VGCC Celebrates National Library Week By Offering Remote Access To Information

The Vance-Granville Community College Learning Resources Center is celebrating National Library Week, April 9-15, by offering remote access to several online databases to its students, faculty and staff.

The databases that can be accessed cut across all subject areas and include NC-LIVE, which the LRC has been using since 1998 (as provided by the N.C. General Assembly), Literature Resource Center, Health Reference Center-Academic, and Sirs. The icons for these centers appear on the VGCC Internet homepage at www.vgcc.edu .

To connect to the databases off campus, a student, faculty or staff member will use a special set of passwords given them following application at the LRC. For example, a nursing student might want to search for geriatric nursing and can do so from home by going into NC-LIVE and searching on the following databases: American Medical Association, CINAHL, Clinical Reference System, Health Source Plus, MedLine, PsycINFO and USP DI, Volume II, Advice for the Patient, or the student can use Health Reference Center-Academic.

In the same way, an English student researching Eudora Welty could choose Literature Resource Center or a general database such as Sirs or one in NC-LIVE, and find academic information that could be printed out right there in the home.

“Various online databases, including NC-LIVE, have been used in the VGCC LRC for several years, but adding the remote access factor for students really increases their ability to become even more productive by having the resources at their fingertips at home,” said Sondra Oakley, LRC director. She added she hopes the LRC will be able to continue to offer these remote access databases and even possibly add more in the future.