Library News, Moraine Valley Community College

We were happy to welcome math faculty member Jeremi Walker as a guest on the library’s Check It Out Podcast. She discussed free, online match tools that students can use to get help.

The audio of this discussion is available below:

Here is a link to a WolframAlpha.com search for 2x+10=0

Here is a video from YouTube on Factoring Polynomials:

Here is a video from the Khan Academy on Solving a quadratic by factoring

The MVCC Library is proud to partner with the MVCC Center for Teaching & Learning to present the special event, TLC, Changing Our Community Through Teaching & Learning on Thursday, February 16th, Noon-2:30pm, Library Lounge, Building L.

Students, community members, faculty, and staff are invited to join us for this unique and innovative public event featuring five mini-lectures (15 minutes each) by MVCC faculty and professional staff. These mini-lectures focus on “ideas worth spreading.” The TLC event will feature:

• Lawanda Burrell: “Perseverance and Hope: The verbs of my life”
  Our experiences help to define who we are. LaWanda Burrell discusses how using perseverance and hope helped define her purpose in the eye of a life altering storm.
  
• Dr. Thomas Dow: “The Heart of my Writing: Younger Sons, Bastards, and Devils”
  All writing good is personal. Tom Dow discusses how his own research into Victorian literature led back to himself.
  
• Larry Langellier: “Why Joni Can’t (Won’t) Do Math or Science – And What You Can Do About It”
  American students struggle in math and science. Larry Langellier discusses how the Lego project engages students in scientific thinking and problem solving.
  
• Martha Mazeika: “Communicating by Cutting Up Fabric and Sewing It Back Together”
  Life is a process of taking apart and sewing back together again. Martha Mazeika discusses her obsession with quilting and how she combines history and emotion in her art.
• Dr. Troy Swanson: “What Bigfoot Can Teach Us About Belief”
  Knowledge and belief are intertwined in surprising ways. Troy Swanson discusses how the mythic creature Bigfoot can teach us about knowledge and belief.

The event is free and open to the public. Reservations are not required. If you are a MVCC instructor who plans to bring a class to this event, please email Troy Swanson to be sure we have space.

We have scheduled an upgrade for our library catalog discovery tool, Encore, at 11am on Friday 1/13/12.  This tool is accessible via our Research Tools page (pictured above).  That said, Encore will be down for about an hour or so.

To find library materials, please use our Classic Catalog instead, available at this link: http://library.morainevalley.edu/

Thank you for your patience!

Due to the college-wide in-service day, the library will be opening at 11am on Thursday, January 12th. We will be open from 11am to 5pm.

We will be open Friday, January 13th from 8am to 5pm. We will be closed January 14, 15, & 16.

We reopen for normal semester hours on Tuesday, January 17th.

We are excited to announce our spring 2012 events:

Hyperlocal or Just Hyper?: 21st Century Journalism
Tuesday, February 7th, 11:00-12:15, Library Lounge, Building L
Join us as a panel of experts discuss the evolving nature of journalism. This panel will include:

• Jeremy Shermak, Moraine Valley journalism faculty
• Rob Hart, Morning host of FM 101.1 FM formerly of WGN Radio
• Dan Lambert, Editor of the Palos Patch
• Troy Swanson, Panel Moderator

Blurred Boundaries: Being Multiracial in a Black & White World
Thursday, March 8th, 11am-12:30pm, Library Lounge, Building L
Join us as Dr. Amy Williamson, psychology faculty member, discusses racial, ethnic and gender identity and how we understand multiracial/multiethnic identity.

Human Rights in Iran
Thursday, April 19th, 12:30pm-1:30pm, Library Lounge, Building L
Join us as we welcome Elise Auerbach, Amnesty International’s Iran Specialist, who will discuss the current state of human rights in Iran.

Thanks to our students, faculty, and staff for a great semester. Since classes are not in session, the library will be following hour break schedule. Visit our hours page for details. The best way to summarize our hours is Monday-Friday from 8am to 5pm, closed Saturday & Sunday, as long as the college offices are open. When the college is shut down, we are shut down.

Please feel free to come in over break or visit us on our website.

Finals week is upon us! Don’t forget about the services that the library offers to make you a better student. Come on in for quiet study space, group study space, a cup of coffee, or to use a computer. We are open normal semester hours through Friday, December 16th.

As part of International Education Week, this panel discussion focused on what it is like to study abroad in the U.S. and be an international student here at Moraine Valley. Organized by MVCC Global Education.

The audio of this event is available below:

Part of Arab Heritage month, this panel of Arab-American women (staff and faculty from MVCC) spoke about their experiences growing up, family, career, education, culture, traditions, etc.

The audio of this event is available below:

A panel discussion organized by the MVCC Job Resource Center, this panel was comprised of employers from various industries discussing their internship programs.

The audio of this event is available below: