National Library Week - Celebrate April 12-18, 2009

National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the United States of America each April, typically the second full week. Which include all types of libraries - school, public, academic and special - participate.

National Library Week 2009 will be celebrated with the theme, "Worlds connect @ your library."

Gale is also offering A Business Resources Widget:

Get your Green on @ The Library!

The library is sponsoring two fun events to celebrate Earth Day, a recycled art project and a writing contest.

Attention Writers!
Anne Springs Close Library is challenging you to a writing contest!

Guidelines for the writing contest:

• Any person enrolled in at least one class can enter their written work.


• The written work can be about anything that pertains to the environment.
  For example, how we can help or the state the environment is in today.


• Bodies of work can be Poems, short stories, essays etc.


• The deadline for submission is April 20, 2009

In collaboration with Earth day by displaying original recycled works of art in the Anne Springs Close Library. The Library Club is encouraging students and faculty to submit their own works.

Guidelines for the art:

• Works must be made from recycled materials


• For ideas please visit the following websites
  http://www.brighthub.com/environment/green-living/articles/18894.aspx
  OR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXR67U142Zs


• Participation prizes will be given
  Items will be on display from January 7th - April 22nd

The recycled art project is open to the campus community, and artwork can be submitted any time and will be on display until April 22.

Support the four R’s-
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and READ!

A new blog! One Book, One Community!

The"One Book, One Community" reading event has started at York Tech with the book "Last Night at the Lobster" by Stuart O'Nan. The book tells the story of the manager and workers at a Red Lobster restaurant that is going to shut down that night.
The "One Book One Community" program is an American Library Association (ALA) Public Program initiative. "Librarians are putting together incredible ‘One Book, One Community’ programs that bring attention to libraries and the value of reading and book discussion programs. ” said ALA Executive Director Keith Michael Fiels.

Get involved! Read the book and check out York Tech's "One Book One Community" blog @ http://ytonebook.blogspot.com/ to leave your comments about the book!

Gaming @ the Library

Help us celebrate Gaming Day, sponsored by the American Library Association, on Thursday, November 13 at the library. Join us in Room L113 anytime between 8 am and 5 pm for board games, tabletop games, and card games, and you can even sign up for a tournament in Magic the Gathering! See you there!

New Database Trial Available!

Please check out our trial to the JSTOR database!
JSTOR is a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive database that has preserved over one thousand academic journals in both digital and print formats. It continues to greatly expand access to scholarly works and other materials needed for global research and teaching.
This trial will be available through November. Please go to the library website and click on the JSTOR link on the main page or the trial link on the "Articles" page.
If you like this database, let us know!

Anne Springs Close Library presents Shays' Rebellion and Constitution Day!

Sept. 17, 2008, Room L-113
Stop By anytime between 9 am and 9 pm
Historical Re-enactment at 11:15 am and 2:15 pm
Come by the library to celebrate Constitution Day as well as learn about a new website that covers one of America’s historical revolutions, Shays’ Rebellion. The Library will be hosting a fun and educational event that includes the launch of the Shays’ Rebellion website, re-enactments by English instructor Martha Macdonald, handouts, displays, and refreshments.

Shays' Rebellion

Preserving PASCAL Services

Have any of you ever used one of the library’s online databases? Or received items through interlibrary loan? Chances are if you have, you have used one of the many services available through PASCAL, the Partnership Among South Carolina Libraries, a statewide academic library consortium. Due to the budget cuts in the SC legislature, funding for these resources has been drastically cut, and we are in danger of losing them. To read more, go to this link.

Help us save PASCAL! If you would like to tell us how PASCAL has helped you, click here to fill out a feedback form.