Final Day for Art Show entries

Today is the last day to turn in art show entries. If you took an art class on campus during Spring or Fall semesters, this is your chance to show off your skills.

Fuentes Culturales and a new desk

Friday the library was buzzing with activity as it hosted the annual Fuentes Culturales program put on by a college in Sonoma and benefiting local Hispanic high school students to aim towards college. They even put on a puppet show at the end.

Meanwhile the Maintenance Supervisor on campus, Stephen, brought in my new circulation desk and while the high schoolers were in other classrooms, I moved everything off my desk, unscrewed the parts of the old desk that could be unscrewed and had Stephen and his student worker Kane move the desk out. Then we arranged the new accessible and modular circulation desks into position. I spend much of Friday and Monday arranging things and hooking up printers and trying to figure out how to power and connect everything.

It is a big improvement and the library really looks nice now.

Tables

We got our new tables in! They are a beautiful oak color and match perfectly with the new chairs and the stacks and the new circulation desk that Stephen told me he has in the shed. Now I just need a way to lure the newspaper in here to take photographs so that the people in the county can see where their hard earned bond money has gone.

I think it is worth it myself. The library is much enlarged, creating better spaces for students to study, write papers and work in groups. These new tables, chairs and circulation desk mean the library is handicapped accessible.

New books again

Since I ordered new books recently, we are getting more than one batch of new books each week. Look out for more coming in weeks to come. Today we have lots: A gracious donor donated the complete National Geographic Magazine for 1888-1999 on CD-Rom. With full color photos and everything.

We also got 8 new books:
Illegal Immigration
From Clueless to classact
New Indians, old Wars
After Admission
Women and Poetry
The Black Swan
Sentinel of the Seas
The Everything Spanish book


Come on in and check one out!

Cougars and Wolves are falling from the sky.

It's raining much harder than just cats and dogs. It is hard to even walk outside without getting soaked. Maintenance was trying to put the window art back up, but it appears to all be too long. Fractions of inches need to be removed. From plexiglass. No wonder he has been putting this off since I started working here.

Tomorrow is Jeans for Justice Day, a day to wear your blue jeans in international remembrance of a 1999 decision in Italian High Court. The court overturned a rape conviction because the victim was wearing jeans at the time of the attack.

The court’s ruling included, “It is common knowledge … that jeans cannot even be partly removed without the effective help of the person wearing them … and it is impossible if the victim is struggling with all her might.”

UCSB Rape Prevention Education Program Director Carol Mosely said the case was a symptom of a larger problem.

“A lot of people reacted to it at the time, and people are still bringing it back up because it’s such a good symbol of the problem that we have in the world of blaming victims and not believing victims of sexual assault,” Mosely said. “The case is an extreme example, but that type of thinking goes on all the time, everywhere in the world."

Our campus is handing out stickers and information about this event. Because no means no.

New Books on a Monday

We got five new books in today and I will be putting them over on the new books shelf above the magazines. Feel free to use a stool to reach them.

The new books are: A Child Called It: One Child's courage to Survive
: It Had to be You: Memoir of a Navy wife :Umbrella guide to California Lighthouses :Belva Lockwood: the woman who would be President
:Spanish, English Medical Dictionary

They can each be checkout out for three weeks.

If you come into the library today, you may notice our three new plants. They were used to decorate the library during the CR President forums. They may end up somewhere else eventually, but for now, breathe in that fresh oxygenated air.

I'm Going to College!

Today the library played host to75 or more local fourth-graders. They got a tour of campus, and got 3 separate mini classes from three of our faculty. At the end of each tour, the children came to the library and got to exchange a fake buck for a real book (provided with money from CalSOAP). Although most of them said their favorite part was the toy that the Nursing dept handed out, donated by Wal-Mart. Chris, head janitor, vacuumed the library after they finished their lunches (it was too cold to eat outside) and after they left, we put my library back together.

The rest of the day was quiet (as a library should be :) ). I did have to stay a little late helping a student submit an assignment to turn-it-in.com. He had used spaces in stead of tabs and it had messed up everything when he did editing. He is going to devote this summer to leaning how to use Word 2007, he says.

Boy, this bog has turned into a lot of brand name dropping, which was not my intention. But I guess I wanted to thank Walmart and CalSoap one more time and the other two are essential library tools here on campus.

See you monday!

New in the Library

Today the biggest new thing is this blog. Thanks for reading.
We have several new books hitting the shelves this week:
3 on photoshop and how to use it
and 3 crime mysteries by Marilyn Meredith including Guilt by Association.

We also got our new chairs this week. These chairs were bought with Bond money and were part of ensuring that our Library in specific and our campus in general are as accessible for the most number of people possible. They are a lovely blue color and quite comfortable. You should come and try them out.

Just a heads up: tomorrow is the "I'm going to College" day with fourth-graders from three local elementary schools. The library my be a little noisy from 9-1. The writing lab will be opened if needed. Don't worry, you will be able to write your papers, respond to professor emails and research your next assignment in either the library or the writing lab.