June 2023

New Print Books

Featured new additions to our print collection:









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New Ebooks

Featured new additions to our ebook collections:


  • What Drives You: How To Discover Your Unique Motivators and Accelerate Growth in Work and Life by Kevin D. Miller | Access via O'Reilly


  • Communication Intelligence: Leverage Your Strengths and Optimize Every Interaction to Work Best with Others by Claude D'Val Morgan | Access via O'Reilly


  • Video Storytelling Projects: A DIY Guide to Shooting, Editing and Producing Amazing Video Stories on the Go by Rafael Concepcion | Access via O'Reilly




  • Nature School: Lessons and Activities to Inspire Children's Love for Everything Wild by Lauren Giordano | Access via O'Reilly
How to access: To access O'Reilly titles select your institution as "Not Listed" and enter your academic email address ending in .edu. View detailed instructions on how to access O'Reilly. Oxford Scholarship Online, Wiley, Springer, and Taylor & Francis titles are available automatically while connected to the RHEC network.

Featured Resource:

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History Since 1940

The Archives of Sexuality and Gender provides a robust and significant collection of primary sources for the historical study of sexuality and gender. The collection LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 brings together approximately 1.5 million pages of primary source content on social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world, including the gay rights movement, activism, the HIV/Aids crisis, and more. It also provides coverage of the development, culture, and society of LGBTQ groups in the latter half of the twentieth century. The collection allows new perspectives on a diverse community and the wealth of resources available in the archive allows for creating connections amongst disparate materials.

How to access: if you're using the RHEC network, via wired connection or wi-fi, you automatically have access.
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This Month's Display:

Pride Month

June is Pride Month! In celebration, the library is displaying books from our collection by LGBTQ authors, and about LGBTQ issues and history.


Want to learn more about the history of Roanoke's LGBTQ community? Check out Gregory Samatha Rosenthal's spectacular Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City, which documents her experience co-founding the Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project.

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