Bird’s Eye View A Newsletter from the Grace Van Dyke Bird Library

Announcing De-Stress Fest!

You know about our annual Cerro Author program (which went off wonderfully this year! Details on page 2), but this year the library is excited to branch into new kinds of programming! We will be hosting a De-Stress Fest at the library from November 28-December 1, with a different event each day. Through this event, we hope to provide students with a space to decompress during the stressful pre-finals week. We also hope that this will draw students into the library who normally don’t venture inside.

We are thrilled to partner with SGA, the Student Health Center, BC student group Fit Mind Body, Inner BodyWorks, and Marley’s Mutts Dog Rescue to provide four free activities for students during De-Stress Fest. The list of activities is as follows.

Monday, November 28: Yoga with Fit Mind Body

Tuesday, November 29: Mental health screenings with the Student Health Center

Wednesday, November 30: Decorate your own gingerbread house with SGA

Thursday, December 1: Therapy dogs from Marley’s Mutts

Stayed tuned for more information about this exciting library event!

November/December 2016

Cerro Author Recap Our 2016 Cerro Author Visit was a resounding success! Andy Weir spoke three times during his visit—twice for students and once for the public, with a book signing at each event. Attendance surpassed our expectations, with around 500 students and members of the public in attendance over the three events. The library handed out 200 free copies of The Martian to students at the start of the month, all of which were snatched up within 4 days of the start of the giveaway. Due to Delano Librarian Elizabeth’s diligent promotion, at least one Delano student (Juan Oropeza, pictured at right) came down to the Panorama campus to participate in the Cerro events! We are extremely pleased that this year’s Cerro Author was so well received, and we look forward to bringing you details about our 2017 Cerro Author in a few months.

Instagram Contest: Help Us Reach 400+ Followers As many of you know, the library launched an Instagram (@bc_library) last

January. Instagram is very popular with Millennials, so we have had great

success in getting off the ground, and our follower count has quickly soared to

nearly 400 followers. To help bump us up and over the 400 mark, we’re starting a

contest! Anyone who follows our Instagram account from November 7-21 will be

entered to win a BC t-shirt, while any follower who tags another person that

adds us will be entered to win a BC water bottle.

Help us get the word out! Let your students know about their chance to win!

Delano student Juan Oropeza poses with Mr. Weir during the book signing portion of the Wednesday student talk.

Mr. Weir interacts with students and the public after his public speech on Tuesday, October 24 Image from the library Instagram, @bc_library

A Note on Ordering Books

As a reminder to faculty, we’d like to emphasize that faculty may submit purchase

requests to the library at any time, not just the beginning of the semester.

Our collection exists to support you! If you’ve never ordered books before, send

purchase requests to Anna Agenjo (aagenjo@bakersfieldcollege.edu). Once

requested, you can expect the books to arrive in the stacks within 6-8 weeks.

Delano Center Library Update BC Delano Librarian Elisabeth Sundby writes in with an update on the Delano Library. The BC Delano Library opened in April 2016. The Library offers a small, but growing print collection as well as access to the BC Library databases and other electronic resources. A reference librarian offers research help to students. The library currently has 10 computer workstations for students to use, and study space for 8 additional students. Delano students quickly embraced the library space and it is often filled to capacity.

During Fall 2016, the Library offered 18 library research workshop sessions to Delano students. The workshops will return next semester. In addition, we are happy to announce that a section of LIBR B1 will be offered in Delano in Spring 2017.

Summer Reads Winners

As promised in the September/October Bird’s Eye View, here are the

books that faculty chose as their favorite reads of Summer 2016.

Theresa McAllister—A Deadly Wandering, by Matt Richtel

Joyce Kirst—Everybody’s Fool, by Richard Russo

Lynn Krause—Chaplin & Company, by Mave Fellowes

Richard Marquez—Love is a Mixtape, by Rob Sheffield

The winners are *drumroll*… Joyce Kirst and Lynn Krause! We

hope you enjoy the gift cards as we enter the grading-heavy portion

of the semester.

The BC Delano Library at studious capacity!

Downing, T. (2015). Secret warriors: The

spies, scientists, and code breakers of WWI.

Berkeley: Pegasus Books.

D 639 .C75 D69 2015

Laqueur, W. (2015). Putinism: Russia and its

future with the West. New York: Thomas Dunne

Books.

DK 510.763 .L365 2015

Dilsaver, L.M. (Ed.) (2016). America’s National

Park System: The critical documents. 2nd ed.

Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

E 160 .A579 2016

Feinman, R.L. (2015). Assassinations, threats,

and the American presidency: From Andrew

Jackson to Barack Obama. Lanham, MD:

Rowman & Littlefield.

E 176.1 .F39 2015

Willis, D. & Logan, N.L. (Eds.) (2015). Question

bridge: Black males in America. New York:

Aperture Foundation.

E 185.625 .Q42 2015

Fleischer, M.S. (2015). Living black: Social life

in an African American neighborhood. Madison,

WI: University of Wisconsin Press.

E 185.86 .F56 2015

Harris, T.W. (2015). The sisters are alright:

Changing the broken narrative of black women

in America. Oakland, CA: Barrett-Koehler

Publishers.

E 185.86 .W5565 2015

Gallman, J.M., Gallagher, G., & A. Taylor.

(Eds.) (2015). Lens of war: Exploring iconic

photographs of the Civil War. Athens, GA:

University of Georgia Press.

E 468.7 .L46 2015

Read all about it!: New titles at BC A curated list of some of the new and exciting titles in the general collection.

(Arranged in call number order.)

Lee, H. (2105). The girl with seven names: A

North Korean defector’s story. London: William

Collins.

DS 934.6 .L44 A3 2015

Resendez, A. (2016). The other slavery: The

uncovered story of Indian enslavement in

America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

E 98 .S6 R47 2016

Toler, P.D. (2016). Heroines of Mercy Street:

The real nurses of the Civil War. New York:

Little, Brown & Co.

E 621 .T65 2016

Montefiore, S.S. (2016). The Romanovs: 1613-

1918. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

DK 37.8 .R6 S43 2016

Southward, S. (2015). Nagasaki: Life after

nuclear war. New York: Viking.

D 767.25 .N3 S68 2015

Johnson, D. (2016). God is watching you: How

the fear of god makes us human. Oxford:

Oxford University Press.

BL 51 .J675 2016

Wikileaks. (2015). The Wikileaks files: The

world according to US empire. London: Verso.

E 895 .W55 2015

Beebe, R.M., & Senkewicz, R.M. (2015).

Junipero Serra: California, Indians, and the

transformation of a missionary. Norman, OK:

University of Oklahoma Press.

F 864 .S44 B44 2015

Walker, J. (2014). The finishing touch:

Cosmetics through the ages. London: British

Library Publishing.

GT 2340 .W354 2014

Wang, Q.E. (2015). Chopsticks: A cultural and

culinary history. Cambridge: University of

Cambridge Press.

GT 2949 .W36 2015

Smith, J.M., & Willingham, M. 2015). Cheated:

The UNC scandal, the education of athletes,

and the future of big-college sports. Lincoln,

NE: Potomac Books.

GV 691 .U57 S65 2015

Holstein, J.A., Jones, R.S., & G.E. Koonce, Jr.

(2015). Is there life after football? Surviving the

NFL. New York: NYU Press.

GV 951 .H582 2015

Fong, M. (2016). One child: The story of

China’s most radical experiment. New York:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

HB 3654 .A3 F66 2016

Mutter, J.C. (2015). The disaster profiteers:

How natural disasters make the rich richer and

the poor poorer. New York: St. Martin’s Press.

HC 79 .D45 M87 2015

Ford, M. (2015). Rise of the robots: Technology

and the threat of a jobless future. New York:

Basic Books.

HD 6331 .F58 2015

Scharlin, C., & Villanueva, L.V. (2000). Philip

Vera Cruz: A personal history of Filipino

immigrants and the Farmworkers Movement.

Seattle: University of Washington Press.

HD 6515 .A292 U547 2000

Richardson, B. (2015). Sugar. Cambridge:

Polity Press.

HD 9100.5 .R527 2015

Knight, M. (2015). The best team money can

buy: The Los Angeles Dodgers’ wild struggle to

build a baseball powerhouse. New York: Simon

& Schuster.

GV 875 .L6 K55 2015

Minteer, B.A. (2015). After preservation: Saving

American nature in the age of humans.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

GE 310 .A38 2015

Milner, G. (2016). Pinpoint: How GPS is

changing technology, culture, and our minds.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co.

G 109.5 .M55 2016

Coates, T. (2009). The beautiful struggle: A

memoir. New York: Spiegel Grau.

F 189 .B153 C63 2009

Flores, L.A. (2016). Grounds for dreaming:

Mexican Americans, Mexican immigrants, and

the California Farmworkers Movement. New

Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

HD 6515 .A29 F56 2016

Bush, L. (Ed.) (2016). We are Afghan women:

Voices of hope. New York: Scribner.

HQ 1735.6 .W42 2016

Visak, T., & Garner, R. (Eds). (2016). The

ethics of killing animals. Oxford: Oxford

University Press.

HV 4708 .E846 2016

Orenstein, P. (2016). Girls & sex: Navigating

the complicated new landscape. New York:

HarperCollins.

HQ 27.5 .O74 2016

Green, D.P., & Gerber, A.S. (2015). Get out the

vote: How to increase voter turnout.

Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institute Press.

JK 2281 .G74 2015

Cohen, S. (2016). Convicting the innocent:

Death row and America’s broken system of

justice. New York: Skyhorse Publishing.

HV 8699 .U5 C64 2016

Looman, M.D., & Carl, J.D. (2015). A country

called prison: Mass incarceration and the

making of a new nation. Oxford: Oxford

University Press

HV 9466 .L66 2015

Anderson, T.S. (2015). Emmett Till: The murder

that shocked the world and propelled the Civil

Rights Movement. Jackson, MS: University

Press of Mississippi.

HV 6465 .M7 A63 2015

English, T.J. (2015). Where the bodies were

buried: Whitey Bulger and the world that made

him. New York: HarperCollins.

HV 6248 .B85 E54 2015

Newton-Small, J. (2016). Broad influence:

How women are changing the way America

works. New York: Time Books.

HQ 1236.5 .U6 N47 2016

Anderson, K.S. (2015). The selfie vote:

Where Millennials are leading America (and

how Republicans can keep up). New York:

Broadside Books.

HQ 799.9 .O6 A53 2015

Zimmerman, J. (2015). Too hot to handle: A

global history of sex. Princeton, NJ: Princeton

University Press.

HQ 57.3 .Z56 2015

Thiel-Stern, S. (2015). From the dance hall to

Facebook: Teen girls, mass media, and

moral panic in the United States, 1905-2010.

Boston: University of Massachusetts Press.

HQ 798 .T45 2014

Maurer, B. (2015). How would you like to pay?

How technology is changing the future of

money. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

HG 1710 .M38 2015

Bond, M. (2015). The power of others: Peer

pressure, groupthink, and how the people

around us shape everything we do. London:

OneWorld Publications.

HM 716 .B66 2015

Putnam, R.D. (2015). Our kids: The American

Dream in crisis. New York: Simon & Schuster.

HN 90 .S65 P88 2015

Longhurst, J. (2015). Bike battles: A history of

sharing the American road. Seattle: University

of Washington Press.

HE 5737 .L66 2015

Strachan, I.G., & Mask, M. (Eds). (2105).

Poitier revisited: Reconsidering a black icon in

the Obama Age. New York: Bloomsbury.

PN 2287 .P57 P65 2015

Langlois, G., Redden, J., & Elmer, G. (Eds).

(2015). Compromised data: From social media

to big data. New York: Bloomsbury.

QA 76.9 .D343 C4785 2015

Taylor, F. (2016). Exploring the planets: A

memoir. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

QB 36 .T39 2016

Van Vlack, T.W. (2016). <Women in Tech>:

Take your career to the next level: With

practical advice and inspiring stories. Seattle,

WA: Sasquatch Books.

T 36 .W646 2016

Landau, N. (2016). TV outside the box:

Trailblazing in the digital television revolution.

New York: Focal Press.

TK 105.887 .L35 2016

Rumsey, A.S. (2016). When we are no more:

How digital memory is shaping our future. New

York: Bloomsbury Press.

Z 665 .S575 2016

Reid, C. (2015). Roads were not built for cars:

How cyclists were the first to push for good

roads & became the pioneers of motoring.

Washington, DC: Island Press.

TA 1145 .R45 2015

Gendler, R., & GaBany, R.J. (2015).

Breakthrough! 100 Astronomical images that

changed the world. New York: Springer.

QB 121 .G46 2015

Whitehouse, D. (2016). Into the heart of our

world: A journey to the center of the Earth: A

remarkable voyage of self discovery. New York:

Pegasus Books.

QE 509 .W49 2016

Wiggins, A.W., & Wynn Sr., C.M. (2016). The

human side of science: Edison and Tesla,

Watson and Crick, and other personal stories

behind sciences big ideas. Madison, WI:

University of Wisconsin Press.

Q 167 .W54 2016

Vest, J.P. (2014). Spike Lee: Finding the story and

forcing the issue. Westport, CT: Praegar.

PN 1998.3 .L44 V47

Angulo, A.J. (2016). Diploma Mill$: How for-

profit colleges stiffed students, taxpayers, and

the American Dream. Baltimore, MD: Johns

Hopkins University Press.

LB 2328.52 .U6 A64 2016

Hrabowski III, F.A. (2015). Holding fast to

dreams: Empowering youth, from the Civil

Rights Crusade to STEM achievement.

Boston: Beacon Press.

LC 2717 .H73 2015

Goldberger, P. (2015). Building art: The life

and work of Frank Gehry. New York: Knopf.

NA 737 .G44 G65 2015

Gajda, A. (2105). The First Amendment

bubble: How privacy and paparazzi threaten a

free press. Harvard: Harvard University Press.

KF 4774 .G35 2015

Dodson, S. (Ed.) (2015). The legacy of Ruth

Bader Ginsburg. Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press.

KF 8756 .G56 L44 2015