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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:

   

  • Police Reform
  • White Supremacy
  • Abortion
  • Arms Trade
  • Athletes and Sports
  • Child Welfare
  • Children of Undocumented Immigrants
  • Civil Liberties
  • Criminal Justice
  • Gun Control
  • K12 Education
  • Multiracial America

  • Racism
  • Rap and Hip-Hop Music
  • Sentencing and Prison Reform
  • Social Justice
  • States’ Rights
  • Student Activism and Free Speech
  • Supreme Court
  • Taliban
  • Two-Party System
  • Voting Laws
  • Women in Politics
  • Workplace Diversity

   

  November 18, 2020 • Collection Updates • Views: 1061

• LearningExpress Library

  Have you ever used LearningExpress Library? This excellent learning & test prep resource covers a variety of topics useful to DCTC students:

  • high school equivalency
  • college prep
  • college success
  • adult core skills
  • computer skills
  • career preparation
  • job & career acceleration

  You can prepare for the journeyman electrician exam, the ATI-TEAS for nursing, the ACT or SAT, the GED, and CLEP tests, among others. You can access free e-books, articles, and tutorials on interview prep and resume writing, improving your writing and grammar, or prepping to become a U.S. citizen. There are even Spanish-language resources. I encourage you to explore all that the LearningExpress Library has to offer!

   

  

  Any questions? Email library@dctc.edu!

  November 12, 2020 • Collection Updates • Views: 105

• New videos in Films on Demand!

  Films On Demand added 643 new videos in October. There are studies of decades from the 1940’s to the 2000’s, a feature on the Vietnam War, counseling tips from Lee Greenberg, a documentary on mental illness among Olympic athletes, and so much more! Take a look!

   

  

   

   

  

   

  November 10, 2020 • Collection Updates • Views: 112

• AccessScience update

  AccessScience added new content in September and October. New briefings include:

  • 2020 U.S. Pacific West Coast wildfire disaster
  • Asphalt pavement and roofs are a significant source of urban air pollutants
  • Asymmetrical motion of stellar winds shapes a rich diversity of planetary nebulae
  • New Guinea singing dog is rediscovered in the wild
  • Phosphine gas, a sign of life, in the atmosphere of Venus
  • Wild poliovirus eradicated in Africa
  • 3D printing of large and complex rocket engine parts
  • A new realm of ultrafast physics at the zeptosecond scale
  • Deep learning used to count satellite-imaged trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel
  • Observing quasar-hosting galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope
  • Tasmanian devils reintroduced on the Australian mainland
  • The relationship between obesity and COVID-19

  New and updated articles include:

  • Fertilizers and nutrient management
  • Radioactivity
  • Nobel Prizes for 2020
  • Self-driving car

  

  November 9, 2020 • Collection Updates • Views: 1552

• New titles

  Take a look at the new books and movies we added to our collection during October! You can find these and everything else in our collection through our catalog, OneSearch. Here are just a few of the new titles. Check them out!

      

     

      

  November 4, 2020 • Collection Updates • Views: 1082

• The Reference Shelf update

  If you’re looking for extensive, unbiased coverage of social issues and topics in the news, check out the Reference Shelf series. You’ll find print copies on our shelves and most are also online at Salem Online. The latest three titles are:

  • Pollution
  • Internet Law
  • U.S. National Debate Topic: 2020-2021 Criminal Justice Reform

     

  Get the facts and have an informed opinion!

  October 28, 2020 • Collection Updates • Views: 930

• Free magazine and journal issues

  2021 will be here soon and we need to discard our oldest magazine and journal issues to make room for new ones. Please see this spreadsheet of discarded issues and contact Naomi if you’d like any of them for your department.

  October 27, 2020 • Collection Updates • Views: 522

• Films On Demand update

  Films On Demand added 1,643 new videos in September. Take a look!

   

  

  October 7, 2020 • Collection Updates • Views: 1598

• AccessScience update

  AccessScience added new content in August. New briefings include:

  • Experiments cast doubt on long-sought sterile neutrinos
  • Extremely distant galaxy is surprisingly similar to Milky Way
  • Mysterious die-off of bush elephants in Botswana
  • New observations show ground-level ozone is increasing in the Northern Hemisphere
  • Smallpox found in skeletons of Vikings
  • Solar-panel recycling concerns

  New and updated articles include:

  • Center of gravity
  • Color
  • Conservation of mass
  • Epigenome
  • Hybrid vehicle
  • Metabolomics

  

  September 17, 2020 • Collection Updates • Views: 1448

• 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:

   

  • Ownership of Exotic Animals
  • Quarantine and Isolation Measures
  • Congressional Ethics
  • Cosmetic Surgery
  • Depression
  • Electronic Voting
  • Gerrymandering and Redistricting
  • Government Spending
  • Internet Activism

  • Police Brutality
  • Prisons
  • Privacy
  • Race Relations
  • Refugees in the United States
  • Riots in the United States
  • Standardized Testing
  • Vaccines
  • Water Pollution

   

  September 4, 2020 • Collection Updates • Views: 997