Friendly Reminder from the DC Library...

This is just a friendly reminder to use your Employee ID card when checking out items.

Every semester we have a new group of student aides who are not familiar with our campus's faculty, staff and administrators. (With over 900 instructors, it is hard for the best of us to be familiar with everyone!) By using your your Employee ID (or community card if you are an adjunct), it will help expedite the process.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the library.

DC Library Team
Joe, Nancy, Erica, Kyle, Susan, Veronica and Theresa

206-7267

While You Were Away, Plenty of New Items Arrived...

The library receives new items every week and the summer months was no exception. Here are a few titles that have recently arrived. 
History

• Levi's and Lace: Arizona Women who Made History / Jan Cleere
  
• It Happened in Arizona: Remarkable Events that Shaped History by James A Crutchfield
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties by Jonathan Leaf
• She Was One of Us : Elenaor Roosevelt and the American Worker by Brigid O'Farrell
• Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore by Benjamin Radford 

Art

• Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabrsky Collections edited by Renee Price 

Interior Design

• Careers in Interior Design by Nancy Asay and Marciann Patton 

Medical

• The A to Z of Diabetes / William A Petit Jr, M.D. et.al.
• Yes/No Medical Spanish by Tina M. Kaufman and Ticiano Alegre
• Medical Terminology made Incredibly Easy! 
• Charting made Incredibly Easy! 

Natural History

• The Desert Islands of Mexico's Sea of Cortez by Stewart Aitchison 

Political Science

• Toughing it Out in Afghanistan by Michael E. O'Hanlon

Science

• Anatomy & Physiology made Incredibly Easy!

Technology

• Windows 7 for Dummies by Andy Rathbone

• Step by Step: Microsoft Office Home and Student 2010 t 2010

Writing

• The FSG Book of 20th Century Latin American Poetry: An Anthology edited by Ilan Stavans 

• How to Write Persuasively Today by Carolyn Davis 

Miscellaneous...

• Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food by Jeff Potter 
• Complete Book of Sushi by Hideo Dekura, Brigid Treloar, Ryuichi Yoshii
• Collaborative Grantseeking : a handbook 

And many DVDS...(We are replacing our VHS collection with DVDs, as titles become available.)

Laptops Ready for Your Students...

The library has laptops to checkout!

The library has over 40 Google Chromebooks* and 8 netbooks available for checkout. So, if you have a class activity that requires a computer, send your students down with their student IDs and we will set them up with a computer. They can be checked out for two hours and are for use anywhere on campus. (If you need them for more than two hours, just send me an email with your class information (i.e. MAT173) and time you meet. Let your students know will need to identify themselves as one of your students.

The laptops are also available for work outside the classroom. Students can check one out and use it anywhere on campus - the cafeteria, at the tables outside, sitting on a bench. Great for group work in one of the Learning Commons study rooms!

If you have questions, please feel free to call the library (x7267), email me, or stop by.

Your DC Library Director
Theresa
tcstanley@pima.edu
x7267

*Chromebooks are a web-based laptop. The laptops allows the user to use Google apps, such as Google docs. There is no installed software (i.e. Microsoft products). They must be connected to the Internet to work - there is no offline mode. They are fast to connect and hold a charge, although a power cord is included.

Don't Forget Your Course Reserves...

If you haven't brought your course reserve items* to the library, now is the time to do it! We process items on a first come, first serve basis and to be sure the items are available for your students, we need them as soon as possible. (We do try and get the items processed in 48 hours or less.)

If it is something that you would like available to your students later in the semester, or if you have a late start or 2nd 8-week course, please bring your item(s) in a couple of weeks ahead of time so it can be processed. We are able to put library materials on reserve for short periods of time or for the entire semester.

Course reserves can be any item you would like to be put on reserve in the library for your students. It could be a textbook, supplemental readings, or even a DVD. The item will be available to students during regular library hours, for a two hour period - library use only (unless you note otherwise).

Students will need their Student ID to check the items out.

Of course, if there is anything else the library can help you with - just call us at 206-7267 or stop by!

Your DC Library Team
Kyle, Susan, Veronica, Joe, Nancy, Erica and Theresa

Reserve Your Library Sessions Now!

DC Library Learning Studio

Welcome Back Everyone! We hope all had a great summer.

This is just a reminder that if you haven't already made your library session reservation for your class, to please do so soon. Our room is heavily requested and we would like to give faculty a chance to schedule their classes before we open it up to the other departments.

Remember, we can customize your library session to meet your needs - if fact, we love doing that so that the session is relevant to your students. We can do a short session of 15 minutes or an entire class period. We can do one session or a couple of sessions. (Of course, if we do a short session you can stay in the learning studio for the remaining portion of your class.) We can even do a library session in your classroom if you want. (If you don't have a computer classroom, we can bring some computers with us.)

If you are not familiar with our learning studio, it seats 40 students, has dual SmartBoards and writable walls. These features give us greater capability for interactive activities and collaboration. If you haven't seen our new room, feel free to stop by the library and we will show you around.

You can call the library at x7267 and we can set a session up for you. Faculty have priority until September 6th, when the learning studio calendar will be opened for other Downtown requests.

Your DC Librarians
Joe, Theresa, Nancy and Erica

4K National Academies Press Books Available for FREE !

The National Academies Press (NAP) is now offering over 4,000 books (in PDF format) as a FREE download!

From their website...
"For more than 140 years, the NAS, NAE, IOM, and NRC have been advising the nation on issues of science, technology, and medicine. Like no other collection of organizations, the Academies enlist the nation’s foremost scientists, engineers, health professionals, and other experts to address the scientific and technical aspects of society’s most pressing problems. The results of their work are authoritative and independent studies published by the National Academies Press.
NAP produces more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health, capturing the best-informed views on important issues."

One of their most popular books, America's Climate Choice, is included. (Look for the "Download Free PDF" button.

Note: if you have an iPad, when you open the book (PDF) in your iPad, you will be given the option download these books directly into iBooks. If you choose this option, the book will appear in your iBooks bookshelf and you will have access to it at any time. (Even when you are offline! Great option for reading when traveling. I catch up with these type of readings while I am on a plane ... I can only do so many Sudokus!)

You can browse all the topics in their entire library at National Academies Press.

Summer Reading ... The DC Library has New Books!

Before you start off on your vacation, stop by the DC Library to browse through our new books and videos!

We have fiction, with best selling authors like James Patterson, Charlaine Harris, Tom Clancy, Anita Sheve, Danielle Steel, and Nicholas Sparks. Memoirs by Betty White and Susan Lucci.

And of course videos including: Taxi Driver, Raging Bull (Blu-Ray), Forrest Gump (Blu-Ray), The Kids are All Right,and Chasing Amy. If you can't get enough Johnny Depp on the big screen, we have Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, both on Blu-Ray.

If you are looking for some more serious titles we have them also...

• The Longest War: the enduring conflict between America and Al-qaeda

• Fighting the Devil in Dixie: How Civil Rights Activists Took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama

• Fountains and Water Features: from ancient springs to modern marvels

• The Other Wes Moore: one name, two fates

• Avoiding the Con in Construction

• Gay Rights and Moral Panic
  

• One L : the turbulent true story of a first year at Harvard law school

• Houses and Gardens of Kyoto
  

• Growing A Farmer
  

• I Love a Broad Margin to my Life
  

• How I Killed Pluto and Why it had it Coming

• His Father's Son

• Origins : how the nine months before birth shape the rest of our lives
  

• Pig : king of the southern table
  

• Sugar Changed the World

• The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

• My Father at 100
  

• In the Shadow of the Buddha

• Women Lead the Way
  

• Shark : in peril in the sea
  

• Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?