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Spring Vol. 25 No. 2, 2009

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News From the Field

North Florida Community College

Awards and Activities

Sheila Hiss, Director of Library and Learning Resources, and the NFCC’s Marshall Hamilton Library staff have been awarded an Exemplary Practice Award by the Florida Association of Community Colleges Learning Resources Commission. The award, for the Library’s Starbooks Internet Café and Patio, was presented at the FACC Conference in Orlando November 20, 2008.

NFCC Library activities for the Spring, 2009 semester include experimenting with sending library overdue notices by email, sponsoring Guitar Hero and Wii Sports video gaming in the library, and initiating a Twilight Book Discussion Group. The library has also begun a Facebook presence. At the NFCC recruitment event Super Saturday on March 7, the library featured Dance Revolution.


Questions or comments? Contact Nancy Cook, Editor.
For previous issues, visit the Newsletter Index Page.

Last updated March 31, 2009


The FACRL Newsletter is published biannually as a service to Florida members of the Association of College and Research Libraries (a division of the American Library Association), and the Academic Libraries Member Group of the Florida Library Association. Those interested in submitting news items may contact the editor,
Nancy Cook, Instruction Librarian, Florida Institute of Technology, 150 West University Blvd., Melbourne, FL 32901, phone: (321) 674.7537; fax: (321) 724.2559; e-mail: ncook@fit.edu