For new and returning students, faculty, and staff at the Roanoke Higher Education Center; WELCOME! We're glad you're here! We look forward to serving you and helping to make this school year amazing. |
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All students, faculty, and staff of the Roanoke Higher Education Center are invited to attend a Back-to-School Night in the RHEC Courtyard from 4:00 - 7:00 PM on Thursday, September 15th.
Food will be provided by Rock & Roll Diner Food Truck, and there will be games, giveaways, and prizes. Most importantly, booths representing Student Services at the RHEC will be present, including the Library! So come say hi!
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Library Card Sign-Up Month |
September is Library Card Sign-Up Month!
What do you get with an RHEC Library Card?
Apply for a (new) library card during the month of September and receive a free ALA planner or journal! Current students, faculty, and staff of RHEC Member Institutions can apply in-person or online for a library card.
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Featured new additions to our print collection:
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Featured new additions to our ebook collections:
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Effective Career Development - Advice for Establishing an Enjoyable Career by Sarah Cook | Access via O'Reilly
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Life Skills Education for Youth: Critical Perspectives by Joan DeJaeghere et al. | Access via Springer
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*OSO, Wiley, Springer, and Taylor & Francis titles are available while connected to the RHEC network. To access O'Reilly titles select your institution as "Not Listed" and enter your academic email address ending in .edu
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Featured Resource:
EBSCO Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides researchers, allied health professionals, nurses, and medical educators with access to full-text scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Topics covered include pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law, and more.
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!
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This Month's Book Display:
Banned Books Week
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In 2021, the American Library Association reported 729 challenges to library, school, and university materials and services, resulting in more than 1,597 individual book challenges or removals. This is the highest number of attempted book bans since the ALA began compiling this information 20 years ago.
Every year, the ALA's list of the most frequently challenged books carries a common theme: they are titles that give a voice to historically marginalized perspectives or underrepresented people. While young adult titles are still the most frequently challenged, many books that are written for adult audiences are also being impacted. Novels like Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye has been on book-banning lists for decades, while Carmen Maria Machado's memoir In the Dream House is a more recent example. |
The RHEC Library would like to reaffirm its commitment to the Library Bill of Rights, Intellectual Freedom, and the freedom to read. Free access to information and the ability to communicate and learn freely is essential to our democracy and for maintaining a free society. We urge the RHEC community to resist censorship, support librarians and educators, and celebrate your own right to read.
This month, we're displaying a very small fraction of titles in our collection that have been challenged, censored or banned at some point in the United States. Check out the list -- many of them may surprise you!
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by Beth Macy
(RC568.O45 M335 2022)
Raising Lazarus is Roanoke author Beth Macy's follow-up to her 2018 book Dopesick, which became a New York Times bestseller and was adapted into an Emmy-nominated TV series on Hulu. While Dopesick focuses on the origins of the opioid crisis, Raising Lazarus highlights the people on the ground who are working to treat its victims.
Putting her past as a veteran Roanoke Times reporter to good use, Macy tails the harm reduction advocates and community workers that are on the frontline of the crisis, including nurses, clinicians, survivors, family members, and volunteers, who put their emotional and physical well-being on the line to help individuals suffering from opioid use disorder (OUD). The book is also a rallying cry to support effective treatment, not only in ultimately overcoming OUD, but in reducing harm along the way. This includes implementing needle exchange programs, NARCAN training, buprenorphine treatment, decriminalization, safe injection sites, and most importantly, universal access to affordable and reliable healthcare.
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