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Events

Library LabWorks

Research paper lacking research?

Library LabWorks! will teach you to use RAND State Statistics and Newsbank – two new databases free to CPCC students.  RAND covers topics like;

  • employment outlooks
  • community & education
  • government finance.

NewsBank provides access to thousands of national and world newspapers…including local papers like The Charlotte Observer, The Charlotte Post and The Mecklenburg Times.

Register today! https://www.cpcc.edu/library/library-labworks

Two 30 minute sessions are available for registration – Wednesday, October 23 & Thursday, October 24th. Both sessions are at 12:30pm in LRC 205.  

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
Events, Fine Forgiveness

Got Library Fines? Get Forgiven!

Starting Monday, November 14th through the end of November, the CPCC Libraries will be offering fine free forgiveness days. During this period, fines accrued from overdue items will be forgiven at all campus libraries.

How does this deal work?

  1. Return overdue library materials to any CPCC library along with donations of personal care products (see list below), and your fine will be waived.
  2. This can also apply for each previously returned overdue item in order to have your unpaid fines waived.
  3. All materials must be returned in good condition. This deal excludes replacement fees for lost and damaged materials.

Donations from students, faculty and staff without current fines or overdue materials are also welcomed.  All items collected will be donated to the Shelter for Battered Women charitable organization.  Donations accepted are:

Automatic dishwasher soap

Body lotion

Bar soap

Liquid laundry/dish detergent

Q-Tips

Quart/gallon zip-lock bags

Shampoo/Conditioner

Shower gel/body wash

Tooth pastes/brushes

Wipes

Events, Library Scholarship

United Way and Library Scholarship Book Sale

The CPCC Libraries are now accepting new and gently used books, CDs, audio books and videos (DVDs) for the upcoming annual United Way & Library Scholarship Book Sale. Donations may be dropped off at any campus location during the hours the library is open now through Tuesday, Oct. 18. All items should be in good condition.
The book sale will be held on the Central Campus, Hagemeyer LRC, October 19 and 20, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Proceeds from the sale will be donated to United Way and the library scholarship fund. For more information, please contact Lynette Kendrick at ext. 6114 or lynette.kendrick@cpcc.edu.
This year, the Merancas, Cato, Levine, Harper and Harris Campuses will also be hosting book sales. Please contact your campus library for more details.
More information about the book sale will be forthcoming, so keep your eyes and ears open!
Events

Lincoln Events This Week

The CPCC Libraries will be hosting three events this week in connection with the ongoing exhibit, “Lincoln: The Constitution & the Civil War, A Traveling Exhibition to American Libraries”.

Film: Looking for Lincoln
August 16, 2011, 10:30 – 12:30
Central Campus Library
Pease Auditorium

Civil War Documents: A Tour of Dillon’s Personal Collection – Loyd Dillon

August 17, 2011, 2:00pm
Central Campus Library
2nd Floor Atrium

The Legacy of the Civil War – Eileen Woodward

August 18, 2011, 11:00am
Central Campus Library
2nd Floor Atrium

For more information on each of these events, check out the Lincoln exhibit site.

Events

Looking for Lincoln Film Showing Tomorrow!

Just a reminder that CPCC Libraries will be showing the film, Looking for Lincoln tomorrow.  Full details are below:

“Looking for Lincoln” will be shown on July 14 at 1 p.m. in LRC 404.  Free popcorn will be available.  Professional development credit will be offered for faculty and staff.  For more information on the exhibition and other events associated with this exhibition, please visit www.cpcc.edu/library/lincoln.

Events

Looking for Lincoln

The CPCC Libraries are pleased to announce that Lincoln: The Constitution & The Civil War, A Traveling Exhibition to American Libraries is coming to CPCC’s Central Campus July 27-September 9.  This exhibition for libraries, organized by the National Constitution Center and the American Library Association Public Programs Office, has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.  

On July 14, the CPCC Libraries will be offering a free screening of the PBS documentary, “Looking for Lincoln”, which will serve as an inaugural event for the arrival of the traveling exhibit.  This film, presented and written by Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., examines the life and legacy of the 16th president of the United States.  By examining evidence from Lincoln’s contemporaries, as well as current Lincoln scholars, Gates looks at many of the controversies surrounding Lincoln.

“Looking for Lincoln” will be shown on July 14 at 1 p.m. in LRC 404.  Free popcorn will be available.  Professional development credit will be offered for faculty and staff.

For more information on the exhibition and other events associated with this exhibition, please visit www.cpcc.edu/library/lincoln.

Events

Got Library Fines?

Starting Monday, April 25 through Thursday, May 26, 2011, the CPCC Libraries will be offering a “1-for-1 deal” as part of “fine free forgiveness days”. During this period, fines accrued from overdue items will be forgiven at all campus libraries.

How does this deal work?

  1. Bring in a canned good or other non-perishable food item for any library fines, new or old.   For each can of food, one fine will be waived.
  2. All materials must be returned in good condition. This deal excludes replacement fees for lost and damaged materials.

Food contributions from students, faculty and staff without current fines or overdue materials are also welcomed.  All food items collected will be donated to the local Loaves & Fishes charitable organization.  Their food priority needs list is available here.

Events

Origami for Japan

The Library is putting up a display (at the Victory Coffee side) to express our thoughts and good wishes for the disaster-ravished Japanese people.  The theme of the display is “A Thousand Origami Cranes” (see full story about that in Wikipedia).  Cranes are mythical birds for the Japanese people, and an ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane, such as long life or recovery from illness or injury.

Nita Leslie and her Japanese students will come to the Central campus library at lunch time (12noon) on Friday, April 1st to teach people how to do the paper cranes to be added to our display (we have close to 100 so far).  Origami paper will be provided.  CPCC students and employees are invited to learn and join our “wish parade”.  Bring your lunch, and hope to see you on Friday!

 

Events

PBS Film Showing – Pushing the Elephant

Don’t miss the new PBS film showing of “Pushing the Elephant”, a powerful film about the 1990’s civil war that came to Rose Mapendo’s Congolese village.  Her husband was mercilessly killed and she was separated from her 5 yr old daughter.  With her remaining 9 children, she eventually resettled in Phoenix, AZ.  Find out how she reunited with her lost daughter a decade later, pieced together her shattered family and found forgiveness while devoting her life to helping other victims.  It will be a life-changing experience for the viewers.

CPCC employees will get one professional development credit hour for attending this event sponsored by your Library, Student Life, Family Resources Center, and The Diversity Committee.

Date & Time:  Tuesday, March 22, 11:00am

Place:  Pease Auditorium