Celebrating the Civil Rights Movement

The library has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of TCTC every month with books, brochures, and a special webpage that is dedicated to the celebration.  On this webpage which is located at http://library.tctc.edu/50th we have a tab dedicated to Book Displays.  This tab has listings of books and streaming videos.  It also has a listing of the previous brochures.

Pieces of information that you will find on these pages include for November: In 1962 James Meredith was the first African American accepted into the University of Mississippi meaning that the all-white school would be integrated. Mr. Meredith and other protestors; such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), fought against the state for his right to be educated at the university of his Choice. Eventually the president at the time, John F. Kennedy, had to step in and send the U.S. Army troops to control rioting on the campus. The following year in 1963 James Meredith was able to attend the university.

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The Library has implemented a Mega Search program.  This addition to our services will allow you to search across many databases.  In the next few weeks the print catalog will also be loaded onto the services.  If you have any question on how to work the Mega Search, please contact us.  Please see our home page to do a search.  http://library.tctc.edu

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Elections

We are in the midst of the election season.  One of those that has already happened is the leader of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez who has won another six year term.  You can search for more information on him various places in the database including Credo (see below for a brief article).

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1954–, Venezuelan political leader, president of Venezuela (1999–). Educated at the Military Academy of Venezuela (grad. 1975), for two decades he was a career army officer, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. In 1992, Chávez took part in an unsuccessful coup attempt against President Carlos Andrés Pérez and was imprisoned until 1994. A charismatic populist, he became the leader of the leftist Patriotic Pole alliance. Promising a peaceful social revolution, Chávez was elected president in a 1998 landslide. In office he ended the privatization of Venezuela's state holdings, put himself in control of economic matters, and cut oil production to raise oil prices. A constituent assembly mainly made up of his supporters wrote a new constitution that granted the president increased powers and a longer possible term of office and weakened the legislature and judiciary. Chávez's popularity with the country's poor increased as he took measures against rampant corruption, criticized the traditional oligarchy, and made more funds available for social programs. He also attacked his critics in business and the media and expanded the role of the military; closer ties were established with Middle Eastern oil-producing nations and Cuba.