjects include:
Cinematography
Film & Television Theory
Preservation & Restoration
Production
Reviews
Technical Aspects
Screenwriting
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 data-
base) concurrently searches the Film and
Television Literature Index.
3
“Putting a textbook
on reserve allows a
student to check
out the book for a
two-hour time
period for use in
the library.”
Textbooks on
Reserve at the
Library
Each semester
the library gets
dozens of re-
quests by stu-
dents to check
out textbooks for
classes. At the
beginning of the
semester, stu-
dents 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 text-
books on re-
serve, 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 Com-
mons license from Ken Nickerson
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 Septem-
ber 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!
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 publi-
cation in 2012. We hope you’ll join us to
discuss this popular graphic novel. As al-
ways, refreshments will be served!
Andrew
Carnegie
Medals for
Excellence
The Andrew Carnegie Medals for
Excellence in Fiction and Nonfic-
tion were established in 2012 to
recognize the best fiction and
non-fiction books published in the
U.S. the previous year. The final-
ists 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 of-
fers a superb re-creation of a peri-
od when many politicians, journal-
ists, and citizens of differing politi-
cal affiliations viewed government
as a force for public good.
On Paper: The
Everything of Its
Two-Thousand-
Year History
by Nicholas A.
Basbanes
Z 247 .B34 2013
Combining crisp technical expla-
nations 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 Storm-
Ravaged Hospital
by Sheri Fink
RA 975 .D57 F56
2013
As the floodwaters rose after Hur-
ricane 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 fa-
ther’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 cul-
ture shock, hardships, and racism
she’s endured have left her feel-
ing 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.
4
“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 Shar-
ing, 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, dura-
tion, or student level. Series
groups videos by topics. Com-
munity 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 dis-
tinctive aspect of TED-Ed is 5
that the lessons are presented
through multimedia and can be
modified. The site also pro-
vides subscriptions to a blog
and newsletter that give sub-
scribers access to experts in
the field of education. The in-
clusion on the advisory board
of educational pioneers such
as Melinda Gates and Salman
Khan further supports the qual-
ity 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 learn-
ing.”
--A. Zanin-Yost, Penn State
Altoona
Digest of Education
Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/Programs/
digest/
“The online version of
the Digest of Education Statis-
tics provides access to statis-
tics compiled by the National
Center for Education Statistics
from 1990 to the present.
These statistics, which track
issues in pre-K through gradu-
ate education in the United
States, have been compiled
from surveys and projects con-
ducted by government and
private entities. Statistical ta-
bles are organized by broad
categories, represented by
chapters: All Levels of Educa-
tion, Elementary and Second-
ary Education, Postsecondary
Education, Federal Programs
for Education and Related Ac-
tivities, Outcomes of Educa-
tion, International Comparisons
of Education, and Libraries and
Adult Education. Within these
categories users will find statis-
tics on topics such as educa-
tional attainment, degrees con-
ferred, 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 down-
loaded in PDF format, and
individual data tables opened
from 1995 to the present. Data
tables created after 1996 may
also be downloaded in Mi-
crosoft Excel format. This is
one of the major sources for
governmental educational sta-
tistics.”
--S. R. Rosenblatt, Cerritos
College
All reviews are from
Choice Reviews Online
(http://www.cro3.org/)
Happy Holidays
from Your Friends at the Library