Welcome to LBCC LibBlog! This is our inaugural post. Our goal is to keep the Long Beach City College community up-to-date on Library news.
Welcome to LBCC LibBlog! This is our inaugural post. Our goal is to keep the Long Beach City College community up-to-date on Library news.
March 27, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Great blog, Monica! Thank you – we’ll be reading and commenting.
June 14, 2007 at 11:28 am
Hello! thanks for the info.
June 27, 2007 at 9:51 pm
Sorry I forget the password of my own blog, this is a pickle, so at the last minute I decided to post it in your blog so you can still read it. Today I visited a library (not LBCC Library). I would like to share with the Library 3 class my thoughts about this library…I rode my bike there on the way home from LBCC…it is the Ruth Bach branch Library. It is a blue building with a bike-parking area in front. It is wheel-chair accessible. The size of the library is approximately equivalent to the re-located LBCC Library in the basement. There are different places to sit. The librarians have their own desk and chair. There are some study tables and chairs. The online library catalog computers have chairs. There is a small children’s table with small children’s chairs near the children’s literature bookshelves. The children’s shelves include books for very beginning readers. A special collection they have there is a shelf of Newberry award winning books. On top of some shelves are handmade models of Calif. missions (like the project I had in 4th grade–mine was San Juan Capistrano…where the swallows go). They also have a shelf of guidebooks to all the Calif. missions, which is another special collection! Near the children’s side, there is a Family Learning Center sponsored by Boeing (Boeing is an engineering company located near LBCC). They classify the books by Dewey, I think. There are big signs to say what shelves hold what books. Other collections I saw signs for include: Classics (and cliff notes), large print books (for the elderly maybe), Mystery…so many more books. They use the library card system. I did not get a chance to navigate their online catalog because a strange guy was watching me so I left. Actually I had visited this library before, and I read “Lillies of the Field” (I did not know it was a book, but it is). I would also like to mention a recent library visit before I started this Library 3 class…to a little library near my grandma’s house where I read some of the little bunny books by Beatrix Potter after watching the new movie Miss Potter at a theater near me. I mention this because LBCC has many bunnies on campus, which are fed bunny food and vegetables and not caged. They let me feed them carrots right out of my hand… ok that is the end of this story.