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: