Nov/Dec Newsletter 2013
News from Bridge to College, ACE and the Library!
Happy holidays from all of us to all of you!
National GEAR UP week
NVCC Library Bans Books?!
Academic Center for Excellence develops Student Success Stories
Student Success Stories is way to celebrate and promote student achievement. These testimonials demonstrate that hard work and perseverance does pay off. -Rob Sheftel, ACE Director
Library tips and tricks
How do I find a journal by title?
Please view the tutorial below on how to access and search A-Z Journal Locator. The tutorial was written and produced by Gretchen Gallagher and John Leonetti. Please feel free to embed or link to the tutorial in Blackboard.
Limiting your search results in Google
Written, produced and narrated by John Leonetti, November 2013.
Wintersession Book Club
Interested in a one-session book chat in January? Come one, come all!
Who: You and other fabulous folks.
What: The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, by Gretchen Rubin
When: January 14, 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Where: Library, L410 (serving coffee and dessert; brown-bag lunch).
How: Copies on order, arriving daily – RSVP to emilnor@nv.edu to reserve yours (336 pages).
Tuesday, Jan 14, 2014, 12:00 PM
Library 4th floor
New Library Website
- easier access to off campus databases
- more library research guides
- mobile site link
- web tutorials and how-tos
- and more!
Check it out at www.nv.edu/library!
ConnCAP Students Tour Area Colleges
The ConnCAP students at NVCC have been very active this year. They are involved in several community programs and events. Their most recent activity was a college tour of the University of Bridgeport on October 14, 2013 and Wesleyan University on November 5, 2013. -Inez Velez, ConnCAP
Camtasia 8
Camtasia 8 has a Youtube setting and will allow one to upload a video directly to Youtube during the production phase. The library has a Youtube account that hosts our tutorials.
Please feel free to embed any of these videos or link to them in your BlackBoard modules. Please visit our webpage that has a current listing of our tutorials and the links to them at Youtube.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.
John Leonetti X8021.
NVCC Child Development Center Visits the Library for Halloween
Naugatuck Valley Community College
Website: www.nv.edu
Location: 750 Chase Parkway, Waterbury, CT
Phone: 203-575-8000
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NaugatuckValleyCommunityCollege
Twitter: @NaugatuckValley