February is Black History Month.
In recognition of Black History Month, The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum have developed a website honoring “Black Women in American Culture and History” and the myriad of roles African American women played in the shaping of our nation.
The History.com website is also celebrating Black History Month, with photos, speeches, and videos of achievements by black Americans.
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Getting ready for a vacation abroad or trying to improve your foreign language pronunciation or comprehension? Check out several free useful language learning tools on BBC Languages website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/) including the “Quick Fix” page featuring essential phrases in 40 different languages from Albanian to Urdu. This site also includes audio and video clips to help with pronunciation as well as narratives of travelers sharing their discoveries of correct phrases in a foreign tongue. See Don’t Try This Abroad page for some amusing stories from France, Germany, Turkey, Spain and Italy.
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30 Clicks: Information Tools at Your Fingertips
This week: Free & Cheap Mobile Apps for Food and Fitness
Wednesday, February 1 @ 12:15 pm in LIB 103
Did you make a New Year’s Resolution to get fit and healthy? Let your smart phone help! We’ll look at an app that trains you for a 5k even if you’ve never been a runner before, an app that helps you choose wisely at the grocery store, apps for yoga, even an app that tells you how long you need to exercise to work off that six pack you drank watching the Trailblazers game. Android and iPhone friendly.
Interested? Join us at Cannell Library for this workshop – everyone is welcome. For a full schedule of 30 Clicks, visit: http://library.clark.edu/sites/default/files/thirty_clicks_winter2012.pdf
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Over the break, we got a second pull-drawer cabinet and consolidated our CDs. All of the Spoken Word CDs are arranged along the top of the right cabinet and all of the oversized CDs, both Spoken Word and Music, are arranged along the top of the left cabinet. A box in the center is for CDs and DVDs that you have taken off the shelf but decided not to take home.
Have you come in recently to see our selection?
- Music includes popular music such as Billboard chart-topping hits as well as classical symphonies and world music.
- Spoken Word includes audiobooks such as Homer’s Odyssey, radio programs such as Roosevelt’s fireside chats, language learning for English and Spanish, and educational programs such as hypnosis, leadership, and relaxation.
CDs check out for 21 days and you may renew them twice. They count as AV materials, and you are allowed to check out a total of three at a time.
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30 Clicks: Information Tools at Your Fingertips
This week: Prezi
Wednesday, January 25 @ 12:15 pm in LIB 103
Tired of PowerPoint presentations? Prezi is a free online tool which will help you create fun, visually interesting presentations. Learn how to easily add text, images, videos, Word documents, and .pdfs to your Prezi presentation. If you like mind maps and conceptual thinking, you’ll love Prezi!
Interested? Join us at Cannell Library for this workshop – everyone is welcome. For a full schedule of 30 Clicks, visit: http://library.clark.edu/sites/default/files/thirty_clicks_winter2012.pdf
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30 Clicks: Information Tools at Your Fingertips
This week: Smarter Measure
Wednesday, January 18 @ 12:15 pm in LIB 103
Do you have students struggling to manage files or having difficulty formatting and submitting papers electronically? How tech savvy are your students? The SmarterMeasure Learning Readiness Indicator identifies levels of student readiness for both online and face-to-face courses by testing and providing feedback about technical readiness, academic success skills, learning styles, reading rates, typing speed and more. Learn how this tool can help you and your students.
Interested? Join us at Cannell Library for this workshop – everyone is welcome. For a full schedule of 30 Clicks, visit: http://library.clark.edu/sites/default/files/thirty_clicks_winter2012.pdf
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Cannell Library hours for Winter term are:
- Monday-Thursday: 7:00 am – 8:30 pm
- Friday: 7:00 am – 5:00 pm
- Saturday-Sunday: 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
There are lots of resources available for students, faculty, and staff at Cannell Library, beyond our books, films, and computers:
- Our 30 Clicks sessions will begin Wednesday, January 18 from 12:15 to 12:45 – join us and learn how to use Smarter Measure.
- Our Ask-A Librarian chat service is available 24/7, so you can get help from a librarian at any time of the day or night!
Come by and see us when you’re on campus (if you’re not on campus, you may want to check out our library website.) We hope you visit us soon!
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The library will be closed starting December 15 at 6:00 p.m. and will reopen at 7:00 a.m. on January 9th.
No need for overdue fees this holiday season; you can renew your books online or return them during the break. When the library is closed please return items to the outside return boxes. These boxes are checked once a day Monday – Friday.
NOTE: One return box is positioned along the Green parking lot west entrance just north of Gaiser Hall, and two are right outside the library entrance. One of these is designated for audiovisual materials and the other for books.
Faculty Information
During the break faculty and staff may gain entrance to the library by calling x2504. To meet with a particular person, please call ahead to make sure the person is available.
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30 Clicks: Information Tools at Your Fingertips
This week: VoiceThread
Wednesday, December 7 @ 12:15 pm in LIB 103
VoiceThread is an online tool that allows people to create and share a multimedia slide shows that other people can interact with via audio, text, or video. This tool is an innovative way to give your students a voice in online discussions instead of replying only in text.
Interested? Join us at Cannell Library for this workshop – everyone is welcome. For a full schedule of 30 Clicks, visit:http://library.clark.edu/sites/default/files/Thirty%20Clicks%20Fall%202011.pdf
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Nov 30th, 2011 by Roxanne
Why’s Pavel Popov, Clark Libraries’ IT Specialist and the technical brain behind our new library website, wearing a blue beanie?
“Sure, the weather’s getting cold, but November 30 has also been deemed the third annual Blue Beanie Day for Web designers and developers who support Web standards.
“Hundreds of supporters–who call themselves “Standardistas”–have already uploaded their blue beanie shots to a Flickr pool in a show of solidarity. The blue hats signify that they’ll adhere to a set of best practices for standardized, accessible, universal Web design and development. It’s these people you can thank for building Internet experiences focused on usability, meaning those of you puttering along on the oldest copy of Internet Explorer can navigate sites just as beautifully as the newest Google Chrome browser.
“The reason for the blue hat is a nod to the bible-like Designing With Web Standards author Jeffrey Zeldman, who famously donned a blue knit hat in his author photo for the book, which was published in 2003. This year, perfectly timed to coincide with the blue-hat day, the book’s third edition has been published, with plenty of updates for the Standardistas to fill their blue-hatted heads.”
We’re ordering the 3rd edition. If you’d like to check out the 2nd edition, the call # is: TK5105.888 .Z46 2007.
Many more web design e-books are available online via the libraries’ IT Pro database.
(Excerpt from www.fastcompany.com by Alissa Walker. Photo of Pavel by Bob Hughes.)
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