Librarian Liaisons
- Get Flex Credit for Consulting with a Faculty Librarian to learn how to incorporate library resources into your classroom to help students succeed.
- Contact your library liaison to set up an appointment to learn about library resources available to you and your students.
Discipline/Subject Area | Librarian Liaison |
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Accounting | Maryanne%20Mills%3A%20741-4661 |
Administration of Justice | Jasmine%20Col%C3%B3n: 741-4682 |
Anthropology/Archaeology | Yanghee Kim: 741-2484 (FA24:%20M.%20Mills, 741-4661) |
Architecture | Betsy%20Sandford: 741-2478 |
Art (Fine Arts) | Betsy%20Sandford: 741-2478 |
Astronomy | Betsy%20Sandford: 741-2478 |
Biology | Betsy%20Sandford: 741-2478 |
Business Administration & Real Estate | Maryanne%20Mills: 741-4661 |
Chemistry | Betsy%20Sandford: 741-2478 |
Child Studies | Yanghee Kim: 741-2484 (FA24: M.%20Mills 741-4661) |
Communication Studies | Jasmine%20Col%C3%B3n: 741-4682 |
Communication Design | Jasmine%20Col%C3%B3n: 741-4682 |
Computer Science | Betsy%20Sandford: 741-2478 |
Counseling | Yanghee Kim: 741-2484 (FA24: M.%20Mills, 741-4661) |
Court Reporting and Related Technologies | Betsy%20Sandford: 741-2478 |
Dance | Yanghee Kim: 741-2484 (FA24: B.%20Sandford, 741-2478) |
Disability and Educational Support Program | Maryanne%20Mills: 741-4661 |
Economics | Maryanne%20Mills, 741-4661 |
Engineering | Jasmine%20Col%C3%B3n: 741-4682 |
English | Jasmine%20Col%C3%B3n: 741-4682 |
English as a Second Language | Jasmine%20Col%C3%B3n: 741-4682 |
Ethnic Studies | Jasmine%20Col%C3%B3n: 741-4682 |
Fashion Design and Apparel Technology | Jasmine%20Col%C3%B3n%3A 741-4682 |
Film | Betsy%20Sandford: 741-2478 |
Geography | Yanghee Kim: 741-2484 (FA24: M.%20Mills, 741-4661) |
Geology | Betsy%20Sandford: 741-2478 |
Health Care Technologies | Yanghee Kim: 741-2484 (FA24: B.%20Sandford, 741-2478) |
Health Education | Yanghee Kim: 741-2484 (FA24:%20B.%20Sandford, 741-2478) |
History 鈥 Latin American & Canada | Jasmine%20Col%C3%B3n: 741-4682 |
History 鈥 US History | Betsy%20Sandford: 741-2478 |
History 鈥 World History | Maryanne%20Mills: 741-4661 |
Humanities | Betsy%20Sandford: 741-2478 |
Interior Design | Betsy%20Sandford%3A 741-2478 |
Kinesiology/Kinesiology Theory | Yanghee Kim: 741-2484 (FA24: B.%20Sandford, 741-2478) |
Mathematics | Betsy%20Sandford%3A 741-2478 |
Music | Yanghee Kim: 741-2484 (FA24: B.%20Sandford, 741-2478) |
Nutrition Studies | Betsy%20Sandford: 741-2478 |
Oceanography | Betsy%20Sandford: 741-2478 |
Paralegal | Yanghee Kim: 741-2484 (FA24:%20B.%20Sandford, 741-2478) |
Park Management | Betsy%20Sandford: 741-2478 |
Philosophy | Betsy%20Sandford%3A 741-2478 |
Photography | Betsy%20Sandford%3A 741-2478 |
Physical Science | Betsy%20Sandford: 741-2478 |
Physics | Betsy%20Sandford: 741-2478 |
Political Science | Maryanne%20Mills: 741-4661 |
Psychology | Betsy%20Sandford: 741-2478 |
Social Justice Studies | Jasmine%20Col%C3%B3n: 741-4682 |
Social Science | %20Maryanne%20Mills: 741-4661 |
Sociology | Maryanne%20Mills: 741-4661 |
Theater Arts | Betsy%20Sandford: 741-2478 |
Women and Gender Studies | Jasmine%20Col%C3%B3n: 741-4682 |
World Languages | Jasmine%20Col%C3%B3n: 741-4682 |
OER (Open Educational Resources)
for your class using several different tools, including content created by your WVC colleagues.
Library Orientations and Book Cart Visits
A research instruction session can provide specialized instruction to help students:
- Reduce library anxiety
- Understand the research process
- Locate books, articles and reputable websites
- Recognize scholarly vs. popular articles
- Utilize NoodleTools, a citation generator
- Prepare for future research needs
To maximize the effectiveness of your research instruction session, please request sessions at least 1 week in advance. Assignments should be sent to maryanne.millsFREEWEST_VALLEY at least 3 days in advance.
Need help? Watch a short video about .
The Book Cart is temporarily unavailable due to repairs being made (Fall, 2024).
A Books 谩 la Carte Class visit session can provide research specific to your classroom to help your students:
- Reduce library anxiety.
- Ask a librarian quick reference questions outside of the library.
- Select handouts created by librarians on citing and evaluating various source types.
Please prepare for the following:
- Sessions must be requested at least 1 week in advance.
- Instructors must attend the book cart session with the class.
- Remind students they will need their WVC Student ID or any form of government issued picture ID. Knowing Student ID without picture ID will not be permitted to checkout books.
- Read the 二四六天天好彩 Library Policies.
- Consider ways to encourage your students to check out materials from the book cart.
The book cart visit is weather permitting. If rain or a chance of rain is in the forecast, Maryanne Mills will contact you the day prior to reschedule.
Adding Database Content To Canvas
Steps to Access TEACH Resources for Canvas
- Navigate to the "" course.
- Go to the module "Use Library Resources in Canvas" to find instructions on how to embed videos.
- If you don't have access to the TEACH Resources page, select the "Join this Course" button.
Course Reserves
The objective of the Library Reserve collection is to support the curriculum and contribute to student success by making course materials available (on a limited basis) to students.
The reserve collection of print materials is located at the Book Checkout Desk and that of non-print materials is located at the Print/Copy Desk.
General Guidelines
- Instructors are encouraged to donate or loan course textbooks to augment the limited selection purchased through the Reserve Book Program. Please contact Library staff to see if a specific course textbook is included in the Program.
- To place an item on reserve, please fill out the .
- For those materials not owned by the Library, it is the instructor's responsibility to provide all material to be placed on reserve.
- All reprinted articles and audiovisual materials must comply with current copyright laws and include a full bibliographic citation as to the source.
- The Library reserves the right to limit the number of copies being placed on reserve for a given class.
- If only one copy of an item is being submitted, only one loan period may be designated.
- Materials borrowed from other libraries, including Mission College, may not be placed on reserve.
- Materials for reserve will be processed in the order received. Please allow three days processing time before materials are available to students.
- The Library is not responsible for replacement of damaged or lost personal copies.
- The Library reserves the right to remove materials that have little or no activity.
- All withdrawn instructor-owned materials must be picked up at the Book Checkout or Print/Copy Desk.
- Current Library circulation fines and fees apply to all reserve materials.
- Please call us if you have any questions: 408-741-2028.
Loan Periods (during COVID-19)
- 2 hour (reserve item to be used within library)
- 1 day (due back the next day the library is open)
Library Resource Purchase Request
The 二四六天天好彩 Library welcomes suggestions to add to our collection of books, media, and other resources that will help our students succeed and learn.
Please fill out the and let us know what you resources you would like your students to have free access to.
You will be contacted by a librarian letting you know if the source will be purchased and when it will be in the catalog ready for use.
Faculty, Administration, and Staff Publications
二四六天天好彩 Library is proud to highlight the publications of our faculty, administration, and staff! Copies of printed publications may be retained in the 二四六天天好彩 Online Library Catalog. Links to electronic full-text or publisher are provided with the citations when available. To submit your publication, fill out the .
Business
- "". Faculty Focus. September 4, 2024.
- Faculty Focus. September 1, 2023.
- 鈥溾. Faculty Focus. March 1, 2023.
- 鈥溾. Faculty Focus. March 3, 2023.
English Department
Paulette Boudreaux
- Boudreaux, Paulette. Mulberry. Carolina Wren Press, 2015. .
- "Examining the Labels that Mark my Ethnic Identity." Essay in The Leaning Ivory Tower: Latino Professors in American Universities, edited by Raymond V. Padilla and Rodolfo Ch谩vez Ch谩vez. SUNY Press, 1995. 91-100. Print. (Published under last name Cruz).
- High Literacy and Ethnic Identity: Dominican American Schooling in Transition. Boulder, Colorado: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., November 2001. Print.
- "Mapping the Use of Feature Films in Composition Classes." Essay in Cinema-(to)-Graphy: Film and Writing in Contemporary Composition Courses, edited by Ellen Bishop. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Books, 1999. 100-115. Print. (Published under last name Cruz). .
- Meanderings on the Making of a Diasporic Hybrid Identity. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., December 2012. Print.
- "One Night on Moses Mountain." Travel Narrative in A Woman's World Again, edited by Marybeth Bond. CA: Traveler's Tales, 2007. Print.
- "Recordando las ense帽anzas de mi abuelita." Essay in Abuelas hispanas: desde la memoria y el recuerdo, edited by Marina Llorente and Ilia Casanova-Marengo. Madrid, Spain: Ediciones Torremozas, May 2012. Print. .
"Teaching Spidertown in the Blended Classroom" in Multiethnic American Literatures: Essays for Teaching Context and Culture, edited by Helane Adams Androne. Jefferson, NC: MacFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2014. Print. . - "Two Easy Ways to Practice Global Citizenship in the College Classroom." Essay in special issue, "Going Global: Contemporary International Voices and Visions," of North Dakota Quarterly 78.2 & 3 (2013): 57-62. Print. .
- "You Take Twirled Bodies and Turn Them into Two." Story in No Regrets: It's Time to Move On. Ed Pamela Gifford. San Bernadino, CA: Silly Tree Anthology, 2014. 65-71. Print. Full-text available online.
- "Using Silence to Promote Spiritual Growth in the Teaching of Composition and Literature." Article in Teaching with Joy: Ideas for the New Millennium, edited by Sharon Shelton-Colangelo and Mimi Duvall. Colorado: Rowman & Littlefield, Inc., 2006. Print. .
- Michals, Nils. Come Down to Earth: Poems. Bauhan Publishing, 2014. .
- Michals, Nils. Gem Box. The Word Works. 2019.
- Michals, Nils. Lure. Pleiades Press, 2004. Book available at WVC Library. .
Christina Stevenson
- Stevenson, Christina L. (2015) "The Lesbian and the Room: Proust's Invention of Difference," Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature: Vol. 39: Iss. 1, Article 3. https://doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.1816. .
- Stevenson, Christina. "Here Was One Room, There Another": The Room, Authorship, and Feminine Desire in A Room of One's Own and Mrs. Dalloway." Pacific Coast Philology, vol. 49 no. 1, 2014, p. 112-132. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/542640. .
Math Department
Rebecca Wong
- Gould, R., Ryan, C., Wong, R. (2017). Essential Statistics: Exploring the World through Data. Boston: Pearson.
Reading/ESL Department
- Francis, M. A., & Simpson, M. L. (2003). Using theory, our intuitions, and a research study to enhance our students' vocabulary knowledge. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 47(1), p. 66-78.
- Francis, M. A., & Simpson, M. L. (2018). Vocabulary. In R. Flippo & T. Bean (Eds.) Handbook of college reading and study strategy research (3rd Ed). Routledge.
- Simpson, M. L., Stahl, N. A., & Francis, M. A. (2004). Reading and learning strategies: Recommendations for the 21st Century. Journal of Developmental Education, 28(2), 2-15, 32.
- Simpson, M. L., Stahl, N. A., & Francis, M. A. (2012). Reprint of reading and learning strategies: Recommendations for the Twenty-First Century. In R. Hodges, M. L. Simpson, & Stahl, N. A. (Eds.) Teaching Study Strategies in Developmental Education: Readings on Theory, Research, and Best Practice. Boston, MA: Bedford/ St. Martin's.