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