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McKee Minute September 2019

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CHATTANOOGA ZOO PASS

McKee Library offers family zoo pass this academic year McKee Library is proud to partner with the Chattanooga Zoo to offer a zoo pass this academic year. This pass grants access to the zoo for two adults and up to four children and may be checked out for a period of 7 days. In addition, a 10% discount is provided for the purchase of a membership while using the pass. To reserve the pass, please search for “Zoo Pass” on the library’s main page. Once located, select “Request” and complete the short form. Please note that you must be signed in to place the request. You will receive an email once the pass is available, which you can then pick up at the library’s circulation desk.

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What’s Inside CELEBRATE HAPPINESS PAGE 2 NEW & NOTEWORTHY PAGES 2 - 3 FILMS ON DEMAND PAGE 3 SEPTEMBER AT THE LIBRARY PAGES 4 - 5 FROM THE VAULT PAGE 6 ART IN THE LIBRARY PAGE 6

More Information Please contact Deyse Bravo at dbravo@ southern.edu for more information on this program.

LIBRARY WINS ALA AWARD

McKee Library wins award for Annual Report The library’s 2017-2018 Annual Report, whose editor is Jessica Spears, was one of the winners of the PR Xchange competition from the Library Leadership & Management Association, a division of the American Library Association (ALA). This award “recognizes the very best public relations materials produced by libraries in the past year. ” (http:// www.ala.org/llama/awards/prxchange_ bestofshow). You can see a list of the winners here. McKee Library is featured on page 38. The PR Xchange Awards Ceremony was held on Sunday, June 23, 2019 as part of the annual ALA Conference.

Questions? Please contact Deyse Bravo at dbravo@ southern.edu with any questions.

McKee Minute Jessica Spears Editor

Library Faculty & Staff

Deyse Bravo-Rivera Genevieve Cottrell Stanley Cottrell Sonja Fordham Carol Harrison

Donald Martin Katie McGrath Seth Shaffer Jessica Spears

P.O. Box 629, Collegedale, TN 37315 Phone: 423.236.2788 Fax: 423.236.1788 southern.edu/library Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, & Instagram September 2019

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MUST READ BOOKS

Switch On Your Brain: The Key to Peak Happiness, Thinking, and Health Written by Caroline Leaf BV4598.4 .L43 2013 The author offers a Christianity-based prescription for better health and wholeness through correct thinking patterns, declaring that we are not victims of our biology and sharing with readers the “switch� in our brains that enables us to live happier, healthier, more enjoyable lives in which we can achieve our goals, maintain our weight, and even become more intelligent.

Celebrate Happiness

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New & Noteworthy

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Films on Demand

McKee Library has access to a streaming video database called Films on Demand. This database has over 41,416 streaming videos on all topics, and over 300,000 searchable segments. When you click on a segment, you have the option to share it via Google Classroom or email. You can also add it to a playlist, a favorites list, cite it in MLA, Chicago, APA, and Harvard, export it to bibliographic management programs, create a segment from a segment, copy the permalink, embed a link in eClass, and view and search the transcript.

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Accessing the Databases To access Films on Demand, click here. To access the library’s databases by subject, click here. Questions? Please contact Donald Martin at dvmartin@southern. edu with questions regarding Films on Demand or other McKee Library databases.

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Included Producers A&E, ABC, AEI, American Museum of Natural History, Arte France, BBC, Bill Moyers, Bloomberg, Broadway Cerebellum Corporation, Digital Archive, California Newsreel, Cambridge Educational, Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Cengage Learning, CNBC, CNN, Consumer Reports, Country Watch, Davidson Films Inc., EuroArts Music International, Falling Walls Foundation, Films for Humanities & Sciences, Films Sans Frontieres, First Run Features, Frontline, Green Planet Films, Guardian News & Media, History Education, HBO, Ideas Roadshow, Inside Science, Intelecom Learning,

Intelligence2 Debates, Ken Burns Collection, Meridian Educational, Modern Marvels, National Film Board of Canada, National Geographic, NBC News, Nevco Educational Video, NewsHour Productions, NOVA, NPO/Netherlands Public Broadcasting, PBS, Rick Steve’s Europe, Scientific American, Seven Dimensions, Shopware, Shortcuts, TED, The Green Interview, TMW Media Group, Video Arts, Wide Angle, Wolters Kluwer Health, Years of Living Dangerously, and ZDF

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Labor Day

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Grandparents Day

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National Hispanic Heritage Month Begins

Therapy Dog Visit 12 pm

Constitution Day

Check out Reading List for Recommended Titles

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Read a Book Day

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Check out one of our Reading Lists for a Recommendation

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9/11 Remembrance Day

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Ground Zero Supertower Films on Demand

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World Gratitude Day

Thanks! How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier BF575 .G68 E46 2007

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Johnny Appleseed Day

Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American SB63 .C46 M43 2011

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From Vault Signed Portrait of Mark Twain is on display on McKee Library’s main floor.

About the Item A signed, framed portrait of Mark Twain, dated January 14, 1908, is part of McKee Library’s collection. This portrait was originally given to the mother of Geraldine Farrar, the famous American Soprano. Framed beside the portrait is a historical interpretation of the portrait written by Victor Fischer, senior archivist of the Mark Twain Project. About the Collection The Duane and Eunice Bietz Collection houses books by and about Mark Twain. Included in the collection are several rare first editions, signed copies, periodicals, memorabilia, and authentic letters written by Mark Twain.

Art in the Library

View the Item The portrait is on permanent display on the main floor of McKee Library in Deyse Bravo’s office. Additional items in the collection may be viewed upon request. Please contact Deyse Bravo at dbravo@ southern.edu for more information on the library’s special collections.

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John T. Kramer Exhibit A collection of works from John T. Kramer is on exhibit Artwork is located on the the library’s first floor July 18 through October 31, 2019

Call for Artists McKee Library features multiple artists throughout the academic year. We accept most mediums and themes as long as the works follow university guidelines. Students are encouraged to exhibit their works, so please share this information widely. If you are an artist or know of someone who is interested in exhibiting his/her work, please email Katie McGrath at kcmgrath@southern.edu.

Art on Digital Exhibit Art previously exhibited in McKee Library can be found on permanent digital exhibit on KnowledgeExchange@Southern, Southern Adventist University’s institutional repository. To access the galleries, select McKee Library under Collections, then Art in the Library.


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