Closing early today

The NMCC Campus will close today,Monday, February 14, at 1:00 p.m. All Afternoon and Evening Classes are canceled, including Husson University Classes at NMCC.

Ebsco Scientific & Medical Images Database

Looking for scientific and medical images?  See our new Ebsco SMART imagebase.

SMART imagebase scientific and medical art will help you locate the images you need for your papers and presentations.

Try it out and give us your feedback.

New Database

Just added:  Ebsco Nursing Reference Center

Use it for your searches and let us know how you like it.   Need some help?  Contact a librarian.

Click here or visit the library page.

American Journal of Nursing / Book of the Year Awards 2010

The American Journal of Nursing produces a Book of the Year Awards list in their January issue.   This year they have selected many works to be included in the most valuable texts of 2010.  You can view them here  free online.  There are EPUB and PDF options.

To read the judges' descriptions, click here.

The librarians at NMCC review this list to locate new titles to add to the collection.  NMCC students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to submit their requests for new purchases to the library.

Stop by and see what's new in the nursing section.  We also have ebooks and many online nursing resources.

African American Read In February 11th @ noon

Take part in the African American Read-In on Friday, February 11, 2011 at noon in the library.  The program is informal.  You select a work (or section of a work if very long) to read aloud with fellow participants. The choice is yours: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, diary, etc.  Must be by an African American author.

Read your selection and tell the group why you selected it.

Want some help locating a selection?  Visit the library and see the display of works by African American authors.

If you would like to participate, contact NMCC instructor Jennifer Graham.   Prefer to sit in the audience and listen?  That's fine too.   Come and join us on Friday, February 11th at noon in the library.

Common Read for Spring Semester

Our common read for March is Choosing Civility.  We will have books available at the circ desk. Participants will read the book and then we'll meet in March (time/date to be announced) for a book discussion.

It is a wonderful book and raises some excellent issues and items for discussion.  What is civility? How would you define it?  What does it mean to be civil?   How can we improve how we interact with people in the world? Wouldn't it be a nicer world if we all practiced a bit more civility, understanding and showed respect for our fellow humans.

So, start reading and join us in March.  It's a guaranteed good read and we will all take away something useful.

Library Research Prize Awarded

The library sponsored the first research prize competition in the Fall 2010 semester.  Students were encouraged to submit their research papers (written for a course in Fall 2010) to be judged for this award.  Many wonderful papers were submitted and several judges were involved in the review process.  Special thanks to all students who submitted their work.  The prize is meant to encourage students to think about information literacy, research skills, and proper citation style.

Pam Dooner, NMCC Student and
Gail Roy, Assistant Dean of Learning Resources

Pam Dooner is the recipient of the Library Research Prize for her paper entitled, “Synesthesia: A colorful condition."

Pam is a first year liberal studies major at NMCC.  Pam selected her topic because she always had an interest in neurological disorders and synesthesia was of particular interest.  She is a student in Jennifer Graham’s English composition course.   Pam received a $100 gift certificate to the college bookstore.

She started her research with a Google search and read a Wikipedia article to obtain an overview of the topic.  She realized that she then needed to include scholarly works and to seriously evaluate her information sources.  She used a variety of library resources to seek out peer-reviewed literature and included books, journal articles, an MP3 lecture series, a movie and online sources in her bibliography.

Congratulations Pam!