NC LIVE Insights for March

NewsBank Special Reports
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Newsbank offers topical reports taking information from news headlines
around the world. Recent topics include "Year in Review -- 2005", "2006
Winter Olympics", "World Health", and this month's feature "Women's
History" in celebration of March being Women's History Month.

If you are accessing NC LIVE from an IP authenticated location the URL
below should work. Otherwise click on the left side navigation and
under "More Resources" you will see "Special Reports".

http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/Static/?p_product=SR&p_theme=current&p_action=home&p_nbid=


Britannica Newsletters
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Britannica offers topical newsletters delivered right to your email box.
You can select to subscribe to the Public Library or Academic edition.
These newsletters will help you tie your electronic resources to
topical programs you may offer at your library. See a sample of the
current March 2006 newsletter celebrating Women's History month:
http://newsletter.eb.com/search/newsletter_mar06.html

Learning Express = Basic Skills Success!

One of the many resources available through your GTCC library is a NC LIVE database called Learning Express. Learning Express is one of the best online resources around for enhancing the learning experience for GTCC Basic Skills students.

The first step is for the new Learning Express user to create a Learning Express account through any GTCC computer. Once that is done, the user can access Learning Express from any Internet capable computer: at home, another library, or from work. Creating a Learning Express login and password is simple-there are no strange login or password requirements, like having 4 Upper Case Letters, 5 Lower Case Letters, and 7 numbers and punctuation symbols. No, the Learning Express login and password can be something as plain as your name and birthday-simple and easy to remember. I suggest that if a user already has an email account that they just use their login and password for that, and avoid the hassle of having to create and learn a new one.

Once in Learning Express the new user can see immediately there is a wide range of subject area modules to choose from. Some of special interest to Basic Skills students, staff, and faculty would be as follows:

• GED


• Math Skills Improvement


• Reading Skills Improvement


• Writing Improvement Program


• US Citizenship


• Skills Improvement with Spanish Instructions


• Job & Career Success Skills

There are many others, but this gives you some idea of what’s available.

The easiest way to access Learning Express the first time is to go through the library web site at http://webster.gtcc.cc.nc.us/library/

Then choose Online Resources (the computer icon.)

Then scroll down to the Alphabetical Listing of Databases area, and click on the “L” button.

Learning Express will be the first link on the next page. Click on that link to get started.

As always, please let library staff know if you have any questions, or if you need any assistance getting started.

Experience Basic Skills Success with Learning Express!

March Ebook of the Month is BAD!!

Check out NetLibrary's ebook of of the month -
Bad: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen

How can bad be so good? From Nosferatu to Tom Ripley, from evil villains to empires of evil, from psychotic slashers to bloodthirsty aliens, violence, infamy, and slime has become an expected staple of the Hollywood diet. In the March eBook of the Month, the contributors to Bad explore a wide range of genres and use a variety of critical approaches to examine evil, villainy, and immorality in twentieth-century film.

To read this ebook, click on the link below:
NetLibrary eBook of the Month