Online Resources Spotlight: Auto Repair Reference Center

Are you doing any car repair this summer?  If you work on cars or trucks, whether you're a student in VGCC's Automotive Systems Technology program, a working mechanic, or a hobbyist, you should check out the Auto Repair Reference Center.

ARRC includes automobile maintenance and repair information for most major car manufacturers from 1985-2010, with some going back even further. (Repair information for the Volkswagen Beetle goes back to 1954!)

Access to Auto Repair Reference Center is provided through NC LIVE. VGCC students, faculty, and staff can get to it by clicking on the picture above. You may need to provide your WebAdvisor login and password. Other residents and students in North Carolina can get at-home access by contacting their local library.

Celebrate Library Month @ VGCC

Learn All About Our Library Services & Resources 

Thanks for a Great Semester & Happy Holidays!

Thank You VGCC Students for Visiting Us this Fall -- See You in 2014!

Banned Books Week

It is not often that we get an almost "front row" view of a real-life banned book incident, but as we mark Banned Books Week 2013 here at the VGCC Libraries, such an event has been playing out just across our state in Randolph County where the local BOE recently took action to ban Ralph Ellison's classic work "Invisible Man" from it's school libraries.  For the latest news on this ongoing situation Follow VGCC Libraries on Twitter.  #bannedbooksweek #IFC_NCLA

We are are also marking BBW 2013 with a special LibGuides Page and a book display in the Main Campus Library.

A Great Start to a New Semester!

We are off to our busiest start ever at the VGCC Main Campus Library (with equally encouraging reports of great turnouts at each of our other library sites).  Students are flocking in -- hitting the computers to work on early assignments, taking advantage of our wireless access, studying individually and in small groups,...and even search our catalog and shelves for monographs*.

* mon·o·graph

ˈmänəˌgraf/

noun

noun: monograph; 

1. a detailed written study of a single specialized subject or an aspect of it.

   "a series of monographs on music in late medieval and Renaissance cities"

   (Thanks, Google!)

   

March on Washington

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.

But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.

Excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech as delivered on August 28, 1963 from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. 

Learn more about the March on Washington and the marking of the event's 50th anniversary in our March on Washington LibGuide.

 

Visit with our Library Services Staff @ VGCC Fall 2013 Orientation Sessions

VGCC Reference Librarian Nicole Robertson prepares to greet prospective students at a recent Fall 2013 Orientation event on our Main Campus in Henderson.  Check the VGCC website www.vgcc.edu for info on upcoming Orientation sessions.