National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Breast Cancer strikes over 1.3 million women around the globe each year and is the leading cause of cancer death in women, according to the American Cancer Society.

In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, ebrary has collaborated with librarians from other organizations to create an open access database of breast cancer publications:

http://site.ebrary.com/lib/breastcancer

ebrary's Breast Cancer Searchable Information Center features a range of authoritative fact sheets, posters, and other materials from government agencies such as the National Cancer Institute, National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U. S. Preventive Services Task Force, United States Food and Drug Administration, Office of Women's Health, and other authoritative sources.

OED(Oxford English Dictionary) May Be Going Strictly Digital

The 20-volume, 750 pound, 126-year old dictionary may no longer be made available in print format. The digital edition now gets about 2 million hits a month from subscribers that pay $295 a year for service in the U.S. The print dictionary, on the other hand, runs $1,165. The new third edition will probably not be ready for another 10 years, considering the enormous task of revising and updating the work. The decision to release a print version will be made at that time.
The OED is the authoritative guide to the history of English speech........it traces the usage of words from their first recorded occurrence to the modern period and includes 2.5 million example quotations of word usage.
Associated Press

The TCC LRCs do own the print edition of the OED and the subscription on-line edition of the OED is also available to TCC students and faculty.

Banned Books Week

September 25th  to October 2nd is the American Library Association’s annual celebration of banned and challenged books, Banned Books Week; since 1990, there have been 10,676 recorded challenges, which were focused mostly in school and public libraries and brought mostly by parents. To celebrate, check out one of the challenged books from your library, or attend one of the LRC's Lunchtime Learning Programs.

A complete list of the 100 most challenged books of 2000-2009 is available on the ALA website, but a list of some that we have at the LRC follows:

1.   Harry Potter (series), by J.K. Rowling
3.   The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
5.   Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
6.   I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
14. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
15. The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
17. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker

18. Go Ask Alice, by Anonymous
19. Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
21. To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
24. In the Night Kitchen, by Maurice Sendak
26. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
28. Bridge To Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
33. Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson

36. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
46. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
49. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey
50. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
66. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred Taylor
69. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
74. The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold

88. The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
89. Friday Night Lights, by H.G. Bissenger
90. A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeline L’Engle
91. Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Graighead George
96. Grendel, by John Gardner
97. The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende
99. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume

Remember, if there's a book you would like but it is only available at another campus, you can get it delivered to your home campus!

Banned Books Week Lunchtime Learning Programs will be held at Northeast and Metro Campus, from noon to 1 pm:

• Monday, September 27th, in the Northeast Campus Small Auditorium (NE 1603)
• Wednesday, September 29th, in the Metro Campus Film Lecture Room 

There will be pizza served and drawings for Stephen King novels and films. If you have questions, you can email Demetrius Bereolos, or call him at 595-8093.