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.

October is AIDS Awareness Month

1 in 171 :

The number of people living with AIDS/HIV

Six Degrees of Separation is a term that’s entered popular vernacular and a sociological concept that's been studied academically*. These studies concluded, depending on method, the possibility of anywhere from 6 to 90 acquaintances creating a connection between us and everyone else on earth. Viewed in this context the number 39.5 million in 6 billion is a stunning 1 in approximately 171.

Now, add in the mathematics of unprotected sexual partnering:

1 plus 1 partner, who've been with 1, 2 or 3 partners, who’ve been with 1, 2, 3, or 4 partners, who’ve had 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or more partners….and those have had 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or more partners….and all the sexual partners of those people ….and so on. The number of unseen and unknown persons affecting your life is terrifying.

AIDS does not just happen.....

-to other people
-in far off countries
-or other sectors of society.
AIDS happens everywhere.

-More than 25 million people have Died of AIDS since 1981

-Africa has 12 Million AIDS Orphans

-AIDS is estimated to have killed over a million Americans

-People living with HIV/AIDS as of 2006: 39.5M

KNOW THE RISKS:

The Center for Disease Control: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/prev_prog/AHP/resources/other/print/Sample_article.htm).
The Mayo Clinic:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hiv-aids/DS00005/DSECTION=4
American Academy of Family Physicians: http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/common/sexinfections/hiv/005.html
*Stanley Malgram, Harvard University, 1967. Duncan Watts Columbia University, 2006.

Constitution Week September 2007

We the People:

For most of us these are words we learned in school and set aside for future reference. Beyond that many give little thought to the document that secures our rights and structures our government. We hear about the Fifth Amendment or Freedom of Speech if they are thought under threat, but do we understand the fragile historical document and the words it contains? Do we understand the limits of constitutional power in our governmental branches? Is there a historical significance to the concept “the pursuit of happiness?” Do we ever contemplate how words on paper can create a nation? Who is the government in America?

The week of September 17th is Constitution Week so take a moment and look at our constitution in the link to the National Archive below. It provides an in depth look at this document which affects our lives daily, including all the amendments, the Bill of Rights and links for more reading.

To know your rights

is to know the rights

of others.

For Constitution resources in the library and online visit HCC Brandon Library's U.S. Constitution Resources.

or

http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution.html