Richmond Community College Library

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Richmond Community College Library www.richmond.cc
.nc.us Orientation
Developed by Lois Sturdivant 2004
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Welcome to Richmond Community College Library
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The library is located on the 1st and 2nd floor
of the JR Conder building.
We provide services to meet your information and
research needs.
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Library and LRC Personnel
Gail Both, Day Librarian
Lois Sturdivant, Night Librarian
Debbie McGlothen, Library Technical
Assistant
Kathy Wallace Media Center Director

Carolyn Bittle, Dean of the LRC/Head Librarian
Terry Moore, Director of Guided Studies
LaWanda Goodwin, Evening Coordinator Guided
Studies
Kathy Edwards, Guided Studies Tutor
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Operation Hours Library is opened Monday -
Thursday 800 a.m. - 900 p.m. Friday 800
a.m - 230 p.m.
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Services for Students Library staff provide
assistance and instruction on the steps of the
research process and on the use and evaluation of
information resources. Circulation of
Materials Student must have a current RCC ID or
valid drivers license to check out library
materials. Books and vertical file materials are
checked out for a two week period. Library
materials may be renewed a maximum of three (3)
times unless materials have been requested by
someone else. Students may come to the library or
telephone to renew materials. After the due date,
the materials must be returned to the library and
the fines paid before they are renewed. Fines for
each overdue item is 5 cents per day computed
only for the days the library is opened. A
replacement fee for lost books must be paid for
by the person in whose name the book was checked
out. All library obligations, e.g., over dues,
unpaid fines, lost books, must be cleared before
the end of the semester or students will not be
allowed to obtain grades, or transcripts or
register for the next semester, or graduate and
will be denied library privileges.
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Services Continued
INTERLIBRARY LOANS - As students search various
databases they may find that some books or
magazine articles are not available in-house, but
are available from other libraries. Our library
can initiate an interlibrary loan to other
libraries for the items. An Interlibrary Loan
usually has a turnaround time between 2 and 3
weeks. Interlibrary Loans can be requested at the
library's Circulation desk. PHOTOCOPIERS - One
public photocopiers is available near the
circulation desk. Copies are 10 cents per page.
RESEARCH COMPUTERSThe Library provides
computers for conducting academic research. Use
these computers to access excellent online
resources via the Library's website at
www.richmond.cc.nc.us/library.These resources
include Library Catalog for finding books,,
videos and CD's owned by RCC library, and
periodical databases that provide electronic
access to full-text articles from newspapers,
magazines and journals.
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Student Conduct The library is intended as a
quiet area for reading, studying and research,
not a place for social gathering. Smoking, eating
and drinking are not permitted in the library. No
materials should ever be taken from the library
without first being properly checked out. Any
patron found guilty of theft or mutilation of
materials will be charged for damages or
replacement of the materials and will lose
library privileges. REMINDER ALL MATERIALS ARE
STATE PROPERTY. Each student using the electronic
databases for school-related activities must sign
in at the desk and complete an FTE form and leave
it in the box at the nearest computer
workstation.
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Layout of the 1st floor of the library
Current magazines, current newspapers, internet
computers and OPAC are located on this floor.
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Current magazines are shelved on the first floor.
Current local, regional and national newspapers
are shelved on the first floor
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Current Magazine and Newspaper Titles
Accounting Technology Adult Basic
Education Advertising Age Aim American
Demographics American Family Physician American
Heritage American History American Journal of
Health Education American Legacy American
Literature American Police Beat Atlantic
Monthly Biography Index Biography
Magazine Black Collegian Black
Enterprise Book Booklist Brookings
Review Business North Carolina Business
Week Cadalyst Career Opportunity News Career
World Carolina Country Child Care Information
Exchange Childhood Education Christianity
Today Chronicle of Higher Education CMA
(Certified Medical Assistant) Community Jr.
College Libraries Community College
Journal Community College Review Community Mental
Health Journal Consumer Reports Consumers
Research Corrections Today Country
Living Current Biography Yearbook Current
History Discover Doctors Office Ebony Econom
ic Review Education Digest Electronic
Design ENR Entrepreneur ESPN Esquire Essenc
e Ethics Law Aging Review Family Fun FDA
Consumer Forbes Fortune Glamour
Good Housekeeping Harvard Business
Review Harvard Mental Health Letter Health Ideas
of Liberty Industry Week Inside
AutoCAD Inside the Internet Jet Journal of
Criminal Justice Journal of Developmental
Education Journal of Engineering
Technology Journal of Forensic Science Journal
of Healthcare Management Journal of
Marketing Journal of Marriage the
Family Kiplinger Letter Kiplingers Personal
Finance Ladies Home Journal Law Order Law
Enforcement News Leadership Strategies Library
Journal Machine Design Mechanical
Engineering Mens Health Military Heritage
Money Mother Jones Multicultural Review NASCAR
Magazine National Geographic National
Review Native People New Directions for
Community Colleges New Yorker Newsweek North
Carolina North Carolina
Folklore
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Magazines and Newspapers Cont.
North Carolina Geographer Nuts
Volts Occupational Outlook Quarterly Office
Pro Office Solutions Our State
Magazine Parents Patient Care PC Magazine PC
World Pembroke Magazine People Weekly Phi
Delta Kappan Plastic News Police Chief Policy
Practice/Human Services Popular
Government Practical Accountant Prevention Primar
y Care Professional Engineer Professor in the
Classroom Psychology Today Public
Interest Readers Digest Reading
Teacher Robotics World Rolling Stone Sales
Marketing Management Science Science
News Scientific American Sierra Smithsonian Soc
ial Problems Social Service Review Social
Work Southern Living Sports Illustrated Strategi
c Finance Syllabus Teaching English In the 2
Year College Teaching Math Its
Applications Teaching Professor THE
Journal Time U.S. News World Report Wildlife
in North Carolina Workforce Management Working
Mother World I World Press Review Young
Children Nursing Titles (housed in the James
Building) AJN/ American Journal of Nursing AORN
Journal Caring Clinics in Geriatric
Medicine Critical Care Nurse Geriatric
Nursing Heart Lung Home Healthcare
Nurse Journal of Community Health
Nursing Journal of Gerontological
Nursing Journal of Nursing Education Journal of
Obstetric, Gynecological and Neonatal
Nursing Journal of Psychosocial Nursing Mental
Services Lifelines (supplement) American Journal
of Maternal Child Nursing Nurse
Educator Nursing Assistant Monthly Nursing
Clinics of North America Nursing
Management Nursing 2004 Nursing
Research Oncology Nursing Forum Patient
Care Pediatric Clinics of North America RN
Magazine Tar Heel Nurse
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Newspapers Anson Record Carolina Indian
Voice The Charlotte Observer The Cheraw
Chronicle Fayetteville Observer-Times Laurinburg
Exchange The Pilot Raleigh News
Observer Richmond Daily Journal USA Today Wall
Street Journal
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• Resources
• Books
• GENARAL STACKS checked out for two-week period
• REFERENCE COLLECTION North Carolina, Oversize,
  and Easy Books
• Books are accessed through the automated catalog
  system. Several options are available for
  searching including title, author and subject.
• INTERLIBRARY LOAN if the library does not own a
  particular book, as a free service the book can
  be borrowed from another library. The books must
  be treated with care and returned promptly.
• Patron is financially responsible for loss or
  damage to materials borrowed through interlibrary
  loan. Fees charged are determined by the lending
  library.
• Magazines (Periodicals)
• PAPER FORMAT Magazines are arranged
  alphabetically on shelves with the latest
  edition on shelf and back issues ( 2 to 3 years)
  stored in magazine storage area.
• Nursing Journals are located in the James
  Nursing Building
• Magazines are not checked out, but
  articles can be copied (10 cents per sheet).
• MICROFICHE/MICROFORM FORMAT 79 magazines located
  in file cabinet behind the circulation desk, 1988
  to present
• Articles can be copied on microfiche
  reader/printer (10 cents per page).
• NC LIVE 5500 full-text magazines
• Articles can be copied via networked printer at
  10 cents per page. Students may also download
  articles to a formatted disk or e-mail articles
  to their personal e-mail address at no charge

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• ARTICLES from magazines not available at RCC
  Library can be requested through Interlibrary
  Loan. There may be a
• fee charged for copying.
• INDEXES WHICH ACCESS MAGAZINES AND/OR NEWSPAPERS
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• A. READERS GUIDE paper format-provides
  access to articles in 180 magazines. Entries are
  alphabetical by topic (subject) or personal
  (author) or corporate names. The titles of
  magazines are listed in italics
• B. NEWSBANK INDEXS TO PERIODICAL - electronic
  index- a part of NewsBank provides access to 120
  leading magazines
• C. SIRS RESEARCHER electronic index- thousands
  of full-text articles from magazines, newspapers,
  and government documents on wide range of social
  issues.
• D. NC LIVE The states electronic library-
  gives access to magazine articles, business and
  professional journals, reference sources, and
  research materials. NC LIVE searches carefully
  prepared databases and brings back resources you
  can use.
• Articles can be printed (10 cents
  per page) or downloaded to a formatted disk (no
  charge).

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This is an example of the Readers Guide to
Periodical Literature and how to use it to locate
articles by using an authors name or by subject.
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Library Databases SIRS Researcher full text,
stand-alone workstation,contains magazines,
newspapers, journals, and government documents on
current social issues and maps of
countries. Newsbank internet delivered database
provides a large number of newspaper articles on
current topics. Also has a separate access for
business articles. All articles are
full-text. NC Live internet delivered and
maintained by the State Library staff. Updated
daily. Contains several databases. Available
for students, faculty, and staff to conduct
research. Students may access it off-campus
after applying at circulation desk for a
password. Also available at the public
library. Chronicle of Higher Education internet
delivered. Password available upon request. Good
source of information for faculty. Library also
takes this subscription in paper format. Facts on
File World News _at_ Facts.Com online
subscription, allows students to research world
events. Occupational Outlook online database,
allows students access to job classifications
recognized by the federal government. More
current than printed handbook, especially for
salary information. Teaching Mathematics
delivered online. Allows students access to more
topics than offered in print subscription. CQ
Electronic Library delivered online. Consists
of 5 web-based subscriptions The CQ Researcher,
CQ Weekly, CQs Electronic Encyclopedia of
American Government, CQs eWid ( the Washington
Information Directory, online) CQs Public
Affairs Collection, and CQ Insider. Biography
Reference Bank delivered online. In-depth
profile, links to full-text articles, and color
photos. You can search by name, profession,
place or origin, gender, ethnicity, birth/death
dates, titles of works, and keyword. Over
450,000 people are covered. The best biography
index available.
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On the first floor of the library are NCLive and
internet access computers.
On-Line Public Access Card Catalog computers
are located across from the Circulation Desk.
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2nd floor of the library
Books, reference books, dictionaries, atlases,
pamphlet file and childrens books, study carrels
and conference rooms are located on this floor.
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Locating books on the shelf The library uses
Library of Congress classification system to
catalog materials.

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The Library of Congress numbers are found at the
end of each set of book stacks.
The call number is on a label on the book spine.
In the Library of Congress system, call numbers
begin with one or two letters. Each book has its
own call number -- a unique combination of
letters and numbers shown on the spine or the
front of the book. Books are arranged on the
shelves by call number, which serves as an
address for that book.
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Library of Congress Classification System The
books are arranged on the shelves alphabetically
by first letter, then by second letter, if there
is one example P Pa Pr
PS Then by number which is treated as a whole
number example 25 Then alphabetically by
letter, then by number treated as a
decimal. example .N56 In some instances, a
date may be included as the last line of a call
number. example 1989 The following numbers
are arranged in the order they would appear on
the shelves P PS PS PS PS PS 25 25 255 255 255
257 .N5 .N56 .N5 .N57 .R3 .A32 1989 1988
The Library of Congress Classification System
consists of the following divisions A General
Works M Music B Philosophy, Psychology,
Religion N Fine Arts C Auxiliary Sciences of
History P Language Literature D History (Old
World) Q Science E History (American) P Lang
uage Literature F History (United
States) R Medicine G Geography, Anthropology,
Recreation S Agriculture H Social
Science T Technology J Political
Sciences U Military Science K Law V Naval
Science L Education Z Bibliography Library
Science
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Books located in the Reference and North Carolina
Reference Collection are in-library use only.
Reference books are useful for getting quick
information or for identifying other resources on
a subject. It is in Reference that the user will
find general and special encyclopedias,
dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, statistical
guides, biographical dictionaries, print indexes,
and atlases.
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Reference books are useful for getting quick
information or for identifying other resources on
a subject. It is in Reference that the user will
find general and special encyclopedias,
dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, statistical
guides, biographical dictionaries, print indexes,
and atlases. Circulating books may be checked out
for two weeks and renewed if they have not been
requested by another patron. Circulating books
are a good source of in-depth information on a
given subject. The Library selects books that
support the RCC curriculum and enhance student
learning. Searching the Library Catalog
http//www.richmondcc.edu/librarymain.htm is the
best way to find out if the Library owns a
particular book, or books about a given subject,
or by a certain author.
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Pamphlet File
Pamphlet/Vertical file is located on the second
floor.
The Pamphlet file contains pamphlets, magazine
articles and newspaper clippings on various
topics of interest. Folders may be checked out
for a two-week period.
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Study carrels and desk are available on the
second floor