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

DeStress Fest

The library is happy to announce that we will be hosting our semesterly DeStress Fest

at the library during the week prior to finals (November 26-30). The goal of this event is

to ensure that our students have a place to decompress from the high levels of stress

that finals can bring. Therapy dogs from Miracle Mutts will kick off the week from 10am-

2pm in the library lobby on November 26.

In addition, the library will have puzzles, coloring pages, word games, and origami for

students to destress with during the entirety of the week. Please let your students know

that this resource exists for them as their stress levels amp up at the end of November.

November/December 2018

Puzzles from last year’s DeStress Fest

Get out the BC Vote: A Recap

Librarian Laura Luiz conceptualized and executed 3 different Get Out the BC Vote events on the Panorama and Delano campuses during the month of October. The goal of these events was to help students and community members understand the local ballot measures, and to help them register to vote.

The League of Women Voters of Kern County presented during the first event, Robert Price of the Bakersfield Californian presented during the second event, and Bryan Osorio, candidate for Delano City Council, presented during the Delano event.

We are delighted that students attended these workshops, and we hope that they have been helpful.

Laura created a Get Out the BC Vote LibGuide that we encourage all faculty to use in the days leading up to November 6. The LibGuide features help for the state and local ballot as well as instructions on how to register to vote and how to find your polling location. Find the LibGuide at bakersfieldcollege.libguides .com/GetOutBCVote2018

The Get Out the BC Vote flyer

How the Library Can Help You

We wanted to remind our great faculty colleagues of a few of our newer services, as well as some of our more established services you may have forgotten about.

Online Library Workshops via Canvas

The library began offering its workshops online through Canvas this semester. Faculty may embed any or all of the 7 different modules into their own courses. These modules were primarily made with our online classes in mind, although any faculty are welcome to use them. Contact a librarian with any questions you might have about this service.

Video Tutorials

Have you visited our YouTube page recently? The gracevdblibrary YouTube channel has been blowing up with new videos from librarian Mindy Wilmot. We now offer a Research 101 series that introduces viewers to research and to searching different databases offered by the library. You can find the videos at: www.bakersfieldcollege.edu/library/workshops

Cerro Visiting Author

Our Cerro Visiting Author this year is Temple Grandin! She will be on campus on February 12, 2019, to present on her work regarding autism and animal behavior. To prepare for her visit, the library will offer free copies of her books Thinking in Pictures and Animals Make Us Human at the start of Spring 2019.

Some of the videos available from the library’s YouTube account

Williams, F. (2017). The nature fix: Why nature

makes us happier, healthier, and more creative.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

BF 353.5 .N37 W55 2017.

Everitt, A. (2017). The rise of Athens: The story

of the world’s greatest civilization. New York:

Random House.

DF 285 .E94 2017

Anderson, C. (2016). White rage: The

unspoken truth of our racial divide. New York:

Bloomsbury.

E 185.61 .A5438 2016

Smith, M.D. (2016). Invisible man, got the

whole world watching: A young black man’s

education. New York: Nation Books.

E 185.625 .S635 2016

Monson, M. (2016). Frontier grit: The unlikely

true stories of daring pioneer women. Salt Lake

City, UT: Shadow Mountain.

E 663 .M73 2016

Frum, D. (2018). Trumpocracy: The corruption

of the American republic. New York: Harper.

E 912 .F78 2018

Zacchino, N. (2018). California comeback: The

genius of Jerry Brown. Berkeley, CA: Heyday.

F 866.2 .Z33 2018

Oluo, I. (2018). So you want to talk about race.

New York: Seal Press.

E 184 .A1 O454 2018

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.)

Beard, M. (2016). SPQR: A history of ancient

Rome. New York: Liveright Publishing Co.

DG 231 .B43 2016

Tenold, V. (2018). Everything you love will

burn: Inside the rebirth of white nationalism in

America. New York: Nation Books.

E 184 .A1 T45 2018

Weiss-Wolf, J. (2017). Periods gone public:

Taking a stand for menstrual equity. New York:

Arcade Publishing.

GN 484.38 .W45 2017

Wamariya, C. (2018). The girl who smiled

beads: A story of war and what comes after.

New York: Crown.

DT 450.437 .W36 A3 2018

De La Torre, M.A. (2017). Faith and resistance

in the age of Trump. Maryknoll, NYU: Orbis

Books.

BR 516 .F28 2017

DeNicola, D.R. (2017). Understanding

ignorance: The surprising impact of what we

don’t know. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

BD 221 .D46 2017

Schor, P. (2017). Counting Americans: How the

US Census classified the nation. New York:

Oxford University Press.

HA 181 .S3413 2017

Allocca, K. (2018). Videocracy: How YouTube

is changing the world… with double rainbows,

singing foxes, and other trends we can’t stop

watching. New York: Bloomsbury.

HM 742 .A46 2018

McNabb, C. (2018). Nonbinary gender

identities: History, culture, resources. Lanham,

MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

HQ 72 .M36 2018

Brill, S. (2016). The transgender teen: A

handbook for parents and professionals

supporting transgender and non-binary teens.

Jersey City, NJ: Cleis Press.

HQ 77.9 .B75 2016

Parry, M. (2013). Broadcasting birth control:

Mass media and family planning. New

Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

HQ 766 .P26 2013

Peters, R.T. (2018). Trust women: A

progressive Christian argument for reproductive

justice. Boston: Beacon Press.

HQ 767.25 .P48 2018

McBride, S. (2018). Tomorrow will be different:

Love, loss, and the fight for trans equality. New

York: Crown Archetype.

HQ 77.8 .M387 A3 2018.

Mukjerhee, A. (2018). The internet trap: The

five costs of living online. Toronto: University of

Toronto Press.

HM 1017 .M85 2018

Nichols, T.M. (2017). The death of expertise:

The campaign against established knowledge

and why it matters. New York: Oxford

University Press.

HM 851 .N54 2017

Carreyrou, J. (2018). Bad blood: Secrets and

lies in a Silicon Valley startup. New York: Alfred

A. Knopf.

HD 9995 .H423 U627 2018

Ehrensaft, D. (2016). The gender creative

child: Pathways for nurturing and supporting

children who live outside gender boxes. New

York: The Experiment.

HQ 1075 .E363 2016

Rodriguez, N.G.L. (2017). Fragile families:

Foster care, immigration, and citizenship.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

HV 743 .S36 R637 2017

Killerman, S. (2017). A guide to gender: The

social justice advocate’s handbook. Austin, TX:

Impetus Books.

HQ 21 .K425 2017

Levey, T.G. (2018). Sexual harassment online:

Shaming and silencing women in the digital

age. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

HQ 1237 .L48 2018

Rosan, C. (2017). Growing a sustainable city?

The question of urban agriculture. Toronto:

University of Toronto Press.

S 494.5 .U72 R67 2017

McNamara, M. (2018). I’ll be gone in the dark:

One woman’s obsessive search for the Golden

State Killer. New York: Harper.

HV 6565 .C2 M36 2018

Bickers, R. (2017). Out of China: How the

Chinese ended the era of Western domination.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

JC 311 .B4757 2017

Welbon, Y., & A. Juhasz (Eds). (2018). Sisters

in the life: A history of out African American

lesbian media-making. Durham, NC: Duke

University Press.

PN 1995.9 .L48 S57 2018

Quammen, D. (2018). The tangled tree: A

radical new history of life. New York: Simon &

Schuster.

QH 367.5 .Q36 2018

Hirsch, M.L. (2018). Invisible: how young

women with serious health issues navigate

work, relationships, and the pressure to seem

just fine. Boston: Beacon Press.

RA 418.3 .U6 H57 2018

Kaur, R. (2017). The sun and her flowers.

Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing.

PR 9199.4 .K377 A6 2017

Ramos, J. (2018). Stranger: The challenge of a

Latino immigrant in the Trump era. New York:

Vintage Books.

JV 6483 .R3713 2018

Kroeger, B. (2017). The suffragents: How

women used men to get the vote. Albany, NY:

Excelsior Editions.

JK 1896 .K57 2017

Dreisinger, B. (2017). Incarceration nations: A

journey to justice in prisons around the world.

New York: Other Press.

HV 8705 .D74 2017

Chemerinsky, E. (2017). Free speech on

campus. New Haven, CT: Yale University

Press.

RF 4772 .C54 2017

Noble, S.U. (2018). Algorithms of oppression:

How search engines reinforce racism. New

York: New York University Press.

ZA 4230 .N63 2018

Sunstein, C.R. (2017). Impeachment: A

citizen’s guide. Cambridge, MA: Harvard

University Press.

KF 5075 .S84 2017

Stadler, R. (2018). Autonomous driving: How

the driverless revolution will change the world.

United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing.

TL 152.8 .H47 2018