Two Concurrent Displays thru the Month Of September!

 September is National Hispanic Month

On the library’s first floor we are featuring National Hispanic Heritage Month. Come celebrate and recognize historical and cultural contributions of Hispanic Americans.  Most Latin American countries observe their independence during a 31-day period beginning on September 15 and ending on October 15. 

In conjunction with the Hispanic Heritage celebration, the library is displaying various books and informational maps, dealing with Hispanic history, art, literature, and culture. 

Celebrating U.S. Constitution Day

September 17th 

Come see the books, posters, and Documents of Democracy on the U.S. Constitution through the end of September on the library’s second floor. Constitution Day is a time to remember the great event and “birthday” of our government, Sept 17, 1787.

For more information and resources pertaining to the U.S. Constitution including scans of:

The U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and Bill of rights

Visit the Charters of Freedom Website:

http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/charters/constitution.html

Library Display on Student Success!

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”


Nelson Mandela

Learning for the Future

This month’s library display will focus on student success in its many forms. For our soon-to-be graduates, we will provide information about the Transfer Center. For those students who are looking for a job after graduation, we will refer them to the services available through the Job & Career Information Center. For all of our students we hope to provide snippets of inspiration for learning, for growing, for striving, and for achieving.

It is with great honor that the library features (i am intelligent), a book that chronicles Peyton Goddard’s challenges in life and describes how she was inspired by the community college staff and faculty. Peyton lives with the label of autism and is unable to speak. The synopsis of her books states, “When her mother Dianne brought her to Whittier, California in 1997, to try a new communication strategy for people with autism, she did not expect much. She did not expect her daughter to type the words ‘i am intlgent.’ She did not expect to learn that her daughter possessed a gifted mind and poetic lyricism.”

Peyton became the first person to use facilitated communication to graduate Valedictorian from a U.S. college, (Cuyamaca College class of 2002). Here is part of Peyton’s speech; “Years I thought I would forever eat separate rather than be supported at the table. I thought this epic was impossible. You Cuyamaca, proved it possible.” The news anchor who covered the event said, “The Valedictorian at Cuyamaca College is proof that everyone can achieve if the desire is there.” Stop by the library and see how you can CHANGE YOUR FUTURE.

Springtime @ Cuyamaca College

This month’s library display focuses on establishing solid foundations for a bright and cheerful future. On April 9th, the annual Health Fair is held in the Student Center and our display cases provide books on healthy living. Information on the varied services and health screenings available at this event and other resources available to Cuyamaca College students are featured. Then, on April 27th, our Ornamental Horticulture department, in conjunction with the Water Conservation Garden, presents “Celebrating Urban Farms & Gardens 1994-2013” at the 20th annual Spring Garden Festival sponsored by San Diego Home/Garden. In support of this popular community affair, our displays feature a variety of gardening tips for the smallest spaces and containers to large acreage farms as well as resources like raising your own chickens.


Stop by the library this month to get yourself ready for a healthy, blossom-filled “Swing Into Spring”!

The Cuyamaca College Library Celebrates National Women's History Month

Women Inspiring Innovation through Imagination:

Celebrating Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)

Throughout the month of March, the library will reflect upon the many achievements women have made over the years in the STEM fields. This month’s display features some of the women whose extraordinary accomplishments and amazing strength have significantly impacted our world, such as:

• Florence Bascom (1862-1945) – First woman scientist hired at the US Geological Survey.

• Maria Curie (1867-1934) – First woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize and the only woman to have won two Nobel Prizes, each in different fields, Physics and Chemistry.

• Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) – Provided crucial evidence for the helical structure of DNA.

• Jane Goodall (1934-Present) – Notably the world’s foremost primatologist.

• Grace Hopper (1906-1992) – Developed the first compiler for a computer programming language.

• Mae Jemison (1956-Present) – First African American woman to travel to space.

• Augusta Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) – The world’s first computer programmer.

• Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) – First woman to receive the Nobel Prize in medicine for her work in genetics.

• Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) – Discovered a comet invisible to the naked eye in 1847.

• Emmy Noether (1882-1935) – A pioneer in the field of abstract (non-communicative) algebra.

• Rosalyn Yalow (1921-Present) – Helped discover how to use radioisotopes to measure levels of tiny amounts of hormones in the human blood system; received Nobel Prize in medicine in 1977.