Faculty & Staff ID Cards

Faculty and staff, if you want to get an SCC ID card, take note:  As of May 22, faculty and staff cards will only be issued at the Instructional Media service desk on the first floor of the Learning Resource Center.  

The LRC is closed from May 22 to June 9, but faculty and staff can ring the front doorbell to come in and get an ID card.  Adjunct faculty must bring a copy of their summer employment contract.

Library Database News

Find even more relevant and reliable magazine and journal articles than ever in new library databases (available from the library’s databases page effective July 1):

• Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) – more than 4,700 full text journals, 3,700 of those peer-reviewed. Subjects range from biology, chemistry, engineering and physics to psychology, religion & theology, and everything in between. Replaces ProQuest’s Research Library with about twice the number of full text journals.
• Literary Reference Center (EBSCO) – replaces Gale Literature Resource Center.
• Business Source Premier (EBSCO) – full text for more than 2300 business journals.
• LexisNexis Academic – over 6000 news, business, and legal resources
• Opposing Viewpoints – balanced content on key issues of our time

Contact your librarian to discuss how your existing assignments can be supported by the new databases.

Continuing library databases:
We hope you will also enjoy continuing access to CQ Researcher & Global Reports, ScienceDirect, ARTstor, JSTOR I and II collections, Naxos Music Library, Oxford English Dictionary & Oxford Reference Online.

Library Staff Selections for Your Reading Pleasure

If you believe people who work in a library ought to know what to read, this post is for you.

Heather Bratt: I’m listening to Gregory Maguire’s Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West on CD. It’s a biography of Dorothy’s Wizard of OZ nemesis.

Jeff Karlsen: I’m currently reading Alex Ross’ The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century. I’m still in the first section (1900-33), but really enjoy how it combines cultural history, biographical narrative and descriptions of individual pieces of music – many of which I’ve never heard, and now want to.

Debra Nixon: I was disappointed in the movie There Will Be Blood because the book it was based on, Oil by Upton Sinclair, is so much better. The book focused more on the son and did not portray the father as evil or money hungry.

Catherine Murrillo: Perfume: The Story of a Murder by Patrick Suskind is about a young man with a highly developed sense of smell. Obsessed with capturing the perfect sent, he turns to murder. And Pregnancy & Birth: Your Questions Answered by Christoph Lees is a good resource for first time moms.

Claudia McEnerney: The Known World by Edward Jones is a story about African American slave owners. African American men owning African American slaves is not a concept I ever thought about, but is a fact of United States history.

Rhonda Rios Kravitz: Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald follows four generations of a family. It was an Oprah’s Book Club book.

Happy Hunting!

With research papers due, we thought we’d remind everyone of how useful LOIS (the library catalog) and our subscription databases can be. Clicking on the links below will bring you to a list of books or full-text articles on each topic.  Look for a “refine search” link to tweak the search further.  (If you’re off-campus, or using the campus wireless network, use your access card barcode and library PIN to log in.)

• Periodical articles on how climate change is affecting the food supply in Africa
• Books on the Cold War published within the last twenty years
• Articles on Al-Queda and Osama Bin-Laden published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times in the five years leading up to 9/11
• Scholarly articles on African-American churches
• Articles on sexual harassment of nurses
• The entry for “earmark” in the Oxford English Dictionary