January/February Library News - Jan. '08

Greetings to all and a Happy New Year from the staff of the BMCC Library and Heritage Center. We wish to welcome everyone back to campus for what is hopefully a positive and productive semester for all. We also want to remind students, staff, and faculty about the various resources in the library which are available for your use.
We participate in a statewide inter – library loan system in which books arrive at the library every Tuesday and Friday at no charge to you whatsoever. The library also provides the following services and more to all patrons:

1. Black and White photocopying and document printing for only 5¢ per page.
2. Videotape and DVD movie rentals for only $1.00 for three days.
3. 20 free of charge internet capable computers.
4. A for fee fax service – Ask us how this works if you are interested.
5. Over 20 free academic research data bases – Ask us how this works if you are interested.
6. A quite study area in the library basement.
7. One PLATO learning station for academic tutorials in math, reading, and writing.

If you have questions about how to use the latest Microsoft Office Suite of programs such as Word 2007, PowerPoint 2007. Excel, 2007, or Access 2007 please feel free to ask us, and we can show you how to get started with these very latest programs from Microsoft Office. The library currently has half of our computers running Office 2007 (along the walls) and the other half of our computers (center island) still have Office 2003 installed, so whichever set of programs meets your academic needs they are here and ready for you to use.

December Library News - Dec. '07

Holiday Greetings to all from the staff at the BMCC Library and Heritage Center! As the end of another semester comes quickly near, and semester ending term papers are due in many classes, the library wants to let all BMCC students know that we have added Microsoft Word 2007 to half of the computers on the main floor of the library. Your library staff is proficient with the latest version of Word, and if you are typing up a last minute report, or term paper, and you want to use Word 2007 come in and ask us how. Word 2007 is loaded into the computers along the walls on the main floor, and the computers on the two center rows of tables still have Word 2003 in them for those of you who prefer that version of Word.

Here is a tip that many people might find very useful when working with Word 2007. If you are typing up a paper with Word 2007, but you have Word 2003 at home be sure to “Save” your document in what Word 2007 calls the “compatibility mode”, or when you get your document home to a computer with Word 2003 you will not be able to open it at all. The “compatibility mode” will allow you to open any Word documents with various versions of Word from 1997 – 2003. To find the “compatibility mode” you go to the “office button” which is located at the very upper left of the Word 2007 screen, click the circular shaped “office button”, and move your mouse down to where it says “Save As” and then slide your mouse pointer to the right  to where it says “Word 97 – 2003 Document” and then click your mouse, and your document is now saved in the “compatibility mode” which means you can work with it in any version of word since Word 1997.

In late November there were several student projects displayed on the walls of the library from Jan Miller’s MA 101 class, and Ildeko Mellis’s EN 105/106 class and her EN 111 class. These colorful student posters certainly brightened up the facility.
One last item worth mentioning about the library for December concerns the building’s hours of operation. The library will remain open for its regular hours of operation through the end of the day on December 14th, and then the building will be closed for the Holiday break period and reopen at 8:00 a.m.  for the Winter Semester on January 7th.

Happy Holidays from your library staff, Rick Elder, Patti Teeple, and Ammy Lameroux

November Library News – Nov. '07

In November the library hosted a large assortment of poster art projects which were produced by Idelko Melis’s HS 105/HS 106 class, and by Jan Miller’s MA 101 class. The students produced some very interesting poster art. The library was glad to display these items so that others from the campus community could view the posters.

October Library News - Oct. '07

In October the main noteworthy activity in the library was the fall library committee meeting.

BMCC Library Committee Meeting

October 10, 2007
1:30 p.m.

Meeting called by Rick Elder
Requested Attendees: Rick Elder, Patricia Croad-Teeple, Mickey Parish, Samantha Jackson Cameron, Nick Ferro, Chet Kasper, Debra McBain, Jason Klein

Topics for this meeting will include:

Recent Grant writing activities:

• Rick will report on his attendance at the Lewis and Clark conference in Chicago. He will also speak about the Lois Lensky-Covey Foundation grant application for children’s books. Rick will give an overview of the NEH Lets Talk Jewish Literature grant progress and the Bookshelf on Freedom grant application.
• Recent acquisitions of books and library usage statistics including the increase in students using the library main floor.
• Rick will inform the committee about the issues which transpired at the recent annual meeting of the Upper Peninsula Region of Library Cooperation meeting in Marquette which took place September 27th.
• Proposal of the Circulation Center/GED office area remodeling. What can be done to sound proof the library main floor office walls? Asset testing – another wide file cabinet is needed soon.
• For details of what took place at this meeting interested parties can click on the link on the library page titled … Library Committee WIKI.
  

More September Library News - Sept. '07

BMCC Library Receives Prestigious Grant

The college library wishes to announce to the college community that this library was one of only twenty-five libraries in the entire United States to receive a traveling exhibit grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. This library applied for two traveling grants which were available through the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) back in January of 2007. We received notification that we were indeed successful in achieving an award of the Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country Traveling Exhibit. This exhibit will be housed in the college library during the month of March in 2010. That does sound a long way off, but some of the libraries where the exhibit will be taken will not get it until 2012. The Lewis and Clark Exhibit will include actual artifacts from the trip made by the Corps of Discovery as they traveled on their multi-year mission on behalf of President Jefferson who had instructed Lewis and Clark to travel through what was then nearly unknown territory in the American west which had just recently been purchased from France (The Louisiana Purchase). The Corps of Discovery kept very detailed journals of their travels though the upper reaches of the American west all the way to the Pacific Ocean and back. Much of what is known by the modern historian today about the Native populations of the west at this time, and the pristine territory of which they traveled through, comes directly from the Journals of Lewis and Clark.

 Although the arrival of the actual exhibit on our campus is about 2 ½ years away it will be a very interesting and insightful exhibit to have on this campus due to the artifacts that will be on display, and the guest speakers who will come to the campus to discuss the impact and interactions of the Corps of Discovery upon Native peoples of this continent at that juncture in time of just over two-hundred years ago.

Library News for September 2007

Greetings to everyone from the campus library at Bay Mills Community College. Now that summer is waning into fall, and the weather is getting a bit crisper the staff at the Bay Mills Community College Library and Heritage Center want to remind everyone who may read this article about some of the great features you can come to the library and take advantage of during the autumn season.

First of all we want to remind the entire community that the library on the college campus is indeed a “public library” which is open to everyone, and nearly all of our services are free to the public (except for fax, photo copies, and video/DVD rental).If you have never visited the library we encourage you to do so in order to see for yourself what we have here at the library. Modern libraries are much more than places that just have books on shelves.

The BMCC Library and Heritage Center has 20 internet capable computers for both student and public usage. These computers have many of the most modern programs that people find useful today. The computers can all be used free of any fees (other than a five cent charge for printed black and white copies).

The library has a large collection of books and films on Native American topics.

The library has a collection of many recent DVD’s and video taped movies which may be rented for 3 days for only $1.00.

The library has many current magazines on Native American themes such as Native Peoples, Indian Education Today, Winds of Change, and Whispering Wind along with Time, US News and World Report, and the Reader’s Digest and many more; all of which can be checked out by library patrons.

The library moved its reference area into the lower level of the building last year, and in the reference area we also have a microfilm, and microfiche reader available for public usage at no charge.

The upstairs portion of the library building contains the Heritage Center which is a museum of Native American Artifacts. Admission to the museum is free of charge.

Recently over this past summer new entrance ways were added to the library building which makes access to all floors much easier for everyone. There is an entrance to the elevator is on the north side of the building facing the lake which also makes handicapped access to the building very achievable. The elevator is open whenever the library itself is open.

The library is open when the college is in session and a bit beyond just when the college has ongoing classes.

The library is open for the fall and winter semesters from 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and we are open on Fridays from 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. and from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. on Saturdays. The library is closed on Sundays, and legal holidays. Our academic year schedule will start as soon as a student assistant is in place within a week or so of this publication. The library will post notices around campus as to when the evening hours will begin.

This library also provides a free inter-library loan program to all patrons and the library gets twice a week delivery of books through the inter-library loan program. Please feel free to ask us how the inter-library loan program

 

The “We the People Bookshelf on Freedom”

 

The BMCC Library wishes to make the college community at large aware that we have once again been a recipient of the prestigious “We the People Bookshelf on Freedom” grant. The library at the Bay Mills Community College is the only tribal college library in America to have received this grant this past year. Due to our dual focus as both an academic and public library Rick Elder, Library Director, feels that this is the reason this college was successful in getting this grand for the past three years. The We the People Bookshelf program is in its third year, and the grant for this program came from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The books in this program are aimed at readers from grades one right through adulthood. Some of the thirty-seven books in this collection are…

• Aesop’s Fables.
• O Pioneers!
• The Great Gatsby
• The Great Migration
• Leaves of Grass
• These Happy Golden Years
• And The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung

These books are kept in a section by themselves on the north side of the building near the large American flag which flew over the United States Capitol on Veterans Day of 2005. Please stop into the library to check out these interesting books.

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