On Friday, April 25, NCWC and Barnhill Contracting Company broke ground on the new 12,000-square-foot library addition that will widely expand student study and technology space, and add a new gathering place to the college.

Coverage in the Rocky Mount Telegram can be found here.

We are very excited about the addition, and ask that all students, faculty, staff, and community patrons bear with us during our construction and renovations that will begin on May 1 and continue until the new addition opens, tentatively before the Fall 2009 semester.

NCWC Library Staff, from left:
James Parrigin, Dianne Taylor, Kathy Winslow, Grace Wallace, Steve Bahnaman

Students and faculty at NCWC now have access to more than 250 complete PBS programs through Pearsall Library and NC LIVE.  These videos are very easy to access here or through the link on the library's main page.  Titles like Ken Burns' Baseball and The Civil War, The American Experience, and biographies of major figures in U.S. history are all available for your leisure or instructional use, in a simple streaming "YouTube-like" format that just requires one or two clicks!

These videos should really be a very beneficial addition to the collection here at NC Wesleyan; try them out now!

In an effort to increase the library's content related to African studies, NCWC Libraries has joined Aluka, a new and growing digital repository of scholarly information about Africa.  Aluka currently presents content related to African history, biology, and civilization, and will continue to grow over the coming years as more content is added to the digital resource.  Students in courses about African history or wildlife will find particular interest in the content of Aluka, which includes unique documents, images that can be used in presentations, and a widely searchable base of content related to Africa.

To use Aluka, click here.

To find out more about how you can use Aluka for your research, contact Steve Bahnaman or any of the other librarians at Pearsall Library.