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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VOL. 23 ISSUE 2 MAR. 2014

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 - yli@stchas.edu

Nursing

Health Information Technology

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

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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