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• Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

  May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, a celebration of the Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) who have enriched American history and culture. Learn more with books, ebooks, and videos from our collection. Check out these sites for more information:

  • Asian Pacific American Heritage Association
  • Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
  • Census.gov – Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month: May 2022
  • Meet Minneapolis – Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
  • Minnesota Historical Society – Chinese-Americans in Minnesota
  • Minnesota Historical Society – Hmong-Americans in Minnesota
  • Smithsonian – Asian Pacific American Center

  May 19, 2022 • Uncategorized • Views: 1778

• Summer hours

  The Library’s summer hours are:

  • Monday – Thursday: 8 AM to 1 PM
  • Friday: CLOSED

  Whether you’re traveling, gardening, or looking for some good fiction to read this summer, we’ve got you covered. And don’t forget, our Online Resources are always open.

  May 18, 2022 • Uncategorized • Views: 40424

• Gardening resources

  It’s May in Minnesota, which means it’s time to start planning our gardens! We’ve got hundreds of books and ebooks on all kinds of gardening, which you can also find in our virtual Gardening & Landscaping collection or currently on display in the Library.

  
  

  Ebooks Minnesota offers ebooks on gardening for kids, attracting butterflies, indoor gardening, landscaping with native plants, square foot gardening, and more.

  
  

  Gardening and Horticulture is one of our Gale databases, with millions of articles on the scientific aspects of horticulture as well as practical gardening information.

  

  May 2, 2022 • Uncategorized • Views: 1740

• Library closed during spring break

  The Library will be closed for spring break from Saturday, March 5th through Sunday, March 13th. Staff will be here limited hours during the break; please e-mail library@dctc.edu if you need anything.

  Have a happy and safe spring break, everyone!

  March 4, 2022 • Uncategorized • Views: 1330

• Russia-Ukraine conflict

  The situation in Ukraine is rapidly changing. Learn more and keep up-to-date with these resources:

  • Gale in Context: Global Issues. Reference content, news, viewpoints, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more, covering the most important issues of the modern world. Includes a new report on the Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
  • ProQuest U.S. Newsstream. Full-text articles from hundreds of U.S. newspapers, newswires, and news sites, including same day access to over 250 titles. Includes the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Star Tribune.
  • Gale OneFile: News. Articles from more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world.
  • Newspaper Source. Full-text articles from hundreds of newspapers, plus television and radio news transcripts.
  • World Politics Review. Analysis of world politics and global trends.

  March 3, 2022 • Uncategorized • Views: 187

• Magazines in the Library

  

  Need a break from screens? Stop by the Library and enjoy the simple pleasure of flipping through the pages of a magazine. We have the following subscriptions to choose from:

  • Atlantic Monthly
  • Better Homes and Gardens
  • Computers in Libraries
  • Consumer Reports
  • Discover
  • Entrepreneur
  • Fast Company
  • Health
  • Hot Rod
  • House Beautiful
  • IQ: Initiative Quarterly
  • Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA)
  • Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
  • Library Journal

  • Midwest Living
  • Minnesota History
  • Motor Trend
  • Mpls St Paul
  • National Geographic
  • OfficePro
  • People
  • Prevention
  • Psychology Today
  • Reader’s Digest
  • Shape
  • Southern Living
  • Twin Cities Business
  • Wired

  We’ve got comfy spaces to kick back and read, or you can check out a few issues and take them home. Enjoy!

  November 17, 2021 • Uncategorized • Views: 313

• New Gale display options

  Our Gale databases have some new display options to improve the readability of articles.

  • Color: Keep the background color white or choose from gray, peach, or lime
  • Font: Change the font to Open Sans, EB Garamond, OpenDyslexic, or Noto Sans
  • Spacing: Adjust the spacing between letters, words, and lines of text

  

  Read Gale’s article “Expanding Accessibility with New Text Display Features” for more information and thanks to Minitex for sharing this news!

  November 12, 2021 • Uncategorized • Views: 288

• Cooking for the holidays

  

  Thanksgiving and the holiday season will be here soon, which means lots of cooking and shared meals. If you’d like to try something new this year, you’ll find hundreds of cookbooks (including ebooks) in our collection. Check one out and expand your culinary horizons!

    
  
    
  
    
  
   

  November 8, 2021 • Uncategorized • Views: 2573

• Halloween in the Library

  

  The Library is getting into the Halloween spirit! Check out our latest display of scary books and movies.

  October 18, 2021 • Uncategorized • Views: 262

• 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.

  October 6, 2021 • Uncategorized • Views: 342