Check out the New Books shelf at the Main campus

We've added a New Books shelf at the Roane County Campus. Come check out the titles most recently added to our collection.

Learn more about Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi was one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century. His practice of peaceful civil obedience helped end British colonial rule of India and inspired a generation of American civil rights leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.



Gandhi's grandson, Arun Gandhi, visited Roane State earlier this week to talk about his grandfather's life and legacy.



Want to learn more? Check out these books.

Noise alert: Roane campus library (Nov. 5)

Roane State's College Transfer Fair will be held upstairs in the Roane campus library on Thursday, Nov. 5 from 9am to 12:30pm. This is a great opportunity for students to talk to representatives from colleges and universities and learn more about their transfer options.

With nearly 30 colleges/universities participating, quiet study space will be limited for the morning.

Study rooms are available upstairs for students needing tables and/or quiet areas.

We hope the library is a good home for a successful college fair, but our focus remains on providing spaces conducive to study and learning.

Please tell us at the front desk if you need help finding a quiet place to study.

Coming Soon: LexisNexis Academic!!

People who know me know how much I dislike the exclamation point. But this news deserves it!!

Your library is subscribing to LexisNexis Academic. This is a very powerful, one-stop research shop for many of the programs and courses offered at Roane State.

Available soon.

Product Highlights Include

NEWS

• Full text of hundreds of newspapers, magazines, and newswires from the U.S. and around the world
• Hard-to-find broadcast transcripts from the major television and radio
  Campus news, including the Chronicle of Higher Education and nearly 300 individual college/university papers
• Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch and other foreign-language newspapers and magazines
  

LEGAL

• Comprehensive coverage of US federal and state case law and statutory law
• Law review articles from over 500 publications
• Legal news from more than 300 legal newspapers, magazines, and newsletters
• Shepard’s Citation service for all federal and state cases
• Patents from 1971 forward
• European Union law from the CELEX database and international case law from a number of other countries

BUSINESS

• Company Dossier service, including detailed financial and operating data on over 43 million US and international companies
• Business and trade publications\
• Company information, including Hoover’s Company Reports, Disclosure reports, and Standard & Poor's Corporate Descriptions
• SEC filings

Need a computer? Checkout a laptop.

Did you know students can checkout laptops from the Roane and Oak Ridge campus libraries? We have Dells as well as Macs.

Laptops are available only to current semester students with library accounts in good standing. Laptops checkout for 2 hours at a time for in-library use only.

We'll ask for your library card and will also hold your drivers license. There's a short agreement form to fill out and then you're ready to start using the laptop.

College Transfer Fair @ Roane campus library: Thursday, Nov. 5

Roane State's Advising Resource Center (ARC) will host a college transfer fair at the Roane campus library, 2nd floor from 9am to 12:30pm on Thursday, Nov. 5.

This is a great opportunity to learn more about 4 year colleges/universities and the programs they offer. Attendees include: UTK; Tennessee Tech; Austin Peay; Carson-Newman; ETSU; MTSU and many others.

For more information, contact ARC at (865) 882-4597.

NewsBank database change: Now only carries 3 TN titles

Our access to NewsBank has changed. We still have limited access but our subscription now provides fulltext access to 3 newspapers only: Chattanooga Free-Times Press, The Commercial Appeal (Memphis), and Knoxville News Sentinel.

Access to these three newspapers is provided to us free as part of the Tennessee Electronic Library initiative. Publication changes and budgetary pressures caused us to take a look at the usage and expense of this valuable, but under-utilized resource.

We hate to see NewsBank go but look forward to offering increased newspaper access when we pick up LexisNexis Academic in November. Stay tuned for more on that soon.