Accreditation

TCTC is accredited through the Southern Association of College and School's area (aka SACS). Do you ever wonder about what all goes into this process of being "affirmed"?  The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges has very detailed documentation on the process.  This isn't a brief process.  There is an application process that can take up to two years.  Initial accreditation is awarded for five years. Then the institution goes into a reaffirmation process which is detailed on the Accrediting Standards page.  All in all, when you attend TCTC you can be assured that not only have we reviewed how our college performs but that other's in higher education have also looked at how we operate.  Our Mission, Facts, and Stats page gives a multitude of information on how we review ourselves.

Food

Yes, it is getting on up there in the day which means that most of us are thinking about dinner.  And what does this prompt your friendly librarian to do? Well look for something to cook! Since we are in a library, we have access to a number of bits and pieces regarding cooking. Did you know that we have an entire subject guide devoted to World Food Cultures?  Wonder if I should have something from Fiji?  Or maybe that Cuban Red Beans?

Red Beans (Frijoles)


Beans and rice is the most popular meal combination and most Cubans eat it at least once a day, together with a meat or chicken dish. This is eaten for lunch or dinner.

3 TBS olive oil

3 strips bacon, diced

4 cloves garlic, finely chopped

1 large onion, finely chopped

1 medium–sized green bell pepper, finely chopped

1 cup tomato sauce

1 TBS red wine vinegar

< tsp dried oregano

salt, freshly ground black pepper

1 14–ounce can kidney beans, drained

1 large green bell pepper, diced

1 bay leaf

Prepare the sofrito: in a stewing pot, heat oil over low heat. Stir in bacon, garlic, onion, and bell pepper. Cook for 8–10 minutes, stirring from time to time, until vegetables are soft. Stir in tomato sauce, vinegar, oregano, salt, and pepper, and cook until thickened, about 8–10 minutes.

Add the beans, green pepper, and bay leaf, and cook over medium heat for 30 minutes more until thick. Discard bay leaf and serve with white rice.

17 years ago in Oklahoma City

From the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum website:


On the morning of April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh parked a rental truck with explosives in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and at 9:02am, a massive explosion occurred which sheared the entire north side of the building, killing 168 people.

The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was a United States Government office building located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The federal building was constructed in 1977 at a cost of $14.5 million, and was named for federal judge Alfred P. Murrah, an Oklahoma native. By the 1990s the building contained regional offices for the Secret Service, the Drug Enforcement Agency (D.E.A.), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), and other agencies.

Following the investigation which resulted in the execution of Timothy McVeigh and the sentence of life without parole for Terry Nichols, the surviving structure was demolished with explosives on May 23, 1995. The entire 3.3 acre site subsequently became home to the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum, a place to honor the victims, survivors and rescue workers, and to learn the impact of violence.

For more information see the website which includes a 360 view of the Memorial.

Titanic

Are you interested in the Titanic? Then see this wonderful subject page developed by Southeastern Oklahoma State University library. Click here.

Credo has a great page up also. Click here.

E-Reading

Pew Internet reported on the rise of e-reading this week. See the entire report here. Below are some of the highlights from the report. FYI, the library has over 70,000 ebooks and you can download them. You must install the Adobe Digital Edition app to read them on your mobile device. See the book page here.

• 21% of Americans have read an e-book. The increasing availability of e-content is prompting some to read more than in the past and to prefer buying books to borrowing them.


• A fifth of American adults have read an e-book in the past year and the number of e-book readers grew after a major increase in ownership of e-book reading devices and tablet computers during the holiday gift-giving season.


• The average reader of e-books says she has read 24 books (the mean number) in the past 12 months, compared with an average of 15 books by a non-e-book consumer


• 30% of those who read e-content say they now spend more time reading, and owners of tablets and e-book readers particularly stand out as reading more now.


• The prevalence of e-book reading is markedly growing, but printed books still dominate the world of book readers.


• E-book reading happens across an array of devices, including smartphones.


• In a head-to-head competition, people prefer e-books to printed books when they want speedy access and portability, but print wins out when people are reading to children and sharing books with others.


• The availability of e-content is an issue to some.


• The majority of book readers prefer to buy rather than borrow.

50th Anniversary info - Library information

The Library maintains a page devoted to the 50th anniversary of TCTC. Our theme for April is what happened in the TCTC area.

Pickens
Clemson University makes its first appearance in the ACC Championship game a triumph that won’t be seen again until 2008.
Clemson alumnus and Greenville native Maj. Rudolph Anderson passed away on Oct. 27, 1962 when the air craft he was piloting was struck by a surface-to-air missile during his mission to survey the Cuban Missile Crisis. Sadly he became a part of history as the only combat fatality.

Anderson
Anderson, South Carolina opens up its first McDonald’s on North Main Street with a menu of fast foods under fifty cent.

Public Schools were still segregated and the majority of college bound African American students from the county did not continue their education locally, but went to all black colleges in other parts of the state and country or northern colleges.

Oconee
Duke Power started their design Engineering Department that used the Keowee/Toxaway as a power development center.





For more information, see our page at http://library.tctc.edu/content.php?pid=278805&sid=2308511