Bird’s Eye View A Newsletter from the Grace Van Dyke Bird Library
September/October 2019
Cerro Author 2019-2020
We are delighted to have Erin Gruwell as our Cerro Author for 2019-2020. Erin Gruwell
is a teacher, education activist, and the founder of the Freedom Writers Foundation.
She created the Freedom Writer Methods, a progressive teaching philosophy and
curricula designed to achieve excellence from all students.
By fostering an educational philosophy that valued and promoted diversity, Gruwell
transformed her students' lives. She encouraged them to re-think rigid beliefs about
themselves and others, reconsider their own daily decisions, ultimately re-chart their
future. Through poignant student entries and her narrative text, her book The Freedom
Writers Diary records the students crusade against tolerance and misunderstanding.
Ms. Gruwell will be on campus on October 2 to speak about her book. The schedule of
events is as follows.
10:00 A.M | Student Lecture | Indoor Theatre
1:00 P.M. | Student Lecture | Indoor Theatre & LiveCast to Delano
7:00 P.M. | Public Lecture | Indoor Theatre
The library has 200 copies of The Freedom Writers Diary
available to students for free on a first-come, first-serve
basis. These are available at the reference desk. Students
must bring a BC student ID to receive a copy.
For more information about Ms. Gruwell’s visit, please visit
https://www.bakersfieldcollege.edu/library/cerro-authors
Library Research Skills Workshops Fall 2019
The schedule for the Fall 2019 Library Research Skills Workshops is now available in print at the
reference desk as well as on the library website. We are pleased to offer 44 instances of our 8 different
workshops on the Panorama campus, in addition to 16 workshops on the Delano campus.
This year, the library has instituted a new policy of requiring students to register for workshops in
advance. This change is due to the increasing number of students attending workshops, which
has rendered our previous first-come, first-serve policy inadequate. Students must register online in
order to attend a workshop, and those who do not arrive on time may lose their seats. We thank you for
encouraging your students to sign up for these workshops, and we hope you will work with us to remind
students of our new policy regarding registration.
Students may sign up for workshops at https://www.bakersfieldcollege.edu/workshops/library
We currently offer the following workshops:
Strategies for Effective Research
Finding Books and Ebooks
Finding Articles in Periodical Databases
Using Google for Internet Searching
Avoiding Plagiarism
Evaluating Internet Sources
Detecting Fake News
Evaluating Books and Articles
For descriptions of each workshop, go to https://www.bakersfieldcollege.edu/library/workshop-
descriptions
Library Circulation Policies
For all of the new faculty joining us this year (as well as any other faculty who might need a refresher!),
our circulation policies are as follows.
Students must present their BC student ID in order to check out books or study rooms from the library
(including reserve books). We do not accept state-issued IDs, only a valid BC student ID.
Students can check out up to 20 books at one time, with a check-out period of 3 weeks. Students are
allowed to renew each book up to 2 times.
Faculty are also welcome to check out books. Faculty are allowed 20 books at a time, for a
check-out period of 105 days (essentially, a semester).
Read all about it! New titles at BC A curated list of some of the new and exciting titles in the general collection.
(Arranged in call number order.)
McIntrye, L. (2018). Post-truth. Cambridge, MA:
The MIT Press.
BD 171 .M39 2018.
Feder, K.L. (2019). Archaeological oddities: A
field guide to forty claims of lost civilizations,
ancient visitors, and other strange sites in North
America. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
E 159.5 .F42 2019.
Coyne, J.A. (2016). Faith versus fact: Why
science and religion are incompatible. New
York: Penguin Books.
BL 240.3 .C69 2016.
Wood, G.S. (2017). Friends divided: John
Adams and Thomas Jefferson. New York:
Penguin Press.
E 332.2 .W65 2017.
Beneke, C., & C.S. Grenda. (2017). The lively
experiment: Religious toleration in America
from Roger Williams to the present. Lanham,
MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
BL 2525 .L585 2017.
Hurston, Z.N. (2018). Barracoon: The story of
the last “Black cargo”. New York: Amistad.
E 444 .L49 H87 2018.
Bowman, M. (2018). Christian: The politics of a
word in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press.
BR 115 .P7 B6675 2018.
Hepler, A. (2018). McCarthyism in the suburbs:
Quakers, communists, and the children’s
librarian. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
E 743.5 .H45 2018.
Janes, J. (2017). Documents that changed the
way we live. Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield.
CB 245 .J343 2017.
Obama, M. (2018). Becoming. New York:
Crown.
E 909 .O24 O23 2018.
Mundy, L. (2017). Code girls: The untold story
of the American women code breakers of World
War II. New York: Hachette Books.
D 810. C88 M86 2017.
Vincent, L., & S. Vladic. (2018). Indianapolis:
The true story of the worst sea disaster in U.S.
naval history and the fifty-year fight to
exonerate an innocent man. New York: Simon
& Schuster.
D 774 .I5 V56 2018.
Burkholder, M.A., et al. (2018). Exploitation,
inequality, and resistance: A history of Latin
America since Columbus. New York: Oxford
University Press.
F 1412 .B97 2018.
Davis, S. (2018). In defense of public lands:
The case against privatization and transfer.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
HD 216 .D38 2018.
Lawson, R.M. (2018). Servants and servitude in
Colonial America. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.
HD 4875 .U5 L38 2018.
Karabanow, J., et al. (2018). Homeless youth
and the search for stability. Waterloo, Ontario:
Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
HV 4509 .K373 2018.
Vance, J.D. (2016). Hillbilly elegy: A memoir of
a family and culture in crisis. New York: Harper.
HD 8073 .V37 A3 2016
Davis, J. (2017). Women in modern terrorism:
From liberation wars to global Jihad and the
Islamic state. Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield.
HV 6433 .I74 D39 2017.
Summers, D.J. (2018). The business of
cannabis: New policies for the new marijuana
industry. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.
HD 9019 .M382 .U378 2018.
Jonson-Reid, M. (2018). After the cradle falls:
What child abuse is, how we respond to it, and
what you can do about it. New York:
Oxford University Press.
HV 6626.52 .J66 2018.
Sumantran, V., et al. (2017). Faster, smarter,
greener: The future of the car and urban
mobility. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
HE 5611 .S86 2017.
Cohen, J.D. & D.G. Schwartz (Eds.). (2018). All
in: The spread of gambling in twentieth-century
United States. Reno: University of Nevada
Press.
HV 6715 .A485 2018.
Woo, B. (2018). Getting a life: The social worlds
of geek culture. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s
University Press.
HM 646 .W65 2018.
Taibbi, M. (2017). I can’t breathe: A killing on
Bay Street. New York: Spiegel & Grau.
HV 8148 .N52 T35 2017.
Bucur-Deckard, M. (2018). The century of
women: How women have transformed the
world since 1900. Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield.
HQ 1154 .B8443 2018.
Scruton, R. (2018). Conservatism: An invitation
to the great tradition. New York: All Points
Books.
JC 573 .S263 2018
Abramovitz, M. (2018). Regulating the lives of
women: Social welfare policy from colonial
times to the present. London: Routledge, Taylor
& Francis Group.
HV 699 .A424 2018.
Cantu, F. (2018). The line becomes a river. New
York: Riverhead Books.
JV 6565 .C37 2018.
Fliter, J.A. (2018). Child labor in America: The
epic legal struggle to protect children.
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
KF 3552 .F55 2018.
Huegel, C.N. (2019). The nature of plants: An
introduction to how plants work. Gainesville, FL:
University Press of Florida.
QK 45.2 .H84 2019.
Devlin, R. (2018). A girl stands at the door: The
generation of young women who desegregated
America’s schools. New York: Basic Books.
LC 212.52 .D48 2018.
Mundle, R. (2019). How to be an even better
listener: A practical guide to hospice and
palliative care volunteers. London: Jessica
Kingsley Publishers.
R 726.8 .M846 2019.
Hancox, D. (2018). Inner city pressure: The
story of grime. London: William Collins.
ML 3492.8 .L66 H36 2018.
Engel, J. (2018). Fat nation: A history of obesity
in America. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
RA 645 .O23 2018.
Wang, T. (2018). Mirroring China’s past:
Emperors, scholars, and their bronzes.
Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago.
NK 7983.22 .M57 2018.
Macy, B. (2018). Dopesick: Dealers, doctors,
and the drug company that addicted America.
New York: Little, Brown & Company.
RC 568 .O45 M33 2018.
Tamblyn, A. (2019). Era of ignition: Coming of
age in a time of rage and revolution. New York:
Crown Archetype.
PN 2287 .T154 A3 2019.
Isett, C.M. (2017). The social history of
agriculture: From the origins to the current
crisis. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
S 419 .I78 2017.
Nuccitelli, D. (2015). Climatology versus
pseudoscience: Exposing the failed predictions
of global warming skeptics. Santa Barbara, CA:
Praeger.
QC 981.8 .G56 N93 2015.
Usher, B. (2019). Renewable energy: A primer
for the twenty-first century. New York: Columbia
University Press.
TJ 808 .U84 2019.
Lewis, R. (2017). Human genetics: The basics.
London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
QH 431 .L41857 2017.
Frith, J. (2015). Smartphones as locative
media. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
TK 5105.65 .F78 2015.