Clark College Libraries: News

February 29, also known as leap day in the Gregorian calendar, is a date occurring in most years evenly divisible by 4 (2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016). Years evenly divisible by 100 don’t contain a leap day, with the exception of years that are evenly divisible by 400, which do contain a leap day. Therefore [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Experience history with newsreels and other historical videos in  Encyclopedia Britannica Online.  In addition to Extended Play Videos, many of the encyclopedic articles feature additional resources such as short historical videos.  Click on the image below to see a newsreel featured in the article on Munich Agreement 1938. To view Encyclopedia Britannica articles and primary [...]

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In honor of Veteran’s Day, Cannell Library will be closed Nov 11th. The library will be open on Saturday Nov 12 for its normal weekend hours from 1 pm to 5 pm. In recognition to those who have served and to those who are serving our nation in the armed serves, we post this poem [...]

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The 5th of November may not be a special date for most Americans, but in Great Britain this day is set aside to remember an attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament. As described in the first paragraph from Holidays Symbols and Customs, This day commemorates the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, when a group [...]

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You’ll notice something new when you walk by the Information Commons @ CTC. Elegant lettering on the windows proudly declares: LIBRARIES    CONNECT     ENGAGE     LEARN You’ll find these same words on the header of the Clark College Libraries website. Those words are what we’re all about:  Making connections between and among [...]

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Items available for 3 hour checkout in the Information Commons in 219 Did you forget your calculator? Could you use a laptop and computer mouse? How about a set of headphones? We’ve got you covered! The Information Commons in CTC 219 has equipment that you can check out for three hours! Laptops* Computer Mice Scientific and [...]

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Do you already need a break from studying? Looking for a good lunch-break book? The library has a new selection of quick and interesting books entitled the Popular Reading collection. It includes fiction such as Piers Anthony’s fantasy Xanth series or Michael Connolly’s thrillers as well as non-fiction such as building schools in Pakistan in [...]

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Thanks to a grant from Technology Fee Committee, for the next two years Clark students will have the opportunity to assess their readiness for web enhanced learning in both online and face-to-face classes.  Find out what skills you need to improve by completing the SmarterMeasure assessment.  This survey will take you about 45 minutes from [...]

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