Library Resources for Your Courses...

Your DC Librarians have been busy creating information resources to enhance your courses.

1.  LibGuides: Research Guides are subject and course guides created on a wide variety of topics. Explore the dozens we’ve already created, or request one for your course.

URL: http://libguides.pima.edu/home

2.  Faculty Resource Guide is a special LibGuide created just for instructors, with links to dozens of PCC Library resources, such as copyright information, an image database, links to educational streaming videos, and video tutorials on locating and citing quality research resources.

URL: http://libguides.pima.edu/faculty

3. Video Tutorials - created by PCC Librarians they are 5-min. or less, each covering a common issue faced by students or faculty when conducting research, such as finding appropriate sources, navigating databases, citing sources and more.You can link to them directly in your MyPima or D2L courses!

URL: http://libguides.pima.edu/content.php?pid=137444&sid=1874877

4.  Streaming Videos - you can link directly to our academic streaming videos! Films on Demand has hundreds of videos broken down in small segments - assign all or part. VAST is new this semester and also has streaming videos. You can search either by topic or subject. Some of the subjects are:  American History, Anthropology, Art and Art History, Biology,  Black Studies, Business & Economics, Communications, Computers and Technology,  Counseling & Therapy, Criminal Justice, Dance,  Education, Environmental Science, Ethnic Studies, Geography, Health, Humanities, Math, Opera, Politics and Current Affairs, Psychology, Religion and Philosophy, Science, Sociology, Theater, Women's and Gender Studies, World History, World Language and many more!

URL: Films on Demand:  http://0-digital.films.com.library2.pima.edu/Dashboard.aspx

URL: VAST:  http://0-vasc.alexanderstreet.com.library2.pima.edu/

5. Gale Virtual Reference Library - contains hundreds of specialized online encyclopedias and dictionaries on the arts, business, education, environment, history, law, medicine, science and social science.

URL: http://0-infotrac.galegroup.com.library2.pima.edu/itweb/pima_main?db=GVRL

6. Oxford Reference Online - provides access to 135 Oxford reference e-books.

URL: http://0-www.oxfordreference.com.library2.pima.edu/

For more information, contact your any DC Librarian by stopping in, calling (206-7267) or email!

Joe Brewer jbrewer@pima.edu

Marianne Harris mharris12@pima.edu

Ellen Blumberg eblumberg@pima.edu

Theresa Stanley tcstanley@pima.edu

Library Book Sale ~ Sept 18 & 19

The Downtown Campus Library Fall Book Sale!!

When:  Tuesday and Wednesday (September 18th & 19th) 

Where: Amethyst Room

Time: 9 am - 6 pm

 Prices: $2.00 for hard covers
            $1.00 for soft covers
            $  .50 for pocket paperbacks



*if you still have items you would like to donate to the library, please bring them to the library by the end of this week or to the Amethyst Room on Monday (September 17).

New Library Web Page...

With the beginning of the semester the Library's new web page came online. (I know it is bad timing, but it just worked out that way.)

We have incorporated collapsible headings. To search for books, click on the green bar titled "Books and More" to see the search box and other options for searching the catalog (see image).

For databases, our research guides and encyclopedia - do the same, just click on the respective green bar for search options.

One thing we think everyone will appreciate is that our public page looks the same as our MyPima page!!

However, with change comes edits. If you have library resources in your courses (which we hope you have), you may need to make changes to how students find those resources. We already have had students tell us their instructor's direction are not correct. If you would like help with this, just contact the library and we will be glad to assist you.

And with change also comes the opportunity for comments! Please feel free to let us know what you think of the new web page. Feel free to email me (tcstanley@pima.edu) or stop by. We will be collecting comments through November so we can present a list of any changes to web services for the spring semester. 

Have a great Fall Semester!
Your DC Library Team...
Joe, Marianne, Ellen, Kyle, Susan, Veronica and Theresa

Introducing our Two New Librarians...

Ellen and Marianne, our newest Librarians!

The DC Library would like to introduce you to our two new librarians: Marianne Harris and Ellen Blumberg. If the names sound familiar, it is because they were adjuncts for us last spring.

Let me have them introduce themselves to you...

Marianne:

My name is Marianne Harris, and I’m a native Tucsonan.  Prior to joining the Pima Community College Library, I was employed as a high school English teacher for nine years.  As an undergrad, I played volleyball for PCC and plan a return to the courts this fall--I find I can’t help myself after having watched the world’s best athletes compete in the London Olympics!  In addition to watching and playing volleyball, I enjoy writing and reading poetry (Horoscopes for the Dead by Billy Collins is a new favorite), traveling with my family and gazing at cloud formations.

Ellen:

I’m excited and happy to be joining the Pima Community College Downtown Campus Library staff.  My husband and I moved from Austin to Tucson in 2011 so that he could join the University of  Arizona Department of Pediatrics. Many people look at us quizzically and ask: “why would you move here?” Our answer is that we finally got our 3^rd child out of the nest (woo hoo) and were ready for an adventure. We wanted to live in a university town where education is valued, find a warm climate, and were enchanted with the mountains that surround Tucson.  My career in education has included working as a classroom special education teacher, school psychologist, education specialist at the state level, and librarian. Working as a high school and college librarian has been unquestionably the best part of my career. In my free time, I (of course) love to read. Currently I’m in a phase of reading Asian-American historical and mystery fiction. My husband and I also enjoy travel, the theatre, and walking in Sabino Canyon. We’re searching out all the cool restaurants, food trucks, gastropubs and pubs in Tucson. Any recommendations?

DC Library Welcomes Everyone Back!!

The DC Library would like to welcome everyone back! We hope everyone had a great summer - maybe time to travel and relax!

We have a lot going on at the library. To note just a few...

- - Library Sessions. Be sure to schedule your library sessions. The Fall semester is typically our busiest time. We will make every effort to get you your preferred day and time. Come by the library or call us at 206-7267.

- - Revised Library Site! Our Library site was just released on Wednesday afternoon, so check it out. Also, due to popular demand our web space in MyPima (look for the Library tab) and our public web space are nearly identical. Check them out and let us know what you think!

- - New Items! As always, new materials came in throughout the summer, so come and check them out!  On a similar note, if you have an item that you would like to have the library add to its collection, that would supplement your course(s), please send us the name, author and year published and we will make every attempt to order it. It takes about 4 weeks for new items to appear on our shelves, so let us know early!

As always, the library is here for your students and you. If there is anything we can do for you, just let us know!

The DC Library Team
206-7267

Want to Join an Online Book Club?

Hope you are having a great summer!I just came across this and thought I would share in case you are looking for some reading material. (With the clouds cooling things off, it is finally nice enough to sit outside in the evening!)

The FAIFE (Freedom to Access and Information Freedom Exchange) committee of the American Library Association (ALA) has a book club. They have selected Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. (Copies available at PCC Libraries, Pima County public library (hard copy, audio, large print) and of course, Amazon.

For more information, check out FAIFE's book club site. (You will see a link to the book in the gray bar on the left side, under the header image.)

Theresa

DC Library Director

tcstanley@pima.edu

206-7267

The Library's Spring Round-Up

The Downtown Campus would like to thank all faculty, staff and administration for the support of the Downtown Library. Many of you have brought in your class(es) for library instruction or asked us to come to your class. We have seen an increase in students at our reference desk with specific assignments where the library resources play a large part. In our LibGuides, we have seen an increase in their usage. We are so glad we can support your classes in so many ways.

If you are looking ahead to the Summer, or even the Fall semesters, please remember to contact the Library early to reserve your spot on our calendar. Also, if you think you would like a LibGuide for your class (or course), or update an existing LibGuide to reflect revisions in your syllabus, let us know. The summer is a great time for us to work on those projects.

This is also a great time for us to remind you of a way for a librarian have a greater presence in your face-to-face and online learning environments. As an embedded librarian, we can be there to answer your students questions regarding research, citations and the like. This is especially helpful in hybrid and online courses, where a library instruction session may not be feasible. As a TA, we can be there to answer questions or to even lead a research discussion. In a face-to-face class, we can come in periodically to help students before and/or after class, as well to spend a few minutes to answer questions or to refresh them on finding resources. This would be especially helpful in courses that are identified as writing intensive. The NW campus has done this with great results. Others institutions have used Embedded Librarians and found the research papers are of a higher quality.

And for those that will be (or are already) using D2L, it appears the Library will have a presence in that platform. (yea!) We will have more information on that, once things are finalized, but it looks like it will be easier to link to our tutorials and other resources.

Finally, it is with great sadness that we must report one of our librarians, Nancy Schuler, is leaving us. Her husband has accepted a position with a college in Florida, so they will be moving over the summer. While we will miss her, we wish her and her family the best as they begin a new chapter in their lives.