October 15th 20th

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Fun Fact
We get copies of every selection from Oprahs
Book Club, courtesy of Oprah and The American
Library Association!
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Fun Fact
Oprahs latest book is Say Youre One of Them by
Uwem Akpan
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Please
No Cell Phone Use During Library Classes. And
Please Put Your Phone on Vibrate in the
Reference Area.
And put phones he reference area Thanks!
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Students!!!!
We Need Your Help!
Please complete the Library Survey on the STCC
Student email page
Students who complete the survey will be
eligible for a 25 Barnes and Noble gift card.
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Welcome Back
Returning Students! Dont forget to update your
barcode for the Fall semester
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Joke Time
Ha Ha!

• Q How many reference librarians does it take to
  screw in a light bulb?

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Joke Time
Ha Ha!

• A I dont know, but if you give me your phone
  number, Ill get back to you.

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Library Quotable

• My alma mater was books, a good library.
• --Malcolm X

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Do You Know.

• What year did STCC open?
• A. 1967
• B. 1892
• C. 1976

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Do You Know.

• Answer
• A. 1967

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Students!!!!
We Need Your Help!
Please complete the Library Survey on the STCC
Student email page
Students who complete the survey will be
eligible for a 25 Barnes and Noble gift card.
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Librarians Portrayed in the Movies
Party Girl (1995) With Parker Posey
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Trivia Time

• The largest public library building
• in the United States is Chicagos
• Harold Washington Library Center.
• It measures 756,640 square feet and contains more
  than 70 miles of shelving!

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Library Quotable

• If truth is beauty, how come no one has their
  hair done in the library?
• --Lily Tomlin

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Do You Know.

• How many numbers in an STCC Library Barcode?
• A. 12
• B. 14
• C. 10

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Do You Know.

• Answer
• B. 14

Barcodes need to be updated every semester,
including summer session.
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Welcome Back
Returning Students! Dont forget to update your
barcode for the Fall semester
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Interested in Carpooling to School?
Interested in Carpooling to School?
Save Money! Save Gas! Save the Planet!
Send an email to carpool_at_stcc.edu for more
information
It's the Green Way to Go!
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Students!!!!
We Need Your Help!
Please complete the Library Survey on the STCC
Student email page
Students who complete the survey will be
eligible for a 25 Barnes and Noble gift card.
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Word Scramble
WEEDY ILMCDAE MSSTYE
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Word Scramblea
DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM
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Wow!!!

• The recent renovation project replaced 401
  windows in Building 27!

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Library Quotable

• Getting my library card was like citizenship it
  was like American citizenship.
• --Oprah Winfrey

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Have You Found Your Yet?
November is National cholarship Month
Check out the Librarys Guide to
Scholarships http//libguides.stcc.edu/scholarshi
ps
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Librarians Portrayed on Television
The Librarian II Return to King Solomons
Mines starring Noah Wyle and Gabrielle Anwar
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Have you heard the news?
Read Between the Pages, the STCC Librarys
Newsletter!
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Its November!

• Gobble Up a Good Book

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Students!!!!
We Need Your Help!
Please complete the Library Survey on the STCC
Student email page
Students who complete the survey will be
eligible for a 25 Barnes and Noble gift card.
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Be A Library Superhero!
Get Your Barcode Now!
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Do You Know.

• How many student computers are in the STCC
  Library Lab?
• A. 16
• B. 20
• C. 22

The Lab - Before
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Do You Know.

• Answer
• C. 22

The Lab - After
The lab opened in 2000.
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Trivia Time

• Famous Librarians
• include
• Casanova
• Batgirl
• Mao Tse Tung
• J. Edgar Hoover

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Librarians in Literature
The Librarian by Larry Beinhart . . . (a)
barn-burning political thriller complete with
recipes for how to steal a presidential election.
. . Kirkus Reviews
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Take A Look
Encyclopedias
Dictionaries
Biographies
Atlases
Its like have 400 Reference Books at your
fingertips!
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Fun with Barcodes

• All STCC Barcodes begin with the numbers 28132
• Some students actually memorize their barcodes!

28132000001234
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Librarians Portrayed in the Movies
Desk Set (1957) Featuring Katherine Hepburn
and Spencer Tracy
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We blog. . .
Do You blog?
Library news, notes, happenings, and even the
occasional joke at http//library.stcc.edu/blogge
r/blogger.html
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Students!!!!
We Need Your Help!
Please complete the Library Survey on the STCC
Student email page
Students who complete the survey will be
eligible for a 25 Barnes and Noble gift card.
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Library Quotable

• You see, I don't believe that libraries should be
  drab places where people sit in silence, and
  that's been the main reason for our policy of
  employing wild animals as librarians.
• --Monty Python sketch

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No Matter Your Major. . .
Theres a Library Research Guide for You!

• Nursing
• Civil Engineering
• Landscape Design
• Dental Hygiene
• Business
• Law Enforcement
• Physical Therapy
• Graphic Arts
• And more!

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Librarians in Literature
The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey
Niffenegger The story of Henry de Tamble, a
librarian with chrono-displacement
disorder The Time Traveler's Wife is a very old
love story wonky, sexy, incredible... but
charmingly, inventively retold.'The Times
(London)
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Did you Know?

• There are six laptops available at the
  Circulation Desk for students to use in the
  library!

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Trivia Time

• The tallest academic library building in the
  world is the W.E.B. Dubois Library at the
  University of Massachusetts in Amherst. It is 28
  stories tall and measures 295 feet.

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Amazing Fact
C/W MARS has more than 140 member libraries and
loans more than 9 million items annually!
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Librarians Portrayed in the Movies
Music Man (1962) starring Robert Preston and
featuring Shirley Jones as Marian the Librarian
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Do You Know.

• What is the name of the librarys pet fish?
• A. Luki
• B. Dewey
• C. Mr. Limpit

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Do You Know.

• Answer
• Luki
• (pronounced loo-kee)
• Our former fish, Neo, went to the great fish bowl
  in the sky in 2008

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Joke Time
Ha Ha!
Ha Ha!

• Q Why are there no books in the Prague Library?
  

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Joke Time
Ha Ha!

• A Theyre all Czech-ed out!

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Students!!!!
We Need Your Help!
Please complete the Library Survey on the STCC
Student email page
Students who complete the survey will be
eligible for a 25 Barnes and Noble gift card.
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Please
No Cell Phone Use During Library Classes. And
Please Put Your Phone on Vibrate in the
Reference Area.
And put phones on vibrate in the reference
area Thanks!
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November is
Peanut Butter Lovers Month
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Librarians in Music
-2008- Louisville band My Morning Jacket
releases the song Librarian on their album
Evil Urges
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Word Scramble
LACL BNMUER
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Word Scramble
CALL NUMBER
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Library Quotable

• "You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges
  are not going to do any good unless you are
  raised and live in a library every day of your
  life.
• Ray Bradbury

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Amazing Fact
The Library of Congress is the largest library in
the world and contains more than 120 million
items!
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Follow us on Twitter
twitter.com/stcclibrary
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Do You Know.

• For how long do videos circulate?
• A. One Week
• B. Two Days
• C. They dont

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Do You Know.

• Answer
• B. Two Days

However, if you borrow a video on Thursday or
Friday, it isnt due til the following Monday.
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Learn Chinese LibraryTushugan Lucky
Numbers 23, 16, 7, 8, 42
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All the Best Nursing Students
Use CINAHL with Full Text Its like VITamins
for your research paper
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Library Quotable

• The library has always been. . .a place where
  weve come to discover big ideas and profound
  concepts that help move the American story
  forward
• -- President Barack Obama

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Do You Know.

• How are most of the books in the library
  organized?
• A. By Title
• B. By Color
• C. By Subject

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Do You Know.

• Answer
• C. By Subject

Each call number is associated with a particular
subject. For example, a call number beginning
with N is a book about art or artists.
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Students!!!!
We Need Your Help!
Please complete the Library Survey on the STCC
Student email page
Students who complete the survey will be
eligible for a 25 Barnes and Noble gift card.
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360 Search
I command you to use 360 Search! Its like magic,
only better!
With 360 Search, you can search all the librarys
databases, including the catalog, at once!
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Librarians Portrayed on Television
Rupert Giles (played by Anthony Stewart Head)
from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Congratulations to the STCC Mens Basketball
Team, Massachusetts Community College Athletic
Conference Champions in 2008!
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Word Scramble
ECFENERRE OOBK
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Word Scramble
REFERENCE BOOK
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Library Quotable

• I always tell people that I became a writer not
  because I went to school but because my mother
  took me to the library.
• -- Sandra Cisneros

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Follow us on Twitter
twitter.com/stcclibrary
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Do You Know.

• Who is the President of STCC?
• A. Samuel Bowles
• B. Ira Rubenzahl
• C. Theodore Geisel

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Do You Know.

• Answer
• B. Ira Rubenzahl

Dr. Rubenzahl was named President in July, 2004.
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Got Some
Leisure Time?
Try the Librarys paperback collection! Its
relaxing!!