Category Archives: news

In light of the precautions being taken to restrict the spread of COVID-19, Hackney Library’s building is CLOSED to all patrons until further notice.  However, we will be providing the following services to Barton students, faculty and staff only: 24/7 access … Continue reading →

Things are brightening up in Hackney Library with the addition of new LED reading lamps in four of its individual study rooms. The individual study rooms located on the elevator-side of Hackney Library’s second floor now boast small reading lamps perched … Continue reading →

Who would have thought that censorship is alive and well in the United States?  Yet, nowhere is it seen more explicitly than in recent attempts to ban or challenge various books from being made available through school, public, and university … Continue reading →

Barton’s student art lovers and creators have been hard at work, as evidenced by a new exhibition of student art on display in Hackney Library’s student art gallery area on the first floor near the elevator. Featured in the exhibit … Continue reading →

Need help looking for graduate programs?  Working on creating a new resumé?  Preparing yourself for the requirements of a specific career? One of Hackney Library’s new resources through NCLIVE can help with all of these and more:  It’s called Testing … Continue reading →

If you have a yen to learn a new language (or to become better at English if it’s your second language), the new language-learning software now available from NCLIVE–Mango Languages–may be just the ticket.  And it’s available now from Hackney … Continue reading →

As promised, Hackney Library as of January 1, 2018 has been providing the Barton community access to the electronic version of the Chronicle of Higher Education’s premium articles and resources.  Access is available from anywhere, whether on campus or off, and … Continue reading →

It’s a given–everyone wants to find a job when they graduate from college.   A recent Hackney Library acquisition may make the task of preparing for a career and finding a job in a particular field that much easier—and it’s now available … Continue reading →

Thanks to a new database available to Hackney Library patrons via NCLIVE, you can now access some 3.5 million digitized pages of historic newspapers in North Carolina, including selected issues of Wilson’s Daily Times (ranging from 1896-1929),  the Wilson Advance (ranging … Continue reading →

In case you hadn’t noticed, Hackney Library has gone back in time about 100 years:  we are playing temporary host to an exhibit called “North Carolina in the Great War.”  The exhibit consists of two  mannequins–the first dressed in the … Continue reading →