Thursday, April 18, 2013

Library EduStations

Good morning, everyone!

We want to support and include all students and staff and truly let each of you know that “You Belong Here”.  Therefore, the EduStations Online Tour & Survey is up online allowing you to partake from afar for a chance to win the Nook Simple Touch Reader.  Just go to the Mildred Johnson Library Home Page at the following link and complete the brief tour and survey.


Please note we welcome all your ideas as students, staff, employees, and faculty.  We want to support you in your journey of learning and educating, as we all do both daily.  Feel free to contact us with your questions and ideas.  If you have any EduStation concepts you would like to see implemented I would love to hear them!

Learning should feel limitless…

Enjoy this snowy April Thursday & Happy National Library Week from all of us at the Mildred Johnson Library!

Tina

Friday, April 12, 2013

National Library Week 2013


Come celebrate with us…
The Mildred Johnson Library is proud to celebrate National Library Week, April 14-19, 2013.  We invite you to share in the celebration throughout the week.  In particular, on Tuesday April 16th  in the afternoon from 1 to 4 pm in the afternoon we will be initiating the beginning of EduStations featuring EduTools.  Educational learning stations to “learn by doing” for NDSCS students, staff, and faculty to use to promote learning!  Did we mention if you visit all the stations plus take a survey, you can register for a chance to win a NOOK Simple Touch Reader!
The EduStations are:
·        Curriculum Topic areas including 3-D Learning Tools (Featured area is Allied Health)

·        Dry Erase Easel for collective/individual creative brainstorming.

·        Interactive Games – Board games for social interaction.

·        Mango (an interactive language program) allowing you to learn up to 41 languages with ESL components.

·        The Barnes and Noble Nook for check-out.

·        Last, but not least, the Apple TV & iPads (3) allowing you to wirelessly connect to a station and have small or large group discussions.

o   Utilizing the Apple TV and iPad a sample training will be demonstrated with Overdrive.

·        Other ideas are in motion and suggestions are encouraged!
From 3-D curriculum-related learning tools to an Apple TV and iPad accessibility, the stations are in early development and will grow based on your suggestions, needs, and wants.  Please contact Tina Grenier for additional ideas at 701-671-2612 or Tina.Grenier@ndscs.edu.  In the meantime, check out the stations that are up!
Note:  A video will be available online in conjunction with the survey Wednesday April 17th for NDSCS Fargo and those otherwise unable to attend in person.

Monday, June 11, 2012

Two free audiobooks each week from Overdrive

A great program from Overdrive - you can download two free audiobooks every week starting June 14th until the end of August. The program is called SYNC and the website is www.audiobooksync.com

Every week SYNC will release two different titles that you can download and then listen to whenever you like.  All you need is OverDrive Media Console, either on your computer or you can download the mobile app.

In order you to access these free audiobooks you will need to go to www.audiobooksync.com  Check with the library if you have questions that their site doesn't answer.  We'll find out!

Friday, June 8, 2012

Our GoodReads account

Did you know?  MJLibrary has an account with GoodReads.  For those of you looking for the new books in the library or for some ideas on things to read that we can lend you, go to http://goodreads.com/MJLibrary to see what is listed.  Then stop by the library and see what else we have - over 65,000 items at last count!

Friday, May 25, 2012

APA citations available from Films on Demand


APA Citations
Films On Demand now features APA citations for every video on the platform. Users can toggle among the radio buttons to select either Modern Language Association (MLA), Chicago Manual of Style , or American Psychological Association (APA) style. The citation will automatically change depending on the selected format. These dynamic citations make it a breeze for researchers to include videos in bibliographies for reports and papers.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Summer Registration Dates

Summer Registration Dates for new students (starting classes in the fall, 2012) have been scheduled. If you are on campus, take time to visit the library and meet the staff, who are here to help you!
WAHPETON DATES:
June 8
June 9
July 9
August 6
August 20
FARGO DATES:
June 12
July 2
July 17
July 30
August 10 (Paramedic Only)
August 17 (Pathway Only)
August 21
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES:
Check in time: 7:45 am
Welcome: 9:00 am
Testing: 9:45 am
No Testing students to register: 9:45 am
Tested students register: After testing is completed
OPTIONAL activities:
Tours of residence halls
Family Orientation

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Finalists for the New Andrew Carnegie Medal

Here are the 2012 finalists:
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction:

The Forgotten Waltz, by Anne Enright
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published by W. W. Norton & Company

Lost Memory of Skin, by Russell Banks,
published by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Swamplandia!, by Karen Russell,
published by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction:

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, by Robert K. Massie, published by Random House, an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, by James Gleick, published by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, by Manning Marable,
published by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA)


Information taken from Booklist, May 17, 2012, ALA Publishing.