Library Announcements
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All students, faculty, and staff of the Roanoke Higher Education Center are invited to attend a Back-to-School Night in the RHEC Courtyard on Thursday, September 11th from 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. The RHEC will provide FREE vouchers for a food truck on-site, as well as games, giveaways, and prizes. Booths representing RHEC Student Services will be present, including the Library! So come say hi! RSVP to Attend.
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Upcoming Programs
🎨 Peaceful Paint Night
Thursday, August 14th | 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
This monthly art program is free and open to the community. All supplies will be provided, as well as drinks and snacks!
More info and registration.
☕ Coffee, Tea, & Poetry
Tuesday, August 26th | 6:00 pm. - 7:30 p.m.
Attendees are invited to share their work (or work they admire) in a safe, judgment-free space. Coffee, tea, and light snacks will be provided.
More info and registration.
♟️ Casual Gaming Night
Friday, September 5th | 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Join our newest community program all about tabletop gaming! Several popular board games will be provided, as well as drinks and snacks. Players are encouraged to bring their favorite board game with them.
More info and registration.
| | Featured new academic, professional development, and study guide titles: | | | | |
Parenting While PhDing: Surviving and Improving the Working Conditions of Graduate Student Parents edited by Jackie Hoermann-Elliott & Jenna Morton-Aiken
Featuring contributions from more than forty current and former graduate students raising children, Parenting While PhDing offers valuable advice for students and administrators. Parents will get practical recommendations on both child care and self-care, learning how to form supportive personal and professional networks while establishing a healthy work/life balance. The collection also offers thoughtful suggestions on how to make graduate programs less toxic and more inclusive.
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Cite Them Right: The Essential Referencing Guide by Richard Pears & Graham Shields
Cite Them Right provides readers with detailed examples of how to cite a wide range of sources, including print and electronic sources, business, government, technical, and legal publications, works of art, images, and more. The updated 13th edition contains coverage of new sources, including registered designs and AI-generated material, and guidance on working with AI tools as part of the process of working on an assignment, so that students understand the implications for maintaining academic integrity and avoiding plagiarism
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Microsoft 365 Word for Professionals by Dan Gookin
An easy-to-understand guide to the more advanced features available in the Microsoft 365 version of Word. You'll delve into topics that you may not have encountered in school or on-the-job training, such as collaborating on a document and using Copilot to improve text. Complete your Word-related tasks more efficiently as you unlock lesser-known tools and learn to organize the application so you can quickly access the features you need. Also available as an ebook!
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Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home
by Stephen Starring Grant
Grant recounts his mid-pandemic stint as a rural mail carrier in this good-natured memoir. In 2020, a 50-year-old Grant was sitting in a North Carolina airport when he was laid off, over the phone, from his job as a consumer strategist. Given the rise of Covid and his recent diagnosis with prostate cancer, he returned to his Virginia hometown (Blacksburg, Virginia) and applied for a spate of jobs that offered health insurance. His only promising lead was with the USPS Rural Carrier team.
- Publishers Weekly
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Atmosphere: A Love Story
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
[Reid] takes the 1980s NASA space shuttle program to new heights in a novel that explores feminism, sexual identity, and humans' innate desire to find a world bigger than themselves. At the heart of the story is Joan Goodwin, who leaves her quiet life as a physics professor at Rice University when she's selected to train at Houston's Johnson Space Center. There, she prepares for space travel alongside pilots, scientists, mission specialists, and engineers who become like family to her.
- Library Journal
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The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction--and a Search for Relief
by Tom Zeller Jr.
Zeller, a former New York Times journalist, dives into a topic whose central feature is, in the words of author Elaine Scarry’s description of all pain, its “unsharability…its resistance to language.” Zeller’s excellent debut book is largely about migraines, an affliction that plagues millions, derails careers, threatens lives, and yet is largely overlooked by the vast biomedical research community. The most disturbing part of the book is his personal story, and the stories of dozens of sufferers, who all pay the price of a life diminished by sudden, unrelenting, excruciating pain.
- Kirkus
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My Name is Emilia del Valle: A Novel
by Isabel Allende; translated by Frances Riddle
In San Francisco in 1866, an Irish nun, abandoned following a torrid relationship with a Chilean aristocrat, gives birth to a daughter named Emilia del Valle. Raised by a loving stepfather, Emilia grows into an independent thinker and a self-sufficient young woman. As she proves herself, her restlessness returns, until an opportunity arises to cover a brewing civil war in Chile. She seizes it, and while there, she meets her estranged father and delves into the violent confrontation in the country where her roots lie.
- from the publisher
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Featured Resource:
Teacher Reference Center
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Teacher Reference Center is a research database for teachers, providing indexing and abstracts for more than 230 peer-reviewed journals.
Topics include:
- Assessment
- Best practices
- Curriculum development
- Instructional media
- Literacy standards
- School administration
- Teacher education
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How to access: If you're connected to the RHEC network, via wired access or wi-fi, you automatically have access. Off-campus access available by entering your RHEC Library Card number. (Need a card? Apply here!)
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This Month's Virtual Display:
Books About Books
Book Lovers Day is coming up on August 9th! An unofficial holiday, Book Lovers Day is dedicated to celebrating reading and literature. In recognition, the Library is featuring books in our collection that cover our favorite subject...books!
Explore the virtual display to discover novels, memoirs, essays, and nonfiction works that celebrate the power of books and reading.
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Reading the Stars: Astrology for Book Lovers
by Book Riot
From the publisher: Reading the Stars is where your favorite books, authors, and characters meet astrology, answering key questions: What should you read based on the cosmos? Do you and your favorite fictional characters share the same sign? What about authors? And what does that mean for you? Open up a whole new world of astrology with this literary exploration!
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What You Are Looking for is in the Library
by Michiko Aoyama; translated by Alison Watts
From the publisher: What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the book recommendation to help them find it.
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