Wednesday, December 02, 2009

New Paperbacks in the Library

The WOO-WOO Factor
Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse -- The third book in Stephenie Meyer's best selling vampire love saga

Charlaine Harris -- Four more entries into the Sookie Stackhouse Series – for true blue True Blood fans!
Dead Until Dark (#1)
Club Dead (#3)
Dead to the World (#4)
Dead as a Doornail (#5) “
Already in the paperback collection:
Living Dead in Dallas #2
From Dead to Worse #8
Definitely Dead #6

Other Vamps and things, oh my!

Charlie Huston -- My Dead Body
T. A. Pratt -- Spell Games
The Tarot Café: The Wild Hunt -- based on the Manga best-seller
Art by Sang-Sun Park, Story by Chandra Rooney
Lynsay Sands -- The Rogue Hunter
Already in the paperback collection:
Devil Of The Highlands
The Immortal Hunter
Vampire, Interrupted
Vampires Are Forever

Dean Koontz --  Frankenstein: Dead and Alive – Book 3

Classic Horror Tales inspired by the work of H.G. Lovecraft
Lovecraft Unbound
Already in the paperback collection:
The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft: Dreams Of Terror And Death
Graphic Classics: H.P. Lovecraft

SF/Fantasy
Susan Kearney--Lucan: The Pendragon Legacy
Already in the paperback collection:
Ultimatum

J. D. Robb -- Promises in Death
Already in the paperback collection:
Origin in Death
Three in Death

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

The Academic Support Center will be open for tutoring in Math, ESL, Reading & Study Skills, and Writing

SATURDAYS---10:00am - 2:00pm

October 24th & 31st


November 7th, 14th & 21st

December 5th, 12th & 19th*
Tutoring will be held at the Science Tutorial/ SCI 219 on all dates EXCEPT on 12/19/09 tutoring will be held at the ASC/ Library G-31

The Science Tutorial will remain open from 10:00am—2:00pm on Saturdays.

(Closed on Saturday November, 28th for Thanksgiving)

Please, encourage your students to come.

October 24th & 31st

November 7th, 14th & 21st

December 5th, 12th & 19th*



Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Placement Testing Schedule - 2010

Click on the link below for the Spring 2010 placement testing schedule


FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, VISIT THE TESTING CENTER WEBSITE: www.sunywcc.edu/testingcenter

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Student Experience Survey

ATTENTION STUDENTS!! --
You  have the opportunity to voice your opinions regarding the renovation
and redesign of the Student Center. 
TAKE THE SURVEY BELOW--BE INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=sh_2fLpXsVR9CBffucSGSp5g_3d_3d

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

New Paperbacks in the Library

In Memoriam

Michael Jackson -- A Tribute to an American Icon

Romance
Andersen, Susan-- Bending the Rules

Michaels, Kasey-- How to Tempt a Duke
     Also in the collection: A Gentleman by Any Other Name
     The Kissing Game
     Beware of Virtuous Women

Quinn, Julia --What Happens in London
     Also in the collection: When He Was Wicked
     The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever
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Roberts, Nora The MacKade Brothers: Devin & Shane
     Also in the collection: 61 - Too many to list!!

Rogers, Rosemary-- Bound By Love
     Also in the collection: In Your ARms

Mystery/Thriller
Brant, Kylie --Waking Nightmare
     Also in the collection: Mindhunters

Coulter, Catherine-- Tailspin
     Also in the collection: 16- Too many to list!!

Sawhney, Hirsh, ed.-- Dehli Noir
     Also in the collection: Havana Noir
     San Francisco Noir 2

A Bit of History with your Mystery and/or Romance
Shaffer, Mary Ann and Annie Barrows-- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Bell, Ted-- Tsar
The Paranormal, Shamans, The Undead, and the Dead
Barant, D D-- Dying Bites

Feehan, Christine-- Hidden Currents
     Also in the collection: 8- Too many to list!!

Harris, Charlaine-- Dead as a Doornail  Another Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood) offering
     Also in the collection: 6 - Too many to list!!

Kearney, Susan Lucan - The Pendragon Legacy
     Also in the collection: The Ultimatum

Gischler, Victor --Vampire a Go-Go

Lebbon, Tim--Bar None
     Also in the collection: Berserk

Murphy, C. E. Walking Dead
     Also in the collection:  Heart of Stone
     Thunderbird Falls

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

BANNED BOOK WEEK

Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read
September 26−October 3, 2009

Source: ala.org
Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.

Intellectual freedom—the freedom to access information and express ideas, even if the information and ideas might be considered unorthodox or unpopular—provides the foundation for Banned Books Week. BBW stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints for all who wish to read and access them.

The books featured during Banned Books Week 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. Imagine how many more books might be challenged—and possibly banned or restricted—if librarians, teachers, and booksellers across the country did not use Banned Books Week each year to teach the importance of our First Amendment rights and the power of literature, and to draw attention to the danger that exists when restraints are imposed on the availability of information in a free society.

Banned Books Week is sponsored by the American Booksellers Association; American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression; the American Library Association; American Society of Journalists and Authors; Association of American Publishers; and the National Association of College Stores. It is endorsed by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Library Services for all WCC Employees

Free Research Service to all WCC Employees

Searching for information on a new course, curriculum or research project?

Working on your doctoral dissertation or master thesis?

Making a speech or presentation of any kind?

Publishing?

Free Interlibrary Loan Service to all WCC employees.

Resources that are not available at the WCC Library can be requested through this nationwide online service

Both services can be accessed online through the Library homepage at www.sunywcc.edu/library

Or Contact
Una Shih
Professor/Librarian
Research and Interlibrary Loan
Harold L. Drimmer Library, Room 207
Westchester Community College
75 Grasslands Road
Valhalla, New York 10595
(914) 606-6573