This month, the Jefferson campus’ library display board focuses on African Americans in the Technical Trades.

Stop by their library and check it out!

Spotlight on... Celebrating African American History with DVD's

Moss Memorial Library (City Park Campus) has an extensive collection of videos to help you celebrate African American History Month. Our display shows several of our DVDs. Please feel free to ask your librarian about renting one of these interesting selections. 

Twelve disciples of Nelson Mandela [videorecording] DVD 63

The Black press [videorecording] : soldiers without swords DVD 64

The road to Brown [videorecording] DVD 66

Richard Wright--Black boy [videorecording] DVD 67

Ralph Ellison [videorecording] : an American journey DVD 68

James Baldwin [videorecording] : the price of the ticket DVD 70

Wild women don't have the blues [videorecording] DVD 72

Half past autumn [videorecording] : the life and art of Gordon Parks DVD 138

Panorama of African-American theatre [videorecording] DVD 161

Zora's roots [videorecording] : the life of Zora Neale Hurston DVD 402

The Tuskegee airmen [DVD] : they fought two wars DVD 427

African American lives [videorecording] DVD 493

Against the odds [videorecording] : the artists of the Harlem Renaissance DVD 495

In remembrance of Martin [videorecording] DVD 539

Reminder: First Computer Basics Class (City Park Campus) - February 7, 2014

Quick points: 

• We are encouraging students to register for these classes by calling the Adult Ed office at  504-671-5434. 
• The classes will begin on Friday, February 7.
• They will be held from 2-3pm in the Library Classroom (Bldg. 10, Rm. 134). 

Computer Basics Course (City Park Campus) - Spring 2014

Quick points: 

• We are encouraging students to register for these classes by calling the Adult Ed office at  504-671-5434. 
• Computer Basics Classes will begin Friday, February 7, 2014.
• Computer Basics Classes will be held from 2-3 pm in the Library Classroom (Bldg. 10, Rm. 134). 

Accessing the Library's Website from Off Campus

Delgado Community College will be closed Tuesday, January 28, 2014. Fortunately, you can use the library's resources while you're at home. Please visit us at http://dcc.libguides.com/library.

You can search our online catalog to find books, DVD's, and e-books.

You can use Delgado Library's database to access thousands of journal articles, book reviews, newspaper articles and more. Choose "Find Databases" at the top of the screen to see the drop down menu.

You can choose to search our databases alphabetically.

Or you can choose to search our databases by subject.

Remember, you will have to use your Delgado e-mail username and password to access the database while you are off campus. Please watch the following video for more information on remote access. 

Navigating the Libraries

We have created a schematic for those of you who have had trouble finding your resources (books, journals, dvds) at the City Park Library. Please see our Circulation desk if you have any questions about where to find your materials on our shelves. Happy Hunting!

Library Groundbreaking

The Library at the City Park campus will soon have its own building.  There will be a groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday December 12^th at 2pm.  The new Library will be called the Marvin E. Thames Sr. Learning Resource Center.  Marvin E. Thames Sr. was the first president of Delgado Community College. 

The new building will be built on the site where the original Delgado Moss Memorial library stood. The Moss Memorial Library had its groundbreaking ceremony 50 years ago in 1963. The Library was named after Ellenora Moss a close friend of the college’s namesake Isaac Delgado.  Ms Moss provided a $150,000 dollar donation in her will so that Delgado could build its first library. Due to Ms. Moss’ generosity and funding from other sources the Moss Memorial Library was completed in 1965.  Unfortunately the Moss Memorial Library was destroyed in Hurricane Katrina.

Since the original library building was destroyed the library has set up shop in building 10.  About 22,000 print volumes are housed in building 10.  Currently the rest of the 150,000 print volumes are housed in storage at an off-campus site.

The new Learning Resource center will be a welcomed and much needed addition to the City park campus.