Bird’s Eye View A Newsletter from the Grace Van Dyke Bird Library April/May 2018
LibChat at the Library
Students (and faculty) can now chat electronically with librarians via the library website & LibGuides during library hours. Find the widget on the side of every library webpage. Spread the word to your students!
New Delano Staff & Hours
The Delano Library is excited to announce
that a new adjunct librarian, Allison Burch,
has joined its ranks! She will join our other
Delano Librarian, Elisabeth Sundby, in
allowing the Delano Library hours to expand
to include evening hours. The new and
improved Delano Library hours are:
Monday-Thursday 9 a.m.— 7 p.m.
Allison moved from Philadelphia, PA to
California in 2010 where she completed her
bachelor’s degree in English Education at CSU Dominguez Hills. She has worked in a
variety of library settings for the past 10 years to include public, university, community
college, and correctional. She earned her master’s degree in library and information
science from San Jose State University in 2016.
Welcome to BC, Allison!
Digital Delano Showcase Event
Join Digital Delano for this event on May 1, 2018, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.
The event will include a keynote address by Dr. Dawn Mabalon (Associate Professor,
Department of History, San Francisco State University), a Community Oral History
Panel, and a Digital Delano Archives Showcase presentation by Digital Delano's Elisabeth
Sundby (BC Delano Campus Adjunct Librarian) and Dr. Oliver Rosales (Professor of
History, Bakersfield College). The event will include exhibits of archival materials and food.
High School Students from the Delano area will join BC Delano faculty, staff and students,
and the program is free and open to the community.
The event is funded by Digital Delano through a NEH Common Heritage grant and the BC
SGA. Digital Delano will continue its archival work housed at the BC Delano Campus
Library. If you are interested in incorporating local history,
archival work, or oral histories in your curriculum, please contact us.
For contact information and event details, check Digital Delano's web page at http://
bakersfieldcollege.libguides.com/DigitalDelano or follow Digital Delano on Facebook.
Library Assessment
The library completed a 360 degree assessment of its services during Fall 2017. We
wanted to share a few snippets of what we learned about how the library is being
used. We will release a full report soon, so stay tuned!
On average, 308 books from the
general collection were checked
out each week of Fall 2017.
The reserve collection dwarfed
those numbers, with 462 books
checked out from the reserve
collection each week of Fall
2017! If you’re a faculty member
who puts books on reserve for
their students, rest assured that
they are being used!
We know that our 5 study
rooms get heavy use, but it’s
nice to see numbers
confirming that! The study
rooms were collectively
reserved an astounding
1,548 times during Fall 2017!
Averaged out, this means that
the study rooms were
reserved 97 times per week,
or 16 times per day. Each
study room was reserved a
little over 3 times per day.
Paris, G. (1990). Pagan grace: Dionysos, Her-
mes, and Goddess Memory in daily life. Dallas,
TX: Spring Publications.
BL 820 .B2 P37 1990
Thomas, N. (2010). Islanders: The Pacific in the
age of Empire. New Haven: Yale University
Press.
DU 29 .T47 2010
Riley, J.L. (2015). Please stop helping us: How
liberals make it harder for Blacks to succeed.
New York: Encounter Books.
E 185.86 .R55 2015
McMichael, A.J. (2017). Climate change and
the health of nations: Famines, fevers, and the
fate of populations. New York: Oxford
University Press.
GF 71 .46 2017
Podair, J.E. (2017). City of dreams: Dodger
Stadium and the birth of modern Los Angeles.
Princeton: Princeton University Press.
GV 417 .D63 P63 2017
Belanger, K. (2016). Invisible seasons: Title IX
and the fight for equity in college sports.
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
GV 709.18 .U6 B45 2016
Uchitelle, L. (2017). Making it: Why
manufacturing still matters. New York: The New
Press.
HD 9725 .U24 2017
Jenkins, T. E. (2017). Antiquity now: The
classical world in the contemporary American
imagination. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
E 169.12 .J47 2017
Read all about it!: New titles at BC A curated list of some of the new and exciting titles in the general collection.
(Arranged in call number order.)
Smither, G.D. & B.N. Newman (Eds). (2014).
Native diasporas: Indigenous identities and
settler colonialism in the Americas. Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press.
E 98 .E85 S55 2014
McRae, E.G. (2018). Mothers of massive
resistance: White women and the politics of
white supremacy. New York: Oxford University
Press.
E 184 .A1 M354 2018
Wadwha, V. (2017). The driver in the driverless
car: How our technology choices will create the
future. Oakland, CA: BK Berrett-Koehler
Publishers, Inc.
HM 846 .W33 2017
Shahi, I. A. (2016). A good revolutionary is not
a dead revolutionary: The memoirs of Ezzat
Shahi, activist and participant in the Iranian
Revolution, 1978-9. Chicago, ABC
International Group.
DS 316.9 .S52 2016
Hussain, A. (2017). Muslims and the making of
America. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press.
BP 67 .U6 H86 2017
Paris, G. (1986). Pagan meditations: The
worlds of Aphrodite, Artemis, and Hestia.
Thompson, CT: Spring Publications.
BL 820 .V5 P36 1986
Prado, C.G. (Ed). (2017). Social media and
your brain: Web-based communication is
changing how we think and express ourselves.
Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.
HM 851 .S644 2017
Pallotta-Chiarolli, M. (2016). Women in
relationships with bisexual men: Bi men by
women. Lanham: Lexington Books.
HQ 801 .P287 2016
Mac Donald, H. (2016). The war on cops: How
the new attack on law and order makes
everyone less safe. New York: Encounter
Books.
HV 8139 .M34 2016
Schuck, P.H. (2017). One nation, undecided:
Clear thinking about five hard issues that divide
us. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
JK 1726 .S37 2017
Seeburg, M.L., & Gozdziak, E.M. (Eds). (2016).
Contested childhoods: Growing up in migrancy:
Migration, governance, identities. Switzerland:
Springer Open.
JV 6344 .C66 2016
Charles, P.J. (2018). Armed in America: A
history of gun rights from colonial militias to
concealed carry. Location: Publisher.
KF 4941 .C425 2018
Thompson, H.A. (2016). Blood in the water:
The Attica prison uprising of 1971 and its
legacy. New York: Pantheon Books.
HV 9475 .N716 T46 2016
Quinones, S. (2016). Dreamland: The true tale
of America’s opiate epidemic. New York:
Bloomsbury Press.
HV 5840 .M4 Q56 2016
Hong Fincher, L. (2014). Leftover women: The
resurgence of gender inequality in China.
London: Zed Books.
HQ 1237.5 .C5 H56 2014
Armbruster-Sandoval, R. (2017). Starving for
justice: Hunger strikes, spectacular speech,
and the struggle for dignity. Tucson, AZ: The
University of Arizona Press.
HN 79 .C23 H8425 2017
Douglas, T. (2017). The police in a free
society: Safeguarding rights while enforcing
the law. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.
KF 5399 .D68 2017
Paludi, M.A., et al. (Eds). (2015). Sexual
harassment in education and work settings:
Current research and best practices for
prevention. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.
LC 212.82 .S4985 2015
Harding, K. (2015). Asking for it: The alarming
rise of rape culture—and what we can do about
it. Boston: Da Capo Lifelong.
HV 6556 .H37 2015
Gee, N.R, et al. (Eds). (2017). How animals
help students learn: Research and practice for
educators and mental-health professionals.
New York: Routledge, Taylor, & Francis Group.
LB 1044.9 .A65 H69 2017
Ogbu, J.U. (2003). Black American students in
an affluent suburb: A study of academic
disengagement. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.
LC 2771 .O43 2003
Schweizer, B, & Segal, R.A. (Eds). (2013). The
hero’s quest. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press.
PN 56.5 .H45 H53 2013
Fraser, C. (2017). Prairie Fires: The American
dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder. New York:
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt & Co.
PS 3545 .I342 Z6455 2017
Thomas, A. (2017). The hate u give. New York:
Balzer + Bray.
PZ 7.1 .T448 Hat 2017
Deitel, P.J. (2017). C++ how to program.
Boston: Pearson.
QA 76.73 .G53 D45 2017
Keur, C. (2016). iOS programming: The Big
Nerd Ranch guide. Atlanta, Big Nerd Ranch.
QA 76.76 .A65 K48 2016
Crucet, J.C. (2016). Make your home among
strangers. New York: Picador, St. Martin’s
Press.
PS 3603 .R83 M35 2016
Gordon, I. (2017). Superman: The persistence
of an American icon. New Brunswick, NJ:
Rutgers University Press.
PN 6728 .S9 G67 2017
Press, J. (2018). Stealing the show: How
women are revolutionizing television. New
York: Atria Books.
PN 1992.8 .W65 P74 2018
Ghosh, A. (2016). The great derangement:
Climate change and the unthinkable. Chicago:
The University of Chicago Press.
PN 56 .C612 G48 2016
Phillips, B. (2017). Android programming:
The Big Nerd Ranch guide. Atlanta: Big Nerd
Ranch.
QA 76.76 .A65 P45 2017
Aveni, A.F. (2017). In the shadow of the moon:
The science, magic, and mystery of solar
eclipses. New Haven: Yale University Press.
QB 541 .A84 2017
Luiselli, V. (2014). The story of my teeth.
Minneapolis, Coffee House Press.
PQ 7298.422 .U37 H5713 2014
Duckett, J . (2014). HTML & CSS: Design and
build websites. Indianapolis: John Wiley &
Sons, Inc.
QA 76.76 .H94 D83 2014
Bender, D.E. (2016). The animal game:
Searching for wildness at the American zoo.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
QL 76.5 .U6 B46 2016
DeGruy, J.A. (2005). Post Traumatic Slave
Syndrome: America’s legacy of enduring injury
and healing. Portland: Joy DeGruy
Publications, Inc.
RC 451.5 .N4 L43 2005
Lazenby, M. (2017). Caring matters most: The
ethical significance of nursing. New York:
Oxford University Press.
RT 86.3 .L398 2017
Wasik, J.F. (2016). Lightning strikes: Timeless
lessons in creativity from the life and work of
Nikola Tesla. New York: Sterling.
TK 140 .T4 W37 2016
Fitzgerald, A.J. (2015). Animals as food:
(Re)connecting production, processing,
consumption, and impacts . East Lansing, MI:
University of Michigan Press.
TS 1960 .F57 2015
Note: The library will very soon offer a Children’s Collection. This
collection is intended for students in the Child Development
program and consists of several dozen picture books. The
Children’s Collection can be found in the short stacks, near the
Hot Topics Collection. Books in the Children’s Collection may be
checked out for 1 week.
Alley, W.M. (2017). High and dry: Meeting the
challenges of the world’s growing dependence
on groundwater. New Haven: Yale University
Press.
TD 403 .A39 2017
Kashatus, W.C. (2017). Suicide squeeze:
Taylor Hooton, Rob Garibaldi, and the fight
against teenage steroid abuse. Philadelphia:
Temple University Press.
RC 1230 .K37 2017
Miller, D. (2016). Committed: The battle over
involuntary psychiatric care. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University.
RC 455.2 .E8 M55 2016
Kryer, M.H. (2017). The mystery of sleep: Why
a good night’s rest is vital to a better, healthier
life. New Haven: Yale University Press.
RA 786 .K79 2017
Barnett, R. (2017). The smile stealers: The fine
+ foul art of dentistry. New York: Thames &
Hudson.
RK 29 .B36 2017
Spence, C. (2017). Gastrophysics: The new
science of eating. New York: Viking.
TX 631 .S679 2017