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04/29/2025
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The Pitt County Schools Early College High School Battle of the Books (HBOB) team is building quite the legacy. Each year, these very busy students somehow find the time to read multiple books in order to compete against the the other high schools across Pitt County. It's like trivia, but all the questions come from a list of 16 books! Students must be familiar with the books and have the titles and authors memorized. This year's team came in third place. This was no easy task, and we are very proud of their hard work and dedication! Reading for the next competition (that takes place each spring) begins as soon as the previous competition is done. You can visit our HBOB page for the current reading list. Keep up the good work! Go Wolves!

Early College HBOB Team Members

The ECHS 2024-2025 HBOB team placed 3rd in competition on March 31st, 2025, at South Central HS. Pictured are Brianna Barnes, Austin Ju, Phoenyx Leaks, Gabriela Washington, Anna Cauthon, Celia Bansah, Jamaria Barrow, Victoria Wright, and Amanda Diaz. Coaches (not pictured) were Evan Schmoll (PCC Library), Natasha Martin (ECHS), and Angela Davis (PCC Library). 

04/17/2025
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PubMed is a free web-based interface for searching MEDLINE, which is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains millions of references to journal articles in life sciences, with a concentration on biomedicine.

PubMed Search Screenshot
  • PubMed searches across several resources: MEDLINE, PubMed Central (PMC), and Bookshelf.
  • You can go directly to PubMed online, find it on our database list, and on some of our research guides. 
  • If an article is not available in fulltext from PubMed, PCC Library may have the article in one of our databases, or you can request an article through our interlibrary loan service.

Check out these PubMed tutorials…

Did you know…?

You can see all of PCC library’s health resources on one page. Need help searching? Ask us!

04/16/2025
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You have access to many online practice tests and study guides to help you prepare for allied health and nursing exams.

Screenshot of LearningExpress Library. Search by keyword or switch to PrepSTEP College.

PrepSTEP*

You can access both LearningExpress Library and PrepSTEP College from the same interface. 

There are study guides and practice tests for:

  • ATI TEAS
  • Nursing: NCLEX-RN, Nursing Assistant/Nurse Aide Certification, NCLEX-PN, etc.
  • Dental Assisting
  • Medical Assistant Certification
  • Occupational Therapy Assistant Certification (COTA)
  • Radiologic Technologist Certification
  • Respiratory Therapist Certification (TMC)
  • Surgical Technologist Certification
  • EMT Certification
  • Paramedic Certification (NRP)

If you need to brush up on basic math and reading skills, basic computer skills, workplace skills, and more, PrepSTEP and LearningExpress Library have got you covered! 

*Online Access: PCC students and staff should use their myPittCC login credentials. Community library card holders can get a username/password from a librarian. 

 

How to Access PrepSTEP

Provides access to both LearningExpress and PrepSTEP. Includes practice for the TEAS test, ACT, SAT, NCLEX-RN, licensing exams, developmental math and reading skills, basic computer skills, workplace skills, and more. Getting to PrepSTEP content . . .

  1. From the LearningExpress Library homepage, click the menu icon (which they call Product Launcher). 
  2. Click PrepSTEP College.
  3. If the page is stuck on “Loading,” try refreshing the page or clearing the browser cache. 
 

 

04/15/2025
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New this spring

Below are just a few of the new things that are now available. Check out our What's New guide for more details on what is new for Spring 2025!

Print Books

Cover ArtWe Do Not Part by Han Kang

Call Number: F Han
Tells the story of a friendship between two women while powerfully reckoning with a hidden chapter in Korean history…


 

Cover ArtThe Death of Truth by Steven Brill

Call Number: HM 851 .B75 2024
How did we become a world where facts - shared truths - have lost their power to hold us together as a community, as a country, globally? How have we allowed the proliferation of alternative facts, hoaxes, even conspiracy theories, to destroy our trust in institutions, leaders, and legitimate experts…
 

Cover ArtOriginal Sins: The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism by Eve L. Ewing

Call Number: LC 212.2 .E95 2025
Why don't our schools work? Ewing tackles this question from a new angle- what if they're actually doing what they were built to do? She argues that instead of being the great equalizer, America's classrooms were designed to do the opposite - to maintain our inequalities…
 

E-Books & Audiobooks in Dogwood Digital

 

Cover ArtAtomic Anna by Rachel Barenbaum

Dogwood Digital: Audiobook
In 1986, nuclear scientist Anna Berkova is asleep in her bed in the Soviet Union when Chernobyl's reactor melts down. The energy surge accidentally sends her through time…


 

Cover ArtEveryone Dies Famous in a Small Town by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock

Dogwood Digital: eBook & Audiobook
In this book, the impact of wildfire, a wayward priest, or a mysterious disappearance ricochet across communities, threading through stories. Here, ordinary actions such as ice skating or going to church reveal hidden truths…
 
 
 
Want more?  Titles new and old are constantly being added to Dogwood Digital by community college libraries all over the state. Learn how to access Dogwood Digital.
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