Palm Beach State College Library is happy to announce the winner of the One Book, One College Read Together: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch Thank you for voting!
All locations of Palm Beach State College join together for the first One Book, One College Read Together Campaign. Read the book and participate in the activities planned for the Spring Term. Schedule of events to be posted later. Complimentary copies of the book, The Last Lecture, will be available for all students who participate in the Read Together.
Co-sponsored by the LLRCs, Honors College, and the Student Activity Centers
These are the new titles below that we have purchased to help students, faculty and staff cast their vote for the 2012 Read Together Palm Beach County Campaign. Vote by Feb. 24. Cast your vote in our library on either floor two or floor three, or at their web site below. March 12th will be the announcement for the 2012 book choice. http://readtogether.palmbeachpost.com/
Dr. Richard Shepardson is Palm Beach State's EAP Cluster Chair. He is working with our library this semester to promote reading using eReaders in his EAP 0420 classes, with approximately 25 students in all. Students will have the opportunity to use a Kindle Fire and/or a Nook Color this semester. We hope to receive a lot of feedback from students concerning their likes and dislikes about each device.
Tech Services added a new book, The Appointment, to each Kindle Fire and Nook Color, to start off the semester. If students find other books they would like to read, with Dr. Shepardson's approval, we will download these requests. We are very excited about these new devices and hope this program will bring many excellent books to our fiction collection.
The Year of the Flood isassigned reading by one of our teachers. Students are very pleased that they can check out a Kindle Fire to take home for this assignment.
Dr. Richard Shepardson is Palm Beach State's EAP Cluster Chair. He is working with our library this semester to promote reading using eReaders in his EAP 0420 classes, with approximately 25 students in all. Students will have the opportunity to use a Kindle Fire and/or a Nook Color this semester. We hope to receive a lot of feedback from students concerning their likes and dislikes about each device.
Tech Services added a new book, The Appointment, to each Kindle Fire to start off the 1st class this Monday. If students find other books they would like to read, with Dr. Shepardson's approval, we will download these requests. We are very excited about this new device and hope it will bring many excellent books to our fiction collection.
The Kindle Fire Wi-Fi connection is easy with our college system. Students sign in with their Panther Web ID and password. Off campus they can connect using any Wi-Fi system at their disposal without their college sign in information. For students assigned or approved reading, once the book has been purchased and downloaded by our library staff, students can read anywhere without Wi-Fi.
We are unpacking boxes of Nook Color devices today in Tech Services and processing these new devices for students in Dr. Shepardson's class for check out.. We will post more information about this remarkable semester project very soon.
Our library received 10 new Kindle Fire units this month. We are very excited to implement these into our patron loan program, joining our other Kindle devices, iPads, Nooks and Sony's.
As we gain experience and a working knowledge of these new devices, we will post again real soon. Presently the Kindle Fire units are in Tech Services where our Library Tech is adding them to our LINCC catalog system.
So far these new devices are working flawlessly with our Wi-Fi system here at the college. By the beginning of our Winter Term, the Kindle Fire should be available for 7 day loan.
“They are very helpful every time I come to the library. I always get great service.”
Quiet area, floor 3
iPads & Study Rooms floor 3
“My home life is crazy and does not allow time for study, so the library is a place to come and focus and get my work done. I have a helpful staff to help me with any questions.”
General Collection floor 3
“The library is probably the most useful tool in my life. It is where I think, work, and occasionally relax.”
“The library represents an important asset for me because it has all I need to study for my classes. It provides a comfortable environment; it has plenty of seats available, Wi-Fi, and it also lets me take copies of a variety of texts.”
Laptop plug in desks-Floor 2
“The Library is good for me.”
Floor 3, Circulation Desk
Students having fun waiting for Professor Brahlek's Reserve articles
iPad loans-floor 3
Student Project
Find our pictues and all the other 537 libraries on this Facebook link below and the entire Floirda Library Snapshot Day
1/26/12,
LLRC Saying Goodbye to Diana Moore Reference... »»
Diana has been instrumental from the beginning of our BAS program in 2009, helping with orientations, instructional classes and individual help for BAS students. Recently Diana has been working with the Circulation Department to revamp our iPads with a variety of educational apps. The new modifications will help promote using iPads for research and class assignments.
We will miss you Diana and hope you enjoy your next adventure with your family in the North East.
Diana Moore's Bio:
Diana is the Bachelor’s degree librarian at Palm Beach State College in Lake Worth, Florida, obtained her MSLIS from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. She is also the distance learning liaison to the library and an advocate for emerging technologies in libraries and higher education. She is currently working on her doctorate degree in computer and information science at Nova Southeastern University, specializing in computing technology in education. Her research interests include media tablets in education and mobile learning (m-learning). She has contributed to American Libraries, Computers in Libraries, and Portal. She maintains a blog focusing on technology and libraries and higher education. Her blog can be found at http://www.gurulibrarian.com/.
A farewell letter from Reference Librarian, Pat Alvarez, Christina's supervisor Christina will be greatly missed. She worked like a beaver when she approached a new task. I remembered when she first started working, an older patron came to tell us that he could not believe how hard Christina worked just by observing her.
When she first came to us 5 years ago, she was just a kid out of high school. I saw a progression of maturity as the years went by. At that time, she wasn’t sure if she wanted to go back to school since she had to quit during her first semester for money reasons. It didn’t take but a little encouragement to get her to pursue her dreams of an education. Her love of learning was something to be admired. She didn’t just go to school for a diploma, she went to school mostly to learn something new. If she took a class that she felt she was not learning; she was not happy. It took her a few years to decide what she really wanted to study, since she seemed to like everything. She went from wanting to study history, to creative writing and finally she found her niche in Communications. She decided she wanted to be a Speech professor just like her mentor professor, Lori Crane. She even considered Librarianship as a “maybe” in her future.
Sorting Magazines
She thrived when she had many things going on.I would be amazed and scared for her when I learned about her PTK projects, her honor’s projects, the many charities that she offered her time to, the writing for the school newspaper, her school projects, her family responsibilities andworking full-time.But the times she didn’t have a crazy schedule, she had to look for something extra to do.I was always reprimanding her for overextending herself, thus not getting enough sleep.This caused her to be late for work…. But those days that she was late she usually made them up by staying after hours of her own accord.
I never saw Christina get mad at any of the people she helped.No matter how little sleep she got the night before, which was frequently, she still helped the students with a smile on her face.Even when students made her angry she kept helping them and afterwards would come to my office door where she then would vent to me about them… but never said anything to their face.
One thing that Christina definitely did not like is when people called her by a different name.Some would call her Christine or a variation of that name.She didn’t have a problem correcting them time and time again.She would come and tell me that she could not understand why people could not remember that her name was CHRISTINA.Then I started making the mistake of spelling her name in Spanish (Cristina) when I wrote her e-mails.She would not hesitate to correct me even after explaining that I was used to writing it that way.
Party Time and Great Food Christina and Pat
She loved to learn new things.Her position was of a Library Assistant, but she when Pat Horlick left before Loretta was hired, a while passed and I didn’t have anyone else to help me with the Periodicals duties.So she assumed some of the responsibilities of Pat’s position because she was able to do them so well and willingly. There was not a thing that I asked her to do that she didn’t tackle without complaining.In fact, she would always ask me to teach her more.One of the reasons I took her under my wings was because I saw myself in her when I was her age.
Dessert time!
I feel she brought to work her youthful dreams and optimism; a breath of fresh air that is wonderful to have around especially for those of us that are way passed that stage in our lives……We’ll miss you Christina and we are all rooting for you to achieve all your dreams.
Some of the faculty and staff at the Farewell Party
Aloha Aug. 16th, 2012 Professional Development Day
Slide Show for Christina
Good Luck at USF Christina! We are very proud of you:] We will miss you!
Start planning now to travel to the Miami Book Fair International November 14th to 21st. It is one of the best "nearly free" events in South Florida. Check out the authors who will be there this year. Anyone want to carpool???
The 10th annual National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress, was held on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., between 3rd and 7th streets from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama were honorary chairs for the event. Follow the link to view author presentations and find some exciting new books to read!!!
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