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FAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE The Evolution of the Paul H. Thompson Library by ROBERT ANTILL Discovery Service, which prepares our graduates for the rigors necessary to Since the mid-1800s libraries in the United States have successfully do world-class research equal to any four-year college or operated under the model of book and information university. The complexity of the modern academic library providers for the masses. To his enduring credit, Melvil includes finding information in books, e-books, journals, Dewey is widely considered the father of the modern e-journals, multiple electronic databases, films, audio library. Fulfilling a unique mission, community college recordings, maps, photos and archive materials. We decided to libraries are not giant tombs of millions of books waiting partner with the major publishing company EBSCO to establish to be used. We are required to be more nimble, and our a Discovery Service. EBSCO Discovery allows FTCC students strength rests in our dexterity, not rigidity. to search the entirety of Paul H. Thompson Library's holdings, At Fayetteville Technical Community College, the both print and electronic, with a single search from anywhere in mission of the library, including its current evolution, has the world 24 hours-a-day. Students on campus, online students always been student and faculty focused. The library's studying locally and distance education soldiers as far away as ability to adapt over the past 50 years has sustained the Afghanistan have access to the exact same information through informational needs of the first graduating class of 40 the Library's website. students in 1963 through the current 40,000 students Turning over or modernizing the print collection involves today, majoring in more than 200 degree and certificate eliminating the outdated and purchasing updated books fields. Built in 1971, the Paul H. Thompson library houses necessary to support the various curriculums. The Paul H. approximately 68,000 books, 32 computers and seating Thompson Library is two years into a five-year plan which for 155. Through use of the Internet, the ability to deliver includes tripling the amount of the library's books by purchasing scholarly information worldwide 24 hours-a-day to our face-to-face and distance education students is in constant There are big changes happening at 120,000 e-books in 2013. These e-books are available to every FTCC student worldwide 24 hours-a-day. competition with non-academic information sources like FTCC's Paul H. Thompson Library. The future of the Thompson Library is bright as we head Google and Wikipedia. toward converting the reference collection to digital in Over the past two years, the Paul H. Thompson library partnership with Oxford University Press, creating the FTCC Digital Archive floor plan was redesigned, a Discovery Service was established, and a highlighting our history and investing in a broader array of concerted effort to turn over the print collection was initiated. Creating an databases covering every subject area in more depth. Plan a visit to atmosphere conducive to study was behind the effort to replace all of the furniture, brighten the lighting, introduce wireless computing and printing, FTCC's Paul H. Thompson Library soon to see the and transform the facility into a collaborative environment where students ROBERT ANTILL, FTCC Director of Library Services, Contributing Writer. COMMENTS? exciting changes that have and faculty can build upon FTCC's foundation. Editor@upancomingweekly.com. been implemented. FTCC is proud to be the only North Carolina community college with a 16 UCW OCTOBER. 23-29, 2013 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM