See some of our finest students’ works in the newest issue of the JCCC Honors Journal. Each semester, students participating in the Honors Program have the opportunity to submit their semester-long Honors project for inclusion into the journal. Topics range from religious themes in historic art, to how congenital heart disease affects the care people receive when patients move into adulthood. Check out the articles and support the great work of our students.
Issue 2 of the JCCC Honors Journal has been published! Check it out here for great articles by some of our outstanding students!
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!
JCCC leads community colleges when it comes to preserving campus-produced scholarship. We’ve hit 285 articles, presentations, and conference papers in our Institutional Repository, ScholarSpace. Check it out! This is a place for faculty, staff, and students to submit material they’ve written or presented at conferences, for magazines or journals, or that they’ve just put a considerable amount of effort into. When you check it out, if you don’t see your area of expertise represented, fear not: we’ll make a spot for it.
I’m a big fan of our Institutional Repository, ScholarSpace. A repository, set up to gather all of the publishings coming from our campus, has really exposed some of our works to the greater academic arena, but there’s been a glaring issue: there has been a horrible lack of student-created material. And certainly one of the most glaring issues has been my lack of advertising to get students more involved.
UNTIL NOW. I’m proud to announce that with the support and hard work of Patricia Decker, we’ve been able to launch the Johnson County Community College Honors Journal. Students who have completed their Honors contracts for courses at JCCC can now submit their final projects for inclusion in our entirely digital journal. There are some great advantages to this journal being all digital:
We’re very proud to be showcasing the work of our students, and hope to receive many more submissions in the coming semesters. Thanks to everyone who helped get this off the ground, especially the contributing students:
Seriously: without students willing to share their fantastic work, we wouldn’t be able to show the rest of the world what our students are capable of. I hope this gets students (Honors or not!) interested in submitting their work. Thanks again!
In checking out the digital projects we provide (not subscriptions like journals or e-books), we found some interesting things.
First, the most popular resource we have is our LibGuides collection, which received an insane number of hits over the last two years. The most popular guides are the Gay and Lesbian Film Guide, Autism & Asperger Syndrome Guide, Graphic Novels, and Italian Films & Music. Now, we made the Autism guide in conjunction with the Autism conference held on campus, so we knew that it would be popular, and the graphic novel guide is one of our oldest. The biggest from the guides was the Italian Films & Music resource.
Now, even though those guides got good hits, our college repository, ScholarSpace, had a few articles with significant downloads. Hopefully this raises awareness of the resources we have, and hopefully gets more contributors as time goes on.
Here are the Top 20 individual resources: