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Celebrate Native American History Month

Tashia Miller - November 02, 2022

Films on Native American History

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Stay Ahead of Election Rumors!

Molly Ledermann - November 01, 2022

Stay Ahead of Election Rumors! We can tell election season is here by the yards full of colorful signs, mailboxes full of campaign flyers, and social media feeds full of election rumors and political misinformation. The Bailey Library is here to help you sort fact from fiction and build up your guard against false election information. Snopes.com is a fantastic resource for fact-checking rumors and claims on the Web. Check out the Snopes.com rundown of 3 Types of False Election Rumors to Look Out For. If you prefer to digest new information infographic-style, the amazing News Literacy Project has you covered with Election Rumors to Avoid. Ever seen a chart or graph on social media? Be aware that just because someone is using data, doesn’t mean they are using that data ethically or accurately. The News Literacy Project’s Making Sense of Data: Spotlight in Social Media is definitely worth a few minutes of your time. Learn how data can be manipulated to make a point and improve your fact-checking skills. Want to beef up your online fact-checking skills even more? • Watch the Bailey Library’s short Becoming a Fact Checker video • Then test your skills with the Bailey Library’s Evaluating Websites interactive challenge. Learn more about misinformation with books from the Bailey Library: • Election meltdown : dirty tricks, distrust, and the threat to American democracy • The misinformation age : how false beliefs spread • Detecting deception : tools to fight fake news Looking for accurate election information? • Michigan Voter Information Center – registration status, polling location, sample ballot • Vote411 – candidate and ballot information

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Changes In Kanopy Films!

Tashia Miller - October 31, 2022

Kanopy has recently updated for Academic access and will no longer prompt users to set up a Kanopy account when logging in. Faculty and students are still able to set up a Kanopy account if they so choose, but now the process has been streamlined to avoid previous confusion. More information about this and other topics can be found on the Kanopy Help page: https://help.kanopy.com/hc/en-us/articles/9613229854615-Getting-started-with-Kanopy-for-academic-users

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Dare to Be Scared

Molly Ledermann - October 26, 2022

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October is Michigan Library Appreciation Month!

Molly Ledermann - October 17, 2022

Each October the state of Michigan celebrates the contributions of Michigan’s librarians, librarians, and library staff. So now is a great time to take a moment and think about ALL of the great things that the Bailey Library does for YOU and the WCC community. Need help with a research project? Our librarians are ready and waiting to help. Having trouble finding credible information? Our physical and digital collections provide free access to thousands of books, eBooks, journals, magazines, newspapers, and videos. Looking for a great place to study? In addition to group study rooms, the library has active, quiet, and silent study areas – there is something for everyone! Because access equals opportunity, the Bailey Library is here to provide access to the resources, spaces, tools, and assistance you need to transform your idea into a grade, a degree, or a career. For the Bailey Library, every month is WCC community appreciation month. We are here for you!

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Keep Your Car Ready For the Road

Matthew Farthing - October 07, 2022

The Car Care Council designated October and April as National Car Care Months. Whether you’ve got a little or a lot of DIY mechanic in you, here’s a go-to source we thought you should know about. The name “Chilton” has been around almost as long as there have been cars on the road—and now their auto repair manuals are available online through ChiltonLibrary, available through Washtenaw Community College’s Bailey Library. RELY ON UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION With ChiltonLibrary, you’ll find accurate, digestible information that’s continuously updated to cover most cars, trucks, vans, and SUVs on the road today, including: • Step-by-step repair procedures for everything from suspension, brakes, clutch, and gearbox jobs to more ambitious electrical and engine projects. • Troubleshooting guides for additional support. • Maintenance schedules to help prevent costly repairs. ACCESS ANYTIME AND ANYWHERE Visit https://bit.ly/3eappav for free access to ChiltonLibrary at your library, at home, or on the go. Happy car caring!

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New Titles At the Bailey Library

Matthew Farthing - October 04, 2022

The Bailey Library regularly gets new materials. In this post, we’d like to feature a very small selection of some of the new e-book and e-video titles. The included descriptions are provided by either Films on Demand, Kanopy, or Proquest. All told, over 3,000 new electronic titles were added in September–take a look at the library’s catalog, which is available at: http://wcclib.wccnet.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/49 E-videos provided by Kanopy Big Cities Are Past Their Prime, A Debate – New York. Los Angeles. Chicago. Call them America's "superstars." With huge, diverse populations, these urban hubs have long reigned as the nation's economic, social, and cultural capitals. But big cities have also been the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the coronavirus shut down much of the United States in early 2020, "Zoom towns" sprang up across the country as professionals left urban centers in droves. The pandemic-along with nationwide protests following the police killing of George Floyd that spring-also brought racial, social, and economic inequality into sharp focus, and some large cities implemented new progressive policies that aimed to combat this inequality and create a more equitable society. For some people in higher income brackets, this means a new financial structure that could make city life less rewarding. Some argue that large, urban centers will bounce back and continue to thrive, but others argue that they will likely struggle to maintain their magnetism and appeal. Are big cities past their prime? Decolonizing Mental Health – Decolonizing Mental Health dismantles the racism that underscores the mental healthcare industry. By focusing its gaze on the transformative work of therapists and individuals of color, it calls for a redressal of the ways in which we define psychiatric illness and health. Ultimate Space Telescope – Follow the dramatic story of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope--the most complex machine ever launched into space--in hopes of peering deeper back in time than ever before and answering some of astronomy's biggest questions. E-videos provided by Kanopy Last Journey of Paul W. R. – The red moon threatens our existence on earth. Our only hope is the enigmatic Paul WR, the most talented astronaut of his generation. But a few hours before the start of the great mission, Paul disappears. Murina – On a remote island along Croatia’s Adriatic coast, 17-year-old Julija spends her days diving for eel with her domineering father Ante and watching other teens party on a nearby yacht. She longs for independence but is unsure how to achieve it, until the arrival of the rich and mysterious Javier seems to offer a way out. But does his affection portend freedom, or something more sinister? MURINA features a ferocious, star-making central performance by Gracija Filipovic and the most sumptuous images of the Mediterranean since The Big Blue. Equal parts fiery feminist outcry and stirring coming-of-age drama, the film announces director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic as a major new talent in world cinema. Neptune Frost – Multi-hyphenate, multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams brings his unique dynamism to this Afrofuturist vision, a sci-fi punk musical that’s a visually wondrous amalgamation of themes, ideas, and songs that Williams has previously explored in his work. The film takes place in the hilltops of Burundi, where a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective. From their camp in an otherworldly e-waste dump, they attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime exploiting the region's natural resources – and its people. When an intersex runaway and an escaped coltan miner find each other through cosmic forces, their connection sparks glitches within the greater divine circuitry. E-books provided by Proquest Mobilizing In Uncertainty – How do ordinary people navigate the intense uncertainty of the onset of war? Different individuals mobilize in different ways—some flee, some pick up arms, and some support armed actors as civil war begins. Drawing on nearly two hundred in-depth interviews with participants and nonparticipants in the Georgian-Abkhaz war of 1992–1993, Anastasia Shesterinina explores Abkhaz mobilization decisions during that conflict. Her fresh approach underscores the uncertain nature of the first days of the war when Georgian forces had a preponderance of manpower and arms. Mobilizing in Uncertainty demonstrates, in contrast to explanations that assume individuals know the risk involved in mobilization and make decisions based on that knowledge, that the Abkhaz anticipated risk in ways that were affected by their earlier experiences and by social networks at the time of mobilization. What Shesterinina uncovers is that to make sense of the violence, Abkhaz leaders, local authority figures, and others relied on shared understandings of the conflict and their roles in it—collective conflict identities—that they had developed before the war. As appeals traveled across society, people consolidated mobilization decisions within small groups of family and friends and based their actions on whom they understood to be threatened. Their decisions shaped how the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict unfolded and how people continued to mobilize during and after the war. Through this detailed analysis of Abkhaz mobilization from prewar to postwar, Mobilizing in Uncertainty sheds light on broader processes of violence, which have lasting effects on societies marked by intergroup conflict. Sin Sick: Moral Injury in War & Literature – In Sin Sick, Joshua Pederson draws on the latest research about identifying and treating the pain of perpetration to advance and deploy a literary theory of moral injury that addresses fictional representations of the mental anguish of those who have injured or killed others. Pederson's work foregrounds moral injury, a recent psychological concept distinct from trauma that is used to describe the psychic wounds suffered by those who breach their own deeply held ethical principles. Complementing writings on trauma theory that posit the textual manifestation of trauma as absence, Sin Sick argues that moral injury appears in literature in a variety of forms of excess. Pederson closely reads works by Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment), Camus (The Fall), and veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (Brian Turner's Here, Bullet; Kevin Powers' The Yellow Birds; Phil Klay's Redeployment; and Roy Scranton's War Porn), contending that recognizing and understanding the suffering of perpetrators, without condoning their crimes, enriches the experience of reading—and of being human. Washington’s Government : Charting the Origins of the Federal Administration – Washington’s Government shows how George Washington’s administration—the subject of remarkably little previous study—was both more dynamic and more uncertain than previously thought. Rather than simply following a blueprint laid out by the Constitution, Washington and his advisors constructed over time a series of possible mechanisms for doing the nation’s business. The results were successful in some cases, disastrous in others. Yet at the end of Washington’s second term, there was no denying that the federal government had achieved remarkable results. As Americans debate the nature of good national governance two and a half centuries after the founding, this volume’s insights appear timelier than ever. Reuse, Misuse, Abuse : The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era – In contemporary culture, existing audiovisual recordings are constantly reused and repurposed for various ends, raising questions regarding the ethics of such appropriations, particularly when the recording depicts actual people and events. Every reuse of a preexisting recording is, on some level, a misuse in that it was not intended or at least anticipated by the original maker, but not all misuses are necessarily unethical. In fact, there are many instances of productive misuse that seem justified. At the same time, there are other instances in which the misuse shades into abuse. Documentary scholars have long engaged with the question of the ethical responsibility of documentary makers in relation to their subjects. But what happens when this responsibility is set at a remove, when the recording already exists for the taking and repurposing? Reuse, Misuse and Abuse surveys a range of contemporary films and videos that appropriate preexisting footage and attempts to theorize their ethical implications.

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Leave the Leaves

Sandy McCarthy - September 19, 2022

Did you know that bees use dead leaves and other plant material for winter cover? Leave the leaves is a new slogan and a yard sign by the Xerces Society to help pollinators survivor winter. The Xerces Society has long been fighting for the survival of bees threatened by habitat loss, pesticide use, diseases from commercial bees and climate change. They have now partnered with many for the Bumble Bee Atlas Project to track and conserve native bumble bees. And since Michigan does not have an atlas, you can participate by submitting your photos to the Bumble Bee Watch.

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Borrowing Beyond the Bailey Library

Bethany Kennedy - September 19, 2022

Looking for that perfect book or film? Find it anywhere and get it here.

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Unmute in the Active Learning Zone

Bethany Kennedy - October 22, 2021

Unmute in the Active Learning Zone of the Bailey Library. Headphones, laptops, free wifi, comfy seats, great views available. This is the place for your to unmute and speak up in your online classes.

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