Ever sat through a long history lecture on kings or presidents and thought, “There must be more to the story?” Or even “What was everyone ELSE doing when Washington and his friends were crossing the Delaware?” A Peoples’ History of the American Empire tells the real tale–the grassroots history–in graphic form (graphic=sequential art or comic [...]
Technology should make your life more efficient and simple, right? And until personal robot assistants are available, make RSS feeds YOUR personal information tool. What is RSS? RSS is how you can get it together and Get Things Done. RSS is an acronym that few agree on. Really Simple Syndication Rich Site Summary RDF Site [...]
Join with the college community and watch the historic inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States. Each campus has planned a public showing of the event on Tuesday, January 15 at 11:30 AM. At Midlothian the library will be hosting the inauguration. We plan to drop the big screens and [...]
Get the full story when you search for articles–ask for full text. Thousands of articles are available for free through the library’s EBSCO databases, but you have to know how to ask for them. To find the entire article when searching, click the Full Text box in the main search page. (Check here for an [...]
John Tyler encourages everyone to think green, even in the library. Everyone can help conserve paper and ink by printing smart. Before hitting print, think. Do I only need a section of this longer document? You can print a few pages of the article or web page rather than an entire book. PowerPoint: did you [...]
Why are some people super-successful–and other just drift along in obscurity? Does success require brains, opportunity, luck or some other unidentifiable trait? Is the idea of the self-made man a myth or a reality? What real goes in to becoming an outstanding success–an Outlier? Malcolm Gladwell explores the making of successful people through a series [...]