E-book Nation

Films on Demand now available on the Mott Library “Online Resources” page

The Mott Library now has a link for Films on Demand on the Online Resources page.  The database is available to all current students, faculty and staff.

Films on Demand is a comprehensive collection of high-quality educational videos licensed from a long established educational media distributor.  More than 8000 videos cover a wide range of topics organized into multiple broad subjects.

Be sure to set up a user account in Films on Demand to take advantage of all the features offered by this database like

• creating and sharing playlists,
• saving your favorite videos for quick access, and
• setting your default preferences.

Just  follow the “Create an Account” link at the topright corner of the initial page of Films On Demand, enter your MCC email and create a password.

About half of the titles in the collection have closed-captioning.  Toggle on/off closed captioning in the upper right corner of the video player window.  Use the Advanced Search function to limit search results to titles with closed-captioning.

 

May is Mental Health Month and National Physical Fitness and Sports Month

The Mott Library has a wide variety of resources that cover Mental Health and Physical Fitness issues.  These resources great for student college research papers and individuals looking for information on aspects pertaining to their lives.

Mott Library Book Catalog
The Mott Library has a wide variety of books that cover many aspects of Mental Health and Physical Fitness.  Sample searches:

• Exercise
• Physical Fitness
• Mental Illness
• Parent and Child
• Sex

Magazine, Journal articles and ebooks
Current MCC students, faculty and staff can access a rich and diverse variety of articles from magazines, scholarly journals and reference books from the online databases found in the “Online Resources” section of the Mott Library webpage. Several databases of note:

• ebrary This collection of 28,000 full-text ebooks covering a wide range of academic subjects. Search ebrary on the topics of mental illness, depression, women and sports, exercise, body building or physical fitness and find several hundred titles.
• Academic Search Complete ASC provides users with a good balance of popular and scholarly titles from all disciplines. A search for physical fitness or mental health locates many full text articles.
• CINAHL Cumlative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature is a great database to locate a wide variety of journal articles covering topics concerning Mental Health and Physical Fitness.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library GVRL is a collection of online reference books. Included in the collection is a wide variety of specialized encyclopedias covering physical fitness and mental health issues.
• Health: CPR, First Aid, Responding to Emergencies LibGuide

Internet Resources

• Mental Health Month 2012
• National Institute of Mental Health
• Get Moving America:  May is National Fitness Month
• Let’s Move dot Gov

Trivia Game Winner and Answers

Thanks to everyone who played the Mott Library Trivia Game last week! The winner of the $25 bookstore gift certificate is: James Bowns

Trivia Game Answers:
1. What is one of the quietest student spaces on campus?
97.9% of respondents choose the correct answer – Mott Library’s second floor

2. Does Mott Library own more printed books or more e-books?
66.7% selected the right answer – printed books
Mott Library has about 80,000 printed books and access to approximately 40,000 e-books in ebrary, EBSCOhost, and Gale Virtual Reference Library. We expect number of e-books to increase over the next five years, but cannot predict when the number of e-books will equal or exceed the number of printed books in our collection.

3. What can you do at the Mott Library?
This was a trick question – all of the answers were correct. 93.8% of respondents selected “all of the above”.

4. How many hours per week is Mott Library open during winter term?
This was an even trickier question! The library building is open 71 hours per week, and our website is available 24/7 for a total of 168 hours a week. 50% of respondents choose 71 hours per week and 20.8% of respondents choose both 71 and 168 hours per week.

5. What is coming soon to the Mott Library?
27.1% of respondents selected the right answer – streaming video. The library will be adding a subscription to Films on Demand by the end of the month. A majority of respondents, 64.6%, selected fiction e-books. While we have access to lots of academic, non-fiction e-books, we don’t have fiction e-books yet. We are giving that some consideration!

Thanks for playing our game and for participating in National Library Week!

Celebrate National Library Week at the Mott Library

April 8-14, campuses and communities across the country celebrate National Library Week, a time to reflect on the contributions libraries, librarians and library workers make to their communities every day.

Today’s libraries help level the playing field by making both print and digital information affordable, available, and accessible to all people. The strength of libraries has always been the diversity of their collections and commitment to serving all people. This National Library Week, join our nation’s libraries and librarians by celebrating the place where we all belong.

Here are just a few of the things you can do this week at the Mott Library:

• Explore the Jacob Lawrence exhibition about the Legend of John Brown
• Play the Mott Library trivia game and have a chance to win a $25 bookstore gift certificate
• Stop by the circulation desk for candy and colorful bookmarks
• Thank the librarian who helped you find resources for your assignment
• Check out a book, read a magazine, access our online resources, use the computers, study, relax, and more!

National Library Week is the perfect time to remember that you belong at @ your library!

Mott Library Hosts Jacob Lawrence Traveling Exhibition in April

The Mott Library is hosting a traveling exhibition featuring Jacob Lawrence’s series of silkscreen prints, The Legend of John Brown, Monday, April 2 through Sunday, April 29. The exhibition is free and open to the public and can be viewed during the library’s regular hours: Monday-Thursday from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Saturday-Sunday 12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m. The library will be closed Sunday, April 8.

The display includes digitized images and descriptive text that tell the story of the abolitionist fighter John Brown. The display does not include original works of art. The original prints are owned by the Wayne State University Art Collection and reside on the 2nd floor of the David Adamany Undergraduate Library at Wayne State. Wayne State created the traveling exhibition to bring one of the university’s unique cultural resources to Michigan libraries and other non-profit organizations.

Lawrence created The Legend of John Brown prints in 1977, basing them on paintings he created in 1941. The original paintings were in fragile condition and in storage in a museum. By creating prints of his original paintings, Lawrence was able to make the work available to a wider audience. You can view an online exhibition of the prints digitized by the Washington State Art Collection.

Lawrence was born in 1917 in New Jersey and moved to New York City in his early teens. He attended classes at the Harlem Art Workshop and the American Artists School and was influenced by numerous Harlem Renaissance artists. His art work was first exhibited in major museums while he was still in his twenties. Lawrence used the visual arts to tell stories about important historic events. He lived, painted, and taught in New York City until 1971, when he moved to Seattle to join the faculty of the University of Washington. He died in Seattle in 2000, at age 83.

Learn more about Jacob Lawrence and John Brown from the Mott Library collection:

• The Complete Jacob Lawrence (2000) by Peter T. Nesbett
• Jacob Lawrence : thirty years of prints, 1963-1993 : a catalogue raisonne (1994) by Jacob Lawrence
• Jacob Lawrence, American painter (1986) by Ellen Harkins Wheat
• The Great migration : an American story (1993) by Jacob Lawrence
• Harriet and the Promised Land (1993) by Jacob Lawrence
• John Brown : one man against slavery (1993) by Gwen Everett and Jacob Lawrence
• Find articles about Jacob Lawrence or John Brown in Academic Search Complete or JSTOR
• Find books about John Brown in the Mott Library collection
• Find e-books about John Brown and other abolitionists in ebrary

March is Women’s History Month

Women’s History Month Resources at the Mott Library.
March is Women’s History Month. The theme for 2012 is Women’s Education-Women’s Empowerment. The National Women’s History Month Project explains that although “women’s history is intertwined with the history shared with men, several factors – social, religious, economic, and biological – have worked to create a unique sphere of women’s history. The stories of women’s achievements are integral to the fabric our history. Learning about women’s tenacity, courage, and creativity throughout the centuries is a tremendous source of strength”.

“If you want the rainbow, you’ve got to put up with the rain.” ~ Dolly Parton

Mott Library Book Catalog
The Mott Library has a wide variety of books that cover many aspects of Women’s History. When you initially search the Library Catalog you only search the Mott Library. Using the drop down menu next to “library” you can choose to search the Baker College Library and the Kettering University Library and have the books sent to the Mott Library. Sample searches:

Women’s History

Suffrage

Women’s Biographies

Magazine, Journal articles and ebooks
Current MCC students, faculty and staff can access a rich and diverse variety of articles from magazines, scholarly journals and reference books from the online databases found in the “Online Resources” section of the Mott Library webpage.
Several databases of note:
ebrary This collection of 28,000 full-text ebooks covering a wide range of academic subjects. Search ebrary on the topics of women and education, women and employment or women’s history and find several hundred titles.
JSTOR (Journal Storage) Beyond the 25 journals covering women and feminist studies, 1000s of articles can be found in JSTOR, covering many aspects of women’s history.
Academic Search Complete ASC provides users with a good balance of popular and scholarly titles from all disciplines. A search for women’s history locates many full text articles.
Gale Virtual Reference Library GVRL is a collection of online reference books. Included in the collection is the 17 volume set of Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia.

Internet Resources

Women’s History Month from the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian

Women’s History Month from the New York Public Library

United Nations Women Watch

The National Women’s History Project

Mott Library closed during Spring Break, March 12-16

The Mott Library building will be CLOSED to the public during Spring Break, Monday-Friday, March 12-16, to complete some construction.

Mott Library’s online resources are available anytime, anywhere you have a computer and an Internet connection. If you do not have a computer or Internet access at home, contact the Flint Public Library or the Genesee District Library to learn about their computer and Internet services and policies.

Even though the Mott Library building is closed to the public, the library staff will be working from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. You can get help with library resources and services by calling or emailing the library.

Call 762-0411 to

• Ask questions about library resources
• Get help researching a topic
• Get help logging in to online resources from off campus

Call 762-0403 to

• Renew items you have currently checked out
• Inquire about fines and fees you may have
• Place a hold on a specific book
• Find out how to request materials from other libraries
• Find out if your MeLCat or Intraloan items have arrived

Email library@mcc.edu and we will route your question to the appropriate library staff member.

The library drop boxes will be open so you can return library materials. Drop boxes are located in parking Lot A on the sidewalk nearest the library entrance and on the library building’s porch to the right of the library entrance doors.

March 12-16, you will NOT be able to:

• Check out library materials
• Checkout, view, or listen to Course Reserve materials
• Pick up MeLCat or Intraloan materials
• Use the library computers
• Study in the building

The library will be open noon to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday March 10-11 and 17-18. Check our website for more information about library hours.

For information about other departments in the library building, contact them directly:
Testing Center, 762-0406
UM-Flint Transfer Office, 232-2851
Honors Office, 762-0361
Center for Teaching and Learning, 762-5623

African American History Month Resources at the Mott Library

February is African American History Month. African American History Month commemorates the struggles and triumphs of African-Americans in the United States of America. It offers a chance to reflect on the history of the African American Experience, and celebrate the contributions of African Americans. Below are selected resources from the Mott College Library on the topic of Black History.

Mott Library Book Catalog
The Mott Library has a wide variety of books that cover many aspects of the African American experience. When you initially search the Library Catalog you only search the Mott Library. Using the drop down menu next to “library” you can choose to search the Baker College Library and the Kettering University Library and have the books sent to the Mott Library. Sample searches:
African American History
Black History
Racism

Magazine, Journal articles and ebooks
Current MCC students, faculty and staff can access a rich and diverse variety of articles from magazines, scholarly journals and reference books from the online databases found in the “Online Resources” section of the Mott Library webpage.
Several databases of note:
ebrary This collection of 28,000 full-text ebooks covering a wide range of academic subjects. Search ebrary on the topics of racism, civil rights, and African Americans and find over 500 titles.
JSTOR (Journal Storage) Fascinating is a great word to use when describing JSTOR. The database contains a collection of scholarly journals from a variety of disciplines and includes coverage back to the 1600s. A search for African American History locates over 180,000 full text articles.
Academic Search Complete ASC provides users with a good balance of popular and scholarly titles from all disciplines. A search for African American History locates almost 10,000 full text articles.
Gale Virtual Reference Library GVRL is a collection of online reference books. Included in the collection is the 51 volume set of Contemporary Black Biography.

Internet Resources
African American History Month from the Library of Congress
Black History Month from The History Channel
Black History Teaching Resources from the Smithsonian
Black History Month from Gale Resources

Faculty Update: What’s new at the library?

Dear Faculty,
Happy New Year! The Mott Library staff welcomes you back to campus. There is something beautiful about the beginning of a new semester. The youth and vigor of the returning students reminds us all why we are part of the educational process. Below are some updates on services at the Mott College Library.

• Children’s Literature Review (CLR) and Something About the Author (SATA) are now available in an e-book format under the Online Resources tab on the Mott Library’s webpage. CLR contains reviews, criticism and commentary on books for children and young adults. SATA provides illustrated biographical profiles of children’s authors and illustrators. Both databases contain full-text and can be accessed on and off campus. Read more about these resources on the Mott Library blog.
• ebrary, a collection of over 28,000 digital books, recently made it possible to download digital books to your Kindle, Nook, or iPad. For more information about downloading ebrary books, check out the Mott Library blog.
• If you have not had an opportunity to respond to the library survey, please do so before February 13. Your responses will help us plan for the future, and we appreciate your participation.
• The library building will be closed during Spring Break, March 12-16, to expedite some building work. Students will have access to online resources and can call or email the library for research help or to renew books. More information about the closure will be posted soon.

Please let us know if you have any questions, ideas, or comments about library services and resources.