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Newport Instructor Donates Books

Mary T. Caton Armantrout has given of herself and her books throughout her many years of teaching at the Newport Center. Continuing a family commitment to reading, collecting and sharing good books, she kept a collection in her classroom and donated many books to the small library at the Newport Center. Since retiring in June of 2004 to concentrate on finishing her doctorate (Gonzaga University), she chose from her personal collection additional current books that she hoped would be useful to Newport and other community college students.

The Newport Center Library is an attractive and quiet place where students study, work on papers, watch videos and practice sign language. While academic needs are well met by the online book catalog that makes anything in the CCS book collection available within a couple of days, the small reference collection onsite is now supplemented by attractive and interesting books in many subject areas that can be browsed and checked out.

Mary's former students will fondly remember her as they open up a book and read the gift bookplate:

A Gift from Mary T. Caton Armantrout

Just in case you were searching for ...

Library students at McGill University recently collected some of their favorite Library of Congress Subject Headings:

Body snatching--Juvenile literature
Boring--Addresses, essays, lectures
Buttocks exercises (May Subdivide Geographically)
Canned meat--Poetry
Canons, fugues, etc. (Accordion ensemble)
Clowns--Religious aspects--Christianity
Cockroaches--Literary collections
Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933) --Wit and humor
Eggs--Religious aspects
Ethics in politics--Folklore
Feet in the Bible
Grudges (fishes)
Hilton, Paris (1981- ) -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Marijuana -- Cookery
Odor control--Minnesota
Spam (Trademark)--Poetry
Spooning (Hugging)

The SFCC Library may not have books available on each of these topics.–GS

Worried about your Right to Privacy?

The Patriot Act has eroded many of our rights. Librarians are always trying to preserve their patrons' right to check out materials without Big Brother looking over their shoulders. To further this end they are creating an anonymous check out card. Check it out. -bro