Friday, December 2, 2011

Library Decorations and Books to Help Celebrate Winter Holidays and Seasons Around the World.

Weldome to the 2nd floor LLRC

Many seasonal holiday books, new fiction, and non-fiction arrivals are ready for checkout during the Winter break on the 3rd floor of LLRC

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Bravo and Length of Service Awards 2011

Four LLRC staff were honored on Nov. 4th
We walked through the very bright "spot lights", on the very "red" carpet!
165 employees recognized for length of service
Congratulations to all!
 Nora Homan 5 years

Connie Tuisku 10 years-Colleen Shaffer 10 years

Pat Alvarez, Reference Librarian, was nominated for the Bravo Award for her work on the Digital Archive Collection. She took on this huge project to transfer all the Lake Worth campus library 'paper archives' to a 'digital medium'. 

This collection was in numerous boxes full of photographs, documents and other college memorabilia. Pat also coordinated the digitization project of print volumes through a grant from Lyrasis. These resources are now available on our Internet Archive, including our college catalogs and the Galleon [college yearbook].
 Quotes from our November Perspectives:
"The Bravo Awards have been described as the College's version of the Oscars. That metaphor was altogether fitting, as 18 nominees and their colleagues waited to hear the names called for an award that has annually recognized actions that go above and beyond the scope of an individual's day-to-day responsibilities. And in a masterly touch, the honorees made their way across a red carpet on the stage of the Duncan Theatre Nov. 4 to be recognized for their achievements."
 
 
"Also honored at the Duncan Theatre that same Friday were 165 College employees for their length of service-collectively, they represent 1,635 years of experience. To go back that far in time would take one to the days of the Romans battling the Visigoths for the control of eastern Europe."

Connie Tuisku-Colleen Shaffer-Brian Kelley-Nora Homan



Brian Kelley Pat Alvarez





Thursday, October 20, 2011

Ribbon Cutting Day New Spanish Collection Opening Columbus Day Oct. 12


The new Spanish Collection includes popular fiction, literature and non-fiction.

 Discoveries at the Library-Hispanic Heritage Month

Dr. Manzanero shared with us bilingual poems that everyone can recite and how the Spanish language and heritage are intertwined with the discovery of Florida.

Dr. Jeannett Manzanero's presentation, "Rediscover Columbus",
in conjunction with our Columbus Day Celebration and ribbon cutting.

Filled the seats today! Standing room only!
 

Brian Kelley Director LLRC


Brian Kelley, Dr. Jeannett Manzanero, Professor Patricia Betancourt, and Reference Librarian Pat Alvarez



A BIG THANK YOU to all those that helped organize this event for an outstanding celebration! 


Saturday, October 8, 2011

QEP Improve Student Learning-Focuses on Critical Thinking 2012-2017

QEP 2012-2017 Quality Enhancement Plan

Critical thinking is using the skills to explore, evaluate, express and engage in purposeful reasoning in order to reach sound conclusions, decisions, positions, and/or solutions.

Even Curious George wants to be familiar with critical thinking skills!

Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows

2nd Floor Book Display LLRC








http://www.palmbeachstate.edu/QEP.xml

Friday, October 7, 2011

ENC1121 Student Projects on Display LLRC Gallery 2nd Floor

Professor Diana Baird's ENC1121 Class Projects
Killing Mister Watson by Peter Matthiessen
Students displaying projects
Carly Sanchez
Jaclyn Singer
Andrew Holray
Johanna Pablano
Natalie Gerber








Friday, September 30, 2011

October 3rd Hispanic Heritage Museum Exhibit LLRC Gallery 9am-6pm




Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by visiting the Library and viewing an exhibit that highlights the great accomplishments of the Latinos/Hispanics in America and around the world. This traveling museum has over 100 artifacts, rare photos, biographies and video documentaries.
Sponsored by the Student Activities Center


WHAT: Hispanic Heritage Museum
WHERE: Library Gallery at Lake Worth Campus
WHEN: 9AM to 6PM, Monday, October 3, 2011

Friday, September 23, 2011

Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration-LW Library Floor 3


Hispanic Heritage Celebration
Oct. 12-LW Library 
3rd floor

Rediscover Columbus! Dr. Jeannett Manzanero will speak on,"Bilingual Poems That Everyone Can Recite! Celebrating "Dia de La Raza" (Columbus Day): How the Spanish Language and Heritage are tied to the discovery of Florida.

In conjunction with our Columbus Day Celebration, you are invited to attend the ribbon cutting ceremony of the Library's developing "Spanish Collection" - a collection of titles written in Spanish which includes popular fiction, literature and non-fiction. This will begin immediately following Dr. Manzanero's presentation. Refreshments provided by the Student Activities Center. This is a free event.



Where: Library (LLRC) 3rd Floor Rm. 304 [Lake Worth]
When: Wednesday, October 12 from 12pm - 2pm
Contact: 561-868-3800 or email galottil@palmbeachstate.edu

Staff setting up display


 Pat Alvarez- Reference Librarian and Nora Homan-Library Tech II
Ribbon Cutting Oct 12 at Noon
3rd Floor LLRC Lake Worth Campus


Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Monday, September 19, 2011

Join us for Constitution Week LLRC 2nd floor

Sept. 17-23, 2011
Join other students, faculty and staff in signing the Constitution this week!



 



Friday, August 26, 2011

"We Were the 1st Public College in the State"


Palm Beach State College Archive’s Celebration July 20th, 2011-Part I

 Margaret Richardson Brown, Brian Kelley, Idella Wade
Idella and Margaret are two of the librarians from Roosevelt Jr. College



Palm Beach Jr. College at the Palm Beach High location


Thank you to Suellen Mann, Executive Director of the College Foundation, for sponsoring the refreshments and partnering with the library to organize this event. Mr. Brian Kelley, Library Director of the LLRC, explained the reason for inviting everyone today and to talk about how the college alumni might be able to help the college. He also wanted to talk about some exciting new possibilities of what the college could do for them.


To help preserve our college history, Mr. Kelley showed the guests the boxes, arranged by decade, that contain photos of mostly unnamed individuals and events. He is asking for help to identify these pictures. He encouraged everyone to ‘spread’ the word to others. Mr. Kelley said “Eventually we hope to digitize the majority of the holdings of the archives of the college. There will be additional identification possibilities in the future as we make the unidentified photos available online”. He also reviewed the history of the school from the year 1933 that began with 41 students to the present with over 50,000 students. Our new BAS program began in 2009 with our first graduating class this past May 2011. Mr. Kelley introduced Suellen who told more about the Emeritus employee association benefits.



Idella Wade, librarian from RJC and PBCC
 Estaline Rogers, librarian from PBCC/Palm Beach State


As part of the history, we now have an Internet Archive. Internet Archive link: http://www.palmbeachstate.edu/x20487.xml



Miss RJC and attendants
 Queen and entire court

Dr. Edward Eissey was 3rd president of PBJC/PBCC, center of picture.
He was a student at the PBJC, shown here in the library at Morrison Field 1948.











Burt Reynolds won the 1956 Florida State Drama Award for his performance in "Outward Bound".
Reynolds calls Watson B. Duncan his mentor and the most-influential person in his life.