Pellissippi Library http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/ Pellissippi Library posts its latest news about resources and services. en Copyright 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:10:04 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Learning Express Library Learning_Express_Library.gifThe Tennessee Electronic Library provides access to an exciting new resource: Learning Express Library. This is an interactive learning platform made up of online practice tests and tutorials for a variety of academic and licensing tests. It is a great tool that enables users to practice for the GED, the GRE, the MCAT, and more. You may find that familiarity with test formats helps you to better prepare, so you can give your best effort on test day.

Some of the featured resources available are:


  • PRAXIS Teaching Exam

  • Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)

  • U.S. Citizenship

  • LSAT

  • Firefighter Exams

  • ACT

  • SAT

  • ASVAB (Military Entrance)

  • Postal Worker Exam

New exams and tutorials are added regularly. A feature of Learning Express Library is to keep track of your scores so you can watch yourself improve.

Create your personal account at Learning Express Library. Click on "New User" to set up your account. Be sure to remember your account information so you can access your personal account later and to continue with a test you may have started at a later date.

]]> http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2008/07/post_1.html http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2008/07/post_1.html Online databases Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:10:04 -0500 Inside China InsideChina.jpgAvailable at the Library's "New Books" shelve, right next to the Reference Desk, National Geographic describes this photography book: China's emergence as an economic and cultural giant reigns as a key international story of our time. In an unprecedented visual tour de force, National Geographic chronicles this astonishing ascent through some of the most eye-opening, evocative, and extraordinary pictures ever recorded of the enigmatic nation, past and present.

]]> http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2008/06/inside_china.html http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2008/06/inside_china.html Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:11:09 -0500 Library Summer Hours librarystacks.jpg

The Library's hours during Summer Semester (May 27 - July 24, 2008) are:

Monday - Thursday 8:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Friday 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Saturday Closed

For additional information or questions contact the Library Circulation Desk at 865-694-6516, or the Library Reference Desk at 865-539-7107.

]]> http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2008/05/library_interim.html http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2008/05/library_interim.html News Wed, 07 May 2008 09:31:33 -0500 National Poetry Month alleycat.jpg It starts with:

Come into the Garden, Fred,
For the neighborhood tabby is gone.
Come into the garden Fred.
I have nothing but my flea collar on....

For more information on poetry check out Columbia Granger's World of Poetry. Use it to find the full text of poems, or to locate the book a poem was published in. Grangers also includes biographies of poets, and streaming audio of poems in the "listening room". Or take a look at the Poetry for Student's 26 volume series. Read about the poet Dana Gioia to learn more about him, his poems, their style, themes and criticisms of his writings. Gale's Poetry Criticism series is another important collection with over 50 volumes available online, providing substantial critical essays and biographical information on major poets from all eras.

Search the Library Catalog for other books of poems written by Dana Gioia to take with you for your enjoyment during National Poetry Month.]]> http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2008/04/national_poetry.html http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2008/04/national_poetry.html News Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:32:25 -0500 National Library Week Celebrate National Library Week, April 13-19, 2008. First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April. It is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries and librarians and to promote library use and support. All types of libraries - school, public, academic and special - participate. Take a look at this National Library Week fact sheet for more information.

]]> http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2008/04/national_librar.html http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2008/04/national_librar.html News Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:30:00 -0500 Who was Mrs. Ada Wright? dp46-I003.jpgIn 1933, Mrs. Ada Wright, an African-American resident of the state of Alabama, went on a six-month, 16-country speaking tour of Europe. The trip was sponsored by the International Labor Defense, an arm of the Communist Party. Mrs. Wright was touring the world to speak out about the case against nine black youths, now famously known as the Scottsboro Boys, accused of raping two white women on a train going from Chattanooga to Memphis. Mrs. Wright had a particular interest in this case because two of the boys were her sons.
Women have sometimes been called on in the history of the United States to step forward in protest of injustice. The story of Mrs. Wright, and of many other women who played a role in the history of the United States, can be found in Women and Social Movements, 1600-2000, Scholar's Edition, a database available to members of the Pellissippi State community for their research needs. Here is a link to the article: Mrs. Ada Wright -- Mother of Two of the Scottsboro Boys -- Just Returned from Europe -- Will Make her First Public Appearance in Harlem.
To learn more about the database and research women and U.S. History, please follow this link: Women and Social Movements (in the U.S. 1600-2000) .

]]> http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2008/03/who_was_mrs_ada_wright.html http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2008/03/who_was_mrs_ada_wright.html Online databases Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:39:00 -0500 Are Women Human? If you walk by the New Book Shelf, it's hard not to notice some of the book titles. The following three in particular are real neck craners.
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In Are Women Human?, the author Catherine A MacKinnon asks if women were human would they be sold into sexual slavery worldwide, veiled, silenced, and imprisoned in homes; bred, and worked as menials for little or no pay; stoned for sex outside marriage or burned to death within it; mutilated genitally, impoverished economically, and mired in illiteracy--all as a matter of course and without effective recourse?

frailty.gif The Frailty Myth strikes a more hopeful and upbeat note, suggesting that the difference between men and women in physical strength is a matter of learning and training and that when men and women are matched in terms of size and level of training, the strength gap closes. Author Colette Dowling who in 1981 confronted women's fear of independence in The Cinderella Complex, questions that women must accept their physical inferiority and offers that true equality isn't possible until women learn how to stand up for themselves--physically.
nice.jpgAnd finally for some practical advice for any woman who wants to move ahead career-wise is Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office 101. by Executive Coach Lois P. Frankel, Phd. According to Frankel, women hold themselves back in the corporate world by such self-defeating behaviors as working too hard, decorating their offices like their living room, feeding others, asking permission, and smiling inappropriately.

]]> http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2008/03/are_women_human.html http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2008/03/are_women_human.html Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:10:35 -0500 March 2008 Newsletter! newslettermarch08.gifThe Library's March 2008 Newsletter is now available. Featured this month is an article about ACLS Humanities e-Books. This is a collection of full text history and humanities books that include titles such as "The Death Penalty: an American History", " The medieval idea of marriage". Read the Library newsletter for more suggested titles . Pick up a copy at the Library's Reference Desk, Satellite Campus ERCs or follow this link to the newsletter:
March 2008 Newsletter

]]> http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2008/03/march_2008_news.html http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2008/03/march_2008_news.html News Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:49:09 -0500 Black History Month @ Division St ERC afamns.jpgTake a few moments to visit the Black History Month book exhibit in the Division St. ERC, Room 208. Here are a few titles that might be of interest:

  • Children of the Night: the Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to present
  • The N Word: who can say it, who shouldn't and why by Jabari Asim
  • Forbidden Fruit: Love stories from the Underground Railroad by Betty DeRamis
  • Brown Sugar: over one hundred years of black female superstars by Donald Bogle
  • Dreamer: a novel by Charles Johnson
  • The African American Kitchen: Cooking from our Heritage by Angela Medearis (cookbook)
  • Fatherhood by Bill Cosby
  • Love and Marriage by Bill Cosby
  • Hallelujah! The Welcome Table by Maya Angelou (cookbook)
  • Yesterday will make you cry by Chester Himes
  • Natural Health for African Americans by Marcellus Walker
  • Building Homes out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power by Psyche A. Williams-Forson (cookbook w/stories)

    • Search the Library's Online Catalog for more!

    Image from: Library of Congress: African American Odyssey

    ]]> http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2008/02/black_history_m.html http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2008/02/black_history_m.html News Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:16:01 -0500 Hot off the Presses: January 2008 Library Newsletter!

    newsletter_image.gifThe January 2008 issue of the Library Newsletter is now in publication! Get the latest in new resources including books on the New Book Shelf, new DVDs available for viewing in Educational Technology Services, and featured online databases. For example, Poetry for Students and Short Stories for Students are now available through Gale Virtual Reference Library. Here are links to both:

    Poetry for Students
    Short Stories for Students

    Learn more from the Newsletter about these databases and other new resources: January 2008 Library Newsletter


    ]]>     http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2008/01/pellissippi_lib.html http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2008/01/pellissippi_lib.html Online databases Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:09:15 -0500     Extra! Extra! Read All About Tennessee Newspapers! NewsBankGood news! Tennessee's four major newspapers--the Knoxville News Sentinel, the Chattanooga Times Free Press, The Tennessean, (Nashville) and The Commercial Appeal(Memphis) -- are now available and searchable through NewsBank on Pellissippi Library's Web site. Paid ads are excluded. What is included is the latest news through today with one exception--since the News Sentinel is a local paper, the current day's news is not available until the next day. Get the latest: Tennessee Newspapers

    ]]>     http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2007/12/extra_extra_rea.html http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2007/12/extra_extra_rea.html News Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:52:29 -0500     New eBook: Unknown Quantity Unknown%20Quantity_RealnImaginary_History_of%20Algebra.jpgJohn Derbyshire's book Unknown Quantity: A Real And Imaginary History of Algebra has received excellent reviews and has just become available as a NetLibrary eBook.


    Ben Longstaff in New Scientist writes: This really is a history of algebra, but don't be scared. The story of algebra is the story of civilisation itself: like a barometer of enlightenment, it has flourished in all the great cultures. A world away from schoolroom tedium, John Derbyshire's Unknown Quantity buzzes with rivalries, frustrations and breakthroughs. As with his excellent Prime Obsession, there are equations aplenty, but this is all to the good: the mix of narrative and handson mathematical alchemy amounts to more than the sum of its parts. A first-rate account that even algebraphobes will struggle to fault.

    Longstaff, Ben.Equal this.(Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra." New Scientist 190.2557 (June 24, 2006):. Academic OneFile. Thomson Gale. Pellissippi State Tech Comm College. 14 Apr. 2007.

    ]]>     http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2007/04/new_ebook_unknown_quantity.html http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2007/04/new_ebook_unknown_quantity.html eBooks Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:36:30 -0500     TimesSelect free to .edu TimesSelect free to .edu

    Do you read the New York Times online? If so, you might be interested in the New York Times offering their Op Ed and news commentary at no cost to college students and faculty.

    TimesSelect Image includes access to commentary and analysis by New York Times Op Ed and news columnists, web journals, multimedia, blogs and podcasts; with free access to NYT archives back to 1981.

    TimesSelect Image normally cost $7.95 a month or $49.95 annually, but as of March 13, 2007 college students and faculty can join for free.

    Visit http://NYTimes.com/University to sign on.

    ]]>     http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2007/04/timesselect_fre.html http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2007/04/timesselect_fre.html News Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:19:23 -0500     Iraq Study Group Report available as pdf download
    isg_report_cover.jpg    The U.S. Institute of Peace is making the
    complete Iraq Study Group Report available for download in pdf. 
    They write:   In our efforts to make this report available to all, the report may be downloaded, reproduced, and translated free of charge. The United States Institute of Peace would appreciate being informed of translations so that we may direct our international readers to the respective versions.

    ]]>     http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2006/12/iraq_study_grou.html http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2006/12/iraq_study_grou.html News Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:04:15 -0500     New Library E-Tour Have you ever needed to search the Library's online catalog or an online database, but didn't know how? Do you wonder just exactly what you can find in the Library, and what it can offer you?

    If you want to learn about the Library and brush up on your searching skills, take a look at the Library's new e-tour!

    The e-tour will take you on a narrated walking tour of the Library, and will show you what can be found on the Library's webpage. The e-tour will also walk you through the process of searching for materials in the Library's online catalog and conducting research in an online database.

    The e-tour is a great tool for anyone who wants to learn about the Pellissippi Library, and will also be used as a library orientation in conjunction with some Pellissippi classes. Check it out today!

    ]]>     http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2006/11/new_library_eto.html http://www.pstcc.edu/~mtype/pstcc_library/2006/11/new_library_eto.html Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:35:22 -0500