Library Newsletter September-October 2023

LIBRARY NEWS Wallace State Community College Library

September/October 2023 As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas, and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see. ―Vincent Van Gogh When we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we are. ―Mary Shelley

Hours For September & October Monday

7:30am-9:00pm

Tuesday

7:30am-9:00pm

Wednesday 7:30am-9:00pm

Contact Phone: 256-352-8260 E-mail: library@wallacestate.edu Visit us at the library:

Thursday

7:30am-9:00pm

Friday

7:30am-2:00pm

In This Issue:

Saturday

8:00am-4:00pm

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Discovery/Summons Search

Sunday

CLOSED

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Library Adjusted Hours

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Who Am I? - Literary Stars

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A Moment in History...

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It’s Our Pleasure

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From the Dust Jacket

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AVL-Discover Gale Legal Forms

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Let Us Know

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New Arrival

Library Adjusted hours for September September 2 and September 4 Closed September 8 7:30 a.m.- 2:30 p.m.

October No Adjusted Hours

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Discovery/Summons Search Overview for Discovery/Summons Search The Wallace State Library website offers a Discovery/Summons Search where students can search the Wallace State Library collection for articles, books, journals, and more resources to accommodate their research and information needs. Students can use the discovery search to search titles of resources, articles, and chapters within those resources.

For assistance, please contact the Wallace State Library at 256-352-8260.

A Moment in History…

Who Am I? A Name Game of Literary Stars

(Answers on page 6) I was born on July 26, We were born Daniel 1856, in Dublin Ireland.

Nathan, on October 20, 1905, and Manford Lepofsky In 1885, I began reviewing the arts for The on January 11,1905, in Star magazine using the Brooklyn, New York. name Corno di Bassetto.

Writing under a joint My writing received pseudonym was not enough validation when I won the for us (we are cousins.) We Nobel Prize in Literature changed our identities with in 1925 and an Academy Award in 1938. I am the the names Frederic Dannay only person ever to win and Manford Bennington both.

Lee, respectively.

Who am I? Who am I?

Library News

On September 5, 1882, 10,000 workers assembled in New York City to participate in America’s first Labor Day parade. After marching from city hall, past reviewing stands in Union Square, and then uptown to 42nd Street, the workers and their families gathered in Wendel’s Elm Park for a picnic, concert, and speeches. New York Central Labor Union organized the first Labor Day celebration. Today, the holiday is a time for family picnics, sporting events, and summer’s last hurrah.

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It’s our Pleasure to introduce our new website IT'S OUR PLEASURE to WELCOME you to the Wallace State Library for the new fall semester. In the WSCC Library, we strive to help our patrons succeed academically and professionally. IT'S OUR PLEASURE to INTRODUCE patrons to our new website. The new Library website PROVIDES information about library hours, laptop loan forms and specifications, access to forty computers with printing capabilities, Respondus testing and study room check-out services, and resources to accommodate patrons' research needs. The library website FEATURES helpful information that students and faculty may need; examples are Ask

the Library, where students can email the librarian asking for information about resource and service needs, how to access the Alabama Virtual Library, and how to access the online public catalog and Overdrive. The website also FEATURES Open Educational Resources where students can access the free textbooks used by various instructors and the COMMON READ,

FRANKENSTEIN. The library website is available remotely and in the library. Students can come to the front desk on the Library’s second floor and ask about the new Wallace State Library website.

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Library Offers Research Skills/Library Orientation Class To provide a successful start to the new semester, WSCC library is offering a brief class on library and research skills. The session covers such topics as using the online ILS (catalog) to find books, e-books, and other materials, using the Alabama Virtual Library and other online databases to find articles, and taking advantage of the library’s holdings and facilities.

From the Dust Jacket Frankenstein: The 1818 Text Written by Mary Shelley (Penguin Classics)

For the bicentennial of its first publication, Mary Shelley's original 1818 text was introduced by National Book Critics Circle award-winner Charlotte Gordon. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read, 2018 marks the bicentennial of Mary Shelley's seminal novel. For the first time, Penguin Classics will publish the original 1818 text, which preserves the hard-hitting and politically-charged aspects of Shelley's original writing, and her unflinching wit and strong female voice. This edition also emphasizes Shelley's relationship with her mother--trailblazing feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, who penned A Vindication The twenty-minute class of the Rights of Woman --and demonstrates her commitment to carrying forward her mother's ideals, placing her in the is free and conveniently context of a feminist legacy rather than the sole female in the company of male offered whenever the poets, including Percy Shelley and Lord Byron. This edition includes a new library is open. Students introduction and suggestions for further reading by National Book Critics Circle should come to the front award-winner and Shelley expert, Charlotte Gordon, literary excerpts and desk on the library’s reviews selected by Gordon, and a chronology and essay by preeminent Shelley main floor and ask scholar Charles E. Robinson. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the about the “Research leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best Class.” works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the Additionally, new series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions, notes by students are distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, and up-to-date translations by encouraged to stop by award-winning translators.

the front desk to ask any questions, whether finding scholarly information or finding the way to a particular classroom. The library is essential to a student’s academic and career success.

This book is available for circulation in the WSCC Library or on the WSCC Library website through Overdrive, YouTube, Project Gutenberg eBooks, and Audible.

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Discover Gale Legal Forms Gale Legal Forms offers an easy-to-use, state-by state, and step-by-step approach to addressing basic legal matters, such as developing a will, conducting real estate transactions including rental or lease agreements, and more. Patrons have access to thousands of customizable online legal documents that are available anytime, anywhere.

Gale Legal Forms Features: • Divorce forms • Wills and Estate forms • Real Estate forms • Power of Attorney forms For assistance, please contact the Wallace State Library at 256-352-8260.

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Topic Search Category

Please let us know what you want or need in the library.

If there is a book or resource that you would like us to see about purchasing, we’d love to hear about it!

Also, if you are interested in reading a book we own and providing a book review for the newsletter, we’d love to hear from you.

Our walls and display units are great for showing off your artistic skills, your hobbies and interests, cool artifacts, etc. We love to let students, faculty, and staff have a place for display. renee.marty@wallacestate.edu or kayla.aaron@wallacestate.edu Library News

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New Arrivals Fiction The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England, Brandon Sanderson.

The Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese.

The Girls of Summer: A Novel, Kate Bishop.

In the Lives of Puppets, TJ Klune.

Small Mercies: A Novel, Dennis Lehane.

Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style: A Novel, Paul Rudnick.

Night Angel Nemesis, Brent Weeks.

You Shouldn’t Have Come Here, Jeneva Rose.

And Then He Sang a Lullaby, Ani Kayode.

Non-Fiction

100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife, Ken Jennings.

24 Hours in Charlottesville: An Oral History and Stand Against White Supremacy, Nora Neus.

Mi Cocina: Recipes and Rapture from My Kitchen in Mexico: A Cookbook, Rick Martinez.

Treasures of the Mexican Table: Classic Recipes, Local Secrets, Pati Jinch.

Answers to Who Am I? Ellery Queen and George Bernard Shaw Library News

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