Books now delivered to Davis and West Sac

Is your home campus in Yolo County? Starting this semester, you no longer have to come to the main campus to check out books; instead, you can have them delivered to the West Sacramento or Davis Center and pick them up there.

When you find a book in LOIS, simply click the “Request” button. On the next screen, fill out the form, and select the location where you want to pick it up.

In a few days, the materials will be available for you to check out! Note that while you can request materials from any Los Rios campus, you cannot request materials marked as “Reference” or ones on 2-hour or 1-day reserve.

Many thanks for making this happen to the SCC Circulation and Technical Services teams, SCC Operations, and the outreach center staff.

John Updike ~ American Man of Letters

John Updike, one of America’s most respected (and prolific) authors, died Jan. 27 after a battle with lung cancer. He was 76. We’d like to join the international celebration of his life and work, by highlighting some of the library’s resources that are available for you.

John Updike

Updike is currently the featured author in EBSCO’s Literary Reference Center, where you can find an excellent overview of his life and works as well as links to other articles (you can access the Literary Reference Center from the library’s database list). In addition, the library owns copies of several of his works. A partial list includes:

The Rabbit Tetrology	Two novels in this series won Pulitzer Prizes.
The Widows of Eastwick
Terrorist
Villages
Bech at Bay
In the Beauty of the Lilies
Several books of essays and short stories

Stop by the library and acquaint (or reacquaint) yourself with this beloved author.

Welcome Back!

Has it only been 2 weeks!  The news so far in this New Year could fill a book.  We won’t go into it – you’ve had enough - except to say that it would be cataloged in Mysteries and Tales of Woe (Non-Fiction).

Undaunted, we sally forth, library services intact and ready for action:

LRC hours and library phone numbers are on the Library homepage.  Or hit the Library Help button on the homepage.  We have email reference assistance, too.   Call, visit, email – we’re here to help.

Bring your students to the library for 50 minutes of customized instruction on the topics of your choice, or send them to the reference desk to sign up for an extra credit session (“drop-in”), to be attended on their own time. 

LOIS, the library catalog, finds books, ebooks, and media by author, title, keyword, course number, and more.  The databases are loaded with high quality full text articles from many thousands of journals, magazines, and newspapers.  Activate your employee ID card as a library card and you’ll be able to read 10,000 ebooks and about a million full text articles from your home computer.

New Library Display:  Books and visuals celebrating Black History Month feature African American Firsts in Politics and posters full of congratulations for the Obamas from SCC students.

Updated public computers and faster connections, brought to you by Computer Services, on the first and second floors.

There’s more:  Watch The Reader for upcoming news on services to the Centers, a hot new library widget, and so much more.