2022 will be here soon and we need to discard our oldest magazine issues to make room for new ones. Please see this spreadsheet of discarded issues and contact Melanie if you’d like any of them for your department.
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Free magazine issues
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AccessScience update
AccessScience added new content in September. New briefings include:- Inheritance of social organization among spotted hyenas
- Methods of oceanic carbon capture and storage
- Possible observation of triangle singularity offers insights into the strong force governing particle interactions
New and updated articles include:
- Astrophysics
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Heat
- Impact
- Impulse (mechanics)
- Machine learning
- Measles
- Rotational motion
- Software engineering
- Thermal conduction in solids
- Torque
- Trajectory
- Velocity
New videos and animations include:
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Films on Demand update
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Halloween in the Library
The Library is getting into the Halloween spirit! Check out our latest display of scary books and movies.
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National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. According to the National Cancer Institute, one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during her lifetime. Learn more about the disease, its prevention, and treatment with books, ebooks, and videos from our collection.Check out these sites for more information:
- American Cancer Society – Breast Cancer
- CDC – Breast Cancer
- MedlinePlus – Breast Cancer
- National Breast Cancer Foundation – Breast Cancer Awareness Month
- National Cancer Institute – Breast Cancer
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Oktoberfest in the Library
It’s Oktoberfest in the Library! Check out our latest display on German language, customs, music, food, and of course… beer!
Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Nein? Learn to speak German with fun, self-paced courses at Mango Languages. There’s even a special Oktoberfest unit.
And learn more about German culture, people, and history with CultureGrams, a new database with information about every country in the world.
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Free books
Please see the latest spreadsheet of Library discards and contact Melanie if you’d like any of them for your department. These include books on psychology, business, and electrical codes.
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LinkedIn Learning
Did you know that DCTC provides LinkedIn Learning for all students and employees? LinkedIn Learning, formerly known as Lynda.com, is an online learning platform offering thousands of self-paced video tutorials covering business, creative, and technology topics, including:- business analysis
- leadership skills
- QuickBooks and Excel for accounting
- small business marketing
- diversity and inclusion
- graphic design
- AutoCAD and Revit
- photography
- network administration and security
- Android and iOS development
Instructors can curate collections of videos, share these with students, and track their progress. Users can also download certificates of completion for completed courses and add these to their online resumes.
DCTC students log in with the username ab1234cd@go.minnstate.edu, replacing ab1234cd with your actual StarID. DCTC employees do the same, except with the username ab1234cd@minnstate.edu.
Log in and start learning today!
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Opposing Viewpoints update
Opposing Viewpoints is constantly adding and updating coverage of current events and social issues, perfect for students writing argument papers. Here are some new and recently updated topics:- Bias, Prejudice, and Discrimination
- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Drilling
- Carbon Offsets
- Cybercrime
- Espionage and Intelligence
- Hunting
- Islamophobia
- LGBTQ+ Community Equality
- Local Food Movement
- Media Coverage of Mass Violence
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Military Deployment
- Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)
- Native American Rights
- Native Hawaiian Sovereignty
- Oil Pipelines
- Public Transportation
- Renewable Energy
- US Census
- US-Israel Relations
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Banned Books Week 2021
“Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.” —Article 3, Library Bill of Rights
Did you know there are hundreds of attempts to remove books from libraries and classrooms every year? Please join us in celebrating this year’s Banned Books Week (September 26 – October 2) and our freedom to read. You can learn more with our Banned Books library guide. Here are some of the titles on the American Library Association’s lists of Frequently Challenged Books that you’ll find in our collection:
- The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
- 1984, by George Orwell
- The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
- The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
- Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
- The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
- The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
- The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
- Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
- Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
- Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
- To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
- My Sister’s Keeper, by Jodi Picoult
- The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
- The Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling
- The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein
- And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
Check one out and exercise your First Amendment rights!
