Now is the Time to Request Book Titles!

Looking for a book to supplement your Spring course? Got something in mind to read over the summer? 

Now is the time to submit your requests to the DC Library!

Even if a title is not published for quite sometime, we can get a pre-published order in so it will arrive soon after the published date!


Stop by the DC Library or call us at 206-7267 and we can assist you with it.

Be sure to check in with this blog regularly - we will be trying to publish new information several times a week, so bookmark us to catch our new posts. You can subscribe to the RSS feed and be alerted when new posts are made!

Cool Find...Best Web Tools for Instructors...

Well, these tools may not be new to all of you, but quite a few were new to the DC Librarians, so I thought I would share this document. It's called "The Best of Teacher's Web Tools" and Med Kharbach put it together.(Thanks go to Rosanne Couston, a Librarian at WC for sharing this find!)

In this well comprehensive guide are hundred of web tools that you could you in your classroom. Some of them you may be familiar with, especially if you are a FITT graduate: Animoto, Vimeo, Livebinder, Slideshare, Skype, Delicious and Diigo, Pinterest, Evernote and SpringPad. (I LOVE Springpad on my iPad!) The author has a great Pinterest page!

There are many others - OverStream for adding subtitles to videos, 5 PicLits - which I think would be great for an ESL class, Screen Draw for writing over a webpage in Firefox (can save as an image), WebNotes is similar to Screen Draw and it works for PDFs (doesn't say it is browser specific) and many, many others. I could play with these for a week!

Playing around with some of the tools I did see that some required permissions/purchasing even for classroom use. The ones I found were in the Cartoon Resources section.

I would not recommend printing it, not just because it is long (95 pages!), but you would lose the ability to click on an icon and have it open up - much nicer than having to type in the URL! You can download it. (Maybe put it in Evernote or add it to your Delicious links?)

Also, if you want to see a Creative Commons license, go to the last page and look at the paragraph under "Reuse of this Book."

If you have any questions, feel free to stop by the library. I am sure the Faculty Resource Center could also help you out also.

If you find a tool that is really great - let us know! You can email me (tcstanley@pima.edu) or post a comment to this blog.

Have fun!

FYI...ARTStor performing upgrades...

The PCC Library has been informed that our ARTStor database will be unavailable during their coming updating on Saturday, January 26th from 11:00pm EST until Sunday January 27th at 1:00pm EST. (Their announcement is below.)

We are sorry for any inconvenience.
The DC Library

Dear ARTstor User Support and Primary Contacts, Please be advised that ARTstor will be performing an upgrade to our systems beginning on Saturday, January 26th at 11:00 PM EST and concluding on Sunday, January 27th at 1:00 PM EST. While the upgrade is being performed, users will not have access to the ARTstor Digital Library. During this time, we will be bringing our new Oracle server online. This improvement constitutes a major upgrade to our infrastructure; for more details, please see Oracle's press release. If you experience any difficulties, please clear the cache on your browser and restart your web browser. If you continue to experience difficulties, please do not hesitate to contact User Services at userservices@artstor.org. Kind regards, ARTstor User Services Team

 

Welcome to the Spring Semester!

We are hoping all had a relaxing time over the break. All of us at the DC Library are ready for the Spring semester!

Just a couple of housekeeping items with our first post of the semester...

•  Please schedule your library sessions as soon as possible. We have already had two requests for the same date/time, so the sooner you schedule the better. If we do have multiple requests, we will make every effort to accommodate both classes - remember we can also bring laptops or iPads to your classroom. 
• Please look over your Research Guides (formally known as LibGuides) to be sure they are up to date. If yours needs editing, or you want a new one, just let us know and we will get started on it. 
• Please feel free to refer students to the Library's "Ask a Librarian" online reference service - especially for those after hours questions! "Ask a Librarian" has a database of previously asked questions that can be searched, as well as space to submit new questions.   "Ask a Librarian" can be found on the Library's MyPima page, as well as on the Library's public page (http://libanswers.pima.edu/)

Finally, we are going to be starting a series of "Did you know..." The series will highlight a library resource or service. If there is a resource or a service you would like to know more about, stop by the library or call us (206-7267) and we will be glad to help you on the spot.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact any of us!
The DC Librarians
Joe, Marianne, Ellen and Theresa