Women's History Month!
Celebrate Women's History Month with the Library's virtual display Filled with great resources including books, eBooks, journals and websites, learn more about the amazing accomplishments of women throughout history and contribute to the Discussion Board!
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Featured Database: Oxford English Dictionary
Delta Library has online access to the OED, the definitive record of the English language.
Here's one of the newest additions to OED (you can't make this stuff up!).
Dogfooding: The use of a company's product or service by the company's employees, as a means of testing it before it is made available to customers.
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Recommended Read:
The Librarian War Against QAnon
by Barbara Fister
"Why isn't this something students learn in school?"
In this timely article from The Atlantic, Librarian and Professor, Barbara Fister argues that traditional information literacy (find and evaluate) is not enough to prepare students in today's information quagmire. Students must learn about the information landscape.
"It’s time for a thorough revamping of the purpose of inviting students to engage in inquiry as a civic practice. Educators, including librarians who teach, will need to confront and clarify their own beliefs and assumptions about how they know what is real and what isn’t. It will take work. But there are some promising places to start."
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Do you FDLP?
The Delta College Library is one of the 1,257 designated federal depository libraries. The mission of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) is to disseminate information produced by federal agencies to federal depository libraries nationwide. Designated in 1963, we serve the federal information needs of the 5th U.S. Congressional District in the state of Michigan. Learn more about our collection on the Government Documents Research Guide or contact Anne Elias, FDLP Coordinator. It's your information, use it and share it!
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Featured eBook:
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Station Eleven hitting a little too close to home right now? Try The Glass Hotel, the newest novel by Emily St. John Mandel. Voted one of the best books of the 2020 by The Washington Post, NPR, Time and The New Yorker and Delta Librarian approved ! View new eBooks.
"An exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events -- the exposure of a massive criminal enterprise and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea."
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Carol Whittaker
Carol has been a Librarian at Delta for 11 years. She is liaison to the Health & Wellness division and History discipline and manages the Delta College Archives. A native of Fremont, Ohio (exit 91 on the Ohio turnpike), she enjoys reading, gardening, travel, walking Cadbury the chocolate lab and spending time with her husband Patrick and three kids, Julian (16), Jane (12) and Jonathan (9). Some random facts about Carol:
- While visiting Disneyland as a kid, Michael Jackson showed up!
- Served Stephen King coffee while working at a Barnes & Noble in Poughkeepsie, NY but did not realize he was Stephen King.
- Has an author acknowledgement in Fordlandia : the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city by Greg Grandin. A 2009 National Book Award finalist.
Currently Listening to: A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Currently Reading: Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Contact Carol if you have material to donate to the Archives!
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295
Number of chats conducted by Library staff in Fall 2020. That is up 94% from Fall 2019.
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Campus Hours:
by appointment
Monday & Thursday 10am-4pm
Tuesday & Wednesday 12pm-6pm
Friday-Sunday: Closed
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Virtual Hours:
Monday-Thursday 8am-8pm
Friday 8am-4pm
Sunday 12pm-6pm
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