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Learning Resource Center
Spring Update
Library Hours Spring 2012
Monday—Thursday: 8:00 a.m.—10:00 p.m.
Friday: 8:00 a.m.—7:30 p.m. Saturday: 8:30 a.m.— 4:00 p.m. Sunday: 11:30 a.m.— 4:00 p.m.
Exceptions
March 6; April 4-6 8:00 a.m. — 4:00 p.m.
Closed February 20, March 31, April 1, April 7-8
SUFFOLK COUNTY
COMMUNITY COLLEGE
MICHAEL J. GRANT
CAMPUS
Library Update
www.sunysuffolk.edu/Library
Spring 2012
Phone Numbers
Reference
851-6744
Circulation
851-6740
Media Services
851-6742 Congratulations to photographer Victoria Sinacori, (professional assistant, library media services). Her photograph of the Eastern Campus’s Montaukett Learning Resource Center was chosen for the cover of Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. She’ll be joined as a contributor by librarian Sue DeMasi whose article, The Federal Writers’ Project: A Legacy of Words, will be the featured bibliographic essay in March.
Our capital project is moving along and this spring a design competition will be held to determine which firm gets the final nod to start working on the Learning Resource Center (LRC). The LRC Building and Design committee will host open forums to gather input from the campus community regarding the various proposals. Buildings of this size and scope take about a year to design and a year and a half to construct, bringing the prospective completion date to January 2015. The new LRC will greatly enhance the teaching and learning environment on campus.
This Just In
Spring 2012 Library Update
Basics: Creative Photography
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing
The Cambridge Guide to the Solar System
Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide
The Food–Mood Solution
Gaming Matters: Art, Science, Magic and the Computer Game Medium
Incognito: the Secret Lives of the Brain
Kinderculture: the Corporate Construction of Childhood
Modern Arab American Fiction: A Reader’s Guide
Next Word, Better Word: The Craft of Writing Poetry
Serial Killers: Psychiatry, Criminology, Responsibility
The Social Media Bible: Tactics, Tools, & Strategies for Business Success
Stroke Rehabilitation: A Function Based Approach
Women and Slavery in History: a Documentary History
Media
Below, just some of the newest additions to our collection.
Check the catalog for call numbers and
additional new titles.
The Bro Code: how Contemporary Culture Creates Sexist Men DVD 927 Generation M: Misogyny in Media & Culture DVD918 Leonard Bernstein Omnibus–Historic TV Broadcasts DVD 921 Not Just a Game: Power, Politics and American Sports DVD 917
Plunder: the Crime of our Time DVD 930 Shop ‘Til You Drop DVD 933 Strangers Abroad: Pioneers of Social Anthropology DVD 920 Women, War & Peace DVD 929
Books
Shop ‘Til You Drop:
Crisis of
Consumerism
DVD 933
Are we too materialistic? Are we
willfully trashing the
planet in our pursuit of things? And what's
the source of all this
frenetic consumer
energy and desire anyway? In a fast-
paced tour of the
ecological and psychological terrain
of American consumer
culture, Shop 'Til You
Drop challenges us to confront these
questions head-on.
Popular Reading 11/22/63: A Novel
Anatomy of a Disappearance
Caleb’s Crossing
My Lobotomy: A Memoir
Textbooks on Reserve
In support of our students, and in line with the College policy on
textbook access and affordability, the library continues to purchase
textbooks for student use. This year, over 60 textbooks were purchased.
To help in this effort, faculty are encouraged to place their extra
textbooks on reserve. Please contact Deborah Skolom, circulation clerk, if
you have a book to contribute.
Spring 2012 Library Update
I must say I find television educational. The minute someone
turns it on, I go to the
library and
read a book.
~~Groucho Marx
Comedian,
1890-1977
LIBRARY FACULTY
David Quinn, Campus Head Librarian
Susan DeMasi, Professor of Library Services
Kevin Peterman, Professor of Library Services
Bruce Seger, Instructor of Library Services
MaryPat Takacs, Assistant Professor of Library Services
Gayle Sheridan, Professor Instructional Media Coordinator
Victoria Sinacori, Professional Assistant, Media
Newsletter Editor: Sue DeMasi Photography: Victoria Sinacori
Library Staff Lynn McCloat
Mary Ann Oliva Deborah Skolom
Information Literacy News
Library faculty taught nearly 200 classes during
the fall 2011 semester! This includes subject-specific classes, COL 101 (College Seminar)
library orientations and the credit-bearing Honors LIB 101 (Research Essentials, Library
and the Internet). Librarians are happy to work with instructors to develop research sessions.
Please contact your liaisons, listed below, or Professor Bruce Seger, coordinator of
information literacy, to make arrangements for class sessions.
Sue DeMasi: Arts & Humanities, Education,
Language Arts, English, ESL, Honors.
Kevin Peterman: Technology/Engineering, Photography, Media, Communications.
Bruce Seger: Business/Technology, Law, Health
and Physical Education, Social Sciences.
MaryPat Takacs: Health Sciences, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Nursing.
Spring 2012 Library Update
The Library and the Communication/Language
Arts Department are sponsoring a repeat
performance of the play, Mosaic. This student/
faculty staged reading focuses on the stories of
immigrants, former slaves, factory
workers and others during the Great
Depression. From left, student director Christopher Shea, with actors
Nikki Campbell, Rolina Fleurima, and Dean Jane Shearer, during a Mosaic rehearsal.
Library Web Site: the Times They Are a Changin’
The SCCC library web site is in transition, with new links, pages and formats being implemented. The Databases by Subject and Research Guides sections debuted over the fall and winter sessions; other changes will be instituted gradually, with most links going live next summer. The Databases by Subject section allows users to link to either multi-subject databases or specialty databases covering different types of resources (i.e., art images, newspapers) and specific areas such as law, business, psychology, history, and literature. Although the databases themselves have previously been linked to the SCCC library web site, the format and layout of these pages is different. The Research Guides section links to an all-encompassing LibGuides page. (LibGuides is a system which allows librarians to tailor content to specific subject areas or class assignments.) Here, users will find Subject Area Guides (ranging from “American Sign Language” to “Visual Arts”), Individual Campus Guides, and Faculty Guides, which contain links to such topics as plagiarism, copyright and fair use, and information literacy. New updates will be completed as needed. As always, we welcome your feedback.
www.sunysuffolk.edu/Library
MOSAIC —Save the Date: Evening Common Hour Presentation
March 5, 7:00 p.m., Van Nostrand Theatre