Lately, there has been a lot of discussion surrounding the idea of "Fake News." There are ways to determine the legitimacy of a news story, and librarians are here to help. Your BRCC librarians have composed a special guide that can be accessed by both students and faculty. The screen shot below illustrates what this guide looks like, and the kinds of information you can access while there.
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| BRCC Magnolia Library Fake News Libguide |
The Baton
Rouge Community College Magnolia Library will host a book talk and discussion
with author and scholar, Thomas J. Durant, Jr., Ph.D, on his latest book, “A
View from the Inside…Thirty-Six Years of Desegregation,” on Wed., Feb. 15 at 6
p.m. in the Reading Room. The event is free and open to the public.
The Magnolia Library Book Talk is a
20 to 30 minute presentation, followed by a Q&A, refreshments and time for
open discussion with the author.
When Thomas J. Durant, Jr., Ph.D.
arrived on LSU’s campus in 1973 to begin work as a professor of sociology,
desegregation was still a work in progress. The university had hired its
first African-American faculty member only two years earlier. For the next 36
years, Dr. Durant was in a unique position to observe the effects of racial
integration at the highest levels of education.
“A View from the Inside…Thirty-Six
Years of Desegregation” is based on documentation from the earliest days of
LSU’s desegregation, and on Dr. Durant’s personal experience as a sociology
professor for almost four decades.
In the book, Dr. Durant provides a
detailed account of his journey from a small racially segregated town in north
Louisiana to a large predominately white university, where he became engaged in
the racial desegregation movement, during his 36-year tenure as a professor.
Based on personal observations, experiences, documents, and reports, the book
reveals how desegregation policies, programs, and events, and the actions of
African American students, faculty, and staff, shaped the course of
desegregation, cultural diversity, race relations, and cultural transformation
of the university.
“This book fills a gap in the history
of desegregation of a historically white public university that has not,
heretofore, been revealed,” said -Joyce Marie Jackson, Ph.D. - Director,
African & African American Studies/Professor, Dept. of Geography and
Anthropology, Louisiana State University.
Thomas J. Durant, Jr., Ph.D. –
emeritus professor of sociology at Louisiana State University – is an author,
entrepreneur, scholar, speaker and a community volunteer. Preceding the
aforementioned book, he has published three books: “Plantation Society and Race
Relations: The Origins of Inequality,” “Our Roots Run Deep: History of
the River Road African American Museum,” and “The Charity Hospitals of
Louisiana: A Story of Poverty, Politics, Public Health, and Public Interest.”
He has also published numerous articles in various scholarly journals. A native
of Mansfield, La., Dr. Durant now makes his home in Baton Rouge.
Your BRCC Magnolia librarians continue to provide quality services to all BRCC sites and activities. Recently Laddawan Kongchum made a visit to the Automotive Technology Center (ATC), and addressed BRCC courses at this location.
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| Librarian Laddawan Kongchum speaking to a class at ATC |
There is a liaison librarian linked to your site. Please call the library if you are unsure about your liaison contact (225-216-8555). We would be happy to help your courses at any of our 9 locations in any way that we can, including bibliographic instruction sessions, shuttling library resources and materials, or meeting with students one-on-one for library consultations.
In addition, the library is once again participating with the ALC for their Long Night Against Procrastination. The library will be open with extended hours, and librarians will be on hand to answer research questions or assist with finding library resources.
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| Librarians Lauren McAdams, and Peter Klubek assisting students during the Fall '16 LNAP |
