Black History Month - more library resources

Black History Month - President Obama and Frederick Douglass

February is known as the month to celebrate African-American History Month following the remembrance of the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday and the second inauguration of the first African-American President of the United States.

To enhance your African-American History experience, the TCC Library website (http://library.tulsacc.edu ) has a variety of electronic resources (e-resources) to help you participate in the celebration.

The Black History Month research guide (created by a librarian) provides one-stop research help and useful e-resources about this history--including Tulsa resources on African-American History and links to online African-American collections from the Library of Congress. It also includes a great online exhibit by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Use TCC library resources to learn about the impact of civil rights on American History (i.e. Emancipation Proclamation, post-World War II civil rights, affirmative action) by searching for “race and civil rights” in articles at Issues & Controversies in American History --an article database available at the Library website under the Article Databases tab.

Access the Digital Libraries or e-books by clicking on the yellow Books & More tab at the Library homepage.  Access research guides and article databases by clicking on the respective yellow tabs at the Library homepage. 

Authored by Demetrious Bereolos, Library Specialist, West Campus

ARTstor and Black History Month 2013

 Jacob Lawrence | The Migration of the Negro, panel no. 3 | 1940 – 1941 |Image and original data provided by The Museum of Modern Art. © 2008 Estate of Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence / Artists  Rights Society (ARS), New York . ARTstor.

In celebration of Black History Month, one of our subscription resources, ARTstor, located on our website under the tab, Reference Shelf, has developed partnerships with various art museums and collections to provide access to art by and depicting African Americans. 

ARTstor’s partnership with Museum of Modern Art and the Phillips Gallery includes Jacob Lawrence’s complete series on the migration of many African Americans from the rural South to the urban North in the United States.  To see the full series with 139 images in ARTstor, simply search Jacob Lawrence Migration.

Milton Rogovin (right) from Loc.gov

Other special partnership collection offers 260 images from the Milton Rogovin: Social Documentary Photographs collection. http://library.artstor.org/library/collection/rogovin_milton

Milton Rogovin began his first photographic series in 1958 to document African-American storefront churches in Buffalo, NY, and would go on to photograph the working people and ethnic communities. Rogovin would continue his photography career with his work appearing in more than 160 journals, magazines, and other collections. 

Other upcoming artwork to appear in ARTstor in honor of Black History Month includes:

• 1000 images of paintings and collage materials by Romare Bearden.

• Artwork by artists of the African Diaspora produced after 1940 from the Mott-Warsh Collection that includes Jacob Lawrence, Ron Adams, Faith Ringold, Richard Yarde, and more. 

 To learn more about using ARTstor to explore African American studies, look at this subject guide in handout format by ARTstor http://www.artstor.org/using-artstor/u-pdf/sg_african-american.pdf

Textbooks in the Library

Did you know that the Library keeps the top 25 textbooks for their campus on reserve for student use?

Here’s how it works. The student fills out a short agreement form and presents his/her student ID card at the information desk. Students can use the textbook in the library for up to two hours at a time as many times as they like during the semester.  These books cannot be checked out.

We also have copy machines where copies can be made for 10 cents a page.  Copyright laws do apply.

Please check out our new Facebook page at http://facebook.com/tulsacclibrary. 

Authored by Tammy Thomason, Library Assistant II, Southeast Campus Library

EVERYTHING S.cience T.echnology E.ngineering and M.athematics!

Did you know there is a new research guide that lets you explore both academic and popular resources of the STEM related fields all in one place?  Some of its features include:

•  Daily RSS feeds to keep you up to date on what is happening in the various STEM fields

• Links to websites, videos, podcasts, tutorials, the employment outlook, and more

•  Featured TCC library resources, including electronic journals, books, e-books, and more

•  MLA and APA citation guide to help avoid plagiarism

• Contact information for Tulsa’s Fabrication Lab, to help you make your ideas become a reality

The S.T.E.M. research guide has many more resources!  Access it by visiting TCC’s library webpage at http://library.tulsacc.edu click on Research Guides, then Browse All Guides to find S.cience T.echnology E.ngineering and M.athematics.  

Authored by Andria Burton, Reference and Instruction Librarian 

 

Welcome Back! Resolve to read more this year

Whether you got an e-reader for Christmas or you prefer an old-fashioned book, resolving this year to read more has huge benefits for you. What are these benefits other than the obvious enjoyment?

1. Enhances intelligence. Those who read have higher GPAs, higher intelligence quotients and more general knowledge.

2. Reduces stress.

3. Gives greater tranquility.  Reading forces you to sit and be still.

4. Improves analytical thinking skills.

5. Increases your vocabulary and spelling.

6. Improves your memory; and hey, who doesn’t need that?

7. Improves writing skills.

8. Helps prioritize your goals.

If you’re worried about the cost of books, check them out at one of the TCC libraries or take advantage of the interlibrary loan system where you can check out almost any book on the planet! Challenge yourself to read at least one book a month. To get started go to library.tulsacc.edu

By Melanie Brennan, Library Assistant II

Read it before you see it & win a copy of The Hobbit

Book review on “The Hobbit” by Adam Brennan, TCC Librarian

I can still remember the first time I read J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” and followed Bilbo Baggins on his journey through the wilds of Middle Earth. Like so many before me, “The Hobbit” was my first forray into the fantasy genre and kindled an addiction to reading that lasts today. “The Hobbit” was a gateway book that led me to C. S Lewis, Robert Jordan, Robert E. Howard, Jack Vance and others.

Tolkien is an accomplished master of the High Fantasy epic (fantasy stories that revolve around defeating an evil to save the world), but you won’t find that in “The Hobbit.” Instead, you’ll find a traditional journey narrative along the likes of “The Odyssey.” The main protagonist Bilbo Baggins accompanies a band of fortune seeking dwarves along a string of adventures and proves to be an unlikely hero. 

It’s a light and fun book; perfect for the holiday season. Tolkien keeps the pacing quick and the adventure coming in this prequel to the “Lord of the Rings” series.

Check out The Hobbit today from the TCC library.  Click here to visit the catalog. 

Like the TCC Library on Facebook to find out how to win a copy of “The Hobbit.”  A copy will be given to one lucky winner.

Nobel Prize Winners and Library E- Resources

Nobel Prize Winners and Library E-Resources

Who are Brian Kobilka, Robert Lefkowitz, Alvin Roth, Lloyd Shapley and Mo Yan? What do they have in common. Two electronic resources (e-resources) at the TCC Library website can answer these questions.

All five are 2012 Nobel Prize winners, announced in October. Kobilka and Lefkowitz won the prize in chemistry. Roth and Shapley won the prize for economic sciences. Yan (the pseudonym for writer Guan Moye) won the prize in literature.

You can learn about the winners of the prize in chemistry and economic sciences at the Biography in Context database by Gale.

Kobilka and Lefkowitz studied how the human body uses protein receptors to sense outside conditions and sends messages to human cells.

Roth and Shapley’s work on market design and matching theory has helped matched marriage partners and has helped match doctors to hospitals, public schools to students, and organ donors to recipients.

Gale's Literature Criticism Online has a detailed biography of Yan, a novelist, and a critical view of his combination of magical realism with the graphic oppression and brutality of mid-20th Century village life in China.

You can access the Gale e-resources from the Library homepage (http://library.tulsacc.edu ) by clicking on the yellow Reference tab. (authored by Demetrius B. Images from Gale)