June 2020
Welcome Back!
We've Missed You!

These past few weeks have been challenging for everyone, and we hope that you are all safe and healthy amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The library has re-opened along with the RHEC building on June 10th. Please wear a mask at all times while in public spaces within the building, including the library. We will be sanitizing computer stations between uses, and are providing hand sanitizer for patron use.
Summer Schedule

The library will soon begin its summer schedule.
Our hours will be as follows starting Monday, June 15th until Labor Day:

Monday - Thursday
9:00AM - 6:00PM

Friday
9:00AM - 5:00PM

Saturday & Sunday
CLOSED
New Books
Featured new additions to our print collection:

  • The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Dr. Edith Eger

  • Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next by Timothy Faust

  • Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston

  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Kimmerer

  • Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua

  • The Fight for Fifteen: The Right Wage for a Working America by David Rolf

  • Concise Guide to APA Style, 7th Edition by American Psychological Association

  • MBLEx Massage Therapy Practice Questions & Study Guide by Lorna Maughan
Featured Resource:
Race Relations Abstracts
Race Relations Abstracts  is an EBSCO electronic database providing bibliographic records covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, ideology, and community relations. The database includes over 89,000 records dating back to 1903.

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 this database 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 Book Display:
Immigrant Heritage Month
June is Immigrant Heritage Month! The library is celebrating by displaying books by and about immigrants and the immigrant experience in America.

Stop by the library to learn more about the crucial ways immigrants and diverse communities enrich and contribute to our society.

Click the link below to see all the print titles on display.
"One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an anti-racist. There is no in-between safe space of 'not racist.'" - Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be An Antiracist
Special Topic:
#BlackLivesMatter Reads

The library has put together reading recommendations for those looking for books to turn to in the ongoing fight for justice for Black lives. These titles offer facts and reflections on systemic racial injustice as well as ways to channel feeling into action.
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Call Number: E184.A1 K344 2019

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
Call Number: E185.97.K43 A3 2018

Call Number: E185.615 .M3535 2018

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Call Number: PS3568.A572 C58 2014

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Call Number: PS3620.H62463 H38 2017

Call Number: E184.A1 O454 2018

Call Number: E185.615 .F526 2016

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Call Number: E185.615 .C6335 2015

Call Number: HV9950.F655 2017

Call Number: E184.S75 O79 2018

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Call Number: KF373.S743 A3 2015
*The film adaptation of this title starring Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx is FREE to rent on all digital platforms during June*

Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
*The audiobook of this title is currently FREE to listen to on Spotify *
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