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bullet Spring, 2008 (pdf)

bullet Fall, 2007 (pdf)

bullet Spring, 2007 (pdf)

bullet Fall, 2006 (pdf)

bullet Google Scholar partnership

bullet Google Books and WorldCat partnership

bullet Your new library

bullet National Library Week

bullet Book recommendations

bullet Faculty Fridays: Google & Scholar

bullet Professional development

bullet Conferences

bullet Committee service

bullet TMI Symposium

bullet Library Flex fferings

bullet Listen-in closed

Changes in the Library

Google Scholar partnership

Butte College has established a partnership with Google Scholar using OpenURL technology to locate our scholarly and professional journal articles.

You can search the world’s scholarly literature online at http://scholar.google.com. Google Scholar includes peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

Our partnership allows Google Scholar to determine which electronic journals and papers in the results list are owned by Butte College Library, and then includes special links to articles from those sources when they're available. Look in the results list for "Full-text@Butte" or "Check resources@Butte."

To make these links appear, just access Google Scholar from any Butte College campus, and you'll automatically see the "@Butte" links. For off-campus access, follow these steps:

  1. If you have cookies blocked, set your browser to accept cookies.
  2. Click on "Scholar Preferences" to the right of the Google Scholar search box.
  3. Type "Butte College" in the 'Library Links' section.
  4. Click "Save preferences."
  5. Start searching with links to your library's resources.

You will need your user name and password to access these resources from off-campus. Click here to find your user ID/password.

Google Books and Worldcat partnership

Butte College is now a member of Open Worldcat and has partnered with Google to help find resources in our library from Google Books (http://books.google.com) or Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com)

For books in Google Scholar results, click "Find in a Library" to see the closest Library that owns the book.

For Google Books results:

  1. Click on the title of the book
  2. Scroll down on the right side frame
  3. Click "Find this book in a Library"
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Your new library

The newly renovated, three-story Main Campus Library has an increase of about 17,000 square feet over the original space. The new library has a total of 323 seats including 132 study carrels, 73 computer workstations, 5 group study rooms, 42 lounge seats, and 32 table seats.

The 73 library computers have Internet access and word processing. Computers with assistive devices are also available. The Library is a wireless hotspot, so bring your laptop!

1st floor:

2nd Floor:

3rd floor:

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Upcoming events

National Library Week 50th Anniversary: April 13-19, 2008

We're planning another National Library Week celebration!

We'll have workshops, favorite book recommendations, contests and prizes. Check this page often for updates.

Book recommendations

Have you read a book that you enjoyed very much? Tell your friends, peers, and colleagues!

All students and faculty are encouraged to submit a book recommendation and tell everyone why you like it. (No need to write a book review; one or two sentences will do!) The Library will display your recommendation during our National Library Week Celebration, April 14-18.

Fill out the printable form here, and send it aong to Andy McCasland at the Main Campus library or to Louise Lee at Chico Center library. You can submit your favorites by dropping them off in person or via intercampus mail at the Main Campus Library, the Chico Center Library, or by e-mail to: leelo@butte.edu.

Call Andy at 879-4021 if you’d like to have your photo added to our display. He’ll schedule a time for a quick digital photo shoot.

Please send your book recommendations by Monday, April 7th if possible.

Faculty Fridays: Extreme Googling and Google Scholar, April 25, 2008

Butte College Librarian Morgan Brynnan will offer a workshop in Extreme Googling, Google Books, and Google Scholar as part of the College's Staff Development program.

The focus for this Friday will be on technology. Meet your colleagues in Room 160 at the Chico Center at 2:30 PM. Contact Teresa Ward at Staff Development for more information.

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Staff news

Professional Development

Dr. Luozhu Cen

Shirleigh Brannon

Morgan Brynnan

Louise Lee

‡TMI training includes best pedagogic practices for teaching online as well as the nuts and bolts of how to deliver courses through Blackboard. Faculty interested in distance education or using Blackboard technologies in their classes can find out more at the TMI home page.

Conferences

Shirleigh Brannon, reference librarian and LIS 11 instructor, represented the Library at the 2008 Indiana University Conference on Assessments, along with other Butte College instructors and administrators.

She also attended the 2007 Online Teaching Conference at Ohlone College on June 11 & 12. Presenters included the vanguard in California online teaching practice, including Butte College's very own Dan Barnett. Additional information about the conference is available at: www.cccone.org/07Conference/

Reference librarians Shirleigh Brannon, Morgan Brynnan, Louise Lee, and Jacquie Foster attended the CELT and Internet Librarian conference in 2007. Morgan also attended the CELT conference held at CSU Chico in the Fall of 2006.

Library director Dr. Luozhu Cen and librarians Shirleigh Brannon and Morgan Brynnan will attend the Council of Chief Librarians Student Learning Outcomes conference in Walnut Grove, CA in April of 2008.

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Committee Service

Dr. Luozhu Cen:

Shirleigh Brannon:

Morgan Brynnan:

Louise Lee

Tiyebeh Jodari:

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Past Events

TMI Symposium January 2008

Butte College librarian Shirleigh Brannon presented Google Tools for Educators.

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Shirleigh Brannon and Myron Curtis created a workshop on WINK, Camtasia, Adobe Captivate and other screen capture programs.

Flex Week Offerings: January 2008

Listen-in Closing

Due to loss of funding from the California State Library, the audiovisual service Listen-in closed its doors on January 18, 2008.

You can still borrow audio books, DVDs and videos at some public libraries, click here to find the one nearest you.

Thanks and happy retirement to Tom McElroy, the senior technician, for many years of service.

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