The Story of Stuff

You may have heard of or watched the youtube video titled The Story of Stuff. If not, its worth checking out. There's a book written by the video's creator, Annie Leonard. The video examines the lifecycle, of, well, stuff by looking how things are created, bought, and thrown away. Leonard focuses on the idea that as a society we have "more" stuff than ever before, but cohesively, it is making us sad, not happy. She suggests - 1) reducing the need to work more by spending less and 2) value time over having more stuff

National Geographic @ CLC

Looking for copies of National Geographic?  The library now has two external hard drives available for checkout from the Grayslake campus circulation desk.  These hard drives  contain 121 years of National Geographic magazine including every map, photograph, and article that appeared in the original magazine.  we also have a hard drive available at the reference desk on the 2nd floor of the Grayslake campus library to assist in answering any questions. 


These can be found in the library's online catalog and are available for checkout for 2 days.  See our policies page for more information.

Let Us Know What You Think About Streaming Music

The library wants to know what you think!

We have set up a trial to a potential database of streaming music called Music Online from Alexander Street Press that can accessed from all of our campus locations. Music Online is a broad, comprehensive resource available for the study of classical, jazz, world, and American music. Using this resource you can browse and search the interface to obtain results in streaming audio, scores, and more. You can also create play lists, embed songs in pages, and sign up for free downloads.

You can access the database from on campus using this link.
http://music.alexanderstreet.com

Use this form to let us know what you think.

See this announcement on our website

Free Textbooks!!

Looking for a textbook for a class?  The CLC Library has copies of many textbooks as course reserves.  These course reserves can be checked out for either 2 hours, 4 hours, or sometimes 2 days depending on what the instructor sets as a loan period.  

PreCalculu

An example of a text book that the CLC Library has available on reserve is the 5th edition of Precalculus : Enhanced with Graphing Utiltiies by Michael Sullivan.  
 
So what does this mean?  

This Textbook normally would cost $176, but you can use it for free by checking it out from the library. 

The library does not have every text book for every class, but you can search for course reserves from the library's online catalog.  You can search by either course or instructor.   We have a video to help walk you through how to search for course reserves here at the library. 

Link to video on YouTube

Library Tips: "Feature Films for your Viewing Pleasure"

Located on the second level of the Grayslake Campus CLC Library is the Feature Films and Audio Visual collection. Here you can find DVD’s and VHS films available for 2-hour to 2-day rental. AV materials CANNOT be renewed. In the basement, students are still able to ‘check out’ Viewing rooms or stations. You can request to use these at the First Floor Circulation Desk.

How to Check-Out a Feature Film The cases are empty and require you to bring them to the First Floor Circulation Desk for checkout; you CANNOT use the self-check out for these. Note: Teachers may sometimes put Class Reserves or Holds on some AV materials which can also be retrieved at the First Floor Circulation Desk.

Answers.USA.gov

The U. S. Government answers thousands of general questions through Answers.USA.gov

For example, October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and October 22, 2010 is National Mammography Day.

Winter is pending and so are heating bills. Click on Assistance with Utility Bills to learn more.

The search term "financial aid for college" renders 251 results. State Financial Aid for College, the first hit and offers nine additional resources to follow.

You can also ask questions through "chat" and "email"

This site is a great tool to learn about the government resources most applicable to addressing your needs.

Interested in WWII?

Are you interested in World War II history? The history of the war is alive at the Pacific Wrecks website. Thirty-three year-old son of schoolteachers, Justic Taylan, visits the Pacific each year to search remote jungles for wartime relics "forgotten by everyone except fellow wreck hunters, U.S. military officials, and veterans."

Justin has captured digital images of vine-entangled wreckage of various aircraft. HIs website documents airplane crash sites in the Pacific - his mission: locate undiscovered U.S. airplane wreckage and determine the fates of thousands of American airmen will listing as missing in the Pacific Theater.

For more information, click here.

Films On Demand

The Library has added Films on Demand to its list of electronic resources.  You can use Films on Demand to access videos from any subject from both on campus and from home with authentication using your CLC ID.

In addition to being able to watch streaming video from on campus and from home, you can also create an account with Films on Demand and maintain a list of favorites, create a play list of different video titles, and email links to a video.  Films on Demand also has a built in citation generator that will create a citation for any video in either MLA or Chicago style.  Films on Demand also allows for direct linking to videos or play lists, using the Title URL, so you can get to a particular video and add these links to any application.

These tutorials can help get you started.

Searching Basics
Browsing Basics

Looking for video?

Try the new metasearch tool VideoSurf. This tool searches Hulu, CNN, ESPN, ComedyCentral, and MetaCafe. Retrieve news bits, full feature epidsodes, informational bits, trailers, etc. all through one search containing several video sources.

Try this search: Afghanistan (click here for results.)

What's on Dr. Weber's ipod?

The library is pleased to announce a new blog feature "What's on Dr. Weber's ipod?" Each month, we'll feature several of Dr. Weber's favorite podcasts.


Today's feature, "Living on Earth" or LOE, is a weekly environmental news program featuring interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues. Tagged as "sound journalism for the planet," LOE is an independent media news program relying soley on donations and contributions from listeners and institutions supporting public service.

If there's something new about global warming, climate change, environmental politics or environmental quality and human health, host Steve Curwood and the LOE news team keep up to date with fair and accurate coverage.

How to subscribe? Visit the LOE web site and subscribe via the LOE feed: http://www.loe.org/podcast.rss Or, use iTunes and click here.

Task Completion

Having a problem finishing that task? Does your to-do pile outweigh the to-done? Check out Zenhabits for a strategy to aid with that dreaded virus "procrastination!"

BBC Languages

Want to sharpen your Spanish or Chinese language skills? Do you need a site that's reputable and trustworthy? Want audio and video?

Look no further, try BBC Languages.

There's a multitude of materials all available for FREE for learning in Spanish, French, Chinese, German, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Gaelic (!), and so on. The site also covers essential phrases in 36 languages.

TEDTalks. Free Videos by Smart People.

TED (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to Ideas Worth Spreading that began in 1984 as an invitation only conference to bring together people from the fields of technology, entertainment, and design.  Since then its purpose has expanded and to include other conferences, and the award-winning TEDTalks video site, featuring all of the best talks and performances freely on their website for users to watch and share.

TEDTalks currently offers 450 videos, and includes videos from individuals including former President Bill Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Ray Kurzweil, and Peter Gabriel.  Starting out, TEDTalks featured speakers from the fields of technology, entertainment, and design, but this has been expanded to include business, science, and global issues.  These videos are offered freely through a Creative Commons license and can be shared and posted as longs as TED is referenced as the original source of the material, the talks are not used for any commercial purposes, and the videos are not edited or altered in any way. For more information on the Creative Commons License, please see the official website.  TED has also started offering the videos in other languages as part of the TED Open Translation Project, and currently offers published video translations in 52 languages, with 1744 published translations.

Try out this resource, and let us know what you think...

Here is a selection of videos from their YouTube Channel.


    Subscribe to TEDTalks Videos

  Follow them on Twitter

  Watch videos on their YouTube Channel