SKCTC Middlesboro Library

Usually, in purchasing books and other materials for the library, we primarily consider the curricula and students at Southeast.  Occasionally, however, we purchase items with our instructors in mind.  Here are featured six such recently acquired titles. (Though the first — The Community College Companion — was written for students, we include it here for [...]

Read Full Post »

Everyone is excited about this weekend’s Final Four appearance by the UK Wildcats.  The Wildcats have a long and successful history, dominated by colorful players and coaches.  Southeast KY Community and Technical College is lucky to have on its faculty Professor Jamie Vaught, who has written numerous books about the Wildcats.  Come into the library [...]

Read Full Post »

Perhaps it’s because we have a new Spanish teacher who has asked us to acquire  some new titles in her field. But for whatever reason we’ve been busy updating our collection in the distinct but overlapping areas of Latin American Studies, immigration policy, and globalization.  Here are capsule reviews of a few of our recent acquisitions.   Cuba: [...]

Read Full Post »

Middlesboro campus librarian Kevin Murphy is an Idea Festival (IF) enthusiast. He attended both this year’s and last year’s festivals, and this year, when he returned, he set up a display about the IF. The books displayed were authored by IF presenters and reflect the tremendous diversity of cutting-edge ideas presented there. The Idea Festival [...]

Read Full Post »

 The week of Sept. 25 to Oct. 2 is Banned Books Week.  This is the 28th year of the celebration, which champions the freedom to read.  It was started in 1982 to draw attention to the fact that hundreds of books are challenged each year.  Some books are challenged for being too sexually explicit or [...]

Read Full Post »

It’s that time of year when the Middlesboro campus library pulls together various statistics on library operations for the fiscal year that ended July 1. Here’s one of those statistcs: 1044 new items were added to the collection during the 2009-2010 fiscal year. Of that number, 983 were books, the rest were audiovisual materials like [...]

Read Full Post »

   Recently, the library has gotten some new books which highlight some weird events, places and people in Kentucky.  The one which best illustrates this topic is:     Weird Kentucky by Jeffrey Scott Holland F 451.6 .H65 2008 This book takes a colorful look at some of the more unusual things which can be found right [...]

Read Full Post »

We’ve updated our holdings concerning the ACT (American College Test) by purchasing two recently published titles on this subject: Cracking the ACT, 2010 Edition, Princeton Review, 640 pages, and Kaplan ACT 2010 Premier with CD-ROM, Kaplan Publishing, 756 pages.  These titles help prepare students to take the ACT. 

Read Full Post »

February is set aside as African-American History Month and, with that occasion in mind, the Middlesboro campus library recently purchased some new book acquisitions on that subject.  The titles are as follows: Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North, 344 pgs., Princeton University Press, by C.S. Manegold (December, 2009). The author [...]

Read Full Post »