Trick or Treat - Library Open 1-5 Sunday

Happy Halloween to all

Faculty, Staff and Students of the

Reading Area Community College

From

The Yocum Library.

Scheduled Classes for Computers

9 a.m. - 10 .a.m Reserved
Where: YL
Description:
Ms. Lois Moyer ORI-102 (28) Intro to Library PowerPoint presented by
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"Wizard of Oz" in the Miller Center TODAY

.. We are ...

Off to see the Wizard...

the wonderful Wizard of Oz...

The Yocum Library will be hosting a freeshowing

of the 1939 classic, "Wizard of Oz"

in the Miller Center

Saturday, October 30th -

2 p.m.Costumes are welcome.

Don't Forget Saturday, October 30th - 2 p.m.

Free tickets to the Wizard of Oz Showing are available at the circulation desk, Yocum Library.

The Yocum Library will be hosting a free

showing of the 1939 classic,

Wizard of Oz

in the Miller Center

Saturday, October 30th - 2 p.m.

Costumes are welcome.

The Wizard Of Oz

Judy Garland, Bert Lahr, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley

Turner/MGM; Directed by Victor Fleming

Rated G; 102 minutes; 1939

Kansas girl Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) and her dog, Toto, are whisked by a tornado into the magical land of Oz in this much loved musical adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s classic novel. Dorothy joins the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion on an adventure down the Yellow Brick Road to persuade the Wizard to help her find her way home.

“The best children’s movie ever made.” - Jack Mathews, NEWSDAY

“A pure pleasure! Go off to see the Wizard.” - Leah Rozen, PEOPLE

“A version that looks better than anything you grew up with!” - Mike Clark, USA TODAY

The History of Halloween

Halloween, celebrated each year on October 31, is a mix of ancient Celtic practices, Catholic and Roman religious rituals and European folk traditions that blended together over time to create the holiday we know today. Straddling the line between fall and winter, plenty and paucity and life and death, Halloween is a time of celebration and superstition. Halloween has long been thought of as a day when the dead can return to the earth, and ancient Celts would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off these roaming ghosts. The Celtic holiday of Samhain, the Catholic Hallowmas period of All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day and the Roman festival of Feralia all influenced the modern holiday of Halloween. In the 19th century, Halloween began to lose its religious connotation, becoming a more secular community-based children's holiday. Although the superstitions and beliefs surrounding Halloween may have evolved over the years, as the days grow shorter and the nights get colder, people can still look forward to parades, costumes and sweet treats to usher in the winter season.
MORE
*http://www.history.com/topics/halloween

Reserved Group Study Rooms

12 p.m. - 3 p.m.

Where: Yocum 103

Description: Study Group with Tracy Trimble, Amy Bernidini, Angie Sholl, Medjin Tomson, and Kathryn Adams.

Scheduled Classes for Computers

9 a.m. - 10 a.m. Reserved

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Halloween Prizes - Ravens Nest - Friday, October 29

Dress up for Halloween. Friday, October 29, 2010.

Wear your favorite costume and visit the Ravens Nest from 9am to 2pm!

Anyone in costume will get a treat bag. Prizes will be given!

1st Prize - $250 Berkshire Mall voucher

2nd Prize - $100 Berkshire Mall gift card

3rd Prize - $50 Wawa gift card

Everyone is encouraged to participate. Sponsored by the Student Activities Board.

Reserved Group Study Rooms

11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Yocum 103 Reserved

Description: Vera Ellison is a volunteer tutor with Martha Butler.

12 p.m. - 2 p.m. Tower Room reserved

Description: Study Group with Michele Benjamin, Aliek Given, Theadra Graczyk, Alvin Myers, Steve Tovar, Andy Rieck.

Wizard of Oz - Free Tickets are at Circulation Desk

Free tickets to the Wizard of Oz Showing are available at the circulation desk, Yocum Library.

The Yocum Library will be hosting a free

showing of the 1939 classic,

Wizard of Oz

in the Miller Center

Saturday, October 30th - 2 p.m.

Costumes are welcome.

The Wizard Of Oz

Judy Garland, Bert Lahr, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley

Turner/MGM; Directed by Victor Fleming

Rated G; 102 minutes; 1939

Kansas girl Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) and her dog, Toto, are whisked by a tornado into the magical land of Oz in this much loved musical adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s classic novel. Dorothy joins the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion on an adventure down the Yellow Brick Road to persuade the Wizard to help her find her way home.

“The best children’s movie ever made.” - Jack Mathews, NEWSDAY

“A pure pleasure! Go off to see the Wizard.” - Leah Rozen, PEOPLE

“A version that looks better than anything you grew up with!” - Mike Clark, USA TODAY

Scheduled Classes for Computers

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presented by Ms. Kim Stahler

Scheduled Classes for Computers

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Description: Ms. Schrothe COM051 (20) ProQuest database presented by Ms. Mary Ellen Heckman

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Description: Ms.Amy Lawlor ORI 102 (27) Introduction to The Yocum Library presented by Ms. Patricia Nouhra

Dress up for Halloween. Friday, October 29, 2010.

Dress up for Halloween. Friday, October 29, 2010.
Wear your favorite costume and visit the Ravens Nest from 9am to 2pm!
Anyone in costume will get a treat bag. Prizes will be given!
1st Prize - $250 Berkshire Mall voucher
2nd Prize - $100 Berkshire Mall gift card
3rd Prize - $50 Wawa gift card
Everyone is encouraged to participate. Sponsored by the Student Activities Board.

Scheduled Classes for Computers

11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Reserved

Where: YL

Description: Ms. Lois Moyer ORI-102 (28) Intro to Library PowerPoint presented by

Ms. Kim Stahler.

2 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Reserved

Where: YL

Description: Ms. Amy Lawlor ORI 102 (28) Introduction to The Yocum Library presented

by Ms. Kim Stahler.

7 p.m. - 8 p.m. Reserved

Description: Ms. Danielle Kendra GED1 (24) Intro to Library PowerPoint presented by

Ms. Patricia Nouhra.

8 p.m. - 8:45 p.m. Reserved

Where: YL

Description: Dr. Linda Riccardi HUM 271 Intro to Philosophy (28) 12 instruction

computers without library staff instruction.

Scheduled Classes for Computers

10 a.m. - 11 a.m RESERVED

Description: Ms. Melissa Adams' HUM 251-1131 Intro to Drama class (33)

Topic: Using literature databases presented by Ms. Kim Stahler.

2 p.m. - 3 p.m. Reserved

Where: YL

Description: Ms. Christine Brown ORI-102 (26) NO INSTRUCTION; RESERVE 12 COMPUTERS

Author Belva Plain Dies at 95

* Belva Plain dies at 95; author of more than 20 bestselling novels

Known for epic novels of family and forgiveness, she never owned a computer and wrote in longhand on a yellow pad. She had written short fiction for women's magazines before turning to novels.

October 18, 2010|Los Angeles Times staff and wires

Belva Plain, who wrote more than 20 bestselling novels during a literary career that spanned several decades, has died. She was 95.

Plain died in her sleep Tuesday at her home in New Jersey, said her daughter, Barbara. No cause of death was given.

Plain, known for epic novels of family and forgiveness, never owned a computer and wrote in longhand on a yellow pad. She had written short fiction for women's magazines but didn't start writing novels until after she became a grandmother.

"The thing is, you come to a perspective of life at midway," she told The Times in 1978. "You see your grandchildren, you remember your grandparents, and there's a sense of overall family continuance. It's a very moving experience."

Her first novel, "Evergreen," was published in 1978. It follows the saga of a young girl who trades the desperate squalor of rural Poland for the teeming slums of New York, where she is torn between the love and ambitions of two men. It was developed into a miniseries that aired on NBC in 1985.

"My grandparents came from Germany in 1875. I set 'Evergreen' in the 1900s for two reasons: It was more dramatic — Germany was relatively quiet in the 1870s," she told the Washington Post in 1980. "And then I wanted to bring the heroine up to the present, so 1875 would have been too long ago.

"So it's not my family, but it has relevance to my family and to the whole American experience.… It is always the same story of people coming to the promised land."

Shortly before her death, Plain completed a sequel to "Evergreen," which will be published in February. Plain had previously revived some of the "Evergeen" characters for three other novels: "The Golden Cup," "Tapestry" and "Harvest."

More than 28 million copies of Plain's books are in print.

Plain was born Oct. 9, 1915, in New York. She was an only child who wrote poetry as a teenager and graduated with a history degree from Barnard College.

At a dinner party a few years later, she met Irving Plain, who became a prominent Newark-based ophthalmologist. They were married in 1939. He died in 1982.

"Belva's stories spoke to the hearts and lives of millions of readers for decades," said Shauna Summers, senior editor of Ballantine Bantam Dell, Random House, which published Plain.

She is also survived by six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

news.obits@latimes.com

*http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/18/local/la-me-belva-plain-20101018

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PowerPoint presented by Ms. Kim Stahler

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3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. Reserved

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Free tickets to the Wizard of Oz

The Yocum Library will be hosting a free showing of the

1939 classicWizard of Oz in the

Miller Center Saturday, October 30th - 2 p.m.

Costumes are welcome.

Free tickets to the Wizard of Oz Showing are available

at the circulation desk, Yocum Library.

Iron Jawed Angels - Review by Miriam Stone

Film Review: Iron Jawed Angels HBO presentation 15 February 2004

Directed by Katja von Garnier

Starring: Hilary Swank, Anjelica Huston, Julia Ormand, Patrick Dempsey, Frances O’Conner

This is the story of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers who lived only 90 years ago. It wasn’t until the year 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote. It wasn’t something freely given. It was a hard fought war against women who had the audacity to picket Woodrow Wilson’s White House in 1917 carrying signs asking for the vote. And by the by the time they were done, they were barely alive.

Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden’s blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of ‘obstructing sidewalk traffic in front of the White House.’ They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night bleeding and gasping for air. They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.

For weeks the women’s only water came from an open pail. Their food was infested with worms. When Alice Paul went on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited.

Woodrow Wilson tried to persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized. The doctor refused saying “Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.”

News of the treatment of the women reached the press and the women were released. They continued their non-violent protests. Pressure was put on Woodrow Wilson to confirm the nineteenth amendment to the constitution and he did so giving every woman the right to vote.

Iron Jawed Angels is a graphic depiction of the battle these women waged so that I can pull the curtain at the polling booth and have my say. Some women won’t vote in November because – why exactly? We have to get to work? Our vote doesn’t matter? It’s raining? Frankly voting doesn’t seem like a privilege anymore. It seems like an obligation. Statistics tell us that only 40% of women get out and vote.

What would those women think of the way we use or don’t use our right to vote? If you see this movie, the right to vote will become valuable all over again.

The Yocum Library owns this film. It is on the reserve shelf behind the circulation desk under Dr. Singleton’s name. You may request it at the circulation desk.

NYTimes.com - The best-seller lists

*Hardcover Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. FALL OF GIANTS, by Ken Follett
2. DON'T BLINK, by James Patterson and Howard Roughan
3. FREEDOM, by Jonathan Franzen
4. SAFE HAVEN, by Nicholas Sparks
5. SQUIRREL SEEKS CHIPMUNK, by David Sedaris

Hardcover Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. OBAMA'S WARS, by Bob Woodward
2. EARTH (THE BOOK), by Jon Stewart and others
3. ------ FINISH FIRST, by Tucker Max
4. THE ROOTS OF OBAMA'S RAGE, by Dinesh D'Souza
5. THE GRAND DESIGN, by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow

* http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/bestseller/

Scheduled Classes for Computers

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Where: YL

Calendar: Yocum Library

Description: Ms. Christine Brown ORI-102 (26) Intro to Lib PowerPoint presented by

Ms. Patricia Nouhra

Scheduled Classes for Computers

12:30 p.m. - 1 p.m.

Where: YL

Description: O'Brien ORI102 (30) Intro to Library Tour

2 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Where: YL

Description: O'Brien ORI102 (30) Intro to Library Tour

Scheduled Classes for Computers

10 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Reserved

Where: Yocum Library

Description: Ms. Mollica COM040 (20) Reserved 12 computers, no instruction.

12 p.m. - 1 p.m. Reserved

Where: YL

Description: Mrs. Cavanaugh COM121 (20) ProQuest database

presented by Ms. Kim Stahler.

2 p.m. - 4 p.m. Reserved

Where: YL

Description:

Ms. Kim Stahler ProQuest database training + Mr. Ryan Matz; Creating

Effective PowerPoints training.

5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Reserved

Where: Yocum Library

Description:

Mr. Josh Chambers, Building A Future (Comm Ed) (9) Sources for APA/MLA

presented by Ms. Patricia Nouhra.

7:30 p.m. - 8:45 p.m. Reserved

Where: YL

Description: Mr. Uhrich COM-121-1331 English Comp (20) Computers only.

No instruction.

Description: Mr. Uhrich COM-121-1331 English Comp (20) Computers only.

No instruction.

Oct 12, 1492: Columbus Reaches the New World

*After sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sights a Bahamian island, believing he has reached East Asia. His expedition went ashore the same day and claimed the land for Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, who sponsored his attempt to find a western ocean route to China, India, and the fabled gold and spice islands of Asia.

Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451. Little is known of his early life, but he worked as a seaman and then a maritime entrepreneur. He became obsessed with the possibility of pioneering a western sea route to Cathay (China), India, and the gold and spice islands of Asia. At the time, Europeans knew no direct sea route to southern Asia, and the route via Egypt and the Red Sea was closed to Europeans by the Ottoman Empire, as were many land routes. Contrary to popular legend, educated Europeans of Columbus' day did believe that the world was round, as argued by St. Isidore in the seventh century. However, Columbus, and most others, underestimated the world's size, calculating that East Asia must lie approximately where North America sits on the globe (they did not yet know that the Pacific Ocean existed).

With only the Atlantic Ocean, he thought, lying between Europe and the riches of the East Indies, Columbus met with King John II of Portugal and tried to persuade him to back his "Enterprise of the Indies," as he called his plan. He was rebuffed and went to Spain, where he was also rejected at least twice by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. However, after the Spanish conquest of the Moorish kingdom of Granada in January 1492, the Spanish monarchs, flush with victory, agreed to support his voyage.

On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, with three small ships, theSanta Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina. On October 12, the expedition reached land, probably Watling Island in the Bahamas. Later that month, Columbus sighted Cuba, which he thought was mainland China, and in December the expedition landed on Hispaniola, which Columbus thought might be Japan. He established a small colony there with 39 of his men. The explorer returned to Spain with gold, spices, and "Indian" captives in March 1493 and was received with the highest honors by the Spanish court. He was the first European to explore the Americas since the Vikings set up colonies in Greenland and Newfoundland in the 10th century.

During his lifetime, Columbus led a total of four expeditions to the New World, discovering various Caribbean islands, the Gulf of Mexico, and the South and Central American mainlands, but he never accomplished his original goal—a western ocean route to the great cities of Asia. Columbus died in Spain in 1506 without realizing the great scope of what he did achieve: He had discovered for Europe the New World, whose riches over the next century would help make Spain the wealthiest and most powerful nation on earth.

* http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/columbus-reaches-the-new-world

Yocum Library is Open

Monday, October 11

Fall Break- No Classes, College Open

Columbus Day

Tuesday, October 12

Fall Break- No Classes, College Open

Wizard of Oz - Free Showing

The Wizard Of Oz

Judy Garland, Bert Lahr, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley

Turner/MGM; Directed by Victor Fleming

Rated G; 102 minutes; 1939

Kansas girl Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) and her dog, Toto, are whisked by a tornado into the magical land of Oz in this much loved musical adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s classic novel. Dorothy joins the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion on an adventure down the Yellow Brick Road to persuade the Wizard to help her find her way home.

“The best children’s movie ever made.” - Jack Mathews, NEWSDAY

“A pure pleasure! Go off to see the Wizard.” - Leah Rozen, PEOPLE

“A version that looks better than anything you grew up with!” - Mike Clark, USA TODAY

New Additions to the Yocum Library Collection

Rules--Cynthia Lord

Critical care: a new nurse faces death, life, and everything
in between--Theresa Brown

FBI careers: the ultimate guide to landing a job as one of
America's finest--Thomas H. Ackerman

The 2011 Road atlas--Rand McNally

The 2011 Road atlas, large scale--Rand McNally

Greater Philadelphia street guide, 4th ed.--Rand McNally

Creating a sense of presence in Online teaching: how to "be there" for
distance learners--Rosemary M. Lehman and Simone C. O. Conceição

Some we love, some we hate, and some we love: why it's
so hard to think straight about animals--Hal Herzog

For the prevention of cruelty: the history and legacy of
animal rights activism in the United States--Diane L. Beers

Bioethics: an anthology, 2nd ed.--Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer,
eds.

Role models--John Waters

Turn the beat around:the secret history of disco--Peter Shapiro

Writing down the bones:freeing the writer within--Natalie Goldberg

Edward S. Curtis: visions of the first Americans--Don Gulbrandsen

Chicago's Southside 1946-1948--Wayne Miller

Fantasy football guidebook: your comprehensive guide to playing
fantasy football, 2nd ed.--Sam Hendricks

FREE - Showing of the 1939 classic, Wizard of Oz

The Yocum Library will be hosting a free

showing of the 1939 classic,

Wizard of Oz

in the Miller Center

Saturday, October 30th - 2 p.m.

Costumes are welcome.

Tickets will be distributed after October 15th.

The Yocum Library Useful Links - MLA & APA Guides

To answer question that you may have on the new MLA or the APA formatting and style please check OWL, Online Writing Lab, at the Purdue University site.

The OWL at Purdue University MLA Formatting and Style Guide
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/
The OWL at Purdue University MLA 2009 Update
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/15/
The OWL at Purdue University APA Formatting and Style Guide
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

Other useful databases can be found at http://www.racc.edu/Library/default.aspx

FREE - Showing of the 1939 classic, Wizard of Oz

FREE - The Yocum Library will be hosting a free showing of the 1939 classic, Wizard of Oz in the Miller Center on Saturday, October 30th at 2 p.m. Costumes are welcome. Tickets will be distributed after October 15th.

The Wizard Of Oz Top of Form Bottom of Form
	Judy Garland, Bert Lahr, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley Turner/MGM; Directed by Victor Fleming Rated G; 102 minutes; 1939
	Kansas girl Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) and her dog, Toto, are whisked by a tornado into the magical land of Oz in this much loved musical adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s classic novel. Dorothy joins the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion on an adventure down the Yellow Brick Road to persuade the Wizard to help her find her way home.
	“The best children’s movie ever made.” - Jack Mathews, NEWSDAY “A pure pleasure! Go off to see the Wizard.” - Leah Rozen, PEOPLE “A version that looks better than anything you grew up with!” - Mike Clark, USA TODAY

Oct 5, 1978: Isaac Singer wins Nobel Prize

On this day in 1978, Isaac Bashevis Singer wins the Nobel Prize for literature. Singer wrote in Yiddish about Jewish life in Poland and the United States, and translations of his work became popular in mainstream America as well as Jewish circles.

Singer was born in Poland in 1904 into a long line of Hasidic rabbis. He studied at the Warsaw Rabbinical Seminar, and inspired by his older brother Joshua, a writer, he began to write his own stories and novels. He published his first novel,Satan in Goray,in Poland in 1935.

The same year, he immigrated to the United States, where Joshua had already moved, to escape growing anti-Semitism in Europe. In New York, he wrote for a Yiddish-language newspaper. His mother and another brother were killed by the Nazis in 1939, the same year that Singer married Alma, the daughter of a Jewish merchant who had fled to the United States.

In 1943, Singer became a U.S. citizen. His best-known works include The Family Moskat (1950), The Manor (1967), and The Estate(1969), all about the changes in and disintegration of Jewish families responding to assimilation pressures. Singer's work is full of Jewish folklore and legends, peopled with devils, witches, and goblins. He wrote 12 books of short stories, 13 children's books, and four memoirs.

One of his stories, Yentl, was made into a movie directed by and starring Barbara Streisand in 1983. Singer divided his time between New York and Miami until his death, in 1991.

*http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/isaac-singer-wins-nobel-prize