July 2020
New Books
Featured new additions to our print collection:

  • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

  • The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry

  • The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-Being by Richard Wilkinson

  • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

  • With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

  • Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia by Steven Stoll

  • The Toni Morrison Book Club by Juda Bennett

  • What to Cook and How to Cook It by Jane Hornby
Featured Resource:
Taylor & Francis Ebooks
Taylor & Francis Ebooks is a collection of over 40,000 ebook titles in science, technology, engineering, medicine, humanities, and social science. Titles can be downloaded as PDFs, or read in the browser.

In the database, be sure to click the "Show content I have access to" button to narrow results to material owned by the RHEC Library and accessible to you.

How to access: if you're using the RHEC network, via wired connection or wi-fi, you automatically have access.
This Month's Book Display:
Local History & Interest
This month the library is featuring titles that take place in or are about the Roanoke Valley and Southwest Virginia.

If you're interested in nature, check out the Pulitzer Prize winning essay collection Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Hollins University alumna Annie Dillard, written about the Tinker Mountain and Carvin's Cove area.

More in the mood for historical fiction? Check out The Wettest County in the World , a novel based on the true story of depression era bootlegging in Franklin County, which was adapted to the big screen in 2012 .

Another title soon headed for the screen is Beth Macy's Dopesick , which examines the growing opioid epidemic in Roanoke and Southwest Virginia.

Stop by the library today and check out the display!
Research Tip:
Using Library of Congress Classification

The RHEC Library, along with most academic libraries, uses the Library of Congress Classification System to organize books and other material on the shelves. Each item in the library has a unique call number, which is a combination of letters and numbers that tell you where the item is located, as well as its subject matter.

Library of Congress Subject Classes

The first 1-2 letters of a call number denotes the item's general subject matter. The RHEC Library uses signs to help patrons more easily find the subject they're interested in. A full listing of the main subject classes can be found on the Library of Congress website .
Tips for Finding Items on the Shelf

Find the call number for the item you want in the Catalog .
Read the call number as follows when searching for the item on the shelf:

Z
The call number will always begin with 1-2 letters. Read them in alphabetical order:
A, B, BF...L, LA, LB, etc.

1003
The number following the letter(s) should be read as a whole number:
1, 2, 3, 45, 100, 1000, 2000, 2483, etc.

.P9
The next line will be a combination of a letter and numbers. Read the letter alphabetically. Read the number as a decimal:
.C65, .C67, .C783, .C8, .D238, .D45, etc.

2019
The last line is the year the book was published. Read in chronological order:
1997, 2001, 2014, 2020, etc.
As always, if you need help finding something,
just ask library staff!
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