A Big Thank You to Our Users! –UPDATE

This has been a great summer! The overall positive attitude has been fantastic, and we know that it hasn’t been the easiest of things for you all. For example:

  • We appreciate your patience with having to log-in to most of our computers now. If you’re not a student, guest log-ins are free and available from the Regnier Center. Dirty lies! You only have to log in for printing, and the librarians can help guests get their guest printing cards. Guests will have to get temporary logins for wi-fi, though. That’s on me, guys. My bad.
  • We also implemented our Print Management system (which is a fancy way of saying that students have limited free printing and guests must pay for their print jobs).  If you need help, the librarians are more than willing and able to help you.  We know there have been some nasty hiccups, but your patience is appreciated.  We know it can wear you thin, but believe me when I say it can do the same to us.

Despite this summer of changes, we’ve been lucky enough to have great students, faculty, and guests with the patience of saints.  Thank you, everybody!

Slowing Down is Good for Our DVDs

We’ve been waiting for some new books to post. Since we’re near the end of the campus’s fiscal year, we’re adding fewer books to the catalog nowadays.

We’re still adding DVDs, mostly replacements from damaged or worn down items.  If you haven’t hit up our DVD section, let it be known that it is huge.  We’ve got a lot of feature films, including the ever-important ReAnimator, and of course more popular things like Avatar (which will be on the shelf in a couple days) and classics like Monty Python and the Holy Grail.  In addition, we’re loaded with documentaries and educational films, too, including the epic miniseries Planet Earth. Stop by, browse, and grab something that catches your eye.

Welcome to JCCC, Summer Semester I

What’s crackin’? Summer Semester I is now underway and whether you’re new or returning, we thought it might be a good idea to remind you of some of our resources here:

  • Obviously, we’ve got this blog for noise about what’s happening in the library.
  • We have a Twitter feed and Facebook page, and we’re not above asking to be your friend. Plus, we use the Twitter feed to answer any questions you might have.
  • Our LibGuides area  collection of study resources based around topics that you’re likely to be assigned at some point, as well as an RSS Feed that pumps out all of our new books.
  • And of course, our library’s website has our catalog, a lot of databases, and plenty of other resources to help you out.

Don’t ever hesitate to swing by for help, to relax, or to say hi! We’re glad you’re at JCCC and hope we can be helpful during your time here!

300 Articles, Everybody!

What’s shaking, JCCC? I know, I know: It’s break, those few days where you don’t have to think about being in class, and faculty don’t have to think about teaching class.

But we never sleep! Ever! This morning at 12:21am, we uploaded the 300th item into ScholarSpace @ JCCC, and it is a doozy! The paper is actually a book written by Power Librarian Andrea Kempf entitled Shared Lives: Women Who Wrote for Women. It’s all about these prolific romance writers whose novels featured many events that, Andrea posits, actually reflected more of their lives than it did any certain fantasy.

So thanks to all the contributing authors for helping ScholarSpace hit this milestone! between that and our 7500+ full text downloads, I’d say it has been quite the success so far!

I Love You, NYPL

New York Public Library helped Improv Everywhere prank their patrons. Awesome PR, guys. I hope this gets people aware that libraries need help!

Now if only our patrons would follow through on that Grease-themed flashmob they talked about…