Native American Student Association (NASA) - Fall 2009

• The Earth Shall Weep: History of Native Americans by James Wilson
• American Indian Myths & Legends by Richard Erdoes & Alfonso Ortiz
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian Hisory of the American West by Dee Brown
• Dark Tower VII by Steven King
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• Confucian Analects, the Great Learning and the Doctrine of Mean by Confucius
• The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist FIghter in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
• Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheny
• Wizard and Glass - Dark Tower IV by Steven King
• Winds of Freedom by Margaret T. Bixler
• Learning to Write Indian by Amelia V. Kutansk
• The Secret LIfe of Plants by Peter Tompkins & Christopher Bird
• Friedrich Nietzsche by Tracy R. Strong
• In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthessen
• Che: Memoir - by Fidel Castro
• Nietzsche: Disciple of Dionysus by Rose P. Fetter
• Navajo Coyote Tales by William Morgan
• Nothing but the Truth by John L. Purdy & James Ruppert
• Critical Thinking by Richard Paul and Linda Elder

Did you know?

READ posters are on display at the Library / Media Center.

The format of these posters follows the popular American Library Association READ poster campaign.  The campaign featurers celebrities posing with their favorite books.

Our series features our very own GCC celebrities: familiar faces from campus with their favorite reading material.

• Amnesty International : the Human Rights Story
  by Jonathan Power
• Hotel Rawanda (Film / DVD)
• In Our Own Best Interest by William Schulz
• Kurt Vonnegut by James Lundquist
• The Minority Rights Revolution by John D. Skrentny
• No One is Illegal by Justin Akers Chacón
• Oxford Handbook on the United Nations Edited by Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws
• Our Endangered Values by Jimmy Carter
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Doina Mosoianu
GCC English Faculty
Reading Instructor

Einstein: His Life and Universe
By Walter Isaacson

• Plain Painters: Making Sense of American Folk Art by John Michael Vlach
• ADHD in the Schools by George J. DuPaul
• Becoming a Master Student by Dave Ellis
• Broadway: the American Musical by Laurence Maslon
• 100 Careers in the Music Business by Tanja L. Crouch
• What'd I Say: the Atlantic Story by Ahmet Ertegun with Greil Marcus
• and others available at the library

ACE Plus @ GCC

• If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss
• Size Matters by Stephen Hall
• The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
• Cell by Stephen King
• and others available at the library

Ruth Callahan
GCC English Faculty

A stack of great and useful books available at the library.

Marie Chandler
GCC Employee
Property Receiving Technician

Packaging for the Environment: a Partnership for Progress
By E. Joseph Stilwell

Available at the library:TD195.P26 P33 1991

Erika Hendrickson
GCC Student
United States Naval Recruit

Flags of Our Fathers
By James Bradley

Available at the library: D767.99.I9 B73 2000
Online Access ( eGCC login required)

Sophia Harper
GCC Student

The Entrepreneur's Road Map to Business Success
By Lyle R. Maul and Dianne Craig Mayfield
Available at the library: HD62.5 M37 1990

Mothers at Work: Public Policies in the United States, Sweden, and China
By Carolyn Teich Adams
Available at the library: HD6055.A3

Arturo Garcia
GCC Student

Play Classical Guitar
By David Braid
Available at the library: MT582.B72 2001

Saundra Miller
GCC Student

What to Expect when you're Expecting
By Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi Murkoff, and Sandee E. Hathaway
Available at the library: RG525.E36 1991

Tai Avery
GCC Student

Dizzy : the life and times of John Birks Gillespie
By Donald L. Maggin
Available at the library: ML419.G54 M34 2005

"Improvisation, the instant creation of melody, is the essence of jazz.  Dizzy Gillespie, one of the great improvisors of the twentieth century, fashioned an utterly distinctive style." - Donald L. Maggin

Mario Esquer
Program Director / Faculty
Video Production Technology

The Art of Video Production
Available by request through the GCC Library Catalog.

Dr. Alberto Sanchez
Vice-President
Student Affairs

Atlas of the World (National Geographic)
Available at the at the map stand in the library reference area.  G1021 .N38 2005

Jean Ann Abel
Vice President
Academic Affairs

Birds: Their Life, Their Ways, Their World
Available at local public libraries.

Connie Sherman
Vice President
Information Technology

Truman by David G. McCullough
Available at the library: E814 .M26 1992

Dr. Velvie Green
President, Glendale Community College

Monet by Robert Gordon
Available at the library: ND 553.M7 G67 1989

Will Khoo
GCC Student

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Available at the library: PS3552.R685434 D3 2003

Sunil S. George
GCC Student

Verse by Verse Explanation of the Book of Revelation by Wimpie Liebenberg

Raquel "Ali" Guerro
GCC Student
ASG Representative / Mecha Co-Chair

Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
Available at the library: PQ6352 .D67 2001

George A. Martinez
Former Director of Institutional Advancement

Sometimes reading seems like magic!

Carl Croonenberg
Custodian

Reading takes all forms - even music. Take time to read in any language.

Dorene Kessler
Manager, Office of Information Technology

When technology is at your fingertips, a virtual world of reading awaits you. Whether it be email, web pages, reports or leisurely reading, having a PDA device gives you the flexibility to read on the go.

Nicola Perry
Manager, Fitness & Wellness Department

Are you finding that you do more and more reading
on your computer these days? Nicola Perry does!

Keep your body and your mind fit by keeping up!

Donna White
Dean of Student Life

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
PQ2637 .A274 P43713 1982 or PZ8.S14 Li 1971

The Little Prince reminds me to look beyond the the obvious, and to enjoy a childlike sense of wonder in learning and sharing new ideas and experiences.  He is a wonderful piece of children's literature who also speaks to the  hearts of adults.

Patrick A. Lovings
Senior Network Technician
Office of Information Technology
Pictured as our favorite Gaucho for this month

Go Gauchos! Homecoming Week 2005

Even Gauchos read on the job - especially the news coverage provided by our very own campus newspaper, The Voice!

The Voice is available in the GCC Library archives.

First of all, I learned while I was enrolled and attending at Peoria High School that reading would help me excel and achieve in school. Therefore, I read a book a day and a book on weekends. The result of that is that my vocabulary increased by the thousands. I read all those books for three and a half years. I was able to excel in my high school studies and learning became very easy for me and I attained the honor roll without effort, because I had developed learning tools that helped me with all my classes. When I took the ACT College Board Exam in 1969, I attained the score of the top 1% of all the students who took that test on that year and time in the nation. As a result, I was awarded 18 college credits 6 in English, 6 in social sciences, and 6 in mathematics.

For me, reading was the "key to everything", and helped make me what I am today. In college, I was able to use my deductive and inductive skills, develop my logic skills, and learned most subjects very rapidly. I was able to write very good research papers and always received recognition by my instructors for the quality of my papers and the depth of my understanding and usage of the English language. This continued on to graduate school as my papers always stood out according to my professors. They also complemented me on my verbal skills in all my classes.

For me, my first major book that got me going was The Call of the Wild by Jack London. From there on, I was hooked on reading and it allowed me to achieve my higher education. To this day, I have published over eight articles through the in ERIC Clearing House for Community Colleges when they were located at UCLA. They, the ERIC researchers keep pestering for me to write more as they state that I have contributed to the "body of knowledge" in higher education.

Therefore, I do whatever I can to get young and older Hispanics and other minorities turned on to reading, knowing that it will be the catalyst for their educational development and success.

That is why reading is so important to me.

The Courage to Teach : Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life, by Parker J. Palmer
LB1775 .P25 1998

I love this book, I re-read it all the time! 

Why do I love this book? Well..., like the author, Parker Palmer, says: "This book is for teachers that have good days and bad." Since I've been known to have a bad a day or two...!

However, on a serious note, I am a teacher with a passion for the profession, and this book revitalizes that passion and heart.  Another great quote from Palmer is:  "To educate is to guide students on an inner journey toward more truthful ways of seeing and being in the world."

I highly recommend this book to veteran teachers, as well as to the new ones entering the profession for the first time.  Happy reading!

Deb Palok
CollegeSafety Director

I enjoyed Stephen Covey's The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People because it states, in simple fashion, principles that all of us can follow and live by on a daily basis that will enrich our personal and professional lives.

Dr. Phil Randolph, now retired GCC President, is featured on our inaugural GCC Celebrity READ poster.

The LMC appreciates his support of library and media services and wish him well in retirement! Hopefully this change will give him more time to read for fun.