Bird’s Eye View A Newsletter from the Grace Van Dyke Bird Library

September/October 2019

Cerro Author 2019-2020

We are delighted to have Erin Gruwell as our Cerro Author for 2019-2020. Erin Gruwell

is a teacher, education activist, and the founder of the Freedom Writers Foundation.

She created the Freedom Writer Methods, a progressive teaching philosophy and

curricula designed to achieve excellence from all students.

By fostering an educational philosophy that valued and promoted diversity, Gruwell

transformed her students' lives. She encouraged them to re-think rigid beliefs about

themselves and others, reconsider their own daily decisions, ultimately re-chart their

future. Through poignant student entries and her narrative text, her book The Freedom

Writers Diary records the students crusade against tolerance and misunderstanding.

Ms. Gruwell will be on campus on October 2 to speak about her book. The schedule of

events is as follows.

10:00 A.M | Student Lecture | Indoor Theatre

1:00 P.M. | Student Lecture | Indoor Theatre & LiveCast to Delano

7:00 P.M. | Public Lecture | Indoor Theatre

The library has 200 copies of The Freedom Writers Diary

available to students for free on a first-come, first-serve

basis. These are available at the reference desk. Students

must bring a BC student ID to receive a copy.

For more information about Ms. Gruwell’s visit, please visit

https://www.bakersfieldcollege.edu/library/cerro-authors

Library Research Skills Workshops Fall 2019

The schedule for the Fall 2019 Library Research Skills Workshops is now available in print at the

reference desk as well as on the library website. We are pleased to offer 44 instances of our 8 different

workshops on the Panorama campus, in addition to 16 workshops on the Delano campus.

This year, the library has instituted a new policy of requiring students to register for workshops in

advance. This change is due to the increasing number of students attending workshops, which

has rendered our previous first-come, first-serve policy inadequate. Students must register online in

order to attend a workshop, and those who do not arrive on time may lose their seats. We thank you for

encouraging your students to sign up for these workshops, and we hope you will work with us to remind

students of our new policy regarding registration.

Students may sign up for workshops at https://www.bakersfieldcollege.edu/workshops/library

We currently offer the following workshops:

Strategies for Effective Research

Finding Books and Ebooks

Finding Articles in Periodical Databases

Using Google for Internet Searching

Avoiding Plagiarism

Evaluating Internet Sources

Detecting Fake News

Evaluating Books and Articles

For descriptions of each workshop, go to https://www.bakersfieldcollege.edu/library/workshop-

descriptions

Library Circulation Policies

For all of the new faculty joining us this year (as well as any other faculty who might need a refresher!),

our circulation policies are as follows.

Students must present their BC student ID in order to check out books or study rooms from the library

(including reserve books). We do not accept state-issued IDs, only a valid BC student ID.

Students can check out up to 20 books at one time, with a check-out period of 3 weeks. Students are

allowed to renew each book up to 2 times.

Faculty are also welcome to check out books. Faculty are allowed 20 books at a time, for a

check-out period of 105 days (essentially, a semester).

Read all about it! New titles at BC A curated list of some of the new and exciting titles in the general collection.

(Arranged in call number order.)

McIntrye, L. (2018). Post-truth. Cambridge, MA:

The MIT Press.

BD 171 .M39 2018.

Feder, K.L. (2019). Archaeological oddities: A

field guide to forty claims of lost civilizations,

ancient visitors, and other strange sites in North

America. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

E 159.5 .F42 2019.

Coyne, J.A. (2016). Faith versus fact: Why

science and religion are incompatible. New

York: Penguin Books.

BL 240.3 .C69 2016.

Wood, G.S. (2017). Friends divided: John

Adams and Thomas Jefferson. New York:

Penguin Press.

E 332.2 .W65 2017.

Beneke, C., & C.S. Grenda. (2017). The lively

experiment: Religious toleration in America

from Roger Williams to the present. Lanham,

MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

BL 2525 .L585 2017.

Hurston, Z.N. (2018). Barracoon: The story of

the last “Black cargo”. New York: Amistad.

E 444 .L49 H87 2018.

Bowman, M. (2018). Christian: The politics of a

word in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard

University Press.

BR 115 .P7 B6675 2018.

Hepler, A. (2018). McCarthyism in the suburbs:

Quakers, communists, and the children’s

librarian. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

E 743.5 .H45 2018.

Janes, J. (2017). Documents that changed the

way we live. Lanham, MD: Rowman &

Littlefield.

CB 245 .J343 2017.

Obama, M. (2018). Becoming. New York:

Crown.

E 909 .O24 O23 2018.

Mundy, L. (2017). Code girls: The untold story

of the American women code breakers of World

War II. New York: Hachette Books.

D 810. C88 M86 2017.

Vincent, L., & S. Vladic. (2018). Indianapolis:

The true story of the worst sea disaster in U.S.

naval history and the fifty-year fight to

exonerate an innocent man. New York: Simon

& Schuster.

D 774 .I5 V56 2018.

Burkholder, M.A., et al. (2018). Exploitation,

inequality, and resistance: A history of Latin

America since Columbus. New York: Oxford

University Press.

F 1412 .B97 2018.

Davis, S. (2018). In defense of public lands:

The case against privatization and transfer.

Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

HD 216 .D38 2018.

Lawson, R.M. (2018). Servants and servitude in

Colonial America. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

HD 4875 .U5 L38 2018.

Karabanow, J., et al. (2018). Homeless youth

and the search for stability. Waterloo, Ontario:

Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

HV 4509 .K373 2018.

Vance, J.D. (2016). Hillbilly elegy: A memoir of

a family and culture in crisis. New York: Harper.

HD 8073 .V37 A3 2016

Davis, J. (2017). Women in modern terrorism:

From liberation wars to global Jihad and the

Islamic state. Lanham, MD: Rowman &

Littlefield.

HV 6433 .I74 D39 2017.

Summers, D.J. (2018). The business of

cannabis: New policies for the new marijuana

industry. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

HD 9019 .M382 .U378 2018.

Jonson-Reid, M. (2018). After the cradle falls:

What child abuse is, how we respond to it, and

what you can do about it. New York:

Oxford University Press.

HV 6626.52 .J66 2018.

Sumantran, V., et al. (2017). Faster, smarter,

greener: The future of the car and urban

mobility. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

HE 5611 .S86 2017.

Cohen, J.D. & D.G. Schwartz (Eds.). (2018). All

in: The spread of gambling in twentieth-century

United States. Reno: University of Nevada

Press.

HV 6715 .A485 2018.

Woo, B. (2018). Getting a life: The social worlds

of geek culture. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s

University Press.

HM 646 .W65 2018.

Taibbi, M. (2017). I can’t breathe: A killing on

Bay Street. New York: Spiegel & Grau.

HV 8148 .N52 T35 2017.

Bucur-Deckard, M. (2018). The century of

women: How women have transformed the

world since 1900. Lanham, MD: Rowman &

Littlefield.

HQ 1154 .B8443 2018.

Scruton, R. (2018). Conservatism: An invitation

to the great tradition. New York: All Points

Books.

JC 573 .S263 2018

Abramovitz, M. (2018). Regulating the lives of

women: Social welfare policy from colonial

times to the present. London: Routledge, Taylor

& Francis Group.

HV 699 .A424 2018.

Cantu, F. (2018). The line becomes a river. New

York: Riverhead Books.

JV 6565 .C37 2018.

Fliter, J.A. (2018). Child labor in America: The

epic legal struggle to protect children.

Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.

KF 3552 .F55 2018.

Huegel, C.N. (2019). The nature of plants: An

introduction to how plants work. Gainesville, FL:

University Press of Florida.

QK 45.2 .H84 2019.

Devlin, R. (2018). A girl stands at the door: The

generation of young women who desegregated

America’s schools. New York: Basic Books.

LC 212.52 .D48 2018.

Mundle, R. (2019). How to be an even better

listener: A practical guide to hospice and

palliative care volunteers. London: Jessica

Kingsley Publishers.

R 726.8 .M846 2019.

Hancox, D. (2018). Inner city pressure: The

story of grime. London: William Collins.

ML 3492.8 .L66 H36 2018.

Engel, J. (2018). Fat nation: A history of obesity

in America. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

RA 645 .O23 2018.

Wang, T. (2018). Mirroring China’s past:

Emperors, scholars, and their bronzes.

Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago.

NK 7983.22 .M57 2018.

Macy, B. (2018). Dopesick: Dealers, doctors,

and the drug company that addicted America.

New York: Little, Brown & Company.

RC 568 .O45 M33 2018.

Tamblyn, A. (2019). Era of ignition: Coming of

age in a time of rage and revolution. New York:

Crown Archetype.

PN 2287 .T154 A3 2019.

Isett, C.M. (2017). The social history of

agriculture: From the origins to the current

crisis. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

S 419 .I78 2017.

Nuccitelli, D. (2015). Climatology versus

pseudoscience: Exposing the failed predictions

of global warming skeptics. Santa Barbara, CA:

Praeger.

QC 981.8 .G56 N93 2015.

Usher, B. (2019). Renewable energy: A primer

for the twenty-first century. New York: Columbia

University Press.

TJ 808 .U84 2019.

Lewis, R. (2017). Human genetics: The basics.

London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

QH 431 .L41857 2017.

Frith, J. (2015). Smartphones as locative

media. Cambridge, UK: Polity.

TK 5105.65 .F78 2015.