THIS IS NOT A COPY MACHINE

The machine so artfully posed in the above picture is the new wireless printer. It looks like a copy machine and, theoretically, it IS a copy machine, and many other things, too. But we've dumbed it down to function EXCLUSIVELY AS A PRINTER. You'll find it in place of the old wireless printer(s) and, yes, you'll have to install a new driver on your machine.

Meanwhile, the library computer lab has also been outfitted with these new machines dutifully performing exclusively as printers. Where once there were three, there are now TWO. The third moved to wireless duty.








With the printer upgrade one thing led to another and we were left with no other alternative but to move the pencil sharpener. We considered remodeling the library inside and out in an effort to leave the pencil sharpener alone. But in the end we just moved it. It's right over there:

Here's a little more context:



What else is new for Winter 2011? We spruced up one of the walls with a handsome new poster to guide you through the mysterious Dewey Decimal system of arranging books by subject:




And finally, don't forget to check out the new books!

Study-In!

Today is the ASUCC Study-In! You can see there's lots of studying going on already-- come join us!









We'll be here until 7 p.m.

SURVEY WINNERS!!!!!!!!

Check the list at the front desk of the library to see if you won a $25 gift certificate. Thanks to all 200 (!) of you who filled out a library survey and entered our drawing. We randomly pulled names from the box yesterday and twenty of you now have $25 to spend at the UCC Bookstore. Claim your prize!

Playing Games at the Library

Does the weather have you retreating inside to play some video games? What if you could turn that favorite hobby into a research topic? Read on!

Video games have a 50-year history, reaching back to the crazy computer scientists in MIT's Building 20 knocking out walls according to Supercade: a visual history of the video game age. And while we're no longer building bookcase-sized machines to play them, video games are even more popular today than ever before: some online games have 12 million subscribers (That's more people than the entire population of Greece)!

The average gamer will have spent 10,000 hours playing by the time they're 21 years old. According to Michael Gladwell in his book, Outliers, that's roughly the amount we need to become an expert in any field.

So what can all this game playing do? Dr. Jane McGonigal, a theorist and multiplayer game designer, thinks that games might save the world:

Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world | Video on TED.com

I really hope that we can come together to play games that matter, to survive on this planet for another century. And that's my hope that you will join me in making and playing games like this. When I look forward to the next decade,I know two things for sure, that we can make any future we can imagine, and we can play any games we want. So, I say let the world-changing games begin.

At right: What video games can teach us about learning and literacy.

Sound good?

Want to get started on creating games right away?

These books and more are waiting for you at the library- game on!

It's that time of year when we ask YOU to let us know how you use the library and its services. We also invite you to rate how we're doing. We use the results for library planning. The survey only takes a few minutes. Maybe less.

Please grab a survey form from a library staff member or pick up a form at the front desk. Check off the boxes; write your comments. AND THEN, fill out the little coupon at the end of the survey and enter our drawing to win a bookstore gift certificate for $25. You could be one of TWENTY to win.

The library staff truly appreciates your help!

Enjoy Oregon!

Sometimes it is easy to take the beautiful state that we live in for granted. Oregon is full of beautiful trails, scenic waterfalls, and abundant vineyards and Fall is a perfect time for an adventure. Here are some books to help you to make the most of the state that you live in.

If exploring vineyards and tasting local wines sounds like something that you would enjoy, then check out "Oregon Wine Country" by John Doerper. It offers guides to wineries throughout Yamhill County, Umpqua Valley, and Willamette Valley with suggestions on hotels and resturaunts. For further reading, check out "The Grail: a Year Ambling and Shambling Through an Oregon Vineyard in Pursuit of the Best Pinot Noir Wine in the Whole Wide World" by Brian Doyle.

If bird watching sounds like an interesting hobby to you, then flip through "Handbook of Oregon Birds: a Field Companion to Birds of Oregon" by Hendrik G. Herlyn and Alan Contreras. It is a useful guide to the birds that you will come across the next time that you are strolling through the woods or relaxing on your patio.

When you need to escape to a more urban setting for the weekend, a brief road trip to Portland can prove to be quite rewarding. Carl Abbott's "Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest" offers a useful account of Oregon's largest city.

If you are seeking inspiration on where to go on your next hiking adventure, look no further than Greg Vaughn's "Photographing Oregon: a guide to the Natural Landmarks of Oregon." The pages are full of mesmerizing landscapes that are easily accessible for Oregonians.

If you would like to take up a new hobby that involves getting into shape and enjoying nature, then "Rock Climbing Western Oregon" by Greg Orton may be an interesting book to browse through. If you are more interested in backpacking or hiking, and you need advice on which trails to take, then the UCC library has several books that will come in handy. Rhonda and George Ostertag's "75 Hikes in Oregon's Coast Range and Siskiyous" and Garret Romaine's "Gem Trails of Oregon" are both useful guides.

UCC Library is now loaning iPads!

Starting this fall, we have three iPads available for student use in the library! In order to check one out, you'll need a student ID card with a Fall 2010 sticker.

The iPads come with a number of cool features, including the ability to access and read available ebooks in seconds! Most novels and books in the public domain (published before 1923) are freely down-loadable: this means Shakespeare, Dickens, Mary Shelley, and much, much more are at your fingertips!

If you have any questions or to add ebooks to your iPad on checkout, talk with a librarian.

PS- The cat is not included. :)

Cat/iPad photo from Veronica Belmont

Shrinking Print

The UCC Library online reference collection keeps growing. . .as our print reference collection keeps shrinking. More and more of the big (and not-so-big) publishers of quality reference books are moving their collections online.

Check here for all of our online databases: http://www.umpqua.edu/index.php/search-databases

A few highlights:

• EBSCO’s Literary Reference Center contains tens of thousands of literary critical analyses and over a thousand literary reference works.

• Oxford Online Premium contains hundreds of reference books from Oxford Press.

• Nearly all of our medical and nursing reference books are available both in print and online in Gale Health or Salem Health databases.

• Credo Reference is an online general reference collection of 500+ books from various publishers.

• Small Business Resource Center includes the complete text of dozens of handbooks, “—for Dummies” titles, and start-up books

• Learning Express Library is a database of eBooks on test preparation, GED study guides, practice entrance exams to health occupations, math skills, reading skills, writing resumes, and more.

• Access Science includes the 21 volume McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

Whether it’s the history of popular culture, current social topics, foreign language dictionaries, or encyclopedias, we have it online in an eBook. (And, of course, we have thousands of journals and magazines in our databases, as well.)

While we always like seeing you in the library, please be sure to check out all of our online offerings from wherever you are.

Dinner and a Movie

The next time that you are trying to decide what to do on a Friday night, try pairing a movie with dinner. You can explore another culture through a movie, and you'll get to learn about foreign cuisine by cooking an ethnic dish. The UCC library has many options for dvds and cookbooks to help you plan your evening. Here are some ideas to help you get started.

If the idea of French cuisine and film strikes your fancy, you could rent Amelie, An American in Paris, or Bonjour Tristesse. For dinner ideas, browse through "The Cooking of Provincial France" by M. F. K. Fisher for some savoury French recipes.

If Asian food sounds more appealing to you, you could watch The Blue Kite and check out "Simple Chinese Cooking" by Kylie Kwong or "The Chinese Kitchen" by Ken Hom. You could also try watching Lost in Translation and preparing a meal from Kimiko Barber's "Sushi" or John Belleme's "Japanese Foods that Heal."

If cooking Indian food is something that you would like to try, you could find plenty of ideas in "1,000 Indian Recipes" by Neelam Batra or "India's Vegetarian Cooking" by Monisha Bharadwaj. A film that could be paired with your Indian dinner would be Bombay Talkie, a great Bollywood film from 1970. If you're feeling like eating in a more serious setting, the inspirational Ghandi could be a more appropriate selection.

The classic film Roman Holiday starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck is always a pleasant film to watch, especially when accompanied with a tasty dinner prepared from "Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome" by Apicius.

Other, perhaps more obvious, pairings could include the film Into the Wild with "Wilderness Cookery" by Bradford Angier, Julie and Julia with "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" by Julia Child, and Marie Antoinette with "The Cake Book" by Tish Boyle.

These are just a few ideas to help you get started. The shelves of the UCC library are full of materials to help you and your friends have a fun night in this weekend!

DIY (Do It Yourself) Ideas for Summer!

The DIY (do it yourself) movement is a wonderful way to have fun and save money this summer.

Cooking dinner for friends, remodeling the house yourself, or growing your own vegetables are all great ways to be more environmentally conscious while developing new skills.

There are many resources available online and in the UCC Library to help you get started!

The site Readymade features an excellent on-line magazine full of ideas to use both in the house and the garden. Crafster.org also has many creative ways to stay busy around the house.

In the library, you will find many books to help you come up with some ideas around the kitchen and garden.

"Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades" by Steve Solomon is a great place to start for the aspiring gardener

Tanya Barnard and Sarah Kramer's "The Garden Vegan" and "How it all Vegan!" both provide many useful recipes and growing tips for the vegetable lover. For more ideas on what to do with your vegetables after they have harvested, browse through "Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It" by Karen Solomon or "Recipes from the Root Cellar" by Andrea Chesman.

"The Northwest Green Home Primer" by Kathleen O'Brien and Kathleen Smith is an excellent resource for do it yourself projects that are fun and help reduce utility bills.

Enjoy your summer in a healthy, pro-social way while improving your karma and going green! Don't forget to check out the music section of the library while you're at it, for some great music to relax in your new garden to.

The Wayback Machine and the Library Home Page

Thanks to the Internet Archive and their Wayback Machine it is possible to view, among other things, what the web used to look like. Here's the library website from 1996, back in the infancy of the World Wide Web:




It was just a year and a half earlier that the World Wide Web Consortium was founded by Tim Berners-Lee, the guy who invented the Web.

Back in 1996 most of our subscription databases were on CD-ROM:


Database searching via the Internet was just developing.

Two years later the library website design hadn't change all that much. We had added new databases and organized more links. By now our databases had all moved to the Web, except the Oregonian. It was still on funky CD-ROM. Here's the home page in December 1998:




Plug in a website address in the Wayback Machine search window and find an archive of a web page the way it used to be. Much of the UCC Library website "look" changed in 1999:




In 2001 it had a makeover along with the rest of the UCC website:



This design hung around until 2006. The list of databases grew longer and the list of links on the home page grew:



The whole college website had another makeover in 2007:



And again in 2010:



The Wayback Machine has no 2009 or 2010 archive for the library. Yet.

Congratulations Graduates!

And congratulations to everyone else who survived finals week. This week (June 14-17) the library and campus switch to a 4 day week for most of the summer. The library is open 7:30 am to 5:30 pm for the week. When summer term begins on June 21st, the library will be open 7:30 am to 9 pm, Monday through Thursday.

Study-In and Spring late hours are here!

Join us on May 28th and June 4th for late hours, June 5th, 2010 for the Spring Study-In!

It's that time of year again, where we all put on our thinking caps and start studying for Finals! The UCC Library will be open 7:30 am - 6:00 pm on Friday, May 28th and June 4th.

We're also back this Spring for the ASUCC Study-In on June 5th from 11am-7pm! Come on in, grab a snack courtesy of your student government, and get help from faculty, tutors, and librarians as you study.

The library will be closed Saturday, May 29th and Monday, May 31st for the Memorial Day Holiday.

Good luck, and study hard!

A Virtual Film Treasure Box

Where do rare films go besides DVD-- try online!

We all know about the classic films that are available in a million different formats and milieus-- Dracula, Metropolis, Gone with the Wind-- and even those that are so present they exist as remakes-- cinematic perennials that keep popping up year after year.

But what about those films that are so rare or little thought-of that they are not currently distributed by tape or DVD in the USA, like Luchino Visconti's Lo Straniero (1967) [at upper-right].

Well, how about YouTube?

Visconti was a well-known Italian director who produced a number of classic films, including The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, 1963) [available at the UCC library: DVD 791.43 L] . These classics are available on DVD, but in the past, some of the director's other works have fallen off the screen. The British Film Institute has this to say about Lo Straniero, one of these "lesser" works:

Lo straniero (The Stranger) (1967), Visconti's adaptation of Albert Camus's novel "L'Etranger", received mixed press on first release and has rarely been seen since.

But now we have other options! Online digital services, like YouTube, Hulu, and even digital streaming services like iTunes and Amazon Unbox, are making previously rare films as accessible as any US-based cinephile can hope (N.B. - most of these digital services work within the United States only):

• On YouTube, where video length is limited to roughly 10 minutes or less, clever film fans have been linking public-domain foreign films in sequential clips, as this playlist does. Watch classic films from Africa, Japan, Italy, and more- most with subtitles and in languages other than English.
  
  
• Hulu is a service that allows viewers to watch videos and (mainly) television episodes online for free. (The clips are ad-supported). The service includes digitization of a number of classic TV shows such as The Addams Family and I Spy.
  
  
• Amazon Unbox and Apple's iTunes Store are two places where you can buy "copies" of films and television shows to watch digitally on your computer (or in some cases, your music player). These two stores have many of the same videos that are also available physically on DVD for a by-the-episode price.

• The Criterion Collection, which publishes high-quality reprints of classic cinema, offers its own "online cinema," titled The Auteurs, which includes free digital screenings of rare films each month (requires signing up for a username).

And there you have it! Happy viewing!

WorldCat Local Quick Start is Here

The UCC Library has signed up with WorldCat to provide you with a new way to search the library catalog. Check out the "Search the Catalog" page on the library website and you'll see a new search box for looking for books, CDs, and DVDs. When you search for an item, you'll be searching our local catalog and thousands of other library catalogs, including Douglas County Library System, at the same time. If UCC owns the item, it should be at the top of your result list. If you desperately need an item NOT in our local collection, let us know and we'll try to retrieve it from a library that owns it.

If you prefer, you can still use our local interface for searching the catalog. It has the benefit of simultaneously searching through the Douglas County Library System, too.

Fit Yourself

Whether it is the approach of Spring beckoning you, the athletes of the Olympics inspiring you, or a vague guilt about a New Year's resolution depressing you, it's a good time to commit to SOME kind of exercise.



Browse the library shelves for fitness plans, yoga, and exercise regimens (613.7) or for tips on taking on a new sport or improving a current one (796).

If you'd prefer a DVD to guide you to physical fitness, check out pilates, tai-chi, or workout videos in DVD 613.71 and DVD 796.