Video Game Years is new to GRCC’s streaming video collection. This 13-video series “examines the history, culture, technological advances, and oddities of the video game world.” Learn (or reminisce) about the history of Pong, Odyssey2, Donkey Kong Jr., Texas Chainsaw Massacre, John Madden Football, Tetris – and many more!
Using reference books to begin your research is a great way to find out facts, definitions, and other details that will familiarize you with – and help you better understand – a new field of interest. Reference books, including dictionaries, encyclopedia, atlases, handbooks, and manuals, pack a lot of information into titles that are easy-to-use.
At GRCC, you will find reference books in print on the Library’s first floor, or online through a variety of entry points. GRCC Library OneSearch will point you to articles in many reference eBooks. Most Subject Guides will list print and eBook reference books specific to that Subject Guide department or topic – often in a Reference Book box. Plus, we provide a Reference Subject Guide that can help you get started.
One collection of reference eBooks I particularly like is Oxford Reference; you can find it under the letter O on the Databases page. Our Oxford Reference collection contains over 300 reference titles from this highly-reputable publisher.
Whether you are starting your research and need an overview, or, if you are writing an assignment and realize you need to cite an authoritative, quality definition or explanation, try Oxford Reference. Logon with your last name and 7-digit Raider number.
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GRCC’s NewsBank America’s News database provides Hot Topics – the “most popular trending news headlines and topics.” Hot Topics provide links to pre-researched subjects of interest.
June Hot Topics cover: growth of the Navaho Nation; the 2020 Olympics; Royal Dutch Shell court ruling; the Tulsa Race Massacre; the death of The Very Hungry Caterpillar‘s author, Eric Carle; and, the A-76 iceberg. Take a look at the June Hot Topics.
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Rhode Island-sized A-76 Iceberg now adrift in Weddell Sea
“River’s End explores the global water crisis, using California as a microcosm. It shows how water politics that led to the draining of the Owens Valley by Los Angeles, made famous by the film Chinatown, continue to this day in ongoing efforts to take ever more water from Northern California’s San Francisco Bay estuary. Except this time, the water grab is at the hands of industrial agriculture and its powerful corporate investors. River’s End inspires viewers to learn where their water comes from so that we can save our rivers and the ecosystems and communities that depend upon them.”
GRCC’s NewsBank America’s News database provides Hot Topics – the “most popular trending news headlines and topics including sports, environment, business, fine arts and architecture, and more.” Hot Topics provide links to pre-researched subjects of interest.
May Hot Topics cover: Raul Castro’s successor in Cuba; a Malaria vaccine; glacial shrinkage; the Euro Super League; and astronaut Michael Collin’s death. Take a look at the May Hot Topics.
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