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Future Photography Students Beware!
Amy Porter
Editor

This is my last semester at LC. (*Happy Dance, Happy Dance*) Because I had finished all the legitimate requirements for the AA I've been working toward, this semester is nothing but electives.

To learn more about a field I had interest in, I enrolled in Photography (ART 151). If you are interested in such a class, here are a few things to keep in mind:

A.) Register on the first day. These classes are very small, in high demand and fill up quickly.

B.) If you ask to get into a full class and are denied, as again in a few days. Five students dropped my class in the first few meetings.

C.) This class is expensive. While the book is amazingly cheap ($25 new), you're looking at paying $200 for a camera (unless you already have one. Add to that photographic paper, film and at least $25 for other supplies.)

D.) The darkroom is full of toxic chemicals. Students with sensitive skin or serious breathing problems may wish to talk to an instructor before enrolling.

Despite these warning, Photography is both enjoyable and challenging. I recommend it more highly than any other art class I've attended at LC thus far.

An added bonus is that this school provides darkroom chemicals and supplies which are very costly indeed.

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LC'a Library is Accepted as a Member to the ILCSO

Press Release

Beginning this summer, students will go from being able to access 35,000 books to more than 30 million books with the college’s acceptance into the Illinois Library Computer Systems Organization (ILCSO).
With a unanimous vote from the ILCSO board, LC became one of only eight community colleges to be accepted into the prestigious online borrowing system. ILCSO, which accepted the College as a member in December, has formerly been used as an online title-sharing system for universities throughout the state.
LC’s Learning Resource Center Director Dennis Krieb said that ILCSO has always been made up of 44 universities and colleges throughout Illinois and hasn’t opened up membership in a very long time. “The University of Illinois, which is the third largest library in the country, started the ILCSO originally. You have to meet very high standards and terms and must go through a very extensive admissions process, meeting specific criteria set by the ILCSO board.”
Krieb said the rigorous admissions process was extremely successful as the college, along with only 12 other new schools in the state, was accepted into the prestigious online library system with a unanimous vote from the ILCSO board.
Krieb said the new online system will allow students to access books from the 56 member libraries across the state, increasing the college’s titles from 35,000 to more than 30 million.
“Up until now students could log onto the library’s website and it would show what titles were right here available in our library,” Krieb said. “If we didn’t have what they were looking for they could log on to other library websites and search there as well, or they could fill out a form requesting that we search other library systems for them to find their specific title.”
Krieb said that now students, faculty and staff at LC will be able to log on to the library’s website and complete a quick request that will search for that title at the 56 other libraries connected to the ILCSO system. Individuals will be able to order books online, and a statewide courier, which has a route between all of the 56 libraries, will have the book delivered to the college in about two days from the date of the request, Krieb said.
“For the students and faculty and staff on campus this is truly a great opportunity,” Krieb said. “Our students will now have access to some of the largest library holdings in the state and the country. And, the students will be using the exact same system as SIUE and U of I, so now when they transfer to these four-year schools they will already know the process of how to request a book.”
Krieb said there are some preparations that the library will have to do in order to initiate the online borrowing system, and he estimates that the system will be up and running for student use by June or July. Many students will be trained how to use the system through classes that are taught in conjunction with library staff, Krieb said. For those who do not take the courses, the library staff will be on-hand to assist anyone needing help with the new system.
“Its really exciting to think that our collection now becomes part of the collections of the major colleges and universities throughout the state, and their collections now become ours as well,” Krieb said.

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