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Have you ever been hungry?

HungerHave you ever been hungry without any way to satisfy that hunger? Many students have that need, but do not want to acknowledge it to their classmates. You can help with very little effort. The next time you buy beverages and chips at the grocery, buy a can of meat: tuna, chicken, etc. and bring it to the college.

Anyone interested in donating to the college food pantry may bring non-perishable food, personal items, baby food and diapers to room OCB 261Q. Take cash or checks to the administrative assistants in OCB 272 during regular business hours. Go to: http://blogs.jccc.edu/mun/join-model-un/jccc-model-un-news/food-pantry-at-jccc/ for more specific information about what they need and how you can help.  If you need help:

Students can stop by the food pantry in OCB 261Q between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday to pick up the food they need.

Here are more links that show that those in any community who have plenty of food, need to share one of the basics of life:

http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/02/06/student-hunger-college-food-banks

http://www.wsj.com/articles/col

http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/25/pf/college/college-food-banks/leges-launch-food-pantries-to-help-low-income-students-1428408001

 

 

Really looking forward to the study rooms, you guys…

Hey, everybody.

Sorry about the construction that’s still going on. We’re told it’ll be over soon enough, but check out one of the benefits! The photos above are just a quick preview of the group study rooms we’ve been building. The rooms will be available to student groups only, so when they open up, make sure you bring your ID card. There will be about 8 (this is just one corner of the area), and they’ll be on the second floor behind where minidesk (not MEGADESK) currently is.

So thanks for your patience, and we hope they’ll be up and open soon!

The newest issue of the JCCC Honors Journal is out

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.

Better Know a Collection: JCCC Honors Journal

Our digital home for everything JCCC and scholarly, ScholarSpace, has many fine resources. One of the most exciting is the JCCC Honors Journal, where articles are submitted by Honors Students to be accepted.

Only two issues in, there’s plenty of time for Honors students to work with the fabulous Patricia Decker, Honors Program Facilitator, to submit for the next issue. OR! If you aren’t an taking any Honors classes yet, consider taking a class next semester, push yourself to succeed, and have a chance to get published!

Better Know a Collection: Student Art

Untitled by Hilary Stainaker, one of many fantastic works!

Have you seen the Student Art Collection in ScholarSpace?

The Art Department at JCCC has historically been able to procure exemplary student work to be added to the permanent art collection at JCCC. Larry Thomas, faculty member from the Art Department, spent a great amount of time photographing the collection around campus, and with other images provided by Bret Gustafson, we were able to provide access to them via ScholarSpace, our home for campus-borne creations ranging from articles, to presentations, to (obviously) art.

So check it out! there’s a lot of great stuff in there, and we’re proud to be making it available for your perusal.

Graduation Approaches: Make Your Portfolio Stand Out

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!

New Student Journal @ JCCC

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:

  • Obviously it is more green
  • Digital publishing allows the article to be included in larger academic online communities
  • We can incorporate alternative projects, such as video, images, powerpoint presentations, or a combination of many of these

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:

  • Christina Turner
  • Courtney Masterson
  • William Sherrill
  • William Bettes
  • Belinda Peister

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!

Summer at the Library

What’s up? This blog is getting dusty, and that’s because the slowness of summer is the excuse we use here at Billington Library to start getting more done.  Some things end up getting skipped over: you’re looking at one of them.

DSC_0001That right there is a gaggle of dress forms. I’m not comfortable with them hanging out so bare, so they’ve been covered for the time being.  The reason they’re around is because we have this fashion collection out here at JCCC, and we’re ready to digitize it all.   We’ll be throwing dresses on these and hammering our photographs for the rest of summer, and then fall… it is likely a year or two year project. And it is time consuming. Eek.

Meanwhile, we’re still getting quite a bit of new books, and still doing instruction for classes throughout summer.

Coming up soon is SIDLIT, the summer conference for distance learning. JCCC’s ScholarSpace is the new home for digitally archiving the conferences proceedings, and we’re super-psyched to be attending and collecting presentations.  We’ll probably be following it at our Twitter account, on SIDLIT’s Twitter account, or collectively at #sidlit, starting when the conference goes down: July 30th – 31st.

Also, supposedly in the next two weeks, we’ll have the Campus Ledger in our posession: digitally.  From creation to 2007, the only gap being one year that seems to have left this earth in its entirety.  Exciting? Yes. I hold my breath, though, in anticipation of its arrival.

And yet, there’s more.  I’ll talk about it when it is more solidified.

End of Year / Holidays / Something to Look Foward To

Congrats to all of our students who survived finals, and a happy holidays wish to everyone.  I hope that this brief time off is treating the JCCC community well (and everyone else, too, of course!)  Next semester, you will see these updates get back to regular, as well as an exciting new feature.

While the feature doesn’t have a name yet, it will be a twice-a-week feature which follows me through a new experience:  I’m taking a class here at JCCC!  It isn’t uncommon for faculty to take classes, but I hope to show students and staff how the library can enhance your classroom experience, provides numerous resources for students, and can better enrich the general learning environment on campus.

Here’s hoping I do OK: It’s been a couple years since I was in school. I’m actually nervous about all of the can’t-find-my-class, hope-I-make-friends, hope-I’m-not-late stuff that everyone goes through.  It’s pretty exciting for me, and I hope I can use the experience to paint the library in an appropriate, positive light.