Check Out Our New Items at the DC LIbrary!

A selection of some of our New Arrivals is listed below.

If you are interested in any of the titles listed please stop by the library or give us a call at x7267.

Aftermath : following the bloodshed of America's wars in the Muslim world by, Nir Rosen

Gay, Straight, And The Reason Why : the science of sexual orientation by Simon LeVay

Let the Swords Encircle Me : Iran--A Journey Behind the Headlines by Scott Peterson

Oil Painting for the Absolute Beginner : a clear & easy guide to successful oil painting by Mark and Mary Willenbrink

Manhood : the rise and fall of the penis by Mels Van Driel

The Man Who Invented the Computer by Jane Smiley

My Thoughts be Bloody : the bitter rivalry between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth that led to an American tragedy by Nora Titone

Taking Charge of Adult ADHD by, Russell Barkley

Supernatural Selection : how religion evolved by, Matt J. Rossano

Life in year one : what the world was like in first-century Palestine by, Scott Korb

On Evil by, Terry Eagleton

After the stork : the couple's guide to preventing and overcoming postpartum depression by Sara Rosenquist

Nobody Turn Me Around: A People's History of the 1963 March on Washington by Charles Euchner

How Companies Win : Profiting From Demand-Driven Business Models No Matter What Business You're In

by Rick Kash

Into the Storm : Violent Tornadoes, Killer Hurricanes, And Death-Defying Adventures In Extreme Weather by Reed Timmer

Read It Before You Eat It by Bonnie Taub-Dix

Heat and Light : Advice for the Next Generation of Journalist by Mike Wallace

The Secret : love, marriage, and HIV by Jennifer Hirsch

Monsoon : the Indian ocean and the future of American power by Robert Kaplan

The Meat Lover's Meatless Cookbook by Kim O'Donnel

Amexica : war along the borderline by Ed Vulliamy

And don't forget to check out the new items in our Popular Reading section!

Your DC Library Team.

Faculty Resource Guide and Scheduling Library Sessions...

PCC libraries has a very thorough LibGuide, Faculty Resource Guide, that provides information on Library Instruction and Copyright and Fair Use. It also provides information and tutorials on the library’s streaming video and image databases.

Our very own Downtown Campus Librarian Eric DeFrain has created a LibGuide: SMART Board Resource Center. Erica also has a Sandbox, every Friday morning from 10 am - 12 noon, to answer your technology questions, learn about a new technology or get more information on the SMART Board! This Friday, January 28th her session focuses on the SMART Board and its resources!

Finally, don't forget to schedule your class for a library session! Our librarians can do an entire period with your class going over the library resources that can assist your students or we can just do an introduction to library resources. We will tailor our session to meet your and your students needs. Call the library at 206-7267 to schedule.

If there is any thing the library can do for you or if you have questions on our resources, please feel free to contact us!

Your Downtown Campus Librarians

Joe Brewer

Nancy Schuler

Erica DeFrain

Theresa Stanley

Check-out these Books for the Holiday Break!!

The Library has a new shipment of our Popular Reading books. Stop by to check out our best sellers and new releases.

Remember, if you can't stop by but want to reserve your copy, you can call the library at 206-7267 or click on "Reserve Item" when in the library catalog.

Indulgence in Death by RD Robb

Massive: the Missing Particle that Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science by Ian Sample

Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane

Morning of Fire: John Kendrick's Daring American Odyssey in the Pacific by Scott Ridley

Simple Times Crafts for Poor People by Amy Sedaris

Tao II: The Way of Healing Rejuvenation, Longevity and Immortality by Zhi Gang Sha

The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee by Sarah Silverman

The Bible of Unspeakable Truths by Greg Gutfeld

The Confession by John Grisham

Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris

Every Last One by Anna Quindlen

Executive Intent by Dale Brown

Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest by Stieg Larsson (we also have the audio-book!)

God is not one: The Eight Rival Religions that Run the World -- and Why Their Differences Matter by Stephen Prothero

I'll Mature when I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood by Dave Barry

Innocent by Scott Turow

Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R. Ward

Minds Eye by Oliver Sacks

Oprah: A Biography by Kitty Kelly

Return to Sender by Fern Michaels

Supreme Justice: A Novel of Suspense by Phillip Margolin

Tattoo Chronicles by Kat Von D

First Family: Abigail and John by Joseph J. Ellis

Sunset Park by Paul Auster

Decision Points by George Bush

Cross Fire by James Patterson

Hell's Corner by David Baldacci

Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume by Tilar J. Mazzeo

The Weight by Andrew Vachss

Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King

The President's Photographer: 50 years Inside the Oval Office by John Bredar

Reminder - - Get Your Course Reserves in before Winter Break

Here's an easy to-do that you can cross off your list... get your course materials into the library before the Winter Break!

Course reserves are one of the many services the Downtown Campus library offers to its students. What are course reserves? Course reserves are materials (textbooks, reading materials, audio-visual materials) that faculty put on reserve for their students to use during the semester. These items are library use only, with a two hour check-out period. Typically they are textbooks and supplemental items that help those students who don't want to carry their books back and forth from home to school but want to study between classes, or they could be readings and/or AV items, that the instructor wants the students to read/view outside of class.

So far this semester, we have had almost 4500 checkouts of course reserve materials from 42 disciplines!!

If you would like to have items in the library for your students to use for the Spring semester, please bring them to the library before Winter Break. Each item is individually added to our system, which takes some time and by having the item to us before January, it will ensure that those items available to your students the first day of classes!

If you have any questions, please feel free to stop by the library or call us at 206-7267.

Happy Holidays!
The Downtown Campus Library
Joe, Nancy, Erica, Kyle, Susan, Veronica and Theresa

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!