Bird’s Eye View A Newsletter from the Grace Van Dyke Bird Library

Meet the Librarians! Have you met the newest members of our library team? Faith Bradham and Sondra Keckley joined us in

August 2015, while Mindy Wilmot arrived in September 2014. Anna Agenjo still reigns supreme as our

benevolent Library Chair, and Kirk Russell maintains his duties as the excellent Technical Services Librarian.

Mindy Wilmot

Mindy is a Kern County native, born in Taft and raised in Arvin. She earned a BA in English from CSUB and

a Master's of Library and Information Science from San Jose State University. Mindy spent 7 years teaching

at Highland High School in Bakersfield as an English teacher and then as a Teacher Librarian.

Faith Bradham

Faith is new to California, having been born and raised in Texas. She holds a BA in English, with minors in

classics and comparative literature, from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and a Master's of Library

Science from Indiana University. Faith joined the BC community directly out of graduate school.

Sondra Keckley

Sondra holds a BA in biology, with minors in social science and secondary education, from Alma College in

Alma, Michigan. She earned a Master's in Education, in curriculum and instruction, from CSUB. She taught

biology at Stockdale High School for 11 years, then became the Teacher Librarian at Independence High

School in 2008, where she taught for 7 years. She also holds a school library services teaching credential

from Fresno Pacific University.

Spring 2016

Back Row:

Kirk, Anna, Faith

Front Row:

Mindy, Sondra

Photo Credit:

Dustin Ludeman

Cerro Author 2016 Announced The Grace Van Dyke Bird Library is beyond excited to announce the 10

th

Cerro Author—Andy Weir. His name might not ring bells, but his book will. Weir is the author of The Martian, which the Wall Street Journal called the “purest example of real sci-fi for many years.” Weir will visit campus on

Tuesday, October 25th

and Wednesday, October 26th

, 2016.

You may already know that Ridley Scott directed the film adapted from the novel, released in October of 2015, and Matt Damon just won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Mark Watney, the astronaut abandoned on Mars. We believe the novel will engage students; and the story is relevant to disciplines from English to biology and astronomy and agriculture to psychology.

Weir describes himself as a “lifelong space nerd,” and his background supports that assessment. Raised in California, he began working as a computer programmer at the Sandia National Laboratory at age 15. A computer science major at UC San Diego, he left college before graduation and worked as a programmer at a variety of companies, including Blizzard, where he worked on the video game Warcraft II. While in his 20s, he began writing fiction, self-publishing it on his website Galactanet, where he published The Martian in serial form. He prides himself on the scientific accuracy he achieved in the novel. When his readers clamored for the novel in book form, he published it as a 99 cent Kindle book before he was approached by a publisher. It debuted on the New York Times bestseller list at #12 and had a mercurial ascent to #1 in various categories.

You can still follow Weir’s writing on Galactanet, and he is amazingly active on his Facebook page as well. But, even better, if you would like to consider adopting The Martian in one of your courses, you can request a free examination copy from Anna Agenjo at the library. We hope to have an array of activities to support Weir’s visit that will

further engage your students’ interest in Andy Weir’s The Martian.

Getting hip with the kids: social media at the library!

Did you know that the library now

has 3 (count ‘em) social media

accounts? We are delving whole-

heartedly into the digital world our

students inhabit, and hope that

this social media presence will

allow us to engage with BC

students in a more personal and

connected manner. We maintain

accounts on Twitter, Instagram,

and YouTube, and we encourage

all of you to follow us and to tell

your students about these

accounts! We use these accounts

for library news, general library

know-how, and fun library tidbits.

We also encourage students to

ask us reference questions over

these platforms.

Andy Weir

Anna was the first librarian featured in #MeettheLibrariansMonday! https://www.instagram.com/p/BA-yGEpvq8a/

@bc_library

@LibraryAtBC

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Images from the Grand Opening on April 7: L, Rich McCrow & Trustee Romeo Agbalog performed the ribbon cutting ceremony; R, members of the Library, Writing Center, and Tutoring Center Staff

Delano Campus Library We are delighted to report the opening of a part-time library at the Delano Campus as of April 11! We are thrilled to

begin offering library services for our Delano students. The library shares a building with the Delano Writing Center and

Tutoring Center so that students can access all student services in one location.

Our Delano library hours are Monday-Thursday, 9am-3pm. The library includes a reference collection and a small

browsing collection, as well as several workstations and space for quiet study. The library offers library orientations for

classes in Delano, and will eventually begin offering workshops as well.

Adjunct librarian Elisabeth Sundby is our librarian on the ground in Delano. Any questions about the Delano library can

be directed to her at elisabeth.sundby@bakersfieldcollege.edu, or you can call the library at 661.720.2015.

L: Elisabeth, ready for action! R: The new Delano space, featuring a book collection and quiet study work-stations.

Bailey, N.B. (2015). Agricultural and food

controversies: What everyone needs to know.

New York: Oxford University Press.

BJ 52.5 .N67 2014

Kruse, K.M. (2015). One nation under God:

How corporate American invented Christian

America. New York: Basic Books.

BR 517 .K78 2015

Abbott, K. (2014). Liar, temptress, solider, spy:

Four women undercover in the Civil War. New

York: Harper.

E 608 .A25 2014

Fu. P. (2015). Getting to know web GIS. Red-

lands, CA: Esri Press.

G 70.212 .F79 2015

Edrin, K. (2015). $2.00 a day: Living on almost

nothing in America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin

Harcourt.

HC 110 .P6 E343 2015

Rieff, D. (2015). The reproach of hunger: Food,

justice, and money in the twenty-first century.

New York: Simon & Schuster.

HD 9000.5 R53 2015.

Kiesbye, S. (Ed.) (2011). Are social networking

sites harmful? Detroit: Green Haven Press.

HM 742 .A74 2011

Schultz, J.W. (2015). Trans/portraits: Voices

from transgender communities. Hanover, NH:

Darthmouth College Press.

HQ 77.9 .S55 2015

Strasburger, V.C., Wilson, B.J., & Jordan, A.B.

(2014). Children, adolescents, and the media.

3rd ed. Los Angeles: SAGE.

HQ 784 .M3 S78 2014

Barcott, B. (2015). Weed the people: The future

of legal marijuana in America. New York: Time

Books.

HV 5822 .M3 B374 2015

Lister, C.R. (2015). The Islamic State: A brief

introduction. Washington, DC: Brookings

Institution Press.

HV 6433 I722 L57 2015

Spitzer, R.J. (2015). Guns across America:

Reconciling gun rules and rights. New York:

Oxford University Press.

HV 7436 .S677 2015

Read all about it!: New titles at BC A curated list of some of the new and exciting titles that arrived in the general collection this semester!

(Arranged in call number order.)

Chang, J. (2014). Who we be: The colorization

of America. New York: St. Martin’s Press.

E 184 .A1 C4425 2014

Carreira, M. (2014). Voces: Latino students on

life in the United States. Santa Barbara, CA:

Praeger.

E 184 .S75 C38 2014

Yoshino, K. (2015). Speak now: Marriage

equality on trial: The story of Hollingsworth v.

Perry. New York: Crown Publishers.

KF 228 .H645 Y67 2015

Hirshman, L.R. (2015). Sisters in law: How

Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader

Ginsburg went to the Supreme Court and

changed the world. New York: Harper.

KF 8744 .H57 2015

Nocella II, A.J., Parmar, P.. & Stovall D. (2014).

From education to incarceration: Dismantling

the school-to-prison pipeline. New York: Peter

Lang.

LB 3012.2 .F76 2014

Beaumont, M. (2015). Kanye West: God and

monster. London: Omnibus Press.

ML 420 .W452 B43 2015

Marcus, G. (2014). The history of rock ‘n’ roll in

ten songs. New Haven: Yale University Press.

ML 3534 .M356 2014

Behnken, B.D., & Smithers, G.D. (2015).

Racism in American popular media: From Aunt

Jemima to the Frito Bandito. Santa Barbara,

CA: Praeger.

P 94.5 .M552 U625 2015

Carroll, L. (2015). The annotated Alice: Alice’s

adventures in Wonderland & through the

looking glass. John Tenniel, Illustrator. New

York: W.W. Norton & Company.

PR 4611 .A7 2015

Daugherty, T. (2015). The last love song: A

biography of Joan Didion. New York: St.

Martin’s Press.

PS 3554 .I33 Z57 2015

McGraw, S. (2015). Betting the farm on a

drought: Stories from the front lines of climate

change. Austin: University of Texas Press.

QC 903.2 .U6 M34 2015

Schreiber, K. (2015). The truth about exercise

addiction: Understanding the dark side of

thinspiration. Lanham, MD: Rowman &

Littlefield.

RC 569.5 .E94 S37 2015

Herndon, A.M. (2014). Fat blame: How the war

on obesity victimizes women and children.

Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.

RM 222.2 .H367 2014.

Mindell, D.A. (2015). Our robots, ourselves:

Robotics and the myths of autonomy. New

York: Viking.

TJ 211.495 .M56 2015

Paul, R., & Moss, S. (2015). We could not fail:

The first African Americans in the space pro-

gram. Austin: University of Texas Press.

TL 521.312 .P39 2015

Princen, T., Manno, J.P., & Martin, P.L. (Eds.).

(2015). Ending the fossil fuel era. Cambridge,

MA: The MIT Press.

TP 318 .E54 2015

Schatzker, M. (2015). The Dorito effect: The

surprising new truth about food and flavor. New

York: Simon & Schuster.

TX 370 .S33 2015

Cohn, M. (Ed.) (2015). Drones and targeted

killing: Legal, moral, and geopolitical issues.

Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press.

UG 1242 .D7 D76 2015