Additional Practice Tests added to Learning Express

Learning Express has added additional practice tests to its database.  You can access these by going to the Library Career webpage at http://library.tctc.edu/Careers . Most of these are listed under the Jobs and Career tab.

NCLEX-PN Practice Exams
?       NCLEX-PN Practice Exam 1
?       NCLEX-PN Practice Exam 2
?       NCLEX-PN Practice Exam 3

AP Biology Practice Exams
?       AP Biology Practice Exam 1: Section I
?       AP Biology Practice Exam 2: Section II
?       AP Biology Practice Exam 1: Section I
?       AP Biology Practice Exam 2: Section II

Additional Civil Service Practice Exams
?       Civil Service Practice Exam 3
?       Civil Service Practice Exam 4

ISEE Practice Tests
?       ISEE Practice Test: Lower Level
?       ISEE Practice Test: Middle Level
?       ISEE Practice Test: Upper Level

SSAT Practice Test
?       SSAT Upper Level Practice Test

New eBooks
?       GED Vocabulary Flash Review
?       Civil Service Exams: Power Practice
?       Math for College Placement Exams in 20 Minutes a Day

Latest Editions of Popular eBooks
?       Firefighter Exam, 5e
?       Health Occupations Entrance Exams, 3e
?       Medical Assistant Exam, 2e

Dr. Norman Hoyle retires

            The Library staff  will bid a fond farewell Friday, March 29, to Dr. Norman Hoyle, who retires after 17 years as a reference and electronics resources librarian.

            For Norman, who is 78 years young, this is his second retirement – he was a professor for 25 years in the School of Library and Information Science graduate program at the State University of New York at Albany, as well as working in the library of Washington State University and as a professor of English at Linfield College.

            “Norman is very focused on projects until they are done. He is detail oriented,” added Library Director and good friend Marla Roberson, who referenced the large scale literature database, numerous research guides, and the design of the library website as his major accomplishments since he became full time in 2007.

            He created and mainained a database that provides online access to  thousands of scholarly analyses and interpretations of individual literary works.  “This is a unique resource --  no one has anything like this.  It’s a Norman invention,” said Marla.   All of our literature courses rely heavily on the database.  His second accomplishment was designing the library subject portal pages.  He also created coding for MegaSearch, which simultaneously searches all of the TCTC Library’s catalogs and databases; additionally, he created Journal*Browse, which provides faculty and staff  an easy means to keep up with the literature of their field by browsing online the tables-of-contents of selected professional journals and printing out articles of interest.

            “He created remarkable products that will last a long time,” said Marla. “Student surveys always refer to him and applaud his service.”

            “In terms of student success, if we didn’t have the literature database and the subject portal pages he created himself, we’d be back to the 1980s.”

            “I’ll miss working with the people here,” said Norman.  “I take pride in the projects I have been responsible for, what they have done for students, and how these readily accessible resources have contributed to their success.”

            “There’s not another Norman,” said Marla. 

          Berry McMurray, discovery service engineer, EBSCO Publishing, agrees.  “I still remember the first day we met way back when I first started in sales at EBSCO.  I have met many librarians over the years, and it was quite clear even that first day that you were truly committed to your profession and diligently worked to make resources easily available to your patrons/customers/students.  It was a pleasure to have had the opportunity to work with you, and I wish you the best of times in your retirement.”

 

And the winner is...

During the month of February and some of March, the library sponsored a contest that focused on the Mango database. Mango is the on-line language database that is available free-of-charge through the Library. Languages available: Spanish (Latin American), French, Italian, German, Russian, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (Mandarin), Irish, Japanese, Korean, Latin, and ESL for Arabic Speakers. To be eligible to participate you needed to sign up and do at least one lesson. The folks that did the most lessons were winners twice. Anderson and Easley had additional ways that you could win. This contest was open to all at TCTC - student and staff. Winners for the first part of the contest that picked up their prize: Wanda White, Amber D. Floyd, Lynn Shook, Heather Redd, and Violet Price. (FYI, we had a number of folks that were notified but never picked up their prize!) Grand prize winners were Heather Redd and Lynn Shook. Thanks so much for "playing" and learning a bit of a new language.

 

 

Compliments on the Library Web pages

The library has a comment area available on its webpages.  Today, we got not one but TWO compliments. 

On the majority of our pages we have an IM widget. This allows someone to reach out and chat with us to ask reference questions.  It is a handy tool. Today it was evidently handier than normal. 

The first comment we received was "This is truely convinient! I luv it! Thank u TCTC!"

On the same page (fyi, the Countries and Culture page at http://library.tctc.edu/countries) another student commented "I love the library at tctc it is so great and i learn so much sometimes i get on this site even ehen i dont know what i am looking for while im chilling with my gf she thinks it is awesome tooo yess!!!! this site is great thank you tctc librarians".

It is always great to hear when we have impacted your research in a positive way.  Thanks!

TCTC Library Gets Connected

TCTC Library participated in the college sponsored Get Connected event. Each campus library location informed students of our Book Discussion Group and our new Foreign Language Database. Mango Language database has various languages that students may learn more about via the online resource. Also, the library discussion group is featuring two titles for the Spring 2013 semester. We plan to discuss each title and upon completion, watch the movie that was released as a result of the success of the book. The chosen titles are The Help and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

TCTC Library Display

This month's Library display contains a plethora of titles that were deemed by both library staff and faculty as TCTC Library Treasure. During the holiday season, we inventoried the library and found lots of great titles that we thought should be displayed for potential patrons. From history to Batman to literary favorites and casual reading, we have lots of subjects to choose from within the display. Some of the featured titles are: The Help, Founding Brothers, Our Kind of People, Hunger Games, Alice's Tea Cup, Ayurveda, Zumba: an Instructional Guide for Beginners & A Century of Innovation. Stop by the library today and peruse our collection...We'd love to see you!

Library hours for Spring, 2013

Happy back to school! Spring semester starts January 14, 2013. Hours for the Library locations are listed below. FYI, all three locations are closed for MLK day on January 21, 2013. Do you need more information about the library? Then see http://library.tctc.edu/about.

Pendleton Campus:
Monday to Thursday 7:45 AM to 8 PM
Friday 7:45 AM to 2 PM

Anderson Campus:
Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday 9 AM to 4 PM
Wednesday 8 AM to 4 PM
Friday closed

Easley Campus:
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday 9 AM to 4 PM
Thursday 8 AM to 4 PM
Friday closed