League for Innovations Writes about Butler Program

Member Spotlight: Butler Community College

Early College Health Sciences Academy

The Early College Health Sciences Academy received some welcome recognition when described in the League for Innovations March 13 League Connections. As they noted:

South-Central Kansas high school students interested in careers in health-care professions have found a low-cost, high impact way to get a head start on their college education. The Butler Community College Early College Health Science Academy (ECHSA) offers an exceptional opportunity for students to integrate the last two years of high school with the first two years of college.

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The program has proven to be very successful. Since its inception in 2011, the number of ECHSA students has grown sixty-four percent. ECHSA students have been very successful academically; 100% of the students have passed the CNA licensing exam, and a significant number of the students are already employed in health-related positions, where they are gaining experience while benefitting financially. ECHSA students are able to move into health/science careers earlier and be better prepared for success than traditional high school students.

Early college expansion plans are already underway at Butler Community College. Three additional early college programs are in the development stage and projected to start in fall 2013.

Kudos to program director Dr. Marcy Aycock, ECHSA Director, 316-776-9429, seen below on the left.

Want to take EBSCO with you?

All those magazine and journal articles? All the eBooks? EBSCO is available on your iPhone or Android device...

How to:

Go get the EBSCO app from the iTunes Store or Google Play. You can either enter as a guest or click on HELP. This will tell you to go to your library website (Butler - or any library in Kansas, go State Library!). Log on to EBSCO using your Pipeline username and password, just like everything else.

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February Newsbank

NEWSBANK SPECIAL REPORTS
February 2013 - Update

NewsBank’s Special Reports are news articles, images, videos and other useful content grouped for convenience under specific topics and themes. Easily accessible within NewsBank resources, they enable users to quickly locate information on a specific subject while helping them gain better insight into current issues and events on a global scale. Each Report features current and retrospective coverage, and new articles are added daily. Special Reports constitute a unique value to your users, and are included with your NewsBank subscription. There are over 50 Reports to be sure the information you need is always available.

All Special Reports are accessed from the left side bar on your online resource menu page at infoweb.newsbank.com, on search screens and the Other NewsBank Products link in full-text newspaper products. We suggest adding a link to these Reports on your library webpage under all relevant subject areas.

Following is a listing of some of the Special Reports that may be of particular interest to you at this time.

Watch for the release of additional current events and issues featured throughout the month as news happens.

February Topics and Monthly Themes
Celebrating Black History Month
School Security and Safety
World Health – National Heart Month
World Economics
Issues in the News

Additional featured Reports covering current issues and events
Natural Disasters
World Environment
World Politics and Government
Science and Health in the News
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Film and Television – News and Awards

As always, we welcome suggestions for new topics of interest to you and your users for additional Special Reports.

Sincerely,

Phyllis Comrie
Director, Marketing and Product Content
NewsBank, inc.
pcomrie@newsbank.com

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Newsbank is found within EBSCO or view it as a standalone database on our website at Butler Libraries. -- Micaela

Prof. Tymony's Criminal Justice Display

Jeff Tymony contributed from his own collection of Criminal Justice resources, and we selected a few titles from the library collection for this display.

For a closer look, come visit at BOE 600 Building, 2nd floor: L.W. Nixon Library.

EBSCO's Literary Reference Center Enhancements

EBSCO announces that Literary Reference Center database now includes several new features:

• An enhanced contemporary home/landing page aligning with the new companion product Poetry & Short Story Reference Center
• Ability to Browse “Full Text Classics” from the landing page
• A Dynamic Timeline visible on the landing page
• Book Carousel
• Standard EBSCOhost tools such as Citation Tool (Cite, Export, etc.)
• Interface Translation
• Text-to-Speech functionality
• PDF Viewer for PDF full text
• Curriculum Standards Tool accessible from the Reference Shelf
• “Peer Review” limiter available from Advanced Search screen
• Radio buttons for known-item searching

To learn more about Literary Reference Center, please visit this page:
http://www.ebscohost.com/public/literary-reference-center

Faculty Return! Potpourri Library News, Spring 2013

Welcome back, good to see all the faculty on campus again!

Ponder how many of you have now used an eBook. Perhaps it was on a personal eReader like the Nook, Kindle, or Sony … or on your smart phone …or a tablet… laptop … desktop …Used it for reading the latest John Grisham or classic Jane Austen … or while doing research… From a show of hands at the faculty meeting this morning, it looked to be about 50% attending.

Now for the library news here at Butler:

First of all, the library is adding a subscription to approximately 100,000 academic eBooks. You’ll find them through our EBSCO database.

Now, I have another question. How many of you remember what PDA is?

Ah, PDA… Public Display of Affection

And when we got a little older, it was that little electronic device, the

Personal Digital Assistant

Now the PDA acronym panoply enlarges again:

Patron Driven Acquisition – PDA of eBooks.

Patron Driven Acquisition is library jargon for allowing students, staff and faculty to choose what they read, and only then charge the library for the book.

It will work through our catalog, with three main triggers for purchase.

After an eBook is discovered, we buy it when:

• it is read for 10 minutes or ten pages;
• or portions are printed, emailed or copied;
• or the entire thing is downloaded.

We have options from 300,000 books, and will select certain subject sets to choose from. I invite you to please feel free to express your thoughts about this.

An update on Films on Demand – we’ve been working with the vendor on this. Call Aaron Brown x6326 when and if you experience delays. He needs to know which classroom; what time any slowing occurs. Thanks!

Our other news is about library people. Judy Bastin introduced Teresa Mayginnes, formerly of our Butler 6000 and Andover High School media center staff. She will be in the Butler 5000 building, serving in the Libraryette and the Learning Commons (formerly the lobby) of 5000 North. In February, Tammy Garrison will join our Butler librarians in the 6000 Building.

Kansan Jo Budler: LJ’s 2013 Librarian of the Year

Jo Budler: LJ’s 2013 Librarian of the Year

I had the privilege of  working with Jo for a year or two when I was on the board of the Kansas State Library.  She has met a lot of challenges head on, and met them well.  And I know she'll keep doing what's best for the citizens of Kansas.  This kind of recognition should be respected by the legislators she serves; may they continue to support her work.