Library News
Fall 2006 Semester

Special Hours for Final Exams Week Doyle Library will be open extended hours for the weekend before final exams. Mahoney Library will be closed for construction on the last day of the Fall 2006 semester.   Doyle Library Mahoney Library Saturday, December 16, 2006 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. 10:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M. Sunday, December 17, 2006 Noon - 8:00 P.M. CLOSED Friday, December 22 7:45 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. CLOSED For a complete schedule of library hours for the 2006-2007 academic year, see the Library Hours page.

12/8/06

Library Databases Not Available Sunday, December 3, 2006 From 8:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M. Due to work on the SRJC web server and campus network, the Library databases will not be available this Sunday, from 8:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M. Please plan ahead.

	New Library Exhibit: Iraq - History, Conflict & US Involvement A display on the fourth floor of the new Doyle Library features books drawn from the Library's collection in the areas of religion, history, the Gulf War and the current war on terrorism. In addition, the exhibit allows viewers to watch a video about veterans of the current military activities.
	The video, "The Ground Truth: The Human Cost of War, " ...is our soldiers' perspective of the Iraq War, and how they are being treated upon returning home. ... ...Americans, on the Right and Left, living in Blue and Red states, spend billions of their tax money recruiting, training, and paying soldiers to kill in distant wars. Yet, we provide little assistance and marginal support once the killing is over, and soldiers come home, now expected to live nonviolent lives.  How do we “Support Our Troops,” when the killing stops? What is behind our silent indifference, and the 272,000 homeless veterans we walk by every day? This film asks Congress and the American people to bare witness to these soldiers and their families, and to consider the human cost of war, above all else." (Director's note) Where: Doyle Library, fourth floor (Santa Rosa campus) When: November 21 through December 19.
11/17/06

Library Director Will Baty Honored as SRJC Employee of the Month We heartily congratulate Will Baty, SRJC Dean of Learning Resources and Educational Technology, on being named November SRJC "Employee of the Month." Will was honored at the November 14 meeting of the SRJC Board of Trustees, in recognition of his many years of valuable contributions to the College's instructional programs, not the least of which is his work on the magnificent new Doyle Library building on the Santa Rosa campus. Will began working at SRJC in the 1970s as an adjunct librarian in the old Plover Library. Over the next 36 years, Will worked as a reference librarian, an active faculty participant in the Academic Senate and the College's committee life, Director of Library and Media Services and eventually Dean of Learning Resources and Educational Technology, overseeing the SRJC Library, Media Services and Academic Computing departments for both campuses. In their descriptions of Will and his value to the College and its community, speakers commended him for his vision, his superior management and leadership skills, the high standards he sets for himself and for others, his persistence and attention to detail even under conditions where others might succumb to overload and stress, his ability to budget even in years of scarcity, his enthusiasm, sense of humor and his support of his staff. Long-time SRJC librarian Marj Grossman presented Will with his award and gifts. (Read the text of Marj's presentation about Will and his accomplishments.) Dr. Mary Kay Rudolph, Vice President of Academic Affairs & Assistant Superintendent, listed for the Board "Ten Things We Like About Will Baty." At the end of the Board meeting, Library staff member Cathleen Cummings presented Will with a piece of "art" assembled with a contributed item from each Library, Media Services and Academic Computing staff member. Read more about Will on page 2 of the November 17, 2006 Insider staff newsletter. Congratulations, Will!

11/14/06

"The Machine for Taking Likenesses;" Dickens & Victorian Photography Charles Dickens’ career corresponded with the development of photography.  While he himself did not sit for a photographic portrait until 1852, mention of “the machine for taking likenesses” first appears in his novel Oliver Twist in 1837, almost two years before the announcement of the first photographic processes.  Early on, Dickens recognized the potential of photography for self-promotion, and he fully participated in the “cult of celebrity” made possible by the prolific sales of his image.   View photographs of Dickens, Queen Victoria and other Victorians from the private collection of English Department faculty member Dr. Melissa Kort. These and related objects are on display in the 2nd floor display cases of the Doyle Library, now through mid-December.

11/13/06

Veterans' Day Weekend Library Hours

No SRJC classes will be held on Veterans' Day, Friday, November 10.

Doyle Library will be open from Noon until 5:00 P.M. on Friday, November 10 and on Saturday, November 11.
Mahoney Library will be closed on Friday, but will be open 10:00A.M. - 3:00 P.M. on Saturday.

Both libraries will be closed as usual on Sunday, November 12. For other holiday library hours, see the complete schedule of Library Hours.

11/6/06

2006 Library & Media Services Pumpkin Carving Contest

Photos of the annual pumpkin carving contest are in! View a slideshow of pumpkins and winning entries. (listed below in same order as the slides except for names in brackets [ ] ).

Entries

Pumpkin
# 1 – Taylor Allcock – Student employee, Periodicals & Reserves Departments
# 2 – Pat Soran  - Staff, Media Services
# 4 – Rose Gebken - Student employee, Circulation Desk
[ no slide--# 3 – Amy Malaise - Library staff, Technical Processing Department ]
# 5 – Kaila Medina - Student employee, Circulation Desk
# 7 – Zack Biehler - Student employee - Reserve Desk
# 9 – Heidi Todd - Periodicals & Reserve Desks
# 13 – Micca Gray - Reference Librarian
# 19 – Phyllis Usina - Reference Librarian
[ no slide--# 22 – Caitlin Downing -Supervisor, Periodicals ]
# 23 – Staff member
#24 - Joleen Beaston-Forward - Student employee, Periodicals Department

Winning Entries

Grand Prize - #24 - Joleen Beaston-Forward - Student employee, Periodicals Department
Staff 1st Place - # 22 – Caitlin Downing -Supervisor, Periodicals
Staff 2nd Place - # 3 – Amy Malaise - Library staff, Technical Processing Department
Student 1st Place - # 9 – Heidi Todd - Periodicals & Reserve Desks
Student 2nd Place - # 1 - Taylor Allcock – Student employee, Periodicals & Reserves Departments
Student 3rd Place (tie) - # 5 – Kaila Medina - Student employee, Circulation Desk
Student 3rd Place (tie) - # 7 – Zack Biehler - Student employee - Reserve Desk

11/6/06

"Lewis and Clark's New Look" Opens the Doyle Library Lecture Series

Captain Meriwether Lewis and Lieutenant William Clark, American explorers of the early 1800s, made a multi-year journey into completely uncharted territory of the American West. Their expedition through the Louisiana Purchase and the Pacific Northwest was such a major chapter in the history of American exploration that historian Gary Moulton has called it "our epic of exploration." (For brief introductions to their expedition, check out Lewis and Clark (PBS) , National Geographic: Lewis & Clark or Discovering Lewis & Clark.)

On Friday, November 3 at 7:00 P.M. in Emeritus Hall's Newman Auditorium (Santa Rosa campus), Dr. Gary E. Moulton, leading Lewis and Clark scholar, will give the first lecture in the new Doyle Library Lecture Series, titled "Lewis and Clark's New Look." Dr. Moulton is the Sorensen Professor of History, Emeritus at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and also the editor of the 13-volume Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, considered the most accurate and thorough version of the Lewis and Clark journals ever published. (Read and watch a University of Nebraska interview with Dr. Moulton about Lewis and Clark and about the editing of the expedition's journals.)

This lecture is underwritten by Nelson Weller, member of the SRJC Foundation's Board of Directors. Mr. Weller, who has extensively explored the Lewis and Clark trails himself, has generously donated a collection of works about Lewis and Clark to the new Doyle Library.

A reception in the Doyle Library's fourth-floor reading room will immediately follow the lecture.

10/27/06

Wireless Access from Your Own Laptop Now Available in the Doyle Library!

We are happy to announce that wireless access to the Internet is now available in the Doyle Library from your own wireless laptop or PDA, beginning Wednesday, October 25! To use your own wireless laptop inside the library, please read the FAQ, the disclaimer, the acceptable use policy and the setup instructions for Windows or Macintosh computers which are located on the Computing Services' Department's wireless page . (Note particuarly the sections pertaining to security, privacy, and confidentiality risks.)

NOTE: To use this service, you must know how to use your own laptop's wireless access and you must be able to follow the instructions on the Computing Services wireless page; Library staff will not able to provide technical assistance with your computer. Please consult your computer's manual. In addition, you might be able to find answers to some of your questions at the manufacturer's support pages for your laptop or PDA:

• Macintosh AirPort Support page
• Windows XP support page
• Palm PDA Customer Service & Support page.

(Wireless access from other SRJC locations will be introduced at a later time, with an update coming in Spring 2007.)

Those who do not own wireless laptops or who are unable to configure them correctly for the new wireless access may still check out library laptops at the Circulation Desk for use inside the building.)

Many thanks to the SRJC Computing Services Department staff for making this new access happen!

10/24/06

Fall 2006 Work of Literary Merit: Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko

The SRJC English Deparment's Work of Literary Merit (WOLM) for the Fall 2006 semester is Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony. The Library's WOLM webpages offer links to articles and websites about Silko, her work and topics and themes related to her work, as well as a list of the books, articles and films which are on reserve in the SRJC libraries for the WOLM project. Don't miss them if you're reading Ceremony in your English class!

Library Provides Elections Information

Sick of all those negative campaign ads? The Library's Internet Reference Collection provides a wealth of unbiased information on candidates and issues related to the upcoming November 7, 2006 general election. Read the California voter pamphlet and the Easy Voter Guide online, read about the background and positions of candidates, find detailed information about campaign funding, register to vote and find your own polling place online, and more .

In addition, a special "Elections" exhibit is on display on the fourth floor of the Doyle Library. The display highlights books on elections, voting, and related issues from the Library's book collection and allows viewers to watch a film of the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon presidential debates, the first presidential debates ever televised.

The Mahoney Library also offers voter registration forms, the official voter pamphlet and the Easy Voter Guide.

Doyle Wireless Laptops Are Here!

SRJC students may now check out the Library's wireless laptop computers for use inside both campus libraries. Loan period: 3 hours. Present your SRJC student ID card at the Circulation Desk in either the Doyle or the Mahoney Library. See Library Computers page for more details.

Doyle Library iPod Tours Available

Not sure where things are in the new four-story Doyle Library? Take a 17-minute tour of the building which will introduce you to service points and collections in the new library. To check out the iPod tour for use in the building, present your SRJC student or staff ID card at the Periodicals Desk on the second floor.

9/18/06

Doyle Library Dedication & Open House

Come celebrate the dedication and opening of the new Frank P. Doyle Library on the Santa Rosa campus with members of the College community and with Sonoma County citizens! In addition to the dedication ceremonies, music, guided tours and special library exhibits will be available.

How to Support the Frank P. Doyle Library

The Frank P. Doyle Endowment will help support the collections and the information services of the Doyle Library at SRJC for generations to come.

Contributions of any size are welcome. Donors who make gifts or pledges of $1,000 or more will have their names placed on a prominent donor wall in the Library. There are also various naming opportunities, such as group study rooms and study alcoves throughout the building, ranging from $10,000 to $250,000.

If you would like to contribute to the Frank P. Doyle Endowment fund, see the brochure for the Endowment. You may also make a donation online at the Santa Rosa Junior College Foundation website . Gifts may be pledged over time, up to five years. SRJC faculty and staff may pledge donations through Voluntary Payroll Deduction.

For additional information about the Endowment, contact Linda Frank at the Santa Rosa Junior College Foundation.

Quilt Exhibit at Mahoney Library

The challenge exam for LIR 10 and LIR 30 will be offered for Fall 2006 semester on Friday, September 8 in Room 4420 of the Frank P. Doyle Library. To take the test, you must submit the Agreement and Application for Credit by Examination form at least 72 hours before the examination date. Application forms and additional information about the challenge exam are available at the reference desks in the Plover and the Mahoney Libraries. Please bring a scantron card and pencils to the exam.

For additional information on the challenge exam, please contact Micca Gray, Instruction Librarian at (707) 527-4552.

5/10/06

64th Annual Rounce & Coffin Club Western Books Exhibit

An Exhibit of Finely Printed Books

The Rounce and Coffin Club of Los Angeles is a group of printers, librarians, booksellers and book collectors. Each year, the Club invites book publishers in the Western United States to submit examples of their finest books for possible inclusion in the Western Books Exhibition. Judges consider questions such as whether the design of a book complements the subject matter and the purposes for which the book will be used. Each book's size, shape, paper, margins, binding, typography, graphic attributes and other design features are examined. The resulting exhibit is a celebration of the physical book, showcasing 36 works from fine press printers and book artists.

On display in the Plover Library on SRJC's Santa Rosa campus through Wednesday, May 10.

4/27/06

Poets & Painters Presents: Reflections from Coast to High Desert

Photographs and poetry of SRJC faculty librarian Godelieve Uyttenhove

Reception and poetry reading Sunday, April 30, 2:00 - 4:00 P.M.

Godelieve Uyttenhove is a reference librarian and LIR instructor, currently working at the Mahoney Library on the SRJC Petaluma campus.

4/25/06

New Frank P. Doyle Library

4/8/06