Holiday Closing

RCC will be closed beginning Tuesday, December 22, 2009 and will reopen on January 4, 2010.

Feedback, please! New website! It's ALIVE!

We have been working to bring you a fresh, updated website with enhanced content. We welcome your feedback, or if you find any errors, please let us know in the comments and we will try to update as quickly as possible. Thank you for your valuable feedback!

Food for Fines Results

RCC Library patrons donated 244 food items for local food pantries this holiday season.

Recession, Depression Reading Lists

Interesting post by NPR comparing what was popular reading during the Great Depression as compared to what readers are interested in reading during the current recession. Did you know that before there was Marley and Me, Virginia Woolf penned a book about the dog once owned by Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Flush?

Check out today's Publisher's Weekly list of Top 10 Bestsellers in Paperback.

Thursday's Popcorn Shrimp

It has been quite a dry spell for the good old RCC Library Blog, but that just goes to show how busy we have been!

Another semester is about to end, and we will soon be bidding fondest wishes and good luck to the Class of 2009!

But until then, here are another few of our Thursday links to give you something to do in your "spare time."

Celebrate National Library Week! This is National Library Week, and at RCC Library, we are holding a drawing for prizes for our students. Enter to win soon, because the drawing takes place on Monday!


Tokens & Treasures - Highlights gifts given from countries around the world to United States presidents

With the introduction of the new First Pooch, take a look at some of the past presidential pets - some of them may surprise you!

Welcome to the Hagley Digital Archives POST CARD COLLECTION!

Obama Knows Storytime

At the White House Easter Egg Roll this past Monday, President Obama read Where the Wild Things Are to a large audience. While reading, he stood, projected, moved around, asked kids questions about and engaged them in the text, and generally performed as though he'd passed Early Literacy-Focused Storytime training with flying colors. Click here to view Obama's "storytime"--his wild rumpus sound effects (more cute than wild) are not to be missed.
(Courtesy of Library and Information Science News).

Nifty Links

NEW! RCC Library's Assignment Calculator!

10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know

Favicon Generator

25 Librarians Who Changed History

Thursday's Roundup Soup

dynastree - create a surname map or a family tree for free

Vintage Valentines

The Jefferson Encyclopedia