Veterans’ Resources LibGuides

The library has created a resource guide to provide information concerning services for veterans at Tri-County Technical College. The guide includes library resources and services, general services for veterans at the College, community services, and important contact information. The guide address is http://library.tctc.edu/veterans. 

Kultida Dunagin

The Walk to End Alzheimer's and Dementia

On Saturday, September 20, 2014, I participated in a Walk to end Alzheimer’s and Dementia that was held by the Alzheimer’s Association. After meeting at Anderson’s Carolina Wren Park for a brief ceremony and registration period, participants of all ages, sizes and race took a mile-long walk for a very worthy cause. Most all of us know someone who has been impacted by the onset of Alzheimer’s and Dementia. Here are a few facts about the illness:

·         Alzheimer's is a type of dementia that causes problems with memory, thinking and behavior. Symptoms usually develop slowly and get worse over time, becoming severe enough to interfere with daily tasks.

·         Alzheimer's is not a normal part of aging, although the greatest known risk factor is increasing age, and the majority of people with Alzheimer's are 65 and older. But Alzheimer's is not just a disease of old age. Up to 5 percent of people with the disease have early onset Alzheimer's (also known as younger-onset), which often appears when someone is in their 40s or 50s.

·         Alzheimer's worsens over time. Alzheimer's is a progressive disease, where dementia symptoms gradually worsen over a number of years.

·         Alzheimer's has no current cure, but treatments for symptoms are available and research continues. Although current Alzheimer's treatments cannot stop Alzheimer's from progressing, they can temporarily slow the worsening of dementia symptoms and improve quality of life for those with Alzheimer's and their caregivers. Today, there is a worldwide effort under way to find better ways to treat the disease, delay its onset, and prevent it from developing.

If you suspect that you or someone you know may have these symptoms, please reach out to them and a physician as soon as possible.  The Library has database resources on Alzheimer’s.  Two links are listed below:

http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/HWRC/hits?r=d&bucket=medicalcont&o=&n=10&m=Alzheimer%27s+Disease&l=d&searchTerm=2NTA&k=TE&seg=0&index=BA&c=1&locID=tricotec_main&secondary=false&s=2&TE=%22Alzheimer%27s+Disease%22

 

http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/alzheimer_s_disease?searchId=185e91e5-425d-11e4-bc90-0aea1e3b2a47

 

Alydia Sims

Besides books, why should I come to the library?

If you come to the library, you know the usual things we do:  show you where books and databases are; check books out to you; shelve books; tell you how to print something from your laptop; and tell you that “no, we don’t sell scantrons”.  But what you might not know are the other things associated with our job here at TCTC.

We are on a number of TCTC committees so that we are in touch with the Campus communities (Marla is President of Faculty Senate and on the Curriculum Committee).  Some of us teach (Sue and Alydia teach a COL 105 section each). Kultida goes to the Anderson campus weekly.  Jessica works the evening shift so she sees other people than the rest of us might.  Debby and Allison keep the branches running smoothly and make sure that the libraries there are friendly and inviting.  Claudia is the history keeper of the library. She has been here over 30 years so she can tell you anything about why something happens the way it does. This helps us know what is happening in the classrooms and in the offices.

Other things that we do because we care about you:

·         Glue sandals that broke so you can go to class.
·         Make sure there is tissue and hand sanitizer available.
·         Have candy!
·         Be available for student interviews.
·         Go to student graduations (no we don’t have to do that, we just like to do that because we support you).
·         Open our information literacy workshop computer lab to students that need to study in larger areas than the collaborative study rooms.
·         Have school supplies like staplers and paperclips available.
·         Have a supply of Band-Aids (currently I think it is Hello Kitty).
·         Maintain comfy seats.
·         Have a supply of pens.

The library cares about you even when you aren’t studying.  We strive to offer a responsive and open environment for not only your research projects but other kinds of social engagement.  We would love for you to come see us.  Remember the library is the heart of your research.

 

 

 

Blog by Marla Roberson

“I Didn’t Know We HAD THAT”!

 Today I spoke to our Veterinary Tech faculty.  They have several new instructors and a new department head as well, who asked if I could show all of them the resources in their discipline that the TCTC Library provides.  There is nothing I like better than speaking to a group of people who are amazed at what our library can do!  I only talked for 15 minutes and barely scratched the surface of what’s available, but during those 15 minutes at least five of these instructors said something like “I didn’t know we HAD THAT!”  I’m fairly certain that I will be working on integrating some kind of library use or research into their classes soon, and I’m happy to do it.

If you are an instructor, are you aware of all the resources the library purchases that can be part of your curriculum?  At the bottom of the library home page http://library.tctc.edu is a collection of “Subject Guides” that are very helpful:

We also have a “Specialized Subjects” page, http://library.tctc.edu/Subjects  which has links to things you might not think library would provide, such as our Auto Repair database.

And from our Databases page, http://library.tctc.edu/Databases did you know you can read popular magazines online?  It’s available from General OneFile, a database of popular magazines.

So take some time to poke around a bit on your library’s web page – you may see something and say, “I didn’t know we HAD THAT!”

---Sue Andrus, Instruction Librarian