One Book One College: Spring Title Announced

New title for Spring 2011.

Professor Panteha Sanati’s Under a Papery Roof, our One Book selection for Spring 2011, has arrived in the Library thanks to the generosity of Dr. Barbara Finkelstein and the Division of Faculty and Instruction. We have processed the books and they await your checkout in the Brockton Campus Library. We are hoping that faculty and staff will read the book over the summer and think about how to use the text in their courses during the Spring semester when The One Book, One College Program will once again offer a series of events tied to the selection.

Under a Papery Roof is extra special. It is the story of English Professor Panteha Sanati’s escape from the revolution in Iran to the United States. Professor Sanati, as a young girl, deals with issues familiar to many of our students who have immigrated to the U.S. and now she teaches among them. This will put a whole new focus on our program. We look forward to loaning copies to faculty and having them to loan again to our students as they prepare for the spring program. The program committee will be posting event schedules, and contests plus a kick-off event in the fall. Come in to borrow a copy of the book – it’s a great summer read – and get ready for the best One Book ever!

The One Book One College Program Committee

For more information contact: Jennifer Rudolph

Library computers not available….

Friday the 18th.

The IT dept. will be upgrading the student computers and the library classroom.

Students WILL be able to use the SCCC for their course work.

Thank you for your understanding.

Library upgrades this summer

We are in the process of upgrading many aspects of the library…. more access, newer systems…. etc. Stay tuned for the details to come.

Trial Databases – please try these…..

Try these new databases free:
Your feedback is important! Please let me know what you think about these databases by emailing comments to: mlnesson@massasoit.mass.edu
EBSCOhost Integrated Search – Trial expiration date: 6/30/2010
Allows users to simultaneously search EBSCO databases as well as all other electronic resources, including those from other database aggregators, OPACs, and publisher packages.
CINAHL with Full Text –
CINAHL with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature. Content includes full text for more than 600 journals, full-text coverage dating back to 1981, indexing for more than 2,980 journals, more than 2,000,000 records dating back to 1981, author affiliations and searchable cited references.
GREENR – Trial expiration date: 5/30/2010
GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural resources) For students and faculty interested in an academic approach to environmental topics, Gale delivers GREENR – an authoritative, intuitive resource that combines news, unique commentary, audio, video, primary source documents, images, conference reports, statistics and more into a Weblike experience designed to attract attention and foster participation.

Attention 2010 Potential Graduates

Financial obligations, library books, calculators and other library equipment you have borrowed, must be cleared by May 19, 2010.

This is a graduation requirement. All items checked out on your Massasoit Library Card must be returned and fees paid my MAY 19TH.

Graduation information also available on the college home page http://www.massasoit.mass.edu

Trial Databases for your research

The library has a trial database page link from the home page where we make available to you resources that we are “testing” . Take a look and then be sure to use the link to my e-mail and let me know what you think…. we just might add it to our online resources!
Trial Databases

Be Careful what you Tweet!

The Library of Congress is archiving it all! http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2010-04-14-library-congress-twitter_N.htm

Castle Expressions! Final Event of One Book One College 2010

Join us and “express” your reactions to the themes of The Glass Castle: alcoholism, homelessness, poverty, abuse, mental illness, parenting, etc.

This Wednesday
April 14, 2010, 12:00 noon
Upper lounge- Brockton Campus

Don’t miss your chance to create!
Art, poetry, open mic, taped interview, write a review,and more….

OR
Come and watch, read, appreciate!

One Book One College Event

International Student Panel: Dealing with Poverty in Our Countries
When: Apr 9, 2010 (Fri) 12:00 noon
Where: Upper Lounge – Brockton Campus
Moderator: Juanita Brunelle, Coordinator of ESL & Professor of Modern Languages
B.A., Clark University
M.A. in French, University of R.I.
M.A. in ESL, University of Massachusetts
Student Panelists: Somayeh Emami, Iran; Veata Pupczyk, Poland; G. Florent Taguezem, Cameroon

In conjunction with the One Book One College selection The Glass Castle, panelists will discuss poverty in their own countries and how it affects them.

Great video – “Blogs in Plain English”

This was entertaining and clever to watch. A simple, fast explanation of the origin and use of blogs. They are basically saying every bit of information is “news” to someone and blogs are the new way to share it all with everyone or a select few.
“Blogs in Plain English”