Friday, October 21, 2011

Book Talk: The Killer Angels

As we commemorate the 150th anniversary of the start of the most devastating war in US history, join Dr. Shawn Lay for a stimulating discussion of Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War novel.

Thursday November 3
11:15AM
Faculty Research Room
Library
Light refreshments will be served.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Library Hours for Fall Break

Our hours are largely unchanged for Fall Break, except that we will be opening at 8:30 a.m. Thursday and Friday, October 13-14th.  We will be open our regular hours Saturday and Sunday.

As always, you can check out our Hours webpage here.

We hope you have a restful Fall Break, and return to campus ready for the stretch drive to exams!

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Campus Event: Résumé Writing Workshop on October 20th

Coker students: Do you need help writing your résumé?  Help is on the way!

From Deanne Frye, Director of Career services: 

Do you need help with your resume?  Unsure even where to begin?  If so, STOP PUTTING IT OFF and join Career Services for a Resume Writing 101 Workshop that will alleviate ALL stress surrounding the process!

The workshop will be held on Thursday, October 20 from 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. in Career Services (2nd floor- Student Center).

Please RSVP on or before Monday, October 17.  Hurry…space is limited!  Hope to see you there!  

Deanne can be e-mailed here or call her office: 383-8263.

Java City Hours for Fall Break...


...or a distinct lack thereof:


Java City will close at 11a.m. Wednesday, October 12 and reopen Monday, October 17 at 7:45 a.m.


Friday, October 7, 2011

Book Talk: PLAY

Join the students

of EDU 402

along with Dr. Darlene Maxwell

for a discussion of PLAY

and why it matters.

Long days and warm weather can make the urge to put down work and go play almost impossible to resist. So don't. The drive to play is as natural as the drive for food and sex, the authors of this book convincingly argue. "Play shows us our common humanity," they write. "It is the genesis of innovation, and allows us to deal with an ever-changing world." Science News, 7/4/2009.

Thursday October 20 3:30pm

Library - Room 228

Light refreshments will be served.

Call 383-8125 for more information.

Public Review of Proposed Textbooks



From the SC Department of Education:

The public is invited to review textbooks and instructional materials that have been proposed for use in South Carolina’s public schools.

The instructional materials are on display at twenty-seven colleges and universities throughout the state. The materials will be on display from October 10 to November 22, 2011, with evaluation forms for citizens’ comments available at each site. State Board of Education members will review citizens’ comments before a final decision is made on adopting the materials.

The materials will be recommended to the State Board of Education for adoption on December 8, 2011, by the Instructional Materials Review Panels appointed by the Board. The materials are in the following subject areas:
  • Chinese, Grades 6–12
  • Fashion, Fabric, and Design 1 and 2, Grades 9–12
  • Financial Fitness 1 and 2, Grades 9–12
  • Integrated English Language Arts, Grades K–5
  • Self-Contained Educable Mentally Disabled (Mildly Disabled), Grades K–12
  • Sports Nutrition, Grades 9–12
 The review books are in the atrium area, near the Reference collection.  Please give any reviews to a library staff member and we will forward them on to the State Board of Education.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

EBSCO e-books now available for download!

The former Netlibrary e-books - some 70,000+ titles - can now be downloaded to most e-reader devices or software (except for the Kindle, unfortunately).

The EBSCOhost e-books use Adobe Digital Editions digital rights management (DRM) software, which the PC/Mac versions are available here: http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/ .  From there, you can move the books from your desktop computer to a supported device.

The supported e-reader device list can be found here: http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalpublishing/supported-devices .

I can personally recommend the Aldiko Reader for Android.

You will need to create an EBSCOhost account, which is free and can be used across the EBSCO platform for storing journal article citations, searches, and other personal items. You do not need an ID/Password from the library to use the download feature.

We are trialing this feature until early November, but I anticipate it will become a permanent feature due to positive response.

If you have any questions or comments, please e-mail me or use the chat reference.