Summer Library Hours

The Plant City Campus Library will be closed on Fridays for the summer, beginning on June 1st.

Library hours for Monday - Thursday will remain the same : 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

New books

Reference
CultureGrams

Circulating
Culture and customs of Angola
Culture and customs of Botswana
Culture and customs of Jordan
Culture and customs of Mozambique
Culture and customs of the Central Asian republics
Eating disorders sourcebook
Podiatry sourcebook
Touring the universe through binoculars : a complete astronomer's guidebook

Instant Messaging

We're trying out instant messaging at the library.

If you've never used IM before (don't have an IM account), you can send us a message from the blog. The chat box is on near the top right side of the blog.

If you use AIM, Yahoo, Google Talk, or MSN for IM, you can add us to your buddy list:
AIM: plantcitylibrary
Yahoo: plantcitylibrary
Google: plantcitylibrary@gmail.com
MSN: plantcitylibrary@yahoo.com

Try it out! If you have problems with it - call us, email us or stop in the library and we'll try to figure it out.

Google in Black

Check out http://www.blackle.com/

It allows you to do Google searches in black to save energy.

New Titles

The new books still keep rolling in...

Reference
New Atlas of the Moon
Modern American Communes

Circulating
Arts, Literature, and Language
Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling
Turner: Life and Landscape
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
Critical Companion to John Steinbeck
Hieroglyphs
In Search of Myths & Heroes: Exploring Four Epic Legends of the World

Social Science
Juvenile Justice
Rent Boys: The World of Male Sex Workers
Prostitution
The Road to Utopia: How Kinky, Tony and I Saved More Animals than Noah
Sustainable Energy and the States
Terrorist Leaders
Feminism
Eco-terrorism: Radical Environmental and Animal Liberation Movements
The Meaning of Wife

History and Travel
The History of Ghana
The History of Venezuela
The History of Finland
Weird Florida: Your Travel Guide to Florida's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

Science, Health, and Medicine
The Elements
Global Warming
Cryptozoology: A to Z
The Universe and Beyond
Obesity

Religious Studies
Egyptian Myth
Opus Dei

Biography
T.E. Lawrence

New Items at the Library

Check out the new books at the library - click on the picture or the link to view more information about the book.

So you want to be a leader? by HCC's own Dr. Earl Paul

Reference Books Available -- FREE!!

We recently received the newest editions of several reference books – thus we no longer need the most recent past edition(s) of these titles in the library collection.

The list below shows the titles and sets that are available. If you would like any of the books or sets, please let us know, or just stop in the library to pick them up.

To get additional information about the title, please click the link to connect to the library catalog.

College Blue Book : 33rd edition (2006) – complete set includes:
Distance Learning Programs
Narrative Descriptions
Tabular Data
Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants & Loans
Degrees offered by Colleges and Subjects
Occupational Education

Hospital Statistics :2005 edition & 2006 edition

Physician’s Desk Reference (PDR) : 2005 edition & 2006 edition

2002 Minerals Yearbook – Volume III – Europe and Central Eurasia

United States Government Manual : 2005-2006

Encyclopedia of Associations : 40th (2003) edition and 43rd edition (2006) – each edition is a three-volume set