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If you were playing a game of
poker, wouldn’t you like to have a professional card player by your side
to assist you and give you helpful advice on strategy? Poker is a game
that combines skill, luck, and persistence, three of the same elements
that make up research. Experienced researchers use their skills to find
quality materials, they sometimes count on luck in the serendipitous
location of information, and they don’t give up easily. These days,
instructors are finding that an overabundance of easily accessible
information on the Web has greatly diminished the quality of “research”
conducted by students who seem to depend more on luck than skill.
Fortunately, as anyone who uses the Glendale College Library knows,
librarians are available to help with research strategies that go light
years beyond “luck.”
The GCC
Library’s goal is to provide a supportive atmosphere and outstanding
public service to students, faculty and staff. Despite the availability
of numerous places on the Internet where people might get information,
the GCC Library, a
campus
resource, not just a
student
resource, can fulfill information needs beyond what the Internet can
offer. While students have access to a variety of resources and services
at the library, faculty and staff have access to the same offerings and
then some.
As a GCC
community member, you can access all of the library’s online
resources—from the online catalog to subscription databases such as
LexisNexis
Academic or the new
Science Resource
Center —from your office or home
computer. Are you interested in flex credit, or just want to learn more
techniques on how to look for specific newspaper or journal articles
through one of our databases? Attend a one-hour-long library workshop.
Are you looking for a book or an article that the GCC Library does not
own? The GCC Library can usually get it for you free through an
interlibrary loan.
Did you know
that the GCC Library has recently acquired many new fiction and
non-fiction items that might be of interest, not only to students, but
to staff and faculty as well? Have you been placed on a mile-long
waitlist for the latest bestseller at your local public library? Check
out our New Books Collection; we just might have what you are looking
for. Want to read the latest novel by Walter Moseley? We’ve got it.
Fortunate Son
is waiting to be picked up from the New Books shelf. What about Jared
Diamond’s latest book,
Collapse: How
Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed?
We have that, too. Looking for the latest edition of
Consumer Reports?
It’s shelved with the current
periodicals on the first floor of the library. Maybe it’s the
Kelley Blue Book
you want. Ask for it at the Circulation Desk. Did you know that the
library is the official archives for Glendale College history? We have
old yearbooks, and historical issues of
El Vaquero
and the
Eclipse.
These are just
a few of the services the GCC Library offers. For more information on
other resources and services, visit us at the library.
The GCC
Library promotes personal, intellectual, and creative development for
all library users at Glendale College, faculty and staff included. Our
biggest reward is when a library user comes back to tell us they think
the GCC Library is their ace in the hole.
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