July 2024

New Print Books

Featured new academic, non-fiction, and study guide titles:








New Popular Reading

Featured new additions to our popular fiction and non-fiction:







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New Ebooks

Featured new titles to our ebook collections:


  • The Transformational Leader: How the World's Best Leaders Build Teams, Inspire Action, and Achieve Lasting Success by Matt Mayberry | Access via O'Reilly


  • Accelerated Action Learning: Using a Hands-on Talent Development Strategy to Solve Problems, Innovate Solutions, and Develop People by William Rothwell et al. | Access via O'Reilly


  • How to Succeed With People: Remarkably Easy Ways to Engage, Influence and Motivate Almost Anyone by Paul McGee | Access via O'Reilly




  • Case Study Methodology for Nursing: Exploring the Lived Experience of Those With Chronic Health Problems by Donna Zucker | Access via Taylor & Francis

How to access: To access O'Reilly titles select your institution as "Not Listed" and enter your academic email address ending in .edu. EBSCO, OSO, Wiley, Springer, and Taylor & Francis titles are available while connected to the RHEC network.

Featured Resource:

American History in Video

American History in Video includes over 2,000 hours of streaming content, including documentaries, newsreels, and profiles of great American leaders and personalities. The database includes hundreds of award-winning documentaries from leading video content producers such as PBS, California Newsreel, Pennebaker Hegedus Films, and others. Videos include keyword-searchable synchronized transcripts, as well as the ability to link, share, cite, create clips, and embed video.


How to access: if you're using the RHEC network, via wired connection or wi-fi, you automatically have access.

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Staff Pick:

Scattered and Fugitive Things

Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History by Laura E. Helton is an exploration of the work of African-American bibliophiles, archivists, and librarians in the 19th and 20th centuries to preserve Black history. Of particular interest to Roanokers will be the book's third chapter, "Defiant Libraries: Virginia Lee and the Secrets Kept by Good Bookladies."


Virginia Y. Lee was the head librarian of the Gainsboro Branch Public Library from 1928 - 1971. Lee is a local legend for building, displaying, and preserving a collection of Black history materials in defiance of Roanoke City officials. When ordered to destroy the Black studies collection she curated, she instead saved it by hiding it in the basement of the library and continuing to build on and share it with readers secretly for years. Lee's story of perseverance against censorship still resonates today, as librarians are forced to fight book bans and efforts to erase the stories and history of marginalized groups.


Learn more about Virginia Y. Lee at The Gainsboro History Project.