LIBRARYfall 2012

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Welcome ..........................................

Meet your librarian ...........................

News from the WRLC ........................

World Book Night ...............................

Connecting everywhere to you ......

After hours .........................................

L&LS in pictures ..................................

P.S. .......................................................

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Welcome

In the spring and summer months of 2012, Library and Learning Services has been extremely busy work-ing on countless projects in our ef-fort to better serve our users. One major summer project has been the creation of The John T. and Agnes J. Gomatos Information Lit-eracy Room. Through a generous donation from Dr. Peter Gomatos, we have been able to create this space, which will provide a com-fortable setting for information lit-eracy instruction sessions, as well as accommodate distance learn-

Dear Marymount Community,

Dean and ProfessorLibrary and Learning Services

Best Regards,

ing classes, virtual conferences, and collaborative working sessions. Please continue reading to learn about the other exciting things we have been doing!

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Meet your librarian

Name?

Any nicknames?

Have any pets?

Ever broken a bone?

What was the last CD you bought?

Hongqiang Yang

What do you do for L&LS? Electronic Services Librarian

Mason

a dog, named Emma and a cat named Mimi

What makes you happy? Figuring out how to fix something

Never

Michael Jackson,

This Is It

What was the last book you read? Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

Favorite thing to do on a hot summer day? Don't likehot summers at all

Favorite thing to do on a snowy winter day? Walk aimlessly

Favorite sport? Basketball

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Figuring out how to fix something

Favorite movies? Sci-Fi movies, such as the Matrix, Men in Black, Underworld...

Favorite room in your house? Living room

Coke or Pepsi? Coke

Pen or Pencil? Pen

Tea or Coffee? Coffee

Half full or Half empty? Half full

Salt and Vinegar or Sour Cream and Onion? Salt and vinegar

Want to talk more? Mason is availble at the Reinsch library to help you with any question, even if it is about The Matrix or his favorite track on the Michael Jackson CD!

As the Electronic Services Librarian, Mason is responsible for the digital profile of Library and Learning Services. These services include our website, digital resources and everything related to information technology.

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News from the WRLCby Mariana Hodges

On Friday, June 15, Marymount’s Reinsch Library hosted the annual retreat for the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC). The WRLC exists to enhance the information resources available to students in the Washington, DC area by providing a combined and shared library collection. The universities comprising the Consortium include the American University, The Catholic University of America, Gallaudet University, George Mason University, The George Washington University,

Georgetown University, Marymount University, the University of the District of Columbia, and Howard University. At this meeting the 22 members present reviewed the the Consortium’s initiatives for the 2012 fiscal year and discussed what challenges they will face next year. The January addition of Howard

WRLC retreat

University to the WRLC was highlighted in the meeting. With this new membership, Marymount acquired another partner that provides MU students, faculty and staff access and borrowing privileges to Howard University’s library, which includes over 2.2 million volumes; 14,000 current journal subscriptions; 6,600 manuscripts; and thousands of audio-visual items. This borrowing will be facilitated by the Consortium’s online catalog and the Consortium Loan Service (CLS) which transports materials to and from MU Library.A major e-book collection has been added to the Consortium and made available for all students. In addition, the Consortium has begun lending media items, such as DVDs, CDs, etc. that are now available for request via CLS. MU students will be pleased to know that the WRLC extended the delivery of loans to the weekends, allowing for 7 day a week access to

our resources and online services throughout the Consortium.In order to establish initiatives for the upcoming year, the University libraries utilized this retreat to share the most significant challenges their campuses are facing. There were a number of common themes among the suggested ideas including the creation of digital collections, the need for constant expansion of the shared collections family, implementing more tools for support on e-learning and the acquisition of additional e-resources available to the Consortium. We are excited for this new semester and the new additions to our collection, including the new online features. Be on the lookout for more updates!

Library talk

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World Book Nightby Kathleen Brown

On April 23rd, 2012, Marymount’s library, several members of its staff, and a few other members of the Marymount community joined tens of thousands of volunteers in promoting the joy of reading across the country and around the globe. World Book Night, a UK-based charity event, is based on the principle that everyone should have the opportunity to enjoy the powerfully transformative effects of reading: to this end, hundreds of thousands of specially printed editions of thirty selected titles are taken, every year, into parts of the community that are less likely to have access to these titles. The list of

publishers, trade sponsors, and other donors that make this endeavor possible is long and impressive and includes names like Barnes & Noble, Random House, Scholastic, and a plethora of others. The titles, selected for their potential to attract those who read lightly or not at all, change every year; this year’s choices ranged from popular, well-known titles like The Hunger Games to transformative but lesser-known titles like The Poisonwood Bible.

Since its inception in 2011, World Book Night has become a worldwide phenomenon and is celebrated every year on April 23rd. This date was chosen due to the happy convergence of UNESCO’s World Book Day, the anniversary of Cervantes’ death, and the anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth and death. The Marymount community was able to participate in several ways: not only were library and campus staff selected out of a vast pool of applicants to distribute books in their communities, but the Reinsch library had the honor of being designated as a pick-up and meet-up location for other local World Book Night volunteers in the community.

Volunteers and book receivers alike reported their experiences as “amazing, eye-opening, and life-changing” and virtually all involved vowed to be a part of next year’s World Book Night experience. Mark your calendar “Save the Date” for April 23!

For more information go to www.us.worldbooknight.org

Making readers everywhere

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Connecting everywhere to you

Reinsch Library celebrated National Library Week, April 9-14, with plenty of popcorn, a poster design contest, food for fines donations, and lots of giveaway books. The theme selected by the American Library Association (ALA) to represent this year’s event was “You belong @ your library,” and the word ‘belong’ inspired us to make a connection with all our patrons and to tell our story. The goal was to promote our services and resources in a way that communicates the dedication

that our librarians and staff have to disseminating knowledge to the Marymount learning and teaching community and to providing the educational and informational support you need at all times. MU library’s goal is to accommodate everyone and to help you connect be it through reading, writing, researching, meeting up for group projects or just to hanging out!

Connecting you

Every year, we partner with Associate Professor Bridget Murphy’s Graphic Design Studio class (GD 360) to create posters for National Library Week. The assignment is to work with a group and design a poster based on the ALA theme and this year’s was ”You belong @ your library”, whether it is on campus, online from your dorm room or home, or by phone.Each poster design incorporated our services and illustrated with graphics the students’ ideas on what belonging @ the library means to them. The MU community was invited to view and vote for their favorite poster. Through this process, library users were able to have a better understanding of what National Library Week means to them.

Fresh popped popcorn made the opening of the poster contest worthwhile. For each vote, students received a free bag of popcorn as a thank you for “popping” into the library for a visit. Needless to say, it was a success!

Student poster contest

by Mariana Hodges and Vicky Adams

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The winning design! By Maryam Alwazir, Miguel Gonzales, Aurora Thomas, and Zack Papovich.

A word from the students...“The concept of the Comic Strip is to depict a character in the middle of distractions of everyday life and the evolution of his aggravation with the situation. Places like Bernie’s or Lola’s Café are not ideal places to get serious work done. By showing all of the distractions that may be present in the atmosphere, we appeal to the emotions of those who have found themselves in that situation. The

After one week of voting, the ballots were counted and we had a tight race: the Comic Strip design was selected and each winning group member received a $15 Barnes and Noble gift card and a certificate of achievement!

transition of the character settling into the library where he is finally relieved tells the audience that the library will provide them with a comfortable setting with all the resources that they need.”

The contenders - all great designs! Thank you to all students who participated. Until next year!

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After hoursby Worby McNamee

I am a volunteer at a local Arlington based non-profit called The Reading Connection. The non-profit was founded with the mission of improving the lives of at-risk children and families by helping them create and sustain literacy-rich environments and motivation for reading. They do this by providing Read-Alouds where volunteers go to local shelters and read to the kids that live there. They also provide them with free new books for them to keep. I began volunteering with them on a regular basis after following them in a case study for a graduate class I was taking at Marymount. After doing various smaller tasks for them, the Executive Director invited me to stay onboard

“[The Reading Connection is] One of the best small charities in the Washington, D.C. region” Catalogue for Philanthropy

Worby McNamee is a Reference Associate atthe Reinsch Library.

to help with the fundraising. I enjoy volunteering with TRC because the staff members make you feel like you are part of a family and it is providing a solution and awareness to an existing problem some Arlingtonians don’t know exist in the community.

For more information on The Reading Connection

www.thereadingconnection.org

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L&LS in pictures

Excuse the noise. We have been extra busy this summer focus-ing on an exciting project: the construction of our new Literacy Room. It is located next to the Overder Brew and is equipped with plenty of gadgets for students and professors. We hope you enjoy the new space!

Students’ participation. Whether it’s voting or being nomi-nated for an award, we love to see students involvement with the library. 1ST PICTURE: HILARY WINGATE VOTING FOR THE POSTER CONTEST / 2ND PICTURE: FENG SHI, L&LS STUDENT EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR NOMINEE ATTENDING THE STUDENT EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR LUNCHEON ON APRIL 12.

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