Bird’s Eye View A Newsletter from the Grace Van Dyke Bird Library

Meet the Library Staff!

We have had a few changes in our classified staff over the past semester, and wanted to take a moment to highlight these lovely and essential people! The library staff handles the Circulation desk and Technical Services. We’d be lost without them!

Karen Valenzuela (Library Technician II) works in Technical Services purchasing and processing new library materials.

Stephanie Winn (Library Technician II), who many of y’all might have known in her former position as a Library Assistant I, has recently been promoted and now oversees our Circulation desk.

Deborah Carmona (Library Assistant II) handles the Reserve collection and assists with Circulation. Deborah has served BC for 27 years and will be retiring this June.

Dora Hare (Library Assistant I) is our nighttime/weekend Circulation staff member.

February/March 2017

L-R: Deborah, Stephanie, Karen

Below, Dora (who works at night and wasn’t around for the group picture—we promise no one shunned her!)

Tenure Books for Faculty For twelve years the library has honored newly tenured faculty by purchasing a book in their discipline or one that has meant something to them personally. Each book is personalized with a bookplate commemorating their tenure. If you have recently received tenure and haven’t chosen your book yet, get in touch with us and we would be delighted to order the book! Some recent choices are: Rae Ann Kumelos—Mother Lode Narratives, Charles Kim—Where the Red Fern Grows, and Laura Peet—Wuthering Heights.

Library Orientations & Workshops For all of you eagerly awaiting the release of our Spring 2017 workshop schedule: it’s now live! You can access the online schedule here: www.bakersfieldcollege.edu/library/workshop-schedule, or find a print version at the reference desk. If you’re unfamiliar with our library workshops, we have workshops on 6 different topics, covering everything from evaluating internet sources to finding database articles to research strategies. Professors have reported consistently higher research abilities from the students who have attended one or more of our workshops, so we highly encourage you to send your students our way!

Moreover, if you’d like a specialized orientation for your particular class, we will happily teach your class about the resources specific to their topic available at the library! We will do this for any subject, from English to Radiology to Anthropology, and will even teach specifically for an assignment that’s coming up in your class. To schedule one of these orientations, contact Anna Agenjo at aagenjo@bakersfieldcollege.edu

2016 Faculty Authorship We are happy to announce that we have recently received three books written by or contributed to by BC faculty in 2016. Oliver Rosales (Social Sciences, Delano) contributed the third chapter of Civil rights and beyond: African American and Latino/a activism in the twentieth-century United States, entitled “Civil rights ‘beyond the fields’: African American and Mexican American civil rights activism in Bakersfield, California, 1947-1964.” Rae Ann Kumelos (English) wrote Wild wisdom: Animal stories of the Southwest. Matthew Garret (History) penned Making Lamanites: Mormons, Native Americans, and the Indian Student Placement Program, 1947-2000.

Spotlight on Librarian Work at BC!

In this section, we are highlighting some of the work on campus that librarians are doing outside of the library. As librarians, we strive to make sure that we are highly involved on campus so that students, faculty, and administration know how integral the library is to student success at BC!

Kirk Russell: Self-Evaluation Team Lead For the next year Kirk will be working on BC’s accreditation committee, co-leading (with Dean Stephen Waller) the Standard II.B Committee – Library and Learning Support Services. The committee will consist of staff and faculty from various disciplines and will evaluate the quality and effectiveness of BC’s library services and learning support services, such as Supplemental Instruction, the Writing Center, and Tutoring. The report will be one section of the final Accreditation Self-Evaluation document. The accrediting team will visit BC in October, 2018.

Sondra Keckley: Measure J Sondra Keckley was integrally involved in the Measure J Bond starting in April 2016, when she became the Speakers’ Bureau Lead and joined the Bond Steering Committee. As Speakers’ Bureau Lead she recruited a team, and coordinated the scheduling of presentations to community non-profit organizations. She also became the Endorsement Lead, where she oversaw the gathering of personal and organizational endorsements. Additionally, she supported the campaign by delivering yard signs and door hangers, phone banking, and as a poll watcher. Thankfully, all that hard work helped Measure J pass in November 2016! She is now gearing up for her next big project on accreditation as a member of AIQ.

Mindy Wilmot: B.S. Accreditation Mindy has been selected as the Assessment lead for the accreditation self-evaluation team. Although assessment has been occupying a lot of her time, for the last two years she has also been a member of the implementation team for the BAS program. She and her BAS colleagues laid the groundwork for this new program and she participated with others in the accrediting visit that took place last month. Mindy will also be representing BC and this program at the accreditation meeting in Fairfield later this month.

Faith Bradham: ASTEP (African-American Success Through Excellence & Persistence) Faith is hard at work this semester teaching a section of LIBR B1-Intro to Library Research as part of the ASTEP learning community on campus with Paula Parks (English) and Manuel Rosas (Student Development). In preparation for joining the learning community, Faith attended the Umoja Summer Learning Institute with Paula and Manuel in June 2016, and participated in ASTEP activities throughout Fall 2016. Her Spring 2017 section of LIBR B1 is embedded within Paula’s ENGL B1A section for ASTEP, so that her assignments and curriculum are aligned with Paula’s and students can immediately apply Faith’s research lessons to Paula’s research assignments.

Elisabeth Sundby: NEH Common Heritage Grant The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded Bakersfield College a $12,000 Common Heritage Grant, to be hosted by the Bakersfield College Delano Campus Library! As our Delano librarian, Elisabeth will be doing the majority of the work on this project. The Common Heritage program aims to capture the part of our country’s heritage that is preserved in homes, family histories, and life stories. The project hosted by BC’s Delano library will support digitization of cultural heritage materials representing Delano’s diverse international migration history. The project will provide technology and training, as well as organize community events to capture and explore cultural heritage materials. A digital archive will be established, and a culminating symposium will showcase the archive and student research utilizing archival materials. There will be opportunities for involvement by faculty, students, staff, and the community at large. Stay tuned!.

Little, D. (2016). Us versus them: The United

States, radical Islam, and the rise of the green

threat. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Car-

olina Press.

DS 63.2 .U5 L59 2016

Anderson-Brower, K. (2016). The First women:

The grace and power of America’s modern first

ladies. New York: Harper.

E 176.2 .B76 2016

Philips, P. (2016). Blood at the root: A racial

cleansing in America. New York: W.W. Norton

& Company.

F 292 .F67 P47 2016

Hannigan, D. (2016). Drama in the Bahamas:

Muhammad Ali’s last fight. New York: Sports

Publishing.

GB 1132 .A44 H34 2016

Madigan, J. (2016). Getting gamers: The

psychology of video games and their impact on

the people who play them. Lanham, MD:

Rowman & Littlefield.

GV 1469.34 .P79 M33 2016

Kramer, A.S. (2016). Breaking through bias:

Communication techniques for women to

succeed at work. Brookline, MA: Bibliomotion,

Inc.

HD 30.3 .K695 2016

Shlomo, B. (2015). The smarter screen:

Surprising ways to influence and improve online

behavior. New York: Portfolio/Penguin.

HF 5415.32 .B46 2015

Kelley, S.M. (2016). The voyage of the slave

ship Hare: A journey into captivity from Sierra

Leone to South Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC:

University of North Carolina Press.

E 445 .S7 K45 2016

Read all about it!: New titles at BC A curated list of some of the new and exciting titles in the general collection.

(Arranged in call number order.)

Shih, B., & Williams, Y. (Eds.) 2016. The Black

Panthers: Portraits from an unfinished

revolution. New York: Nation Books.

E 185.615 .B54645 2016

McGinty, B. (2016). The rest I will kill: William

Tillman and the unforgettable story of how a

free black man refused to become a slave.

New York: Liverwright Publishing Company.

E 540 .N3 M238 2016

Altman, D. (2016). Queer wars: The new global

polarization over gay rights. Malden, MA: Polity

Press.

HQ 76.5 .A39 2016

Allen, B. (2016). Benazir Bhutto: Favored

daughter. Boston: New Harvest.

DS 389.22 .B48 A53 2016

Yassin-Kassab, R. (2016). Burning country:

Syrians in revolution and war. London: Pluto

Press.

DS 98.6 .Y37 2016

Di Giovanni, J. (2016). The morning they came

for us: Dispatches from Syria. New York:

Liverwright Publishing Corporation.

DS 98.6 .D54 2016

Stryker, S. (2008). Transgender History.

Berkeley, CA: Seal Press.

HQ 77.9 .S77 2008

Whitman, G. & Dow, J. (Eds.) (2014).

Economics of the undead: Zombies, vampires,

and the dismal science. Lanham, MD: Rowman

& Littlefield.

HQ 801 .E334 2014

Zeisler, A. (2016). We were feminists once:

From riot grrrl to CoverGirl, the buying and sell-

ing of a political movement. New York:

PublicAffairs.

HQ 1421 .Z46 2016

Chasteen, J.C. (2016). Getting high: Marijuana

through the ages. Lanham, MD: Rowman &

Littlefield.

HV 5822 .M3 C43 2016

Tirman, J. (2015). Dream chasers: Immigration

and the American backlash. Cambridge, MA:

The MIT Press.

JV 6483 .T56 2015

Randolph, S.M. (2015). Florynce “Flo”

Kennedy: The life of a Black feminist radical.

Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North

Carolina Press.

KF 373 .K45 R36 2015

Smiley, T. (2016). Before you judge me: The

triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson’s last

days. New York: Little, Brown, and Company.

ML 420 .J175 S65 2016

Massy, S. (2016). Recording unhinged:

Creative and unconventional music recording

techniques. Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard

Books.

ML 3790 .M353 2016

Doyle, S. (2016). Trainwreck: The women we

love to hate, mock, and fear… and why.

Brooklyn, NY: Melville House.

P 94.5 .W65 D69 2016

Humphreys, K.R. (2016). Housework and

gender in American television: Coming clean.

Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

PN 1992.8 .F33 H86 2016

Anderson, C. (2016). TED talks: The official

TED guide to public speaking. Boston:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

PN 4129.15 .A53 2016

Cenziper, D. (2016). Love wins: The lovers and

lawyers who fought the landmark case for

marriage equality. New York: William Morrow.

KF 229 .O24 C46 2016

Whitefield-Madrano, A. (2016). Face value: The

hidden ways beauty shapes women’s lives.

New York: Simon & Schuster.

HQ 1219 .W45 2016

Weigel, M. (2016). Labor of love: The invention

of dating. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

HQ 801 .W6285 2016

Samuel, L.R. (2016). American fatherhood: A

cultural history. Lanham, MD: Rowman &

Littlefield.

HQ 535 .S255 2016

Armstrong, J.K. (2016). Seinfeldia: How a

show about nothing changed everything. New

York: Simon & Schuster.

PN 1992.77 .S4285 A86 2016

Martucci, J.L. (2015). Back to the breast:

Natural motherhood and breastfeeding in Amer-

ica. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

RJ 216 .M36 2015

Kramer, P.D. (2016). Ordinarily well: The case

for antidepressants. New York: Farrar, Straus,

and Giroux.

RM 332 .K73 2016

Levin, J. (2016). Black hole blues: And other

songs from outer space. New York: Afred A.

Knopf.

QC 179 .L48 2016

Trubek, A. (2016). The history and uncertain

future of handwriting. New York: Bloomsbury.

Z 40 .T78 2016

Shetterly, C. (2016). Modified: GMOs and the

threat to our food, our land, our future. New

York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.

TP 248.65 .F66 S384 2016

Huckelbridge, D. (2016). The United States of

beer: A freewheeling history of the all-

American drink. New York: William Morrow.

TP 513 .U6 H83 2016

Miller, G.W. (2015). Car crazy: The battle for

supremacy between Ford and Olds and the

dawn of the automobile age. New York:

PublicAffairs.

TL 215 .F7 M53 2015

Lusk, J. (2016). Unnaturally delicious: How

science and technology are serving up super

foods to save the world. New York: St. Martin’s

Press.

S 494.5 .I5 L87 2016

Dawes, D.E. (2016). 150 years of

Obamacare. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins

University Press.

RA 395 .A3 D386 2016

Bondar, C. (2016). Wild sex: The science

behind mating in the animal kingdom. New

York: Pegasus Books.

QL 761 .B753 2016

Rea, T. (2001). Bone wars: The excavation

and celebrity of Andrew Carnegie’s dinosaur.

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.

QE 705 .U6 R43 2001

Wyss, B. (2016). The man who built the

Sierra Club: A life of David Brower. New

York: Columbia University Press.

QH 31 .B859 W97 2016

Cushway, P., & Warr, M. (Eds). (2016). Of

poetry & protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon

Martin. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

PS 591 .N4 O33 2016

Held, J.M. (Ed.) (2016). Stephen King and

philosophy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

PS 3561 .I483 Z4784 2016

Wagner-Martin, L. (2016). Maya Angelou:

Adventurous spirit. New York: Bloomsbury

Academic.

PS 3551 .N464 Z96 2016

West, L. (2016). Shrill: Notes from a loud

woman. New York: Hachette Books.

PN 4874 .W425 A3 2016