Technology Tuesday: The Library on Youtube

Learn more about what you can do through the Southern Crescent Technical College Libraries with our new Youtube page!  You can take a virtual tour of GALILEO, get a crash course in our library website, or browse some of the links we've liked on Youtube.

Our channel is still a work in progress, so if you have any ideas of videos or tutorials you'd want to see from the library, let us know!

INFOGRAPHIC: What are you reading this summer?

Everybody a loves a good flowchart - especially when that chart helps you sort through all the options of new, classic, fiction, and non-fiction you could be reading out by the pool.  This handy infographic from Teach.com  guides you through some of the best summer reading out there, whether you're interested in time travel, family drama or the Spanish Civil War.

So what will you be reading this summer?  Personally, I'm working through The Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin - not completely seasonally appropriate, seeing as the tag line is 'Winter is Coming.'  Leave us a note in the comments, or see the full flowchart at the Teach.com website!

Technology Tuesday: Texture and touch screens

When we talk about mobile devices, the idea of what the screen feels like usually doesn't come up.  Tactus Technology aims to change that with their new Tactile Layer interface, which transforms your touch screen into a 3D screen with physical buttons you can actually push.  Once you turn off your phone, the buttons smooth out and fade away into a normal touch screen.

How does it work?  To learn more about this brand new tech, check out this article on TG Daily by Trent Nouveau:

"Mobile Tactile Tech Gets Physical"

Check out Kindles at the library!

Amazon Kindle 3 3G by Jules Holleboom, on Flickr

Calling all e-book readers!  Whether you already get most of your books online or are just curious about how Kindles work, you can explore the e-book world by checking out Kindles at both the Griffin and Flint River campus libraries.

Kindles can be checked out like regular library books - with your Southern Crescent ID - for two weeks at a time.  We're working on building up our e-book collection, so if you have any suggestions for titles we should add, feel free to leave them in the comments!

Right now, by checking out a Kindle you can read:

• The Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins
• The Help, Kathryn Stockett
• Love is Letting Go of Fear, Gerald Jampolsky
• Eragon, Christopher Paolini
• One for the Money, Janet Evanovich
• Deliver Me From Evil, Mary Monroe
• 11/22/63, Stephen King
• No Matter What!: 9 Steps to Living the Life You Love, Lisa Nichols
• Race to the Rumble #1 (WWE), Tracey West
• The Science of God, Gerald Schroeder
• The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, Brian Greene
• The Lucky One, Nicholas Sparks
• Vampire Academy, Richelle Mead
• The Morganville Vampires series, Rachel Caine
• Dinners Made Easy, Stonyfield Farm
• My Best Dessert: Easy Recipes, Risapkus
• Silent Kills, C.E. Lawrence

Maurice Sendak, Children's Author, Dies at 83

If you've ever joined the wild rumpus where the wild things are, or took some cautionary advice from Pierre, your life has been touched in some small way by author Maurice Sendak.  The visionary children's writer and artist died today at the age of 83, following a stroke.  He leaves behind him a rich, strange, and beautiful collection of work.  

My favorite was always Chicken Soup with Rice - a poem my sister and I used to chant as kids whenever we got sick and had to live off of soup and rice.  What's your favorite Sendak book?  What memories do you connect with the stories he wrote?

Student Spotlight: Sherry Caldwell

Blue Eyes, Skies and Why's
by Sherry Caldwell, SCTC student

People have blue eyes
Whether born with them or added on
We need them to see
Because, one day they will be gone

Blue skies are up so high
We tend to see them
Only to dream that one day
We will go to meet Him

The question is why so high or blue
We as people will need
the answer of merely
Blue eyes, skies and why's creed.

June Book Club: Reader's Choice!

Place your vote for the book we'll be reading for June Book Club reading!  We’ve gone with a spooky theme for the month of June – click the survey link to choose from:

* Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
* The Shining – Stephen King

* Dracula – Bram Stoker
* The Stand – Stephen King

* Game of Thrones – George RR Martin

* Or write in your own choice!

Fill out the survey through this link - or leave your choice in the comments section!

Book Club will meet again on June 28^th – hope we’ll see you there!