JSTOR (Journal Storage) is an electronic archive of academic journals. JTCC subscribes to four of JSTOR’s collections, which gives students and faculty to approximately 550 journals. The collections are particularly strong in the humanities, notably history, language, literature, political science, art, and philosophy. JSTOR journals work on a moving wall system; there is a time [...]
Filmmaker and film historian Kevin Brownlow has spent over forty years working tirelessly to preserve and document the age of silent cinema. In the 1960’s he began to interview hundreds of people associated with the era. From actors and directors to stuntmen and technicians, he realized that a whole generation of knowledgeable artists was beginning to pass into [...]
80 Years of Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards is Robert Osborne’s latest update to a series of histories he began when the Academy celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1978. Osborne, a columnist for The Hollywood Reporter and long time host of the Turner Classic Movies network, is also the official historian of [...]
The Midlothian library has been open for nearly two months and is even more popular than the old library. The new library is located on the second floor of the new Science Building, in room C202. The new space features:
120 networked computers, all with Vista and Office 2007
Comfortable seating
More open study tables
Four [...]
The Midlothian Campus Library is moving to the new science building.
The library will be closed during the move, from July 27-August 22.
Return books to book drops in first floor hall of Academic Building or on traffic circle next to the Academic Building.
Need to pay fines or pay for lost materials? Check with the business office [...]
Subtitled “two dudes, one fry-oil-powered car, and a cross-country search for a greener future,” Greasy Rider mixes the adventure of a cross country road trip with stories from the ecological side of America.
Author Greg Melville converts his 1995 Mercedes diesel to run on used cooking oil. So enthralled with his “new” vehicle, he enlists his [...]
Spring Break is here - time to pick up some vacation reading! Here are two suggestions.
Lethal Legacy
Murder in the library? The New York Public Library? Not quite, but the NYPL is the setting for much of Linda Fairstein’s 11th legal thriller starring sleuth Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cooper. Cooper thinks she is investigating an assault/ [...]
Mark Vieira’s book Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood, published in 1999, offers a fascinating window into a Hollywood era that many people know little about. It focuses on films made between 1929 and 1934 when studio filmmakers often ignored what became known as the Hays Code. This was basically an attempt by the major studios to head off government [...]
Ever sat through a long history lecture on kings or presidents and thought, “There must be more to the story?” Or even “What was everyone ELSE doing when Washington and his friends were crossing the Delaware?”
A Peoples’ History of the American Empire tells the real tale–the grassroots history–in graphic form (graphic=sequential art or comic book [...]
Get the full story when you search for articles–ask for full text.
Thousands of articles are available for free through the library’s EBSCO databases, but you have to know how to ask for them.
To find the entire article when searching, click the Full Text box in the main search page. (Check here for an example–the [...]