Pitt Education Partners Program Sharing Resources NC Live and More Lynn McCormick Director of Learning Technologies [email protected].

Pitt Education Partners ProgramSharing Resources NC Live and More

Lynn McCormickDirector of Learning [email protected]

Today’s Agenda

• A Look at Our Patrons• Print and Electronic Resources• Other Resources

Information Seeking Behavior

Raccoon -Easily distracted by the new and the eye-catching, ignoring other relevant material.Image Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dowiana/3758605958/sizes/m/in/photostream/

Information Seeking Behavior

Cuckoos - Expect others to do all the work for them. Image Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bacr33/3242644798/sizes/m/in/photostream/

Information Seeking Behavior

Vultures - are scavengers, not hunters, relying on scraps of information they find lying around.Image credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/manager_2000/2624396676/sizes/m/in/photostream/

Information Seeking Behavior

Aardvarks - use several sources of information, but do not spend too long with each source. Image Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dipthongasaurus_rex/3530738527/sizes/m/in/photostream/

Information Seeking Behavior

Ostriches - avoid looking for information, especially if it might challenge what they already know.Image credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtsofan/3481621970/sizes/m/in/photostream/

Information Seeking Behavior

Squirrels - rely on information which they have previously found and stored away. Image credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gillesgonthier/2614414076/sizes/m/in/photostream/

Information Seeking Behavior

Giant Pandas- rely too much on a single source of information, even if other sources are available.Credit Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/drs2biz/197524395/

Information Seeking Behavior

Spiders - rely exclusively on the web.Image Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/photofarmer/3948508165/

Information Seeking Behavior

The mule - knows he has to find the information but will procrastinate till the very last minute. Image Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scpgt/1531255317/

Information Seeking Behavior

The wise owl - refers to various sources and looks at things from a variety of angles. Has a system in place for keeping track of sources. Image credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianscott/604794209/

The PEP program –Our mission is to share resources to benefit all members of our community.

Outline of Services

We Share• Books – PCC Library + ILL• Databases – NC Live, etc.• Personnel – librarians, lab techs• Equipment – computers,

copiers, scanners in the library

Let's Start With Print

PCC Library Cataloghttp://louise.nccommunitycolleges.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/I22MIgSiDc/PITT/210870247/60/1180/X 

What you can do with your account number:• Send me a list• Place a hold• Renew books• Request a book or article via interlibrary

loan.Your library is set up as an institution in our system.

Interlibrary Loan

If PCC doesn’t have the item we can get it for you.• WWW.Worldcat.org http://www.worldcat.org/

o Finding tool + will do citations & more• Online form for interlibrary loan articles and

books –http://www.pittcc.edu/academics/library/forms/ill.htm

Databases

NC Live - Something for Everyonehttp://www.nclive.org

• Learning Express- Test prep• My I Library Audio Books / Ebooks• Net Library - E books• PBS Video – enabled at school but need NCLive

password from home

And so much more:Link to resources by grade levels:https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1-2fOv2OUVvbgc3rAaDCElfG8iI59Q_1XUXnn_VshU3g&hl=en#

PCC Databases

PCC Database Overviewhttps://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1G9AykeHTaIbWSR7s7_1QJb-LWdoYh857w0ZC_PP6FOY

A to Z list –http://www.pittcc.edu/academics/library/services/databases/atoz.htm

Password Policy

Guidelines for the use of PCC passwords• Feel free to distribute the passwords to your faculty and staff

(email or otherwise).• Please do not send the passwords to all of the students/

parents (email or otherwise).• Please do not post passwords on a web page.• If a parent or a student requests the password please provide

it to them.• If a teacher is doing a lesson that uses one of the resources,

the passwords can be distributed to the entire class.

Everyone is Welcome

• Computers• Copiers• Scanners• Personnel – lab techs + librarians• Open Late and on Saturdays

Come See Us!

Lynn McCormickDirector of Learning Technologies

Pitt Community College Library252-493-7362

[email protected] Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38485387@N02/3561880079/in/photostream/