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On Campus? Come to the Halloween Party!

Student Life invites you, students you know & any kids (of all ages) to our

1st ever Halloween Carnival

TODAY, Oct. 30 from 3-6 p.m.

in the Helland Student Center

Please join us for games, refreshments, a picture booth, a costume contest & lots of FUN for KiDs Of ALL AgEs!!!

Please share the attached flyers with anyone you think might be interested.

Happy Spooky Friday!

Tara

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Tara Stormoen Martinez
Director of Student Life

AACK!

I am WAY behind in grading your work. Lest you think I've been sitting around eating bon bons, you should know that the past two days I've been out of the office at all-day mini-conferences, talking about library cataloging, authority control, discovery tools, electronic resources management, and other things that have made my eyes glaze over. I've been logging into D2L during breaks to look for messages from you and respond to emails.

My agenda for tomorrow: get up, get my kids off to school, get to work, GRADE PAPERS until 3, and then I have a 3 hour Academic Council meeting. Academic Council is the committee made up of faculty and administrators that reviews and approves or rejects all new proposed courses and awards. After Academic Council, I have to go to a parent information meeting for a program one of my sons wants to participate in (Environmental Camp; anyone have kids go to that?). After I get home from that meeting, I will eat something then probably collapse in a heap. Do you care? Probably not, but I wanted you to have some idea of what your instructors are up to when they're not getting back to you as fast as you'd like (and as fast as we'd like, sometimes).

Trial Databases

MCTC Library is running trials of several databases. They are listed and described at the top of the complete database list on the library home page, and some are also listed under appropriate subject categories.

Our current trials:

· Academic Search Complete which includes all content from Academic Search Premier plus additional sources, many of which are international. We question the value of this database considering the annual cost, so your feedback is greatly desired.

· Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology

· Blackwell’s International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest

· Ebrary Academic Complete which offers fulltext of over 40,000 ebooks. We are testing this ebook software; if we decide to use this software, our collection of ebrary books will be MUCH smaller than this collection, so use it as much as you can before the end of the trial.

· PsychARTICLES offers access to fulltext of many major journals in psychology

· Newsbank Access World News

Coming soon:

· American Indian Experience database

· Myilibrary ebook platform

Please take a look and let us know what you think. Send us your opinions and experiences as they occur using the Ask a Librarian form, and we will include them in our final decisionmaking. What do you think about content, ease of use, help information, bells and whistles?

Survey Results: Why are you at MCTC?

Not too many responders to our highly informal, unscientific survey, where we asked, "What brought you to MCTC for classes?"

I'm changing careers so needed new training	0 (0%)
So I could take my general education courses before transferring to a four-year school	2 (66%)
I heard about MCTC and wanted to come here because I liked what I heard	1 (33%)
It's the closest campus to me and seems generally okay	1 (33%)

Votes so far: 3

All about the food...

Lunch option today for those of you on campus: support the Culinary Arts Program!

Today, Oct. 21st, there will be a soup and sandwich sale in the Commons area from 11:30-1pm or while supplies last.

Chicken Caesar Wrap
4.00
Vegetarian Pita w/Roasted Vegetables with Roasted Red Pepper Cream Cheese
4.00
Creamy Tomato Basil Soup
2.00

Soup and Sandwich Combo
5.00

Thanks,
Chef Schmelz

The Restaurant is Open!

On campus? Dine in the Hennepin Dining Room!

It's that time again, and the student run Culinary restaurant will be open for business T-Th 11am-1pm, starting today, October 13, 2009 in the Hennepin Dining Room.

Due to the short week the opening schedule for this week only will be Tues 10/13/09 11am-1pm (restaurant only)

Wed. 10/14/09 Bake sale and Restaurant services. 11am-1pm

No school on Thurs. 10/15/09.

As always, thanks for your continued support of the Culinary Arts program.

Chef S. Schmelz

If you're in the Twin Cities on Monday, October 12, 2009, you should go to this. College student tickets are $10; kids 14 and under are $10 as well:

Cancer Kids Fund Comedy Showcase

The 13th annual Cancer Kids Fund Comedy Showcase
will be held on October 12 at the Brave New Workshop,
2605 Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis.

The event will feature local comedians and a silent auction. The funds raised will support the various programs of the Cancer Kids Fund.

For more information, contact Briana Oakes
at Children's Hospitals and Clinics Foundation,
(651) 855-2835 or briana.oakes@childrensmn.org

• When is it? October 12, 2009
• Where at? Brave New Workshop (Web site | map)
• What time? 6 p.m. silent auction, 7:30 p.m. comedy show
• How much? $20.00 per person

Lineup 2009

• Leslie Ball
• Paul Metsa
• Tim Bedore
• Dean Johnson
• Musette (Steve Haskin and Karen Thomas)
• Craig Hergert and Company
• Dave Mordal

Twin Cities 5K

I finished 55th out of 98 in my division (females 40-44), with a final time of 38:54. It was a lot of fun. This morning, we went out to Mile 8 to cheer on the marathon runners. Anyone run in any of the weekend races?

Instructor update

Is your instructor ever going to grade stuff and get caught up? Gosh, I hope so... But right now, I just spent about 2 hours going over a decision about what to do for our library consortium and what to do about form versus topic authority subdivisions while updating our catalog records, and honestly, my brain hurts. I won't get back to grading materials and reviewing posts and questions until sometime tomorrow afternoon, because...


Okay, I'm not running in the marathon on Sunday, but I am running in the 5K tomorrow, unless it is pouring down rain, in which case I'm running to a coffee shop. Running in warm summer rain = ok; running in cold fall rain, uh, not so much. I plan to work most of tomorrow afternoon, so will be online in your class materials and questions then.

Thanks for your patience.