January 2025

Library Announcements


  • Join us for a new event series: Classical Pages & the Silver Screen Review! We will explore classic books and the movies inspired by them. Our next book and movie will be Pride & Prejudice. This free class will take place from 5:30 - 7:30 PM Thursday, February 13th, and Thursday, March 13th. More info and registration.
  • Access to most RHEC Library electronic resources is now available off-campus! All you will need to do is enter your RHEC Library Card number to gain access to resources and databases at home or on the go. Check out the list of all our electronic resources to get started!

New Books!

Featured new additions to the collection:

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

by Adam Higginbotham


Orbital: A Novel

by Samantha Harvey


Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me

by Glory Edim


English for Everyone: Illustrated English Dictionary

by Thomas Booth


Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health

by Donald A. Barr


The Complete Recipe Writing Guide

by Raeanne Sarazen

See What Else is New in Our Catalog

Featured Electronic Resource:

Oxford Academic

Oxford Academic is Oxford University Press's academic research platform, providing access to 15,000 eBooks and 500 journals. Search across the database's collection of over 3 million journal articles, 600,000 book chapters, and five million images and multimedia to meet your research needs. Subjects covered include Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Science and Mathematics, Law, and Medicine & Health.

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!)

Try Out Oxford Academic

Public Domain Day


January 1st of every year marks Public Domain Day, when new works of literature, music, film, and more enter the public domain.


What does this mean? Public domain is when a work of art is no longer protected by intellectual property law, so it is free for anyone to use, modify, build upon, or copy without permission.


On January 1, 2025, works published in 1929 entered the public domain. A few of the book titles include:


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