Ebsco Host Databases are now mobile

You can now search Ebsco Databases on your smart phone (iPhone/Blackberry). Website from your phone intenet app is http://search.ebscohost.mobi/ You will need a User ID and Password. Contact the Circulation Desk at 646-1750 for that information. Let us know if you have any problems using this new application.

Holiday Hours

LIBRARY HOLIDAY HOURS

(Pendleton)
December 14 - 7:45 to 6
December 15-17 8 to 5
December 18 - 8 to 12:30PM
December 21-23 8 to 5
December 24-Jan 3 Closed
Jan 4-7 7:45 to 8
Jan 8 7:45 to 2
Jan 11 7:45 to 10 PM begin again
Jan 18 Closed

(Anderson)
See note at Library for hours week of Dec 7-11.
Closed Dec 15-Jan 11

Two New Databases

See the link at http://find.galegroup.com/menu/commonmenu.do?userGroupName=tricotec_main
for two new databases:

ChiltonLibrary.com
ChiltonLibrary.com represents the most authoritative automotive repair information available to car owners. There are thousands of year, make and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models. ChiltonLibrary.com gives you the confidence to service or repair virtually any system on your vehicle.

Grzimek's Animal Life
In 1968 Bernhard Grzimek, the famous zoologist and Director of the Frankfort Zoo, published the Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. Gale updated the print set in 2004, including new articles and commissioning additional images. Grzimek's Animal Life on the web provides students and researchers with a dynamic, interactive resource that fosters more discussion and critical thinking skills. This product uses the content from the encyclopedia to provide unequaled coverage on more than 4,000 species, and includes more than 11,000 images, videos, illustrations, and maps.

Book Display

Our current book display features titles such as Gone with the Wind, Angels and Demons, and The Fountainhead. Can you figure out the connection between these titles?

Credo Reference Content Update - New Titles!

The A-Z of Social Research, Sage UK in Social Sciences
The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing in Social Sciences
Dictionary of Race, Ethnicity & Culture, Sage UK in Social Sciences
A Dictionary of Sociolinguistics, Edinburgh University Press in Language
Feminist Philosophies A-Z, Edinburgh University Press in Philosophy
Guide to Economic Indicators, M.E. Sharpe in Business
Key Concepts in Medical Sociology, Sage UK in Social Sciences
Key Concepts in Urban Studies, Sage UK in Social Sciences
Key Concepts in Work, Sage UK in Social Sciences
The Sage Dictionary of Cultural Studies, Sage UK in Social Sciences
The Social Science Jargon-Buster, Sage UK in Social Sciences

New Databases

The library has new databases available:

American History in Video – over 2000 hours of history. Create a customized playlist. http://ahiv.alexanderstreet.com/

Music – See the Music subject page at http://academics.tctc.edu/lynx/Database/Music.htm. We have added several listening databases to the Music arena which include Jazz, Contemporary World Music, Classical, and American Song. Create your own playlist.

JSTOR – http://www.jstor.org

New databases to start in December: Chilton’s, Grzimeks Animals Online and Writer’s Reference Center.

If you have any trouble accessing the databases, please let us know at 646-1750.

Sports Books on Display

The current library book display is all sports! Books on golf, football, basketball, canoeing, pool, weight training and other sports related subjects are available. Stop by and see if we have your favorite highlighted.

Recommended Reading Book Display

The President, Vice-Presidents, Deans, and TCTC instrotor and staff award winners have contributed to the new book display in the library. The books will be available for check out after Sept 7. If you are intersted in a book, let us know and we will put it on hold for you.

The Display includes:
•Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type by Paul Tieger & Barbara Barron-Tieger
•Leadership by Rudy W. Giuliana
•Analyzing Controversy by Gary K. Clabaugh and Edward G. Rozycki
•Language in Thought and Action by S.I. Hayakawa and Alan R. Hayakawa
•The New Peoplemaking by Virginia Satir
•Forgetting Ourselves On Purpose: Vocation and the Ethics of Ambition, Brian J. Mahan
•The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam
•Good to Great: why some companies make the leap --and others don't by James C. Collins
•The Speed of Trust: The One thing that Changes Everything by Stephen M.R. Covey
•Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
•The Way of the Shepherd: 7 Ancient Secrets to Managing Productive People by Kevin Leman and William Pentak
•The Precious Present by Spencer Johnson M.D.
•The Road Less Travelled: The New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M.Scott Peck
•Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
•Black Wind by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler
•Treasure of Khan byClive Cussler and Dirk Cussler
•PeopleSmart: Powerful Techniques for Turning Every Encounter into a Mutual Win by Tony Alessandra and Michael J O'connoer with Janice VanDyke
•The New Art of Managing People: Person-to-Person skills, Guidelines, and Techniques Every Manager Needs to Guide, Direct, and Motivate the Team by Phil Hunsaker and Tony Alessandra
•Fish! Sticks by Dr. Stephen C. Lundin, John Christensen, and Harry Paul
•Through Ebony Eyes: What Teachers Need to Know But Are Afraid to Ask About African American Students by Gail L. Thompson.
•Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat who touched the World by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
•Judgements Under Stress by Kenneth R. Hammond
•Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
•The Treasured Works of Charles Stanley: Winning the War Within, How to Handle Adversity, and The Gift of Forgiveness.
•Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte
•The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Richard Dawkins.
•Love is the best medicine for Dental Patients and the Dental team by Donald M. Dible
•Mathematics and Democracy: The Case for Quantitative Literacy by Lynn Arthur Steen, Executive Editor

August Hours Changes

Pendleton: August 3-6 and 10-13 hours 7:45 to 5; Friday still 7:45 to 2
Anderson: Mon & Tues 9 to 3:30.
Call us at 864-646-1750 is you have questions.

Twitter

The Library now has a Twitter account. You can follow us at tctclibrary.

Databases?

Need some help understanding how databases work? See Norman, Sue, or Marla. We are happy to give you insights into the world of databases.

CLOSED

The Pendleton Campus Library will close Thursday, July 2 at 9PM. We will be closed Friday, July 3 and Monday, July 6, 2009.

Anderson Campus Library

The Anderson Campus Library is closed June 22 - July 8, 2009. Please call the Pendleton Campus Library at 646-1750 if you need help.

New Books!

The Library is displaying some of the recent new books: The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie, The Jewel Trader of Pegu by Jeffrey Hantover, Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah, Lasagna Gardening by Patricia Lanza, Pilates for Dummies, Age is Just a Number by Dara Torres, Imagining India: The idea of a renewed nation by Nandan Nilekani.

Celebrate the Military

Celebrate Military History Month with a book from the Library. Our display highlights books including "The Heart of a Man: A naval pilot's Vietnam Diary", "Nam: The Vietnam war in the words of the men and women who fought there", "Thura's Diary: My life in wartime Iraq", and "Flags of our Fathers".

Working on Class Project?

Do you need to find a time you all can get together to work on your project? Try http://www.doodle.com. Everyone can put in their schedule and arrive at suitable time.

Need a place to meet? Remember the Library has to group rooms that can hold between 6 and 8 people. Or you can meet in other locations in the Library. You can also use the laptops that we have for check-out in those rooms.

Research Problems

Stumped about find information for your research paper? Remember you can always ask Norman, Sue, or Marla for help. Come find us in the Library or IM Sue from our website.

Poetry

Like poetry? Then celebrate by checking out the Library book display for April.

Fines

Remember that fines accumulate at $0.10 / day for overdue books. If you need your books for more than the usual 2 week check-out period, please call or e-mail us before the due date so we can see if you are eligible to renew your materials. (You must not owe us any money and the book must not have a hold placed on it.) If you owe library fines or fees, you are not eligible to check out any material or laptops.

E-Resources

E-Resources. We have over 60,000 of them. Amazing, a way to research without having to be in the library. Look at our e-reference and book collection at http://academics.tctc.edu/lynx/books.htm. Take advantage of these resources when we are closed. And if you still aren't convinced watch http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=1ba1ba5d25c409f1e444.

Spring Break Hours

The Pendleton campus Library hours for Spring Break: Mon (the 16th) to Thur (the19th): 7:45 AM to 5 PM; Friday (the 20th) 7:45 AM to 2 PM.

The Anderson campus Library: Tuesday 9AM to 1 PM; Thursday 9 AM to noon.

Women's History Month Book Display

The Library's book display for March highlights Women's History Month. Included in the display are titles such at "The Kennedy Women: The saga of an American Family" by Laurence Leamer, "A Woman in Charge" by Carl Bernstein, "Change is Possible: Stories of women and minorities in mathematics" by Patricia Clark Kenschaft, and "The Oprah Phenomenon" by Jennifer Harris and Elwood Watson.

Open

Library is back open officially at 9:30 on Tuesday.

CLOSED

The Library is closed on Monday, March 2, 2009 due to snow.

Laptops

Laptops are available to check out again. Please see the Circulation desk.

Celebrate Black History with a book

The Library display is highlighting books such as “The Black Panthers Speak”, African American Women of the Old West”, “Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice: Foreign Policy, Race, and the New American Century, and “Hard Driving: The American Odyssey of NASCAR’S First Black Driver (The Wendell Scott Story)”. Please see our book display and the South Carolina Collection.

Information Literacy

Have you taken an Information Literacy research class yet? Whether you have or not and just need a refresher, check out Searchpath for concepts.

The Beginning

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