October 2003

First RCC library newsletter of the 2003-2004 academic year.

DR. GOMES VISITS LIBRARY

RCC President, Dr. Terrance Gomes, visited the library August 28 to share with the staff his vision of the future of the college and to field concerns about library issues. The meeting with Dr. Gomes was extremely useful. Symbolically alone, it was a success since it was the first time in many years that an RCC president has visited the library.

“UNSUNG HIGHER-ED HEROES”

Dr. Gomes and RCC are mentioned in the article “Area’s small, urban colleges: Unsung higher-ed heroes” by James Martin and James E. Samels. Martin and Samels are RCC’s consultants helping the college work on strategic planning. The article is in the September 26-October 2, 2003 issue of Boston Business Journal. For a copy, contact the library at x5323 or mlawrence@rcc.mass.edu.

CAN YOU PLAN AHEAD A WEEK?

Most people want what they want NOW! Modern life encourages instant gratification. However, if you have the planning skills to predict your information needs a week or two in advance, the library’s Interlibrary Loan (ILL) and Document Delivery service is for you.

Over 50 Millions Books. There are well over 50 million book titles in the libraries of this country. The national ILL system can deliver virtually any of them to you if your local library doesn’t have what you need. The RCC library has made ILL requests extremely simple. Just fill out the online form shown here http://www.rcc.mass.edu/lib/LibIILForm.html to order your book. It will arrive back from the loaning library in a week or two. We’ll phone or email you to pick it up. The online form is also available at http://www.rcc.mass.edu/lib: Choose Library Services>Interlibrary Loan>ILL Request. If you need help finding an author, exact title, date, etc., search the Books in Print database at http://www.rcc.mass.edu/lib, choose Electronic Resources>Books in Print. Or contact the library for help.

Over 50 million articles. The RCC library databases point to over 50 million articles. About half are full text with immediate online access. Those that are not full text can be ordered with the library’s Document Delivery Service. To order an article, fill out this form http://www.rcc.mass.edu/lib/LibDocumentRequestForm.html. We will deliver a PDF version of the article to your email address in a week or two. Or you can get a regular printed version. It couldn’t be simpler! The online form is also available at http://rcc.mass.edu/lib: Choose Library Services>Interlibrary Loan>Document Delivery.

So, don’t let yourself languish without the information you need. It may not look like it but the RCC library is a portal to an almost unimaginable wealth of information. Be sure to take advantage of the ILL/Document Delivery service. It’s as close as your computer desktop!

Hispanic Heritage Month

The Latino Association, Veronica McCormack, advisor, in cooperation with The Student Government Association has organized a series of events celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15 to October 15. The library has joined in with a display of noted Hispanics in the front library windows and a display of books on Hispanic culture at the library entrance. Stop by and take a look.

Part of the book display includes 6 books by noted Puerto Rican poet Felix Franco Oppenheimer. The books are a recent gift from his daughter Eloisa Franco Torres, who teaches ESL as part of the RCC adjunct faculty.

Library Treasure Hunt

In coordination with Mark Garth, Coordinator of Career Services, the library is offering a Library Treasure Hunt this fall to help students of the College Survival Seminar gain basic library skills. Students come to the library on their own, register to be library users, look for a series of clues throughout the library and gain skills at the same time. They then get a certificate, are shown the career books, and get their choice of a florescent “Welcome to the RCC Library” pencil. From the oo’s and ah’s, this last item seems to be the best part of the whole process. The idea for the Library Treasure Hunt was adapted from an article in the January 2003 issue of College & Research Libraries, which describes a similar service at a community college in New York. Each student makes out an evaluation so that the Treasure Hunt can be improved. Here are some evaluation results:

· 83% thought the Treasure Hunt was “great” or “informative and interesting”;

· 94% thought the library atmosphere was “pleasant and a nice place to study”;

· The following thought the library staff were:

o “Really caring, enthusiastic and helpful”—35%

o “Attentive and helpful”—44%

o “Do their jobs”—19%

o “Disinterested but answer questions”—2%

o “Mean people who interfere with your fun”—0%

Nearly three times as many new library users were registered in the first weeks of September this year compared with last year, principally because of the Treasure Hunt. When students learn basic skills in the Treasure Hunt, more time is available for them to learn advanced searching techniques for doing research papers. They do this when they come back to the library as part of English Composition classes. From a public service and student-centered point of view, the most important part of the process seems to be that the library reference librarians can get the name of every new library user, talk with each briefly one-on-one, shake hands and give a welcome to the library. Students really seem to appreciate this individualized attention.

NEW LIBRARY FACES: BILL HOAG AND KELLY WOODSIDE

William K. Hoag started in September as the library’s new evening and Saturday supervisor. Bill is fairly new to the library profession. He got his masters degree in Library and Information Studies last year the University of Rhode Island. He interned at the Greenville (RI) Public Library performing a variety of projects including reference, online research and interlibrary loan. Bill has made an interesting career change from law enforcement. He was a police officer for eleven years in New Milford, CT and also was a certified Connecticut Police Instructor. Aside from reference duties, Bill is in charge of the interlibrary loan service. His background will make him valuable in teaching students how to use library resources, especially those in the Criminal Justice program.

Kelly Jo Woodside is the first library school intern the RCC library has ever had. She is working 10 hours a week from September to December while finishing her course work for her MS in Library and Information Science at Simmons College. Kelly’s internship is varied. She works at the circulation desk and does reference work. She teaches database searching to English Composition classes. She is working on an online reference resource for nursing students and, if time permits, an interactive library teaching tool. Both of these will be placed on the library web site. It is a mutually beneficial arrangement. Kelly gains work experience in preparation for looking for a full-time job. The college gains her high level of expertise for free. It’s a great match.

Bill Hoag	Kelly Woodside

ANOTHER NEW FACE

Alan Robert Honeysucker, Jr., son of library director Roblyn Honeysucker. Born 9-15-03, 8 lbs. 11 oz. Mother and son doing fine. Roblyn is keeping track of library issues by email and will be back to work next month.

NEW BOOKS—POPULAR AND BEST SELLERS

	FICTION		NON-FICTION
	Bleachers John Grisham		Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right Al Franken
	The Wedding Nicholas Sparks		Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11 Gerald L. Posner
	The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown		Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Walter Isaacson
	The Teeth of the Tiger Tom Clancy		The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century Paul Krugman
	Fatal Tide Iris Johansen		Under the Banner of Heaven Jon Krakauer
	The Namesake: A Novel Jhumpa Lahiri		Living History Hillary Rodham Clinton
	Diary: A Novel Chuck Palahniuk		Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism Ann Coulter
	The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold		Kate Remembered A. Scott Berg
	Jarka Ruus (High Druid of Shannara, Book 1) Terry Brooks		After Life: Answers from the Other Side John Edward
	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon		Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror Richard Miniter

NEW BOOKS—TO SUPPORT THE CURRICULUM

--organized by call number category

A--GENERAL WORKS

Warfare in the 21st century / edited by Jeremy K. Brown. AE6.R43 V.75 NO.3

Urban planning / edited by Andrew I. Cavin. AE6.R43 V.75 NO.4

B--PHILOSOPHY, PSCHOLOGY, RELIGION

Findley, Paul. Silent no more : confronting America's false images of Islam / BP170 .F56

D, E. F--HISTORY

Sources of twentieth-century Europe / [compiled by] Marvin Perry, Matthew Berg, James Krukones. D411 .S65 2000

Hollitz, John Erwin. Thinking through the past : a critical thinking approach to U.S. history / E173 .H79 2001/VOL.1

Trotter, Joe William. The African American experience / E185 .T7688 2001/

O'Reilly, Bill. The no spin zone : confrontations with the rich and powerful in America /

A guide to the Massachusetts State House. F73.8.S8 G85 2000

H--SOCIAL SCIENCES

Taylor, John B. Principles of microeconomics / HB172 .T39 2001

Dornbusch, Rudiger. Macroeconomics / HB172.5 .D67 2001

Gordon, Robert J. Macroeconomics / HB172.5 .G67 2000

Davis, Stanley M. Future wealth / HC79.W4 D377 2000

Grayson, David. Everybody's business : managing risks and opportunities in today's global society / HD45 .G66 2002

Harris, Carol. Consult yourself : the NLP guide to being a management consultant / HD69.C6 H3 2001

Jagels, Martin. Hospitality management accounting / HF5686.H75 C53 2004

America's children : key national indicators of well-being, 2003 / Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. HQ792.U5 A44 2003

Changing lives, changing communities : oral histories from Action for Boston Community Development / edited by Robert C. Hayden and Ann Withorn, with Jen Douglas. HT177.B6 C55 2002

Mooso, Dale T. Internet activities for criminal justice / HV9950.C743 M6

J--POLITICAL SCIENCE

Corporate Author: Massachusetts. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Lawmaking in Massachusetts / William Francis Galvin. JK3131.M37 /2000

K--LAW

Fradella, Henry F. Key cases, comments, and questions on substantive criminal law / KF9218 .F73 2000

Corporate Author: Massachusetts. The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. KFM2801 1780 .A362 2000

Citizen's guide to town meetings. KFM2832.5 .C57 2000

Veterans' laws and benefits. KFM2902 .V475 2000

L--EDUCATION

Ryan, Kevin. Those who can, teach / LB1025.3 .R93 2000

Snowman, Jack. Psychology applied to teaching / LB1051 .B452 2003

Mehlinger, Howard D. Technology & teacher education : a guide for educators and policymakers / LB1707 .M43 2002

Daniel, David. Take charge of your writing : discovering writing through self-assessment / LB2369 .D36 2001

Kanar, Carol C. The confident student / LB2395 .K325 2001

Batson, Ruth. The black educational movement in Boston : a sequence of historical events : a chronology / LC2803.B7 B38 2001

Lerner, Janet W. Learning disabilities: theories, diagnosis, and teaching strategies / LC4704 .L48 2003

P--LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

DeVito, Joseph A- Essentials of human communication / P90 .D483 2002

Diccionario ingl*es. PC4640 .D56333 2001

English composition [videorecording] : writing for an audience / with Peter Berkow ; produced by Peter Berkow and Anita Berkow. PE1404.E54 2000 / TAPE 1-2

Chaffee, John. Critical thinking, thoughtful writing : a rhetoric with readings / PE1408 .C3955 2002

Kanar, Carol C. The confident writer / PE1408 .K2725 2002

Raimes, Ann. Keys for writers / PE1408 .R16 2002

Skwire, David. Student's book of college English : rhetoric, readings, handbook / PE1408 .S546 2002

Fitton, Diane. New beginnings : writing with fluency / PE1413 .F58

Smith, R. Kent. Building vocabulary for college /

Rawlins, Jack. The writer's way / PN151 .R39 2002

Q--SCIENCE

Gefen, David. Advanced programming in Visual Basic. NET / QA76.73.B3 G3 2004

Gittleman, Art. Advanced Java : Internet applications / QA76.73.J38 G58 2002

R--MEDICINE

May, Bella J. Amputations and prosthetics : a case study approach / RD553 .M425 2002

Aschenbrenner, Diane S. Study guide to accompany Drug therapy in nursing / RM125|B.N83 2002 SUPPL.

Springhouse nurse's drug guide / RM125 .S67 2002

Skidmore-Roth, Linda. Mosby's nursing drug reference / RM138 .S59

Abrams, Anne Collins. Clinical drug therapy : rationales for nursing practice / RM262 .A27 2000

Karch, Amy Morrison. Focus on nursing pharmacology / RM300 .K27 2000

Kee, Joyce LeFever. Pharmacology : a nursing process approach / RM301 .K44 2003

Deglin, Judith Hopfer. Davis's drug guide for nurses / RM301.12 .D44 2003

Karch, Amy Morrison. 2002 Lippincott's nursing drug guide / RM301.12 .K37 2002

Schaefer, Kathleen Peck. Study guide to accompany Foundations of Nursing : caring for the whole person by Lois White / RT62.W47 2000 GUIDE.

S--AGRICULTURE

Stephens, Wilson. Gundog sense and sensibility / SF428.5 .S72 2001

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Roblyn Walker Honeysucker, Library Director