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