The Library Staff at LAC and PCC Library welcomes you to a new academic year. We’d like to alert you to library services and information resources that will support teaching and learning and foster the success of our LBCC scholars. Some are new, some are improved, and others are unchanged, but important for new students and faculty to know about:
New for 2010:
• New books! A “refreshed” and updated collection of new titles in a broad range of disciplines has been selected and is ready to check out. Look for the display in the LAC library lobby. (There’s a new and growing selection of DVD’s too.)
• New database: ARTstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. This incredible resource contains contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates and is available 24/7 through the library web site.
• New library staff: new adjunct librarians come to LBCC Libary with subject specializations, perspectives and skills that will enhance the library’s ability to meet the needs of today’s students and faculty.
Ongoing (but not to be missed):
• Library orientation and courses. Help students write better papers and give more authoritative presentations by knowing how to identify, retrieve, evaluate, and synthesize information. Invite a librarian to give your class an orientation and/or collaborate with a librarian in designing an assignment.
• Reserve services. Many of our students can’t afford their textbooks! Instructors can help them by putting a copy of each text on reserve with the library where they can be made available for limited loan.
• 24/7 Services. Get library information when it’s convenient for you, any time of the day or night. Use the online catalog, Voyager, access a database for full-image research articles from journals or newspapers, get an electronic book, or chat with a librarian online, all through the library’s home page. (Plus, LBCC is one of the few community colleges that hasn’t cut library building hours during the recession.)
• Access to CSULB Library: LBCC students and faculty can check out books and media from our neighboring institution with their current LBCC campus id.
For more information contact: Dele Ukwu libdh@yahoo.com
Library Update #73
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