December 2019
Announcements:
Holiday Schedule

The library's schedule will be the following during the last two weeks of the year:
New Books
Featured new additions to our print collection:

  • The Compass and the Radar: The Art of Building a Rewarding Career While Remaining True to Yourself by Paolo Gallo

  • That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hours by Sunita Puri

  • The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt

  • Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

  • Navigating Teacher Licensure Exams by Emery Petchauer

  • ATI TEAS Prep Plus by Kaplan Nursing

  • Hartman's Nursing Assistant Care: The Basics 5th Edition by Hartman Pub.

  • Writing from Sources w/ 2016 MLA Update by Brenda Spatt
Featured Resource:
Education Source
Education Source  is an EBSCO electronic database designed to meet the needs of education students, professionals and policy makers. The collection provides full text for more than 1,800 journals, 550 books, and education-related conference papers. Coverage in  Education Source  spans all levels of education from early childhood to higher education and also includes educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing.

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:
Best Books of the Decade
This December isn't just the last month of 2019, it's also the last month of the decade! To celebrate, the library is displaying some of the best books of the 2010s.

The display features both fiction and non-fiction winners of the Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence from 2010 to the current year.

Stop by the library to browse and pick up a guaranteed good read!
Human Rights Day:
December 10th

Human Rights Day is observed annually on December 10th, the anniversary of the day the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. The Declaration proclaims the inalienable rights everyone is entitled to as human beings regardless of race, color, religion, sex, language, nationality, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other status.

Want more information on this topic? Check out the resources below available at the RHEC Library : (ebooks and video accessible while connected to RHEC network)

Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction ( print book )
Human Dignity and Human Rights ( ebook )
Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights ( ebook )
The Human Rights-Based Approach to Higher Education ( ebook )
Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights ( ebook )
Breaking the Wall of Human Rights Violations ( video )
Heroes of Human Rights ( video )
Human Rights in North America ( video )
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