Chicago Restaurant Week 2008

The inaugural Chicago Restaurant Week will feature over 30 participating restaurants. Reservations can be made online by visiting the event web site. 

eBooks experiment

The next time you search the CHIC online catalog, you may see results for electronic records. I am starting to catalog eBooks from CECybrary so that they show up along with the regular books on our shelves.  eBooks are fully digitized versions of print books. They can be viewed and printed within copyright guidelines.

Unfortunately, because we have to log in to use CECybrary, I can’t make the eBooks accessible with one click.  If you find an eBook you want to view, you must first log in to CECybrary before clicking the link in the online catalog. Or, you can go to CECybrary and search for the book by title.

Along the same lines, I will start to catalog web sites that relate specifically to classes and assignments here at CHIC. These resources are accessible by one click – just look for the URL in the record.

Personal Chef Discussion Forums

Interested in becoming a personal chef? Check out the American Personal & Private Chef Association’s discussion forums.

The APPCA also offers a student membership.

New Scandinavian Cooking

I have mentioned here before that I am a scandinaviaphile.

Sadly, I have not yet visited any of the nordic countries.  I get a weekly glimpse of my future trips every Sunday afternoon. I watch New Scandinavian Cooking on PBS (WYCC, channel 20, 3:30 p.m.).

The series began with two seasons in Norway hosted by Andreas Viestad, moved on to Sweden with Tina Nordström, back to Norway for the 4th season, and the current season features Claus Meyer in Denmark.

The companion website has recipes, chef bios, travel information, and more.

Skål!

5 Random Books

LibraryThing is an online service that allows anyone to catalog and share their books online. I am experimenting with LibraryThing here at CHIC to see how it might be useful to us. For now, our LibraryThing account has a small assortment of titles added to our collection in the last few months.

Check it out at LibraryThing, username: chiclibrary, password: library.

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Research help

I’ve been in a lot of classrooms these days, talking about research.

We all do research every day, to find the information we want and need: songs on iTunes, statistics to support fantasy sports competition, friends on MySpace and Facebook. The thing is that there is really no difference between that “research” and the research you do for school.

So the next time you sit down to write a paper, remember that finding that information works the same way as finding movie times or sports scores. The search strategy is the same. You know how to do it.

For more tips, check out the LRC’s research web site CHIC Library: Mise en Place.

Get a job

The StarChefs Jobfinder is a great resource for job seekers. 

This site has job postings, advice from experts, and a career center with tips on resume writing, interviewing, goal setting and marketing yourself.

In addition to using the resources available on campus, take a look at StarChefs Jobfinder.

All copies & printouts again .05 each

Starting today, all copies and printouts in the LRC are .05 each. To pay,  put money on your student ID and then debit your printouts and copies. 

The new Canon is a color copier/printer. To print in color, in the print window select Preferences, Quality, Color Mode: Auto-Detect and then send your job.  To copy in color, select Auto-Detect in the copier display.

Learn a new language with Rosetta Stone

The LRC now offers Rosetta Stone. 

Learn French or Spanish now! 

This computerized language program is based on auditory, visual and written identification. Through vocabulary identification and reinforcement, grammatical points are progressively introduced through small sentences.

It is a slow-paced vocabulary based approach that uses reinforcement as a key tool and provides a nice variation from the traditional methods to learning foreign languages. You will not go through the painful process of learning endless lists of conjugations and grammatical rules. The vocabulary is put in context to help you master those more grammatical points and verbs almost despite yourself.

If interested, please contact Karine Bravais-Slyman to get registered: 312-873-2001 or kslyman@chicnet.org

Once setup, you can work independently whenever you have some free time. Karine will follow your progress, offer written assignments patterning to the different levels you are completing on the computer and give you tests and exams for assessment.

rosettapdf.pdf

CHIC Tutoring Center

Don’t get frustrated … get tutoring!

If you find that you need some extra help with a class or assignment, come to the LRC! We have a staff of peer tutors ready and willing to help you.  Our tutors can help with computer skills, knife skills, gen ed classes, culinary classes, baking classes as well as specific assignments.

Tutoring is free. Sign up today.