April is National Poetry Month

Looking for a poem to read? Visit the ECPI Library!
Want to know more about your favorite poet? Visit the Online Library at http://students.ecpi.edu/libcot and access LIRN - Infotrac - Literature Resource Center.
Also visit http://www.poets.org.

Dreams
by Langston Hughes


Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.


From The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes published by Alfred A. Knopf/Vintage. Copyright © 1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes. Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated. All rights reserved.

OR Live Surgery videos now available from the Online Library -- LIRN-- InfoTrac

OR Live is now part of LIRN InfoTrac. Medical students now have the ability to view live surgeries. From plastic surgery to vascular surgeries, anesthesia to spine surgeries, Academic OneFile provides both articles and video!

Links to these surgeries from OR Live are available in Academic OneFile and Health Reference Center Academic databases.

For help with your research, access the Online Library 24/7 at http://students.ecpi.edu.

Student Appreciation and Awards Day February 13, 2008

Here are photos of our 4.0 All Stars at the recent Student Appreciation Day held in the beautiful ECPI atrium on February 13, 2008. In conjunction with the evening event, the Student Ambassadors held a Valentine Social potluck dinner. Congratulations to all of the award recipients and to the SAC for hosting a wonderful time!

Recent CMA (Certified Medical Assistant) Recipients!

Congratulations to the following students who took the CMA exam and passed:

Amanda Dompier
Shaniqua Fishburne
Ankara Greer
Loukeya Buncum
Teggie Carroll
Tomeka Polite
Brittany Holmes
Lina Unsworth

Want to know more about the CMA exam or need help with your research?? Visit the ECPI Online Library available 24/7 at http://students.ecpi.edu.

New College Transfer Guide

The Library recently received the latest edition of College Transfer Guide, a guide to 4 year colleges for community and 2-year college graduates. The guide features transfer requirements, tips for the transfer student, college majors, college profiles, how to pay for college, and much more. It is shelved in the Reference section of the Library.

Need help with your research? Visit the Online Library at http://www.students.ecpi.edu/libcot. It's available 24/7!

Have you seen the new ECPI display in the lobby?

Thanks to Medical Administration student Jody Squallace and her talents, we have a new looping display in the ECPI lobby. It is filled with student news, employment statistics for the programs we offer, campus events, and much more. Pictured above in front of the display are Jody and front desk assistant Becky Young.

See what's new with ECPI's CREDO Reference Databases

CREDO Latest Additions
Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Routledge in Literature
Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century, Gale in History
We're updating many of our titles to the latest available editions. The following updated titles were recently released. Expect more soon!
Collins Irish Dictionary, in Bilinguals
The New Penguin Business Dictionary, in Business
The New Penguin Dictionary of Music, in Music
The Penguin Dictionary of Sociology, in Social Sciences
The Penguin Dictionary of Economics, in Business
The Penguin International Dictionary of Finance, in Business


CREDO Featured Title of the Month
Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century from Routledge
This book contains over 400 entries, covering all aspects of American poetry in the twentieth century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries (Conrad Aiken to Louis Zukofsky); entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.
View some of the in-depth entries about poets:
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79) and One Art, one of her well-known poems
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) and his poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Allen Ginsberg (1926-97), one of the beat poets
Marianne Moore (1887-1972) and her poem about poetry -- Poetry
Charles Simic (1938- ), current Poet Laureate of the United States
In addition to entries on American poets, the book features topical essays on key developments in poetry:
Hispanic American Poetry
The relationship with Canadian poetry
How poetry addresses political and cultural issues, such as War
Little magazines and small presses, one of the current outlets for poetry
Use the encyclopedia's list of entries to find even more essays.