Monday, October 31, 2011
A Visit from the Busy Bees
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Library Closed on Saturday, October 22
The Century College Library will be closed on Saturday, October 22 for the MEA break.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Fire Prevention Week
In conjunction with Fire Prevention Week, October 9-15, the library display case for October is featuring books on firefighting and related fire/rescue work. Century library has a large collection of FIRE/EMS/Safety materials. Our collection is one of only about a half dozen libraries in the United States primarily concerned with fire and emergency medical services. Some of the subject specialties that are included in this collection are: arson, building codes, emergency medical services, fire codes, fire education, firefighting, fire investigations, fire safety, and much more. The display also includes publications dealing specifically with historical Minnesota fires such as Hinckley and Cloquet as well as personal stories of the men and women who fight the fires.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Banned Books Week 2011
The Century College Library marks Banned Books Week from Sept. 25 through October 1 with a drawing for several tote bags noting, "I Read Banned Books." Enter the drawing in the library today!
The books featured in our display case have been targets of attempted bannings. Fortunately, while some books were banned or restricted, in a majority of cases the books were not banned, all thanks to the efforts of librarians, teachers, booksellers, and members of the community to retain the books in the library collections. Come to the library and check out a banned book.
To learn more about challenges and bans, see About Banned & Challenged Books on the American Library Association web site. In 2010, ALA reported 348 challenges. You can see a list of the top ten most frequently challenged titles in 2010.
The books featured in our display case have been targets of attempted bannings. Fortunately, while some books were banned or restricted, in a majority of cases the books were not banned, all thanks to the efforts of librarians, teachers, booksellers, and members of the community to retain the books in the library collections. Come to the library and check out a banned book.
To learn more about challenges and bans, see About Banned & Challenged Books on the American Library Association web site. In 2010, ALA reported 348 challenges. You can see a list of the top ten most frequently challenged titles in 2010.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Kindles at the Library Open House!
The Century College Library has acquired 6 Kindles purchased
with Student Tech Fee funds and have preloaded the following titles:
The Kindles will circulate for three weeks with no renewal. If you want to borrow one and they are all checked out, you can place a hold using our online catalog and we will notify you when one becomes available.
If you have your own Nook, our eBooks from EBSCO database has ebooks in downloadable PDF format. (Kindles may be compatible soon.) From the library home page, click on the tab under Library Search labeled Articles, Databases & More, choose Databases A-Z or Databases by Subject, and click through. If you are off-campus, you will need the 14-digit barcode from the back of your Century ID for your username. Your password is your last name.
- Hide in plain sight / Marta Perry
- Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen
- Zeitoun / Dave Eggers
- Jane Eyre /Charlotte Bronte
- Unbroken / Laura Hillenbrand
- The Help / Kathryn Stockett
- A Stolen life / Jaycee Dugard
- Safe haven / Nicholas Sparks
- Moneyball / Michele Lewis
- Until proven guilty / J.A. Jance.
The Kindles will circulate for three weeks with no renewal. If you want to borrow one and they are all checked out, you can place a hold using our online catalog and we will notify you when one becomes available.
If you have your own Nook, our eBooks from EBSCO database has ebooks in downloadable PDF format. (Kindles may be compatible soon.) From the library home page, click on the tab under Library Search labeled Articles, Databases & More, choose Databases A-Z or Databases by Subject, and click through. If you are off-campus, you will need the 14-digit barcode from the back of your Century ID for your username. Your password is your last name.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
New Online Resource: PsycInfo
We've added a new resource for the social sciences: PsycInfo. It's the American Psychological Association’s (APA) resource for abstracts of
scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. It contains peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental
health. It has very limited full text, but links into our print collection also into full text from our other online resources.
You can find PyscInfo from the Library's web page by clicking on the tab under Library Search labeled Articles, Databases & More, choosing Databases A-Z or Databases by Subject, and clicking through. If you are off-campus, you will need the 14-digit barcode from the back of your Century ID for your username. Your password is your last name.
You can find PyscInfo from the Library's web page by clicking on the tab under Library Search labeled Articles, Databases & More, choosing Databases A-Z or Databases by Subject, and clicking through. If you are off-campus, you will need the 14-digit barcode from the back of your Century ID for your username. Your password is your last name.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
eBooks at the Century Library
Off campus and can't get to the library today? We've got lots of resources for you, but in particular, you might want to check out our eBooks.
We recently purchased a subscription to ebrary College Complete using Student Tech Fee funds. This collection contains over 20,000 titles in a wide variety of subjects. In addition, we have over 12,000 eBooks from EBSCO (formerly Netlibrary) in our catalog. Lots of our reference books are online as well. You can find all our eBook resources from the library web page, http://www.century.edu/library/, by looking at the Books & More tab where you'll see a link to eBooks.
As usual, when you are off-campus, you will need the 14-digit barcode from the back of your Century ID for your username. Your password is your last name.
We recently purchased a subscription to ebrary College Complete using Student Tech Fee funds. This collection contains over 20,000 titles in a wide variety of subjects. In addition, we have over 12,000 eBooks from EBSCO (formerly Netlibrary) in our catalog. Lots of our reference books are online as well. You can find all our eBook resources from the library web page, http://www.century.edu/library/, by looking at the Books & More tab where you'll see a link to eBooks.
As usual, when you are off-campus, you will need the 14-digit barcode from the back of your Century ID for your username. Your password is your last name.
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