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NPCC Library Newsletter Oct/Nov. 2010
Visit the Library’s New Periodical Reading “Room”
Our new magazine shelving is in! Enjoy your old fa-vorites, spark a new interest, or just catch up with the news. Current issues of 160 magazines and journals, and 12 newspapers are displayed, with one year of back issues stored under the shelf. Nursing and Allied Health journals are displayed on their own rack.
It’s almost midterm, and those research papers are due soon! Work smarter -- faster -- get better information by using the NPCC Library web resources! Why use the Library website instead of google or yahoo?
No commercial interests to sort through (something to sell you and biased information).
Locate thousands of authoritative sources faster Citations already formatted in MLA, APA, or Turabian
- just copy and paste to your “works cited” page. Save paper, money, and time by saving articles to a folder,
email them to yourself, or copy to a flash drive. Access and read over 20,000 electronic books, search 500
electronic reference books from CredoReference and 1000s of journals or newspapers any time from your home
internet connection, Just go to www.npcc.edu and click "NPCC LIBRARY" at the top of the page. Or use this
direct link to our web page: http://www.youseemore.com/npcc/. Be sure to click “Off-Campus Access” if
searching from home. Then use your student ID number and last 4 digits of your social security number to
login.
Library Hours: Monday – Thursday 7 am to 7:50 pm Friday 7 am to 4:20 pm
Research Season @ the Library
http://library.npcc.edu/librarysite/The%20NPCC%20Library%20subscriptions.pdf
Fall Semester Library Usage In the 1st 9 weeks the Library has: Checked out 1,777 books Hosted 37 classes (755 students) Taught 23 1-hour Online Library classes to 514 students Presented “Quick tours” to 11 Orientation classes, reaching c. 800 new students Produced 1849 ID cards Added 334 new books and videos
Spotlight on Academic OneFile
2009 CODIE Award Finalist
Best Online General Reference Database
Academic OneFile is an easy to use database for academic research. Search 24/7 from the internet. It contains over 13,000 journals indexed in a wide range of subjects, with indexing dating from 1980 to the present. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. Millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily. For more information go to http://www.gale.cengage.com/pdf/facts/AcademicOneFile.pdf
Isabel Allende (Chile)
Julia Alvarez (Chicana)
Rudolfo Anaya Chicano)
Roberto Bolaño (Chile)
Rosario Castellanos (Mexico)
Sandra Cisneros (Chicana)
Edwige Danticat (Haiti)
Laura Esquivel (Mexico)
Carlos Fuentes (Mexico)
Oscar Hijuelos (Cuba)
Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez(Columbia)
Octavio Paz (Mexico)
Tomas Rivera (Chican
Peruvian writer Mario Vargas
Llosa just won the Nobel
Prize for Literature on Oct. 7.
One of the most celebrated
Spanish writers, Vargas Llosa
is known for his
anti-totalitarian ideology, and
his classic literary approach to
eroticism. The NPCC Library
has 9 of his over 30 works,
including the acclaimed War
of the End of the World and
The Feast of the Goat.
For more information go to:
http://
www.nytimes.com/2010/10/0
8/books/08nobel.html or
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
entertainment-arts-11493191
Census Data On September 20, I traveled to the State Library for a daylong workshop on resources relating to the 2007 Economic Census. This unique workshop was conducted by U.S. Census Bureau experts and designed to introduce libraries, businesses, and state agencies to new information about the American economy. I gained hands-on experience accessing Economic Census data in American FactFinder, learned practical applications of the data, and was able to see what others have done with the data. Information regarding the North American Industry Classification System, Census Geography, comparability issues in assem-bling time series data, frequent business data from the Census Bureau, county business patterns, statistics of US businesses, and quarterly workforce indicators was covered. All of this information is available free on the web at http://www.census.gov/econ/census07/. Come on in to the library and let me show you how to begin searching this informative site. ...by Kristin Quintanilla
Late this semester we were all blessed with a brand
new Charlotte Phelps building. In the remodeling
process all of the AV equipment was removed and
we have now updated all of the AV technology in
those rooms. Local broadcast engineer and AV
contractor Dr. Video (Lee Hadlock and Harvey
Oxner) has delivered professional installations
which have exceeded our expectations in efficiency
and dependability. This was a very large project
which was the result of much planning, design, and
budgeting and could not have been possible
without my technology “committee” Sara Seaman,
Dana Murphy, and Susan Gaither.
In room 201 we have equipped the new
Professional Development program with a plush
Spectrum AV cart, a Dukane document camera,
and an Interwrite MOBI which is the latest in
wireless tablet technology. We are pleased and
motivated to see these sophisticated tools being
used and hopefully helping to capture our students’
attention and imaginations.
The other CP rooms are uniformly outfitted with
new laptops, projectors and carts (some assembly
required by yours truly).
… by Chester Morphew
The Library
Celebrates
Hispanic Heritage
Month
Sept. 15 – Oct. 15 with the best of Hispanic
Literature. Hispanic authors
in our collection include: