We get copies of every selection

from Oprah’s Book Club, courtesy

of Oprah and The American

Library Association!

Oprah’s latest books are A Tale of

Two Cities and Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

No Cell Phone Use

During Library Classes.

And Please Put Your

Phone on Vibrate in the

Reference Area.

Returning Students!

Don’t forget to update your barcode for

the new school year

Joke Time

Q: How many

reference

librarians does it

take to screw in a

light bulb?

Joke Time

A: I don’t know, but if

you give me your

phone number, I’ll

get back to you.

Library Quotable

My alma mater was books, a good library.

--Malcolm X

Peanut Butter Lovers Month

Do You Know….

What year did STCC open?

A. 1967

B. 1892

C. 1976

Answer:

A. 1967

Do You Know….

Librarians Portrayed

in the Movies

“Party Girl”

(1995)

With Parker Posey

The largest public library building

in the United States is Chicago’s

Harold Washington Library Center.

It measures 756,640 square feet and contains more than 70 miles of shelving!

Library Quotable

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their

hair done in the library?

--Lily Tomlin

Do You Know….

How many numbers in an STCC Library Barcode?

A. 12

B. 14

C. 10

Answer:

B. 14

Do You Know….

Barcodes need to be updated every semester,

including summer session.

Word Scramble

WEEDY ILMCDAEMSSTYE

Word Scramblea

DEWEY DECIMALSYSTEM

Wow!!!

The recent renovation project

replaced 401 windows in

Building 27!

Have You Found Your$ Yet?

November is

National $cholarship Month

Check out the Library’s Guide to Scholarships:

http://libguides.stcc.edu/scholarships

Library Quotable

Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like

American citizenship.

--Oprah Winfrey

Librarians Portrayed

on Television

“The Librarian II: Return to King

Solomon’s Mines” starring Noah

Wyle and Gabrielle Anwar

Have you heard the

news?

Read “Between the Pages,” the

STCC Library’s Newsletter!

Get Your

Barcode

Now!

Do You Know….

How many student computers are in the STCC Library

Lab?

A. 16

B. 20

C. 22

The Lab - Before

Answer:

C. 22

Do You Know….

The lab opened in 2000.The Lab - After

Famous Librarians

include:

• Casanova• Batgirl• Mao Tse Tung• J. Edgar Hoover

Librarians in Literature

The Librarian

by Larry

Beinhart. . . (a) barn-burning political thriller complete with recipes for how to steal a presidential election. . . “

Kirkus Reviews

Take A Look

It’s like have 400 Reference Books at your

fingertips!

Fun with Barcodes

• All STCC Barcodes begin with the numbers

“28132”

• Some students actually memorize their

barcodes!

28132000001234

Librarians Portrayed

in the Movies

“Desk Set” (1957)

Featuring Katherine

Hepburn and Spencer Tracy

It’s November

Gobble

Up a

Good

Book

Library news, notes, happenings, and even the occasional joke at

http://library.stcc.edu/blogger/blogger.html

National Physical Therapy Month!

Library Quotable

You see, I don't believe that libraries should

be drab places where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of employing

wild animals as librarians.

--Monty Python sketch

There’s a Library Research Guide for You!•Nursing

•Civil Engineering

•Landscape Design

•Dental Hygiene

•Business

•Law Enforcement

•Physical Therapy

•Graphic Arts

And more!

Librarians in LiteratureThe Time Traveler’s

Wife

by

Audrey Niffenegger

The story of Henry de Tamble, a

librarian with “chrono-displacement

disorder”

‘The Time Traveler's Wife is a very old love story: wonky, sexy, incredible... but charmingly, inventively retold.'

The Times (London)

Did you Know?

There are six laptops

available at the Circulation

Desk for students to use in

the library!

The tallest academic library building in the world is the W.E.B. Dubois Library at the University of

Massachusetts in Amherst. It is 28 stories tall and

measures 295 feet.

C/W MARS has more than 140

member libraries and

loans more than 9 million items

annually!

Librarians Portrayed

in the Movies

“Music Man” (1962) starring Robert Preston and featuring

Shirley Jones as “Marian the Librarian”

Returning Students!

Don’t forget to update your barcode for

the new school year

Joke Time

Q: Why are there no books in the Prague

Library?

Joke Time

A: They’re all

Czech-ed out!

No Cell Phone

Use During

Library Classes.

And Please Put

Your Phone on

Vibrate in the

Reference Area.

Librarians in Music

-2008-

Louisville band

My Morning Jacket

releases the song

“Librarian”

on their album

“Evil Urges”

Word Scramble

LACL BNMUER

Word Scramble

CALL NUMBER

Library Quotable

"You must live

feverishly in a library.

Colleges are not

going to do any good

unless you are raised

and live in a library

every day of your

life.“

– Ray Bradbury

The Library of Congress is the

largest library in the world and

contains more than 120 million

items!

Follow us on Twitter

twitter.com/stcclibrary

Do You Know….

For how long do videos circulate?

A. One Week

B. Two Days

C. They don’t

Answer:

B. Two Days

Do You Know….

However, if you borrow a video on

Thursday or Friday, it isn’t due til

the following Monday.

Learn Chinese

Library………………Tushugan

Lucky Numbers 23, 16, 7, 8, 42

Use CINAHL with Full Text

It’s like VITamins for your research paper

Library Quotable

The library has always

been. . .a place where we’ve

come to discover big ideas

and profound concepts that

help move the American

story forward

-- President Barack Obama

Do You Know….

How are most of the books in the library organized?

A. By Title

B. By Color

C. By Subject

Answer:

C. By Subject

Do You Know….

Each call number is associated

with a particular subject. For

example, a call number beginning

with “N” is a book about art or

artists.

Joke Time

Q: Why Did the Ghost keep coming to library

for more books?

Joke Time

Q: He went through them too quickly.

Librarians Portrayed

on Television

“Rupert Giles” (played by

Anthony Stewart Head) from Buffy

the Vampire Slayer

Word Scramble

ECFENERRE OOBK

Word Scramble

REFERENCE BOOK

Library Quotable

I always tell people that I

became a writer not

because I went to school

but because my mother

took me to the library.

-- Sandra Cisneros

Follow us on Twitter

twitter.com/stcclibrary

Do You Know….

Who is the President of STCC?

A. Samuel Bowles

B. Ira Rubenzahl

C. Theodore Geisel

Answer:

B. Ira Rubenzahl

Do You Know….

Dr. Rubenzahl was named

President in July, 2004.

Try the Library’s paperback

collection! It’s relaxing!!

New Titles Just Added!