The Bailey Library Newsletter

As of Winter Semester 2010, you may use your new student ID card as a print/photocopying card at the Bailey Library and the Computer Commons.

You can obtain your new student ID card for free at the Security Office on the 2nd floor of Student Center Building. To use it for printing, use the last 6 digits of your ID number printed on the card to name and retrieve your print job.

Alternatively, you can purchase an Equitrac print card at the Library or the Computer Commons for a dollar, and use the 6-digit card number to name and retrieve your print job.

The print charges remain at 5 cents per b/w page and 40 cents per color page in the Computer Commons, and free in the Bailey Library.

To add monetary value to either the new student ID card or the Equitrac print card, use the card vending machine in the above two locations. Monetary value, however, cannot be transferred from one card to the other.

As the Computer Commons and other campus locations have transitioned to the new Equitrac print card system, the end of Fall Semester 2009 is the deadline for transferring any unused value from your old Ikon print card to your Equitrac print card.

Please note that if the staff cannot read your old print card, no value can be transferred to the new card.

Beginning from Winter Semester 2010, you may no longer transfer value from the old card to the new card.

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

The following new databases are now available for access on the library website:

Demographics Now

Use this market research database to find U.S. demographic information. The database also provides an easy-to-use tool for generating a variety of reports.

FMG Science Collection

A streaming video collection of over 1,400 programs on physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, geography, computer, technology, earth and environmental sciences.

Global Issues in Context

Use this database to find information on international issues from a global perspective. This database consists of newspapers, magazines, journals, reference works, statistics, and primary sources, including media items such as podcasts and videos.

Latino American Experience

A full-text database of primary and secondary information sources, as well as images and vetted websites, on the Latino history and culture in the U.S.

Please also note that the library’s Wall Street Journal database subscription will expire on September 30, 2009, although we continue to maintain the most recent 5 months’ holdings of the print version.

New and existing businesses served by the Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center (MI-SBTDC), Region 12 will find a new Biz Resource Center (BRC) at WCC Bailey Library beginning May 2009.

As a BRC, the Library will provide small businesses with access to high-value print and electronic resources. Entrepreneurs will also be able to attend free market research workshops conducted by librarians. In addition, business clients can sign up for individual consultations with librarians on business information research.

In this new role, the Bailey Library becomes a vital link in the economic life of the community that it serves. For more information, see Biz Resource Center.

The WCC Bailey Library will sponsor a free genealogy seminar in the Towsley Auditorium at the Morris Lawrence Building from 9 am to noon on June 12, 2009.

This is the third year that the Bailey Library has sponsored the popular genealogy seminar for the public. This year, two experts, Kris Rzepczynski and Bobbie Snow, will discuss the use of forms, software, databases, as well as census and ship passenger lists for genealogy research, including tracing pre-Civil War African-American ancestors.

To reserve your free spot, please call 734-973-3379 or email lrosser@wccnet.edu by June 5, 2009.

As the College has transitioned to a new copy center vendor, the pay-to-print system at the Computer Commons and other campus locations has changed as well.

WCC students need to note the following:

• Beginning from the Spring/Summer Semester 2009, you will need a new print card for the new pay-to-print system.
• The Computer Commons staff can transfer any unused value from your old print cards to the new print cards from May through the end of the Fall Semester 2009. If the staff cannot read your old print cards, no value can be transferred to the new cards.
• Print charges will remain the same, $0.50 for the print card and $0.05 per black/white page.

The recent addition of a commissioned artwork, titled Meanwhile O Reader, has greatly enriched the Bailey Library’s cultural milieu.

About 30 students participated in a student focus group at the Bailey Library on November 12, 2008. The staff was eager to listen what students had to say about the services and resources available at the library and the computer commons.

In November, five candidates, including two incumbents, will run for three seats on the WCC Board of Trustees.

The candidates are:  Mark Freeman, Robert Martel, Graeme Rogerson, David Rutledge (incumbent), and Anne Williams (incumbent).

Martel, Rutledge and Williams participated in an October 14 forum aired by the Ann Arbor Community Television Network.

A streaming video of the forum is available at http://a2cititv.pegcentral.com/. A DVD copy can also be checked out at WCC Bailey Library.

The Bailey Library is very happy to announce the addition of the Browsing DVD Collection. This DVD collection is available to students, faculty and staff beginning in July and is located between the Browsing Book Collection and Browsing Periodical Collection.

The collection includes popular feature films and documentaries updated every month. If you would like to make a request for future DVD selections, part time reference librarian Maureen Perault will be happy to take your request.

Students, faculty and staff may check out up to two DVDs for three days.