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

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.

Accessing Library Resources

There are a number of ways to find the TCTC library.  You can go to our internal webpage at http://library.tctc.edu.  You can go to the TCTC public site for us at http://www.tctc.edu/Content/Student_Life_and_Services/Library.xml. You can follow this blog.  You can follow us on Twitter @tctclibrary.  Another way is if you are a student at TCTC, you can follow us on eTC via your Learn tab.  If you are a faculty member, you can add the Access Library Resources channel to your individual page.  Simply follow the directions at http://etcdata.tctc.edu/Luminis/removed%20from%20eTC-lpstorage/VPBA/Add_Channel_eTC.doc .  Choose Access Library Resources. Also a link to the library subject portal pages has been added to the Faculty tab Class Management-Resources-Library