Music Online Trial

Butler Libraries is participating in a trial of Music Online: Premium. Please join us in examining the usefulness of this database.

COLLECTION OVERVIEW:
With Music Online: Premium, Alexander Street Press aims to provide the most comprehensive database in streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web. Music Online: Premium allows users cross search all of the music databases published by Alexander Street Press. Currently Music Online: Premium contains:
• 904,000+ audio tracks
• 124,000+ pages of full-text reference
• 26,000+ scores (454,000+ pages)
• 1,300+ hours of streaming video

Music Online: Premium includes all of the following Alexander Street collections bundled together:
• Classical Music Library (Audio)
• Smithsonian Global Sound (Audio)
• Jazz Music Library (Audio)
• American Song (Audio)
• Contemporary World Music (Audio)
• Classical Scores Library (Text)
• Classical Scores Library: Volume II (Text)
• Opera in Video
• Dance in Video
• Classical Music in Video
• The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online (Text)
• Classical Music Reference Library (Text)
• African American Music Reference (Text)
• Plus 149,000+ tracks of "popular" music from dozens of different genres. (Audio)

Music Online: Premium supports many of your courses with content relevant to music theory, music history, music appreciation, history, social studies, anthropology, and more.


TRIAL ACCESS Active Through June 10, 2013

http://music.alexanderstreet.com

HELPFUL LINKS:
• Online Video Tutorials
• Title List:
• Technical Support: support@alexanderstreet.com
• Product Questions: dtidd@alexanderstreet.com

Thank you for participating in a trial. Please let me know of any questions you may have.

DEWEY Winner Announced

Congratulations to our Butler Libraries 4th DEWEY Award Winner, Jeff Tymony, Professor of Criminal Justice/Sociology here at Butler Community College, was nominated by Librarian Martha Gregg.

To describe this outstanding faculty member's use of the library, she wrote:

Jeff is one of a dwindling number of instructors who insist on the importance of critical thinking and other skills being imparted to his students through the writing of a full scale research paper. He does not take NO for an answer – and insists upon each of his students understanding the process of research, outlines, drafts, and most importantly, the final completion of their papers. Yet, he guides them each step of the way in this process. He has stated that he wants to them succeed at a higher educational level, where these skills will be necessary for their continued success. These skills involve using the library collection, databases, an understanding of plagiarism and citing sources, writing, grammar and spelling, and organization.

Another important thing he does is accustom his students to being in the library and asking the library staff for help, thereby overcoming their fears of asking about and using its many resources. What Jeff does superbly well is teach - in the truest sense of the word - by ensuring his students come away with resources useful for their future academic and personal success. He doesn't let them off the hook!

Jeff, on a personal level, also uses the library and makes an effort to keep up with its new materials and online resources. He makes suggestions for purchases of materials that other instructors have found very useful in their teaching. He keeps up to date on the latest titles in the criminal justice and sociology fields, helping library staff do the same. His input is greatly appreciated, and his efforts have enhanced the library collection and its use by Butler students.

Libraries and Authors

The president of the American Library Association, Maureen Sullivan, responds to an Op-Ed article by Scott Turow.

We take issue with Scott Turow’s April 8 Op-Ed article, “The Slow Death of the American Author.”

First, librarians love authors. Our business is knowledge-building and imagination, and writers form the backbone of our nonprofit exercise in supporting and promoting lifelong learning....

Read the rest here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/opinion/libraries-and-authors.html?smid=pl-share

DEWEY Award Nominees

It’s National Library Week, and this library is proud to announce the nominees of the DEWEY Award of Butler Community College Libraries. Congratulations to the following faculty members who were nominated by students, staff, or faculty to receive the 2013 faculty award:

Sue Cecil
Amber Celestine
June Costin
Robin Crowe
Yolonda Jarman
Kay Metzinger
Jeff Tymony
Henry Waters
Matt Webster

Please join us in applauding their efforts and awarding the final winner at a reception in the
El Dorado Library (600 Building) on May 1, 2013, at 11:00 am.

Micaela Ayers
Director, Library Services
Butler Community College
901 S. Haverhill Road
El Dorado, KS 67042

Civil Rights Working in Kansas

The director of our museum in El Dorado writes, on April 12, 2013, inviting all to an important event in El Dorado:

Mindy Tallent
Executive Director, Butler County History Center
316.321.9333
www.kansasoilmuseum.org

Presentation Explores Impact of Civil Rights Movement in Kansas

El Dorado, KS – Butler County History Center and Kansas Oil Museum will host “Civil Rights Working in Kansas,” a presentation and discussion by Gretchen Cassel Eick on April 26th, 2013 at 7 pm at the museum, located at 383 E. Central, El Dorado, KS. Members of the community are invited to attend the free program. Contact the History Center at 316.321.9333 for more information. The program is made possible by the Kansas Humanities Council.

Prior to the Civil Rights movement, employment discrimination kept African Americans confined to low-pay work, and in the southern states they were vulnerable to arrest for “vagrancy,” only to be released to businesses to “work off their fines.” Eick will discuss this type of discrimination in Kansas and how Civil Rights advocates forced state and national government agencies to alter their policies.

Gretchen Cassel Eick is an historian and professor at Friends University in Wichita. Her book, Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-1972 won three awards and sparked museum exhibits and commemorations of the 1958 Dockum Drug Store sit-in, the first successful student led sit-in.


“At one time Kansas' state employment agencies openly discriminated against persons of color despite anti-discrimination laws,” Eick said. “But some Kansans organized the first successful student-led sit-ins, and a Kansan led the movement to make the NAACP address economic inequalities. How we work in Kansas today is the result of advocacy for open hiring of all qualified people regardless of ethnic background.”

“Civil Rights Working in Kansas” is part of the Kansas Humanities Council’s The Way We Worked Speakers Bureau, featuring presentations and discussions examining the theme of work and working in Kansas and how these stories help define us.

To kick off the evening, the museum is hosting a Preview Party, starting at 6 pm, featuring five new exhibits, a new website and new microfilm reader in their research library. Additionally, wine and refreshments will be served.

The Kansas Humanities Council conducts and supports community-based programs, serves as a financial resource through an active grant-making program, and encourages Kansans to engage in the civic and cultural life of their communities. For more information about KHC programs contact the Kansas Humanities Council at 785/357-0359 or visit online at www.kansashumanities.org.

For more information about “Civil Rights Working in Kansas” contact the Butler County History Center at 316.321.9333 or visit www.kansasoilmuseum.org

Librarian Position Open

At Butler Community College (http://www.butlercc.edu/general/Annual_Report.pdf), the library meets student needs for resources, for information instruction, for a place to gather, and for fast and friendly library services. We provide a variety of learning-centered resources, services, and facilities to support a diverse community; encourage student success, academic achievement, and lifelong learning; and to enhance teaching excellence.

We are currently seeking applications through April 17 for the following position, located in El Dorado, Kansas.

Librarian, Public and Technical Services
Full-time

DUTIES AND REQUIREMENTS:
The Public and Technical Services Librarian is responsible for the outstanding customer service of the L.W. Nixon Library for Butler Community College. The Librarian manages all Butler Libraries’ cataloging through proficiency in the Library Management System software (currently Agent Verso); provides for and controls the circulation services at Andover 5000 and L.W. Nixon library; and in El Dorado, supervises and trains student workers; manages Library Latte coffee shop; assists in library instruction; and accomplishes any other duties requested by the Director. The Public and Technical Services Librarian reports to the Director of Library Services.

Required Knowledge and Skills:
Must be able to teach a class in information literacy competency. Must also have knowledge of and skills in management and supervisory process requiring independent judgment; knowledge of general library administrative procedures, cataloging and acquisitions; knowledge of Library Management System software to produce public service and technical services; the ability to create policies and procedures in areas of responsibility, and interpret those set by the Library Director and the institution; the ability to analyze library problems and formulation of original and creative solutions for them; knowledge of online and physical collections of the Butler Libraries as they relate to academic needs, and skill in sharing that knowledge with students; the ability to assist library users and co-workers in a friendly, professional manner.; the ability to organize tasks, to communicate effectively, and to give instructions; and the ability to keep up with the latest in technological innovations used in the library.

Required Experience includes: two years’ experience in a public, school or academic library; circulation/Public Services experience performing research within a library, using a variety of library resources; experience in instruction and/or teaching; supervisory and administrative experience; and cataloging experience. Food Service experience preferred.

Required Educational Background is a Master’s degree. Preference is for a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science (M.L.S.) or equivalent degree from an ALA accredited institution, but acceptable alternatives include Master’s in education or related area, with state certification as a school librarian. The applicant may be requested to authorize the College to procure a consumer report(s) for employment purposes.
Location: El Dorado campus

SALARY: Commensurate with education and experience, with range from $36,550 - $54,826. Full fringe benefits.

APPLICATION: Please submit a cover letter, resume and transcripts to:
Human Resources
Butler Community College
901 S. Haverhill Rd.
El Dorado, KS 67042
mhelton2@butlercc.edu
DEADLINE: Position open until April 17, 2013.
Butler Community College is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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April is National Poetry Month

Your favorite poem?

DEWEY Award nominations dues tomorrow!

Nominations for the DEWEY award close on April 2.
Your nomination can make this award happen for a faculty member you appreciate!
Please use this form.

What is it?
The DEWEY Award annually recognizes a faculty member who is an outstanding user of the Butler library. Nominate someone who provides:

• innovative, consistent, effective use of the library in teaching
• program activities that bring students and/or the community into the library
• promotion, encouragement or support of the library and its resources and services
• contributions towards thoughtful, timely, and in-depth resource development

Since faculty model Butler’s principles and timeless values to students so closely, this award serves to recognize an extraordinary developer of library users of a new generation. We applaud the faculty’s valuable contribution to the education of our students.

What is won?
The DEWEY Award consists of recognition to be announced by the VP of Academic Affairs and the Library Director on April 17 during National Library week. Furthermore, our winning faculty member is awarded:
• $500 grant to select books for the library in their subject area
• $50 Barnes and Noble gift certificate to purchase books for self-inspiration presented in a lovely basket of goodies
• An appearance on library READ posters around the institution and permanently framed in the library (a print is giving to the winner)
• Library bookmarks, using the images from the READ poster (photos for READ Poster and bookmarks may be submitted or taken by Media or Library Staff after the announcement)
• A permanent position in the library on the Award plaque listing all winners since 2010

How do I nominate someone?
Nominations may come through from faculty; staff, including library staff; administration; and students (no self-referrals). Click on this link and fill out the form today:
http://butlercatalog.butlercc.edu/forms/Library_DEWEY.cfm

Micaela

Disappearing World Series

Disappearing World Now Appearing on Films On Demand

Films On Demand is continually growing, with thousands of new videos added each year from outstanding producers. We're delighted to spotlight for you one of the many new series now available on our platform: the acclaimed Disappearing World series.
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Disappearing World, the classic, long-running anthropological series, spans the globe to document “disappearing” or forgotten peoples, communities, and customs. Now part of the Films On Demand platform, this 35-part series is chock-full of fascinating ethnographic content.

Recorded between 1970 and 1991, these films—featuring leading scholars of the day, such as Elizabeth Fernea and Owen Lattimore—study rituals and ways of life, exploring critical issues of transition or survival facing ancient tribes, indigenous cultures, and other minority groups. From the Mursi nomads of Ethiopia and Asante market women of Ghana to the Vlach Gypsies of Hungary and sherpas of Nepal, Disappearing World presents gripping footage of peoples, events, and places—before then rarely seen by Western eyes—amid profound and irreversible change.
Like other videos in Films On Demand, Disappearing World titles:
• are iPad, PC, Mac, and Android friendly
• are divided into predefined clips so users can find content more easily—perfect for in-class use
• include closed-captioning and feature interactive transcripts.
Check out the Disappearing World series today! Find it quickly by typing series item number 49216 in the Films On Demand search box.

(from the FOD folks)

Women's History Month

Celebrating women of color, one girl at a time
Posted on March 13, 2013

—Andreana Clay