PBS videos now available on NC LIVE

There’s no need to wait for reruns of your favorite PBS videos any longer. They are now conveniently available at the library or in the comfort of your own home anytime you choose.

Students, teachers, and/or library patrons at the Wake Tech Libraries now have free access to quality PBS educational and entertainment programming over the Internet. Because the Wake Tech Libraries are a member of NC LIVE, North Carolina's statewide library consortium, they are now able to provide access to nearly 250 quality PBS programs covering a wide variety of topics.

Remember Ken Burns’ Baseball and The Civil War? How about the Emmy award-winning series American Experience and Frontline? They are part of the larger collection of videos that are currently available at no charge to Wake Tech students who request the NC LIVE password.

A second group of videos will be available later in January 2008 that will include children’s programming from the highly acclaimed “Cyberchase” and “Liberty Kids” series.

IM @ Wake Tech Libraries

Starts: September 4, 2007

By adding, "waketechreference" or "wakereference" to your "Buddy List" you can chat online with a librarian. You can use any of the following chat platforms: AIM, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, and/or Google Talk.

Hours of Service*:

Monday-Friday from 9 AM - 1 PM

If you don't have an instant messaging/email account on any of these chat platforms, no worries... go to the Wake Tech Libraries' website and chat with a librarian by typing your question in the chat window.

*Need help during the off-hours, send your questions to NCKnows, librarians available to answer your research questions online, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Wake Tech Book Club picks for 2007-2008

Wake Tech has a book club and is soliciting new members to join! Faculty, staff and students are all welcome to join in.

In 2007-2008 we will most likely be reading the following titles:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by Rowling for September
Mermaid Chair by Kidd for October
Out of the Night That Covers Me by Devoto for November (Book Club kit from Wake County)
Emma by Austen for December/January (Book Club kit from Wake County)
Boomsday by Buckley for February
Luncheon of the Boating Party by Vreeland for March
Three Junes by Glass for April (Book Club Kit from Wake County)
Either Digital Fortress or DaVinci Code by Brown for May (it was a tie)
Big Stone Gap by Trigiani for June (Book Club kit from Wake County)

Please feel free to join the book club to discuss the books above. Usually we meet during the last week of the month at noon. Stay tuned for more details regarding dates and location.

Your Wake Tech Student ID - love it!

Keep in mind that your Wake tech student ID is necessary. Here are two important reasons to have your ID:

1. To use the Wake tech student shuttle bus that leaves hourly from Moore Square
2. To access all library services

In the past IDs were not really important but now they are. Please get one asap and come over to the library to activate your library account. Have your ID with you while on campus.

Welcome back students!

Fall semester classes begin August 15th, 2007 - welcome back. Please make it part of your orientation to stop by the library. Ask at the main circulation desk to pick up a map of the library and follow along with our audio tour so that you can find library materials easily. You can even borrow the library's MP3 player to follow along. You can borrow headphones too!

You need a current student ID to borrow the MP3 player and headphones. If you have your ID it is easy to get a library account and check out what you need - no problem.

Students: Avoid Blocks!

Remember to return all library books and pay all fines BEFORE the end of the semester (July 26) to prevent BLOCKING of your records in the Registrar's Office.

A blocked record willl prevent you from viewing your grades or obtaining your transcript.

Students: Bookstore Info - Important!

New bookstore Hours:

Monday July 23rd, Open
Tuesday. July 24th Closed
Wednesday, July 25th Closed
Monday, July 30th Reopens as a Follett Bookstore

Daily operating hours will be the same for now.

The new Bookstore Manager will be Mr. Larry Long. Larry comes to us from a Community College in Jacksonville, Florida and has been managing bookstores since 1999. He's been with Follett since 2001.