13th Annual Oklahoma Global Education Consortium Essay Contest for Community Colleges

A great opportunity for any student writers:

The annual Oklahoma Global Education Conference will be held on Sept. 30, 2010 at Oklahoma City Community College and is now seeking essay submission for the Student Essay Contest.

• The essay contest is focused on "The Need for Global Education Today"
• It is intended to be a non-research essay that should be approximately 500 words.
• 3 winners will be chosen and each awarded $200 and will be asked to read their essay at the OGEC conference in September.
• Deadline for entries is August 20, 2010.

Please direct inquires and submissions to sburris@mscok.edu.

Interlibrary Loan and OK Share

When you need a book or article that none of the TCC LRCs have, and you've already checked the Tulsa City-County Library and found that they don't have it either, there are two services you can use to get that item:

Interlibrary Loan: The ILL office can order a book for you to check out from thousands of other libraries in the United States and across the world. Check with a librarian at one of the LRC Reference Desks about requesting books or articles through Interlibrary Loan. ILL is free for students, faculty and staff, and it takes 7-10 days for item delivery.

OK Share: If you can't wait that long, and know your book is at one of the local colleges, you can check it out directly! First, go to one of the LRC Reference Desks to request an OK Share card, and then go to one of the following libraries to find your book:

• Northeastern State University
• Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College
• OSU-Tulsa
• Rogers State University
• Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology
• OU-Tulsa

You can also use some of the other resources they have, but you'll need to check with each library to ask about their policies. And, you'll have to drive there to check out and return the books you borrow. Lots of other libraries in Oklahoma participate in this program too; check out the full list here.

Graphic Novels @ the LRC. Part II: Superheroes

The Death of Superman

Includes:

• Superman: The Man of Steel #17-19
• Superman #73-75
• The Adventures of Superman #496-497
• Action Comics #683-684
• Justice League American #69

The Uncanny X-Men

Includes:

• God Spare the Child
• Dazzler
• Run for Your Life
• And Hellfire is Their Name
• Wolverine: Alone
• Too Late, the Heroes
• Dark Phoenix
• Child of Light and Darkness
• The Fate of the Phoenix

Watchmen

"It all begins with the paranoid delusions of a half-insane hero called Rorschach. But is Rorschach really insane or has he in fact uncovered a plot to murder super-heroes and, even worse, millions of innocent civilians? On the run from the law, Rorschach reunites with his former teammates in a desperate attempt to save the world and their lives, but what they uncover will shock them to their very core and change the face of the planet! Following two generations of masked superheroes from the close of World War II to the icy shadow of the Cold War comes this groundbreaking comic story — the story of The Watchmen." - DC Comics

X-Men image by Greg Land.Watchmen and Death of Superman images from covers.

Privacy Week

The American Library Association is celebrating Privacy Week, a national week-long event to remind ourselves that information is powerful, and that we need to be mindful about how we use and share our personal information. While there are some laws that help protect your information, like the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), internet users can take steps of their own to protect themselves. For instance, take some time to look at your Facebook profile and make sure you're not sharing more information with the world than you need to:

• The New Facebook Privacy Settings: A How-To
• Protect Your Privacy Opt Out of Facebook’s New Instant Personalization – Yes You Have to Opt Out

Intersession Hours

As you may have heard, TCC is going to be closed on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays all summer. The LRC will only be open Monday through Thursday, starting next Monday.

From May 10th to June 4th, we will be open the following times:

• Metro Campus: 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday
• Northeast Campus: 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday
• Southeast Campus: 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday
• West Campus: 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday

Blackboard, TED, MyTCC and the library's electronic resources will still be available from your home computer over the weekend and all night. Our website has our current hours, our intersession hours, and our summer hours.