February Services News

Black History Month is celebrated in February. Whether you're looking for information on current leaders in the African-American community, black celebrities and popular culture icons, the history of slavery, or biographies of history's most powerful and influential black leaders, these resources will help find the information you need when researching Black History. African American History Online is a premier database filled with images, biographies, slave narratives, maps, video and audio clips, timelines and all things pertaining to African American history.

A couple great Internet based resources include: The African American History & Heritage Site features teacher toolkits for grades K–12 with resources for Black History Month and beyond. Britannica offers a free set of black-history-related source documents, learning guides, and multimedia files for all age groups.

Waggoner Library's Research Guide to African American History provides detailed information about our African American history collection.

In February we also celebrate President's Day, a chance to honor our Presidents. My Fellow Americans is a collection of the most important speeches of America's presidents, from George Washington to George W. Bush. It comes with audio CD's. Facts about the Presidents contains information about the lives, backgrounds, and terms of office of every American president, from George Washington to Barack Obama.

Waggoner Books and Resources

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The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards is a work intended to help the reader gain access to right-brain functions, which affect artistic and creative abilities, by teaching the skills of drawing through unusual exercises designed to increase visual skills. Now Dr. Edwards celebrates the twentieth anniversary of her classic book with a second revised edition.

"Over the last decade, Dr. Edwards has refined her material through teaching hundreds of workshops and seminars. The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, this edition includes: the very latest developments in brain research; new material on using drawing techniques in the corporate world and in education; instruction on self-expression through drawing; an updated section on using color; and detailed information on using the five basic skills of drawing for problem solving." - taken from Amazon

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