The SGA asked, and Dr. Royce listened and provided two new study rooms for Speed Library. The new rooms are located on the library's top floor across from the Help Desk and next to the periodicals.
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Every October 20th, the NCTE celebrates your Right To Write with a TweetUp. MC students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to participate by using the #WhyIWrite hashtag and share with the Twittersphere why you write. Last year, #WhyIWrite trended all day on Twitter with more than 60,000 tweets.
This year's National Day on Writing takes place Thursday, October 20. MC Writing faculty and the Writing Center are sponsoring two events: a letter writing project and a Twitter contest.
(1) Letters Home
Letter writing remains an important skill in our digital age.
Here's your chance to send a letter anywhere in the world, to whom will you write? (2) Twitter Contest
Link-Up with the National Day on Writing!
1. George Orwell's original "Why I Write" statement in 1946.
2. Fifth-grade teacher, Katherine Sokolowski, blogs about "Why I Write." 3. Visit the NCTE's National Day on Writing website. 4. Watch a fun YouTube video offering reasons to write:
Video by Deanna Mascle, Writing instructor for the English Department at Morehead State University
Books, Records, tapes, movies, and. . . |
Book sale proceeds are invested back in the library to enhance services and resources for students, faculty, and staff. In recent years, the book sale has enabled the library to purchase new computer monitors, expand its collection of fiction, and provide snacks and games during exam week. | |
The American Library Association (ALA) sponsors a national initiative each fall to fight censorship and support the freedom to read. Banned Books Week “brings together the entire book community to support the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular” (ALA, 2012).
This year, Speed Library joined the effort with events and contests for students, faculty, and staff to get involved. On Tuesday, September 27th, the library celebrated Banned Books Week with a selfie booth for attendees to take pictures while reading a banned book, a video display of faculty & staff reading banned books, as well as free cupcakes!
MC Freedom Fighters
| These faculty and students were booked and set on display for valuing free and open access to information. Be sure to follow the example they've set, and read a banned book today! |
Don't Miss Out on the Celebration!
Students, faculty, and staff can celebrate Banned Books Week for the rest of this week. If you'd like to participate, consider one of the following opportunities:
Create a Virtual Read-Out Video for Banned Books Week: Record a video of yourself reading a banned book, which will be hosted on the library's YouTube channel and submitted to the ALA. For instructions on submitting a video, please email Shane Hand, reference and instruction librarian. |
There are displays in the library featuring Banned Books that students, faculty, and staff can view all week. There are plenty of ways to support Banned Books Week this week however you choose to get involved. So support your Freedom to Read, and go read a banned book today! | Why was that Book Banned? |
This week's blog co-authored by:
Jennifer Steele Electronic Resources Librarian | Michelle Finerty Coordinator of Reference Services |
Have an argumentative research paper to write?
Giving a persuasive speech this semester?
Need assistance finding a topic on a current event?
| It's a database offering contrasting perspectives to a wide range of topics, like: online ethics, student loans, medical care, literacy, smartphones, media bias, health care issues, and the 2016 presidential election. |
A useful resource for any discipline, "Opposing Viewpoints" can help you lay the ground work for a successful project. Each topic provides links to rivaling positions as well as featured viewpoints for current hot topics. This database also offers sources in several formats, including: academic journals, audio, video, images, websites, magazines, reference works, news articles, and links to related topics. |
"Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."
- Desmond Tutu
CREDO Reference is a collection of 95 reference books, spanning subjects from the Arts to Business, Psychology, Medicine and many others. CREDO offers encyclopedia-type entries, as well as images and topic pages with even more in-depth information.
"Search for anything”
“Gun control” Mind Map. CREDO Reference. http://search.credoreference.com/search/visual?concepts=290232 | Type a term in CREDO’s search box for a basic search or limit by image or topic. The “Mind Map” option allows you to view different facets of a topic to suggest subtopics of interest. Terms in the mind map link to a CREDO reference book entry that appears in a list to the right of your mind map. You can move terms around to make another term the main topic. As you do so, the entries move to mirror your changes. |
The Image Collection
The image collection comes from The Bridgeman Images’ Art Library. Bridgeman partners with museums and galleries globally to provide images to users for educational use. Although images in CREDO are mostly free of copyright restrictions, they must be properly cited when used. Fortunately, CREDO provides you with citations formatted in a variety of styles with each image and reference entry.
That’s not all! The “Tools” option provides additional searching, including pronunciations, a dictionary, a crossword solver and more. Take a look today! You’ll find CREDO Reference in our database collection on the Speed Library website. | In Bridgeman images: The bridgeman art library. London, United Kingdom: Bridgeman. Model reconstruction of Da Vinci's design for a tank (Wood). Retrieved from: search.credoreference.com/content/entry/bridgeart/model_ reconstruction_of_da_vinci_s_design_for_a_tank_wood/0 |
In today’s blog post, we are discussing a great resource that Speed Library has to offer, our eBook collections! eBooks are downloadable onto your computer, tablet, Kindle, or other device, making them super convenient to access! Speed Library offers a tremendous variety of eBooks, including academic eBooks across virtually every discipline, as well as popular releases. So, whether you are looking for an eBook to read for class, or that new novel you have been dying to get your hands on, Speed Library’s eBook collections have something for you!
The library’s eBook collections are accessible right from our website, library.mc.edu. On our homepage, all you have to do is click on the eBooks link located under the Collections & Resources tab. From this link, you will find access to Speed Library’s three different eBook collections, our: EBSCO eBook collection, Cambridge UP eBook collection, and Project Gutenberg eBook collection.
EBSCO eBook Collection:
Truly a multidisciplinary collection with 174,000+ titles covering a range of academic disciplines, from science, technology, literature, the humanities, as well as fiction.
Cambridge UP eBook Collection:
Covers a wide range of subjects, including: art, education, psychology, music, and modern language. These titles are included in the library’s online catalog, MICAL.
Project Gutenberg eBook Collection:
Provides access to 46,000+ titles, many are in the public domain and available as PDF or EPUB files to be read on an e-reader. Approximately 400 select titles are available directly through our online catalog, MICAL.
Speed Library not only offers access to these amazing eBooks, but provides help with downloading them to your computer, tablet, or other device.
The library’s eBook collections are accessible right from our website, library.mc.edu. On our homepage, all you have to do is click on the eBooks link located under the Collections & Resources tab. From this link, you will find access to Speed Library’s three different eBook collections, our: EBSCO eBook collection, Cambridge UP eBook collection, and Project Gutenberg eBook collection.
EBSCO eBook Collection:
Truly a multidisciplinary collection with 174,000+ titles covering a range of academic disciplines, from science, technology, literature, the humanities, as well as fiction.
Cambridge UP eBook Collection:
Covers a wide range of subjects, including: art, education, psychology, music, and modern language. These titles are included in the library’s online catalog, MICAL.
Project Gutenberg eBook Collection:
Provides access to 46,000+ titles, many are in the public domain and available as PDF or EPUB files to be read on an e-reader. Approximately 400 select titles are available directly through our online catalog, MICAL.
Speed Library not only offers access to these amazing eBooks, but provides help with downloading them to your computer, tablet, or other device.
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