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You asked, and we provided! You can now sign up for a group study room ONLINE : http://libcal.pvcc.edu/booking/groupstudyrooms . Simply choose your day, your time (up to three hours) and fill out the simple form. An email will be sent to you confirming your choice. Once a room is booked, you will be able to see who's meeting where and when. This is only in place for study rooms A, B and C. Hopefully we'll expand the service to include the rest soon. It's fast; it's simple; it's convenient! Enjoy! Update: 11/5/13, we now have this in place for all the group study rooms!

For fun or for finals, all you need is a great book! Here is a random selection of riveting reads from our new books: What has the world so excited? Higgs: The Invention and Discovery of the ’God Particle’ by Jim Baggott. What you need and want to know about apps from development to uses to sales, can be found in Bestmobile Apps 2013: Top Developers Share Their Secrets to Success by Jeremy J. Warner. Did you know that Mark Twain kept his fan mail? Dear Mark Twain: Letters From His Readers edited by R. Kent Rasmussen is both fascinating and hilarious. Whether you play or not, this may be worth reading: Fun Inc.: Why Gaming Will Dominate the Twenty-First Century by Tom Chatfield. Get out and enjoy Virginia’s lush flora with this guide: Flora of Virginia by Alan S. Weakley, J. Christopher Ludwig, John F. Townsend, and Bland Crowder, Editor. If you are wondering how things are supposed to work, here are a few books on the Constitution of the United States:   The Pengu

October. The days are getting shorter and the nights longer. Before you know it, it will be the holiday season. Are you ready with your pots and pans? If you need ideas, or if you just like browsing cookbooks, the library has a very nice collection of them.  Some of our recommendations are below. If you would like to browse the rest of the cookbook collection, head to the TX section of the stacks. Best of Flavors -- From the U.S. Foodservice, this book includes "recipes, trends, and ideas" that can help improve your food business or your homemade food. Includes lots of tasty recipes. Classical Cooking the Modern Way   -- A comprehensive book; provides information about all aspects of cooking, but focuses on learning the basic food preparation techniques (such as grilling, poaching, roasting, etc.). Includes a wealth of recipes. Complete Photo Guide to Cake Decorating  -- Warning: this book might cause uncontrollable drooling. It has beautiful photos of cake decorat

VIVA is pleased to announce its latest initiative, the Universal Borrowing pilot program. This program allows all current PVCC students, faculty and staff to borrow books from any participating VIVA institution. All you have to do to take advantage of this great opportunity is go to the college's or university's library and show proof of current status. You are, however, subject to the circulating policies of the lending library. For a list of participating institutions and their policies, go here . VIVA envisions the greatest usefulness for distance students, but anyone is free to use this service. If you have any questions, please just let us know. Enjoy!

The library will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. during fall break, October 7-8. During that time we will be converting our desktop computers to Windows 7 and updating to Office 2013. Because of this, none of these computers will be available. We will provide laptops (with printing capabilities), and of course reference assistance. However, if you would prefer to use a desktop, just go to the Open Computer Lab.  Hopefully this will be as painless as possible, but please bear with us!

Renegotiation of Modern Language Association International Bibliography Contract Provides Savings and Brings New, Extensive Literature Resources to VIVA The Virtual Library of Virginia Fall Semester 2013 9/18/2013 A contract recently negotiated by the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) will assure that the Commonwealth’s students and faculty of both public and private nonprofit colleges and universities have access to state-of-the-art digital resources to support undergraduate core curriculum and the study of literature and languages. The multi-year agreement with ProQuest, a subsidiary of the Cambridge Information group with a record of seventy years of service to libraries, includes continuing VIVA access to the Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography while adding indexes and full-text resources from five additional ProQuest databases: Literature Online (LION), which combines the texts of over 357,250 works of literature with a vast compi