The Academic Success Center (ASC) invites you to join us for the third "Nourishment and Knowledge" workshop of the semester. Mark your calendar now to join us for lunch and an exchange of ideas on this topic:

Overcoming Roadblocks to Student Success #2:

Accommodating Students with Disability Services

Student Center room 18

Monday, March 10, 2008

12:00-12:50 P.M.

Missi Baranko with Disability Services and Kelly Mattis with Educational Enhancement Services will lead this workshop describing the services that DSU offers to students with documented disabilities. Conversation will center on the challenges that such students face in the university and the ways that instructors and the ASC can work together to support them. Please join in the discussion; your questions and ideas are welcome! RSVP by Thursday, March 6 in order to reserve a meal at this workshop luncheon. You may respond to Sonja Steffen (ASC Administrative Secretary) by e-mail at Sonja.Steffen@DickinsonState.edu or by telephone at 483-2999. We look forward to having you join us and our continuing conversation about teaching and learning at DSU. [If you will be away from your office during Spring Break, RSVP this week to avoid forgetting to do so next week!]

Stoxen Library Spring Break Hours

Spring Break Hours

Sat. & Sun., Mar. 1 & 2 – Closed

Mon. – Fri., March 3 – 7

8:00am – 4:30pm

Sat. March 8 – Closed

Sun. March 9 – 4:00pm – 11:00pm

Stoxen Library Regular Hours

Monday-Thursday 8a.m. – 11 p.m.

Friday 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Sunday 4 p.m. – 11 p.m.

What's new at the library?

Here is a session especially for staff and faculty about new products/new features and tips from your librarians. Plan to attend one of the following sessions (approximately 45 minutes):

Wednesday, Feb. 27 – 3 pm or
Thursday, Feb. 28 – 2 pm

These sessions will be held in the classroom on the lower level of the library. Please RSVP to Eileen (483-2136 or eileen.kopren@dickinsonstate.edu) if you plan to attend.

College Library Website of the Month!

The Communication Committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries has named Stoxen Library's website their Feb. 2008 College Library Website of the Month. Their full review of our site can be found here.

More Opportunities from the ASC

Are your students having difficulty managing conflict? The Academic Success Center is offering a workshop to help students learn to manage conflict before it manages them.
Academic Success Center

Academic Skills Enhancement Workshop

Why Can't We All Just Get Along?: Managing Differences
Tuesday, February 26th at 1:00 P.M.

Student Center Room 112

Students will discover productive techniques for dealing with the conflicts that inevitably arise in life. Conflict may be unavoidable, but it doesn't always have to have negative results. Students will learn how to handle conflict in a healthy way.

Do your students take notes during lectures or discussions in your classes? Do you assign reading for which they take notes? If so, they may appreciate the help that the ASC is offering them:
Academic Success Center

Academic Skills Enhancement Workshop

Put It in Writing: Note Taking Techniques to Get the Most Out of Class and Into Your Brain

Thursday, February 28 at 9:00 A.M.

Student Center Room 112

If you have a class during this time, please feel free to bring the entire class to the workshop. If your class is not at this time, you may still encourage your students to attend. If you would like to offer credit for their attending this workshop but cannot attend yourself, simply contact us at the ASC; we keep attendance rosters to help you determine who form your class attended.
Please reply to tell if your class will attend and how many students you will bring. You may send your reply to Sonja Steffen (ASC Administrative Secretary) at Sonja.Steffen@dickinsonstate.edu or by telephone at 483-2999. We hope to see you at this workshop or at another one soon!

Fun Valentine's Day Facts

Okay, so this isn't totally library related...but it's fun! These facts are from the ResourceShelf News. Look for the North Dakota connection:

1,198
Number of locations producing chocolate and cocoa products in 2005. These establishments employed 38,718 people. California led the nation in the number of such establishments with 128, followed by Pennsylvania with 121.

26 pounds
Per capita consumption of candy by Americans in 2006.

$411 million
The combined wholesale value of domestically produced cut flowers in 2006 for all flower-producing operations with $100,000 or more in sales. Among states, California was the leading producer, alone accounting for about three-quarters of this amount ($316 million).

6%
The percentage of currently married women who have been married for at least 50 years. Just more than half of currently married women have been married for at least 15 years.

Romantic-sounding places to spend Valentine’s Day:
Roseville, Calif.
Rose City, Mich.
South Heart, N.D.
Loveland, Colo.
Darling township,
Minn.Loveland, Ohio
Romeo, Colo

More opportunities from the Academic Success Center

Three new workshops are being offered by the Academic Success Center.

While some of our students excel in math-related courses, others find "thinking mathematically" a challenge. The ASC is offering a workshop to help those students with one of the biggest challenges they face: performing their best on math exams.
Academic Success Center

Academic Skills Enhancement Workshop

Crunching Numbers: Techniques for Triumphing on Math Tests

Tuesday, February 19, 200812:00 - 12:50

P.M.Student Center Room 112

Have you ever had students that have difficulties when taking a test. The Academic Success Center is offering a workshop to help students learn how to handle the stress of taking tests.
Academic Success Center

Academic Skills Enhancement Workshop

The Out the Brain Freeze: Conquering Test Anxiety

Wednesday, February 20th at 2:00 P.M.

Student Center Room 112

Have you ever had students tell you that they need more money for college but they don't know how to go about getting it. The Academic Success Center is offering a workshop to help students find and apply for scholarships and grants and FAFSA tips.
Academic Success Center

Academic Skills Enhancement Workshop

Show Me the Money!: Finding and applying for Scholarships, Grants, FAFSA Tips

Wednesday, February 27th at 10:00 A.M.

Student Center Room 18

This workshop addresses such things as scholarships and grants, and the differences between the two. There will also be clues onto which grants and scholarships might be available to certain students and how to effectively apply for them.

If you have a class during these times, please feel free to bring the entire class to the workshop. If your class is not at this time, you may still encourage your students to attend. If you would like to offer credit for their attending this workshop but cannot attend yourself, simply contact us at the ASC; we would gladly provide you with a copy of the attendance roster. Please reply to tell if your class will attend and how many students you will bring. You may send your reply to Sonja Steffen (ASC Administrative Secretary) at Sonja.Steffen@dickinsonstate.edu or by telephone at 483-2999. We hope to see you at this workshop or at another one soon!

MIND CANDY?

See what you are feeding you're brain.

The Brain Food Pyramid @ Stoxen Library can help you nourish your brain.

(Notice the top of the pyramid is all our favorite: mind candy?)

North Dakota Reads tonight!

Tonight (February 11th) at 7:00 p.m. in Klinefelter 107 Stoxen Library and the North Dakota Humanities Council are sponsoring a North Dakota Reads Books Discussion. We will be talking about Louise Erdrich ( a North Dakota author) and her award winning book of stories Love Medicine. Please come out and join us. Our guest speaker is Cindy Nichols an instuctor of creative writing and literature at North Dakota State University.

Library Hours - President's Day Holiday

Stoxen Library Hours

President’s Day Holiday Hours

Saturday Feb. 16 - Closed

Sunday Feb. 17 – Closed

Monday Feb. 18 – 4:00pm – 11:00pm

Regular Hours

Monday-Thursday 8a.m. – 11 p.m.

Friday 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Sunday 4 p.m. – 11 p.m.

New Plagiarism DVD

We have a new plagiarism DVD available at the Library. The run time is 18 minutes with six “chapters.” The chapter titles are “Introduction,” “Types of Plagiarism,” “Organization,” “Quoting, Paraphrasing and Summarizing,” “Documentation and Citation,” and “Conclusion.” There is a Discussion Questions and Activities component (Academic Fraud, Organizing Time, Using Note Cards, When to Use Quotes, Paraphrasing and Citation).

The publisher description recommends a 7 – 12 grade level. However, the “students” interviewed about the consequences of getting caught plagiarizing give college examples (“I lost my scholarship”), so I saw nothing in the DVD that “talks down” to students.

There are a couple of ways that I think this DVD could be used. Because the “chapters” are only about three – four minutes each, one could selectively show one or two for class discussion. We would also be willing to put the DVD on reserve for viewing by a class on their own time.

The call number is: DVD PN167.A96 2004. For a while, it will be displayed with the new DVDs on the cart by the Lower Level Service Desk.

Two New ASC workshops

If you have students who struggle with understanding what they read in their textbooks, the ASC is offering a workshop that can help:

Academic Success Center

Academic Skills Enhancement Workshop

In One Eye and Out the Other:Reading and Using Your Textbooks Effectively

Tuesday, February 12th at 2:00 P.M.

Student Center Room 112

Some of your students might benefit from advice on studying: how to create an environment and to exercise behaviors conducive to concentration while studying. The ASC is offering them some help:

Academic Success Center

Academic Skills Enhancement Workshop

Caution! Scholar at Work:

Controlling Your Study Environment and Habits

Student Center Ballroom

Wednesday, February 13th at 2:00 pm

If you have a class during this time, please feel free to bring the entire class to the workshop. If your class is not at this time, you may still encourage your students to attend. If you would like to offer credit for their attending this workshop but cannot attend yourself, simply contact us at the ASC; we would gladly provide you with a copy of the attendance roster. Please reply to tell us if your class will attend and how many students you will bring. You may send your reply to Sonja Steffen (ASC Administrative Secretary) at Sonja.Steffen@dickinsonstate.edu or by telephone at 483-2999. We hope to see you at this workshop or at another one soon!

Welcome back, Katrina Beaudoin!

Make sure to stop by Stoxen Library and say “hello” to Katrina Beaudoin, who returned this past January. Katrina is our new Circulation Supervisor/ Office Manager and we are glad to have her back! Katrina previously attended DSU for three years and also worked for us as an Evening Supervisor back in 2005 after she returned home from finishing her B.A. in English from the University of North Dakota.

Katrina is from Dickinson, but we recently stole her from Manhattan, Kansas—where she worked in the Interlibrary Loan, Government Documents/Maps, and General Reference Services departments as the Microforms Unit Manager in Hale Library at Kansas State University. She decided to return home after almost two years there, realizing she really missed helping the people from her home state with their library needs. You will find her hopping around Stoxen, helping student staff at the front desk and processing over due notices.

If you need to check out any library equipment, she’s the one to help you with that! Have an item to place on Reserve? Stop by and talk with her, she’d be glad to do that for you! Katrina plans to start her master’s degree in Library and Information Science soon, but currently is working full-time for us here at Stoxen, and also part-time at the Dickinson Area Public Library, bringing over ten years of library experience here to help at Stoxen! You may also find her running around outside--Katrina is an avid runner, logging over 6 miles every morning! Welcome back, Katrina!

Where Did Corina Go?

See Corina Zalesky in her new office/position.

The Library Assistant in Stoxen Library can help you with your Interlibrary Loan needs. You’ll find her busy processing books, collecting stats and compiling work study data in addition to all the services she helped you with as office manager/circulation supervisor.

Check out the new equipment available @ your library!

Now available for checkout at Stoxen Library for classroom/instructional use:

Four Sony Handycam Digital Video Camcorders

These digital video camcorders may be checked out by faculty, students and staff at no charge. Students must have an Equipment Permission Slip signed by their instructor to use the equipment, which is available at Stoxen library or online at http://dickinsonstate.com/pdf/lib_equipment.pdf

Equipment included in checkout:
Case, power adaptor, power cord, USB cable, rechargeable battery, tripod, and AV connection cable. Instruction booklets are available upon request.

Camcorders will take moving, as well as still images, and are recorded onto mini DVD discs, either DVD+R DL, DVD-RW, and DVD+RW. However, Stoxen library does not supply these discs, just the camcorders. Loan period for this equipment is four hours.

Don’t forget to bring your DSU ID along to check out the camcorders and all other library materials. Reservations for equipment are encouraged! For more information, or to place a reservation, call Stoxen Library at 483-2135 today!