Need help preparing for your chosen career path? Thinking about switching careers? We have just the thing for you! 204 eBooks on careers and jobs have been added to our NetLibrary collection.
These titles are easily accessible through the Library Catalog (Find-a-Book). Once in the catalog, simply type in your search terms and select electronic book from the item type drop-down menu.
Here are some sample cover images to give you an idea of the kinds of titles in this collection.
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What is amnesty? am•nes•ty [am-nuh-stee] “an act of forgiveness for past offenses, esp. to a class of persons as a whole”.
Starting Friday, May 1 through Thursday, May 14, 2009 the CPCC Libraries will be offering a “1-for-1 deal” as part of “fine free forgiveness days”. During this period, fines accrued from overdue items (e.g., books, DVDs, videos, CDs, etc.) will be forgiven.
How does this deal work?
This deal is too good to pass up, so get busy looking under your bed, in your closets, in the trunk of your car, or any other place you think you have library materials. This is your chance to bring ‘em back without any questions being asked.
Library materials and food item donations will be received at all campus libraries until May 14th. Food contributions from students, faculty and staff without current fines or overdue materials are also welcomed.
All food items collected will be donated to the local Loaves & Fishes charitable organization.
Looking for good online sources for art images to use in presentations for assignments or lectures or perhaps just for your own personal edification? CPCC Library has some great suggestions!
Subscription Databases
CAMIO
This database features many high resolution images of art and sculpture with authoritative descriptive information. It can be found in the Find an Article section of our website, then use the browse databases by name link to find the CAMIO database.
Free Web Resources
There are also many authoritative websites freely available on the web. Here are a few favorites:
Google Life Magazine Image Archive
Search millions of photographs featured in Life magazine.
The Art Images for College Teaching (AICT)
This is a good collection of high-resolution free-use images provided by Minneapolis College of Art and Design’s art-historian and visual resources curator Allan T. Kohl. He has photographed all of the images and provides them free for educational use. It is certainly not an exhaustive collection but it provides high quality images from Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance & Baroque, 18th-20th century and some Non-Western images. A good feature is the text-book concordance, providing the page numbers for many popular art history text-books. Very useful for someone putting together a lecture or presentation.
Art cyclopedia
A database providing references to “sites on the World Wide Web where artists’ works can be viewed online.” The database is searchable by artist name, work title or museum. The most represented artists are painters and sculptors. It is a good source for listings of modern and contemporary artists. And while it is a truly ugly interface it is effective in finding museum websites with access to the artists’ work for which you have searched.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Many cool collections such as Egyptian Art, African Art, Chinese Art, Islamic Art, Latin American Art, ancient Greek…to name a few. They also have large photography, contemporary and modern art collections as well as a fantastic costume and textiles collection. (you can search the costumes by era) The collections are searchable by title, subject, or artist. Or you can simply browse the collections. Thumbnail images are available for all the images. The only drawback is copyright restrictions prevent viewing enlarged images of many of their contemporary or modern works.
The Mint Museum’s Mint Wiki
It provides “Mint Museum exhibition information and resources”, as well as “a place for curators, educators, docents and other users to add their expertise, knowledge and insight about the exhibitions in an immediate and accessible way!”
For more CPCC Library website suggestions on a variety of topics check out our Delicious.com page at http://delicious.com/CPCCLibrary
For more information on visual art resources contact Jennifer Ballance — jennifer.ballance@cpcc.edu.
Students, faculty, and staff — beginning January 5, 2009 only a current CPCC ID card will be accepted to check out library materials. No other form of ID will be accepted. IDs can be obtained at the Admissions or the Registrar’s office located on your campus.
We know that sometimes it can be hard to find an open computer on the 1st floor of the library and in order to help alleviate that problem we are offering two more options for computing within the Central Campus Library. For those of you looking to hunker down and get to work on a term paper or take and online test in BlackBoard, we now offer academic-only computing areas on the 2nd and 4th floors. See below for information on each floor —
This information is current as of 08/15/08.
Check http://www1.cpcc.edu/library/visiting-the-library/hours for updates.
| Aug 30 – Sept 1 | Labor Day | Closed |
| Oct 13 – 14 | Fall Break | 7:30a – 5:00p** |
| Nov 27 – 30 | Thanksgiving | Closed |
| Dec 15 – 19 | Winter Break | 7:30a – 5:00p** |
| Dec 20 – Jan 4 | Winter Break | Closed |
| Jan 5 – 9 | Winter Break | 7:30 – 5:00** |
| ** Central Library ONLY
(Campus Libraries Closed) |
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| Central | 7:30a – 8:30p | 7:30a – 5:00p | 9:00a – 1:00p | Closed |
| Cato | 8:00a – 8:00p | 8:00a – 1:00p | Closed | Closed |
| Cato Law | 8:00a – 8:00p | 8:00a – 1:00p | Closed | Closed |
| Harper | 8:00a – 8:00p | 8:00a – 1:00p | Closed | Closed |
| Harris | 8:00a – 8:00p | 8:00a – 1:00p | Closed | Closed |
| Levine | 8:00a – 8:00p | 8:00a – 1:00p | Closed | Closed |
| North | 8:00a – 8:00p | 8:00a – 1:00p | Closed | Closed |
Over the summer all EBSCOhost databases received a face lift as well as enhanced functionality. Some of the new features include a simpler basic search screen, the ability to preview an article or image by mouseover, and new personalization options. For in depth information about the new features visit EBSCO’s support site. A video tutorial on EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier is also available in the Research Tools section of the CPCC Libraries website.
As always, if you have any questions contact us!
Summer Semester is over, but we’re not going anywhere! Central Campus Library will be open through intersession to serve both incoming students and those on break between semesters.
Central Campus Library
Mon – Fri
7:30 – 5:00
Central Library will be CLOSED Monday, July 28th
for maintenance and staff training.
All Other Campus Libraries
CLOSED
Regular Schedule beginning May 19, 2008
(for info on holiday hours click here)
Monday – Thursday 7:30am – 8:00pm
Friday 7:30am – 5:00pm
Saturday – Sunday closed
* All regional campuses below are closed for lunch between 1-2pm.
Monday – Thursday 9:00am-6:00pm
Friday – Sunday closed
Monday – Thursday 12:00pm-8:00pm
Friday – Sunday closed
Monday – Thursday 9:00am – 6:00pm
Friday – Sunday closed
Monday-Tuesday 9:00am – 6:00pm
Wednesday-Sunday closed
Monday-Thursday 9:00am-6:00pm
Friday-Sunday closed
Wednesday-Thursday 9:00am-6:00pm
Friday – Tuesday closed
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Thinking about how you can go green this Earth Day? The CPCC Libraries have resources to help you out. Here are just some of the books and DVDs we offer on topics like the environment, energy efficiency, and climate change: |
Books:
DVDs:
Search the library catalog for for information on the location and availability of any of the above titles.
EBSCO, one of the library’s databases vendors, is offering free access to an environmental database, GreenFILE, at www.greeninfoonline.com. GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.