December 2022
Announcements:
Winter Break Hours
The library will be closed for the holidays on the following dates:

December 23rd - December 26th
December 30th - January 2nd
New Print Books
New Ebooks
Featured new additions to our ebook collections:



  • Disability Friendly: How to Move From Clueless to Inclusive by John D. Kemp | Access via O'Reilly

  • Small Teaching K-8: Igniting the Teaching Spark With the Science of Learning by Sarah Connell Sanders | Access via O'Reilly

  • Teaching for Justice & Belonging: A Journey for Educators & Parents by Tehia Starker Glass | Access via O'Reilly

  • Running Effective Meetings for Dummies by Joseph A. Allen & Karin M. Reed | Access via O'Reilly
*To access O'Reilly titles select your institution as "Not Listed" and enter your academic email address ending in .edu. OSO, Wiley, Springer, and Taylor & Francis titles are available while connected to the RHEC network.
Featured Resource:
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is an EBSCO full-text database for psychologists, counselors, researchers, and students. It provides hundreds of full-text psychology journals and offers particularly strong coverage in child and adolescent psychology and counseling.

How to access: if you're using the RHEC network, via wired connection or wi-fi, you automatically have access. If you would like to use these databases at home, you may create an account by clicking the Sign In link at the top while connected to the RHEC network. Sign in with your account at home to have full access!
This Month's Display:
Popular Science
This month the library is displaying some of the best popular science books from our collection. Ranging from microbiology to astrophysics, these titles take intimidating topics and make them accessible, interesting, and engrossing reads.

Be sure to stop by the library to check out a fun science read before Winter Break. Learn some interesting trivia to share with your family (or just to show off) over the holidays!
Staff Pick of the Month
by Gabrielle Zevin
(PS3626.E95 T66 2022)

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a decade-spanning novel about childhood friends who form an independent video game company in college. The story explores all that can come from creative partnerships: success, fame, and fulfillment, as well as miscommunication, duplicity, and discord.

Zevin's protagonists, Sam and Sadie, connect to each other through their mutual love of video games, a form of media that even today is seen as relatively new, and the creators of which still have to fight to be seen as artists. If you're into video games yourself, you'll certainly enjoy the many references to games from the 1980s to the mid-2000s. However, knowing or liking video games is not a prerequisite to reading the novel. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a universal story about the creative process, our need for connection, and the power and possibility behind invented worlds.

Fun fact: in the novel, the character Sadie creates a game called Emily Blaster, where the player shoots at words to create Emily Dickinson's poems. The book's publisher turned it into a real game that you can play for free right now!