4 Library Blogs; 2007 to 2017

Last Blog Post!

We’ve published four blogs since 2007 at Palm Beach State College Library-Lake Worth campus!  These posts covered instructional events, lib guides, library history, college history & archives, campus art, book reviews, news & events and more! 

We shared all the ups and downs of implementing our iPads, Kindles, Nooks & eDevices in the early years of the new technology at that time, [2009]. We also covered the numerous Professional Teaching & Learning Center's workshops and presentations in our Gallery. 

The variety of library blogs helped students, faculty and staff become familiar with the Library Learning Resource Center, LLRC.  Students could monitor activities and events online and have the opportunity to attend these events. They would let us know their thoughts about various activities and they also shared their ideas with us.

Our Librarian/Associate Professors and Library Technicians have been posting news and other useful information on our other library Social Media sites including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. This is a great way to keep in touch with all library related information.

Click the links below to see our past blogs for a real treat and then visit our up-to-date Social Media sites for all current information and library services, including our daily hours and weekly events.

1^st blog

http://pbcc-librarymatters.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html

September 2007 to April 2009

Library Matters; to be informed about Library Matters

because the library matters 

at
Palm Beach Community College





Published by 

Librarian/Associate Professor 

Estaline Rogers

2^nd blog

http://bookmark-palmbeachstate.blogspot.com/ 

September 2007 to September 2013

Bookmark @the Library Features, Reviews,
Book Talk and more…

Published by Librarian/Associate Professor 

Connie Tuisku

Staff Contributors:

Rebecca Harris 
Library Assistant



Nita Johnson
Library Technician

Colleen Shaffer 
Library Technician

3^rd blog
http://kindlepalmbeachstate.blogspot.com/

January 2009 to September 2014

iPads, Kindles and Beyond @Palm Beach

State College on LW Campus

 Digital e-Readers in a college library setting

Published by Library Technician 

Colleen Shaffer

4^th blog 
http://librarystuffpalmbeachstatecollege.blogspot.com/

Began posting in October 2010 as Library Stuff 
@Palm Beach State College-Lake Worth Campus

Merged into Library News and Events 

a few years later...

Last post - February 2017

Library Stuff at Palm Beach State College
@Lake Worth Campus 
Published by Library Technician 

Colleen Shaffer

Visit our vibrant and informative Social Media sites below for all current information and library services, including our daily hours and weekly events!

http://www.palmbeachstate.edu/library/lake-worth-library/default.aspx

LLRC-Gallery’s Archive Windows Updated!

Blog post by Janet DeVries, Library Technician II

Lake Worth Campus

Image Credits: Janet DeVries and Colleen Shaffer

  

 

Our college library on the Lake Worth Campus is home to the Palm Beach State College archives. The Archives room shares space with the Gallery, a place where we host wonderful art shows, interesting history exhibits, lectures by distinguished professors and exciting programs.

The glass windows separating the Gallery from the Archives were plain and unappealing. What if we used the glass windows as a permanent exhibit gallery?

 

 

I approached management with my idea and they asked me to research the logistics. Members of the Society of Florida Archivists provided general information about the process, known as one-way mesh window graphics.

 

We located a local vendor that the college has used for other projects and received an estimate to have the film generated and applied to the windows.
 

 

Once the project received approval, library staff selected four images representing various decades in the college history.

Since the film is one way mesh, Gallery visitors see the permanent exhibit of enlarged vintage images depicting scenes from our college's  illustrious history, and Archive visitors can see out
into the Gallery through the one way window mesh.

The window sign company created the graphics to our specifications and two installers custom hung the film in the windows. The vintage images lend a classy flair to our library Gallery and Archives.

 The completed Archive project!

Palm Beach State Archives 1933-2013

Thanks to our terrific 'Library Archives Team' for their dedication and for all their industrious work these past 7 months. Enjoy scrolling through memory lane below.  You might like to visit our digital archive website and read more about the 80 year history of Palm Beach State College. 



Here are some 'ole' pictures and a few historic pages from our college handbooks from the 1930's and 1940's that you might find very interesting!

 

 

1939-1940 

1938-1940

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.palmbeachstate.edu/library/lake-worth-library/college-archives.aspx