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!