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VOL. 23 ISSUE 2 MAR. 2014
Access to New
Library Collections
through MOBIUS
MOBIUS recently announced a new collab-
oration with the Colorado Alliance of Re-
search Libraries. Later this Spring, MOBI-
US and the Alliance libraries will be able to
share resources by connecting their two
catalogs together. This will give MOBIUS
libraries, including SCC, access to more
than 30 million items in 42 academic, pub-
lic, and special libraries in Colorado and
Wyoming.
MOBIUS also announced the addition of
Tulsa City-County Library as its first out-of-
state member library. Tulsa City-County
Library has a collection of over 1.5 million
items, which will be available in the MOBI-
US catalog in the Spring. Materials from
both the Colorado Alliance of Research
Libraries and Tulsa City-County Library will
be delivered five days a week.
MOBIUS currently has 70 member libraries,
including SCC, that contribute 25 million
items to its catalog. To access the MOBIUS
catalog and request materials from libraries
including Washington University, University
of Missouri, and St. Louis Community Col-
lege, go to the SCC Library’s home page
and click Get Books from Other Colleges.
Books usually arrive at SCC 2-3 days after
your request. Notification is sent to your
campus email when the book is ready to be
checked out.
Welcome to the
LRC Video
Watch Scooter explore the library in a new
video to introduce new students to the
LRC. Welcome to the LRC shows Scooter
relaxing in front of the tv in the Information
Commons, checking out books from the
Circulation Desk, and getting help with his
laptop at the Help Desk. The video was
produced by Instructional Media and will be
linked from the library and COL101 web
pages.
In this issue:
Book Sale………………………….2
Artemis Literary Sources…………2
Book Club………………………….3
The Oscars………………………..4
Finals Fun………………………….4
Women’s History………………….5
Outstanding Titles………………...6
Web Sites………………………….7
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During National Library Week we are also
excited to welcome a representative from
the St. Charles City-County Library! Infor-
mation will be available on the online re-
sources the library offers, including e-
books, audiobooks, magazines, and down-
loadable music. Information will also be
available to sign up for a library card.
For assistance accessing the St. Charles
City-County Library’s online sources, you
may also see Theresa or Kelly at the SCC
Reference Desk. You need a current St.
Charles City-County Library card to access
these resources.
National Library
Week Events
Join the library in celebrating National Li-
brary Week, April 13-19. This year’s theme
is “Lives Change @ Your Library.”
Our annual book sale will run Monday—
Wednesday, April 14-16., 7:30 a.m.-10
p.m. Donations are always appreciated!
Artemis: Literary
Sources Literary research has just become a little
easier with Artemis: Literary Sources. Arte-
mis offers a new,
clean interface
and allows you to
search both Liter-
ature Resource Center and Literature Criti-
cism Online at one time!
Check out this video to explore the features
of this amazing new search tool!
New Scanners and
Charging Station
Don’t have change for the copy machine?
Scan documents to a .pdf using one of
our new scanners! The scanners are con-
nected to Computers 27 and 36 against
the wall on the library’s first floor.
Need to recharge
your device? A
charging station
is now available
in the library with
multiple inputs for
a variety of elec-
tronic charging
needs.
“Artemis allows
you to search
both Literature
Resource Cen-
ter and Litera-
ture Criticism
Online at one
time!”
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Author of Winter’s
Bone Speaks at
SCC
On Thursday, February 20, SCC hosted
Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter’s Bone, a
book set in the Missouri Ozarks that was
made into the award-winning film starring
Jennifer Lawrence.
In addition to Win-
ter’s Bone, Woodrell
has written ten other
novels, the most
recent of which is
The Maid’s Version
published in Sep-
tember 2013.
A soft-spoken Woodrell started the event
talking about his background and the moti-
vation behind the themes in his books. He
then read two passages from both Winter’s
Bone and The Maid’s Version. The reading
from his most recent book included a se-
lection he had never before read in public;
he was inspired to read it after spending
the day walking along Main Street in Down-
town St. Charles—an area that figures into
his newest title.
At the end of the reading there was time for
a Q&A in which the audience learned more
about Woodrell’s writing process, how he
feels about his books being made into
films, and advice he has for writers just
starting out. This well-attended event was
immediately followed by a book signing.
Copies of Winter’s Bone and The Maid’s
Version were available for purchase thanks
to the SCC Bookstore. It was a great event,
and we hope to host more authors in the
future!
Get Between the
Covers
Join the Multicultur-
al Programming
Committee in the
LRC on Wednes-
day, March 26 at
2:30, for the second
book in the Be-
tween the Covers
Book Club—
Divergent by Veronica Roth. Also join us
that evening off-campus to see the newly
released film on the big screen!
Divergent stars Shailene Woodley as Be-
atrice Prior, a teenager with a special mind,
who finds her life
threatened when an
authoritarian leader
seeks to exterminate
her kind in her effort to
seize control of their
divided society
(imdb.com).
Join us again April 30 for the last book club
of the semester, featuring the graphic novel
Blankets by Craig Thompson. Wrapped in
the landscape of a
blustery Wisconsin
winter, Blankets ex-
plores the sibling rival-
ry of two brothers
growing up in the iso-
lated country, and the
budding romance of
two coming-of-age
lovers (Amazon.com).
Coffee and snacks are available at every
meeting, and when you attend, you are
entered to win a Nook Simple Touch with
Glowlight!
“...he was inspired
to read it after
spending the day
walking along Main
Street in Down-
town St. Charles—
an area that figures
into his newest title.”
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American Hustle
Something Happened: A Political and Cul-
tural Overview of the Seventies / Edward
D. Berkowitz (e-book)
Dallas Buyer’s Club
Plague-Making and the AIDS Epidemic: A
Story of Discrimination / Gina M. Bright
RC 606.6 .B75 2012
The Lone Wolf of Wall Street
How They Got Away with It: White Collar
Criminals and the Financial Meltdown /
edited by Susan Will, Stephen Handelman,
and David C. Brotherton
HV 6768 .H69 2013
Watch for Oscar-nominated films coming
soon to the library! Available now:
Captain Phillips (DVD)
PN 1997.2 .C37 2014
Oscar Buzzzzzzz Check out these books related to the nomi-
nees for Best Picture:
12 Years a Slave Oscar Winner!
Twelve Years a Slave / Solomon Northrup
(e-book)
Gravity
Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America's First
Women in Space Program / Margaret A.
Weitekamp
TL 789.85 .A1 W45 2004
Finals Fun!
If you were in the library the week before
finals last semester, you may have noticed
an SCC tumbler full of M&Ms sitting on a
table along with free coffee. If you didn’t,
you missed out!
The library and
Student Activi-
ties are doing it
again this se-
mester, provid-
ing stress relief for students in the form of
contests, coffee, candy, coloring,
and...Play-Doh!
Join us May 5-9 to win fabulous prizes by
answering SCC trivia questions and guess-
ing the number of pieces of candy in an
SCC tumbler. In addition to contests, free
candy and coffee will be available to fuel
your brains for those challenging finals.
Also invigorate your creative juices for
final papers with coloring and Play-Doh!
Then get ready for finals week when Stu-
dent Activities brings Sia’s Italian Ice
Truck on campus May 12 and 13. We
hope to see you in May! And remember
to:
“Watch for Oscar-
nominated films
coming soon to
the library!”
“Some women have a
weakness for shoes... I
can go barefoot if neces-
sary. I have a weakness
for books.”
— Oprah Winfrey
MAR. 2014 VOL. 23 ISSUE 2
Josephine Baker
Martha Graham
Nina Simone
Janis Joplin
Pearl Primus
Marilyn Monroe
Mary Pickford
Wonder Women!: The Untold
Story of American Superheroines
Makers: Women Who Make
America
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression
into Opportunity for Women
Worldwide
Marina Abramović: The Artist is
Present
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Authors
Performers
Women’s History Month Celebrating amazing women who have made their mark in the Arts...
Margaret Atwood
Jane Austen
Edith Wharton
Louise Erdrich
Alice Munro
Sandra Cisneros
Artists & Photographers
Frida Kahlo
Georgia O’Keeffe
Marina Abramović
Lee Krasner
Dorothea Lange
Diane Arbus
Berenice Abbott
Margaret Bourke-White
Annie Leibovitz
Kara Walker
Sally Mann
Louise Bourgeois
Mary Cassatt
Grandma Moses Maxine Hong Kingston
Maya Angelou
Rachel Carson
Leslie Marmon Silko
Toni Morrison
Flannery O’Connor
Ethel Waters
Hattie McDaniel
Julia Child
Lucille Ball
Aretha Franklin
Billie Holiday
Joni Mitchell
Check out these DVDs!
The Violin: A Social His-
tory of the World’s Most
Versatile Instrument /
David Schoenbaum
ML 800 .S326 2012
Beyond Human Nature: How Culture and
Experience Shape the Human Mind /
Jesse J. Prinz
BF 161 .P745 2012
Hyperactive: The Con-
troversial History of
ADHD / Matthew Smith
RJ 506 .H9 S658 2012
The Book of Mormon: A Biography /
Paul C. Gutjahr
BX 8627 .G88 2012
Matters of Fact in Jane
Austen: History,
Location, and Celebrity /
Janine Barchas
PR 4038 .H5 B37 2012
Understaning Parricide:
When Sons and
Daughters Kill Parents /
Kathleen M. Heide
HV 6542 .H449 2013
Affluence and Influence: Economic
IneQuality and Political Power in America /
Martin Gilens
JK 468 .P64 G55 2012
Outstanding
Academic Titles
The Outstanding Academic Titles of 2013
have been chosen from books reviewed in
Choice, a publication of the American Li-
brary Association. This list “reflects the
best in scholarly titles and attracts extraor-
dinary attention from the academic library
community.” Below are a few of the books
selected.
The Parent App:
Understanding Families
in the Digital Age /
Lynn Schofield Clark
HQ 799.2 .I5 C59 2013
10 Things Employers Want You to Learn
in College, Revised: The Skills You Need
to Succeed / Bill Coplin
LC 1037.5 .C68 2012
Edible Structures: The Basic Science of
What We Eat / José Miguel Aguilera
TX 551 .A38 2013
Inventing Abstrac-
tion, 1910-1925:
How a Radical Idea
Changed Modern
Art / Leah
Dickerman
N 6494 .A2 I58 2012
Understanding Microbes: An Introduction
to a Small World / Jeremy W. Dale
QR 41.2 .D35 2013
Late Pleistocene archaeology and ecology
in the far Northeast / edited by Claude
Chapdelaine (e-book)
To recommend materials for the library,
please contact the library liaison for your
department:
Ying Li - [email protected]
Nursing
Health Information Technology
Occupational Therapy
Physical Education
Biology/Chemistry/Physics
Theresa Flett - [email protected]
Communications/Speech
Journalism
Political Science
History
Geography/Geology
Engineering
Business Administration
Economics/Finance
Math/Computer Science
Julia Wilbers - [email protected]
Child Care & Early Education
Education
English/Literature
Foreign Language
Philosophy
Religion
Reading
Kelly Mitchell - [email protected]
Art
Anthropology
Criminal Justice
Human Services
Psychology
Sociology
Theatre/Music
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Pew Internet and American Life
Project
http://www.pewinternet.org/
“The Pew Internet and American Life Pro-
ject continues to be the top site for data
about life as it is
lived online. The
project's mission
since 2000 has
been to track not
just the "impact" but "the evolution of the
internet through surveys that examine how
Americans use the internet and how their
activities affect their lives." Information
about how the Internet has changed, in
response to broad transformations in
American life, and how the Internet has
itself changed American life is one of Pew
Research Center's most important contri-
butions to public knowledge. The prolifera-
tion of browsable topics speaks to the In-
ternet's evolution over the years of the pro-
ject, particularly in the wealth of material
available in the Social Networking and Mo-
bile sections. Recent reports concerning
the privacy of online personal information
demonstrate the project's timely response
to contemporary issues. The home page
features the latest reports and research
and includes two helpful sections titled
Popular Topics and Research Toolkit. Us-
ers can download data sets, find profiles of
the project's lead investigators, and contrib-
ute to the project by responding to ques-
tionnaires. This site "takes no position" on
the information it disseminates. The Pew
and American Life Project stands out as an
indispensable resource, the best in a field
that it itself helped to create.”
—L. R. Braunstein, Dartmouth College
Interesting Web
Sites
College Reality Check
http://collegerealitycheck.com/
“As described on the site, The Chronicle of
Higher Education developed this resource
"to share facts and fig-
ures that students, par-
ents, and counselors
should weigh in making
decisions about college." Supported by the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, College
Reality Check is very helpful and easy to
navigate for those seeking information on
undergraduate study. A site visitor can
search for colleges (with various search
criteria and limiters) and/or compare up to
five colleges. Comparison data are provid-
ed for three criteria: average net price,
graduation rate, and debt repayment and
earnings. There is also information on the
national average for each item. The site
also provides information to users in the
form of three questions: How much will I
actually pay for college? Will I graduate on
time? Will I make enough to repay my
debt? College costs continue to increase,
and the job market remains very competi-
tive. Therefore, it is critical that students
and parents have accurate, practical infor-
mation about the financial responsibilities
they will assume for undergraduate study.
The information found here is certainly
valuable, as it relates to one of the most
important parts of one's educational experi-
ence—paying for it.”
—D. C. Martin, independent scholar
The Celebrity Lecture Series
http://cls.matrix.msu.edu/
“Created and maintained by Michigan State
University's College of Arts and Letters, the
Celebrity Lecture Series is a
"commemorative
online archive"
spanning a decade
of public lectures
that occurred there.
A short interview
(summarized in text) precedes each celeb-
rity's lecture, with candid photos supplied
by Douglas Elbinger. The linked audio files
for 31 well-known authors and other crea-
tive artists (who hold copyright to the lec-
tures) are approximately 45 to 90 minutes
long. Biographical information is also sup-
plied, along with the original lecture date.
The lecture series showcases important
critics, novelists, poets, and dancers of our
time. The site's broad range of topics in-
cludes lectures classified as the 1960s,
Journalism, and On Being an Author. The
collection is useful for high school or col-
lege-level faculty who want to share a snip-
pet of a particular artist's voice and mus-
ings. A timing bar assists with locating seg-
ments within the audio files. Overall, this is
an admirable website.”
—E. L. Bagley, Agnes Scott College
All reviews are from Choice Reviews
Online (http://www.cro3.org)
“Perhaps the library of fifty years from now
will have outgrown the present book and
relegated it to the museum with the older
inscriptions on clay.”
—Melvil Dewey (1926)
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