Election 2008

The HCC Libraries Election 2008 Resources guide provides links to information on candidates, their positions, ballot measures, and helpful elections info for Hillsborough County voters. Follow the elections through the primaries to the Nov '08 general election...and don't forget to vote!

YOUR BRAIN ON BOOKS

The December 31 to Jan. 7 US News and World Report offers a list of 50 things we can do to make our lives better in 2008. Two pages are devoted to the subject of reading, and for those of us who love to read, the news that reading is good for us comes as no surprise. However, article author Deborah Kotz offers this evidence:

“More than income, social class, or education, says NEA Chairman Dana Gioia, the more you read, the greater likelihood that you will do well in school, be successful in business, and become involved in your community. The bottom line, he says: ‘Reading allows us to achieve more of our personal potential than almost any other activity.’ Neuroscience further backs up those contentions, says Tufts University child development Prof. Maryanne Wolfe. "Reading not only creates its own circuitry within the brain; that circuitry gives us the capacity to go beyond the text to new thoughts of our own," says Wolfe "My worry is that our children's and our societal immersion into the ever more immediate, digital presentation format for text will short-circuit" part of that ability.”

Feed your brain: Read

New in the Library:

Your requests are needed!

What do you want to watch? Listen to? Read? We want to know!

We will be purchasing new DVDs, CDs, & paperback books for our recreational collections, and we want to know what suggestions you have. We will do our best to purchase all recommendations if they are available and appropriate for the collections. Feel free to leave your suggestion(s) as a comment to this post or in person at the library front desk.

Many thanks to the Brandon campus Student Government Association for funding our recreational collections.

Do you have your HCC ID Card?

Your HCC ID card is also your Library Card

Step 1: Get your HCC ID at BSSB 210 (Career Center). Hours: M 4-7, T 12:30-4, W 10-1, TH 8-11.

Step 2: Bring your HCC ID card to the Library to be activated.

Step 3: Check out library materials (books, DVDs, CDs, etc.) and access Online resources (online article databases, ebooks, and more).

(Note: Don't forget to show your HCC ID for a discount at the movies and other places that accept student IDs.)

Eight New LINCCWeb databases to be activated January 1, 2008

The new statewide eResources, acquired with funds approved by the Florida Legislature, will be activated in LINCCWeb on January 1, 2008, are listed below. They are available to students at all Florida community colleges.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
ARTstor (ARTstor)
Business Source Complete (EBSCO)
Education Research Complete (EBSCO)
Literary Reference Center (EBSCO)
MEDLINE with full text (EBSCO)
Nursing and Allied Health Database (ProQuest)
Science Resource Center (Gale)

With the addition of these new databases, the core set of statewide LINCCWeb eResources will total 91. A list of statewide LINCCWeb eResources is available at http://www.cclaflorida.org/docs/linccweb_eresources.asp

To access the library databases, go to www.hccfl.edu/library/blrc. Click on online article databases. Log-on with your library activated HCC ID card and your PIN. For help accessing online resources view the Accessing Online Resources Tutorial.

Native American Heritage Month

Shoshone Warrior
Courtesy of LegendsofAmerica.com

First enacted in 1990 Native American Heritage Month was instituted to recognize the native peoples of America and their participation in the nation’s history. America's first peoples have endured for centuries and remain a vital cultural, political, social, and moral presence in the nation. Native Americans have brought values and ideas to society that now, more than ever, have become part of America’s consciousness. Most importantly in this era of environmental and global concerns, the idea that humans can thrive without destroying the natural environment and the understanding that people from very different backgrounds, cultures, religions, and traditions can come together to build a great country.

This month, HCC’s BLRC draws attention to the literary, artistic, political and religious experience of Native Americans with a selection of reading from our permanent collection of fiction, non-fiction and reference materials. For more about Native American Culture please enjoy the links below:

http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/History_and_Culture/AmericanIndian_History.htm
http://www.library.okstate.edu/Govdocs/browsetopics/nativeam.html
http://www.nativeamericanlinks.com/
http://www.nativeculturelinks.com/indians.html
http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/natam.html
http://www.bluecloud.org/dakota.html
http://users.ap.net/~chenae/natlink.html

El Dorado

Come by the library to see the display of Pre-Columbian Artifacts prepared by Elisa Molano-Cook for Hispanic Heritage Month at the Brandon Campus.

NEW BOOKS!

Here's a sampling of the new books available to check out from Brandon Library. Note: click on a book image for call number information, a summary and book review(s).

Give us a piece of your mind!

Click on the image to take a quick survey of our Online resources through http://www.linccweb.org/, It will only take a few moments of your time. Your feedback is essential for us to provide the best resources to support your research needs. You can access the survey through Nov. 16th. It is also linked from the Library website. Thanks for your input!

Tour the library from the comfort of your own couch

We've created a Video Tour of the library for the benefit of users who haven't had the benefit of a library orientation and/or students taking classes online that may not come to campus regularly. This video, posted on the right column, will introduce you to the library and our resources and services.

We plan on creating more of these informative videos and other media turoials in the future. The videos and tutorials are permanently posted on the library Media Resources page. The Brandon library videos are also available on our YouTube channel.