April 5th, 2010
The DCCC Library and Writing Center, in conjunction with the Office of Student Success & First-Year Experiences, have teamed up to bring you a final paper clinic. Any students that need help with citations, writing issues or research for a final paper can stop by the Student Lounge.
Where: Student Lounge
When: April 20th and 21st from 10 a.m. – noon and 5 p.m. – 6 p.m.
What: There will be librarians and Writing Center staff on hand and laptops available for use. Bring a paper or electronic copy of your paper.
(Paul Proces)
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March 29th, 2010
The Phillies home opener is Monday April 12th at 3:00 p.m. against the Washington Nationals. Read about trades, statistics, the players, the injuries, and the predictions in Sports Illustrated and the Philadelphia Inquirer. The Library subscribes to both publications in print and online. From the Library homepage at http://library.dccc.edu, select Find Articles. Select Master File. Enter Sports Illustrated in the first box. The most recent articles appear first. Or select Newspapers (again, under Find Articles) and select Philadelphia Inquirer. Change the pull down menu from all text to “Section.” Enter Sports and today’s articles will appear first. Note: not every article in print is online. The grand old newspaper is not dead yet.
(cv)
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March 29th, 2010
http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/
This online archive presents the video advertising for the Democratic and Republican (and significant third parties, when applicable) presidential candidates of the television era from 1952 to the present. (ed)
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March 13th, 2010
Need something to do around Philly during Spring Break? Finding things to do in the Philadelphia area is not hard to do! Here are some great web resources that might give you some ideas. The Phillyfunguide http://www.phillyfunguide.com/ is a great web resource to find all sorts of events in the local area. Philly.com also has a wonderful calendar of daily events at this site: http://www.philly.com/philly/calendar/. If you want to see a movie, the Yahoo! Movies site http://movies.yahoo.com/ will allow you to search for movie listings and schedules by your local zip code. Of course, if you need to study a good place is the DCCC Library open the week of Spring break from 8 am-4 pm. (esd)
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March 13th, 2010
Income Tax Returns are due April 15th, 2010. Federal forms, publications and instructions can be downloaded from http://irs.gov
Pennsylvania state forms, publications, and instructions can be found at http://revenue.state.pa.us
(mg)
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March 3rd, 2010
While Google is a helpful research tool, there are other options. Clusty, as its name implies, “clusters” your search results. What does this mean? It groups your results into topics: as specific as “current climate change hypotheses” or as broad as “research.” These topic “clusters” are listed on the left hand side of your results page, with links and with the number of corresponding hits. Rather than scanning through pages of results, you have the option of searching these narrower topic clusters and increasing your chances of finding what you need, maximizing efficiency. To give it a try, go to http://clusty.com/
(MS)
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March 2nd, 2010
Several articles have appeared in the news lately that expose the perils of mobile technology in the jury box. Tweeting, texting, blogging, emailing and surfing even on break time have caused mistrials when information is shared or researched. But requiring jurors to avoid Blackberries, cell phones, iPods and other mobile technologies during jury deliberations will not be easy. New regulations and calls for standardization of rules in courtrooms are on the table. For more information on this technology-based cultural phenomenon, see
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1948971,00.html (cv)
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February 8th, 2010
The American Library Association announced the winners of the Newbery Medal for children’s fiction and the Caldecott Medal for best illustrations at their Midwinter Meeting in Boston last month. Artist Jerry Pinkney won the 2010 Caldecott for his stunning, detailed drawings of the classic Aesop tale The Lion and the Mouse. Rebecca Stead won the Newbery Medal for When You Reach Me, which is a mystery about a 12 year old girl living in New York. (cv)
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February 4th, 2010
For a resume template, you can open Word in Office 2007, click on the “office button” (the large circle in top left showing the Microsoft Windows Logo) and select NEW. Scroll down to RESUMES and find templates for different styles of resumes such as chronological or entry level. (mag)
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February 1st, 2010
Links to sites offering electronic books without a charge are now listed on the DCCC library web site at http://dccc.edu/library/ereference/ebooks.html. Before you get too excited, we have to warn you that most of the material is pre-1923 because of copyright restrictions. These older items can still be useful, however, especially in the fields of literature, history, religion and philosophy. One of the sites, UC Press E-books Collection, offers a small number of books on a range of topics published 1982-2004. (JT)
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