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We get copies of every selection
from Oprah’s Book Club, courtesy
of Oprah and The American
Library Association!
Oprah’s latest books are A Tale of
Two Cities and Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
No Cell Phone Use
During Library Classes.
And Please Put Your
Phone on Vibrate in the
Reference Area.
Returning Students!
Don’t forget to update your barcode for
the new school year
Joke Time
Q: How many
reference
librarians does it
take to screw in a
light bulb?
Joke Time
A: I don’t know, but if
you give me your
phone number, I’ll
get back to you.
Library Quotable
My alma mater was books, a good library.
--Malcolm X
Peanut Butter Lovers Month
Do You Know….
What year did STCC open?
A. 1967
B. 1892
C. 1976
Answer:
A. 1967
Do You Know….
Librarians Portrayed
in the Movies
“Party Girl”
(1995)
With Parker Posey
The largest public library building
in the United States is Chicago’s
Harold Washington Library Center.
It measures 756,640 square feet and contains more than 70 miles of shelving!
Library Quotable
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their
hair done in the library?
--Lily Tomlin
Do You Know….
How many numbers in an STCC Library Barcode?
A. 12
B. 14
C. 10
Answer:
B. 14
Do You Know….
Barcodes need to be updated every semester,
including summer session.
Word Scramble
WEEDY ILMCDAEMSSTYE
Word Scramblea
DEWEY DECIMALSYSTEM
Wow!!!
The recent renovation project
replaced 401 windows in
Building 27!
Have You Found Your$ Yet?
November is
National $cholarship Month
Check out the Library’s Guide to Scholarships:
http://libguides.stcc.edu/scholarships
Library Quotable
Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like
American citizenship.
--Oprah Winfrey
Librarians Portrayed
on Television
“The Librarian II: Return to King
Solomon’s Mines” starring Noah
Wyle and Gabrielle Anwar
Have you heard the
news?
Read “Between the Pages,” the
STCC Library’s Newsletter!
Get Your
Barcode
Now!
Do You Know….
How many student computers are in the STCC Library
Lab?
A. 16
B. 20
C. 22
The Lab - Before
Answer:
C. 22
Do You Know….
The lab opened in 2000.The Lab - After
Famous Librarians
include:
• Casanova• Batgirl• Mao Tse Tung• J. Edgar Hoover
Librarians in Literature
The Librarian
by Larry
Beinhart. . . (a) barn-burning political thriller complete with recipes for how to steal a presidential election. . . “
Kirkus Reviews
Take A Look
It’s like have 400 Reference Books at your
fingertips!
Fun with Barcodes
• All STCC Barcodes begin with the numbers
“28132”
• Some students actually memorize their
barcodes!
28132000001234
Librarians Portrayed
in the Movies
“Desk Set” (1957)
Featuring Katherine
Hepburn and Spencer Tracy
It’s November
Gobble
Up a
Good
Book
Library news, notes, happenings, and even the occasional joke at
http://library.stcc.edu/blogger/blogger.html
National Physical Therapy Month!
Library Quotable
You see, I don't believe that libraries should
be drab places where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of employing
wild animals as librarians.
--Monty Python sketch
There’s a Library Research Guide for You!•Nursing
•Civil Engineering
•Landscape Design
•Dental Hygiene
•Business
•Law Enforcement
•Physical Therapy
•Graphic Arts
And more!
Librarians in LiteratureThe Time Traveler’s
Wife
by
Audrey Niffenegger
The story of Henry de Tamble, a
librarian with “chrono-displacement
disorder”
‘The Time Traveler's Wife is a very old love story: wonky, sexy, incredible... but charmingly, inventively retold.'
The Times (London)
Did you Know?
There are six laptops
available at the Circulation
Desk for students to use in
the library!
The tallest academic library building in the world is the W.E.B. Dubois Library at the University of
Massachusetts in Amherst. It is 28 stories tall and
measures 295 feet.
C/W MARS has more than 140
member libraries and
loans more than 9 million items
annually!
Librarians Portrayed
in the Movies
“Music Man” (1962) starring Robert Preston and featuring
Shirley Jones as “Marian the Librarian”
Returning Students!
Don’t forget to update your barcode for
the new school year
Joke Time
Q: Why are there no books in the Prague
Library?
Joke Time
A: They’re all
Czech-ed out!
No Cell Phone
Use During
Library Classes.
And Please Put
Your Phone on
Vibrate in the
Reference Area.
Librarians in Music
-2008-
Louisville band
My Morning Jacket
releases the song
“Librarian”
on their album
“Evil Urges”
Word Scramble
LACL BNMUER
Word Scramble
CALL NUMBER
Library Quotable
"You must live
feverishly in a library.
Colleges are not
going to do any good
unless you are raised
and live in a library
every day of your
life.“
– Ray Bradbury
The Library of Congress is the
largest library in the world and
contains more than 120 million
items!
Follow us on Twitter
twitter.com/stcclibrary
Do You Know….
For how long do videos circulate?
A. One Week
B. Two Days
C. They don’t
Answer:
B. Two Days
Do You Know….
However, if you borrow a video on
Thursday or Friday, it isn’t due til
the following Monday.
Learn Chinese
Library………………Tushugan
Lucky Numbers 23, 16, 7, 8, 42
Use CINAHL with Full Text
It’s like VITamins for your research paper
Library Quotable
The library has always
been. . .a place where we’ve
come to discover big ideas
and profound concepts that
help move the American
story forward
-- President Barack Obama
Do You Know….
How are most of the books in the library organized?
A. By Title
B. By Color
C. By Subject
Answer:
C. By Subject
Do You Know….
Each call number is associated
with a particular subject. For
example, a call number beginning
with “N” is a book about art or
artists.
Joke Time
Q: Why Did the Ghost keep coming to library
for more books?
Joke Time
Q: He went through them too quickly.
Librarians Portrayed
on Television
“Rupert Giles” (played by
Anthony Stewart Head) from Buffy
the Vampire Slayer
Word Scramble
ECFENERRE OOBK
Word Scramble
REFERENCE BOOK
Library Quotable
I always tell people that I
became a writer not
because I went to school
but because my mother
took me to the library.
-- Sandra Cisneros
Follow us on Twitter
twitter.com/stcclibrary
Do You Know….
Who is the President of STCC?
A. Samuel Bowles
B. Ira Rubenzahl
C. Theodore Geisel
Answer:
B. Ira Rubenzahl
Do You Know….
Dr. Rubenzahl was named
President in July, 2004.
Try the Library’s paperback
collection! It’s relaxing!!
New Titles Just Added!