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Pamela Price,
Director, Library
MCCC Library Offers Rosetta Stone
Now available on the library’s is a connection to Rosetta Stone. Our version offers the opportunity to
learn over 30 different languages. It is available to all current faculty, staff and students Please note that a
microphone is needed to get the most out of the lessons.
Easy to follow directions are provided on each screen after creating an account by entering your Mercer email
address and a password that you create. Once you create your password, you will need to keep a record for your
files and future reference since the library will not have access to this information.
For additional questions, contact Dan Calandro, our electronic resources librarian, at: or at x
3550.
Academic Program Review Coming Up? Don’t Forget the Library!
Olivia Nellums has joined the library staff and will be responsible for maintaining the library’s collection and
resources. She is the point person for the library’s role in assisting with program reviews. Our job is to make sure
the collection reflects the faculty voice and current academic perspectives in each program discipline. We need
your input to ensure the collection meets your program needs. Additionally, we gather all the information needed
for the library’s section of the review and seek your assistance in reviewing the collection to determine new
resources we should order, or outdated resources that are no longer relevant.
Please contact Olivia at 570-3559, or by email:
Just Added to the Library Professional Development Collection
Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Bad of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable
by Richard A. DeMillo Call number: LA227.4.D47 2015
Colleges and universities have become increasingly costly. Technological innovations have begun to transform
higher education by introducing new ways to disseminate knowledge and better ways to learn at a lower cost.
DeMillo advocates for the use of technology to overthrow the entrenched hierarchical system of higher education,
and chronicles the use of the latest research on learning and the brain to frame a new contract between society and
institutions of higher education. According to DeMillo, “The new institutions of a transformed higher education
promise to demonstrate not only that education has value but also that it has values – virtues for the common
good.”
Coming Soon to the Library General Collection
Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, New York Times bestseller
Prof. Andrea Lynch, Program Director (IST 101)
Proyecta 100K
On July 19, 2015 twenty-six Mexican teachers and students arrived at Newark Airport for a 4-week, full-
time, program of study at Mercer County Community College in West Windsor, NJ.
“Proyecta 100,000” is a program established by the Mexican government to increase student and academic
mobility from Mexico to the US. The program has as a goal that 100,000 Mexican learners will study in the US as
part of a renewed spirit of cooperation between the US and Mexico.
These 26 students who chose Mercer included Mexican teachers, professionals, and students ranging in age from
20 to 64. They came to study English, Communications, Technology, and Health and Fitness. As part of their
study, they completed 12 credits of coursework. During their time, they visited 4 major cities, Trenton, NYC,
Washington DC, and Philadelphia; and several local attractions, Grounds for Sculpture, a Trenton Thunder game,
the Camden Aquarium, and Princeton University.
For many of these learners, it is the first time they have traveled internationally. Mercer has been pleased to be
their host.
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