SKCTC Middlesboro Library

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 [...]

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   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 [...]

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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. 

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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 [...]

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So far this academic year — which started July 1, 2009 — the Middlesboro campus library has added about 550 items to its collection.  The vast majority of these items, about 530, are books, while the remaining are DVDs, videotapes, and CD-ROMs.  The complete list of our acquisitions can be found on our Facebook page [...]

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The Middlesboro campus library staff has started doing an occasional “staff picks” book display. With a new semester about to begin, it was my turn to put together a display. I must admit that choosing 8-9 books to highlight as among my “favorites” was difficult, as I have many “favorites.”  The following, in any case, [...]

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On Tuesday, October 20, SKCTC hosted our annual Yoplait Day to raise awareness of breast cancer.  We also held a health fair which provided students, faculty and staff with a variety of health-related information and tests.  We were honored to have Robin Wilhoit of WBIR Channel 10 in Knoxville as our guest speaker.  Ms. Wilhoit spoke about her [...]

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In order to commemorate World Food Day on Friday, October 16, several teachers at the Middlesboro campus of Southeast Kentucky Community &  Technical College requested that their students bring food donations.  Their efforts were extremely successful!  The maintenance department had an overflowing truckload of donated food to deliver to Cooperative Christian Ministries in Middlesboro.  Thanks to [...]

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 Have you ever read a book that you just couldn’t wait to tell people about — only to discover that no one else had read it yet?  We wanted to start a book club, so that anyone who had read our “book of the month” could attend our meeting and talk about it.  This month, [...]

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I’d like to recommend some great books that we have in the library!  These are books that I’ve really enjoyed over the years, and I think they would make great stress-relievers as the semester moves along! The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith This book, set in the African country of Botswana, [...]

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