Peninsula College Library Biblio-Bits: Library Construction

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It is 2008. Do you know where our library is?

On January 15, 2008 the library staff was given a tour of the new library under construction. The tour began in the area between the library and building A, where there will eventually be a sidewalk. Along the sidewalk there will be rain gardens to collect site water runoff. Both surface runoff and roof/downspout water will be slowed by the rain gardens to slow the rate at which water enters the city's system.

Inside the library we were able to see under the access floor. Air delivery from the mechanical room below the library will come heated from the geothermal system and be delivered through the access floor. There will be inherent cooling from the geothermal system, as well as heating, dependent on need -- much the way a heat pump system works in residential buildings.

The access floor will allow facilitate a kind of plug-n-play since the cabling under the access floor can be rerouted depending on need above floor level.

Spaces within the library are now discernible, although some spaces were only demarcated by a 2x4 on the access floor. It is easier now to visualize where the photocopy area, circulation desk, offices, library classroom, periodical reading area, etc. will be located.

The views from inside continue to be spectacular! The day was clear and we could see across the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Canada.

The projected completion date is July 2008.

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New Library Periodical Reading Area

Here are the views from the outside and inside of the Library Periodicals Reading Area in the process of construction. The view from inside the Periodicals Reading Area looks out towards Canada across the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Opening of the new Library is scheduled for June 2008.

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New Peninsula College Library Construction On Schedule

The new Peninsula College Library building is scheduled to be completed in June 2008. Library staff recently toured "inside" with the architect. The view toward the Strait of Juan de Fuca from the Periodical Reading Area should be spectacular!

Faculty Reading Recommendations

ARANA, M. (2006). Cellophane: a novel. New York, Dial Press.
BERNSTEIN, C. (2007). A woman in charge: the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton. New York, Alfred A. Knopf.
BESCHLOSS, M. R. (2007). Presidential courage: brave leaders and how they changed America, 1789-1989. New York, Simon & Schuster.
FRIEDMAN, T. L. (2007). The world is flat: a brief history of the twenty-first century [version 3.0]. New York, Picador.
GORE, A. (2007). The assault on reason. New York, Penguin Press.
OBAMA, B. (2006). The audacity of hope: thoughts on reclaiming the American dream. New York, Crown Publishers.
RITTER, S. (2007). Waging peace: the art of war for the antiwar movement. New York, Nation Books.
WARD, P. D. (2007). Under a green sky: global warming, the mass extinctions of the past, and what they mean for our future. New York, Smithsonian Books/Collins.
WEINER, T. (2007). Legacy of ashes: the history of the CIA. New York, Doubleday.

Librarian's List: Selected Stage Conceptions

BECK, D. E., & COWAN, C. C. (2004). Spiral dynamics. Developmental management. Cambridge, Mass [etc.], Blackwell Business.
COMMONS, M. L. (1989). Adult development: comparisons and applications of developmental models. New York, Praeger.
FEUERSTEIN, G., & GEBSER, J. (1987). Structures of consciousness: the genius of Jean Gebser-- an introduction and critique. Lower Lake, Calif, Integral Pub.
GHOSE, A., & DALAL, A. S. (2001). A greater psychology: an introduction to Sri Aurobindo's psychological thought. New York, Jeremy P Tarcher/Putnam.
GILLIGAN, C. (1982). In a different voice: psychological theory and women's development. Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press.
KEGAN, R. (1982). The evolving self: problem and process in human development. Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press.
KOHLBERG, L. (1984). The psychology of moral development: the nature and validity of moral stages. San Francisco, Harper & Row.
LOEVINGER, J., & BLASI, A. (1976). Ego development: [conceptions and theories]. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass Publishers.
MILLER, M. E., & COOK-GREUTER, S. R. (1994). Transcendence and mature thought in adulthood: the further reaches of adult development. Lanham, Md, Rowman & Littlefield.
PERRY, W. G., JR. (1999). Forms of Intellectual and Ethical Development in the College Years: A Scheme. Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series.
PIAGET, J., GRUBER, H. E., & VONÈCHE, J. J. (1977). The essential Piaget. New York, Basic Books.

Faculty Retreat Books for Discussion Groups (Fall 2007)

ANGIER, N. (2007). The canon: a whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company. (suggested by Dan Stengel)
DUMAS, F. (2003). Funny in Farsi: a memoir of growing up Iranian in America. New York, Villard. (suggested by Dan Yezbick)
GOLEMAN, D. (2007). Social Intelligence The New Science of Human Relationships. Bantam Dell Pub Group. (suggested by Aleilah Lawson)
LEDERMAN, L. M., & TERESI, D. (2006). The god particle: if the universe is the answer, what is the question? Boston, Houghton Mifflin. (suggested by Jeff Zirul)
MACMILLAN, M. (2007). Nixon and Mao: the week that changed the world. New York, Random House. (suggested by Steven Olson)
ROSE, M. (2005). Lives on the boundary: a moving account of the struggles and achievements of America's educationally underprepared. New York, N.Y., U.S.A., Penguin Books. (suggested by Janet Lucas)
SPENGLER, O., WERNER, H., HELPS, A., & ATKINSON, C. F. (1962). The decline of the West. New York, Knopf. (suggested by Wes Cecil)

Librarian's List: Social Epistemology

LACKEY, J., & SOSA, E. (2006). The epistemology of testimony. Oxford, Clarendon Press.
MCINNIS, R. G. (2001). Discourse synthesis: studies in historical and contemporary social epistemology. Westport, Conn, Praeger.
REMEDIOS, F. (2003). Legitimizing scientific knowledge: an introduction to Steve Fuller's social epistemology. Lanham, Md, Lexington Books.
SPINDEL CONFERENCE, HENDERSON, D. K., & TOLLEFSEN, D. (2006). Spindel Conference 2005. Social epistemology. Memphis, Tenn, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Memphis.

Librarian's List: Tat Tvam Asi and Potpourri

JACOBY, S. (2004). Freethinkers: a history of American secularism. New York, Metropolitan Books.
KELLY, E. F., & KELLY, E. W. (2007). Irreducible mind: toward a psychology for the 21st century. Lanham, Md, Rowman & Littlefield.
KRIPAL, J. J. (2007). Esalen: America and the religion of no religion. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
MAXWELL, N. K. (2006). Sacred stacks: the higher purpose of libraries and librarianship. Chicago, American Library Association.
SCHROEDER, G. L. (2001). The hidden face of God: how science reveals the ultimate truth. New York, Free Press.
WILBER, K. (2007). The integral vision: a very short introduction to the revolutionary integral approach to life, God, the universe, and everything. Boston, Shambhala Publications.