The library will have temporarily shortened hours until further notice. We apologize for the inconvenience. We hope to reopen to our regular hours in the near future.

The library is now open:

1:00 pm - 5:00 pm.

If you need access to computers or a printer/copier when we are not open, keep in mind that the computer lab is open as long as the building is open. Library databases are also accessible from any device at any time while connected to the RHEC network (wired OR wi-fi).

This month the library is featuring recent additions to our print collection on nursing, health, and medicine. We are proud to serve the many students at the RHEC who are learning and working in the field of medicine, including those in TAP's CNA and CCMA programs, Virginia Commonwealth University's nurse anesthesia program, Radford University's BSN program, and more.

Drop by the library to see the new titles on display, or check out the link below to see the list, which also includes links to new nursing ebooks as well!

(PR6059.S5 K57 2021)

Klara and the Sun is the latest novel by Nobel and Booker Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro. Set in a dystopian near future, the story follows Klara, an artificial intelligence set in the body of a young girl, as she navigates a world that simultaneously celebrates and reviles her existence. Her job is to be an "artificial friend" for her owner, Josie, a teenager struggling with a life-threatening illness. Narrated from the naive point-of-view of Klara, who has a narrow scope of the world and its workings, the reader can see the larger motives at hand and will find it hard not to sympathize with her.

Ishiguro's novel is a reflective work of speculative fiction that examines companionship, existentialism, innocence, and love. It is recommended to anyone who is a fan of literary science fiction.

Is there a new book you're dying to read? Need a study guide we don't own? Think we should carry more material on a particular subject?

Please let us know! We're here to serve the RHEC Community, and want to stay updated on what you want and need. Feel free to use our Purchasing Recommendations form on our website to recommend books, journals, newspapers, or media you'd like to see us add to our collection.