Thursday, March 28, 2013

2013-2014 Common Reader Voting Process Begins!

From January to March 20th, over 55 titles were recommended to the Common Reader Committee.
 
The top five titles will be selected by committee members from all campuses.  Students, faculty and staff will be given the chance to vote for their #1 book to be read during the First Year Experience beginning this Fall Term.


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Voting begins April 3rd and ends April 16th.
The winning title will be announced during National Library Week. We will post the TOP five titles here next week!
 
 Books we have selected since 2002...
 
 
 
Criteria used to choose the top five books...

 
 

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Library Staff Helping Students

FLA's Florida Library Snapshot Day
January 30, 2013
 
What was our staff doing all day?
 
Pat Alvarez Reference Librarian
Nora in Archives Dept.
Digitizing old college pictures from 1933


Rebecca, Loretta and Janet-Archives, ILL and Periodicals

Doug Cornwell, Reference Librarian
Rob Krull, Reference Librarian

Rebecca adding new magazine arrivals-2nd floor


Ruth Andrews, Reference Librarian
Rob helping a student in Reference-2nd floor

Bonnie helping a student in Circulation-3rd floor
Robbie Allen, Reference Librarian for BA program


Nita helping a student in Circulation using our LINCC catalog-3rd floor


Director of LLRC-Mr. Brian Kelley
 Daimit-Administrative Assistant


Daimit in her office



Nita in Tech Services processing new books


Janet helping a student borrow a laptop in Circulation-3rd floor




Nora helping a student borrow an iPad-3rd floor-Circulation Dept
Rebecca helping students decide which eReader, tablet or iPad to borrow-3rd floor
 



Samantha making due date cards in Circulation


 


Reference Librarians Ken Myers and Pat Alvarez, reviewing new arrivals

Nita helping staff from Media Services in Circulation

 

Estaline Rogers, Public Service Reference Librarian,
Bonnie checking in and sorting books for shelving
 

Connie Tuisku, Reference Librarian


Staff from Testing Center reviewing iPad content



Rebecca checking out headphones to students in Circulation-3rd floor
Kristin and Mark in Tech Services with all the NEW books!
That's why they are so happy:]

Faculty on break

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Florida Library Snapshot Day at Palm Beach State

January 30, several of our staff carried cameras and smart phones all day to take pictures of students, faculty and staff using our library.
 
What happens in one day in our library?
See below!

















 



Results from FLA, (Florida Library Association), will be presented to the Florida Legislature on Library Day, today, March 12th, in Tallahassee.   FLA will post all the Library Snapshot Day pictures from over 500 participating libraries around Florida.

It's very interesting to read the statistics from the last Florida Library Snapshot Day, November 2, 2011. 
http://www.flalib.org/snapshot_day



  On a single day over a quarter of a million patrons used Florida's libraries.  Let's see what January 30th, 2013 statistics will be like when posted mid-March by FLA. When available, we will post that new link here in our blog.