The Official Blog of the Library of Bucks County Community College
As was reported earlier, Bucks County Community College Library is the recipient of the 2010 Association of College and Research Libraries Excellence in Academic Libraries Award community college category. Everyone at Bucks is ecstatic over this achievement.
The official press release is now available from the American Library Association. Read about your library team in this press release.
Here is a photo of your winning team.
BCCC Library Staff
Bucks County Community College Library is the recipient of the 2010 Association of College and Research Libraries Excellence in Academic Libraries Award community college category.
Read the ACRL press release here.
We’re thrilled and honored!
The BCCC Library Online Catalog is back online after routine maintenance was performed this morning.
The BCCC Library Online Catalog will be down in order to run routine maintenance on the morning of December 16. The catalog should be available again by noon on the 16th.
If you need assistance locating library materials during the outage, please ask a librarian.
An announcement will be made as soon as the catalog is available again.
Thank you.
EBSCOhost, our most popular collection of databases, now has a mobile interface. BCCC students, faculty and staff can search thousands of full-text journal, magazine and newspaper articles easily from their mobile devices. There’s a special link just under the regular EBSCOhost link on the Online Resources page of our website. If you’d like to try it right now, go to http://proxy.bucks.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=emob. Bucks login is required.
Tom Slattery promoted the BCCC Library’s Celtic Collection on Saturday, Oct. 10th, when the Martin Family Band visited the Newtown Campus Library Auditorium for an evening of Celtic music, dance and storytelling.
When entering the library, please note the exhibit reflecting the life and accomplishments of Pearl S. Buck. Buck was the first American woman to receive both the Pulitzer and the Nobel Prizes for literature, and held that distinction for 55 years. She spent the first 40 years of her life in an unexplored and threatened China. The last 40 years of her life was spent just 20 minutes north of BC3 at Green Hills Farm. Over 1,000 published pieces of literature are attributed to Buck. Miss Buck is also associated with her groundbreaking successes in introducing biracial adoption which still continues today through Pearl S. Buck International. The intact collection and home of Miss Buck is open for visitors Tuesday through Sunday offering guided tours of the house, community events and self guided tours of the outdoor sculpture and water garden. www.pearlsbuck.org
Just look to the right instead of to the left as you enter the Newtown Campus Library. Now we’re conveniently located right in the middle of the reference area. And while you’re passing through, look to the left and check out the art exhibit space at the entrance to MInDSpace.
The Fall 2009 issue of the Learning Resources Newsletter is now available online at http://www.bucks.edu/library/pdf_files/lrnews5_1.pdf. The Newsletter is published three times a year and is packed with timely information about our services, information resources, and teaching and learning technologies. Highlights of this issue include articles on MInDSpace, Online Teaching Best Practices, LibGuides, and Google Books. Previous issues of the newsletter are available at http://www.bucks.edu/academics/learn/publications.php.
For information about Information Literacy at Bucks, see http://www.bucks.edu/library/infolit/.
