The Library has just received some great resource trials.  We’d really like the feedback of our entire campus community on the following database and sets of eBooks:

• eBook Community College Collection Trial: Community College eBooks
• eBook Religion Collection Trial: Religion Collection eBooks
• Academic Search Premier Database: Academic Search Premier

If you are off campus, you may be prompted for a user id and password.  Please use the following:

User ID: cyril
Password: pray4me

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact the Library. Happy Research!

Born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio, Thomas Edison rose from humble beginnings to work as an inventor of major technology. Setting up a lab in Menlo Park, some of the products he developed included the telegraph, phonograph, electric light bulb, alkaline storage batteries and Kinetograph (a camera for motion pictures). He died on October 18, 1931, in West Orange, New Jersey.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. – Thomas A. Edison

W. E. B. Du Bois: Online Resources

Compiled by Angela McMillian, Digital Reference Specialist

W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois, 1868-1963. 1 photographic print. c1919 May 31. Prints & Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-16767 The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a wide variety of material associated with W. E. B. Du Bois, including manuscripts, photographs, and books. This guide compiles links to digital materials related to W. E .B. Du Bois that are available throughout the Library of Congress Web site. In addition, it provides links to external Web sites focusing on Du Bois and a bibliography containing selected works for both general and younger readers. Library of Congress Web Site | External Web Sites | Selected Bibliography

The Year of the Red, or “Fire Monkey”

“Let America be America again” by Langston Hughes | Poem and Questions

The Great Books Foundation has a free resource for teachers who want to engage and discuss Hughes’ famous poem about the American dream. Download the “High School Sample Unit” in the right column and look for the poem and discussion questions starting on page 8. The unit also contains a lesson on “Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address,” starting on page 50.