Find out what’s new at the Pierce College Library!
Did you know you could access segments from your favorite NPR programs like “All Things Considered,” “Morning Edition” and “Talk of the Nation?” The Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center database provides audio and transcripts from several NPR programs on a number of topics. Do a search on your topic and select the “Multimedia” tab to listen to a report.
You can watch two new PBS specials online: Frontline’s “Dreams of Obama” and NOVA’s “The Big Energy Gamble,” both of which originally aired on January 20th. Keep up-to-date with current events with both of these outstanding programs.
More than 1,200 e-books have been added to ebrary! New titles in business, psychology, education, health and medicine and science have been added. Select the “New Books” link to your left to browse new titles by subject.
Salem Health has added Salem Health: Cancer to its database of authoritative reference articles. And, the Gale Virtual Reference Library has added the Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development, providing reference articles on three key life stages: childhood and adolescence; adulthood; and later life. Select the databases link to your left to explore!
Ebrary has unveiled a new, improved interface! You no longer need to download a special reader to read a book online. The reader is required to print, copy, highlight, or add a book to your bookshelf; this reader is installed on all library computers.
Want to learn more about our 44th president? In addition to his memoirs “Dreams From My Father” and “The Audacity of Hope”, we have several books about him, including “Barack Obama; The New Face of American Politics; “Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest”; “Barack Obama: In His Own Words”; and an A&E Biography on DVD.
Looking for science videos? Check out these recent online NOVA programs, added to the catalog this month: “Car of the Future”; “Arctic Dinosaurs”; “Alien from Earth”; “Lord of the Ants”; “Ocean Animal Emergency”; “Space Shuttle Disaster”; “Walk to Beautiful”; “Sputnik Declassified”; “Is there Life on Mars?”; “Bible’s Buried Secrets”; and “Hunting the Hidden Dimension.”
Are you looking for material that your instructor put on reserve? Now you can now select find course reserves (located in the library) and e-reserves (available online) by selecting “E-Reserves and Course Reserves” link from the navigation bar on the left!