Hours, Women's History Month, Group Study, Databases, Ebooks

Hours

As the Spring semester continues, you may have noticed continual changes in the Library's hours. This is due to our budget challenges, but as of right now, it looks like the Library will be open:

Mondays through Thursdays 8:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m., Fridays 8:00 a.m. - 12 noon

for the rest of the spring semester (Spring break week-- April 9-13 the exception).

Contemporary Reading Shelves: Women's History Month

March is Women's History Month and the Library features a reading list on its contemporary Reading Shelves. You can also browse the book covers featured in the middle right of the Library Home page.

Study Groups Can Now Reserve a Room Online!

Study groups can now sign up to a week in advance through our online sign-up. The one signing needs to include their W ID number and two of the group members' Zonemail addresses (if you do not know your Zonemail address, log into Class-Web and click on the "What is my Email address" link). And then needs to confirm by going into their Zonemail (recommended, even if you have Email forwarding in place). Sign up at: http://chabotcollege.libcal.com/booking/studyrooms

New Databases

The Library has a suite of new databases due to a state-wide purchase for community colleges. To get acquainted with both the new and familiar, go to our Databases page at: http://chabotcollege.libguides.com/articledatabases . Here is a list of our new EBSCOhost databases (which replaces our old Academic Search Elite):

Academic Search Premier
MasterFILE Premier
Newspaper Source Plus
Business Source Elite
Auto Repair Reference Center
America: History and Life with Full Text
Consumer Health Complete

and more!
Be sure to click on the new Key Subjects tab to search unique filters of Academic Search Premier or special databases!

Later this year, the Library will have at least a one year trial of additional databases from EBSCOhost.

E-Books

Did you know that the Library now has from both purchases and subscriptions over 28,000 E-books? You can find them when you do a search in the Library Catalog. Look for listings that have [Electronic Resource] after them. To browse a sample of individual titles, go to http://chabotcollege.libguides.com/ebooks

Have any questions? Be sure to ask us:

• On the left side of the main desk
• By phone at (510)723-7006
• By chat at top right of the Library home page
  

Chabot Library Sponsors Readings!

Job Posting: Part-Time Librarian

WE HAVE NOW STOPPED ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS. THANKS FOR YOUR INTEREST.

Part-Time Librarian Pool, Chabot College

The Position

The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District is seeking a pool of part-time librarians at Chabot College in Hayward, CA. The position reports to the Division Dean.

Deadline: Open until Filled.

Salary

The hourly salary is $ 49.24 at Step One.

Assignment

The position is part-time librarian. Employment will begin as soon as possible. Hours can include evenings, Fridays or Saturdays.

Minimum Qualifications

Education and Experience: Master's Degree in Library Science

Demonstrate sensitivity to and an understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, including those with physical and/or learning disabilities.

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience providing instruction in an academic library;
• Familiarity with information competency/literacy concepts and programs;
• Awareness of various learning styles and teaching strategies;
• Enthusiastic approach to working collaboratively with students, faculty and staff including those who have not had an opportunity to use new technologies;
• Willingness to facilitate student’s learning by working to develop varied and innovative learning environments;
• Experience with HTML, multimedia and presentation software;
• Experience with Libguides and various electronic databases;
• Excellent interpersonal and team collaboration skills;
• Interest in promoting library services to a multicultural population;
• Experience teaching classes utilizing effective search strategies to access resource;


Particular Job Characteristics

• Teach effective research strategies in print and online resources;
• Provide reference services in a multimedia environment to students, staff and faculty;
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing;


Candidates invited to interview may be asked for additional information and may be required to present a brief teaching demonstration on an assigned topic.

In addition to a resume, please also submit a Diversity Statement. In it, the successful applicant must demonstrate sensitivity to and an understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, including those with physical and/or learning disabilities. Please provide how you demonstrate this minimum qualification and in ways that are directly relevant to position for which you are applying.

Submit the resume and the Diversity Statement to:

Heather Hernandez
Chabot College
25555 Hesperian Blvd.
Hayward, CA 94545
hhernandez@chabotcollege.edu
(510)723-6763

Criticism on Great Works of Literature--Online!

Who ever thought criticism begins online?! It now does at Chabot!

The Library is always looking to improve its online presence with full text resources, and this year with respect to English 4, the popular course of the Writing and Critical Thinking requirement for General Education, we have purchased a great number of E-Books so that everyone now has unlimited simultaneous access to more books devoted to literary criticism.

These are in addition to our main database of literary criticism, Literature Resource Center and journals in Academic Search Elite.

Through Literature Criticism Online, Short Story Criticism presents critical views on the most widely studied writers of short fiction. Each volume includes overviews of three to six short story writers, works, or topics and a historical survey of the critical response. The Library has gotten all 150 volumes online and will be getting all future volumes in this format.

The Library has also purchased around 900 books in Gale Virtual Reference Library devoted to literary figures and literary criticism, including the entire Twayne series, spanning 860 E-books devoted to individual authors and works.

The Library has purchased over 40 additional E-books on literary criticism devoted to individual authors and texts in the ABC-CLIO ebook collection.

For the above, all individual texts are also in the Library Catalog. So students can find both our print and online texts of criticisms devoted to individual literary authors!

Finally, for students that want to find full-text poems and short stories on particular subjects or by authors, LitFinder provides it easily, including some works with copyright permission to appear here. It also provides indexing information to print materials.

Great literary critics abound online!

Contemporary Reading Shelves--In Motion: The Great Black Migration

Chabot Library Celebrates Black History Month

STOP by the library and check-out our current book display, “In Motion: The Great Black Migration,” in celebration of Black History Month. Learn about the African-American migration experience through the voices of extraordinary men and women who endured a culture of slavery and oppression in this country. While researching this month’s display, I came across powerful texts and authors, like the work of Dr. Carole Marks, who along with eleven other scholars contributed to In Motion: the African-American Migration Experience (http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm), an excellent online resource on this subject.

Her essay, “The Great Migration: African-Americans Searching for the Promised Land, 1916-1930,” is available in its entirety at this web site. In her essay she writes, “the Great Migration was about migrants starting over and making sacrifices for future generations whom they would probably never see. As W.E.B. DuBois concluded, the journey North represented not the end of a struggle but only its beginning.”

Over Two Thousand New E-Books at Chabot Library!

The Library is proud to announce that our E-Books collection has grown tremendously. With our purchase with most other community colleges across the state, we now have over 2,000 books that can be accessed through NetLibrary.

These individual books will also eventually also appear in the Library Catalog. But for now, go into NetLibrary and find an online book on your topic! If you have questions, contact us!

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Meet Anita Amirrezvani, Author of The Blood of Flowers

Both a love story and a luminous portrait of a city, The Blood of Flowers is the mesmerizing historical novel of an ill-fated young woman whose gift as a rug designer transforms her life. Illuminated with fascinating detail of Persian rug-making, and bringing to life the sights, sounds, and life of seventeenth-century Isfahan, The Blood of Flowers is a timeless tale of one woman's struggle to live a life of her choosing. Kirkus ...Reviews wrote that the novel is "a lavishly detailed debut, in which some of the simple values of a folktale are woven together with richer (and more modern) women-centered life lessons." Join us for a special event when the author will read from and discuss her novel.

Anita Amirrezvani was born in Tehran, Iran, and lives in Northern California. For ten years, she was a staff dance critic for newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has received fellowships from the National Arts Journalism Program, the NEA's Arts Journalism Institute for Dance, and the Hedgebrook Foundation for Women Writers.

Co-sponsored by Chabot College Foundation, Chabot College Book Club, Hayward Public Library, Friends of the Hayward Library, and AAUW Hayward/Castro Valley Branch.

The Library Celebrates LGBT History Month

The Library is proud to celebrate LGBT History Month. For the month of October, take a look from the Library's Contemporary Reading Shelves to read about the rich LGBT History and Culture in the United States. Featured topics include same sex marriage, coming out stories, gays and lesbians in the military, civil rights struggles throughout the years, and providing support to LGBT teenagers. Featured figures and authors include Harvey Milk, Audrey Lorde, James Baldwin, Billie Jean King, David Hwang, Alice Walker, and more!

In addition, the Library contains a display case in honor of National Coming Out Day, which will take place on Monday, October 11, 2010. The Library also supports causes such as prevention of teen suicide and anti-gay bullying (such as the Trevor Project) and reminds everyone in honor of six gay men who tragically took their own lives recently to wear purple on Wednesday, October 20, 2010.

However, while this is a month of awareness it is also a month of celebration to our LGBT youth and the historical figures who have and continue to touch our lives, impact our culture, and contribute to society in their service.

To glance at our featured collection, browse our Contemporary Reading Shelves and Display Cases or go to the LGBT History Month Collection Page

Upcoming Author Event

On Thursday, October 21: Stephen Gutierrez, the 2010 American Book Award winner, will be reading selections from his book, Live from Fresno y Los. This event will take place in the Library, Room 107A & B during college hour (12:00 -1:00pm).

(hosted by the Chabot College Library, The Chabot College Foundation and the Chabot College Book Club)

What's Going On With the Databases?!

As I'm sure you notice sometimes when you log onto Facebook, let alone even on Google, sometimes the interface in front of you has changed, and sometimes even the NAMES of the databases have changed. These days, these changes seem to happen overnight that even us librarians are not prepared!

Given that, here are the updates of what's going on with our databases since January of this year:

1. Project MUSE is no longer a subscription database at Chabot due to budget cuts.

2. In the Spring, with small monies, we were able to get the Arts and Sciences II version of JSTOR. It is a TINIER and more SUBJECT LIMITED version of MUSE, let alone all of JSTOR as well as more of a NON-CURRENT database (there is an embargo of five years on most titles, meaning the newest issue will most often be at least five years old). This database focuses primarily in the fields of Political Science, Anthropology, Family Studies, Classical Studies, and History. For more information, look at the title list.

3. The Library began purchasing/owning E-books which are accessed through the new Gale Virtual Reference Library platform.

4. EBSCOhost has changed its interface. When you use our tutorials on EBSCOhost, some information is now out of date, but not so radically different. It's mainly the search results page where all information to limit your search, whether it be to peer-reviewed or by subject, will now all be on the LEFT side.

5. JSTOR has changed its interface. You need to UN-CHECK the lower selection that says "Include Links to External Content" as most of that content is currently NOT free.

6. Pop Culture Universe has been bought by another company and we now have two database products. At present, the one with more detail is the E-Books database called Pop Culture E-Books. The new Pop Culture Universe should mainly be used for quick reference check-ups, news, or decades information.

7. The Gale vendor is currently in the process of replacing its "Resource Center" products with the new "In Context" products. Biography Resource Center is now Biography In Context with a brand new interface. We expect Literature Resource Center to eventually have the name change and similar interface changes as well, but we do not know when.

8. LexisNexis Academic's new interface is now the official interface. To learn more on how to use it, check out the YouTube instructional tutorials.

If you need help sorting all of this out, please contact a librarian. Even if we have just been faced with a sudden change, we are very adaptable and can quickly help you figure out any of the new quirks of the new databases. You can see us at the LEFT side of the main desk, chat with us below, or call us at 510-723-7006. Happy searching!

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The Library Celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month

This past summer I came across a very cool book, Lengua Fresca (on order), which opened the door to an eclectic mix of contemporary Latino/a authors. Their writings prompted the idea of creating a book display in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 – Oct. 15). The display, located near the library’s periodicals, directly across from the Reference & Circulation Desk, includes titles by Junot Diaz, Ana Menendez, Dagoberto Gilb, Cristina Garcia to name a few. These emerging voices are an attempt to showcase a new aesthetic of Latino/a life in the United States. And yes, it’s okay to check them out!

NEW this year, a suggestion box (on top of one of the display cases) to collect your impressions of the current book display as well as to gather title suggestions and ideas for future exhibits—your participation will be appreciated.

Also NEW this year, in partnership with Angie Magallon’s ENGL 22 (Mex Amer/Latino Lit of U.S.), the library will be displaying some of her students’ work later this month in an effort to bring additional context to this month’s celebration!

Pedro Reynoso, Outreach and Instruction Librarian

Welcome to the Fall Semester!

With already a little over a week into the semester, you may already have your assignments or have other sorts of questions. Librarians are available to help you and all you need to do is contact us:

At the reference desk (left side of the main desk on the 2nd floor in Building 100). Get face to face help and hands on instruction from a librarian!

By phone: (510) 723-7006

By Chat Reference: Main window in the right column of the Library home page: http://www.chabotcollege.edu/library/

By Text Reference: 394-5707

Contact us whenever the Library is open!

M-TH 8 a.m. - 8:25 p.m.
F 8 a.m. - 2 p.m.