The JWCC Library is proud to celebrate Native American Heritage Month during the month of November. To commemorate the event, a Native American Art Browser has been created as a way to show a powerfully beautiful aspect of Native American cultures.
October 9: A guide to Writing Your Research Paper is now available!
October 13:The Health Reform News Center is now online! The web page includes an interactive map, breaking news, a video about President Obama's plan, video news feeds, and links to information about the major bills under consideration by Congress.
A new exhibit about Libraries & the First Amendment has been released in our Library. A companion web site, FreedomInLibraries.org, is a great place to find out about how you can exercise your First Amendment freedoms.
Reference hours are now in place for Monday and Tuesday from 10am to 2pm and from 4pm to 7pm. Hours for Wednesday will last from 10am to 2pm and from 5pm to 7pm. On Thursday, reference hours begin at 8am and end at 12pm. The reference desk can be found just past the Reference sign hanging from the Library ceiling.
September 9: A new Influenza Evidence-based Information Portal is now available from EBSCO. The page has been added to our Swine Flu Info Center.
September 1: Community members who print using Library computers will now be required to pay ten cents per page because of a board policy change. Please come to the circulation desk to pay for your prints.
July 30: New computers have arrived in the Library. Our new PCs have Intel quad core processors, card readers, and DVD multi-drives. Also, the new computers send a clearer digital signal to our brand new 19" widescreen LCD monitors from ViewSonic.
July 20: Apollo 40th Anniversary: On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man ever to step on the moon along with Buzz Aldrin. To recognize the event, NASA has created an Apollo 40th Anniversary Web Site. There, you can find restored videos, audio, images, interactive pages, and feature stories. Another fantastic web site, WeChooseTheMoon.org, tracks the Apollo 11 capsule's route from Earth to the moon in real time, 40 years after the fact. Also, don't forget to check out Google Moon to take a look at the historic Apollo landing sites.
June 16: Battle of the Fact Engines 2009: Wolfram Alpha vs. Google Squared. After Wolfram Alpha receives an input, it can draw from a database of more than 10 trillion pieces of data and over 50 thousand algorithms and models to provide detailed results for any math formula, calculation, conversion, chemical compound, date, place, stock, and more. Its competitor, Google Squared, extracts information and data from web pages and presents the results as squares in a customizable online spreadsheet. As a result, Google Squared can boast a much greater amount of information than Wolfram Alpha, but its results may be less reliable.
June 1: Information about Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who President Obama nominated to the US Supreme Court, is available from the Library of Congress.
May 16: Summer hours begin, and the library will be closed on Saturdays. The library will continue its regular weekday hours (7:30AM to 8:30PM Monday through Thursday & 7:30AM to 4:00PM on Fridays).
April 28, 2009: For information about Swine Flu, visit the JWCC Swine Flu Info Center to find news feeds, video feeds, images, and other swine flu information. Recent journal articles about Swine Flu can be found at PubMed.
April 15, 2009:A new Reference Tools web page is now available, and it is filled with links to useful reference databases, encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and more.
March 30, 2009: You can now search many of our databases at once with WebFeat! You can either select specific databases to search or search an entire category of databases at once.