Sign Up for a Library Research Class Today!

Fall 2010
Electronic Research Strategies
LIS 1002 (Class # 2610)
Starts October 20th at the beautiful Downtown campus

Discover authoritative resources and useful research tools while learning to use them effectively for all facets of academic and personal research. This course also assists with writing an thesis statement, outline and how to cite your sources in APA and MLA formats!

Instructor: Heather Disler
Campus: Downtown in room 226
Email: disler.heather@spcollege.edu
Date: 10/20/10- 12/15/10
Time: Wednesdays 1:10-3:30 PM

No textbook required!

I enjoyed the class, Library Online has been amazingly helpful! The scope of information I can access is great and I can save time when researching for assignments. ---LIS Student, Thomas.

Enroll today you will be glad you did!

Become a Master Student! - free workshops

Fall 2010
Student Services Workshops
Tarpon Springs Campus

Time Management/ Study Skills
Learn how to organize your time. Develop strategies for completing your assignments and projects without stressing out. It is difficult to know the best way to study. Learn how to improve your study skills so you can get great grades.

• September 13th 4:30pm – 5:30pm- Room GA 424
• September 16th 12:30pm – 1:30pm- Room GA 424
• September 20th 4:30pm – 5:30pm- Room GA 424
• September 23rd 12:30pm – 1:30pm- Room GA 424

Test Taking Skills
Taking tests can be very stressful. Find out the secrets to successfully taking tests.

• September 27th 4:30pm – 5:30pm- Room GA 424
• September 30th 1 2:30pm – 1:30pm- Room GA 424

Career First Step Workshop
This workshop will get you in the direction to determine what direction you want to go towards a fulfilling career.

• October 4th 4:30pm – 5:30pm- Room BE 412
• October 6th 12:30pm – 1:30pm- Room BE 412
  

SPC Libraries on YouTube!

Please find a recent video made by the college titled SPC Preview with a section on the array of library services available to you as an SPC student, faculty or staff member.

Please contact your campus librarian for assistance with any of your projects or needs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_KTsvsevCI

SPC Fine Arts Students' Pop-Up Books Hit the Road

Design students at St. Petersburg College’s Clearwater
Campus have created a series of pop-up books so creative
and compelling that examples will visit Florida colleges,
universities and libraries during a year-long tour.

The exhibition, POP: Books as Exploration of Design,
Math and Text, will be on tour for a year, ending in
September 2011. Each of seven scheduled displays
will include 15 different pop-up books. Subjects
range from The Little Mermaid to The Cat in
the Hat, as well as original works of fiction and
tributes to World War II heroes.

The pop-up books resulted when SPC
visual arts faculty members decided to
create a project that would engage
and challenge Design I students. The
resulting class emphasized principles
of traditional two-dimensional
medium while introducing three-dimensional
design.

The projects challenged students
to employ critical thinking skills as they applied
story writing concepts to the pop-up form. Also, they had to
employ other academic skills as they combined storytelling
with math and geometry.
The resulting pop-up books, produced with scissors, X-acto
knives, rulers, needles and thread, bone folders and other
tools, had to be a three-dimensional design that successfully
told stories.

The project began in Fall 2009. So far, about 70 pop-up
books have been produced by students in three semesters
of Design I classes.

Attention all Science Majors!!!

Just Announced!

Journals published by The American Physical Society are available free through your public library!

"The American Physical Society has announced that it will make all of its online journals available to public libraries. "APS will provide this access at no cost to participating public libraries, as a contribution to public engagement with the ongoing development of scientific understanding." This is the result of an effort to make peer-reviewed journal content available to the public through open-access venues. See the press release for details on obtaining access."

http://www.aps.org/about/pressreleases/journalslibrary.cfm