Luria Library

Beginning on July 1, 2008, the Luria Library will use EBSCOhost as our lead online article vendor. After nearly a decade of using ProQuest, we will begin to use the world’s most comprehensive scholarly full-text database, providing twenty unique databases for our students, faculty, and staff. With over 12,000 publications indexed and over 8,000 full text publications, students will have easy access to the highest ranked journals in many disciplines. According to a Library Journal survey, EBSCOhost is the “overwhelmingly” most used for-fee online research tool in the universities in the United States. EBSCOhost databases include:

Join Santa Barbara City College Intercultural Communications Club as they sponsor Pangea Days on our campus. According to the organizers, "Pangea Day seeks to overcome that — to help people see themselves in others — through the power of film."

The library is happy to offer to additions for the next two weeks:

• Extended Library Hours - Open Saturday and Sunday
  
• Gaming in the Library - Wii Sports
  

Levine wrote, "If individuals age thirty-five and under are classified as "native gamers," then today's college students are situated in the middle of the proverbial bell curve.

According to the American Library Association, "summer reading programs began in the 1890s" and are "geared for reading for the fun of it." With the semester rapidly coming to a close, many of us will head off for vacation or home or just to the beach. The National Resource Center has a list of colleges with summer reading programs. In fact, last year an article in the New York Times highlighted summer reading for first year college students.

I've got a bunch of books on my reading shelf, so I hope to get through a few. Top of the list is My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro and Queen's Shadow Queen of the Orcs. What book do you recommend to read this summer? Use the comment link below to share your ideas.

The library will have limited hours and services for the next several weeks. The circulation areas will be closed, but the Cyber Center will be open. Beginning Tuesday, May 27 our hours of operation are:

• Monday - Thursday, 9:00am to 2:00pm
• Closed Friday through Sunday

We will reopen for summer session on June 16 at 8:00am. If you have any questions, please call us at 805-730-4430.