Digitizing College Documents

This summer the library will begin to scan many of the documents in the college archives and put them online for easy viewing and access.

With the help and support of Robert Smith in the IT department and NMCC student Robert Sheldon we have already scanned and placed some yearbooks online.

We recently scanned the 1964-1965 catalog for Northeastern Maine Vocational Institute. These catalogs provide a wealth of information about school during that time. Here are some interesting highlights:

• Room and board was $12.75 per week.
• Books and other supplies and deposits cost an estimated $60 - $80 per year
• Tuition per semester $123.50 In State $211.00 Out of State

Over the course of the summer we will be adding information and linking it on the college website.

Stay tuned for updates.

Book Signings @ Turner Public Library

June is a great month for author talks and book signings and the Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library will be hosting three authors on the dates below.

NMCC students and recent grads are encouraged to attend. It will be interesting, fun, and you may find a new author that you'll enjoy reading. Plus, there will be no test at the end of the talk.

So, take some time for you and relax a little and visit the public library on any or all of the dates below. You'll be glad you did.

Also, your NMCC student ID allows you to get a library card at the Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library and at the University of Maine at Presque Isle Library.


June 3rd from 6-7, Gordon Hammond
Leaving Home and other tales of the heart

June 15th, 11am and 6pm, author Tim Caverly

An Allagash Haunting: The Story of Emile Camille

June 25th, 6pm, Richard Shain Cohen

Author of The Forgotten Longfellow: Man in the Shadows

Free History Podcasts

Free history podcasts from the Gildern Lehrman Institute of American History.

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/historians/podcasts/

Creative Writers Reading Series

Join us in the library at noon on Thursday, April 29th for the final session in the reading series.

Fiction with Shonna Milliken Humphrey

Shonna Milliken Humphrey holds an MFA from Bennington College and is the executive director of the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. Her work has appeared in national anthologies, as well as in regional publications. Her first novel, Show Me Good Land, will be published in April 2010 by Down East Books, kicking off the new Maine literature line from the publisher. A native of Aroostook County, she now lives in southern Maine.

Want to learn a foreign language?

Visit the library page and click on downloadable audiobooks. Here you'll find a wonderful selection of fiction & non-fiction titles. Check out the foreign language audiobooks.

Contact the library if you need help getting set up or downloading the books.

http://tinyurl.com/24bh2hb

Rooms to reserve in the library

We are nearing the end of the semester and everyone wants a comfortable & quiet place to study.
The library is a great place to come to get your work done. There are no interruptions and the space is always open, sunny, and welcoming. We have two private study rooms that can be reserved in advance. The rooms are perfect for group study and private study. Stop by and reserve a room today.

Saturday Hours

You told us you want them. So..............

The library and media center will be open on the following Saturdays:

Stop by on April 24th, May 1st, and May 8th from 12-4 and get some work done.

We're hoping that we get a huge response to Saturday hours. Contact the library with your thoughts, comments, and suggestions.