Erwin Library Blog

Biography Reference Center is another new database provided by NC LIVE and EBSCOhost. This database offers a comprehensive collection of more than 461,000 full-text biographies, including the complete full-text run of Biography Today and Biography, as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not available in other databases. Biography Reference Center also offers more than 30 genre categories including actors, authors, composers, etc. Biography Reference Center is available through the WCC Single Search under the category Quick Search.

If you have any questions or comments about the new Biography Reference Center, please contact WCC Library staff at 919-739-6891 (ext. 6891 on-campus), or at wcc-library@waynecc.edu.

Art & Architecture Complete is a new database provided by NC LIVE and EBSCOhost. This database provides coverage of more than 300 periodicals and 200 books as well as more than 63,000 images provided by Picture Desk and others. Art & Architecture Complete covers a wide variety of pertinent subjects, including antiques, art and art history, interior and landscape design, and much more. Art & Architecture Complete is available through WCC Single Search under the category Art and Images.

If you have any questions or comments about the new Art & Architecture Complete, please contact WCC Library staff at 919-739-6891 (ext. 6891 on-campus), or at wcc-library@waynecc.edu.

At the beginning of the year, NC LIVE updated some of the existing databases that we have access to through WCC Single Search. The main change is that there is more content and more of the content is full-text. The updated databases include:

Academic Search Premier (now called Academic Search Complete)

Business Source Premier (now called Business Source Complete)

Literary Reference Center (now called Literary Reference Center Plus)

MAS Ultra (now called MAS Complete)

MasterFILE Premier (now called MasterFILE Complete)

January is also a great month to celebrate books that have been made into movies. The Erwin Library’s bulletin board exhibit area features some of the past, present and future movies that were books first.

To learn more about current and upcoming movie releases that started as books, visit the Earlyword website.

Welcome to the year 2012!  This year starts a brand new year of books exhibits at the Erwin Library.  To begin the year, we will be celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. on the newspaper exhibit area. Included on the display are children’s books about MLK Jr. and the causes he supported plus a few books that Martin Luther King, Jr. authored.

To find out more about Martin Luther King, Jr., visit the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute.

On Thursday, December 1, 2011, the Wayne Community College Library was officially dedicated as the Dr. Clyde A. Erwin, Jr. Library. Dr. Erwin was the president of Wayne Community College from 1966-1986. There are two new signs that are hanging over the two main entrances to the library. A plaque will also be put at the Atrium entrance to commemorate the change.  

To learn more about Dr. Erwin you may view the  exhibit of archival materials relating to his tenure as the college’s president, now on display in one of the library’e two museum cases.

Each year December is the focus of our transition from one year to the next. It also marks a holiday season for people all over the world, beginning with Hanukkah, observed from December 20 through December 28, followed by Christmas on December 25.  This joyous time is wrapped up neatly by Kwanzaa, which begins on December 26 and ends on January 1, bringing us into the new year. 

The Erwin Library’s exhibit areas highlight all these holidays.  In the bulletin board area are Christmas books for children, as well as a few fiction titles for older readers, and, in th newspaper area books about Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, as well as more books about Christmas, Winter and that thing that most of either love or hate … snow.

On Christmas Eve, you may wish to visit the NORAD site to track Santa’s whereabouts.  At the Jewish Outreach Institute webiste you can learn more about Hanukkah and its traditions. Lastly, you may want to consult the CNN website to learn about Kwanzaa.

At the end of November is a holiday that is usually overlooked.  Thanksgiving commemorates the feast held in 1621 by settlers of the new Plymouth colony, now part of present day Massachusetts, who were were very thankful for a great harvest (hence the name Thanksgiving).  To celebrate Thanksgiving, the WCC Library newspaper exhibit area offers a collection of children’s books, history books and cookbooks about this holiday.

To learn more about Thanksgiving and the Pilgrim settlers who voyaged to their new home on the Mayflower, visit the General Society of Mayflower Descendants website. An interesting part of the site is a listing of notable descendants.

November is Native American Heritage Month. This month long celebration started in 1990 when George H. W. Bush approved a joint resolution designating November 1990 “National American Indian Heritage Month.”

Currently, the WCC Library bulletin board exhibit area, and part of the newspaper exhibit area, showcases Native Americans and their contributions to our culture and history. The bulletin board area offers biographies of prominent Native Americans, as well as a few general information books. The newspaper area provides fiction books for adults and children by Native American authors.  All are availble for you to check out and read.

For more information about Native Americans and their heritage, visit the Library of Congress website. Take a look at some of the image collections and exhibitions that the Library of Congress offers on this site.

Another new resource just acquired by the Wayne Community College Library is Nursing Education in Video from Alexander Street. This digital video database is the result of Alexander Street’s partnership with Medcom-Trainex, one of the largest providers of nursing education video programs worldwide. Nursing Education in Video gives faculty and students anywhere-anytime access to Medcom’s highly regarded library of training programs, online in streaming video format.

If you have any questions or comments about the new Nursing Education in Video resource, please contact WCC Library staff at 919-739-6891 (ext. 6891 on-campus), or at wcc-library@waynecc.edu.