International Education Week – November 16-20
- International Education Week
Photo by vanhookc
International Education Week is a celebration of the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. This joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education promotes programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences in the United States.
The SCC Library is proud to honor the winners of the fifth annual SCC “Picture My World” Photo Contest, a competition which advances our mission of promoting cross-cultural exchange and global understanding. Come see the wonderful student photographs on display by the checkout counter! This contest was sponsored by SCC International Education Programs & the SCC International Education Committee.
For a list of additional activities that are being hosted by SCC this week in celebration of International Education Week, please see this link.
~KT
International Education Week 2009
International Education Week 2009
GET READY TO TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD!
The Department of State and the Department of Education are pleased to partner with the National Geographic Society, which has provided questions from previous National Geographic Bee competitions for this year’s Global IQ Quiz. Check it out!
Was that fun and educational? Just think of what else you can do to help our graduates be knowledgeable about the world. And do it during…
International Education Week 2009
…a week to get your students excited about doing an education abroad program, take pride in our international students on campus, learn something new about the world’s cultures and languages, and celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide.
~RG
VETERANS DAY Wednesday, November 11
VETERANS DAY Wednesday, November 11
VETERANS DAY Wednesday, November 11
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
~Cynthia Ozick
Photo by David Paul Ohmer
In honor of all those who have served our country:
This Veterans Day, the SCC Library would like to showcase two helpful and informative guides that were created by our librarians, Jenny Vargas and Danielle Carlock, to assist United States Veterans and their families:
Veterans’ Services Guide: This guide includes library materials for veterans, a link to veteran services at SCC, a list of local veteran organizations, web resources for veterans, and more.
Guide to Resources for Severely Wounded OIF/OEF Military Personnel : This guide to resources on the web was written for wounded Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom military personnel and veterans, their families, and healthcare providers. It includes annotated links to resources on burn injuries, eye injuries, limb loss, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), spinal cord injuries, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), hearing loss, and more.
Additionally, we would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone about the SCC Veterans Day Celebration that will be taking place on campus on Tuesday, November 10 (11 a.m.-12 p.m.) on the lawn west of the Student Center. Veterans, families, students, faculty/staff, and the community are all invited to join together for this patriotic event.
A dedication of the SCC Vets Lounge will be held in the Student Center Building, Cafeteria, at 12:15 following the Veterans Day Ceremony. The Vets Lounge is the first to be dedicated on an MCCD campus.
~KT
Got Topics?
Yesterday as I was setting up for an ENG 101 library instruction session, I had an illuminating conversation with a student who had arrived early. He was working on one of the classroom computers and was sighing and grumbling prolifically.
“Can I help you with anything?” I asked.
“I’m just having trouble finding a topic for my paper,” he replied. “I don’t even know where to start.”
“Life would be unbearable without suffering,” I reassured him.
He shot me a sideways glance.
“Just kidding,” I winked. “Give me a minute, and I’ll show you something that I think will help.”
CQ Researcher as a Topic Finder
My first thought was to demo CQ Researcher’s “Browse by Topic” feature. I’m not sure why this popped into my head, but once I showed it to the student, and observed his delighted reaction, I knew I was onto something.
I have always considered CQ Researcher to be an excellent database to utilize in the beginning stages of research, but have never used it quite this way before. The following short screencast will demonstrate the utility and ease in which students can use CQ Researcher as a topic finding tool:
http://tinyurl.com/cq-researcher-tutorial
~KT
Google is in the news…again.
In a recent issue of BusinessWeek there is another article about Google.
The article discusses the challenges currently faced by the search engine. The executives and engineers at Google are not relaxing and have their work ahead of them if they are going to maintain their significant share of the search engine market. Several competitors have made recent improvements to their services which could cut into the market share of Google. Bing, facebook, twitter and aardvark to name a few are developing strategies to compete with the search giant from Mountain View, California.
One of the many tools that Google has developed, and hope will keep users coming back to the site, is Google Squared.
According to Google, Google Squared is a search tool that helps you quickly build a collection of facts from the Web, for any topic you specify.
If you are curious about which roller coasters are the fastest, tallest, and longest in the world just type roller coasters into the search box and click Square it to see your results. The results are displayed in a series of rows and columns….or *squares*.
Try it….some example searches include…
As always, we would like to hear from the users of the library (and the readers of our new blog). Please don’t hesitate to contact us with questions, comments or concerns.
View our contact information on the SCC Library web site…
~RG
Hello world!
Hello World!
(This seems to be the standard greeting for blogs…)
The library faculty has decided to join together to create and maintain a blog. So, the pressure is on. This project has been pushed aside for several weeks. Perhaps this was pushed aside because we wanted to make sure that the first posting offered some significant message about what was to follow. Perhaps we wanted to make sure that we covered all things for all people in our blog and were hesitant to get started.
Actually…we just had a little trouble coming up with a *cool* name for the blog.
So, to get started…we decided on smArtie’s Blog.
We are the library faculty of Scottsdale Community College and we are hoping that this blog will be useful to the students, staff, faculty and general public users of the library located on campus.
We’ll be blogging about changes going on, not only in the library and on campus, but in the field of information resources as well. As the blog evolves we hope to include a variety of technology to help communicate with the readers.
As always, we would like to hear from the users of the library (and the readers of our new blog). Please don’t hesitate to contact us with questions, comments or concerns.
View our contact information on the SCC Library web site…
~RG
