02.17.10

Faculty Art Exhibit On Display Through February

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Come view the artwork of talented YCCC faculty members on display in the library through the end of February. This exhibit is free and open to the public during regular library hours.

The faculty art exhibit features:
-paintings and sculpture by Jason Jolda
-photography by Wesley Joseph Mills
-painting by Tom McGinn
-photography by Paula S. Gagnon
-sculpture by Donise McGinn

Pick up a brochure at the reference desk for artwork titles and locations.

New Downloadable Audiobooks

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Over the weekend, 143 titles were added to the Maine InfoNet Download Library collection, and became available for patrons to check out. If you haven’t already checked out this great way to access audiobooks from home, try the easy steps below to get started.

1)    Go to http://download.maineinfonet.org/

2)   Go to My Account, find YCCC on the list and enter your library card number (14 digit code on the back of your student ID that starts with 26490)

3)   Search audiobooks by title, author, or genre and choose one or two to add to your cart.

4)   Proceed to checkout.

5)  Download the free software to your personal computer if this is your first time downloading an audiobook.

6)   Download the book.

7)   Choose whether you want to play the book on your computer, transfer it to your portable player or burn it to a CD (only some titles allow this).

Below is a list of the newly added titles sorted by file format then by author’s first name.

Format            Title       Author

MP3   —   Too Big to Fail   —   Andrew Ross Sorkin

MP3   —   The Wrecker —   Clive Cussler

MP3   —   The Wild Things   —   Dave Eggers

MP3   —   Night —   Elie Wiesel

MP3   —   The Time Machine  —   H. G. Wells

MP3   —   I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class

President   —   Josh Lieb

MP3   —   Shades of Blue    —   Karen Kingsbury

MP3   —   Knit the Season   —   Kate Jacobs

MP3   —   Fire  —   Kristin Cashore

MP3   —   The Picture of Dorian Gray    —   Oscar Wilde

MP3   —   The Scarpetta Factor    —   Patricia Cornwell

MP3   —   The Hundred Days  —   Patrick O’Brian

MP3   —   The Monster In The Box  —   Ruth Rendell

WMA   —   The Children’s Book     —   A.S. Byatt

WMA   —   Earth in the Balance    —   Al Gore

WMA   —   Brave New World   —   Aldous Huxley

WMA   —   Inside of a Dog   —   Alexandra Horowitz

WMA   —   Too Much Happiness      —   Alice Munro

WMA   —   Blue Moon   —   Alyson Noel

WMA   —   The Climb   —   Anatoli Boukreev

WMA   —   Open  —   Andre Agassi

WMA   —   A Change in Altitude    —   Anita Shreve

WMA   —   Envy  —   Anna Godbersen

WMA   —   Ayn Rand and the World She Made     —   Anne Conover Heller

WMA   —   Angel Time  —   Anne Rice

WMA   —   Pilgrim at Tinker Creek —   Annie Dillard

WMA   —   Chekhov     —   Anton Chekhov

WMA   —   You Better Not Cry      —   Augusten Burroughs

WMA   —   Bright-Sided      —   Barbara Ehrenreich

WMA   —   Breaking the Rules      —   Barbara Taylor Bradford

WMA   —   Our Lady of Guadalupe   —   Carl Anderson

WMA   —   The Gift    —   Cecelia Ahern

WMA   —   How to Raise the Perfect Dog  —   Cesar Millan

WMA   —   The Voyage of The Beagle      —   Charles Darwin

WMA   —   Night Shadow      —   Cherry Adair

WMA   —   Highest Duty      —   Chesley B. Sullenberger

WMA   —   Wrecker     —   Clive Cussler

WMA   —   The Lost Symbol   —   Dan Brown

WMA   —   Southern Lights   —   Danielle Steel

WMA   —   Galileo’s Daughter      —   Dava Sobel

WMA   —   David Attenborough’s Life Stories   —   David Attenborough

WMA   —   The Early Years   —   David Attenborough

WMA   —   True Blue   —   David Baldacci

WMA   —   Green Metropolis  —   David Owen

WMA   —   The Genius Factory      —   David Plotz

WMA   —   Breathless  —   Dean Koontz

WMA   —   Angels at Christmas     —   Debbie Macomber

WMA   —   Fairy Tale Weddings     —   Debbie Macomber

WMA   —   Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul     —   Deepak Chopra

WMA   —   Too Much Money    —   Dominick Dunne

WMA   —   The Tertiary Phase      —   Douglas Adams

WMA   —   Edith Wharton     —   Edith Wharton

WMA   —   The Teahouse Fire —   Ellis Avery

WMA   —   Too Good to Be True     —   Erin Arvedlund

WMA   —   Darwin’s Radio    —   Greg Bear

WMA   —   Blood Game  —   Iris Johansen

WMA   —   Reap the Wind     —   Iris Johansen

WMA   —   Kindred in Death  —   J.D. Robb

WMA   —   Missing in Death  —   J.D. Robb

WMA   —   The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate     —   Jacqueline Kelly

WMA   —   Alex Cross’s Trial      —   James Patterson

WMA   —   I, Alex Cross     —   James Patterson

WMA   —   Pride and Prejudice and Zombies     —   Jane Austen

WMA   —   Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters    —   Jane Austen

WMA   —   Hope For Animals and Their World    —   Jane Goodall

WMA   —   A Flickering Light      —   Jane Kirkpatrick

WMA   —   My River Chronicles     —   Jessica DuLong

WMA   —   Death Troopers    —   Joe Schreiber

WMA   —   Ford County —   John Grisham

WMA   —   Last Night in Twisted River   —   John Irving

WMA   —   A Murder of Quality     —   John le Carré

WMA   —   Urge to Kill      —   John Lutz

WMA   —   The Wolf in the Parlor  —   Jon Franklin

WMA   —   Where Men Win Glory     —   Jon Krakauer

WMA   —   Evidence    —   Jonathan Kellerman

WMA   —   Chronic City      —   Jonathan Lethem

WMA   —   Weekends at Bellevue    —   Julie Holland

WMA   —   On the Shoulders of Giants    —   Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

WMA   —   Out of Africa     —   Karen Blixen

WMA   —   The Help    —   Kathryn Stockett

WMA   —   Googled     —   Ken Auletta

WMA   —   Graceling   —   Kristin Cashore

WMA   —   The Awakening     —   L. J. Smith

WMA   —   The Dark Reunion  —   L. J. Smith

WMA   —   Secret Vampire    —   L. J. Smith

WMA   —   A Friend of the Family  —   Lauren Grodstein

WMA   —   Ice   —   Linda Howard

WMA   —   No Time for Goodbye     —   Linwood Barclay

WMA   —   Rizzo’s War —   Lou Manfredo

WMA   —   Feed  —   M.T. Anderson

WMA   —   What the Dog Saw  —   Malcolm Gladwell

WMA   —   The Year of the Flood   —   Margaret Atwood

WMA   —   Lit   —   Mary Karr

WMA   —   Republican Gomorrah     —   Max Blumenthal

WMA   —   The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay —   Michael Chabon

WMA   —   Manhood for Amateurs    —   Michael Chabon

WMA   —   Nine Dragons      —   Michael Connelly

WMA   —   The Canon   —   Natalie Angier

WMA   —   To Try Men’s Souls      —   Newt Gingrich

WMA   —   The Last Song     —   Nicholas Sparks

WMA   —   Bed of Roses      —   Nora Roberts

WMA   —   A River Runs Through It —   Norman Maclean

WMA   —   Crazy for the Storm     —   Norman Ollestad

WMA   —   Farm City   —   Novella Carpenter

WMA   —   The Museum of Innocence —   Orhan Pamuk

WMA   —   An Unsuitable Job for a Woman —   P.D. James

WMA   —   The Scarpetta Factor    —   Patricia Cornwell

WMA   —   After America     —   Paul Starobin

WMA   —   Hell or High Water      —   Peter Heller

WMA   —   The Whale Warriors      —   Peter Heller

WMA   —   The Vintage Caper —   Peter Mayle

WMA   —   The Humbling      —   Philip Roth

WMA   —   A Quiet Belief in Angels      —   R. J. Ellory

WMA   —   The Ghost King    —   R.A. Salvatore

WMA   —   The Coral Thief   —   Rebecca Stott

WMA   —   Mennonite in a Little Black Dress   —   Rhoda Janzen

WMA   —   Peace —   Richard Bausch

WMA   —   Heat Wave   —   Richard Castle

WMA   —   The Professional  —   Robert B. Parker

WMA   —   The Gathering Storm     —   Robert Jordan

WMA   —   The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde —   Robert Louis Stevenson

WMA   —   The Boys of Summer      —   Roger Kahn

WMA   —   Where There’s Smoke     —   Sandra Brown

WMA   —   The Witness —   Sandra Brown

WMA   —   Cheating Death    —   Sanjay Gupta

WMA   —   Hardball    —   Sara Paretsky

WMA   —   Born of Night     —   Sherrilyn Kenyon

WMA   —   Gulf Stream —   Stan Ulanski

WMA   —   Leonardo’s Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms    —   Stephen Jay Gould

WMA   —   The Paris Vendetta      —   Steve Berry

WMA   —   Superfreakonomics —   Steven D. Levitt

WMA   —   The Girl Who Played with Fire —   Stieg Larsson

WMA   —   "U" is for Undertow —   Sue Grafton

WMA   —   The Orchid Thief  —   Susan Orlean

WMA   —   A Golden Age      —   Tahmima Anam

WMA   —   Unseen Academicals      —   Terry Pratchett

WMA   —   Gator A-Go-Go     —   Tim Dorsey

WMA   —   Hurricane Punch   —   Tim Dorsey

WMA   —   The Big Burn      —   Timothy Egan

WMA   —   The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s

Dilemma     —   Trenton Lee Stewart

WMA   —   Lolita      —   Vladimir Nabokov

WMA   —   Wishin’ and Hopin’      —   Wally Lamb

08.04.09

New Jazz Series Art Added To Library Collection

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Thanks to funding from the YCCC Foundation, two new signed prints by Richard Haynes have been added to the Library’s permanent art collection.  Be-bop! and Untold Ballad are part of Haynes’ Jazz Series which uses the medium of oil wax crayon on paper. Look for them near the circulation desk.

Untold Ballad By Richard Haynes

Untold Ballad By Richard Haynes

J. Dennis Robinson writes:

“Richard Haynes is truly an American Artist. He knows this country from every perspective. Born to the south in 1949, Richard hails from James Island in Charleston, South Carolina where he spent his boy hood…
 
Richard’s colorful and diverse life is directly reflected in his art. Whether celebrating the harsh lives of migrant workers, or wandering the ancient halls of a colonial New England mansion, Richard sees scenes through his own deeply-held vision of America….

Richard begins, simply, with the scenes and citizens that capture his eye. Like Walt Whitman, he celebrates what it means to be an American in an era of great National transformation. Like Whitman, he tells our stories, not with words, but using shapes and hues, in a style that is both instantly familiar and surprisingly new.”

For more information about artist Richard Haynes and his artwork visit his website at http://www.haynesimages.com/

01.27.09

Downloadable Audiobooks Coming in February to YCCC!

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The Maine InfoNet Download Library  will provide online access to downloadable audio books, eBooks, and other popular digital media through OverDrive.   YCCC students, faculty, and staff will be able to checkout downloadable digital content via the Internet utilizing state-of-the-art digital copyright protection technologies for free, 24/7, from a statewide collection of audio books.

Audio books can be downloaded in full or in segments, burned to a CD (where permitted by publisher) and/or transferred to hundreds of supported audio devices such as MP3 Players, IPods (where permitted by publisher) or Zune players.

Stay tuned for more information!

01.08.09

Seashore Trolley Museum volunteer workparty

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Members of the Seashore Trolley Museum library committee spent a wintry day at the YCCC Library working on the postcard collection.  Slow, but steady progress toward our goal of making all of the Museum’s Maine postcards available on the Maine Memory Network.

STM library volunteers

09.30.08

The Fine Art of Death

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Artwork by Morbideus W. Goodell

The YCCC Library will exhibit the artwork of Wells artist Morbideus W. Goodell during the month of October. “Can Art be both beautiful and disturbing at the same time?”, the artist questions. Few are willing to stare into the abyss, so Morbideus has brought dark images back from the depths for the fun and amusement of all. Creating what he calls “The Fine Art of Death,” Morbideus’ muse is making images that he hopes others will appreciate in spite of themselves.

Former staff illustrator for Apex Horror & Science Fiction Magazine, Morbideus’ artwork has also appeared in several books, including the Stoker Award-winning “CRYPTOPEDIA: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange, and Downright Bizarre” by Author Jonathan Maberry. His work was also featured on an episode of “Pimp my Ride” (titled “Pimpeando”) for MTv3. Morbideus (along with photographer-wife Dee) designs and sells T-shirts and prints through their company Postmortem Productions.

This exhibit is free and open to the public during regular Library hours, Monday – Thursday, 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. and Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call Amber Tatnall, Library Director, 207-646-9282.

09.29.08

‘A’ Is For Architecture, October 2008

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‘A’ is for Architecture is a photographic portfolio of architectural details of buildings in Dane County, Wisconsin. It will be on display in the library through October 29. The photographs were taken by Jeff Dean, an architectural historian, photographer, and the Historic Preservation Officer of Wisconsin. Dean created this photographic project in 1989. His portfolio traveled throughout Dan county’s schools to heighten children’s awareness of their rich architectural environment and to stimulate classroom discussion relating to the design and preservation of historic buildings in their communities.

09.04.08

Icons of Early American Tombstones: Photography by Daniel Farber, September 2008

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A new art exhibit has just arrived at the YCCC Library and will be on display through September 29. These nine photographs by Daniel Farber provide a glimpse of colonial American history as carved in stone: angels, hour glasses, and even the grim reaper. Stop by to take a look today! Jason Jolda’s artwork will also continue to be displayed during this time.
The following information was provided by the University of Maine Museum of Art about the artist and this collection:
In the winter of 1958, Daniel Farber began working with the gravestones of Colonial America. He realized the value of the tombstones to the research of art historians, archaeologists, genealogists, and scholars of American history as examples of early American sculpture. However, the stone reliefs were eroding due to neglect, vandalism, weather damage, and eventually would be destroyed and lost forever. For those reasons, Farber realized the need to photographically record their images. To accomplish this, Farber developed a technique to control the angle of sunlight, creating a slight shadow across the carving, by using a large mirror fitted on a tripod. This technique allowed him to capture a three-dimensional image of each gravestone at virtually any time of the day, anywhere in the graveyard. Farber’s images capture the carvings in great detail, and reveal the symbols commonly associated with death and the passage of time hundreds of years ago. The most common folk art images from that era symbolizing death – death-heads, hour glasses, angels, flowers and sickles – are still recognized today. Farber has photographed 7500 different  stones, as well as coordinated and participated in efforts to ensure the preservation of several of these grave markers.

07.22.08

The Art of Jason Jolda, August/September 2008

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The Library at York County Community College will exhibit the artwork of Jason Jolda during the months of August and September. Mr. Jolda has been an instructor at YCCC since 2002 where he teaches Introduction to Drawing and Advanced Life Drawing. He is completing his Masters in Fine Art with the Savannah College of Art and Design. This exhibit will be his capstone experience in that degree.

Jolda’s style, he says, lies somewhere between science fiction and fantasy and embraces a sense of darkness and mystery. The works in this exhibit include illustrations and sculpture and span from the late 1990’s to 2008. When not teaching, Jolda is a freelance illustrator who creates conceptual illustrations and storyboards for local advertising agencies and private businesses. He has also worked with a Florida based-company that develops and designs theme park attractions world wide.

The Library will host an Opening Reception on Wednesday, August 6 at 4:30. Refreshments will be served. The exhibit is free and open to the public during regular Library hours, Monday – Thursday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Friday, 9 a.m. to noon. For more information, call Amber Tatnall, Library Director, 207-646-9282

07.07.08

New Items: June 2008

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BOOKS:
The adventures of Johnny Bunko : the last career guide you’ll ever need / Daniel H. Pink ; art by Rob Ten Pas.
Alice Walker / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
American fiction between the wars / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Anatomy & physiology made incredibly easy!.
Arts, Inc. : how greed and neglect have destroyed our cultural rights / Bill Ivey.
Before night falls / Reinaldo Arenas ; translated by Dolores M. Koch.
Between men : original fiction by today’s best gay writers / edited by Richard Canning.
Boston boys club / Johnny Diaz.
Boy culture / Matthew Rettenmund.
Boy meets boy / David Levithan.
Byzantium and the early Islamic conquests / Walter E. Kaegi.
Cardiovascular care made incredibly easy!.
Clinical nursing pocket guide / Marilynn Jackson, Lee Jackson.
Clinical pharmacology made incredibly easy!.
Dancer from the dance : a novel / by Andrew Holleran.
Dead aim / Iris Johansen.
Doing ethnography / Giampietro Gobo ; translated by Adrian Belton.
Down there on a visit / Christopher Isherwood.
Dramarama / by E. Lockhart.
The economy of early Renaissance Europe, 1300-1460 / Harry A. Miskimin.
Edgar Allan Poe / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Europe since 1945 : a concise history / J. Robert Wegs, Robert Ladrech.
Exquisite corpse / Poppy Z. Brite.
F. Scott Fitzgerald / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
The French Revolution : conflicting interpretations / selected & edited by Frank A. Kafker, James M. Laux.
Fresh tracks / Georgia Beers.
Giving voice to what we know : Margaret Newman’s theory of health as expanding consciousness in nursing practice, research, and education / [edited by] Carol Picard, Dorothy Jones.
The Great War, 1914-1918 / Marc Ferro ; translated by Nicole Stone.
A history of European socialism / Albert S. Lindemann.
Introduction to policing / Michael Rowe.
Introduction to scientology ethics / L. Ron Hubbard.
Keeping you a secret : a novel / by Julie Anne Peters.
Life in Egypt under Roman rule / by Naphtali Lewis.
Looking for it / Michael Thomas Ford.
Lost souls / Poppy Z. Brite.
Luna : a novel / by Julie Anne Peters.
Machiavelli and mystery of state / Peter S. Donaldson.
Magical thinking : true stories / Augusten Burroughs.
Mark Twain / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Maternal and newborn health / Janet Arenson, Patricia Drake.
Medical terminology made incredibly easy!.
The men from the boys / William J. Mann.
Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides.
Origins of the medieval world.
PostSecret : extraordinary confessions from ordinary lives / compiled by Frank Warren.
Q-faq / Tom Bacchus.
Remember when / Nora Roberts and J.D. Robb.
Scientology : the fundamentals of thought / L. Ron Hubbard.
A single man / Christopher Isherwood.
Speaking of nursing…narratives of practice, research, policy, and the profession / Donna Diers.
Sport, a cultural history / Richard D. Mandell.
Visions in death / J. D. Robb.
Voyages : a Maine Franco-American reader / Nelson Madore & Barry Rodrigue, editors ; with Corinna Miller & Chase Hébert.
Whale Done! : the power of positive relationships / Ken Blanchard … [et al.].
What becomes of the brokenhearted : a memoir / E. Lynn Harris.
When the stars come out / Rob Byrnes.
When you don’t see me / Timothy James Beck.
Witchcraft in the Middle Ages / Jeffrey Burton Russell.

CDS:
Azure Ray / Azure Ray.
Burn and shiver / Azure Ray.
Ganging up on the sun / Guster.
Hold on love / Azure Ray.
Lost and gone forever / Guster.
The quintessential Billie Holiday. Vol. 8 (1939-1940) / Billie Holiday.
The quintessential Billie Holiday. Vol. 9 (1940-1942) / Billie Holiday.
The quintessential Billie Holiday. Volume 6, 1938 / Billie Holiday.
Torch this place / the Atomic Fireballs.

DVDS & VIDEOS:
XXY

REFERENCE BOOKS:
Applying ethics : a text with readings / Jeffrey Olen, Vincent Barry, Julie C. Van Camp.
Basic college mathematics / Richard N. Aufmann, Vernon C. Barker, Joanne S. Lockwood.
Handbook of selected legislation and other documents  / [edited by] Steffen W. Schmidt, Marc C. Shelley, Barbara A. Bardes.
Library reference guide : portfolio of course guidelines / Wesley J. Mills.
New Hampshire business and professional directory.
Organizing archival records : a practical method of arrangement and description for small archives / David W. Carmicheal.
Preservation of library & archival materials : a manual / edited by Sherelyn Ogden.
Principles of economics / Fred M. Gottheil.
Scientology 0-8 : the book of basics / L. Ron Hubbard.

 

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