Clark College Libraries: News

Sherman Alexie, award-winning novelist, poet, screenwriter, composer and performer, will be the keynote speaker at Clark’s 2008 commencement ceremony, June 19, 7:00 p.m., at the Clark County Fairgrounds Amphitheater. A Spokane/Couer d’Alene Indian, he grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and graduated from Washington State University. Many of his books and films are available [...]

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Cannell Library participated in Jan. 31′s “National Global Warming Teach-In” with a display created by our very own Tammy Boyer, a student who works part-time as a Library and Archives Paraprofessional here at Cannell. Tammy found the sun searching Google Images. The inspiration for the hands was on page 167 of the book, Climate, Our [...]

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Political commentator David Gergen was recently in Vancouver talking about Pakistan, Iran and Iraq. The November 14, 2007 issue of The Clark College Independent has an article on him but did you know that Cannell Library has an autographed copy of his book Eyewitness to Power? (call number: JK516 .G493 2000). Please come in and [...]

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Each year Clark College recognizes students for their efforts and work on campus. Cannell Library is proud to announce that three of our student workers won outstanding student employee awards at this year’s OSWALD (Outstanding Students With Academic Leadership and Development) ceremony. They are… Rachel Elliott Rachel has been an excellent student employee since she [...]

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On May 17 and 18th Cannell Library hosted the annual conference for CLAMS, College Library and Media Specialists of Washington. The Librarians held an information session on serving distance learners, and in keeping with the Hawaiian theme of this year’s conference, attendees were treated to a performance from members of the Kaleinani o ke Kukui [...]

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Cannell Librarians Kitty Mackey and Zachary Grant, and IT Specialist Pavel Popov presented a workshop on Friday, May 11 called Blogs & Wikis: More Than Cool Toys — Essential Tools for Libraries. View the PowerPoint slides and handouts. If you were a participant at that workshop, please tell us: What will you take back to [...]

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Congratulations to cataloging technician Susie Harding for winning the Quarterly Excellence Award!

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“RSS Feeds –Don’t get aggravated, get aggregated” is a presentation for faculty and staff at Clark College On April 26th from Noon to 1:00 pm. Have you ever wanted to use RSS feeds, but you were not sure where to start? Are you not even sure what an RSS feed or aggregator is? Then head [...]

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The Columbia Writers Series Presents Fiction Writer Scott Nadelson, Wednesday, April 11, 2007, Noon, Cannell Room (Room 101) in the Cannell Library. Nadelson, an assistant professor of English at Willamette University and winner of the 2004 Oregon Book Award for short fiction, is the author of two short story collections: The Cantor’s Daughter (2006), and [...]

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It seems fitting that Cannell library inaugurates it’s blog with a big announcement: The Summit Consortium recently celebrated its one millionth loan! That’s 1,000,000 books, CDs, DVDs and other materials that users in the 33 member libraries requested online and received within 2-3 days. Cannell Library is proud to be a member of Summit, because [...]

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