Using MCC's Online Resources

Did you know that MCC's online resources have been being reshaped over the past year or so?  Don't get me wrong, we have mostly the same resources, but we are using them in new ways, and making them more accessible.  Take for example our two main periodical databases: EBSCO and ProQuest.  For each of these wonderful resources we've traditionally needed a separate login.  Total we used to need five or more sets of usernames and passwords! 

That's a lot to remember!

Just in the past six months, however, we have begun a process to greatly simplify the steps necessary for using our resources.  Now, when you go to our library catalog and click on any one of our resources, you'll be asked for you IAValley login information.  (It's the same thing you use to log into our computers and Angel.)  That's all you'll need from now on!  Isn't that simple?

Thanks to our IT guy Bill for getting it all sorted out, and for Molly having the desire to pursue EZProxy.

As always, if you have any questions or problems, contact us at 641-844-5690.

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Puttin' on the Glitz!

Wednesday, February 15, the Library had it's first theme day of the semester: Putin' on the Glitz.  The staff glitzed up and decorated the Library with a red carpet theme.  It was a lot of fun!  Those librarians know how to let loose!

Thanks to all who participated!!  Stay tuned for our next theme day!

Valentine's Day

Quotations honoring Love

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!  ~Thomas Hood


When love is not madness, it is not love.  ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca


Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee.  ~English saying used on poesy rings


Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939


Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.  ~Albert Einstein


I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day.  When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon.  ~Author Unknown


For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard


I claim there ain't
Another Saint
As great as Valentine.
~Ogden Nash


You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.  ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"


We're all a little weird.  And life is a little weird.  And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love.  ~Robert Fulghum, True Love


Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day's Saint Valentine's.
For that good bishop's sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.
~Michael Drayton


Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.  ~William Shakespeare


kisses are a better fate
than wisdom.
~e.e. cummings


If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?  ~Author Unknown


Who, being loved, is poor?  ~Oscar Wilde


Grow old with me!  The best is yet to be.  ~Robert Browning


The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it.  You and you alone make me feel that I am alive.  Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.  ~George Moore


We loved with a love that was more than love.  ~Edgar Allan Poe


Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.  ~Ben Hecht


Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.  ~Henry Van Dyke


Are we not like two volumes of one book?  ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore


I've fallen in love many times... always with you.  ~Author Unknown


Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.  ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.  ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning


When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.  ~Natalie Clifford Barney


Take away love and our earth is a tomb.  ~Robert Browning

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.  ~Zora Neale Hurston


Valentine hearts beat more passionately than everyday hearts.  ~Anonymous, winner of February 2011 quotegarden Twitter create your own quote contest


Without Valentine's Day, February would be... well, January.  ~Jim Gaffigan


We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.  ~Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach, Aphorism


I love thee - I love thee,
'Tis all that I can say
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day.
~Thomas Hood


Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.  ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651


Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved.  ~Christopher Paul Rubero


Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes


The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.  ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670


At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.  ~Plato


True love stories never have endings.  ~Richard Bach


Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.  ~Zelda Fitzgerald


Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.  ~Kay Knudsen


Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.  ~Ovid


Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.  ~Percy Bysshe Shelley


I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes,
After the day's great sun.
~Charles Hanson Towne


Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.  ~Margaret Atwood


Who would give a law to lovers?  Love is unto itself a higher law.  ~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy


A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.  ~Frank A. Clark


Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.  ~Rose Franken


I love you like crazy, baby
'Cuz I'd go crazy without you.
~Pixie Foudre


How did it happen that their lips came together?  How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill?  A kiss, and all was said.  ~Victor Hugo


It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.  ~John Bulwer


Love is not singular except in syllable.  ~Marvin Taylor


They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above.  ~E.Y. "Yip" Harburg and Fred Saidy, dialogue just before the song "Old Devil Moon" in the musical Finian's Rainbow  (Thanks, Katherine!)


Love me and the world is mine.  ~David Reed


Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.  ~Robert Frost


Love is the poetry of the senses.  ~Honoré de Balzac


Come live in my heart and pay no rent.  ~Samuel Lover


True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights.  If you hear bells, get your ears checked.  ~Erich Segal


Love is what you've been through with somebody.  ~James Thurber, quoted in Life magazine, 1960

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.  ~William Shakespeare


My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me;
We'll lock them up together,
And throw away the key.
~Frederick Saunders


Love is the greatest refreshment in life.  ~Pablo Picasso


What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.  ~Pearl Bailey


Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score;
Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more;
A thousand to that hundred; so kisse on,
To make that thousand up a million;
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kisse afresh, as when we first begun.
~Robert Herrick, "To Anthea (III)"

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.  ~Voltaire


The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.  ~Stephen King


Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.  ~Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon


Love is metaphysical gravity.  ~R. Buckminster Fuller


If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.  ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi

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A classic...

"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say." – Italo Calvino

The Italian journalist, short-story writer and novelist Italo Calvino (1923-1985) was born in Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba. His parents were the Italian botanists Mario Calvino and Evelina Mameli. Shortly after he was born they returned to Italy where he grew up in Sanremo on the Italian Riviera.

In 1941 he moved to Turin, and in 1943 joined the Italian Resistance (more than 300,000 Italians joined the Resistance fighting German occupying forces and Italian fascists); later he joined the (then clandestine) Italian Communist Party. In 1947 he graduated from Turin University with a thesis on Joseph Conrad; after which he wrote for the official Communist paper L'Unità, and also for a weekly cultural magazine, and later the communist weekly political magazine Rinascita.

In 1957 he unexpectedly left the Communist party and become co-editor of Il Menabò di letteratura, where he stayed for many years. His first novel Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno (1947, The Path to the Nest of Spiders), was inspired by his participation in the Italian Resistance. He turned to fantasy and allegory in the 1950s, for which he is best remembered.

He traveled widely, lecturing in many countries including France, Japan, Mexico, and the USA, He won many honors including being made an Honorary Member of the American Academy and being awarded the prestigious French Légion d'Honneur. He died in 1985 in Siena of a cerebral hemorrhage.

"Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb." - Calvino



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Welcome

          "WELCOME, welcome! do I sing,
          Far more welcome than the spring;
          He that parteth from you never
          Shall enjoy a spring for ever."
                                   -William Browne
                                     A Welcome


Welcome back!  What a beautiful day this second day of Spring semester 2012.  Come into the library to get a free cup of coffee, your student ID, and an early start on all those papers!  The library staff are here and waiting to assist you!!

Short Week.

Don't forget that the MCC campus will be closed Wednesday, November 23- Sunday, November 27.  This includes the the MCC Library.  Hours on Monday and Tuesday are normal.

Enjoy your break!

Great Day!

A huge thank you to the library staff who dressed up and had lots of fun yesterday!  We had 5 individuals come in to participate in the costume contest.  Voting is under way and winners for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places and prizes will be awarded on Monday!