New Library Hours

Starting this week the library has returned to our normal hours!

Please come and join us with your class or on your free time from:

8 AM to 8 PM  Monday through Thursday

8 AM to 4 PM Friday

9 AM to 12 PM Saturday

To set up library instruction for your class please make an Information Literacy Instruction Request here.

Intercession Hours

Did You Know?

The Library is now circulating movies!

The Library has over 600 DVDs and Video Recordings ready to go!

Discover what is available by accessing the Library web site:

http://www.gatewaycc.edu/library

Click on Catalog, for the  Advanced Search, and Limit by: 

Format: Video

Collection: Media

If you have any questions, please ask a librarian, at the blue counter.

 We will be happy to assist you.

Videos can be checked out for 7 days. 

Also, explore our Streaming Media through   

Library Summer Intercession and Summer Semester Hours

Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Love Dim Sum and Sushi?

Come and check out our Asian and Pacific Islander collection in the library

May is the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, which is a celebration of the culture, traditions, and history of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans. In 1978 President Jimmy Carter signed a Joint Resolution introduced by Representatives Frank Horton of NY and Norman Y. Mineta of CA, and Senataors Daniel Inouye and Spark Matsunaga. The month of May was selected to commemorate the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants (May 7, 1843) and the completion of the transcontinental railroad for which many Chinese immigrants laid the tracks (May 10, 1869).

Becoming American: The Chinese Experience

Bill Moyers introduces the program with excerpts from conversations with young people and a brief look at the history of the Chinese in America. In the mid-19th century, Barnum & Bailey displayed a Chinese family in its side show.

Quick Facts

• Profile America: Facts for Features

• Number of Asians and Pacific Islanders (2010) in Arizona

                  170,509 (2.7%) and 10,959 (0.2%)

Resources

• PBS Ancesters in the Americas - Asian American History Web Sites

Sources of graphics

 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dimsum-shanghai.JPG

 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Assortment_of_sushi,_May_2010.jpg

National Nurses Week

Next week is a time to thank the nurses that you know.

National Nurses Week starts on May 6th, which is National Nursing Day, and runs through May 12th, which is Florence Nightingale's birthday.

Here is a video from our Streaming Media collection that shows a little bit about the history of nurses.





The library would like to take this time to thank nurses for their wonderful contributions.

Accessing the Library from Afar

Remote library access is changing to make life easier for you!

The library resources and databases can now be accessed using your MEID and my Maricopa password instead of your PIN (which is the last four digits of your phone number).

For those of you who enjoyed and easily remembered your PIN we will be continuing to allow access with PIN numbers through the end of the Spring 2013 semester. At the end of that time everyone will need to use their MEID and my Maricopa password to access the library resources.

This change should make it easier for all of the Gateway Community College students and staff to remember your information when you use our services.