February 2022
New Print Books
Featured new additions to our print collection:
New Ebooks
Featured new additions to our ebook collections:



  • J.K Lasser's 1001 Deductions and Tax Breaks 2022, 2nd edition by Barbara Weltman | Access via O'Reilly

  • Creative Acrylics: A Step-By-Step Beginner's Guide to Creating With Paint & Mediums by Carla Co Chua | Access via O'Reilly

  • Beyond Emotional Intelligence: A Guide to Accessing Your Full Potential by S. Michele Nevarez | Access via O'Reilly


  • The Social Media Debate: Unpacking the Social, Psychological, and Cultural Effects of Social Media by Devan Rosen | Access via Taylor & Francis

*OSO, Wiley, Springer, and Taylor & Francis titles are available while connected to the RHEC network. To access O'Reilly titles select your institution as "Not Listed" and enter your academic email address ending in .edu
Featured Resource:
HistoryMakers Digital Archive
The HistoryMakers Digital Archive is an easy-to-use online oral history database featuring thousands of interviews from African Americans distinguished in the fields of science, culture, politics, the arts, and public life. This resource provides high-quality video content, fully searchable transcripts, and unique content from individuals whose life stories would have been lost were it not for the HistoryMakers.

How to access: if you're using the RHEC network, via wired connection or wi-fi, you automatically have access.
This Month's Book Display:
Black History Month
The library is celebrating February as Black History Month by displaying books in our collection that highlight the accomplishments and history of African-Americans. The display features biographies, memoirs, non-fiction narratives, graphic novels, and more.

Stop by this month to check out the impressive collection!
Staff Pick of the Month
by Isabel Wilkerson
(E185.6 .W685 2011)

As the title suggests, this book is truly an epic undertaking. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson's debut piece of non-fiction is a sweeping examination of the Great Migration of African-Americans from the southern U.S. to northern cities between 1915 and 1970. The author interviewed more than 1,200 people for this richly-detailed history, focusing primarily on the personal stories of three individuals who uprooted their lives to escape the Jim Crow era south.

Although epic in its scope and magnitude, Wilkerson's prose is accessible and suitable for most reading levels. The narrative she shares reads like a novel, and readers will be absorbed and moved by the interviewees' stories of struggle, strength, and triumph.

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