The Library at York County Community College

New Jazz Series Art Added To Library Collection

yccclibrary — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:10:12 +0000

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

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/

Downloadable Audiobooks Coming in February to YCCC!

yccclibrary — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:41:05 +0000

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!

Seashore Trolley Museum volunteer workparty

yccclibrary — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:23:47 +0000

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.

The Fine Art of Death

yccclibrary — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:55:42 +0000

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.

‘A’ Is For Architecture, October 2008

yccclibrary — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:23:16 +0000

‘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.

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

yccclibrary — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:34:56 +0000

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.

The Art of Jason Jolda, August/September 2008

yccclibrary — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:07:48 +0000

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

New Items: June 2008

yccclibrary — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:38:52 +0000

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.

YCCC Library partners with the Seashore Trolley Museum

yccclibrary — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:47:08 +0000

YCCC Library and the Seashore Trolley Museum of Kennebunkport are getting busy this summer with a digitization project of the Museum’s postcard collection.

Close-up image at the Maine Memory Network

Several community service volunteers from local high schools are hard at work scanning and cataloging the Streetcar Postcards Collection which contains over 1000 postcards from the 1900’s to the present, most of them featuring trolley cars from around the nation.

Katie Sullivan scanning cards

Postcards with images from the state of Maine are being uploaded into the Maine Memory Network, an online museum of digital images. These flimsy bits of cardboard can be a surprisingly valuable primary source to students and researchers because they capture not only a graphic image in time, but, very often, interesting correspondence on the flip side that gives a sense of life more than half a century ago.

Maddy Bunker and Cheyenne Bastille examining and describing cards

Our volunteers spend time examining each card, using a magnifying glass if necessary, to identify elements in the pictures, including buildings, shops, and streets. They then gather additional information on any features that may be interesting to researchers. This information is included in the descriptive cataloging for each card. Our goal for the summer is to get the entire collection digitized, cataloged, protected with archival sleeves, and uploaded online for the world to enjoy.

Summer Hours

yccclibrary — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:10:58 +0000

During the summer semester (June 2 to August 22) the library will be open the following hours:

Mondays 9 am – 5 pm
Tuesdays 9 am – 5 pm
Wednesdays 9 am – 5 pm
Thursday 9 am – 5 pm
Fridays 9 am – 12 pm

The library will be closed on Friday, July 4 in celebration of Independence Day.

Our catalog and research databases are available online anytime. YCCC students please call or e-mail if you need the research database passwords.