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

Cerro Author 2017-2018

Our Cerro Author visit is quickly approaching! Michael Eric Dyson will be on campus on

February 8 to give 3 student-focused forums during the day as well as 1 public

presentation in the evening. Anyone in the Bakersfield community is welcome to attend

the public presentation at 7 P.M. in the Indoor Theatre.

To help initiate discussion about Michael Eric Dyson’s body of work, the library has

prepared a LibGuide that contains information about Dyson and his works, as well as

information on research related to Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America.

Find the LibGuide here: bakersfieldcollege.libguides.com/TearsWeCannotStop

February/March 2018

Library Faculty Services—Let us help you!

The library is here to help your students succeed in their academic careers… but we’re also

here to help faculty! Below are 5 library services all faculty can take advantage of. If you have

questions about any of these, or would like to contact the library regarding any of these

services, please call the Reference Desk at 661.395.4466 (Delano Library: 661.720.2015), or

use the “Contact Us” page on the library website to get in touch with a particular librarian.

Reserve Books

Instructors may place books, copies of articles, and other course-related materials at the library

circulation desk for students to borrow for a specified time period. To see what books are on

reserve, click the “Reserve Materials” tab in the BC library catalog, and search by course

number or instructor’s name.

Ordering Library Books

Did you know that all faculty can make book purchase requests? The library welcomes

suggestions from faculty for curriculum-related books and library materials that will enrich the

library’s collection. This is an opportunity for faculty members to lend us their expertise in

building our subject-area collections.

Research Project Design

The librarians would love to work with you to create research projects and assignments that

correspond to the BC Library collection. By collaborating with a librarian on your research

project design, you’ll be confident that you are directing students to use resources accessible

through our library. This collaboration also lets the librarians know what kind of questions to be

expecting from students, so we’ll be ready with our best answers for them!

In addition, working with the library on your research project design allows us to create lists of

resources for your students as they conduct research. We can even create LibGuides for your

specific assignment or topic to help your students get a head-start on their research. To see

LibGuides we’ve created for other faculty’s research projects, go to

bakersfieldcollege.libguides.com.

Library Faculty Services, Cont.

Research Orientations

Wish your students’ research papers and skills were better? We would love to partner with you for a

class orientation specific to your assignment and subject area! A reference librarian will tailor-make

a lesson according to the specifics of your research assignments and teach it to your class. To

schedule an orientation, contact Kirk Russell at krussell@bakersfieldcollege.edu or 661.395.4625.

Research Skills Workshops

We offer six different hour-long research skills workshops at several times during each semester.

These workshops introduce students to library resources and basic research methods. The current

schedule is located at: bakersfieldcollege.edu/library/workshops

We will provide instructors a list of their students and the workshops they have attended after the

workshops end.

Finding Books and E-books

Hands-on introduction to our online library catalog, print collection, and e-books.

Finding Articles in Periodical Databases

An overview of Gale Academic OneFile and EBSCOhost Academic Search Complete.

Strategies for Effective Research

Keyword searching and narrowing a topic.

Google for Internet Searching

Overview of advanced search techniques in Google, and appropriate web resources for academic

research.

Evaluating Internet Sources

Determining the reliability of Internet sources.

Avoiding Plagiarism

An examination of plagiarism, documentation of sources, and copyright

Sternberg, R.J. (Ed). (2017). Career paths in

psychology: Where your degree can take you.

Washington, D.C.: American Psychological

Association.

BF 76 .C38 2017

Tessman, L. (2017). When doing the right thing

is impossible. New York: Oxford University

Press.

BJ 1031 .T4745 2017

Baird, J. (2016). Victoria the queen: An intimate

biography of the woman who ruled an empire.

New York: Random House.

DA 554 .B18 2016

Pearlman, W. (2017). We crossed a bridge and

it trembled: Voices from Syria. New York:

HarperCollins Publishers.

DS 98.6 .P43 2017

Deng, A., et al. (2015). They poured fire on us

from the sky: The true story of three lost boys

from Sudan. New York: PublicAffairs.

DT 157.63 .D46 2015

Dinerstein, J. (2017). The origins of cool in

postwar America. Chicago: The University of

Chicago Press.

E 169.12 .D566 2017

Brown, D.S. (2016). Moderates: The vital center

of American politics, from the founding to today.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

E 183 .B89 2016

Lewis, J.R., & K. Hellesoy. (Eds.) (2017).

Handbook of Scientology. Leiden: Brill.

BP 605 .S2 H35 2017

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.)

Peabody, B.G. (2016). Where have all the

heroes gone?: The changing nature of

American valor. New York: Oxford University

Press.

BJ 1533 .C8 P43 2017

Moseley, R. (2017). Reporting war: How foreign

correspondents risked capture, torture, and

death to cover World War II. New Haven: Yale

University Press.

D 798 .M67 2017

Rothstein, R. (2017). The color of law: A

forgotten history of how our government

segregated America. New York: Liveright

Publishing Corporation.

E 185.61 .R8185 2017

Collinsworth, E. (2017). Behaving badly: The

new morality in politics, sex, and business. New

York: Nan A. Talese, Doubleday.

BJ 320 .C65 2017

Lamia, M.C. (2017). What motivates getting

things done: Procrastination, emotions, and

success. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

BF 637 .P76 L36 2017

Moran, J. (2017). Shrinking violets: The secret

life of shyness. New Haven, CT: Yale University

Press.

BF 575 .B3 M67 2017

Clinton, C. (2016). Stepdaughters of history:

Southern women and the American Civil War.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

E 628 .C575 2016

Wallis, M. (2017). The best land under heaven:

The Donner Party in the age of Manifest

Destiny. New York: Liveright Publishing

Corporation.

F 868 .N5 W36 2017

Windhorst, B. (2017). Return of the king:

LeBron James, the Cleveland Cavaliers, and

the greatest comeback in NBA history. New

York: Grand Central Publishing.

GV 885.52 .C57 W56 2017

Newman, M.Z. (2017). Atari age: The

emergence of video games in America.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

GV 1469.3 N484 2017

Collins, C. (2016). Born on third base: A one

percenter makes the case for tackling

inequality, bringing wealth home, and

committing to the common good.. White River

Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing.

HC 110 .W4 C64 2016

Wartzman, R. (2017). The end of loyalty: The

rise and fall of good jobs in America. New York:

PublicAffairs.

HD 80725 .W37 2017

Ervin, A. (2017). Bit by bit: How video games

transformed our world. New York: Basic Books.

GV 1469.3 .E78 2017

Edwards, L. (2017). How to read a dress: A

guide to changing fashion from the 16th to the

20th century. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

GT 1720 .E39 2017

Enriquez, J. (2016). Evolving ourselves:

Redesigning the future of humanity—one gene

at a time. New York: Current.

GN 281 .E57 2016

Garrow, D.J. (2017). Rising star: The making of

Barack Obama. New York: William Morrow.

E 908 .G36 2017

Ewing, J. (2017). Faster, higher, farther: The

Volkswagen scandal. New York: W.W.

Norton & Co.

HD 9710 .G44 E95 2017

Taplin, J.T. (2017). Move fast and break things:

How Facebook, Google, and Amazon cornered

culture and undermined democracy. New York:

Little, Brown, & Co.

HM 851 .T365 2017

Tarlo, E. (2016). Entanglement: The secret

lives of hair. London: Oneworld.

GT 2290 .T37 2016

Lashinsky, A. (2017). Wild ride: Inside Uber’s

quest for world domination. New York: Portfolio/

Penguin.

HE 5620 .R53 L37 2017

Davis, H.F. (2017). Beyond trans: Does gender

matter?. New York: New York University Press.

HQ 77.95 .U6 D39 2017

Parker, W. (2017). Life’s work: From the

trenches, a moral argument for choice. New

York: 37 Ink, Atria.

HQ 767.25 .P37 2017

Brooks, A.T. (2017). The ways women age:

Using and refusing cosmetic intervention. New

York: New York University Press.

HQ 1219 .B76 2017

Phillips, N.D. (2017). Beyond blurred lines:

Rape culture in popular media. Landham, MD:

Rowman & Littlefield.

HV 6558 .P45 2017

Elva, T. (2017). South of forgiveness: A true

story of rape and responsibility. New York:

Skyhorse Publishing.

HV 6569 .S7 E48 2017

Cannell, M.T. (2017). Incendiary: The

psychiatrist, the mad bomber, and the invention

of criminal profiling. New York: Minotaur Books.

HV 6640 .C36 2017

Sharif, M. (2017). Daring to drive: A Saudi

woman’s awakening. New York: Simon &

Schuster.

HQ 1730 .Z75 S47 2017

Chocano, C. (2017). You play the girl: On

Playboy bunnies, Stepford wives, train wrecks,

and other mixed messages. Boston: Houghton

Mifflin Harcourt.

HQ 1075.5 .U6 C46 2017

Valkenburg, P.M., & J.T. Piotrowsky. (2017).

Plugged in: How media attract and affect youth.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

HQ 799.2 .M35 V35 2017

Sanger, C. (2017). About abortion: Terminating

pregnancy in twenty-first century America. New

Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard

University Press.

HQ 767.15 .S26 2017

Robertiello, G. (2017). The use and abuse of

police power in America: Historic milestones

and current controversies. Santa Barbara,

CA: ABC-CLIO.

HV 7921 .U84 2017

Pearlman, L. (2016). American justice on trial:

People v. Newton. Berkeley, CA: Regent Press.

KF 224 .N4 P42 2016

Adichie, C.N. (2017). Dear Ijeawele: Or, a

feminist manifesto in fifteen suggestions. New

York: Alred A. Knopf.

HQ 1206 .A26 2017

LaChance, D. (2016). Executing freedom: The

cultural life of capital punishment in the United

States. Chicago: The University of Chicago

Press.

HV 8699 .U5 L33 2016

Clune, L. (2016). Executing the Rosenbergs:

Death and diplomacy in a Cold War world. New

York: Oxford University Press.

KF 224 .R6 C58 2016

Sitaraman, G. (2017). The crisis of the middle-

class constitution: Why economic inequality

threatens our republic. New York: Alred A.

Knopf.

KF 4749 .S38 2017

Kay, S. (2017). Rockin’ the free world!: How the

rock & roll revolution changed America and the

world. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

ML 3918 .R63 2017

Furniss, M. (2016). A new history of animation.

New York: Thames & Hudson.

NC 1765 .F873 2016

Bergen, B.K. (2016). What the F: What

swearing reveals about our language, our

brains, and ourselves. New York: Basic Books.

P 410 .O27 B47 2016

Gilliver, P. (2016). The making of the Oxford

English dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University

Press.

PE 1611 .G55 2016

Ensminger, D.A. (2016). The politics of punk:

Protest and revolt from the streets. Lanham,

MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

ML 3918 .R63 E56 2016

Caplan, L. (2016). American justice 2016: The

political Supreme Court. Philadelphia: The

University of Pennsylvania Press.

KF 8742 .C278 2016

Friedman, B. (2017). Unwarranted: Policing

without permission. New York: Farrar, Straus, &

Giroux.

KF 5399 .F75 2017

Lake, J. (2016). The face that launched a

thousand lawsuits: The American women who

forged a right to privacy. New Haven, CT: Yale

University Press.

KF 1263 .M43 L35 2016

Bloomberg, M. (2017). Climate of hope: How

cities, businesses, and citizens can save the

planet. New York: St. Martin’s Press.

QC 903 .B56524 2017

Prothero, D.R. (2017). California’s amazing

geology. Boca Raton: CRC Press, Taylor &

Francis Group.

QE 89 .P76 2017

Powers, A. (2017). Good booty: Love and sex,

black & white, body and soul in American

music. New York: Dey St.

ML 3477 .P69 2017

Dembicki, G. (2017). Are we screwed? How a

new generation is fighting to survive climate

change. New York: Bloomsbury.

QC 903 .D4465 2017

Peterson, B. (2017). Wolf nation: The life,

death, and return of wild American wolves.

Boston: Da Capo Press.

QL 737 .C22 P467 2017

Nockels Fabbri, C. (2017). From anaesthesia to

x-rays: Innovations and discoveries that

changed medicine forever. Santa Barbara, CA:

Greenwood.

R 702 .N63 2017

Guyenet, S.J. (2017). The hungry brain:

Outsmarting the instincts that make us overeat.

New York: Flatiron Books.

RC 552 .C65 G88 2017

Berkowitz, D. (2017). Botox nation: Changing

the face of America. New York: New York

University Press

RL 87 .B465 2017

Benjamin, D. (2016). Farm to table: The

essential guide to sustainable food systems for

students, professionals, and consumers. White

River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing.

S 494.5 .S86 B47 2016

Lasbury, M.E. (2017). The realization of Star

Trek technologies: The science, not fiction,

behind brain implants, plasma shields, quantum

computing, and more. Switzerland, Springer.

T 173.8 .L37 2017

Toomath, R. (2017). The obesity epidemic:

Why diets and exercise don’t work—and what

does. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University

Press.

RC 628 .T66 2017

Hahn, M. (2017). Distracted: How regulations

are destroying the practice of medicine and

preventing true health-care reform. New York:

Skyhorse Publishing.

R 858 .H323 2017

Harris, R.F. (2017). Rigor mortis: How sloppy

science creates worthless cures, crushes

hopes, and wastes billions. New York: Basic

Books.

R 852 .H37 2017

Power, M.L. (2016). Milk: The biology of

lactation. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins

University Press.

QP 246 .P69 2016

Kluger, J. (2017). Apollo 8: The thrilling story

of the first mission to the moon. New York:

Henry Holt and Company.

TL 789.8 .U6 A54325 2017

Brewer, J. (2017). The craving mind: From

cigarettes to smart phones to love—why we get

hooked and how we can break bad habits. New

Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

RC 533 .B738 2017

Villet, B. (2017). The Lovings: An

intimate portrait. New York: Princeton

Architectural Press.

TR 681 .F28 L68 2017