Thursday Night at the Movies – in the LRC

Join Instructional Media each Thursday evening for a free movie showing.  Can’t make the show?  Instructional Media provides free movie lending to students, faculty, and staff.  January 19th to May 10th in the Learning Resource Center, Room 105, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

The Library Has Your Textbook!

Does the library have your required text?  Now more than ever, the answer is a resounding , “YES!”  And it’s easier than ever to find your book in LOIS, the library catalog.  Sit back and relax as you enjoy an edutaining video, narrated by librarian Jeff Karlsen, showing just how easy it is to find your textbook in the library reserve collection.  Share the video with your students and post the textbook call number in your syllabus.  We thank you for your support!

Got a question?  Ask a librarian.

Art As It Happens in the LRC

Student Christine Gardner raveled this creation for Mitra Fabian’s Art 373 class in the LRC lobby on Wednesday afternoon. The building closed for the winter break at 6:00 p.m.Thursday, so you had to be quick to see the finished apparition.

Let Homer Help You Prep for Spring Semester

Just for you, faithful Reader readers, an opportunity to embiggen your enjoyment of life in the classroom:  The Simpsons in the classroom : embiggening the learning experience with the wisdom of Springfield, by Karma Waltonen and Denise Du Vernay.   PN1992.77.S58 W35 2010

Hop over to the SCC library and find it in the third floor stacks.  First one gets it, but the SCC library (and other libraries on the district) have plenty more books on effective teaching and teacher effectiveness

.…”the book … provides helpful ways academics can use to connect with students in teaching otherwise foreign and difficult concepts from composition to critical thinking to linguistics… a perfectly cromulent introduction to the world of Simpsonology.” –Joseph J. Foy, editor of Homer Simpson Goes to Washington: American Politics through Popular Culture.

Time Again for BOB at the LRC!

The SCC Library will close for the semester break at 6:00 p.m. on Dec. 15  and reopen for Spring semester at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, January 14.

Borrowing Over the Break begins Monday, Dec. 5.

Don’t let the break catch you empty-handed!  Borrow library books and videos to enjoy while the Learning Resource Center is closed.

From Dec. 5 to Dec. 15, faculty, staff, and continuing students may borrow books and videos (2 items for students) ~ all are due on Wednesday, January 18.

Find your book or movie in LOIS, the library catalog.  Browse the New Books and Popular Reading on the second floor.  Visit the library display.  There’s something for every interest.

Charmel McCullogh borrows a book from Johni Quinn-Berry

Questions?  Library hours and services.  Research assistance.

PILOT ~ A Tool for Student Success

Do you remember your first college research paper?  The anxiety?  The elusive topic that refused to be pinned down?  The endless hours you spent in the library hunting for relevant information? 

Your students are in the thick of it.  And the world of information that surrounds your students is much more complex than when you were in college.  That’s why the SCC library created PILOT.

PILOT (Path to Information Literacy Online Tutorial) is an online library tutorial that helps students learn the information literacy skills critical to their success.  Topics include:

• choosing research topics
• identifying information sources
• searching the library catalog (LOIS)
• using periodical databases to find articles
• searching the Web
• citing
• avoiding plagiarism

Come to the Spring 2012 Flex Workshop on PILOT to learn how to use this tool in your class. 

For more information, contact Sue Chen at 650-2760.  (See Flex Schedule for time and location.)

Free Holiday Film Festival in the Learning Resource Center

Instructional Media is hosting a Holiday Film Festival ~ four nights of great holiday movies for students to enjoy before the stress of finals!

Join Jack as he tries to “save” Christmas, Santa as he tries to prove it’s really him, a Red Rider BB Gun and a stuck tongue, and a once-ungrateful man turned thankful!

December 5:  The Nightmare Before Christmas
December 6:  Miracle on 34th Street
December 7:  A Christmas Story
December 8:  It’s a Wonderful Life

All movies will be in LRC 105 and will begin at 5:30 p.m.

A Fantastical Sculptural Mystery in the Library Stacks

Who Left A Tree, Then A Coffin In The Library?
Reposted from “Krulwich Wonders, an NPR Sciencey Blog” Oct. 31, 2011.

by Robert Krulwich

It started suddenly. Without warning.

Last spring, Julie Johnstone, a librarian at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh, was wandering through a reading room when she saw, sitting alone on a random table, a little tree.

It was made of twisted paper and was mounted on a book.

Read more…

New DVDs Focus on People with Disabilities

Just in time for the Education and Employment Forum for People with Disabilities on October 27 (at noon in RN 208, facilitated by DSPS), the Library has new DVD titles of interest.

Request them by call number at the Instructional Media desk on the first floor of the Learning Resource Center. As always, if you’d like us to purchase DVDs to support your classes, contact Nicole Woolley (558-2509 or nicole.woolley@scc.losrios.edu).

The Sea Inside (call number R726 .M37 2005)
Biography of Spaniard Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life.

The Diving Bell and The Butterfly (call number RC388.5 .S33 2008)
The French editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he’d only visited in his mind.

The Waterdance (call number RC406 .P3 W38 2001)
A talented young writer is permanently paralyzed in a hiking accident and must graduate from a physical rehabilitation center in order to return to the “real” world. Based on the experiences of writer Neal Jimenez.

Born on the Fourth of July (call number DS559.5 .B67 2004)
Based on the true story of Ron Kovic, a young man who volunteered for the Vietnam War, was wounded, and returned paralyzed from the mid-chest down. He later became a new voice for those disenchanted with the war.

Find many more DVDs on these and other topics in LOIS, the library catalog.

SCC Tutors ~ We Appreciate You!

The SCC Learning Skills and Tutoring Center concluded a successful National Tutoring Appreciation Week on Friday, a week that included an information table, a pizza party for tutors, and the first Tutor Leadership Workshop of the semester on “Tutors Letting Go of Stress.”  Tutors in attendance at the workshop shared the types of situations that give them stress, what they do to relieve stress, and what they do to defuse the stress of anxious tutees during a tutoring session.  This topic related to the ACE (Actualize College Excellence) theme for the week, which was Stress Management.

Tutor Appreciation Week at SCC by the numbers ~

• There are approximately 250 tutors campus wide
• There are at least 15 locations on campus where tutoring takes place
• Close to 90 tutors attended the pizza party at the Learning Skills and Tutoring Center
• Over 100 SCC students stopped by the information table outside the LRC to learn about tutoring services and how to become a tutor (estimated from the number of treats distributed!)