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Friday Factoid

Friday Factoid – Keith Haring

May 4, 2012 would have been Keith Haring’s 54th birthday.  Haring was a New York based artist who was influential in the pop art movement.  Inspired by graffiti art, Haring’s early works consisted of chalk drawings in New York City subways.  The bold lines and bright colors of his work eventually came to be world-renowned.  Haring created public murals in a number of international cities, including New York, Paris, Amsterdam and Berlin and designed cover art for the Special Olympics benefit album A Very Special Christmas.  Diagnosed with AIDS in 1988, Haring died from AIDS-related complications in 1990.  Google is featuring a Haring-inspired doodle today to honor his legacy.

To learn more about Keith Haring and his art, check out the following links:

A profile of Keith Haring from the Christian Science Monitor

The website for Keith Haring, featuring his works, a biography and more.

A discussion of one of Haring’s works from the Museum of Modern Art

For more information about the pop art movement, have a look at Credo Reference.

 

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Resource of the Month – Small Business Reference Center

Interested in starting your own business?  Our featured resource of the month for May, Small Business Reference Center, may be able to help you!  This recent addition to NC Live contains e-books of the popular NOLO series that covers a wide range of small business topics, including writing a business plan, how to start a business and marketing for small businesses.  Additionally, this resource contains business related videos.  It is an ideal resource to assist you with many small business questions that you may have.

Small Business Reference Center may be accessed here or from the Research Databases section of the library website.

Online Resources

Resource Trial : Easy Bib

Struggling with end of the semester citations?  The library is here to help!  We are trialing a new service called EasyBib.  The trial ends May 12. 

So what can EasyBib do?

  •  Easily create a bibliography in MLA and APA
  • Export works cited to Word or Googledocs fully formatted
  • Create in-text citations and tag and sort citations
  • Cite/autocite 58 source types (books, articles, YouTube videos, articles from a database, newspapers, etc.)
  • Help find more reliable web sources for your research
  • Help you analyze your sources to determine which ones are credible and which ones aren’t
And EasyBib does a lot more than that…click here to see a brief slide show about its many features.

EasyBib even has a mobile app, available for both  iPhone and Android.

We would love to hear what you think about EasyBib.  Please send any feedback to Erin Payton at  erin.payton@cpcc.edu .  Your comments will help the library determine whether or not to make this a permanent resource.

Library Fines

Library Fine Blocks

Starting April 5, the library will be adding blocks to student accounts in Datatel. Any student with fines of $50 or above will be blocked from registering, receiving transcripts, or graduating. In order to be unblocked,  student fines will have to be paid in full. Students who pay their fines on Saturday cannot be unblocked for registration, etc. until Monday morning. The same is true for any fines paid in the evening; accounts cannot be unblocked until the following business day.

If you have any questions about fine blocks, please contact any CPCC campus library.  Contact information for each campus library may be found here.

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Resource of the Month: Legal Information Reference Center

Interested in writing a living will?  Have questions about repairing your credit score?  Need information about divorce and custody?  CPCC Libraries’ Resource of the Month can help you will all of these things!

Our featured resource of the month for April is Legal Information Reference Center.  This recent addition to NC Live contains e-books of the popular NOLO Law series that covers a wide range of legal topics, including buying & selling a house, wills & estates, divorce & custody and getting a green card.  You may access the books either by browsing through categories or by keyword searching.  It is an ideal resource to assist you with many legal questions that you may have.

Legal Information Reference Center may be accessed here or from the Research Databases section of the library website.

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EBSCOHost Database Outage

Our database vendor EBSCO is having system-wide difficulties today. All EBSCO databases, which include popular databases such as Academic Source Complete, Associates Programs Source Plus and EBSCO ebooks, will be unavailable while they resolve the issue. Access to these databases will hopefully be restored by the end of the day. Other databases, such as Opposing Viewpoints, Credo Reference and many others are still available for research.

Online Resources

Films on Demand…Now with TEDTalks!

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you have not explored the videos in our online resource, Films on Demand, now is the time to take a tour.  This database has recently added more than 200 new TEDTalks videos, with hundreds more to be added by the end of the year.  These films bring together some of the most fascinating and inspiring voices in areas ranging from technology, science, and global issues to entertainment, design, and business.  Just go to the library’s Research Databases page, and click on Films on Demand to access the database.  Your CPCC login will allow you to view the films, but if you setup your own User Account on the database, you will be able to create and share customized playlists, save your favorite videos for quick access, and set your default preferences.  Give it a try!

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Resource of the Month – eBook Collection from EBSCOHost

Our featured resource of the month for March is the eBook Collection from EBSCOHost.  Formerly NetLibrary, this database offers access to a wide selection of full-text ebooks.  Books in this database cover a wide range of categories, from study aids & language learning to health & medicine.

The eBook Collection from EBSCOHost may be accessed here or from the Research Databases section of the library website.

Events

Celebrating Black History Month – Conversation with the Delany Sisters

The CPCC Libraries & Student Services will be celebrating Black History Month  with a FREE presentation of the play, “A Conversation with the Delany Sisters”.  Aadapted from Emily Mann’s Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years, the play stars Lillie Ann Oden as Bessie and Corlis A. Hayes as Sadie.  A discussion,  facilitated by Calvin Walton, member of the CPCC Diversity Committee, will follow.
When: Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 11 a.m. -.12:30 p.m.
Where: Tate Hall, Overcash Building