tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53301652820196841692024-03-11T10:05:42.795-04:00Jessup JournalWelcome to the Jessup Library blog. Please join us as we discuss the services offered to you by the Jessup Library. Topics discussed include common reference questions, finding and evaluating web resources, information literacy tips, news and announcements and much more.Jessup Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453577912527071715noreply@blogger.comBlogger576125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330165282019684169.post-29340770571023033482024-03-11T10:04:00.001-04:002024-03-11T10:04:47.407-04:00Deliberative Dialogue: Elections: How Should We Encourage and Safeguard Voting? Date: Thursday, March 21, 2024Time: 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.Where: North Mall Meeting Room 2024 is a presidential election year, and many Americans are concerned about the US election system although we donβt always agree on the main problem or how best to fix it. Is it too hard to vote? Is the system too easy to manipulate? Do we have rules that make voting fair and accessible to all? Jessup Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453577912527071715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330165282019684169.post-88354146809022817662024-03-01T12:19:00.000-05:002024-03-01T12:19:27.623-05:00πWomen's History Month Did you know that women could not get a credit card until 1974? Or that in the workplace, on average women make 83 cents to a man's dollar? Or that women did not get the right to vote in America until a hundred years ago in 1920? As a society, we have fought hard for equality for women, but as the numbers show--we still have battles to fight for the future.At Jessup Library we are celebrating Jessup Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453577912527071715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330165282019684169.post-56171690207055032372024-02-01T08:30:00.001-05:002024-02-01T08:30:00.132-05:00πCelebrate Black History Month "The thing about Black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up." Henry Louis Gates What do we think about when we think about Black History Month? We think about so many complex past and present struggles and triumphs that we wonder how they could all be part of the same month of appreciation--but they are. For that is what Black History Month is Jessup Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453577912527071715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330165282019684169.post-20376038211398194172023-12-01T09:00:00.001-05:002023-12-01T09:00:00.137-05:00πRead A New Book Month <!--[if !mso]>
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Jessup Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453577912527071715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330165282019684169.post-78309176849323598292023-11-09T11:35:00.000-05:002023-11-09T11:35:12.680-05:00π¦ Family Stories Month We all have families, whether ones we were born into, or ones we have created on our own, and we all have family stories. Happy stories and sad stories, angry stories and funny stories, it is almost as though our stories are the fabric of our families--the pieces that we stitch together to make our family tapestry. Families create their own languages, short-hands, inside jokes, that outsiders doJessup Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453577912527071715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330165282019684169.post-73622344938324535322023-10-13T14:55:00.000-04:002023-10-13T14:55:00.888-04:00October New Books We are more than one month into the school year at PVCC and it is time for some NEW BOOKS! Do you ever wonder why it is that some people can remember directions to the west coast while others get lost on the way to the front door? Dark and magical places : the neuroscience of navigation describes the brain regions that orient us in space and the specialized neurons-place cells andJessup Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453577912527071715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330165282019684169.post-34512284768730261362023-10-03T09:57:00.001-04:002023-10-03T09:57:25.221-04:00Things That Go Bump in the Nightπ» As Fall comes upon us, we look towards darker, longer nights and cooler days--our minds bending towards the supernatural and those things that creep in the darkness. We watch scary movies, or classics from our childhoods, remembering the time when we stayed out with friends to collect as much candy as possible in our bags and counted each piece before consuming as much as possible! This Jessup Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453577912527071715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330165282019684169.post-26155636883088145892023-09-21T09:27:00.000-04:002023-09-21T09:27:03.884-04:00π¦ Animalcules of PVCC: One Book Event π¬ Animalcules of PVCC: Using Microscopes to Observe the Microscopic WorldHave you ever wondered what βinvisibleβ creatures are sharing our world?? Join PVCC Biology faculty to observe the microscopic world! During this interactive One Book event, faculty will have microscopes and pond water available for viewing. Students, faculty, staff - anyone who is curious - will have the ability to Jessup Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453577912527071715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330165282019684169.post-30431233207921364362023-09-20T12:10:00.005-04:002023-09-20T12:10:57.970-04:00πΈ 2nd Annual One Book Photography Contest π· 2nd Annual One Book Photography Contest: Our Invisible World
Deadline: Nov. 3rd. (Submissions open Sept 20
- Nov 3rd)
Open to ALL PVCC community members: Students,
Staff and Faculty
The art
department is hosting its 2nd annual school-wide photography contest in
conjunction with PVCCβs One Book Program. In the spirit of The Song of the
Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Jessup Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453577912527071715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330165282019684169.post-80667096134497295102023-09-06T09:30:00.002-04:002023-09-06T09:30:57.414-04:00π National Literacy Month π "Literacy is...the road to human progress and the means through which every
man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential." -Kofi Annan, Nobel Peace Prize WinnerThere are different kinds of literacy, but the subjects we are most familiar with are reading and writing literacy, which we will focus on here. Literacy is a doorway through which many other doorwaysJessup Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453577912527071715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330165282019684169.post-8490750223262017532023-07-10T14:52:00.000-04:002023-07-10T14:52:02.997-04:00July New Books It's the middle of summer and what could be better than New Books in Jessup Library? A new car! Well, we cannot offer that at this time but here is a sample of what we have on the New Books Shelf:For those of you who are always right - Noise: a flaw in human judgment. For those of you wondering where your sheep went and who burned down the barn - The Viking heart: how Jessup Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453577912527071715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330165282019684169.post-22659392298848727402023-07-03T09:47:00.001-04:002023-07-03T09:47:35.884-04:00π₯§ Culinary Arts Month π΄ The word 'culina' is Latin for 'kitchen'--that is where traditionally the heart of the house and the family is located. Whether cooking a meal, or baking some cupcakes, the culinary world is central to everyone's lives. We have a thriving collection of books on cooking and food at Jessup Library. Cookbooks that range from Jerusalem to the Sioux nation, with The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Jessup Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453577912527071715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330165282019684169.post-1587806195504085572023-06-19T09:00:00.001-04:002023-06-19T09:00:00.131-04:00β¨ Juneteenth β¨ Juneteenth (short for June nineteenth) is a federal holiday that celebrates and commemorates the day that the Emancipation Proclamation liberated the last of the enslaved African Americans in the city Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865. Galveston was the last holdout for slavery in the U.S. and 250,000 men, women, and children were liberated that day. Though the Emancipation Proclamation hadJessup Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453577912527071715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330165282019684169.post-29195002696492943162023-06-01T10:27:00.000-04:002023-06-01T10:27:06.715-04:00π National Oceans Month π More than 70% of our world is covered in oceans, and 80% of those oceans are unexplored--frontiers that have yet to be reached. Do some sea creatures look like alien beings? That may be because they come from a world not yet seen by human eyes. Explore the creatures that we can identify in Reef Creature Identification or The Encyclopedia of Aquatic Life, or the fantastical Monsters of the Jessup Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453577912527071715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330165282019684169.post-28779423501301012812023-05-08T10:00:00.002-04:002023-05-08T10:00:27.218-04:00π Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month β© Spanning the whole of Asia, from Japan to India, and the Pacific Islands from Hawaii to New Zealand, the culture of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders is celebrated in the month of May. Here at Jessup Library we are focusing on the contribution of Asian American and Pacific Islander's to America's literary anthology. Explore the early history of Polynesia and the puzzle of how they Jessup Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453577912527071715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330165282019684169.post-5640080641391459132023-05-02T10:00:00.001-04:002023-05-02T10:00:52.102-04:00π Mental Health Awareness Month β Anxiety, depression, PTSD, bi-polar disorder--all of these, and many more, are prevalent in society today, and on an individual basis it can be difficult to maneuver through any mental health disorder. For the month of May, we observe Mental Health Awareness Month in order to bring attention to the common occurrence of the above-mentioned in everyday life. In fact, 1 in 5 people Jessup Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453577912527071715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330165282019684169.post-2696649124713954412023-04-12T13:52:00.000-04:002023-04-12T13:52:06.246-04:00Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter This month's New Books blog post title is brought to you by Curtis Jackson, also known as 50 Cent, whose book Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter has joined the likes of Transaction man : the rise of the deal and the decline of the American dream, and The CEO next door : the 4 behaviors that transform ordinary people into world-class leaders. Three books with different views Jessup Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453577912527071715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330165282019684169.post-57761445724538723512023-04-10T09:10:00.000-04:002023-04-10T09:10:21.795-04:00π Arab American Heritage Month Beginning in the early 1990s, Arab American Heritage Month has been celebrated across the country, but it was not until recently that this holiday has received the national recognition it deserves. With a minority population of over 4 million people in the United States from various Middle Eastern countries, including Lebanon, Egypt, Syria and Iraq, America is slowly coming to give appreciation Jessup Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453577912527071715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330165282019684169.post-4138169589611786052023-04-03T09:57:00.000-04:002023-04-03T09:57:14.047-04:00π National Poetry Month As John Keating says in the film Dead Poet's Society, "We don't read
and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we
are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with
passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and
necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are
what we stay alive for."That Jessup Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453577912527071715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330165282019684169.post-44025232135119381562023-03-02T08:38:00.000-05:002023-03-02T08:38:14.891-05:00β Women's History Month β For the month of March, as we creep into warmer weather and brighter days, we at Jessup Library are celebrating Women's History Month. This year, Women's History Month's theme is "Celebrating women who tell our stories". In honor of that, we have pulled books from our collection that are about women, women's rights, and are written by women. Ranging from Diana Gabaldon's historical fiction Jessup Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453577912527071715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330165282019684169.post-69536048818471638872023-02-28T14:01:00.001-05:002023-02-28T14:01:47.743-05:00March New Books It's time to MARCH yourself to Jessup Library for some New Books! From Act natural : a cultural history of misadventures in parenting to Vegetarian food for healthy kids to Strange situation : a mother's journey into the science of attachment you can find some unsolicited advice -- and isn't that what every parent wants? Not a parent? We hope you are enjoying Jessup Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453577912527071715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330165282019684169.post-61799358820131787222023-02-01T10:07:00.000-05:002023-02-01T10:07:10.715-05:00π Black History Month π Honoring the past, constructing the present, and making plans for the future--Black History Month is about all of these simultaneously. At Jessup Library we are honoring books representative of the past, including John Lewis's March graphic novel series about the civil rights march on Washington in August 1963, and Kathryn Johnson's My Time With the Kings: a reporter's recollections of Jessup Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453577912527071715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330165282019684169.post-40395381280615174502022-12-16T14:31:00.003-05:002022-12-16T14:31:57.575-05:00New Books Here we are, mere days from a much-needed winter break, and the Jessup Library New Books shelf has been restocked. You might find The Unidentified : mythical monsters, alien encounters, and our obsession with the unexplained, or you might be so entranced by all of the book titles that you resemble a hapless example of Distracted : why students can't focus and what you can doJessup Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453577912527071715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330165282019684169.post-56861596286700188332022-12-01T08:34:00.000-05:002022-12-01T08:34:11.165-05:00Read A New Book! π A new book is a world untraveled to, just waiting to be read and to take a reader on a journey across pages to new places and to meet new characters. Books are teachers, and entertainers, and reminders of stories that have been lost. If you wish to delve into the world of the American Revolution through the time-traveling books by Diana Gabaldon, her most recent adventure is titled Go Jessup Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453577912527071715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330165282019684169.post-91176410080436919622022-11-01T10:13:00.001-04:002022-11-01T10:13:54.321-04:00π Fall Into Books π November is a time for overeating and overreading! Is there such a thing?! I'm not so sure, but this month we are celebrating books that will keep you entertained during the creeping cold and dark of Fall. From Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey to This Land Is Their Land: the Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the troubled history of Thanksgiving, there are books aplenty to choose from! Check Jessup Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453577912527071715noreply@blogger.com