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Bird’s Eye View A Newsletter from the Grace Van Dyke Bird Library
Meet the Librarians! Have you met the newest members of our library team? Faith Bradham and Sondra Keckley joined us in
August 2015, while Mindy Wilmot arrived in September 2014. Anna Agenjo still reigns supreme as our
benevolent Library Chair, and Kirk Russell maintains his duties as the excellent Technical Services Librarian.
Mindy Wilmot
Mindy is a Kern County native, born in Taft and raised in Arvin. She earned a BA in English from CSUB and
a Master's of Library and Information Science from San Jose State University. Mindy spent 7 years teaching
at Highland High School in Bakersfield as an English teacher and then as a Teacher Librarian.
Faith Bradham
Faith is new to California, having been born and raised in Texas. She holds a BA in English, with minors in
classics and comparative literature, from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and a Master's of Library
Science from Indiana University. Faith joined the BC community directly out of graduate school.
Sondra Keckley
Sondra holds a BA in biology, with minors in social science and secondary education, from Alma College in
Alma, Michigan. She earned a Master's in Education, in curriculum and instruction, from CSUB. She taught
biology at Stockdale High School for 11 years, then became the Teacher Librarian at Independence High
School in 2008, where she taught for 7 years. She also holds a school library services teaching credential
from Fresno Pacific University.
Spring 2016
Back Row:
Kirk, Anna, Faith
Front Row:
Mindy, Sondra
Photo Credit:
Dustin Ludeman
Cerro Author 2016 Announced The Grace Van Dyke Bird Library is beyond excited to announce the 10
th
Cerro Author—Andy Weir. His name might not ring bells, but his book will. Weir is the author of The Martian, which the Wall Street Journal called the “purest example of real sci-fi for many years.” Weir will visit campus on
Tuesday, October 25th
and Wednesday, October 26th
, 2016.
You may already know that Ridley Scott directed the film adapted from the novel, released in October of 2015, and Matt Damon just won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Mark Watney, the astronaut abandoned on Mars. We believe the novel will engage students; and the story is relevant to disciplines from English to biology and astronomy and agriculture to psychology.
Weir describes himself as a “lifelong space nerd,” and his background supports that assessment. Raised in California, he began working as a computer programmer at the Sandia National Laboratory at age 15. A computer science major at UC San Diego, he left college before graduation and worked as a programmer at a variety of companies, including Blizzard, where he worked on the video game Warcraft II. While in his 20s, he began writing fiction, self-publishing it on his website Galactanet, where he published The Martian in serial form. He prides himself on the scientific accuracy he achieved in the novel. When his readers clamored for the novel in book form, he published it as a 99 cent Kindle book before he was approached by a publisher. It debuted on the New York Times bestseller list at #12 and had a mercurial ascent to #1 in various categories.
You can still follow Weir’s writing on Galactanet, and he is amazingly active on his Facebook page as well. But, even better, if you would like to consider adopting The Martian in one of your courses, you can request a free examination copy from Anna Agenjo at the library. We hope to have an array of activities to support Weir’s visit that will
further engage your students’ interest in Andy Weir’s The Martian.
Getting hip with the kids: social media at the library!
Did you know that the library now
has 3 (count ‘em) social media
accounts? We are delving whole-
heartedly into the digital world our
students inhabit, and hope that
this social media presence will
allow us to engage with BC
students in a more personal and
connected manner. We maintain
accounts on Twitter, Instagram,
and YouTube, and we encourage
all of you to follow us and to tell
your students about these
accounts! We use these accounts
for library news, general library
know-how, and fun library tidbits.
We also encourage students to
ask us reference questions over
these platforms.
Andy Weir
Anna was the first librarian featured in #MeettheLibrariansMonday! https://www.instagram.com/p/BA-yGEpvq8a/
@bc_library
@LibraryAtBC
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Images from the Grand Opening on April 7: L, Rich McCrow & Trustee Romeo Agbalog performed the ribbon cutting ceremony; R, members of the Library, Writing Center, and Tutoring Center Staff
Delano Campus Library We are delighted to report the opening of a part-time library at the Delano Campus as of April 11! We are thrilled to
begin offering library services for our Delano students. The library shares a building with the Delano Writing Center and
Tutoring Center so that students can access all student services in one location.
Our Delano library hours are Monday-Thursday, 9am-3pm. The library includes a reference collection and a small
browsing collection, as well as several workstations and space for quiet study. The library offers library orientations for
classes in Delano, and will eventually begin offering workshops as well.
Adjunct librarian Elisabeth Sundby is our librarian on the ground in Delano. Any questions about the Delano library can
be directed to her at elisabeth.sundby@bakersfieldcollege.edu, or you can call the library at 661.720.2015.
L: Elisabeth, ready for action! R: The new Delano space, featuring a book collection and quiet study work-stations.
Bailey, N.B. (2015). Agricultural and food
controversies: What everyone needs to know.
New York: Oxford University Press.
BJ 52.5 .N67 2014
Kruse, K.M. (2015). One nation under God:
How corporate American invented Christian
America. New York: Basic Books.
BR 517 .K78 2015
Abbott, K. (2014). Liar, temptress, solider, spy:
Four women undercover in the Civil War. New
York: Harper.
E 608 .A25 2014
Fu. P. (2015). Getting to know web GIS. Red-
lands, CA: Esri Press.
G 70.212 .F79 2015
Edrin, K. (2015). $2.00 a day: Living on almost
nothing in America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt.
HC 110 .P6 E343 2015
Rieff, D. (2015). The reproach of hunger: Food,
justice, and money in the twenty-first century.
New York: Simon & Schuster.
HD 9000.5 R53 2015.
Kiesbye, S. (Ed.) (2011). Are social networking
sites harmful? Detroit: Green Haven Press.
HM 742 .A74 2011
Schultz, J.W. (2015). Trans/portraits: Voices
from transgender communities. Hanover, NH:
Darthmouth College Press.
HQ 77.9 .S55 2015
Strasburger, V.C., Wilson, B.J., & Jordan, A.B.
(2014). Children, adolescents, and the media.
3rd ed. Los Angeles: SAGE.
HQ 784 .M3 S78 2014
Barcott, B. (2015). Weed the people: The future
of legal marijuana in America. New York: Time
Books.
HV 5822 .M3 B374 2015
Lister, C.R. (2015). The Islamic State: A brief
introduction. Washington, DC: Brookings
Institution Press.
HV 6433 I722 L57 2015
Spitzer, R.J. (2015). Guns across America:
Reconciling gun rules and rights. New York:
Oxford University Press.
HV 7436 .S677 2015
Read all about it!: New titles at BC A curated list of some of the new and exciting titles that arrived in the general collection this semester!
(Arranged in call number order.)
Chang, J. (2014). Who we be: The colorization
of America. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
E 184 .A1 C4425 2014
Carreira, M. (2014). Voces: Latino students on
life in the United States. Santa Barbara, CA:
Praeger.
E 184 .S75 C38 2014
Yoshino, K. (2015). Speak now: Marriage
equality on trial: The story of Hollingsworth v.
Perry. New York: Crown Publishers.
KF 228 .H645 Y67 2015
Hirshman, L.R. (2015). Sisters in law: How
Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader
Ginsburg went to the Supreme Court and
changed the world. New York: Harper.
KF 8744 .H57 2015
Nocella II, A.J., Parmar, P.. & Stovall D. (2014).
From education to incarceration: Dismantling
the school-to-prison pipeline. New York: Peter
Lang.
LB 3012.2 .F76 2014
Beaumont, M. (2015). Kanye West: God and
monster. London: Omnibus Press.
ML 420 .W452 B43 2015
Marcus, G. (2014). The history of rock ‘n’ roll in
ten songs. New Haven: Yale University Press.
ML 3534 .M356 2014
Behnken, B.D., & Smithers, G.D. (2015).
Racism in American popular media: From Aunt
Jemima to the Frito Bandito. Santa Barbara,
CA: Praeger.
P 94.5 .M552 U625 2015
Carroll, L. (2015). The annotated Alice: Alice’s
adventures in Wonderland & through the
looking glass. John Tenniel, Illustrator. New
York: W.W. Norton & Company.
PR 4611 .A7 2015
Daugherty, T. (2015). The last love song: A
biography of Joan Didion. New York: St.
Martin’s Press.
PS 3554 .I33 Z57 2015
McGraw, S. (2015). Betting the farm on a
drought: Stories from the front lines of climate
change. Austin: University of Texas Press.
QC 903.2 .U6 M34 2015
Schreiber, K. (2015). The truth about exercise
addiction: Understanding the dark side of
thinspiration. Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield.
RC 569.5 .E94 S37 2015
Herndon, A.M. (2014). Fat blame: How the war
on obesity victimizes women and children.
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
RM 222.2 .H367 2014.
Mindell, D.A. (2015). Our robots, ourselves:
Robotics and the myths of autonomy. New
York: Viking.
TJ 211.495 .M56 2015
Paul, R., & Moss, S. (2015). We could not fail:
The first African Americans in the space pro-
gram. Austin: University of Texas Press.
TL 521.312 .P39 2015
Princen, T., Manno, J.P., & Martin, P.L. (Eds.).
(2015). Ending the fossil fuel era. Cambridge,
MA: The MIT Press.
TP 318 .E54 2015
Schatzker, M. (2015). The Dorito effect: The
surprising new truth about food and flavor. New
York: Simon & Schuster.
TX 370 .S33 2015
Cohn, M. (Ed.) (2015). Drones and targeted
killing: Legal, moral, and geopolitical issues.
Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press.
UG 1242 .D7 D76 2015
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