SKCTC Middlesboro Library

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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We’ve ordered close to 60 new books in recent days and they are starting to trickle in. They cover a wide range: health care, decision science, social networking, drugs and alcohol, criminal law, politics of gun control, a biography or two, and about a half-dozen novels. Below are a few of our new arrivals. Put [...]

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On August 4, 2009, the Louisville Free Public Library suffered a disaster when their building flooded.  The library building sustained a great deal of damage, and the employees are still cleaning up the mess.  In order to raise awareness of the needs of the library and to raise funds to help them, librarians are celebrating [...]

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One of the most popular types of fiction is the mystery.  People what to know “whodunnit” and to see that person caught.  The reader can follow along as the main character discovers clues, and perhaps even guess the villain before the detective does!  There are many reasons why people like to read mysteries.  One aspect [...]

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