LGBT History Month @ the Library

Starting this week, the Library will be featuring in its Contemporary Reading Shelves, National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) History month, which is celebrated every October in the United States. We feature books that tell the history and biographies of key individuals, including those who have fought for LGBT rights to the present. The Contemporary Reading Shelves are located behind the main desk of the Library. Walk behind the desk to scope the shelves of books to browse and check-out! We also have a smaller display across from the Reference Desk next to the print station. Below are some additional resources.

GLBT History Month: a website that celebrates a notable member of the LGBT community.

There have been a lot of news out there about LGBT rights this month.

US Senate moves to include sexual orientation under hate crime legislation (AP Story)

Obama promises to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy

New bill introduced to restrict Federal funds for states that restrict adoptions based on sexual orientation.

If you have any other stories or resources to add, please comment below!

New Students, Welcome to the Fall Semester!

The Library welcomes you to the Fall semester. We will be open Mondays through Thursdays 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. and Fridays, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

We welcome you to a wonderful education at Chabot College. If you ever need help in your research, a librarian is available for you, on the left side of the main desk.

The Library provides many resources, both in print and electronic. Print resources can be checked out with your student ID card and you can find them in the Library Catalog. Electronic resources are available to you from the Library Databases page (as well as other pages). Go to How to Get Into Databases Off Campus to learn how to access them from your home.

The Library is also a study area, so please do not have loud conversations and have your cell phones on vibrating. If you receive a call, politely step outside to have your conversation.

Study rooms are available for groups of two or more. The sign up sheet is available at the reference desk. You can sign up to one week in advance.

Your library card is your student ID card. Have your picture taken in the photo ID center, located just above the cafeteria. You will need your Student ID card to check out books, for other on campus needs, let alone some movie houses out there will actually give you a student discount if you show it to them! So keep your student ID card in your wallet.

Books are purchased at the Chabot bookstore, not the Library. The Library has SOME textbooks available on reserve, but only if your instructor(s) have placed them there. They are most often available for only ONE HOUR checkout and are NOT to leave the Library (the time is there for you to make photocopies). Do NOT assume it will be there, even if the textbook is sold out at the bookstore. If the textbook is NOT in the Library's reserves collection, be sure to notify your instructor.

If you have any questions, please be sure to see a librarian on the left side of the main desk.

Library Party for Faculty and Staff Only This Friday

Wine, Weed & Weep” Party
May 2, 2008 2-5 pm

TO ALL FACULTY:

Don’t miss the Library’s THIRD “Wine & Weed” party Friday afternoon May 2! We will CLOSE EARLY at 2:00pm! Please join us for refreshments, conversation with colleagues and a little work revitalizing our collections. We’ll teach you how to “WEED” in a library—the rewards are great!

WHY WEEP?
After 38 years at Chabot, Barbara Lawrence has decided she’d rather be at her new home in Nevada City than come to Chabot every day. This is your chance to come lift a glass in honor of our one and ONLY Library Goddess, She Who Can Never Be Replaced!

SPECIAL FUN ACTIVITY!
In addition to working on renewing the book collection we’re asking for help with our PRINT PERIODICALS! As more and more periodicals are available in full-text format in subscription databases we don’t need or want to buy so many titles in paper format. Come help us decide which paper subscriptions we can let go in your discipline and perhaps what new things we can add! Also please take a look at the last day of some of our database trials!

*Wine/Weed event is for Faculty/Staff only*

Technology Is Fine, But What About Books for the Summer?

Ah yes. Nothing to enrich the mind as reading a good, literary novel. In fact, just behind the main desk are shelves of suggested works of fiction you just may enjoy. Granted, we're closed until June 11-- but do take a look when we're open again.

In the meantime--want a sample of especially what are the "greats"? Well, everyone has an opinion--but renowned literary critic Larry McCaffery, happens to have a list that he calls The 20th Century Greatest Hits: 100 English- Language Books of Fiction. Take a look--then go to a public library to check one of these out. Happy readings!

Amnesty Days In the Library

STUDENTS: Have you been holding onto overdue library books to avoid paying the fines? We've got a deal for you!!

All students that return their overdue library books the week of finals, from Monday, May 21 through Friday, May 25, 2007, will get their records cleared without paying any fines.

This offer EXCLUDES Reserve materials.

On the New Books Shelf This Week

On most weeks during the semester, we like to feature the latest books we have received. They are located on the "New Books" shelves, in stands you'll find just left of the main desk. Here's what's new this week.

Peddie, Ian. The Resisting Muse: Popular Music and Social Protest
Currently on New Books Shelf.
ML 3918 .P67 R47 2006
"Popular music has traditionally served as a rallying point for voices of opposition across a variety of genres. This volume examines the various ways popular music has been deployed as anti-establishment and how such opposition both influences and responds to the music produced."

Other New Books

Moore, Robin D. Music & Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba
Currently on New Books Shelf.
ML 3917.C9 M66 2006



van Wormer, Katherine Stuart and Clemens Bartollas. Women and the Criminal Justice System
Currently on New Books Shelf.
HV 9950 .V38 2007


Herbert, W.N. and Matthew Hollis. Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry
Currently on New Books Shelf.
PN 1064.S85 2000

Harris, Mary B. School Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Youth: The Invisible Minority
Currently on New Books Shelf.
LC 2575.S36 1997

Simon, Michele. Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back
Currently on New Books Shelf.
TX 360.U6 S56 2006


More books listed in Part 2

On the New Books Shelf Part 2

This continues Part 1 of our New Books Shelf Announcement for the week of May 14.

Waltman, Jerold L. The Case for the Living Wage
Currently on New Books Shelf.
HD 4918.W264 2004



Koff, Clea. The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo
Currently on New Books Shelf.
GN 69.8 .K64 2005


Tuominen, Mary C. We Are Not Babysitters: Family Child Care Providers Redefine Work and Care
Currently on New Books Shelf.
HQ 778.5 .T86 2003


Dionne, E.J. Jr., Jean Bethke Elshtain, and Kayla M. Drogosz. One Electorate Under God?: A Dialogue on Religion & American Politics
Currently on New Books Shelf.
BL 2525.O53 2004


Want to find reviews of these books? Go search in Book Reviews Databases

Books are ordinarily available for two weeks checkout, but as it is the end of the semester, we ask that you return the book on Friday, May 25. These same books will also be available in the stacks, when we re-open on Monday, June 11.

ATTENTION ALL FACULTY!!

As you clean up your offices in anticipation of summer break, please take a few minutes to look around for any overdue or long lost library books or AV materials. We would like to start the semester with full shelves for you and your students.

Thank you...