VOL. 24 ISSUE 2 APR. 2015

22nd Annual Library

Book Sale!

Please help us celebrate National Library

Week at our annual book sale, April 13-15,

7:30 a.m.—10:00 p.m. Hardcovers will be $1

and paperbacks 50 cents.

We are still accepting donations! Please

drop off your books at the LRC by the end of

the day on Thursday, April 9.

National Poetry Month

April is National

Poetry Month!

Please stop by

the library to see

the new interac-

tive display de-

signed by the

English Depart-

ment. Magnetic words allow you to re-create

lines from your favorite poems or make up

your own! Come share your talent with the

world (or at least SCC)!

Don’t See It in

MOBIUS?

Try Prospector

Prospector is the library catalog of the Col-

orado Alliance of Research Libraries, a

consortium of 42 academic, public, and

special libraries in Colorado and Wyoming.

Last year we began sharing resources with

these libraries, giving us access to 30 mil-

lion items in addition to the 25 million al-

ready in MOBIUS.

To access Prospector, first conduct a

search in the MOBIUS catalog at http://

searchmobius.org.

If you don’t find what you’re looking for in

MOBIUS, click the Prospector icon under

the search box, which will take you to a list

of results for your topic in Colorado and

Wyoming libraries.

Requesting a book from Prospector re-

quires an SCC I.D. number. The item will

arrive at SCC in about five business days.

In This Issue:

Book Club………………………..2

Oscar-Nominated Films……….2

New Library Staff……………….2

Award-Winning Books………...3

Outstanding Titles……………...4

Interesting Web Sites………….5

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APR. 2015 VOL. 24 ISSUE 2

Yes, Sir, That’s My Baby!

Reference Librar-

ian Julia Wilbers

and her husband,

Marcus, wel-

comed their

daughter, Vivian

Margaret, on Janu-

ary 3, 2015. Vivian

weighed 8 lbs.,14

oz. Mom Julia is

back at the library!

Cataloging Librarian Angie Burroughs Kelly

and her husband, John, also welcomed a

baby boy, John William (Jack), on March 20,

2015. Jack weighed 6 lbs., 11 oz.

We are excited about these new additions to

our library family!

New Library Circulation

Staff

Please

help us wel-

come Heather

Dolson to the

LRC Circula-

tion Desk!

Heather enjoys

spending time

in the outdoors

and going to Cardinals games with her hus-

band and children. In her spare time she likes

to read and visit with friends. She can’t wait

for baseball season to start! Please stop by

and say “Hi” to Heather!

“It’s Kind of a

Funny Story”

The Between the Co-

vers Book Club will

wrap up the semester

Wednesday, April 29

at 2:30 p.m. in the LRC

with a discussion of It’s

Kind of a Funny Story

by Ned Vizzini.

Also join the Book Club

Tuesday, April 28 at

6:30 p.m. in the SSB

Auditorium for a discus-

sion and showing of the

2010 film version star-

ring Keir Gilchrist, Em-

ma Roberts, and Zach

Galifianakis.

Oscar Buzz

Several of the Academy Award nominated

films are now available at the library, includ-

ing Birdman, The Theory of Everything, Boy-

hood, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and Whip-

lash. Selma and others are coming soon!

Also check the library for books on Alan Tu-

ring (The Imitation Game), Stephen Hawking

(The Theory of Everything), and Chris Kyle

(American Sniper).

“I've never questioned the integrity of

an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.”

—Leo Durocher

3

2015 American Library

Association

Notable Books

Below are a few of the books selected by

ALA as “very good, very readable, and at

times very important fiction, nonfiction, and

poetry books for the adult reader.”

The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders

Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution

by Jonathan Eig

Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story

by Rick Bragg

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and

Redemption

by Bryan Stevenson

The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for

James Joyce’s Ulysses

by Kevin Birmingham

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden,

the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State

by Glenn Greenwald

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

by Jill Lepore

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

by Elizabeth Kolbert

2014 National Book

Award Winners &

Finalists

Nonfiction

Age of Ambition:

Chasing Fortune, Truth,

and Faith in the New China

by Evan Osnos WINNER!

No Good Men Among the Living:

America, the Taliban, and the War through

Afghan Eyes

by Anand Gopal

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the

Flesh

by John Lahr

The Meaning of Human Existence

by Edward O. Wilson

Fiction

Redeployment

by Phil Klay WINNER!

Lila

by Marilynne Robinson

Poetry

Faithful and Virtuous Night

by Louise Gluck WINNER!

Citizen: An American Lyric

by Claudia Rankine

Young People’s Literature

Brown Girl Dreaming

by Jacqueline Woodson WINNER!

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles 2014

This prestigious list of titles selected by CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries—a publication of the National

Library Association—reflects overall excellence in presentation and scholarship, originality or uniqueness of treatment,

value to undergraduate students, and other criteria. This year 690 titles in 54 disciplines were chosen. The complete list

of titles can be accessed on campus at http://www.cro3.org/content/52/05/741.full.

Art Performing Arts Literature

Education Business Anthropology Philosophy/Religion

Math Science Psychology

History/Political Science Sociology

Interesting

Web Sites

IMLS Digital Collections and Con-

tent, from the University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign

http://imlsdcc.grainger.illinois.edu/

“The Institute of Museum and Library

Services' Digital Collections and

Content (DCC) ‘brings together cul-

tural heritage collections and exhib-

its from libraries, museums, and

archives from across the country.’

Click on a state to find collections

such as Plant Images at the Missouri

Botanical Garden or the Walt Whit-

man Archive from Nebraska. Con-

tents may be browsed by subject,

e.g., Arts collections range from

sheet music for various events, in-

struments, and dances, to Virtual

Motor City: Images from the Detroit

News.”

“Selecting Collections represents the

site as an alphabetical listing of all

exhibits present, beginning with A

Czech in the American Civil War and

ending with Zora Neale Hurston

Plays at the Library of Congress.

The DCC began in 2002, and at the

time of this review involved nearly

1,500 institutions, with 1,700-plus

collections held, for a total of nearly

1,232,000 items.”

—L. Lord, University of Kansas

Global Health Observatory, from

the World Health Organization

http://www.who.int/gho/en/

“The revamped Global Health Ob-

servatory (GHO) is a portal to online

health data and analysis provided by

the World Health Organization

(WHO). It contains more than 50

data sets in 1,000 health indicators

from all 194 WHO member coun-

tries. The Data Repository organizes

WHO's statistics via numerous indi-

cators, with data presented in tables

or dynamic reports. Dynamic reports

provide interactive data, charts,

maps, and time animation.”

“The Reports section contains World

Health Statistics, WHO's annual

compilation of data from all member

states, and other reports. The Coun-

try Statistics section contains a com-

pilation of each country's primary

health data and statistics. The Map

Gallery provides health topics maps,

organized by themes. The Stand-

ards tab provides access to WHO's

indicator registry, including

‘definitions, data sources, and meth-

ods of estimation.’"

—K. K. Mitchell, Albany College of

Pharmacy and Health Sciences

To recommend materials for the

library or to schedule library instruc-

tion for your class, please contact the

library liaison for your department:

Ying Li (yli@stchas.edu)

Nursing

Health Information Management

Occupational Therapy

Physical Education

Biology

Chemistry

Physics

Theresa Flett (tflett@stchas.edu)

Communications/Speech

Journalism

Political Science

History

Geography

Geology

Engineering

Business Administration

Economics

Finance

Math/Computer Science

Julia Wilbers (jwilbers@stchas.edu)

Child Care & Early Education

Education

English/Literature

Foreign Language

Philosophy

Religion

Reading

Kelly Mitchell (kmitchell@stchas.edu)

Art

Anthropology

Human Services

Psychology

Sociology/Criminal Justice

Theater/Music

All reviews are from

CHOICE Reviews Online

(http://www.cro3.org/)