Leisure Reading Collection

Want to take a break from homework and read something for fun?

You're in luck! Each campus library has a Leisure Reading collection, books selected purely for enjoyment. These books can be found in a separate area of your library and are easily identifiable by the green strip around the base of the cover. Check with our friendly library staff if you have questions. Or, browse all the titles at all campuses on this Featured List.

Whether you want an alternative history of America...

...a biography of your favorite celebrity...

...or a new cookbook...

...we have it all!

Come in today to find something fun to read!

Already looked and couldn't find what you like? Make a suggestion on the form here!

Artstor Digital Library

ARTSTOR

What is the Artstor Digital Library?

The Artstor Digital Library is an image database featuring an unparalleled range of images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists in one easily-navigated repository. It is the most comprehensive image resource available for educational and scholarly use, with many rare and important collections available nowhere else.

The library is constantly growing with new collections added monthly, continually expanding our areas of reference and study. All images are accompanied by comprehensive metadata and are rights-cleared for educational use.

Art from leading museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Foundation, MoMA, Berlin State Museums, the National Gallery in London, and the Louvre

Fashion from Condé Nast and costumes from the Brooklyn Museum Collection

Social Documentary photography from Magnum Photos and Panos Pictures

Click here to view the full list of collections

What kind of search is available?

• Key word search: Simply enter your keyword(s) in the search box and click GO.
• Advanced Search: Refine your search by date or date range, geography, classification, and/or collection.
• Faceted Search: Filter your results by one of 16 Artstor classifications, geographical area or country, and date range.
• Browse: Navigate through Artstor's categories such as geography or media to discover images of interest.

What other tools are available with the Artstor Digital Library?

• View: Enlarge, pan and rotate.
• Organize: Create image groups and share them with others at your institution, write group descriptions, build presentations, generate citations, and more.
• Print: You can print images, details, descriptive data, and citations.
• Download: Download images and image details individually, in zipped groups of up to 150 at a time, or as PowerPoint presentations.
• Share: Share images or groups of images with others at your institution, create folders and image groups that can be accessed and/or edited by students who are granted permission, and more.
• Mobile: Search, browse, and view image groups on iPhone, iPod, iPad, and Android-powered devices. Also, study with our Flashcard feature.

Ask A Librarian for more information on this and other databases available to ACC students.

Can I check out textbooks?

	The Library does not purchase textbooks as a rule. So why can we check out textbooks from the Library? Although the Library does not purchase textbooks for all ACC campus libraries, we do shelve the ACC Student Support Center Textbook Collection at the Highland Campus Library.
What is it?	It is a collection of textbooks selected for classes offered in workforce programs. These textbooks are purchased by the ACC Student Support Center through a grant to assist certain student groups to gain access to required textbooks. The majority of ACC textbooks ARE NOT in this collection.  Books are in limited supply and students should not depend upon this source for their required textbook.
Who can check the textbooks out?	Most students are not eligible to check out textbooks from this collection BEFORE the second week of classes. Visit with staff in a Student Support Center BEFORE the semester begins to determine your eligibility. Eligible students will receive information and required forms to begin the process. See information and a list of textbooks.
Where do you go to check out a textbook?	AVOID LONG LINES -- Beginning the second week of classes, you can go to any ACC library and ask that an available textbook be sent to you at that campus for checkout.  See the list of available textbooks.
What is the Student Support Center?	ACC's Student Support Center provides specialized assistance and referrals to a select group of students who would benefit from additional assistance to overcome challenges and complete their education.The Support Center maintains a collection of textbooks for students to borrow and gives priority to students receiving assistance. Other students may request a loan after the first week of classes.

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National Native American Heritage Month

Man-on-the-Hill and Wife, Sioux

November is National Native American Heritage Month, a period for focusing on the history and cultures of America's indigenous people. ACC Library Services has many resources to help you appreciate and explore our country's many native peoples.

Interested in finding books and e-books? Try the following catalog search:

Indians of North America

An especially good series of books are the volumes of the Handbook of North American Indians, published by the Smithsonian Institution. Each volume covers native groups in specific areas of the country (Plains, Southeast, Great Basin, Northeast, etc.) and goes into a great deal of detail.

We also have an excellent database full of information about native people, American Indian Histories and Cultures. This resource contains chronologies, maps, timelines, photographs, drawings, primary resources, thematic areas, essays, online exhibitions and more. It's a great starting place for learning about different groups, especially with its emphasis on visual resources. The portrait at the top of this post come from this database.

 

In addition to books and document databases, we also have access to documentaries and dramatic films through our Kanopy streaming video services. This month, they are featuring over 200 films related to Native American Heritage month, free for you to watch whenever you want. 

 

And finally, check out the many online exhibits from federal government agencies which highlight Native American history and life. Created by offices like the Library of Congress, the National Archives and Records Administration, the Smithsonian Institution and the National Park Service, there's a wealth of good information to explore. Some examples:

• Omaha Indian Music (Library of Congress) 
• American Indian Records in the National Archives (National Archives & Records Administration)  
• George Catlin Painting of Native Americans (National Gallery of Art)
• Chaco Culture National Historic Park (National Park Service)
• White Dog Song, Blackfoot Tribe (Library of Congress)

There's so much information available about our country's Native American heritage. Let ACC Library Services help you find it!

kanopy

Kanopy is a streaming video resource with a board collection of over 26,000 films on every subject imaginable and from leading producers such as Criterion Collection, The Great Courses, New Day Films, HBO California Newsreel, Kino Lorber, PBS, BBC, First Run Features, The Video Project, Media Education Foundation, Documentary Education Resources. Kanopy’s website makes it easy to watch, share and discuss films across campus. 

Enjoy!

International Cinema

                    

The Criteria Collection

           

Art House/Indie Films

                




ALSO,

Check out these hot documentaries

Miss Representation
Like drawing back a curtain to let bright light stream in, Miss Representation uncovers a glaring reality we live with every day but fail to see. Written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the film exposes how mainstream media contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America. The film challenges the media's limited and often disparaging portrayals of women and girls, which make it difficult for women to achieve leadership positions and for the average woman to feel powerful herself.

Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration & New Visions for Criminal Justice in the U.S.
Today, there are more African Americans in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. The prison population has exploded by 500% since the end of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. America locks up more of its racial and ethnic minorities than any other country (including South Africa at the height of apartheid). Mass incarceration has emerged as America's new caste system. How could this happen? With Philadelphia as an entry point, Broken on All Sides explores the intersection of race and poverty within the criminal justice system.

Dangerous Living; Coming Out in the Developing World
Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World is the first documentary to deeply explore the lives of gay and lesbian people in non-western cultures. Traveling to five different continents, we hear the heartbreaking and triumphant stories of gays and lesbians from Egypt, Honduras, Kenya, Thailand and elsewhere, where most occurrences of oppression receive no media coverage at all. By sharing the personal stories coming out of developing nations, Dangerous Living sheds light on an emerging global movement striving to end discrimination and violence against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people.

And so much more on topics such as,

Women, Body Images and Society

A History of Voting Rights

Focus on Globalization

Spanish Language Cinema

Filmmakers on Their Films

Whistleblowers, News Leaks and Consequences

International Cinema

Art House/Indie Films

Weird Science

and just in time for Halloween:

Countdown to Halloween: Classic and Indie Horror

You can access these and much more by visiting the ACC Library Homepage, Click on A-Z list of databases and click on 'K' for Kanopy.  To access from home, you only need to enter your ACC eID and password.

MLA Handbook, 8th Edition

The new Modern Language Association (MLA) Handbook, 8th edition is now available at ACC Library Services together with many accompanying resources!

In order to support all ACC students and faculty, the Library Services will provide both 7th and 8th MLA edition resources this academic year. MLA resources that you can find at ACC Library Services:

• Research Success tutorials are updated to show all MLA citations following the MLA 8th edition rules. We included notes on appropriate tutorial pages to inform students and faculty about MLA edition changes.  

• MLA citation page info on our website has changed and now includes the MLA 8th edition information with a link to the MLA 8th edition KnowHow handout. Note more links on the right sidebar which include a link to the MLA 7th edition information.

• Print KnowHow handouts are available for both MLA 7th and MLA 8th edition at every ACC library.

• MLA handbooks - the 8th edition of the MLA handbook is available in our reference and circulating collections. At least one copy of the 7th edition is kept on our reserves shelf for this academic year.

• MLA 8th Edition Faculty Toolbox LibGuide highlights all differences between the MLA 7th and 8th editions.

• Citation Tools in the ACC Databases do not yet generate the MLA 8th edition citations. Please be aware that these databases also do not specify which edition of MLA is available in the database citation tools.  

• Information literacy classes - we can instruct your students on both the 7th or 8th edition of MLA.

Contact us if you have any questions - we are here to help!