present: Art Show!

March 27 through May 2, 2008

The works are now on display throughout the GTCC Jamestown Learning Resource Center. Come by and take a leisurely tour.

Art is by GTCC curriculum and continuing education students, employees, retirees, and alumni.

Dr. Lee Kinard's history of GTCC about to be released.

Here is the press release

JT Lunch and Learn Opportunity-Sponsored by Learning Resources

When: Wednesday, 3/19 at 12:00 PM.

Where: Learning Resource Center, Rm. 202.

What: Citations: Easy and Fast!

Professional Development Credit available for this workshop.

Learn about the latest tools for creating APA and MLA citations faster, easier, and more accurately than you ever thought possible. This 30 minute session will cover:
- citing with Word 2007 - the good and the bad
- using citation machines
- creating pre-formatted citations in periodical databases
- different interpretations of how to cite electronic resources

Presenter: Ms. Kristen Moore

High Point Lunch and Learn Opportunity-Sponsored by Learning Resources

HP LRC Lunch and Learn Opportunity

The next LRC Lunch-n-Learn session will be March 19th in the LRC (H4, room 216) from noon to 12:30 p.m. Participants will receive Staff Development credit for their involvement. Session participants must provide his or her own lunch.

The topic is Learning Express: Online Practice Tests and Tutorial Courses. Learning Express is a comprehensive, interactive online database of practice tests and tutorial courses designed to help students and adult learners succeed on academic or licensing tests. Users receive immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of their results.

During this 30 minute session, Anders Selhorst, the HP Campus Librarian, will cover:
• How to access LearningExpress via the library Web site and remotely
• How to set up a username and password
• An overview of the topics/subjects covered in the database, including TOEFL, GED, SAT, and others

For further information please contact Anders Selhorst:
• LRC hours: 8 a.m. to 12 p.m., and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
• Email: abselhorst@gtcc.edu
• Phone: ext. 4112

Gene Roberts at UNCG

Friends of the UNCG Libraries Annual Dinner is April 16

Gene Roberts is the speaker, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book titled The Race Beat. All are welcome. The $10 tickets to hear the speaker (and not attend the dinner) might be very appealing to to those who are interested in this topic.

Lunch and Learn at the Greensboro Campus

Lunch and Learn Opportunity-First ever at the Greensboro Campus!

What: Proquest Career and Technical Education Database
What is a database, and why would I care? In library land, and for the purpose of this Lunch'N'Learn, it means a large collection of trade, academic, and general magazines with copyrighted articles in their complete form, unavailable via the general Internet (unless you pay) but available to you free through your library.

Where-Greensboro Campus, Technical Education Building (TEC), Room 123, for the presentation, followed by lunch in TEC 130 :)

When-Friday, 3/14-Program to start at 11:30, followed by lunch

What will be covered - This Lunch and Learn Opportunity will cover use of the ProQuest Career and Technical Education Database, a database designed with community college students and faculty in mind, especially those working in a trade field.

Topics to be covered include:
*Accessing the database.
*Conducting Basic, Advanced, Subject Browse, and Publications Searches.
*Use of the Set-Up Alert feature.
*Use of the Cite This feature.
*Use of the Email Results feature.

Presenter-Keith Burkhead, Greensboro Campus Librarian

Sponsored by Learning Resources/and your GTCC library

Library News

Read the latest news about the GTCC Library in the Spring 2008 edition of our semesterly newsletter. Find out about:
- the GTCC archives
- our newest online resource
- how to become a Friend of the Library
- and more!

Faculty Requests Have Picked Up

- Faculty Requests
Our efforts to encourage faculty to submit requests for needed library resources are paying off, especially the 2006-2007 fund allocation whereby we allotted $700 of book budget funds to each dept. Each of the most recent years has seen steady increases in the number of faculty requests, specifically:

2006-2007 - 135 requests (as of only Feb. 2007)
2005-2006 - 101 requests
2004-2005 - 75 requests
2003-2004 - 30 requests

- The time between placing an order for an item and when that item is processed and ready averages about 11 days (this includes a time lapse for back-ordered items, so in daily practice it's actually faster than that).

Not bad considering that in 2002 the average was 74 days (of course this was before we started using CatExpress for copy cataloging). That means we now process items 84% faster than five years ago!