Learning Resource Center

Check out the new guide listing notable books of 2011 that the CFCC Library owns. The list is pulled from annual “Best of…” lists from sources including: Booklist, Library Journal, The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, and Amazon.  It also includes titles from award sources like the Man Booker Prize, the Pen/Faulkner Award, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Awards.  When the Pulitzers are announced on April 12, those titles will be added as well. This is an impressive list of material for your reading pleasure!!  Check out the list and then come over and check out some of the best reads of the year.

The link to access the library guide is:

http://libguides.cfcc.edu/checkitout

Each Friday, the Libraries will be posting here a new video tutorial offering an overview of one of our e-resources. If after viewing the video you have more questions or need help using the resource, please contact the Library:

910-362-7034 or lrcref@cfcc.edu

Small Business Reference Center™ provides up-to-date information on relevant topics, from starting a company, operations management and sales, to growing or rescuing a business.

The database contains nearly 400 full-text periodicals and over 450 full-text reference books to independently address a wide range of small business topics, including:

Buying/selling a business

Managing employees

Writing a business plan

Marketing a business

Understanding legal information

Many of the full-text reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation’s oldest and most-respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses.

We have added a small number of Big Books to the Children’s Literature Collection in the Wilmington Campus Library. Come and check them out!

Welcome to the first edition of Friday Flash. Each Friday, the Libraries will be posting here a new video tutorial offering an overview of one of our e-resources. If after viewing the video you have more questions or need help using the resource, please contact the Library:

910-362-7034 or lrcref@cfcc.edu

Library Books for eReaders 101 at the New Hanover County Public Library

Learn how to checkout eBooks from North Carolina Digital Library and transfer them to compatible eReaders. A librarian from the New Hanover County Public Library will demonstrate the process of downloading library books to a Nook and a Kindle from start to finish and answer questions as time permits. Choose from the four sessions listed below. Please register.

Main Library, 201 Chestnut Street, New Hanover Room

1)      Wednesday February 8^th    2:00-3:00 PM

2)      Wednesday February 22^nd  2:00-3:00 PM

3)      Wednesday March 7^th         2:00-3:00 PM

4)      Wednesday March 21^st       2:00-3:00 PM

Please register using online calendar: www.nhclibrary.org

Free parking – enter deck on 2^nd Street and get ticket validated in the library

Contact Susan for more details:

sdwood@nhcgov.com

798-6353 or 798-6301

Check out these titles, chosen by librarians, publishers, and authors as their must reads from 2011. They include fiction, history, science, sociology, and biographical items. Happy reading!

Kindles     http://www.nhcgov.com/Library/Documents/Kindle.pdf

Mobile Devices (including iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, & Android)  http://www.nhcgov.com/Library/Documents/MobileDevices.pdf

Looking for a good read? Iconic librarian and author of Book Lust and Book Lust to Go, Nancy Pearl, shares her picks of 2011. Check them out!

Thinking of starting a book club this coming year or need to liven up the one you’re in? Here are some titles to consider for 2012.

E-Reader Lunch & Learn Session

Are you thinking of asking Santa for an e-reader this holiday season?  Do you already have a Kindle, Nook, or other e-reader and want to know how to access FREE Library e-books?

Come to our “Lunch & Learn” session to play, ask, discover, and learn about selected e-readers, including the Kindle, Nook, and Sony.  A variety of e-readers will be available to play with!

Susan Wood, Librarian at the New Hanover County Public Library, will be on hand to demonstrate a variety of e-readers and to help you to access e-books from the North Carolina Digital Library.

Date:  Wednesday, December 7^th @ Noon

Location: L-228

This is an informal brown bag session. 

Feel free to bring your lunch!

Tip: If you are bringing your own e-reader, please be sure that it is charged and that you also bring your New Hanover County Public Library card—so you can begin borrowing right away!