Bird's Eye View Nov/Dec 2023

Bird's Eye View

November/December 2023

Introducing Two New Open Educational Resources (OER) Librarians

The library is very happy to announce that we have hired 2 new adjunct librarians specializing in OER. These librarians are building an OER library for interested BC faculty to utilize in converting their courses to OER and are also available for one-on-one consultation with BC faculty who need help finding relevant and useful OER for their courses. If you are interested receiving OER help from these new librarians, please email Library Chair Faith Bradham at faith.bradham@bakersfieldcollege.edu.

Joey Merritt

Joey Merritt has an MLIS from San Jose State University and an MEd in Instructional Design from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Most recently she has come to Bakersfield College from Merced College where she was the OER Lead for the Merced College Libraries. Joey loves to travel, read, and is in the process of remodeling her 1893 Victorian home.

Denise Kane

Denise Kane earned her MLIS degree from San Jose State University and an MA in History from California State University, San Marcos. She has worked in a variety of academic and special libraries, including the UC, CSU, and CA community colleges, with a focus in instruction, reference, and open educational resources. Outside of libraries, Denise enjoys reading, watching television, and chasing after her golden retriever.

Media Literacy Week

We had a scary good time organizing the library’s media literacy week Tricks & Cheats: Misinformation, Marketing, and Media! The weeklong series kicked off Monday October 30th with a showing of the iconic horror film The Blair Witch Project (1999) that, due to its successful marketing campaign, was believed to be the true story of college students who went missing while filming in Maryland. Eduardo Sanchez, co-writer and director of the film, zoomed in for an interview before the film and gave his insight into the making of the movie, as well as the proliferation of misinformation then versus now. The kickoff saw longtime fans of the film as well as total newbies come together and there were lots of laughs, groans, and gasps throughout the movie.

Tuesday through Thursday, 3 librarians traded off teaching workshops centered on unpacking conspiracy theories. Ariel Dyer started them off with ”Creepy Candy Conspiracies” which examined the origins of Halloween, trick-or-treating, and the myth of poisoned  candy, Faith Bradham took a deep dive into the ways that social media can spread conspiracy theories in her workshop “Social Media Machinations,” and Laura Luiz ended the series with a focus on “Political Plots” and the ways election cycles fuel misinformation.

The organization Media Literacy Now breaks down media literacy into these three components: decoding media messages, assessing the influence of those messages, and creating media thoughtfully and conscientiously. At the BC Library, we take media literacy seriously and heavily incorporate it into our teaching and reference practices. But we also like to have fun with it too, and this series was a great way to engage with the broader campus community and get everyone talking about it!

Delano Library Update

The Delano Library moved to the Delano LRC at the beginning of Fall 2023, and is settling in nicely. Highlights of this semester so far include a very well attended Open House event directly following the LRC grand opening on September 19, a Library Loteria event on September 28, tons of students using the library & its resources, and a large increase in the number of library orientations requested by Delano faculty. We are so happy to be able to serve our BC Delano community in this new space. Please enjoy the following selection of photos from our first 12 weeks in the space.

Ready Reference

“Don’t use wikipedia!” is a song so old in academia that we all know the tune. But what if you could- not just as a tool for potential research, but as a way to link back to BC databases?

The librarians have been testing out a research tool that makes searching for articles from within our databases possible out in the wild!

Libkey Nomad is a downloadable browser extension that works in most browsers. Once downloaded with the institution “Bakersfield College” selected, this neat feature gives users one-click access to scholarly articles when searching in open access pages like PubMed or Wikipedia (but unfortunately not in Google Scholar).

Librarians often encounter students who rely heavily on internet searching for their assignments and who feel overwhelmed when attempting to navigate databases for the first time. Libkey Nomad is a great tool for students who have a niche research topic or who experience anxiety or hesitancy with using traditional research databases. LibKey Nomad can enable students to utilize the skills they already possess (navigating Google) and then gently guide them back into BC library databases. Give this library hack a try and let us know what you think of it!

Read All About It! New Books at the Library

The following is a curated list of the new and exciting titles in the library's print collection. Students and faculty may check out any of these titles.

Titles are arranged in order of call number.

• Thomas, P.A. (2022). Inside Wikipedia: How it works and how you can be an editor. Rowman & Littlefield. AE100 .T527 2022
• Kim, N.Y. (2021). Refusing death: Immigrant women and the fight for environmental justice in LA. Stanford UP. GE235.C25 K56 2021
• Ruse, M. (2022). Why we hate: Understanding the roots of human conflict. Oxford UP. BF575.H3 R87 2022
• Gross, C.J. (2022). What's your zip code story?: Understanding and overcoming class bias in the workplace. Rowman & Littlefield. HD4903.5.U58 G76 2022
• Gorski, P.S. & S.L. Perry. (2022). The flag and the cross: White Christian nationalism and the threat to American democracy. Oxford UP. BR563.W45 G677 2022
• Wailoo, K. (2021). Pushing cool: Big tobacco, racial marketing, and the untold story of the menthol cigarette. University of Chicago Press. HD9149.C43 U678 2021
• Bly, A.T. (2022). Escaping slavery: A documentary history of Native American runaways in British North America. Lexington Books. E98.S6 B59 2022
• Sheth, F.A. (2022). Unruly women: Race, neocolonialism, and the hijab. Oxford UP. HQ1170 .S466 2022
• Stermer, D. (2021). Atlas of the biodiversity of California. California Department of Fish and Wildlife. G1526 .D1 A8 2021
• Craig, L.A. & R.M. Bartels. (Eds). (2021). Sexual deviance: Understanding and managing deviant sexual interests and paraphilic disorders. Wiley-Blackwell. HQ71 .S3983 2021
• Schweit, K. (2021). Stop the killing: How to end the mass shooting crisis. Rowman & Littlefield. HV6536.5 .S39 2021
• Novak, K. & C.R. Tucker. (2021). UDL and blended learning: Thriving in flexible learning landscapes. IMpress. LB1028.5 .N59 2021
• Sarat, A. (2022). Lethal injection and the false promise of humane execution. Stanford Briefs. HV8699.U5 S269 2022
• Budhai, S.S, & K.B. Skipwith. (2022). Best practices in engaging online learners through active and experiential learning strategies. Routledge. LB1044.87 .B83 2022
• Lebow, R.N, & F. Zheng. (2022). Justice and international order: East and West. Oxford UP. JC578 .L436 2022
• Thompson, P., & J. Carello. (2022). Trauma-informed pedagogies: A guide for responding to crisis and inequality in higher education. Palgrave Macmillan. B1051 .T385 2022
• Bollinger, L.C., & G.R. Stone. (Eds). (2022). Social media, freedom of speech, and the future of our democracy. Oxford UP. JC591 .S63 2022
• Edmunds, J.A., et al. (2022). Early colleges as a model for schooling: Creating new pathways for access to higher education. Harvard Education Press. LB1620 .E368 2022
• Jones, M.O. (2022). Digital authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, disinformation and social media. Oxford UP. JF1525.P8 J664 2022
• Fischman, W., & H. Gardner. (2022). The real world of college: What higher education is and what it can be. The MIT Press. LC1011 .F475 2022
• Lyon, A.D. (2022). Fixing legal injustice in America: The case for a Defender General of the United States. Rowman & Littlefield. KF9223 .L963 2022
• Baum, S., & M. McPherson. (2022). Can college level the playing field?: Higher education in an unequal society. Princeton UP. LC148.2 .B38 2022
• Klein, A.R. (2022). Death before sentencing: Ending rampant suicide, overdoses, brutality, and malpractice in America's jails. Rowman & Littlefield. KF9735 .K55 2022
• Pitre, A. (2022). Liberation pedagogy: Elijah Muhammad and the art of soul crafting. Rowman & Littlefield. LC196 .P587 2022
• Seda, P., & K. Brown. (2021). Choosing to see: A framework for equity in the math classroom. Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc. LC213 .S43 2021
• Heter, T.S. (2022). The sonic gaze: Jazz, Whiteness, and racialized listening. Rowland & Littlefield. ML3918.J39 H47 2022
• Gaddy, K.R. (2022). Well of souls: Uncovering the banjo's hidden history. W.W. Norton & Co. ML1015.B3 G24 2022
• Pfieffer, K.L. (2023). Freedom moves: Hip hop knowledges, pedagogies, and futures. University of California Press. ML3918.R37 F74 2023
• Questlove. (2021). Music is history. Abrams Image. ML3477 .Q47 2021
• Tinsley, J. (2022). It was all a dream: Biggie and the world that made him. Abrams Press. ML420.N76 J87 2022
• King, C.T. (2022). The blues: The authentic narrative of my music and culture. Chicago Review Press. ML3521 .K56 2021
• Hampton, T. (2022). Cheerfulness: A literary and cultural history. Zone Books. PN56.C46 H36 2022
• Abrams, J. (2022). The come up: An oral history of the rise of hiphop. Crown. ML3531 .A27 2022
• Brachman, R.J., & H.J. Levesque. (2022). Machines like us: Toward AI with common sense. The MIT Press. Q335 .B695 2022
• Borthwick, S. (2022). Positive vibrations: Politics, politricks and the story of reggae. Reaktion Books. ML3532 .B67 2022
• Banfield, W.C. (2022). Musical landscapes in color: Conversations with Black American composers. University of Illinois Press. ML390 .B235 2022