A grand staircase once connected the 2nd and 3rd floors (in the current location of the Circulation Desk)
Photo taken 07/18/2019 by Romute Barkauskaite
Top row (from left): Deb Moore (and Odetta Mae Moore), Hara Brook, Katie Straton
Middle row (from left): Jack Harton, Karen Fernandez, Ben Horvath
Bottom row (from left): Naoko Yasuda, Gerie Ventura, Monica Twork
A green card featuring from left to right: Chloe Fernandez, (The Future), Jay & Joy Barkauskas, Odetta Mae Moore, The Highline College Library welcomes you unconditionally, Mr. POTUS Sundell, Peeper Bowen-Umetsu, (Is) Janet Moore, Sugar & Ratchet Kelley, (Meow!), and Beauty Sundell.
A blue card featuring cats and dogs: Jill & Cricket Bowen-Umetsu, (2020: What a ruff year!), Missy, Jill, Freddie, & Versace Bowen-Umetsu, Howie Kuro Twork, and Ginger Moore.
Clockwise from top left: Allison Reibel, Monica Twork, Jack Harton, Hara Brook, Karen Fernandez, Ian Porter
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[alt-text: Romute Barkauskaite wears purple glasses and a lovely blue scarf] |
Romute Barkauskaite is now a full-time member of the Library Circulation Services Department. As a Highline alumni in Library & Information Science, Romute brings to Highline a 22-year career in academic and public libraries. She will assist affiliates at the circulation desk with their library needs. Romute is also the primary person in managing Interlibrary Loans (ILL’s). ILL is a cooperative arrangement in which member libraries can share books. Libraries are places of language and learning; Romute has knowledge of 4 different languages, she has worked in both Lithuanian and United States libraries, she taught high school drama in her native Lithuania, and has visited many wonderful places while traveling the globe. A wonderful fit for our internationally diverse campus. In her role of Library and Archives Paraprofessional Romute brings to Highline College a solid background in meeting student needs, and a strong understanding of how best to communicate with students. She has utilized these talents to create an informational flyer on nearby public libraries, so students may find additional library services in the South King County region. Romute enjoys cooking, crafts that include knitting and crochet, and gardening. She makes time in her work schedule to care for all the plants in the library. Welcome Romute to her new role at rbarkauskaite@highline.edu! |
[alt-text: We answer over 630 chat questions a year: "I know 150% of the time librarians know exactly how to cite and are very helpful. Librarians are awesome." Faaloloi I., Highline College Students]
| This new guide on mis/disinformation describes briefly the essential tactics for navigating online news and information without falling prey to misinformation (false or misleading information spread unintentionally) or disinformation (false or misleading information spread intentionally). |
alt-text: Navigating Online News and Information in white font, against the background of a phone app screen |
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[alt-text: OER Commons. Open Educational Resources] |
Over fall 21, winter 22, and spring 22, 70 instructors (that we know of) across campus designated in ctcLink that their courses use Open Educational Resources (OER). They may be OER such as open textbooks from OpenStax or a combination of materials that are OER, Open Access (like links to websites and open-access articles), or library-licensed articles accessed through the Highline College library or King County Library System databases. That is a significant amount of savings for students when textbooks can cost between $80-$100 (or higher). Besides saving students money, OER can also help instructors prioritize equity in learning because they can customize materials to embrace the identities of their students.
Enrollment totals provided by Skyler Roth in Highline’s department of Institutional Research; $100 estimate based on OER research. Contact anyone in the Course Materials Affordability Work Group for additional information or to join us. |
| If you missed the live event, you can still enjoy the recording of author E. Gabriel Flores reading her award-winning short story, "Mala Suerte," selected for the The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021 by Alafair Burke (editor).
This event is part of Highline Reads. |
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| We created our own unofficial Little Free Library in the HC Library. If you’re not familiar with Little Free Libraries, they’re a place where people can share books. You’ll find ours on a black cart next to the reference desk. Come by anytime you want to find a new book to read, and also drop off books you want to find a new home with someone else. |
[alt-text: Little Free Library. Silhouette of person reading book at sunset. Take a book, leave a book. Just read!] |
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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell From the SPL record: “The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the cosial science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power.” It was a fascinating look at how language influences our thoughts and behaviors. Overdrive ebook, Kindle edition from SPL
Dispatches from Planet 3 by Marcia Bartusiak A series of essays on the history of astronomy and physics from the ancient Greeks to 2018.
The Fervor Horror fiction set in the very real horror of WWII Japanese-American internment camps.
Founding Mothers: the Women Who Raised Our Nation The overlooked herstory of the women who helped create a new nation.
A Game Of Fear : An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery By Charles Todd The 24th book of the series about a post-WWI British police inspector suffering from PTSD investigating murders in the English countryside.
A Gentleman in Moscow This book immediately joined my list of favorite books of all time. The writing is luxurious and descriptive, and it’s filled with humor and poignancy. Plus, because it’s set in Moscow from the 1920s to 1950s, there are reverberations with current world events and ideologies.
Lost Angeles This photographic collection is filled with images that capture humanity in all of its beauty and despair, focusing on the souls who came to Los Angeles to make it big, but never did. Dressel doesn’t look down on his subjects; he reveals something unique and truly human about them. Still, I often wonder if he’s ever been punched by a subject.
The Things She’s Seen by Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina (check it out from KCLS). Written by Australian Aboriginal siblings, this short novel manages to incorporate a gorgeous meditation on grief and colonialism (with Aboriginal folklore and imagery) into a murder mystery. Choose the audiobook version of this one to enjoy the Australian accents! |
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Learn how important, and perhaps endangered birds are. What would the sound of spring be without the songs of birds? Remember Rachel Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) recognized as a founder of the modern environmental movement. “Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.“ — Rachel Carson, book Silent Spring (1962) Listen and learn about Ornithology (study of birds) at the Cornell Ornithology Lab Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring is available in the Highline College Library main collection. [alt-text: yellow bird on pink flower] |
