Educational E-books

Cramming for an Anatomy final?  Or searching for sources for an English paper?  Even if you can't make it to the SCTC Libraries, you have access to hundreds of e-books and articles online through Salem Press.  Covering health, history, literature and science, these books have an easy search interface that can help you find exactly what you're looking for. Check out our full catalog of resources below.


Salem Press - Health

• Cancer
• Genetics and Inherited Conditions
• Infectious Diseases and Conditions
• Magill's Medical Guide (6th edition)
• Psychology and Mental Health

Salem Press - History

• Great Lives from History: Ancient World
• Great Lives from History: Middle Ages
• Great Lives from History: Renaissance
• Great Lives from History: 17th Century
• Great Lives from History: 18th Century
• Great Lives from History: 19th Century
• Great Lives from History: 20th Century
• Great Events from History: Ancient World
• Great Events from History: Middle Ages
• Great Events from History: Renaissance
• Great Events from History: 17th Century
• Great Events from History: 18th Century
• Great Events from History: 19th Century
• Great Events from History: 20th Century
• Modern Scandals
• Encyclopedia of American Immigration
• Historical Encyclopedia of American Business
• Weapons and Warfare
• Great Athletes
• Inventors and Inventions
• Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century
• Milestone Documents in African American History
• Milestone Documents in American History
• Milestone Documents in World History

Salem Press - Literature

• Critical Insights: Death of a Salesman
• Critical Insights: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• Critical Insights: The Joy Luck Club
• Critical Insights: A Streetcar Named Desire
• Critical Insights: Jane Austen
• Critical Insights: Benjamin Franklin
• Critical Insights: Barbara Kingsolver
• Critical Insights: Toni Morrison

Salem Press - Science

• Encyclopedia of Global Resources
• Encyclopedia of Global Warming
• Forensic Science
• The Solar System

June Book Club: Dracula

Book Club is meeting on the Flint River campus this Thursday to discuss one of literature's less sparkly, but more deadly vampires - Dracula!  We'll go over Jonathan Harker's trip to Transylvania and then home again to London - with some unexpectedly bloodsucking cargo in tow.  Join us for coffee and conversation at 4.00 on Thursday, June 28th!

  

Technology Tuesday: The Library on Youtube

Learn more about what you can do through the Southern Crescent Technical College Libraries with our new Youtube page!  You can take a virtual tour of GALILEO, get a crash course in our library website, or browse some of the links we've liked on Youtube.

Our channel is still a work in progress, so if you have any ideas of videos or tutorials you'd want to see from the library, let us know!

INFOGRAPHIC: What are you reading this summer?

Everybody a loves a good flowchart - especially when that chart helps you sort through all the options of new, classic, fiction, and non-fiction you could be reading out by the pool.  This handy infographic from Teach.com  guides you through some of the best summer reading out there, whether you're interested in time travel, family drama or the Spanish Civil War.

So what will you be reading this summer?  Personally, I'm working through The Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin - not completely seasonally appropriate, seeing as the tag line is 'Winter is Coming.'  Leave us a note in the comments, or see the full flowchart at the Teach.com website!

Technology Tuesday: Texture and touch screens

When we talk about mobile devices, the idea of what the screen feels like usually doesn't come up.  Tactus Technology aims to change that with their new Tactile Layer interface, which transforms your touch screen into a 3D screen with physical buttons you can actually push.  Once you turn off your phone, the buttons smooth out and fade away into a normal touch screen.

How does it work?  To learn more about this brand new tech, check out this article on TG Daily by Trent Nouveau:

"Mobile Tactile Tech Gets Physical"

Check out Kindles at the library!

Amazon Kindle 3 3G by Jules Holleboom, on Flickr

Calling all e-book readers!  Whether you already get most of your books online or are just curious about how Kindles work, you can explore the e-book world by checking out Kindles at both the Griffin and Flint River campus libraries.

Kindles can be checked out like regular library books - with your Southern Crescent ID - for two weeks at a time.  We're working on building up our e-book collection, so if you have any suggestions for titles we should add, feel free to leave them in the comments!

Right now, by checking out a Kindle you can read:

• The Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins
• The Help, Kathryn Stockett
• Love is Letting Go of Fear, Gerald Jampolsky
• Eragon, Christopher Paolini
• One for the Money, Janet Evanovich
• Deliver Me From Evil, Mary Monroe
• 11/22/63, Stephen King
• No Matter What!: 9 Steps to Living the Life You Love, Lisa Nichols
• Race to the Rumble #1 (WWE), Tracey West
• The Science of God, Gerald Schroeder
• The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, Brian Greene
• The Lucky One, Nicholas Sparks
• Vampire Academy, Richelle Mead
• The Morganville Vampires series, Rachel Caine
• Dinners Made Easy, Stonyfield Farm
• My Best Dessert: Easy Recipes, Risapkus
• Silent Kills, C.E. Lawrence

Maurice Sendak, Children's Author, Dies at 83

If you've ever joined the wild rumpus where the wild things are, or took some cautionary advice from Pierre, your life has been touched in some small way by author Maurice Sendak.  The visionary children's writer and artist died today at the age of 83, following a stroke.  He leaves behind him a rich, strange, and beautiful collection of work.  

My favorite was always Chicken Soup with Rice - a poem my sister and I used to chant as kids whenever we got sick and had to live off of soup and rice.  What's your favorite Sendak book?  What memories do you connect with the stories he wrote?