Congratulations Class of 2013!

The library staff would like to congratulate this year’s graduates and wish you well as you head into the next chapter of your life. It has been our pleasure to assist you with your academic needs and we hope you will continue to embrace life-long learning no matter where your journey leads. Good luck and relish your accomplishment!

Library Summer Hours

Please remember that the library will remain open during the summer with abbreviated weekday hours and will be closed Saturdays. We will be closing early on May 23rd for Graduation and we will be closed on Memorial Day, Monday May 27th. Please call or check our website for additional hours. Have a safe and pleasant summer.

The Cloud Ate My Homework!

Have you ever clicked ‘Save’ after finishing your work and then couldn’t find your file?
Do you have a LOT of electronic documents for school that you simply cannot lose?
Learn how to solve these problems….

Come to the library workshop to find out how to stay organized using free online storage.
Thursday April 25th 2pm and 6pm Library Instruction Room

Message from the Library Director

A Warm Welcome to all New and Returning Students,Faculty and Staff for the 2013 Spring Semester

Gateway Community College is now home to a Library and Learning Commons that many in the state have said could be a model for other college libraries, with its beautiful use of space, its plentiful light, its technology and with collaborative study areas, study rooms and quiet study spaces. While it is a place for collaborative academic endeavor, it is also where students can engage in contemplative – quiet – study. This is the tone we must all embrace as a Gateway community this semester and the semesters beyond in our new Library and Learning Commons. Because the college has so many lovely spots now where students can meet and chat, including the lounge areas on the stair landings, along the Fairway, and in the cafeteria, students must leave their social conversations there and come to the Library and Learning Commons to research, to study, and to collaborate with an academic purpose. It is a beautiful setting and we want to make that beauty last, which is why we ask everyone to leave food and drinks in the cart outside the library.

We have much to look forward to this semester – as the Library and Learning Commons was awarded two grants that include: The Peace Studies Collection and The Muslim Journeys Bookshelf Collection. We are also excited about upcoming community outreach programs that will take place in the Library this semester. We will host an author and book signing event by Charlayne Hunter-Gault on Monday, February 4, 2013, at 5:30pm in the Learning Commons floor. She is an an award winning journalist and activist and an author of To the Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement; In My Place; and New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa’s Renaissance. The books will be available for purchase and signing in the Library. Other upcoming events include: hosting a film screening linked to our new Peace Studies Collection on Thursday, March 7th, 2013, as well as
sponsoring a “Big Read” program linked to the special collection focusing on personal nonviolent communications, on Monday, April 22, 2013. We plan to offer morning and evening sessions of each activity to reach as many students and community participants as possible. 

We are pleased to announce a campus-wide book club – for students, faculty and staff. Our first shared read will be GCC Humanities Professor Franz Douskey latest book Sinatra and Me: The Very Good Years, with Tony Consiglio. Professor Douskey donated five copies of the book to the library and we have ordered more. I encourage everyone to join us for the book club in March 13, 12:30 pm-1:30 pm and April 17, 12:30 pm-1:30 pm. Our collection is growing, particularly our ebook collection. We recently added 30,000 new titles,including 3,000 print books in every subject area, plus Oxford Quick Reference database, containing over 300 core reference titles from Oxford University Press.

We invite students, faculty, and staff to take advantage of all we have to offer. Our Library and Learning Commons staff is here to help assist you with your research, to answer your questions, so come and talk with us! Our Library and Learning Commons is a community resource for Gateway Community College and for our larger New Haven community. It is a gathering place where people can exchange ideas and learn from each other , a place where you can get lost in a book, find the answer to a pivotal research question and, move your education ever forward. I look forward to all we will accomplish together.

Best wishes for the Spring Semester.

More Library Services

Films on Demand for Faculty (http://gwcc.libguides.com/content.php?pid=205598&sid=1715648)

Library Hours/Featured Events (http://gwcc.libcal.com/)

Online Reservation booking for Group Study room (http://gwcc.libcal.com/)

Student Research Scheduling (http://gwcc.libcal.com/)

Faculty Library Instruction Request Online (http://gwcc.libguides.com/content.php?pid=121344&sid=3001846)

Ask-a-Librarian & Live Chat (http://gwcc.libanswers.com/)

Library Subject/Course Guides (http://gwcc.libguides.com/index.php)

Library Workshops (http://gwcc.libcal.com/)

Spring 2013 Library Workshops

Getting to Know Your Library Thu. Feb. 7 2:00pm-3:00pm
Getting to Know Your Library Tue. Feb. 12 2:00pm-3:00pm

Jump Start Your Research Thu. March 14 2:00pm-3:00pm
Jump Start Your Research Tue. March 19 2:00pm-3:00pm

Resuscitate Your Research Thu. April 4 2:00pm-3:00pm
Resuscitate Your Research Tue. April 9 2:00pm-3:00pm

Research & Citation Help Drop-In Thu. May 2 10:00am-12:00pm
Research & Citation Help Drop-In Thu. May 2 2:00pm-4:00pm
Research & Citation Help Drop-In Thu. May 2 6:00pm-8:00pm

All workshops are held in the Library Multipurpose Room S217, 2nd Floor.
To register, please call 203-285-2057 or go online at http://gwcclibcal.com/workshops.
If the above times do not work for you, please contact us to arrange
for individualized or classroom sessions.

Grant Award: Muslim Journeys Bookshelf

GCC Library & Learning Commons is one of 840 libraries and state humanities councils nationwide receiving this special collection of materials. It is a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association ALA) Public Programs Office Bridging Cultures initiative, which aims to familiarize public audiences in the United States with the people, places, history, faith and cultures of Muslims in the United States and around the world. A collection of twenty-five books and three films were awarded to each library. Additional materials included bookmarks, bookplates, posters and rights to host free public screenings of films.

The award came as a result of an application developed by a GCC team that included Clara Ogbaa, Director of Library Services, who will also serve as project coordinator for the Muslim Journeys Bookshelf; Susan Chenard and Renee Gaines, both Professors of English in the Humanities Department. GCC was among only 10 organizations to receive NEH awards here in Connecticut, and one of only two in New Haven. Additionally, GCC was the only community college among state awardees; joined by Southern Connecticut State University, Eastern Connecticut State University and the Suffield branch of the Lincoln College of New England as the only Connecticut institutions of higher education to receive the Muslim Journeys Bookshelf.