Streaming Videos for your Class...

PCC libraries has created a Faculty Resource LibGuide, with a streaming video guide for Films on Demand. You can visit the guide for more information on the database; including tutorials, tech specs, and changing streaming quality.

Films on Demand is one of the library’s newer resources and provides streaming videos on a variety of topics, from Humanities and Social Sciences, to Business and Economics, Health and Medicine, to Science and Math.

If you need help in incorporating Films on Demand into any of your courses (a playlist can be made and embedded into your course) or showing them in your classroom, please feel free to come into the library and talk to any of the librarians or call us at 206-7267.

Fall Database Trials Now Available

Fall is here which means it is time for our fall databases trials.

Database trials evaluate electronic resources for potential addition to the library collection. Trial databases are selected based on need, and by recommendations from librarians, faculty, and staff. All PCC students, faculty, staff, and librarians are invited to evaluate trial databases. Your feedback is extremely important! Trials are only available for a short time, usually 30-days unless otherwise indicated .

Go to Library Database Trials (http://libguides.pima.edu/trials) to get links to trials, as well as evaluation forms.

NOTE: Access to trials are only available ON-CAMPUS.

The library is currently evaluating the following databases.

Full-text Art Databases

• Wilson Art Full-text
• EBSCO Art and Architecture Complete
• ProQuest Arts and Humanities Full-text

Art Image Databases

• Wilson Art Museum Image Gallery

Other Media (Streaming video, interactive modules, e-Books)

• Swank Digital Campus
• A.D.A.M. Interactive Anatomy Online

If you would like to recommend a database for trial, please send an e-mail to nlschuler@pima.edu.

LibGuides - Custom Research Tools for Your Students!

Just in time for your students' research projects...

LibGuides is a new research tool for your students. Each LibGuide is custom-made for a particular subject and if requested, we can even create one specifically for a class.

Each LibGuide has information on:

• getting started with research
• how to find books
• finding articles (with the databases selected just for that subject)
• websites and multimedia
  
• and of course - citing resources
  

To see a sample LibGuide, go to http://libguides.pima.edu/ant127 to see one made by Nancy Schuler, for the Ant127 - Mexican American History and Culture course. To see all of our current LibGuides go to: http://libguides.pima.edu/ (and don't forget, more are added throughout the semester!)

If you would like to have a LibGuide created specifically for your class - just contact any librarian at the Downtown Campus and we will get started!

Welcome Back!

The library wants to welcome everyone back, after what we hope was a great summer!

This fall we are back in our library space (LB130) and we are anxious to show it off!

The library space now includes the learning commons, which includes tutoring, computer lab (formerly the computer commons) and the writing center. We have great study areas for students to work individually or in groups! We also have a new entrance facing the AH building on the south side of the building to make it even more convenient.

Our new bibliographic room is a learning studio, so there is more collaborative space, laptops for every student, and you can write on the walls which is great for brainstorming about topics or to demonstrate on! If you would like to reserve a library session for your class(es), now is the time. You can stop by or call us at 206-7267 or email me at tcstanley@pima.edu .

If there is anything else we can do for you, do not hesitate to contact us.

The DC Librarians
Joe, Nancy, Erica and Theresa

Library Displays - Reserve Your Space Now!!

Library Displays - Reserve Your Space Now!!

Do you have class projects (2-D or 3-D)?

Would you like to have them displayed in the library?

If so, we have our two display cases in the front (one large, one table like), and a large display case at our new AH entry. All are enclosed with glass (and locked).

If you would like to take a look at them, please stop by. If you would like to reserve them for your students or bring something down, just let me know. As of right now, they are currently available and there are no reservations for the fall yet.

DC Library Team

Joe, Nancy, Erica, Kyle, Susan, Veronica and Theresa

New Library service - Embedded Librarians!

New Library Service - Embedded Librarians!

You may have heard of a pilot done at NW campus where the librarians were embedded in a few of their online classes. We at DC would like to offer the same opportunity to our instructors.

What is an embedded librarian? An embedded librarian is when a librarian is embedded in your class (versus us just doing one library session each semester). At NW campus it was done with several online classes, where the librarians were part of the class throughout the semester, which means we would be available to your students to answer their questions when that question arises. (Think of it as on-demand research assistance.)

The librarians are there to answer students' questions regarding citations, finding materials, using the databases, etc. We can also do more traditional bibliographic instruction within the course as well. (If it is an online course that is asynchronous, it could be done through a threaded discussions and tutorials.) If it is face-to-face course, it can be arranged that the librarian is present in certain classes to answer students' questions before class, after class or perhaps give a few minutes of class time, if that is available.

From an instructor's point of view, we are there for support of the students. We will not be answering any instruction questions. The DC librarians are here to assist all of our students, traditional and online students. We feel this service will provide additional support to students for research projects.

In a nutshell, embedded librarians are here to:

• be a more visible and accessible library presence in face-to-face, online, and hybrid courses
• provide dedicated classroom assistance to students when they need it most
• create bibliographic instruction tailored to classroom assignments an disciplines
• expand the range of library services available to the college
  

If you are interested in us being part of your course, please call us at 206-7267, or stop by the library and we can talk.

The DC Librarians
Joe, Nancy, Erica and Theresa

LIbrary is Moving Back to LB 130!!

The Downtown Campus Library is moving July 6 - 9!

While we are moving, the ONLY service we will be providing is course reserves. During our move, students will access the library through the Learning Commons' AH entrance.

We will be open in our new space on July 12th at 8am, offering our full range of services. Students will be able to access the Library and Learning Commons through the LB 130 entry (by Student Life) and the LB 142 (across from the AH building).

If you have any questions, please contact us at 206-7267.