- Check out the Charlotte Campus’ new library website at Vernon Peeples Learning Resources Center!
- VPLRC will be celebrating Library Appreciation Month and National Library Week (April 12 – 18, 2009). This year’s theme is “Worlds connect @ your library ...Come celebrate with us on Terrific Tuesdays, April 14th (11:00 AM - 1:00 PM), for great giveaways and to create your very own bookmark. Visit the library and complete the library trivia quiz for the grand prize drawing at the “Stress-Relieving @ the Library” party for the campus community on Thursday, April 16th, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM.
- Children’s Network of Southwest Florida’s Heart Gallery exhibit will be in VPLRC from March 23rd to May 23rd.
- Cram Jam will be on Tuesday, April 21st. VPLRC will be open an extra hour to assist you, 7:30 AM - 10:00 PM.
- College Center for Library Automation (CCLA) has added four new databases: ArchiveGrid (OCLC), CAMIO (OCLC), OAIster via FirstSearch (OCLC), and Sources in U.S. History Online: Civil War (Gale). Click on the highlighted links for more information about these new additions.
Did You Know?
Edison State College Libraries offer invaluable tools to help with your information and researching needs. For assistance during after hours, Ask-A-Librarian is a perfect way to get your urgent questions answered. Ask a Librarian is a free online service that allows Floridians to chat live with a librarian for immediate assistance. A trained information professional can guide you to the answers you need in minutes rather than your wasting hours navigating hundreds of unhelpful and irrelevant web sites. More than 100 libraries statewide collaborate to provide this service to their patrons and the patrons of other participating libraries. Ask a Librarian is a joint project of the College Center for Library Automation and the Tampa Bay Library Consortium. Ask a Librarian is funded as part of the Florida Electronic Library by a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant.
Focus On…
The website of the month is the Florida Electronic Library. “The Florida Electronic Library is a gateway to select Internet resources that offers access to comprehensive, accurate, and reliable information. Available resources include electronic magazines, newspapers, almanacs, encyclopedias, and books, providing information on topics such as current events, education, business, technology, and health issues. The Florida Electronic Library offers information for all age groups, including homework help for students and resources for teachers. Electronic resources available through the Florida Electronic Library include:
- Florida on Florida, a comprehensive digital collection of Florida's history, culture, and environment made available from digital collections held by libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies throughout Florida.
- The Florida Memory Project which brings information from the State Library and Archives of Florida to homes and workplaces. This interactive Web site allows researchers, teachers, and students of all ages to access historically significant documents, photos, film clips, and audio clips any time, from any computer with Internet access, bringing Florida's rich history to life.
- FloridaCat, a comprehensive online catalog of all of Florida's library holdings.
- Florida's Ask a Librarian which provides live online reference assistance from Florida librarians.
These online databases and services are available free of charge to any Florida resident with a public library card, and can be accessed from any home, workplace, campus, or public library in Florida, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.”
VPLRC Quotable Quotes…
“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks about education.” ~Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education
