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Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Introducing Open eBooks



"Today, the White House announced that the Open eBooks app to put ebooks in the hands of lower-income children and young adults aged 4-18, is up and running. The Open eBooks service to provide age appropriate reading materials, was developed in partnership with the Digital Public Library of America, the New York Public Library, FirstBook, and Baker & Taylor. With the app, the Open eBooks service can begin."
First Lady Michelle Obama released a video (1:02) explaining the initiative.

Friday, August 17, 2012

7 Ways College Students Can Gain an Edge on the Job Hunt - On Careers (usnews.com)

7 Ways College Students Can Gain an Edge on the Job Hunt - On Careers (usnews.com)

By Hannah Morgan




Whether you are entering your freshmen year or returning for your senior year, this checklist is mandatory reading and essential to your career development. As you know, competition for jobs after college is fierce, and a college degree no longer differentiates you like it used to. This list of seven action items will help you build the reputation necessary to stand out:

1. Inventory and document summer work experience and skills. No matter what your job was this summer, take time now to update your resume and LinkedIn profile. Be sure to quantify the results of what you accomplished during the projects you worked on. For example, instead of saying "Responsible for cataloging inventory," say "Accurately recorded and documented inventory easily accessible by all staff and saved hundreds of hours each month." If you don't know who benefited from your work and how, find out now, before too much time passes.


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Thursday, July 26, 2012

The Benefits of Faculty-Librarian Collaborations | Faculty Focus

The Benefits of Faculty-Librarian Collaborations | Faculty Focus

By: in Instructional Design July 16, 2012

Community College instructors have a great deal to teach: study skills, a college orientation to education, and the actual course information for their discipline. They also know that their students must be information literate, must know how to find supplementary information for each course, how to use information effectively, and how to credit their sources appropriately. In this regard, Washington State Community and Technical Colleges have been working under an LSTA grant on Information Literacy from 2008-2012 (Washington). Lower Columbia College libraries have been using the grant to integrate librarians or library tutorials into face-to-face and online classes, thereby offering information literacy instruction to students without increasing the teaching load of the discipline instructors. When incorporated with research assignments, this instruction, along with embedded librarians, facilitates both student learning and faculty grading of assignments. Read more...

Andrea Gillaspy-Steinhilper is a reference librarian at Lower Columbia College.
References:
“Business Administration subject guide.” (rev. 2011) Lower Columbia College Library Services. Retrieved May 2012 from http://lowercolumbia.edu/nr/exeres/9CC35863-7A1D-4F77-88D0-6E2E2F083DC9.
“Determining the level of scholarship, authorship, and audience of an article.” (2011). Lower Columbia College Library Services. Retrieved 29 June 2012 from https://lstahighlights.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/ppt_scholarly_v_popular.pdf.
GillaspySteinhilper, A. (Winter 2012). “Cancer and genetic mutations.” Tegrity Recording. Lower Columbia College Library Services. Retrieved 11 May 2012 from https://tegr.it/y/aom1.
Washington State Community and Technology Colleges LSTA Grant 2008-2012. (25 April 2012). Retrieved 11 May 2012 from http://informationliteracywactc.pbworks.com/w/page/19923193/FrontPage.
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