Library Card Sign-up Month

September is Library Card Sign-up Month, and the Carpenter and Horne libraries want to make sure that all students at South Piedmont Community College have the smartest card of all – a library card.

“A library card has always been the most important school supply of all,” said Airen Hartis, librarian at the Carpenter Library. “Students can come to the library to do their homework, but they can also play games, check out books and DVDs, study in our quiet study room and use the Internet to help make school life fun. There’s a lot happening at SPCC libraries and the best part for students is that it’s all free with a library card.”

Setting up your library account is easy. Bring a student ID to either library, fill out a very short form and the account will be created. Students use their SPCC ID as their library card.

Observed since 1987, Library Card Sign-up Month is a time when the American Library Association and libraries across the country remind students and that a library card is the most important school supply of all.

For more information, visit either library or call 704-290-5851 (Carpenter) or 704-272-5389 (Horne). Visit the library online at http://www.spcc.edu/currentstudents.php?cat=46.

Need Moodle or Gmail Assistance?

This semester SPCC is moving all online classes over to Moodle. If you've never used Moodle, it works very similar to Blackboard, but does look a little different. If you would like an introduction and/or have questions about Moodle, please attend one of the library open labs for individual assistance with common Moodle tasks, such as: signing in, adding a discussion post, and navigating around your course site. We can also assist with any Gmail questions you may have.

Open Lab Times:

OCH Campus
Tuesday, August 18 9-10:30 Room 173
Wednesday, August 19, 2:30-3:30, Room 190

LLP Campus
Tuesday, August 18, 9-10:30, Horne Library
Wednesday, August 19, 2:30-3:30, Horne Library

August Poetry Reading

SPCC Literary Arts presents

Poetry Reading

At La Vida Mocha

Friday, August 14th

7:00-8:00

Our featured reader will be Tim K., it’s his birthday too!

His style is an eclectic mix of Celtic ballad, narrative, and lyric which lends itself at times to song. Come out to enjoy Tim's work and the open mic reading afterward.

Come out and read or listen!

Poets are “the unacknowledged legislators of the world”
-Percy Shelley

Phi Theta Kappa Collecting School Supplies for National Guard

Throughout the month of August, Phi Theta Kappa will be accepting donations of school supplies to be distributed to children of Local National Guard troops who are being called to active duty. Pencils, pens, notebooks or anything else you wish to donate will be gladly accepted.

If you would like to donate supplies and are attending classes on the Monroe campus, you may drop them off with Jacque El-Arab in the Student Success office or with Grant LeFoe in the Carpenter Library. If you are going to class on the Polkton campus, you can drop them off in the Horne Library with Karen MacMurray. Thank you in advance for your generosity!

Great New Resources from NCLIVE!

NC LIVE has added three new e-resources to its current EBSCOhost offerings, including:

• Consumer Health Complete
• Science Reference Center
• TOPICsearch

Consumer Health Complete

Designed to support the information needs of patients, and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics, CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.

This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc.
Click here to access Consumer Health Complete

Science Reference Center

A comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources.

Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife. Science Reference Center also provides teachers and librarians with articles correlated to state and national curriculum standards.
Click here to access Science Reference Center.

TOPICsearch

A current events database that allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints.

TOPICsearch contains full text for over 60,000 articles from 399 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
Click here to access TOPICsearch.

Remember, if you are accessing these resources off-campus you will need an NCLIVE password, click here to submit a password request form

Poetry reading Friday night at La Vida Mocha.

7:00 p.m.

Janis, one of our fine graduates, will be the featured reader. Janis is married and has two children and three grandchildren. She is a learner at Wingate University and will soon graduate with a teaching degree. She loves working with all children but is especially interested in working in high risk schools. Janis writes about social and women's issues with passion and insight.

We hope to see you at La Vida Mocha on Friday night.

Sponsored by SPCC Literary Arts Club.
A Learning College Event!

New Bestsellers Just Arrived!

Check out the newest additions to SPCC Libraries!
Remember that you can have books delivered to your campus library from either location.
Contact us for more information...Enjoy!

My Father’s Tears

By: John Updike

A collection of short fiction includes tales set in the author's native Pennsylvania, the New England suburbs, and foreign countries, all depicting different facets of the American experience from the Depression through the aftermath of 9/11.

Home Game

By: Michael Lewis

An unsparing observation about the disparity between social expectation and

the actual experiences of new fathers shares stories from the author's life after the births of his three children.

The Girls from Ames

By: Jeffrey Zaslow

The Girls from Ames looks at the lives, bonds, and experiences of a group of female friends from Ames, Iowa.

Die For You

By: Lisa Unger

When her husband disappears, Isabel Raines begins a desperate search only to discover his office in the midst of an FBI raid, her apartment ransacked, and that the man she thought she married has actually been dead for years.

The Strain

By: Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan

A vampiric virus infects New York and spreads outward, threatening the city and then the world, as a CDC doctor and a Holocaust survivor fight to save humanity.

The Story Sisters

By: Alice Hoffman

A family drama and coming of age story follows the lives of three sisters who create a magical world on their street to escape a tragedy that has changed them forever.

The Scarecrow

By: Michael Connelly

Pursuing a big story in anticipation of his imminent layoff, Los Angeles reporter Jack McEvoy investigates the murder confession of a teen drug dealer and realizes that the youth may be innocent, a discovery that pits him against a killer operating below police radar.

Beach Trip

By: Cathy Holton

In an attempt to relive the carefree days of college, four middle-aged friends reunite for a vacation in a North Carolina beach house and inevitably confront the demons of their shared past.

Matters of the Heart

By: Danielle Steel

Journeying to London to do a shoot of one of the world's most celebrated writers, Soho photographer Hope Dunne is attracted by Finn O'Neill's boyish charm and accepts his invitation to his isolated Irish estate, where gaps in his history and confusing lies raise Hope's suspicions.

The Neighbor

By: Lisa Gardner

In the wake of a wife and mother's disappearance from her suburban home, an ensuing
police investigation focuses on the missing woman's husband, whose suspicious behavior reveals cracks in their seemingly idyllic family life.

Relentless

By: Dean Koontz

Unable to let go of a poor review of his latest best-seller, novelist Cubby Greenwich tracks down the reclusive critic, only to trigger a terrifying chain of events that reveal the critic's sociopathic tendencies.

Shanghai Girls

By: Lisa See

Forced to leave Shanghai when their father sells them to California suitors, sisters May and Pearl struggle to adapt to life in 1930s Los Angeles while still bound to old customs, as they face discrimination and confront a life-altering secret.

Summer on Blossom Street

By: Debbie Macomber

As new clients, including a woman recovering from a broken engagement and a lawyer fighting to save his career, find friendship in her knitting class, Lydia Goetz deals with her own share of drama when a stranger comes to her store stirring up trouble.