News & Events
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Get Into Reading!
This Fall's Get Into Reading book has been selected! Join West Campus students faculty & staff in reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Check out the web site!
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New Library signage is here!
West campus library has new directional signage and exciting new digital displays at the CAL sign-in desk and the Information Desk. |
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ARCHIVES |
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Rosetta Stone now available in CAL Lab. Rosetta Stone is used by schools, colleges, businesses, government agencies and individuals to teach and learn second languages. Find out more about the product at www.rosettastone.com.
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WC Library Celebrates 1st Ever Ask a Librarian Day. Ask a Librarian offers online access to research help from professional librarians through Live Chat and E-mail services. Librarians wore "Ask Me About Askalibrarian.org" t-shirts and promoted the service through a game and prize.
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Valencia offers 3-credit hybrid Library course. This course taught students how to search VCC Library Databases, library catalog, and improve your web search skills.
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Get Into Reading!
The Spring 2009 all-West Campus read was Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston. See the Spring 2009 Get Into Reading web site for details.
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Joshua Kane performs Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Terror Kane performs dramatic readings from such tales as The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, Hop-Frog, The Masque of the Red Death and more! For more information, see http://www.joshuakane.com/recitals/recitals_terror.htm
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| Fall 2008 |
Get Into Reading! The Fall 2008 Get Into Reading campus read was The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, by Mark Haddon. See the Fall 2008 Get Into Reading web site for details.
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Visions & Voices Poet David Whyte! West Campus Library proudly hosted poet David Whyte on Thursday, October 23, 2008 as part of Valencia's Visions & Voices Distinguished Artist series.
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New West Campus Library Homepage! The West Campus Library homepage was updated this Summer with a colorful new look. Enhanced features including a new quick catalog search and one-click access to 10 popular databases make library resources more accessible.
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EBSCO Databases Get a New Look. The new EBSCOhost interface was implemented in all of the library's EBSCOhost databases. Flash demonstration of the new interface.
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| Spring 2008 |
| Library Hosts Get Into Reading Guest Speaker - Judge Emerson R. Thompson, Jr. discussed connections between Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and issues of race, gender and economic status in today's society with a room full of West Campus students on Thursday, March 13. The event was a perfect capstone to discussions of the classic novel held over the past several weeks as part of the Get Into Reading program. |
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| Get Into Reading partners with OCLS for The Big Read 2008: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
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| EIGHT statewide, PLUS an additional NINE New Valencia-Only e-Resources effective January 1, 2008! New resources included Academic Search Complete, African-American Experience, Biography Collection Complete, Business Source Complete, COIN Career Library, ARTstor, Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society, Points of View Reference Center, Literary Reference Center, MEDLINE with Full Text, Nursing and Allied Health Database, Nursing Reference Center and MORE! Resources funded statewide for the first time include Education Research Complete and Science Resource Center. |
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| Fall 2007 |
| West Campus Gets Into Reading! West & Winter Park Campus Libraries, Faculty and Student Development assigned and promoted The Kite Runner, the bestselling novel by Khaled Hosseini, with events, activities, discussions and even a promotional viewing of the new film. |
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| West Library Celebrates Banned Books Week! West Campus Library celebrated Banned Books Week September 29 - October 5, 2007. |
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| Dr. Nikki Giovanni Speaks at West Campus Library! Poet and author Nikki Giovanni, a guest of Visions and Voices Distinguished Artist series, spoke to an overflowing crowd at West Campus Library. |
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| PIN Numbers Change to Last 4 Digits of VID. All newly assigned PIN #s for logging in to online library resources are now the last four digits of your VID number. |
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| Spring 2007 |
Results of the Library 2nd Floor Student Survey!
Click here to see student comments on the survey. |
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| West Campus Library Celebrates National Library Week! April 16-20, 2007 - The celebration, called Come Together @ Your Library®, included daily drawings for prizes, a guest vocalist, an Open Mic and more! Visit the event site... |
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| West Campus Library Hosts Visions & Voices Artist,
North Carolina Poet Laureate Fred Chappell! January 25, 2007 - Mr. Fred Chappell, author of 14 books of poetry, eight novels and two short story collections, gave a poetry reading at the library as part of Valencia's Visions and Voices Distinguished Artist Series. Mr. Chappell was named North Carolina Poet Laureate in 1997. |
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| Fall 2006 |
| Library Hosts Visions & Voices Artist Julianna Baggott! September 14, 2006 - Ms. Julianna Baggott gave two readings at the West Campus Library as part of the Visions and Voices Distinguished Artist Series. Ms. Baggott is a poet and the author of several novels including Girl Talk, as well as children's books including The Anybodies trilogy. |
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 West Campus Library Initiative Year 1 Report
West Campus Library Initiative Year 2 Report |
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