Southwestern Library News
Spring 2015
SWOCC Alumna Hits the Road with New Cookbook
SWOCC alumna Terri Phillips just published her first book, Food Truck Road Trip: A Cookbook, More than 100 Recipes Collected from the Best Street Food Vendors Coast to Coast.
Phillips, who graduated from SWOCC in 2000 with her AAOT degree, along with friends Kim Pham and Philip Shen, wrote a food blog, Behind the Food Trucks, which won Sauver's Best Culinary Travel blog in 2013. That success lead to a crowd-funding appeal at kickstarter.com, which financed a cross-country road trip for the friends. The three traveled to 12 metropolitan areas across the U.S. to document the creativity, originality, and zest of the food truck trend.
Terri, who was Terri Armstrong when she attended SWOCC, was a poet who published works in the college's former literary magazine, The Beacon.
Food Truck Road Trip is in the Southwestern Library.
Phillips, who graduated from SWOCC in 2000 with her AAOT degree, along with friends Kim Pham and Philip Shen, wrote a food blog, Behind the Food Trucks, which won Sauver's Best Culinary Travel blog in 2013. That success lead to a crowd-funding appeal at kickstarter.com, which financed a cross-country road trip for the friends. The three traveled to 12 metropolitan areas across the U.S. to document the creativity, originality, and zest of the food truck trend.
Terri, who was Terri Armstrong when she attended SWOCC, was a poet who published works in the college's former literary magazine, The Beacon.
Food Truck Road Trip is in the Southwestern Library.
Skyjacking Tale has Local Angle
The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking is a story of the epidemic of jet hijacking in the U.S. between 1968 and 1972, when an average of one commercial jet a week was waylaid. An interplay of politics and commerce slowed the nation's response, with many in power believing U.S. citizens wouldn't stand for being searched before they boarded planes.
Author Brendan I. Koerner hangs this history around a plotline featuring the exploits of Cathy Kerkow, a 1969 Marshfield High School graduate -- and track teammate of Steve Prefontaine -- who briefly studied oceanography at SWOCC before taking off with a disturbed Army deserter to hijack an airplane to Algeria and take up with Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver. More than 40 years later, Kerkow remains wanted by the FBI.
The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking is available at the Southwestern Library.
Author Brendan I. Koerner hangs this history around a plotline featuring the exploits of Cathy Kerkow, a 1969 Marshfield High School graduate -- and track teammate of Steve Prefontaine -- who briefly studied oceanography at SWOCC before taking off with a disturbed Army deserter to hijack an airplane to Algeria and take up with Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver. More than 40 years later, Kerkow remains wanted by the FBI.
The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking is available at the Southwestern Library.
Coos Bay's History Unfurls
The local history of ships is not just a community education class this spring, it's also the subject of a display at Southwestern Library.
Come check out intriguing titles, such as:
Come check out intriguing titles, such as:
- Disaster Log of Ships by Jim Gibbs,
- Pacific Lumber Ships by Gorden Newell,
- Lost Treasure Ships of the Oregon Coast by Theodore Schellhase, or
- Wooden Ships and Master Craftsmen by Ernest Osborne.
Faculty: DVD Class on Keeping Students Honest
Tools & Techniques for Promoting Academic Integrity is a training DVD on ways to identify and reduce cheating and plagiarism. It's kept behind the desk at the library for faculty, part-time faculty and staff use only.
Book and Database Use is Up
The number of log ons to Southwestern Library's electronic databases is growing, and now exceeds the checkout of physical items.
The number of log ons to databases now tops 11,000 during a school year.
That doesn't mean books or DVDs are declining. Here are our number of checkouts of physical items in recent years:
2011-2012 = 9,007
2012-2013 = 9,011
2013-2014 = 9,278
It looks as if 2014-2015 is on track toward a similar number of checkouts.
Thanks to everyone who uses the Southwestern Library!
The number of log ons to databases now tops 11,000 during a school year.
That doesn't mean books or DVDs are declining. Here are our number of checkouts of physical items in recent years:
2011-2012 = 9,007
2012-2013 = 9,011
2013-2014 = 9,278
It looks as if 2014-2015 is on track toward a similar number of checkouts.
Thanks to everyone who uses the Southwestern Library!
Poetry, Environmentalism, Oregon Pioneer Fiction at Coos County libraries
- Hear Oregon's Poet Laureate Peter Sears read at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 4 at North Bend Public Library.
- Watch documentaries on environmental issues at 7 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays between April 6 and 22 at Coos Bay Public Library.
- Meet Oregon author Jane Kirkpatrick at 6 p.m. May 21 at Dora Public Library or at 7 p.m. May 22 at Coos Bay Public Library. Jane Kirkpatrick is a writer of historical fiction, including this year's Title Wave book, A Light in the Wilderness, available at all Coos County libraries and for a discount at Books by the Bay in North Bend.
Insights on Reading
"One of the common metaphors we use when describing the immersive drift of reading is that of floating on a river: we are carried along by a narrative, as if we were in an oarless boat. This metaphor implies a passivity that belies the vested involvement of our reading minds. Sometimes we must row hard against the current, or steer around a jutting rock. And even when we are coasting, the boat that is carrying us is: our own minds."
-- Peter Mendelsund in What We See When We Read, available at the Southwestern Library.
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