tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44326640912416239442024-12-18T22:25:56.662-05:00SnippetsThoughts and suggestions from the Library staff at Tri-County Technical College, Pendleton, SC.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15697958075648364064noreply@blogger.comBlogger191125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432664091241623944.post-8645457714664495952015-03-12T13:47:00.001-04:002015-03-12T13:48:54.203-04:00Library Social Media
Truly, the library values your perspective. We love talking and listening to
you. And as much as we love seeing your bright and shiny faces at the reference
desk or in library training classes, we know you can't always come to us. So
we've decided to come to you! We're excited to announce our new and improved
social media footprint. From Facebook to instagram, from Twitter to Pinterest,
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15697958075648364064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432664091241623944.post-5357710966645299162015-03-06T14:31:00.002-05:002015-03-06T14:31:46.976-05:00TCTC Professional Development Day
On Tuesday, March 3, TCTC students had no school. Was it because of wintry weather?! No, this time it was for Professional
Development Day.
Every semester, the students get a day off so that the
faculty and staff can have a day for planning and development. This year, we spent the morning learning
about various topics such as leadership, teaching, accreditation, and project
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15697958075648364064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432664091241623944.post-22851503855550797512015-02-24T12:45:00.000-05:002015-02-24T12:45:18.972-05:00Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery
One of the
services a library provides its patrons is interlibrary loan and document
delivery. The American Library Association gives a definition of Interlibrary
Loan as “a process by which a library requests material from, or supplies
material to, another library. The purpose of Interlibrary Loan is to obtain,
upon request of a library user, material not available in the user’s local
communityAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15697958075648364064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432664091241623944.post-52371804233988624292015-02-10T10:53:00.000-05:002015-02-10T10:53:35.850-05:00Community Campus Libraries at Anderson and Easley
Oh the looks and the comments we get when a student walks
into the Community Campus Library at either the Anderson or the Easley campus.
The Anderson Campus library is only 16’x24’! The Easley Campus not quite double
that size. Both Community Campus Libraries could fit in the Pendleton Campus Library
with plenty of room to spare. Typical comments are “This is the library?” “I’ve
never seen a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15697958075648364064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432664091241623944.post-13733876249414406412015-01-30T12:48:00.000-05:002015-01-30T12:48:37.259-05:00Spring vs. Fall Semester
It’s the second week of spring semester, and things at
colleges are a little different in the spring compared to the fall. For starters, there are fewer students. While some students graduated or transferred
at the end of fall semester, there are far more who don’t attend classes in the
spring semester for other reasons.
Usually this is a result of a GPA disaster in fall, but Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15697958075648364064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432664091241623944.post-11218920566504410772015-01-26T15:56:00.000-05:002015-01-26T15:56:09.522-05:00Clemson Football<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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If you are checking out books:
We need your TCTC ID
You can check out 6 books on a topic - well actually you can only check out 6 books.
Book checkout (not including reserves) is 2 weeks with the ability to renew once Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15697958075648364064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432664091241623944.post-49285634739733667052014-12-17T13:13:00.003-05:002014-12-17T13:13:53.276-05:00The Freshman Fifteen<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Fall
2014 has been a wonderful, successful semester for many students, faculty and
staff members who are dedicated to higher education of themselves or others.
Since many of us are in the midst of finalizing assignments, study sessions,
presentations, and grading, etc.; the TCTC Library would like your help! We
have noticed an increase in the destruction of our library books. Over the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15697958075648364064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432664091241623944.post-17128044639197783362014-11-14T13:44:00.000-05:002014-11-14T13:44:51.088-05:00Books and Movies
Every year, hundreds of movies are made and released to the
big screen. Did you know that a large portion of those movies are actually
adapted from books? This means many readers and movie-goers will face an
important question: Should I read the
book first? This is where the
libraries at TCTC can help!
The following is a list of books-turned-movies coming to
theaters in the next Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15697958075648364064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432664091241623944.post-88018294542616925182014-11-11T10:10:00.001-05:002014-11-11T10:10:53.319-05:00EBL Ebooks Library - available now
Through PASCAL (Partnership Among
South Carolina Academic Libraries), the Library now has access to EBL Ebook
Library, which is a product of ProQuest Business.
EBL offers content across all academic
and professional subject areas. It features nearly 350,000 titles from hundreds
of academic publishers. It provides a user-friendly interface with a system
that surpasses the traditionalAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15697958075648364064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432664091241623944.post-64189687377735512242014-10-29T12:50:00.000-04:002014-10-29T12:50:19.541-04:00Breast Cancer Awareness<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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It’s Week 9 of the fall semester, and by this point most
students have had at least one major test or assignment in each course. Some of those students are shocked by the
grades they receive on those assessments.
First time college students hear that “college is different from high
school”, “college is HARDER than high school”, and “you really have to study
all the time” but usually Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15697958075648364064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432664091241623944.post-36075747682780844972014-10-06T15:41:00.000-04:002014-10-06T15:41:50.590-04:00Down time reading at the TCTC libraries
At the TCTC libraries, you can find plenty of sources and
information to help you with your studies.
You rely on the library for all things academic; whether it’s for
homework help, sources for a big paper, or crunch-time during exams. But did you know you can also rely on the library for down-time?
We have many newspapers and popular magazines to read. I usually work over at Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15697958075648364064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432664091241623944.post-2624711897659078362014-09-30T15:41:00.000-04:002014-09-30T15:41:26.731-04:00Veterans’ 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
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15697958075648364064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432664091241623944.post-1476815538962439882014-09-22T09:39:00.000-04:002014-09-22T09:39:26.021-04:00The 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 Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15697958075648364064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432664091241623944.post-48452807105715046232014-09-19T08:28:00.000-04:002014-09-19T08:28:05.081-04:00Besides 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
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15697958075648364064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432664091241623944.post-8514616347521092882014-09-10T14:33:00.001-04:002014-09-10T14:33:23.968-04:00“I Didn’t Know We HAD THAT”!<!--[if !mso]>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15697958075648364064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432664091241623944.post-39618791029781384552014-08-21T08:51:00.002-04:002014-08-21T08:51:50.223-04:00Psychology eBooksThrough PASCAL (Partnership Among South Carolina Academic Libraries), the Library now has access to 336 eBooks in Psychology from Oxford University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO). The purchase was made possible with lottery funds and is a statewide one-time purchase including perpetual access. Some of these eBooks are Academic Motivation and the Culture of School in Childhood and Adolescence, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12370078922416791986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432664091241623944.post-12664783393575090592014-08-15T12:53:00.000-04:002014-08-15T15:24:04.359-04:00Learning a language is fun, free AND easy via the library
Mango Languages
provides an engaging and immersive language and culture learning experience
that students, staff, faculty, and alumni will love. Rich curricula and
authentic content provide various educational levels for numerous languages.
·
Mango
Conversations teaches through native-speaker dialogue, cultural insights, and
critical thinking Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15697958075648364064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432664091241623944.post-38763792904110672762014-08-01T09:35:00.002-04:002014-08-01T09:35:57.062-04:00CopyrightOn Wednesday, July 30, 2014 a few members of the TCTC Library faculty/staff attended the USC Upstate Library’s Educator’s and Librarian Workshops Day! The workshop featured many great topics that we (as academics) must stay abreast of in order to effective in the classroom. The topics covered were as follows; copyright, plagiarism, digital citizenship & social media, emerging technology and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12370078922416791986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432664091241623944.post-15621795506215464872014-07-28T09:46:00.001-04:002014-07-28T09:46:28.550-04:00Natural StandardThe library has added a new database on its subscription list called Natural Standard. This is a database which is different from others that we already have in our collection in the sense that it is the first portal to books and articles in the area of integrative medicine. Integrative or integrated medicine is an area of medicine which combines alternative medicine with evidence-based medicine.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12370078922416791986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432664091241623944.post-76806987179932706812014-07-23T13:12:00.000-04:002014-07-23T13:12:00.272-04:00Weeding ProjectDuring the 2013-2014 academic year the TCTC library has weeded 938 print and 1926 electronic books. Some librarians are “savers”. Others are “tossers”. These terms refer to an individual’s propensity for keeping books (and now, electronic sources). In the dim, dark past (say, up to about the mid 1960’s) most libraries had to beg for materials and wouldn’t DREAM of getting rid of things no Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12370078922416791986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432664091241623944.post-85199441773541910472014-07-14T12:36:00.002-04:002014-07-14T12:36:52.819-04:00Connecting with the TCTC Library
The library utilizes a few of the social media tools that are
available. We have Facebook, Twitter,
and Pinterest. Each of these serves
different purposes but all tie together to let you, as a person of TCTC, know
that we have a variety of services. Our
Twitter feed usually lists interesting points of the day which could include
trivia or quotes. Our Facebook will
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15697958075648364064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4432664091241623944.post-6333219536295518652014-07-03T10:27:00.002-04:002014-07-03T10:30:24.692-04:00Film on Demand and TED Talks Videos - A great combination!TED Talks is a nonprofit organization devoted to the concept of spreading ideas in short, powerful talks. The library utilizes a database called Films on Demand that provides access to over 600 different TED Talks videos. Are you interested in topics such as Autism, energy production, the power of body languages, or the creation of books? If so, these TED Talks topics, along with many more, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12370078922416791986noreply@blogger.com0