It's National Library Week!   During 2022-2023, the theme is "there's more to the story."  Let's explore how much more happens within our library at Big Sandy than our community realizes.  

Did you know?  During 2022-2023, Big Sandy's academic library:

• served over 400 cups of coffee at the Pikeville campus

• coordinated over 75,000 searches in our online databases and delivered over 21,000 full text documents 

• distributed over 60 Nest pantry bags at the Mayo campus

• checked out over 600 books, multimedia, computers, and other devices at all campuses

• hosted over 300 students at student-activity events, such as poetry creations and readings, at the Prestonsburg campus

• taught more than 60 student course sessions at all campuses, helping over 900 students, regarding everything from writing resumes to how to find a scholarly article on Ethan Frome

Librarians are available for a variety of student events.  Celebrate your library during this National Library Week.   We appreciate you.

What does it mean to job hunt?   Many of our students are transitioning from full-time students to looking for employment.   The library has tips and tricks to get you started on your journey to a job.

Several library guides exist to help students who are looking for employment.   These guide contain lists of dos and don'ts, ideas, and sample resumes and cover letters.   From creating that first application to nailing the interview, you can ask any of your librarians or ACE tutors to review your materials as you make your way out into the world. 

Resumes and Cover Letters, Managing Your Social Media Profile, Interviews

The library has several books you can check out and take home to study. This way you have plenty of time to decide how to strategize for and prepare for your job hunt.

More Blackout Poetry from English Students

We held a third Blackout Poetry Workshop with English students on Monday. 

How to get started with Blackout Poetry at home?

1. Choose a piece of preprinted text. This can be anything you choose copied or scanned text from a book, a piece of newspaper, a magazine, a printed-out article, or even a recipe or printed-out short story. The key is having a piece of printed text.
2. Skim over the text in front of you.
3. Pick words that hold meaning for you. You want to look for an anchor word. An anchor word will help you select your theme.
4. Now read the text in its entirety. You may need to do this a couple of times. You will be creating a new work from this page of text.
5. Go through and choose your words by lightly circling them with a pencil or writing them on a separate sheet of paper.
6. Read your words.
7. Look for words that connect to your page.
8. Finalize your new message by outlining the selected words.
9. Go over the outlined words with Sharpie or a black marker.
10. Black out the unused words or don't. The key is to make the new text pop. Illustrate as you like or just leave it black and white
11. You have now given your page of text a whole new meaning and created a found poem!!

Check out student work from our Blackout Poetry Workshop in the Prestonsburg campus library for English classes last week!

Remember if you are on campus to stop by the Prestonsburg Campus library to pick up a pocket poem. 

Had a great time with our Faculty, Staff and Students during our photoshoots! We snapped a few photos to share and look forward to seeing the final proofs!#BSCTCProud #Pathfinders #Photoshoot pic.twitter.com/s9lbHN8ft7

— BSCTC05 (@BSCTC05) March 31, 2023

distant chanting in the background, "one of us, one of us, one of us"