TCC Library News

Thursday, February 13, 2014

TCC Library helps celebrate American Presidents

photo of United States White House with fountain and flowers on front lawn. source Christopher Chan

In February, we celebrate American Presidents.  Use the TCC Library website (http://library.tulsacc.edu) to find the print and electronic resources (e-resources) to help you learn about and celebrate the President of the United States (POTUS).

If you browse the more than 400 books in the TCC Library catalog about the President, you will find biographies by Pulitzer Prize winning authors David McCullough (John Adams, Truman) and Jon Meacham (American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power) and autobiographies by Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. There are books written by Presidents (Profiles in Courage, John F. Kennedy; Audacity of Hope, Barrack Obama).  There are more than two dozen books about Abraham Lincoln and a critically-acclaimed, four-book series about Lyndon Johnson by Robert Cato, (including Master of the Senate).

Library research guides about American History and American Federal Government provide many links to resources about POTUS.

EBSCOHost Military & Government Collection and Issues & Controversies in American History are two Library databases contain a wealth of information about the Presidents and the issues they faced in office.

Two digital libraries with treasures of knowledge about Presidents is American Memory by the Library of Congress (including the papers of several Presidents) and Smithsonian Institution Libraries (a digital collection of 1.5 million books and manuscripts about all aspect of American History).

Use the Quick Search tool at the Library homepage to browse for books. Use the yellow Research Guides tab or the yellow Article Databases tab at the Library homepage to access the research guides or the databases, respectively. Use the yellow Books and More tab (then click on the Digital Libraries link) to access digital libraries.   

Author: Demetrius Bereolos, Library Specialist at West Campus
Photo: 2006 Christopher Chan

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Discover New Books in the Library!


The TCC Library is adding lots of new items to its collection every week! To help you discover these new books, we have a new search tab titled "New Books" in the library catalog (last tab on the right). It allows you to search for new library materials within all locations, or one location only, or just e-resources that have been added to the catalog.  The list of new titles is updated every day. See a sample of our new titles below:

Tip: Leave the search box blank, and this setting will just retrieve a list of  ALL the new books recently added to the collection. 


Alcohol and opium in the Old West : use, abuse, and influence / Jeremy Agnew.
Agnew, Jeremy,
HV5235.U5 A36 2014   Metro Campus Library Circulation
Hawa Abdi, 1947-
CT2208.H39 A3 2013  Southeast Campus Library Circulation
Lovato, Demi, 1992-
BF575.S37 L68 2013     West Campus Library Circulation