To mark World AIDS Day on December 1, the library mounted a book display on AIDS awareness near the circulation desk. This display will be up for the rest of the month.
Library staff members have also created two online research guides mirroring students’ interest in and concern for the current economic realities. The first is on the Global Economic Recession at http://rcclibrary.wikispaces.com/GlobalEconomicRecession. It features good resources to find the causes, data and prospects for recovery.
The second research guide is Economic Inequality at http://rcclibrary.wikispaces.com/Economic_Inequality. The growing inequality between the top 1 percent of the population and the bottom 99 is the widest since the 1920′s.
The library online research guides are one of the most used library resources accessed over 71,000 times in the last 10 months. Here is the link to all of them: http://www.rcc.mass.edu/Lib/Eresources/Guides.html.
If you are in the neighborhood, stop in for a look at the festive library holiday tree.
