2013 Summer Tutorial/Computer Lab Schedule

By Lisa M. Rabey
Systems & Web Librarian

If you’re around campus a lot this summer, you may notice quite a bit of construction going on. While the library’s location and hours aren’t changing, there are various places around campus that will have temporary hours and locations.

Below is the summer schedule of all the labs on campus  as well as the the temporary summer locations of the ones that are being worked on.

If you have any questions, please contact the library and we’ll return your email within a business day.  Or if you’d like immediate assistance, give us a call instead.

The following Labs have been temporarily relocated for summer ONLY:

Language Arts Tutorial Lab- 2nd floor Library, Learning Center

Math, Calculus & Phys Sci Tutorial Lab – 2nd floor Library, Room 234, Learning Center

Math/English  (ASC) Computer Lab – 2nd floor Library, Room 235/236

Business/Accounting Tutorial Lab – ATC, Room 231

Health Sciences Resource and Tutorial Lab – Calkins Science, Room 103

Zombies On Campus This Friday

Zombies! Courtesy of Creative Commons.

By Lisa M. Rabey
Systems & Web Librarian

If you’re on campus this Friday, be on the lookout for zombies! The Campus Filmakers, a GRCC student organization, will be filming up at Sneden on Friday from 2PM – 8PM.  According to GRCC  Today, they wanted to give faculty, staff, and students a heads up, “as fake blood, body parts, etc. will be involved” while the students lurch across Sneden parking lot.

No volunteers are required or are being requested. It is also requested that those visiting the area be respectful of the film crew and actors while they are working.

If you aren’t prepared for the zombie apocalypse, there is no better time than the present to start! Below are links to information and sites to help you win the war against the undead.

• Center for Disease Control’s Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response has a site on to prepare for the zombie apocalypse
• History of zombies in Haitian folklore
• Zombies in fiction
• Zombiepedia
• Grand Rapids Zombie Dash

For even more resources, check out the zombie collections at the following libraries in the area:

• Zombies at GRCC Library
• Zombies at GRPL
• Zombies at KDL
• You can also obtain materials using MeLCat and have them shipped to GRCC Library or your home library.

May 4th: Free Comic Book Day

By Lisa M. Rabey
Systems & Web Librarian

If you’ve met me around campus or ended up in one of my classes, you probably already know I’m fairly passionate about comics and graphic novels. One my goals as an instructor and a librarian is to use sequential art not just as a teaching tool or use comics creatively but to ultimately inspire passion for comics in others.

For those reasons, and more, I’m always super excited about the advent of Free Comic Book Day every year. This is a great way to get others introduced into reading comics and to do so for free.  The world of comics can be completely overwhelming and FCBD is a great introduction into that world without getting overly lost.

How does it work? Simple. Every year FCBD organizers have a list of titles that will be given away by local comic book stores. You show up, ask for the titles, and tada! They are yours for free. Now not all titles are available all stores, so you may have to call yours and ask, but chances are pretty good you’ll get what you want.

Other awesome things is that depending on where you live, comic book stores will often have events, signings, and other fun programming happening during the day. In Grand Rapids, check out Argos Books, Apparitions, and Goldmine Comics to see what they have planned for Saturday.

If you’re not able to make it to FCBD this year, don’t panic! The library has you covered! We have:

• SubjectGuide on Graphic Novels with listing of blogs, conventions, websites, and other items worth checking out 
• A growing list of graphic novels in our collection
• We can get any graphic novel sent to you via MeL

If you have any questions or suggestions for titles we should have in our collection, please email me.

EBSCO Scheduled Maintenance, May 3 – 4

EBSCO will be performing scheduled maintenance from Friday, 3 May at 11:00 PM to Saturday, 4 May at 3:00 AM Eastern Time on our e-journal full-text access servers.

Direct access to articles from EBSCO’s linking services will be unavailable for the following list of publishers:

• National League for Nursing
• American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)
• Intellect Ltd
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press)
• College of Business and Public Affairs
• e-Med
• IUPAC
• NRC Research Press

Only articles from these eight publishers accessed via A-to-Z TOC Browse, EJS, or SmartLinks+ will be affected. These publishers account for only 80 of our more than 15,000 journals handled by our linking services, so the overall impact to your users should be minimal. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.

If you’re having problems accessing any databases after that time period, please contact the library and let us know what you were trying to do and what journals/databases you were trying to access.

New Monthly Titles: April 2013

By Lisa M. Rabey
Systems & Web Librarian

Below is a sampling of some of the new titles the library got in April. You can also see these, and much more, on Pinterest.