This BRAND NEW online MyCourses course provides an easy way for both students to build strong research skills and for instructors to incorporate this content into their own course shells. It walks you through the entire research process: from choosing a topic and developing search strategies to finding high-quality sources and citing them responsibly.
Inside the course, you’ll find short video tutorials, practical tips, and guided examples that show you how to search the library’s databases, use eBooks and journals, and locate credible information both using and beyond the open web. Whether you’re new to college research or looking to refresh your skills for teaching and assignments, this course offers tools to make your work more efficient and effective!
To access the course, just log into MyCourses ---> Select 'Resources' ---> Select 'FRCC Library Resource Shell FA25'!
FRCC professor Ashley Santana, moderator of the horror book club The Thing in the Labyrinth and co-chair of the Horror Writers Association Colorado, will be sharing excerpts from her short stories. Join us for a frighteningly good time.
Date: Thursday, October 23
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Place: FRCC Library Collaborative Zone
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Join Colorado Public Radio's Ryan Warner as he hosts a live recording of CPR's daily news program, Colorado Matters:
Date: Wednesday, October 29
Time: 1-2:15 p.m.
Place: FRCC Westminster Campus, Rocky Mountain Room
A panel of the following experts will field questions from FRCC student journalists about the news Coloradoans rely on in their daily lives.
Corey Hutchinson - Director of Colorado College's Journalism Institute
Greg Moore - former Managing Editor of The Denver Post
Jeffery Roberts - CEO of The Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition
For more information contact aaron.leff@frontrange.edu.
The library has placed three little free libraries around campus. Look for one across from the Math Department offices, one near the cafeteria, and one near entrance 8. Feel free to donate books to these libraries that you think others would enjoy.
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The library was filled with students cuddling dogs, swapping beloved pet stories, and relaxing during a visit from Go Team Therapy Dogs on October 11th.
They will be returning before finals so watch for flyers around campus!!
Our librarian, Levi Fischer, created this amazing video on how to search the Library's databases. It starts with a simple search but moves into how to refine your search to improve your results.
Is Autumn your favorite season? Read some inspiring quotes about fall on the bulletin board next to the elevator in the library. Leave a quote of your own. Here are a couple of them:
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower" - Albert Camus
"I guess it's something about the air. Fall air feels like possibility." - Becky Albertalli
In 2024 more than 1/2 of all Americans made a financial goal. Are you one of them? This guide has links to resources that may help you achieve your goals. If you need further assistance, don't hesitate to ask a librarian to help you find the resources you need.
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Our online library collection has more than academic materials. It also has articles from popular magazines and trade journals! Reading magazines and trade journals can help you relax, explore a topic, solve a problem, learn about a potential career field, and keep you informed. Here’s a guide to help you learn more about how to use our library to find magazines and trade journals that may interest you or members of your family.
Did you know that there is a Prayer and Meditation Room in the College Hill Library? This room can be used individually or in small groups. It is open to any member of the Front Range Community College community.
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A gripping, heart-wrenching, coming-of-age story that takes place in a Southern town in the USA poisoned by prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime. It has been banned because it addresses themes of racism and injustice which some find controversial. It also discusses rape which some consider an inappropriate topic in a school setting.
This richly illustrated edition of Charles Darwins paradigm-shattering masterpiece brings Darwin's life and controversial theories into full view. Edited and with an introduction by award-winning science journalist David Quammen, it features more than 300 illustrations, including paintings, personal photographs, botanical and zoological studies, and newspaper engravings. Excerpts from Darwins other works, especially The Voyage of the Beagle, and facsimile pages from his letters and diaries invite readers to experience Darwin's journey and scientific breakthrough.
This title contains Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, along with notes from Martin Gardner on the meanings behind the words and solutions to the riddles buried in the famous text. It has been banned for various reasons including the idea that it encourages children to question authority figures, promotes sexual fantasies, and encourages drug culture. For more on why this book and ten other books have been banned read Britannica's 11 Banned Books Through Time.
The story of Candide, a naive youth, who is conscripted, shipwrecked, robbed, and tortured by the Inquisition without losing his will to live is accompanied by imaginary letters on various themes. "Candide was banned immediately in Roman Catholic Paris, Calvinist Geneva, and other jurisdictions including eventually America. Each of its many editions and translations were listed on the Vatican roster of books that Catholics (most Frenchmen, including all those in schools and universities) were forbidden to read." For its time, it was unabashedly erotic and seen as anti-religious.
For eight months during the spring and fall of 1863, brothers Felipe Nerio and José Vivián Espinosa and their young nephew, José Vincente, New Mexico–born Hispanos, killed and mutilated an estimated thirty-two victims before their rampage came to a bloody end. Their motives were obscure. Featuring a fascinating array of frontier characters, Season of Terror exposes this neglected truth about Colorado’s past and examines the ethnic, religious, political, military, and moral complexity of the controversy that began as a regional incident but eventually demanded the attention of President Lincoln.
At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far removed from reality as the hope of being rescued.
The Merchant of Venice introduces one of Shakespeare's most memorable villains, the Jewish moneylender Shylock, who famously demands a “pound of flesh” for what he is owed. The Merchant of Venice is Shakespeare's most banned book. It is largely banned because of anti-Semitic stereotypes and intolerance. Shakespeare's works have been banned or edited to remove salacious content. For more on this topic read Banned Books: Shakespeare Censored! - Censored Works of Shakespeare.
Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a flirtatious woman, nor predict the consequences of Lennie's unswerving obedience to the things George taught him.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.
"The Diary of a Young Girl" is a book that is a compilation of diary entries written by Anne Frank, a Jewish teenager who lived in hiding with her family and friends during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Anne began writing in her diary on her 13th birthday, just a few weeks before her family went into hiding. The diary offers a personal and intimate account of Anne's thoughts, feelings, and experiences during her time in hiding. She writes about the challenges of living in a small, cramped space with others, the stress of constantly being in hiding, and her desire for a normal life.
In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead’s commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive.
Click here to see some of the new materials that we have recently added to the the FRCC Westminster Library Collection.
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