Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Find Your Zones in the Library



Collaborative Zone
• Active Learning
• Normal Conversations
• No Cell Phone Calls
• Turn Cell Phone Ringers Off

Quiet Study Zone
• Occasional talking
• Low speaking voice
• No cell phone calls
• Set cell phone to silent

Silent Study Zone
• Strictly for silent study
• No talking
• No cell phone calls
• Set cell phone to silent

When, why, & how did we start the library zones program?

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Choose Privacy Week 2011

Choose Privacy Week May 2-8, 2010May 1-7, 2011 is the second annual Choose Privacy Week, an ongoing program by American Library Association.

Library Display:
View the list of books on display at the CBC Library.

Handouts:
Videos: 
Have you ever "googled" your name? Were you surprised by what you found online? Take some time to watch the following thought-provoking video.

Choose Privacy Week Video from 20K Films on Vimeo.

Here is another video that explores how technology has influenced our concept of privacy.



More Videos

More Websites:

What They Know. A Series of articles on digital privacy from The Wall Street Journal.

Privacy in Peril.

The Paranoid's Guide to Facebook

Please Rob Me: Raising awareness about over-sharing and locational privacy.

securepasswords.net

Annette Cary. "Protecting ID easy as A-b-C. " Tri - City Herald 5 May 2011,Washington State Newsstand, ProQuest. Web. 5 May. 2011.

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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

New Subscription Titles available in Ebrary

Ebrary added over 1000 more titles to our College Complete subscription near the end of April. Here are just a few of the wide variety of titles offered:

In The pleasures and sorrows of work [Vintage, 2009] Alain de Botton muses on whether someone with the job title ‘Brand Supervision Coordinator, Sweet Biscuits’ can find meaning in his work and visits with the founding member of the Pylon Appreciation Society as part of an idiosyncratic journey through the world of work. Includes lots of great black and white photos by Richard Baker.

Those looking for something more practical might appreciate
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2010 by Carole Boggs Matthews, an entry in the QuickSteps series of “recipe books for computer users” from McGraw-Hill.  Step-by-step instructions are accompanied by lots of illustrations and helpful tips. Word 2010 and Excel 2010 are covered in separate titles.

Reference titles include Bud Hannings' American Revolutionary War Leaders : A Biographical Dictionary [McFarland 2010], Webster's new world medical dictionary [Wiley, 2008], and the 5th edition of The dictionary of human geography [Blackwell, 2009].

Finally, Curtis J. Bonk’s The world is open : how Web technology is revolutionizing education; Ebooks, E-Learning, Open Source software, OpenCourseWare, Learning Object Repositories, and Electronic Collaboration are only a few of the topics covered in this wide ranging discussion of the ‘Open Learning World.’

You will need an internet connection and the quarterly library database password in order to read these.

Friday, April 22, 2011

New to Ebrary

April 2011 - 53 single-user titles:

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

April is National Poetry Month

Update (May 5, 2011): View "favorite lines of poetry" submitted by CBC Library users. 

The CBC Library is featuring a National Poetry Month display of books of poetry, about poetry and poets, and recordings of poets reading their work.  We've included books of poetry from Katrina Roberts who will be here tomorrow, April 7th at 7 PM (HUB Main Stage), along with works from LitFest poets who came in previous years.  We are also featuring ebooks of/about poetry in our catalog; you'll need the 'Library Research' password for the quarter to read them off campus.

We would also like to invite poetry fans to share one of their favorite lines of poetry with us, either here in the library or on our Facebook page.

National Poetry Month is a program of the Academy of American Poets, which offers 30 Ways to Celebrate, as well as many poems and information about poetry on their website.

Friday, March 18, 2011

Library Facebook Page

Find CBC Library Facebook page at http://bit.ly/cbclibraryfacebook!

"Like" us and get our updates on your wall! Just click on the "Like" button. Let your friends know too. we'd really appreciate it.

Updates include links to new books, fun technologies, new services, campus events, and more.

Please leave a comment and let us know what kind of updates you would like to see.




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