Black History Month

February is Black History Month. The library display case is featuring an excellent collection of books on the African American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968). Learn about the key events and main figures of this movement, and why it is important not only to the history of the United States but to world history as well. Key events of this movement include: Brown v. Board of Education, Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Desegregating Little Rock, Sit-ins, 1960 (50 year anniversary), Freedom Rides, Integration of Mississippi Universities, The March on Washington, Dr. King Awarded Nobel Peace Prize, The King Assassination, and Race Riots. Come to the library to see the images and events of this important and tumultuous time in recent U.S. history.

Free Online Black History Resources

One of the publishers we work with, Gale, offers free resources like timelines and biographies for Black History Month. You can find these resources at http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/.

New Virtual Reference Books

We recently added new eBooks to our Reference collection. You'll be able to access titles like American Decades Primary Sources, the Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, the World Encyclopedia of Police Forces and Correctional Systems, and many more. You can find these and other online reference books in our catalog, which is available on our library home page, http://www.century.edu/library/. You may just come across them when searching by topic, but if you want to see a complete list, search for Gale Virtual Reference.

You can also search them through the Gale Virtual Reference Library database on our Databases A-Z list.

Pat Loving Memorial Tapestry

This tapestry in memory of Pat Loving, a former Century librarian, is now hanging in the Library on the wall by the West emergency exit. As you can see from the photo, it is truly beautiful.

Cutting Edge Technology in Prosthetics

The January 2010 edition of National Geographic has a cover story on neural prostheses -- commonly known as bionics. Check it out at the link below or stop in the library and peruse the whole issue!

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/01/bionics/fischman-text

Library Closed January 16-18

The Century College Library will be closed January 16-18 for the Martin Luther King holiday.

Discover Graphic Novels!

The January display case is featuring the increasingly popular graphic novel. Graphic novels combine text and art usually in a comic strip format bound as a book to tell a story. The graphic novel collection in the library includes newer titles such as Persepolis and Watchmen to standards such as Treasure Island and Call of the Wild. Get acquainted with this popular genre!