Enjoy your jam, JCCC, and don’t forget to return all of your library books! Fines are bummers.
Up late? We recommend Finals Jam #2
If you’re awake and studying for finals, JCCC, we’re five minutes from midnight. You know what you need? A break. Anyone following us on Facebook was treated to Finals Jam #1, Surfer Blood’s “Swim”.
For your entertainment, hard-working JCCC students, here’s Finals Jam # 2
Sociology, the Environment, and How They Get Along
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The lines of society and environment cross many times, but it is unique to have a book like this handy: the implications of sociological behaviors and attitudes and their impact on the environment as seen from varying professions collected for study. Nature, Society and Environmental Crisis (edited by Bob Carl and Nickie Charles) is a fantastic collection of articles and essays about what we can do in the way we live to address the impact we’re having on the environment. Having experts in both ecology and sociology allows for a wide range of opinions, priorities, and perceived results and impacts. This book is great for people interested in sociology, environmentalism, ecology, and anyone with a passing concern in things like pollution, globalization, global warming, or other similar issues.
A Profile of Soldiers in the Book of the Day
We just got an audio book version of War by Sebastian Junger. He spent 15 months on the Afghan-Pakistan border with US Soldiers who spend years protecting this area. The dynamics of their relationships are explored.
We recommend clicking here to check out the author on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart talking discussing the book.
The Library Reminds You: The Importance of Protection
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Between the slogans letting you know that “It’s worth waiting for,” or conversely to “wrap it up, every time,” the concern over sexually transmitted diseases is very real! That’s why we’re dropping the Knowledge Hammer on you in the form of a disturbingly thick book, Sex, Sin, & Science: A History of Syphilis in America. This takes on the relationship between science, religion, sexual education, and social stereotypes of contracting a disease like syphilis. You’ll get to find out how long Old Joe (slang for syphilis!) has been around, from pilgrims to modern day.
Overall, it’s an excellent study of sociology, medical science, and even religious studies, as written by a medical expert, John Parascandola, not seen below.
LibGuides! It’s Like Instant Reference!
With the semester winding down, you might be able to squeeze in some reading time. OR! Maybe you’re an avid reader with less time than normal.
LibGuides will not fail you! Check out Marsha Cousino‘s guide, Great Books Around 200 Pages. It’s already one of the most popular guides this year, and its packed with fiction and non-fiction for your (abbreviated) reading pleasure.
But don’t stop there! Plenty of guides covering a variety of topics are out there for you to peruse!
Graduation Approaches: Make Your Portfolio Stand Out
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Congratulations to everyone about to graduate from JCCC! If you’re getting ready to enter the workforce, it can never hurt to do a little extra prep on that resume. With that in mind, you might want to hit up a book like this new title, Putting Together Professional Portfolios. Flipping through a book like this can help make an impression in this competitive market. Another resource that can help is the campus’s Career Services Center. The experts working up there have tons of information to help you, whether you’re just starting college or on your way out!
It’s About Time To Feature Another Audio Romance…
On the off chance you enjoy ro-MANCE novels, or the chance you enjoy audio books, I try to annually feature an audio romance novel.
BEHOLD THE FIERY PASSION OF Blood Born, a book so hot, it took two authors. Actually, I don’t know that bit about it being “so hot”, but its description starts with
When the human and the vampire worlds collide, there will be hell to pay.
Oh yeah, its one of those. Vampires, humans, sexy sexy romance as read by Vanessa Hart, prominent romance audio book reader. With finals on the way and people in need of leisurely escape, now might be the time to give an audio book, a romance, or an audio romance a shot.
The Civil Rights Movement in Kansas
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I wasn’t educated in Kansas, but most of the Civil Rights discussions we had in school focused on the deep South. A book like today’s Book of the Day, Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest by Gretchen Cassel Eick, is beneficial to those intrested in what the attitudes towards race and events of the movement looked like right here in Kansas. The focus of this book serves as a reminder that important activities in the prime of the Civil Rights Movement happened well outside of the more prevalently documented cases in places like Alabama or Mississippi. With interviews of witnesses and activists, this book can bring added demension to race relations and the Civil Rights Movements of the 1950s through 70s.
New Art in Our Gallery
This came across the InfoList, folks:
CLASEN, SANDS PHOTOS ON VIEW IN THE BILLINGTON LIBRARY GALLERY THROUGH MAY 21
“A Study in Contrasts” is the latest exhibition in the Billington Library Gallery.
Fine art photographs by Jenny Clasen, adjunct professor, photography, and commercial photographs by Craig Sands, adjunct associate professor, photography, will be on view in the gallery until Friday, May 21.
The gallery is on the second floor of the Billington Library.
(Image from Ms. Clasen’s Artist File Online page.)