National Gallery images added to Credo

Credo is excited to announce the addition of images from the National Gallery, London. The collection is comprised of over 2,200 high definition images from the National Gallery. Each entry includes a description of the work along with its artist, medium, dimensions, acquisition credit and date made.

Browse all the images in Credo's National Gallery Collection.

Image: A Wheatfield, with Cypresses, Vincent van Gogh

Writer's Reference Center

The Facts On File database server and streaming video platform will be down for approximately seven hours on Saturday, January 30th from 12:00 AM to 7:00 AM (EST). This continued maintenance is necessary to perform hardware updates to meet the traffic demands of our Facts On File users.

This will impact the Writer's Reference Center

Classical Music download

Alexander Street Press's featured download from Classical Music Library is Richard Strauss' Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40, performed by the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Serge Baudo, conductor. More information about this piece is available on the Alexander Street Music blog. TCTC Library subscribes to Music Online which means you can see a wealth of content on Strauss here. If you are off campus, you will be asked to supply your "T" number.

Book Club Discussion Group

SPRING 2010 DATES and BOOKS

1:30 to 2:15 in the Casual Reading Area of the Library.


January 27 (Wed) – Please join us in the Casual Reading Area of the Library. We will talk about our format for the semester. Books for this semester are Ron Rash’s “Serena” and Adriana Trigiani “Big Stone Gap: A Novel. For students participating, books will be provided. On this first meeting, we will pass out Serena.

February 3 (Wed) – Discussion of Serena

February 24 (Wed) – Discussion of Serena

March 10 (Wed) – Final discussion of Serena, pass out copies of Big Stone Gap

March 24 (Wed) – Discussion of Big Stone Gap

April 7 (Wed) - Discussion of Big Stone Gap

April 21 (Wed) – Final discussion of Big Stone Gap

Serena by Ron Rash
The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton arrive from Boston in the North Carolina mountains to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains—but she soon shows herself the equal of any worker, overseeing crews, hunting rattlesnakes, even saving her husband’s life in the wilderness. Together, this Lord and Lady Macbeth of the woodlands ruthlessly kill or vanquish all who fall out of favor. Yet when Serena learns that she will never bear a child, she vengefully sets out to kill the son George had without her. Mother and child begin a struggle for their lives, and when Serena suspects George is protecting his illegitimate family, the Pemberton’s intense, passionate marriage starts to unravel as the story moves toward its shocking reckoning.

Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
Ave Maria Mulligan lives in the small town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. She has inherited her father's pharmacy and has settled into the life of a spinster who eagerly awaits the arrival of the Bookmobile each week. The death of her mother, an Italian immigrant, lets some family skeletons out of the closet and she finds her dull stable life has taken on an excitement for which she was not prepared. She suddenly finds herself with romantic suitors and a real father she has never met. Her life is further disturbed by an uproar in the whole town: the impending visit of Elizabeth Taylor.

Poverty Awareness Month - January

January is Poverty Awareness Month. Take time out of your schedule to learn more about our country's less fortunate citizens and think of the many ways that you can help. Some of the books on the library book display are: Working at the Margins: moving off welfare in America; The Working Poor: invisible in America; Inner-City Poverty; American Dream: three women, ten kids, and a nation's drive to end welfare; and Hot, Flat and Crowded.