Faculty Inservice Sessions

 Watch for these great sessions featuring library staff during faculty inservice!

OER/AER (No cost/Low cost) Textbooks: Are they right for your class?

Facilitators: Kim Ernstmeyer, Vince Mussehl, & Mary Purvis

This interactive session will explore questions relevant to faculty who want a better understanding of OER/AER textbooks. What is considered OER and AER? How can these resources enhance student learning? How do I get started exploring whether OER/AER textbooks fit into my classes? How do I correctly identify my courses as OER/AER when students need packets, equipment, or lab manuals for a course? Join us for a light-hearted session to work through these questions and more.

Trauma Informed Instruction & Care 

Facilitators: Nic Ashman and Kristi Hagen 

Educators and health care workers are becoming increasingly aware of the short and long-term impacts that trauma can have on students, patients and communities. However, educators and care workers can unknowingly perpetuate trauma rather than reduce it.  This session is designed to help participants understand the effects of trauma on those they work with and increase awareness of the levels and types of trauma they may interact with. The session will share about a "trauma-informed lens," ways we can mitigate the impacts of trauma and provide participants with tools that can increase learning and healing. 

Reminder from the Library

 

Textbooks for Checkout

Each semester, several CVTC students visit the library for course textbooks. The library checks out textbooks for 2 hours at a time for students that are not able to purchase a textbook due to finances, if a book becomes unavailable or out of stock, or if their copy becomes lost or stolen. Please consider providing a publisher/desk copy for the library to checkout. If you have an online text, consider holding a print copy in the library. If you are unable to provide a desk copy but would still like your text included please let us know.

Check Your Library Links & Resources in Canvas

It’s that time of year! Be sure to check any library links and resources you might have linked or embedded in your Canvas courses. Library resources are updated regularly to ensure currency and accuracy. You can check your links by selecting “Validate Links in Content” under Settings. It is also a great time to update your library instruction guide. If you need help updating your resources, or finding new ones, we are happy to help!

Contact Us

Librarians are standing by to help, year-round! Contact us at library@cvtc.edu or stop by the library desk at the BEC Campus. Be sure to check out our blog for new resources and updates!

Book Review: The Four Winds

This weeks book review is written by our new Circulation Supervisor Jenna.  

 The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah Review

1934. The land is drying up. The farm that gives Elsa’s family a purpose is no longer fruitful and her children are coughing up dust day in and day out. She must make an extreme decision: give up on everything she knows and loves for a chance at a better life? Or hope against all odds that the land can be revitalized? The Four Winds is a depiction of the American Dream. The Great Depression. Workers’ rights. The dramatic tone and engaging style that Hannah uses will sweep readers away into Elsa’s story of love, empowerment, and sacrifice. If you’d be interested in a historical fiction novel that captures the will and determination of people living in extreme poverty, pick up The Four Winds.