We now have two great online guides for finding movies in the library’s collection. One guide is for browsing titles by movie genre such as Action, History, Sports, etc… and the other is an alphabetical listing of films in our collection.
We hope you’ll discover lots of films that you want to watch. Thanks to our library staff member, Lauren Havens, for all of her hard work creating these new resources.
You can also access these guides under the LibGuides link on the library website.
Summer is a great time for movie watching! You may borrow two movies at a time for a week.
Anna Karenina
Argo
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
The Master
Perks of Being a Wallflower
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
The Abolitionists
Brushes with Life: Art, artists, and mental illness
Bully
Cuban Missile Crisis: Three men go to war
Dropout Nation
Forensics on Trial
From the Other Side
How to Survive a Plague
Hot Coffee: Is justice being served?
The Loving story
Makers: Women who make America
Poor Kids: An intimate portrait of America’s economic crisis
Searching for Sugar Man
They Call It Myanmar: Lifting the curtain
Weight of the Nation
Check out the library’s display of gardening resources downstairs on the lower level for ideas and inspiration:
Search the online catalog for more titles. Recommended gardening blogs and websites:
It’s close to time for exams, but the library has another kind of testing already going on. We’re trying out new chat software that lets us IM with students, faculty, or anyone else who needs assistance. To start talking with us, go to the library homepage and click on the chat icon in the middle of the page, near the bottom. If we’re available to chat, the icon looks like:
If we’re not available, a different icon indicates that we’re away. Chat with us, and let us know what you think! We hope that this will help library services be more widely accessible, helping us reach patrons who may not be able to come into the library because of distance, work schedules, or other issues. Even if you’re in the library, though, we’d love to chat with you!
Researchers and history buffs alike may now search and access local history collections across North Carolina with a single search box thanks to a collaborative project led by the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, NC LIVE, and the State Library of North Carolina.
NC ECHO enables users to search across thousands of digitized historic materials, including a wide variety of books, photographs, maps, family histories, state documents, newspapers, and much more from cultural heritage institutions across North Carolina. The collections available through NC ECHO include a diverse array of materials by and about the people, places, and history of North Carolina.
To use NC ECHO, patrons can visit http://ncecho.org, and search based on historical interests, places, or people. All of the collections available through the NC ECHO search are freely available online to all users, regardless of their location or affiliation.
The library staff have compiled some of our favorite books and movies and have created a display downstairs on the lower level of the library. We hope you find something good to read or watch over your winter break!
We would also enjoy hearing about your favorites. Feel free to post comments to share a book or movie that you recommend.
11/22/63 by Stephen King PS 3561 .I483 A615 2011
20 under 40: Stories from the New Yorker PS 648 .S5 A1466 2010
Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker PS 3623 .A4366 A73 2012
Bootlegger’s Daughter by Margaret Maron PS 3563 .A679 B6 1993
But I Love Him by Amanda Grace PZ 7 .G75127 But 2011
Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew PS 3613 .A9559 Dry 2011
Fault in Our Stars by John Green PZ 7 .G8233 Fau 2012
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok PS 3611 .W65 G57 2010
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn PS 3606 .L935 G66 2012
Harry Potter (entire series) by J.K. Rowling PZ 7 .R79835 Har 1998
The Hobbit, or, There and back again by J.R. R. Tolkien PR 6039 .O32 H62 1982
The Hunger Games (trilogy) by Suzanne Collins PZ 7 .C6837 Hun 2009
Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh PS 3604 .I2255 L36 2011
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline PS 3603 .L548 R43 2011
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See PS 3569 .E3334 S53 2010
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett PS 3566 .A7756 S76 2011
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston PS 3515 .U789 T5 2006
Tinkers by Paul Harding PS 3608 .A72535 T56 2008
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee PS 3562 .E353 T6 2010
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson PS 3623 .I58546 T86 2009
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver S 521.5 .A67 K56 2007
Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives by Katie Couric HQ 2037 .C68 2011
Boys Adrift: Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men by Leonard Sax LC 1390 .S29 2009
The Good Housekeeping Cookbook : 1,275 recipes from America’s favorite test kitchen TX 715 .G624 2010
The Fruit Hunters : A story of nature, adventure, commerce and obsession SB 354.8 .G65 2008
Identical Strangers : a memoir of twins separated and reunited by Elyse Schein CT 275 .B56545 A3 2007
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot RC 265.6 .L24 S55 2011
Kids’ Fun and Healthy Cookbook TX 652.5 .G69 2007
Packing for Mars: The curious science of life in the void by Mary Roach QH 327 .R63 2010
Proud Shoes : the story of an American family by Pauli Murray E 185.96 .M96 1999
Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat : Why it’s so hard to think straight about animals by Hal Herzog QL 85 .H47 2010
Whatever It Takes : Geoffrey Canada’s quest to change Harlem and America by Paul Tough HC 79 .P63 T68 2009
Working in the Shadows: A year of doing the jobs (most) Americans won’t do HD by Gabriel Thompson 6300 .T46 2010
The Artist PN 1997.2 .A75 2012
Capote PS 3505 .A59 Z612 2006
Dr Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas PN 1992.77 .D63867 2006
Great Debaters PN 1995.9 .M45 G7438 2008
Into the Wild PN 1995 .9 .A3 I586 2008
Pride and Prejudice PN 1995.9 .M27 P7534 2006
Project Nim QL 737 .P96 P76 2012
Temple Grandin PN 1992.77 .T46 2010
To Kill a Mockingbird PS 3562 .E353 .T6 2012
True Grit PN 1997.2 .T78 2011
The library discovered a neat new tool called the North Carolina Literary Map, which is a free resource produced by the University Libraries at UNC Greensboro in collaboration with the North Carolina Center for the Book.
The NC Literary Map identifies North Carolina places associated with more than 3000 writers and more than 4700 of their books with an interactive online tool that is designed to foster interest in the state’s rich literary tradition. Travelers interested in literary sites, writers interested in places that have inspired other writers, and book clubs interested in a particular author or novels set in a particular place can use the NC Literary Map.
Click here to explore the map: http://library.uncg.edu/dp/nclitmap/
Happy browsing!
Check out our LibGuide on Career Resources for books, DVD’s, and e-books available from the library. This guide also features links to great online video content and excellent web resources.
The library has lots of materials on writing resumes, job searching, and interviewing but we also have some new resources to help with choosing a college major and career exploration. Borrow one today!
Get the Career You Want: A Teach Yourself Guide
Call Number: HF 5549.5 .J63 M36 2011
Publication Date: 2011
College Majors and Careers, 6th Edition
Call Number: HF 5382.5 .U5 P445 2009
Publication Date: 2009
I Don’t Know What I Want, but I Know It’s Not This: A Step-By-Step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work
Call Number: HF 5384 .J36 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Life after College: the complete guide to getting what you want
Call Number: HQ 799.5 .B53 2011
Publication Date: 2011
LearningExpress Library offers online tutorials, practice tests and eBooks aimed at people who want to improve their test-taking and workplace skills.
LearningExpress Library offers the following :
Patrons create a free account to access and save resources to their profile.
LearningExpress Library is available here: http://www.nclive.org/cgi-bin/nclsm?rsrc=219
New Online Practice Exams Available in April 2012:
New eBooks Available in April 2012:
Thanks to NC LIVE, we now have access to even more e-books- the Open Library Borrowing Collection is now a part of NC LIVE!
This new source of freely available downloadable eBooks is available to all North Carolinians.
Interested? Find out more at http://nclive.org/cgi-bin/nclsm?rsrc=288 (password required off campus, contact us if you need it).