Panola College – students’ exhibit

This week until the end of finals, M.P. Baker Library will showcase our students’ wonderful ceramics, photography and art work. Creativity and talents abound. We encourage everyone to come and see the exhibit, but for those who are unable to be in campus due to schedule, deadlines, tests, grading, etc, we proudly present you the display– virtually.  Kudos to Mrs. Ann Boland, Mrs. Teresa Beasley and most of all our students–Margie Rankin, Tara Overton, Nelly Zuniga, Diane Lomas, Lacie Lindsey, Ralph Marshall, Chase Whidden, Sonia Kleindienst, Shelly Caraway, Lily Marshall, Sam Burnett, Britanny Marx.  

 

   

 

  

   

     

  

 

 

ScienceDirect

We recently added a database to our list of subscriptions–ScienceDirect as the name suggests is a database with heavy concentration on the sciences. M.P. Baker Library students and faculty will have access to high quality journal articles in the Physical Sciences area including chemistry, earth sciences, mathematics, physics and astronomy; Life Sciences including agriculture & biological sciences, environmental sciences; Health Sciences including medicine, nursing and allied health.  Citations and abstracts in the Social Sciences & Humanities fields such as arts, business, accounting, economics, finance & psychology are also available.

This database maintains more than 2,500 journals and users will have access to almost nine million full-text articles. In addition, it allows the Library to license journal content to subject-specific journal collection such as Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. In other words with this subscription, our faculty and students will have access to current and back file issues of this journal.

Library building

Pardon our noise and dust (in this case excuse our mud!) but as we start the New Year so is our expansion work. We ask for your indulgence as we try to get around the construction area as well as the inconveniences, i.e., network downtime, central heat and any other disruptions that may occur. We will look at these experiences as–growing pains. We will have snapshots of before and after event and will try to keep you posted as we go along with the project. In the meantime we will be in a ‘business as usual’ mode and try to provide you resources and services with our outmost and efficient manner.  Please let the Library Staff know needs or concerns that you might have and let us work together as we look forward to a beautiful and expanded facility that we and the community can be proud of.

        

   

Art and Photography display

M.P. Baker Library is hosting Mrs. Teresa Beasley’s Photography class and Mrs. Ann Boland’s Art class exhibits. These are pieces that students have created consisting of photographs, original prints and ceramics. We have a lot of talented and creative students. We will display their work in the Library until Dec. 7th.  Please come and see these wonderful collection and support our students. Here are samples of the exhibit.

             

          

GIS Day Lunchbox Lecture

   Held each year on the Wednesday of National Geographic Society’s Geography Awareness Week (November 11–17 in 2007), GIS Day is a global event that celebrates geographic information system (GIS) technology, the innovative technology that uses geography to bring countless benefits to the world. In celebration of GIS Day, the M.P. Baker Library will sponsor its second annual GIS Day Lunchbox Lecture on Wednesday, November 14 at 12:00 p.m. in the library. The event is free and open to the public. We will feature Dr. David Kulhavy, SFA Professor of Forest Entomology and Landscape Ecology and keynote speaker will be Dr. Dan Unger, SFA Associate Professor of Remote Sensing and GIS. GPS units will be used for hands-on demonstration and there will be series of poster projects available at the event.

Dr. Bug to visit Panola College

Dr. David Kulhavy, also known as “Dr. Bug” by thousands of students and teachers across the nation, will be the featured speaker of the next Lunchbox Lecture to be hosted by the staff of the M.P. Baker Library of Panola College. The Library gratefully acknowledges the Biology Science students in co-sponsoring the event.

 The event will be held on October 31, 2007 at noon in the library. The community is invited to join the faculty, staff, and students for this special programming.  

Dr. Kulhavy has developed an educational program to bring entomology to classrooms. Piper Professor of Forest Entomology and Landscape Ecology in the Arthur Temple College of Forestry at Stephen F. Austin State University, Dr. Kulhavy received the Distinguished teaching Award in Entomology from the Entomological Society of American in 1993 and has been awarded the regional National Association of Interpretation award for his interpretations of Dr. Dave’s Bugs.

Dr. Kulhavy is best known for his lively portrayal of a giant ladybird beetle and was featured in Discover magazine as part of Insect Expo ’92 in Baltimore, Maryland. His credo of teaching is “Curiosity, Enthusiasm, and Observation” to instill into students a real desire to learn.

Nursing Resource Center

M.P. Baker Library recently acquired a new database subscription–Nursing Resource Center. Designed for nursing students, this database brings together in an easy-to-use interface disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts. The information is written in accessible language for students completing class assignments and preparing for clinicals as they learn how to care for and treat patients. Search results are returned in tabs that correspond to steps in the nursing process. See slides tutorial—Nursing Resource Center.

East Texas colloquy with Mr. Bob Bowman

 

Historian Mr. Bob Bowman will be our guest speaker for our next lunchbox lecture at noon in the Library on Oct. 15, 2007. Mr. Bowman and his wife Doris have written 37 books and won numerous awards. Mr. Bowman is a member of the Texas Historical Commission, former president of the East Texas Historical Association. He served on the Texas Sesquicentennial Commission and the Texas Capitol Centennial Commission. Mr. Bowman has been known to be called “the people’s historian” because his writings reflect down-to-earth East Texas history—forgotten towns, good ol’ boy expressions, historic murders, unusual cemetery markers, home remedies and other subjects beloved by East Texans. M. P. Baker Library in cooperation with our Liberal and Fine Arts Department and the B.F. and Mary Payne Fund for the Preservation of Texas Culture proudly presents an East Texas colloquy with Mr. Bob Bowman. Light lunch will be served. The event is free and open to our community.

Kudos – Dr. Jeff McInnis

A member of our Panola College faculty, Dr. Jeff McInnis has written a book recently–Shadows and Chivalry: C.S. Lewis and George MacDonald on Suffering, Evil and Goodness. It is part of the series Studies in Christian History and Thought. The book was published in the United Kingdom and made available to you by your college library. In quoting one of Baylor University’s distinguished professors, David Lyle Jeffrey—“Jeff McInnis has written a book that henceforth will be indispensable to all students of C.S. Lewis who seek to understand the oft-mentioned but till now not fully fathomed debt of his literary and theological imagination to George MacDonald. His well conceived study has the further benefit of doing considerable justice to the angular graces of MacDonald’s anti-Calvinistic understanding of redemption.”  

Panola College/M.P. Baker Library has proudly undertaken the project of promoting Dr. McInnis’s book. This scholarly publication is offered to you at $40.00 per copy. For your convenience an order form is attached. Proceeds from the book sale will go towards our expansion project, so please join us in supporting this endeavor.

Panola College/ M.P. Baker Library – Blog about books

The purpose of the M.P. Baker Library of Panola College  is to be an academic Learning Resource Center for the students and faculty of the College. The staff strives to offer esources and services, when and where they are needed, to enhance the development of the whole student and to offer opportunities for students to become life-long learners.

This week’s highlight are resources in the area of PHOTOGRAPHY that we recently added in our collection.

  Night and low-light techniques in digital photography by Peter Cope.  Cope, a professional photographer, presents digital photography techniques for night or low-light situations. He gives tips on photography sunrises and sunsets, low-light images, lightning, city lights, fireworks, and portraits. Common problems and solutions are illustrated with color before-and-after photos.

    The Ultimate field guide to photography by the National Geographic Society. From the world’s best photographers, this comprehensive how-to makes it easy to master digital and film techniques alike. It’s a durable, inclusive, invaluable resource for everyone, from casual snapshooters to serious amateurs.

   Publishing photography by Richard Weisgrau. Got pictures? Here’s the complete guide to getting those images published. Magazines, newspapers, books, posters, Web sites, greeting cards, calendars, brochures, paper products, packaging, displays, print and Web ads, annual reports, CD-ROMs, and more–the market for photography is ever-expanding, and Publishing Photography reveals exactly how to sell into unexpected markets and improve a career with every publication.