1. We get copies of every selection
from Oprah’s Book Club, courtesy
of Oprah and The American
Library Association!

2. Oprah’s latest books are A Tale of
Two Cities and Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens

3. No Cell Phone Use
During Library Classes.
And Please Put Your
Phone on Vibrate in the
Reference Area.

4. Returning Students!
Don’t forget to update your barcode for
the new school year

5. Joke Time
Q: How many
reference
librarians does it
take to screw in a
light bulb?

6. Joke Time
A: I don’t know, but if
you give me your
phone number, I’ll
get back to you.

7. Library Quotable
My alma mater
was books, a
good library.
--Malcolm X

8. Peanut
Butter
Lovers
Month

9. Do You Know….
What year did STCC open?
A. 1967
B. 1892
C. 1976

10. Do You Know….
Answer:
A. 1967

11. Librarians Portrayed
in the Movies
“Party Girl”
(1995)
With Parker
Posey

12. The largest public library building
in the United States is Chicago’s
Harold Washington Library Center.
It measures 756,640 square feet
and contains more than 70 miles
of shelving!

13. Library Quotable
If truth is beauty,
how come no
one has their
hair done in the
library?
--Lily Tomlin

14. Do You Know….
How many numbers in an
STCC Library Barcode?
A. 12
B. 14
C. 10

15. Do You Know….
Answer:
B. 14
Barcodes need to be updated every semester,
including summer session.

16. Word Scramble
WEEDY ILMCDAE
MSSTYE

17. Word Scramblea
DEWEY DECIMAL
SYSTEM

18. Wow!!!
The recent renovation project
replaced 401 windows in
Building 27!

19. Have You Found Your$ Yet?
November
is
National
$cholars
hip Month
Check out the Library’s Guide to Scholarships:
http://libguides.stcc.edu/scholarships

20. Library Quotable
Getting my library card was
like citizenship; it was like
American citizenship.
--Oprah Winfrey

21. Librarians Portrayed
on Television
“The Librarian II:
Return to King
Solomon’s Mines”
starring Noah
Wyle and
Gabrielle Anwar

22. Have you
heard
the
news?
Read “Between the Pages,” the
STCC Library’s Newsletter!

23. Get Your
Barcode
Now!

24. Do You Know….
How many student computers
are in the STCC Library
Lab?
A. 16
B. 20
C. 22
The Lab - Before

25. Do You Know….
Answer:
C. 22
The Lab - After
The lab opened in 2000.

26. Famous Librarians
include:
• Casanova
• Batgirl
• Mao Tse Tung
• J. Edgar Hoover

27. Librarians in Literature
The Librarian
by Larry
Beinhart
. . . (a) barn-burning political
thriller complete with recipes
for how to steal a presidential
election. . . “
Kirkus Reviews

28. Take A Look
It’s like have 400 Reference Books at your
fingertips!

29. Fun with Barcodes
• All STCC Barcodes begin with the numbers
“28132”
28132000001234
• Some students actually memorize their
barcodes!

30. Librarians Portrayed
in the Movies
“Desk Set”
(1957)
Featuring
Katherine
Hepburn and
Spencer Tracy

31. It’s November
Gobble
Up a
Good
Book

32. Library news, notes, happenings, and even
the occasional joke at
http://library.stcc.edu/blogger/blogger.html

33. National Physical Therapy Month!

34. Library Quotable
You see, I don't believe
that libraries should
be drab places where
people sit in silence,
and that's been the
main reason for our
policy of employing
wild animals as
librarians.
--Monty Python sketch

35. There’s a Library Research Guide for You!
•Nursing
•Civil Engineering
•Landscape Design
•Dental Hygiene
•Business
•Law Enforcement
•Physical Therapy
•Graphic Arts
And more!

36. Librarians in Literature
The Time Traveler’s
Wife
by
Audrey Niffenegger
The story of Henry de Tamble, a
librarian with “chrono-displacement
disorder”
‘The Time Traveler's Wife is a
very old love story: wonky, sexy,
incredible... but charmingly,
inventively retold.'
The Times (London)

37. Did you Know?
There are six laptops
available at the Circulation
Desk for students to use in
the library!

38. The tallest academic
library building in
the world is the
W.E.B. Dubois
Library at the
University of
Massachusetts in
Amherst. It is 28
stories tall and
measures 295 feet.

39. C/W MARS has
more than 140
member
libraries and
loans more than
9 million items

40. Librarians Portrayed
in the Movies
“Music Man”
(1962) starring
Robert Preston
and featuring
Shirley Jones as
“Marian the
Librarian”

41. Returning Students!
Don’t forget to update your barcode for
the new school year

42. Joke Time
Q: Why are there no
books in the Prague
Library?

43. Joke Time
A: They’re all
Czech-ed out!

44. No Cell Phone
Use During
Library Classes.
And Please Put
Your Phone on
Vibrate in the

45. Librarians in Music
-2008-
Louisville band
My Morning Jacket
releases the song
“Librarian”
on their album
“Evil Urges”

46. Word Scramble
LACL BNMUER

47. Word Scramble
CALL NUMBER

48. Library Quotable
"You must live
feverishly in a library.
Colleges are not
going to do any good
unless you are raised
and live in a library
every day of your
life.“
– Ray Bradbury

49. The Library of
Congress is the
largest library
in the world and
contains more
than 120 million

50. Follow us on Twitter
twitter.com/stcclibrary

51. Do You Know….
For how long do videos
circulate?
A. One Week
B. Two Days
C. They don’t

52. Do You Know….
Answer:
B. Two Days
However, if you borrow a video on
Thursday or Friday, it isn’t due til
the following Monday.

53. Learn Chinese
Library………………Tushugan
Lucky Numbers 23, 16, 7, 8, 42

54. Use CINAHL with Full Text
It’s like VITamins for your research paper

55. Library Quotable
The library has always
been. . .a place where we’ve
come to discover big ideas
and profound concepts that
help move the American
story forward
-- President Barack Obama

56. Do You Know….
How are most of the books
in the library organized?
A. By Title
B. By Color
C. By Subject

57. Do You Know….
Answer:
C. By Subject
Each call number is associated
with a particular subject. For
example, a call number beginning
with “N” is a book about art or
artists.

58. Joke Time
Q: Why Did the Ghost
keep coming to library
for more books?

59. Joke Time
Q: He went through
them too quickly.

60. Librarians Portrayed
on Television
“Rupert Giles”
(played by
Anthony Stewart
Head) from Buffy
the Vampire
Slayer

61. Word Scramble
ECFENERRE OOBK

62. Word Scramble
REFERENCE BOOK

63. Library Quotable
I always tell people that I
became a writer not
because I went to school
but because my mother
took me to the library.
-- Sandra Cisneros

64. Follow us on Twitter
twitter.com/stcclibrary

65. Do You Know….
Who is the President of
STCC?
A. Samuel Bowles
B. Ira Rubenzahl
C. Theodore Geisel

66. Do You Know….
Answer:
B. Ira
Rubenzahl
Dr. Rubenzahl was named
President in July, 2004.

67. Try the
Library’s
paperback
collection! It’s
relaxing!! New Titles Just Added!