http://ww2.coastal.edu/pulpandpixels Subscribe to Pulp and Pixels news via RSS http://ww2.coastal.edu/pulpandpixels/Issue4/?page=articles/deanletter.html Welcome to new and returning students, faculty, and staff as the library is publishing its first Pulp and Pixels of the fall semester.Library staff have been busy preparing the library for another exciting year at Kimbel Library. http://ww2.coastal.edu/pulpandpixels/Issue4/?page=articles/locationchanges.html In anticipation of the groundbreaking for the Bryan Information Commons in October and to better serve the needs of the CCU community, library staff and student assistants spent the summer shifting almost every section of the library. http://ww2.coastal.edu/pulpandpixels/Issue4/?page=articles/suggestions.html Through focus groups, surveys, comment cards, and observations, the library was able to learn valuable information that has been used in planning and implementing improvements to Kimbel Library. http://ww2.coastal.edu/pulpandpixels/Issue4/?page=articles/farewell.html After almost twenty years at Kimbel Library, Michael Lackey has announced his retirement as of January 2011. http://ww2.coastal.edu/pulpandpixels/Issue4/?page=articles/mediaroom.html In the early fall, Kimbel Library transformed the computer lab on the second floor into a high-powered international media room. http://ww2.coastal.edu/pulpandpixels/Issue4/?page=articles/mediaequipment.html Kimbel Library has a new cache of cameras and media production equipment available for check-out. Want to conduct a live interview or create footage of your field work? Need to record your presentation? Try the new Sony Handycam or Flipcam MINO. http://ww2.coastal.edu/pulpandpixels/Issue4/?page=articles/privacy.html Privacy is Kimbel Library and TEAL Center's theme this year. While libraries have long been advocates of sharing information, we have also strongly promoted the protection of each library user's privacy. http://ww2.coastal.edu/pulpandpixels/Issue4/?page=articles/slavery.html Dr. Charles Joyner, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Coastal Carolina University, and Dr. Orville Burton, formerly of Coastal Carolina University and the University of Illinois, collaborated as two of the editors of a new database containing primary documents relating to slavery and anti-slavery in the antebellum period. http://ww2.coastal.edu/pulpandpixels/Issue4/?page=articles/referencesection.html Over the summer, the staff and student assistants of Kimbel Library consolidated what were once referred to as "Reference" books with the books on the second floor. This shift provides more studying space on the first floor. http://ww2.coastal.edu/pulpandpixels/Issue4/?page=pageContent/video1.html Squawk on the Street, Kimbel Library's very own student-created entertainment segment, tackles the issue of privacy in the digital age. http://ww2.coastal.edu/pulpandpixels/Issue4/?page=pageContent/video2.html This video on censorship was used to kick off the Banned Books Read-Out on September 28th, 2010. The event included multimedia presentations that informed and entertained faculty and students as they listened to peers read from the most commonly banned books in the United States. http://ww2.coastal.edu/pulpandpixels/Issue4/?page=pageContent/video3.html This video was created as part of the "Fix your Face" campaign, which aims at educating the campus about the lack of privacy on popular social networking sites. The video focuses on how online privacy issues can increase the occurrence of cyber stalking and was debuted at the University's Tunnel of Oppression event in late October. http://ww2.coastal.edu/pulpandpixels/Issue4/?page=pageContent/video_lit1.html This video was created by Kimbel Library to deliver amusing information literacy instruction to our first year students. http://ww2.coastal.edu/pulpandpixels/Issue4/?page=pageContent/video_lit2.html This video was created by Kimbel Library to deliver amusing information literacy instruction to our first year students. http://ww2.coastal.edu/pulpandpixels/Issue4/?page=pageContent/video_lit3.html This video was created by Kimbel Library to deliver amusing information literacy instruction to our first year students. http://ww2.coastal.edu/pulpandpixels/Issue4/?page=pageContent/video_lit4.html This video was created by Kimbel Library to deliver amusing information literacy instruction to our first year students. http://ww2.coastal.edu/pulpandpixels/Issue4/?page=pageContent/video_lit5.html This video was created by Kimbel Library to deliver amusing information literacy instruction to our first year students.