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May 10, 2013
Cookbooks Online
RTC Library's eBook collection has
several cookbooks, including:
Sound tasty? You can find them by going to
the RTC Library database page
and selecting EBSCOhost Community College eBook Collection. POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 3:50 PM
May 6, 2013 One Million Hits! Sometime on May 6, 2013, the RTC library home page ( http://www.rtc.edu/library/) will reach the 1,000,000 hits mark. That's a lot of searching for information! Congratulations, RTC students and staff! POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 9:30 AM
May 1, 2013 New Dental Books added to RTC Library's Credo Database There are eight new dental books available in Credo Reference. Titles include:
You can find them by going to the RTC Library database page and selecting Credo. POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 9:00 AM
April 19, 2013
ASG and the Library Celebrated National Library Week.
The RTC Associated Student
Government helped the Library celebrate National Library Week by providing
coffee and a drawing for gift cards on Tuesday morning. And a
volunteer created art for the event as well.
The placard, made by Nicholas Anciu,
invites us all
to "Celebrate Library Week! Read a Book!"
(His mother, Jessica Supinski, Director of Student Programs &
Engagement, is holding it.)
"Read a Book!" sounds like good advice. Can we help you find one? Call us.
425 235-2331.
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April 16, 2013
ProQuest Down 3-4AM on April 17
Planning on starting your research
early this Wednesday morning? If you wanted to use our ProQuest databases,
feel free to sleep in for an extra hour. They will be down for
maintenance between 3-4AM Wednesday morning. Our other databases,
including CINAHL (allied health journal articles) and Ebscohost Community
College eBook collection, will continue to be available.
Questions? Please call us - or use our
24 hour a day
reference chat service.
POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 10:00 AM
April 12, 2013
Free Coffee on Tuesday, April 16 from 8:30-12 at RTC Library
There will be free coffee in the
library on Tuesday, April 16, to celebrate National Library Week. Come and
have a quiet sip with us.
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April 10, 2013 Library Snapshot Day at RTC Library Every year Washington State libraries have a Snapshot day, when we record the people and events in our libraries. April 9 was Library Snapshot Day at RTC Library. To see RTC pictures, please visit our RTC Library Flickr pool at http://www.flickr.com/photos/8906334@N05/ . To see the entire state's Snapshot day pictures, go to the Washington State Library Group Flickr pool at http://www.flickr.com/groups/walibrarysnapshot/ POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 10:00 AM
March 21 2013 Fun eBooks for Spring Break
Looking for something completely different to read over Spring Break?
How about a mystery? Try
these:
The Mystery Chronicles: More Real-Life X-Files. By Joe Nickell.
Read about the Nazca Lines, the voodoo
tomb,
the Sacred Cloth of Oviedo, Australia’s convict ghosts and much more.
History's
Mysteries : People, Places, and Oddities Lost in the Sands of Time.
By Brian Haughton.
Want to learn more about the world’s oldest
pyramid: the step pyramid at Saqqara in Egypt?
Or the Stone of Destiny? Or the Uluburun Shipwreck? It’s all here.
To find these and more, go to the RTC Library Database page
http://www.rtc.edu/library/database.htm Just click
on the link to the EBSCO Community College eBook Collection. If you are off
campus, you’ll be asked for your last name and identification number. Questions? Call us at (425) 235-2331 or email us at librarian@RTC.edu. POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 10:30 AM
March 21 2013 Spring Break Library Hours RTC is on Spring Break from March 29 to April 5, but you can still come to the library!
The library will be open Monday through Friday from 8AM - 4PM.
So if you need to use a computer, study for your classes or professional
exams, or just check out a book or DVD, we'll be open.
Have a question about hours - or anything else? Call us at (425) 235-2331 or email us at librarian@RTC.edu. POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 8:30 AM
March 15 2013 Which Media Title Has Been Checked Out Most Often?
1,015 RTC Library media items (DVDs,
videotapes, audio tapes) have been checked out 6 or more times.
The most popular title – checked out 64 times as of this week - is a
videotape on Chardonnay. (We
believe it’s being used by the Culinary Arts students.)
Have a question about a media title? Or a book or database? Call us at (425) 235-2331 or email us at librarian@RTC.edu. POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 10:00 PM
March 11, 2013 AutoCAD Added To 4 Student Computers The library has added four new student computers with AutoCAD. RTC students who need to practice with computer-aided design software can come to the desk and ask us about this new service. Questions? Call us at (425) 235-2331 or email us at librarian@RTC.edu. POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 11:30 PM
March 1, 2013
New Titles!
The Office: A Hardworking History. Want to learn about the
satisfactions of office work? Oppression and hatred in the office? The
rise of the cubicle? Office endings? This history of office works covers it
all, from the personal to the professional, with wit and elegance. Call
number: STACKS 302.35 HAIGH 2012.
The
Cybersleuth's Guide to the Internet. Learn how to do free legal
research and search public records on the Internet. Find missing people, do
background checks and more! Call number: STACKS 340.072 LEVITT 2012
Want to check out our new titles? Visit our online catalog
at
http://renton.library.ctc.edu/vwebv/searchBasic?sk=renton Other questions? Call us at (425) 235-2331 or email us at librarian@RTC.edu.
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February 22, 2013
Search Google by Image
Did you ever have a picture that you knew you found on the web, but you
couldn't remember where? Did you know you can search Google starting with an
image? Check out
Google Search By Image to learn all the ways you can search
by image, including dragging and dropping the picture into the search box, or
uploading it from your computer.
http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/images/searchbyimage.html
Have other questions about searching the web? Call us at (425) 235-2331 or email us at librarian@RTC.edu.
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February 15, 2013
African American History on the Web
Want to see a picture of the first published African American female poet?
Her name was Phillis Wheatley, and you can find her at the
African
American History Images website at the Library of Congress. Visit the King Center, created by Mrs. Coretta Scott King to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.'s memory and legacy of non-violence. Or see President Barack Obama's biography on the official White House web page. Check out the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. Want to find more sites? Call us at (425) 235-2331 or email us at librarian@RTC.edu. POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 1:30 PM
February 11, 2013
Directory of Open Access Journals - free articles online!
Did you know that the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ for short)
offers an index to free content from over 8,000 online journals?
That includes 96 journals in dentistry, 46 journals in nursing, and over 500
in general medicine. There are over 285 journals on various aspects of
business, and 236 on history.
Want to see the expanded list of journals - with links to the titles?
Visit the DOAJ site:
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=expand&uiLanguage=en
Questions? Call us at (425) 235-2331 or email us at librarian@RTC.edu. POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 11:30 AM
February 1, 2013
What Kinds of eBooks Can You Find in Our Collection?
This is a small sampling of the over 47,000 titles you can now find in the
EBSCOhost Community College eBook Collection: Mark Twain's Own
Autobiography : The Chapters From the North American Review Giants, Monsters, and
Dragons : An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth Nursing Leadership : A
Concise Encyclopedia Mainstreaming ESL :
Case-studies in Integrating ESL Students Into the Mainstream
Curriculum
To find out more, just go to the RTC Library Database page
http://www.rtc.edu/library/database.htm Just click
on EBSCO Community College eBook Collection. If you are off campus, you’ll be
asked for your last name and identification number. Questions? Call us at (425) 235-2331 or email us at librarian@RTC.edu. POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 9:30 AM
January 11, 2013
More Free Journal Articles from JSTOR!
JSTOR is a large collection of journal articles. Now they are allowing
people who register with them - it's free! - to read articles from 1,200
journals. You can read three free articles every two weeks.
This is a very good deal, considering that full access to JSTOR is pricey.
To find out more about this and register, go to this page:
http://about.jstor.org/rr
Try it - you'll be surprised and
pleased at what you can find there.
Questions? Call us at (425) 235-2331 or email us at librarian@RTC.edu. POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 10:30 AM
December 12, 2012
NEW! Ebsco Community College eBook Collection
RTC Library has just doubled the size of our book collection without having
to add a single new shelf.
We now offer the EBSCO Community College eBook Collection to
our patrons.
·
Over 40,000 books.
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On science and
technology, social sciences, business, humanities, literature.
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Available to print, read
online or download.
You can find the eBooks at the RTC Library database page
http://www.rtc.edu/library/database.htm . Just click
on EBSCO Community College eBook Collection. If you are off campus, you’ll be
asked for your last name and identification number.
Questions? Call us at (425) 235-2331 or email us at librarian@RTC.edu. POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 2:30 PM
December 7, 2012
Winter Break Library Hours
Fall Quarter ends on Thursday,
December 13. Interim library hours, starting December 14, will be: Monday - Friday 8AM - 4PM .And Winter Quarter begins in January 2, 2012, with the library opening again at 7AM. Questions? Call us at (425) 235-2331 or email us at librarian@RTC.edu.
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November 30, 2012
Coming Soon to RTC Library - eBooks!
Debuting in Winter 2013, a new
electronic book collection. The new collection will include thousands of
books specially selected for Technical and Community college students.
Watch this space in the coming weeks
for more information
POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 10 AM
November 28, 2012
What Do RTC Patrons Check Out?.
We check out a lot of equipment:
headphones, laptops, mice, power
supplies, and white board markers. 41
of the 50 items that were checked out
most often were equipment.
We like the Seattle Times.
It was just recently put into our check-out system, and it has already
logged 86 check outs.
We check out textbooks our
instructors put on Reserve. 13 of
the 100 top-circulating items were Reserve textbooks.
We want to score well on the COMPASS
test, the college placement test. 8 of the top 100 items checked out most often
were COMPASS study manuals. Questions? Please contact us at (425) 235-2331.
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November 15, 2012
Library Will Be Closed Thursday and Friday, Nov 22 -23, for Turkey. RTC Library will be closed November 22-23 for the
Thanksgiving holiday. We will open again at 7AM on Monday, November 26, 2012. But you can always access
our online databases, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, though the library
Database page at
http://www.rtc.edu/library/database.htm
Need help or have questions while we're closed? Click on the big "Ask WA" icon on the library home page, and chat with a librarian. Questions? Please contact us at (425) 235-2331.
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November 9, 2012
Library Will Be Closed Monday, Nov 12. RTC Library will be closed - along with the rest of
the campus - for staff in-service training on Monday, November 12. We will open again at 7AM on Tuesday, November 13. RTC students and staff can always access
our online databases, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, though the library
Database page at
http://www.rtc.edu/library/database.htm
Need help or have questions while we're closed? Click on the big "Ask WA" icon on the library home page, and chat with a librarian. Questions? Please contact us at (425) 235-2331.
POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 10 AM
November 2, 2012
Searching Google - Word Order Matters. When you're searching Google, have you ever changed
the order of the words you were searching and - using the same words -
gotten a different result? Word order matters in Google. The first word is most
important in ranking your search results. Try this the next time you're
searching Google, and see what you get. For more search tips, see "Tips for Searching Like a
Pro", at Google's help site:
http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=134479 Questions? Please contact us at (425) 235-2331.
POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 10 AM
October 26, 2012
New Books With CDs for Reading Practice. English as a Second Language reading practice - read
the book and listen to the CD at the same time! RTC Library has new
book/CD combination titles available. Titles include: Tales of Mystery and Imagination. MEDIA
Call #: 428.64 NAUDI 2006t Anne of Green Gables. MEDIA Call #:
428.64 WEST-C 2008an The Murders in the Rue Morgue.
MEDIA Call #: 428.64 BASSETT 2008m Questions? Please contact us at (425) 235-2331.
POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 10 AM
October 19, 2012
New Online Encyclopedia Titles Added. The Library has added several new titles to
the Gale Virtual Reference Library database. They include: Food: In Context, 2 volumes, 2011 Food Cultures of the World
Encyclopedia, 4 volumes, 2011 Gale Encyclopedia of American Law, 3rd ed., 14 volumes, 2011 The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 4th ed., 6 volumes, 2011 The Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery and Medical Tests, 2nd ed., 4
volumes, 2009 History in Dispute, 21 volumes , 2000 Human Diseases and Conditions, 2nd ed., 4 volumes, 2010 The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives 7 volumes, 1998 Supreme Court Drama: Cases That Changed America, 2nd ed., 5
volumes, 2011 To look at these titles, go to the RTC Library Database
page -
http://www.rtc.edu/library/database.htm and click on Gale Virtual Reference
Library. Questions? Please contact us at (425) 235-2331.
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October 12, 2012
Schoolwork Help at Home -eTutoring and Chat Reference. Renton Technical College is now offering eTutoring.
If you're having trouble with math, writing, life sciences, statistics or
accounting homework at home, log on to
www.rtc.edu/etutoring and get
help 24 hours a day. There's more! If you need help finding resources for a
paper, renewing a library book, or putting together a bibliography, then go to
http://www.rtc.edu/library/Chat_BasePage.htm and click on the green
Washington state picture, and you get help from a librarian - also 24 hours a
day. It's never been easier to get help with your homework! Questions? Please contact us at (425) 235-2331.
POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 9 AM
October 5, 2012
Flip Cameras and Laptops Are Available at the Library. Need to practice a presentation or an interview, and
then review the results? RTC Library has Flip Cameras you can check out for
one week at a time. Need to work on a group project with a computer?
The Library offers laptops for checkout, to be used in the library. Check
one out and meet in one of the library's 10 group study rooms. Questions? Please contact us at (425) 235-2331.
POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 9 AM
October 2, 2012
Sign Up for Student Email at the Library. RTC now offers student email accounts! You can
sign up for your new account at the library any time we are open. Want help signing up? There are two sessions today,
October 2nd, from 11AM-12 and 4:30PM-7:30PM, where there will be people waiting
to help you sign up. Questions? Please contact us at (425) 235-2331.
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September 20, 2012
ProQuest Will be Offline on the Evenings of September 22 and September 29. The RTC Library database ProQuest will be down for
maintenance from 7PM to 7 AM on September 22, and again for the same time
period on September 29. Questions? Please contact us at (425) 235-2331.
POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 2:30 PM
September 12, 2012 New Books and DVDs! The library is getting ready for the new school year. These are a few of our new books: Big ideas in brief. Call number: 100 CROFTON 2011 And new DVDs: Digital footprint: watch where you step. Call number
MEDIA: 004.678083 DIGITAL 2010f Want to check one of these out? Questions? Please contact us at (425) 235-2331.
POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 9 AM
Library Website Will Be Offline August 18. The RTC Library Homepage will be down on August 18. If you need library
resources during that period, you can access them by going to the RTC
Libguides Library
homepage. Questions? Please contact us at (425) 235-2331.
POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 8:30 AM
August 8, 2012
Library Wireless Down August 13-24.
The campus wireless network will be down for maintenance from August 13 through August 24. We hope it will be back better and faster than ever. Questions? Please call us at (425) 235-2331.
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August 7, 2012
Summer Break Starts August 9.
The library's Summer break hours will be:
The library will be closed on September 3, for Labor day. Questions? Please call us at (425) 235-2331. POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 10:00 AM
August 3, 2012
New DVD Titles.
Soft Skills in the Workplace. DVD. 2008. Covers getting to work on time, showing enthusiasm, working well in a team - the skills that help you keep the job you just got. MEDIA 650.1 SOFT 2008w. Common Job Interview Mistakes. "What NOT to say or do." MEDIA 650.144 COMMON 2011j. Doing the Job: Starting out and the Daily Grind. Excited about your first day on the job? Here's what you can expect. Plus tips on job politics and more. MEDIA 650.14 YOUR 2011n. Questions? Want to see any of these? Please contact us at (425) 235-2331. POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 11:00 AM
July 20, 2012
Things You Didn't Know We Had....
The Way Things Go. DVD. 1987. “An adventure told though junk.” “A story of heroism without heroes.” These are some of the ways people have described this 1987 production. Featured players include car tires, balloons, fireworks and what appears to be the entire contents of a hardware store. MEDIA 600 WAY-TH 1987g. Vertebral column. A model of the human spine, available for short term checkout. Located on top of the fiction shelves in the library. The Complete Harley-Davidson: A Model-by-Model History of the American Motorcycle. 2001. Eighteen inch pictures of Low Riders, Café Racers, Road Kings and more. OVER SIZE 629.2275 RAFFERT 2001 Questions? Please contact us at (425) 235-2331. POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 11:00 AM
July 13, 2012
August 18 - Brief Interruption of Service.
The RTC website will be down briefly on Saturday, August 18, 2012. If you need library resources during that brief period, you can access them by going to LibGuides homepage. Questions? Please contact us at (425) 235-2331. POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 9:00 AM
July 6, 2012
Interlibrary Loan.
RTC Library supplies books and articles to other libraries across the US and Canada, so that we can borrow resources for our students and staff. This fiscal year we loaned to community colleges, public libraries, prisons, hospitals, and graduate schools. We sent books to Vancouver BC and Puerto Rico, to Skokie, to Greeley, and to Buncombe. We lent to San Juan Island Public Library and to Yale Law School. We borrowed books and journal articles for our students from Arkansas, Alaska, Walla Walla, and Bellevue. Libraries cooperate, in-state, out-of-state, and internationally, to serve our patrons. POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 9:00 AM
July 2, 2012
Take an Online Research Class from the Search Experts: Google Offers a Free
Online Search Class.
Google is joining the institutions that offer Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. (MOOCs are free courses available to anyone with an internet connection.) It is offering a course on Google Search, running from July 10 to July 23, 2012. For more details, see Power Searching With Google. POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 11:00 AM
June 27, 2012
Google Researches Artificial Intelligence. AI Researches Cats.
Have you ever wondered what Google does when it’s not inventing ways to help you do your research? One project is Artificial Intelligence – computers that think. Its most recent artificial brain has done something very human. It has discovered cats. The next time you are enjoying a funny cat video, consider this: the next viewer of that video might not be human at all….POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 1:00 PM
June 27, 2012
Library Hours Over the Intersession and Summer Quarter
Spring Quarter ends on Thursday, June 28. The library will be open the usual hours that day - 7AM - 8PM. On Friday, June 28, the Library will be open 8AM - 4PM. Summer Quarter begins Monday, July 2. The library's Summer Quarter hours will be:
The library will be closed on July 4th, for Independence day.
Questions? Please call us. POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 1:00 PM
June 18, 2012
Library Software Upgrade - This Wednesday and Thursday
This Wednesday and Thursday, June 20th and 21st, the
RTC library management software will be upgraded to provided better service
to our patrons. There will be some service cutbacks during these two days.
The library will be able to check books out to you during the upgrade, but
we won't be able to give you a list of what books you have checked out.
The library catalog will be down, so you will need to call us to find out of
we carry a specific book. We won't be able to renew any books during these
two days.
The Library online databases will be available from most
places on campus. Off campus, try your regular login to access them.
If you cannot login, please call the library during normal library hours
(7AM - 8PM) for assistance.
Questions? Please call us.
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BY RTC LIBRARY AT 10:00 AM
June 15, 2012
What Books Do RTC Patrons Check Out Most Often?
What kinds of BOOKS did RTC patrons check out most often over the last 11
months?
Two COMPASS test
preparation titles (several copies of each) were checked out a total of 135
times. The COMPASS test is the test all students take when they register for
classes, to determine if they need additional math or English classes.
Eight reading practice books - including “Pocahontas” and “Anne of Green
Gables” - were checked out a total of 92 times.
Three books on English grammar were checked out a total of 38 times.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (IV) was checked
out 20 times.
"Master the GED" was checked out 20 times, and the Steck-Vonn GED
Mathematics book checked out 13 times.
Two different Longman English dictionaries (several copies of each) were
checked out a total of 24 times.
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BY RTC LIBRARY AT 9:00 AM
June 8, 2012
What videos do RTC Patrons Check Out Most Often?
Do you ever wonder what kinds of videos RTC patrons check out? We took a
look at what VIDEO titles had circulated most often between July 1, 2011 and
June 1, 2012, and this is what we found:
Fourteen of the top twenty video titles were on learning English as a second
language videos.
Two were videos on customer service and organizational change, from a series
called "Fish".
Two were health videos, one anatomy and one on aging.
One was on prejudice and diversity ("The Complete Blue-Eyed".)
And one was on computers.
Next week, what kinds of books were checked out most often?
Watch this space....
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BY RTC LIBRARY AT 9:00 AM
June 5, 2012
Library Management Software Upgrade, June 20-June 21
On June 20-21, the library management software will be upgraded. This
will mean better, faster response times for the catalog, and some bugs will
be fixed.
There will also be some service outages. We will post more about that in the
coming weeks.
Watch this space.
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BY RTC LIBRARY AT 2:30 PM
June 4, 2012
What's Going On In the Library?
The Library classroom is being rewired so that the instruction computers
will be on the regular campus internet network. This will speed up
response time for these computers, improving the classroom experience.
Holes are being drilled in the floor.
Did you ever wonder how thick the concrete in the library floor was? The
answer is "between 4 to 6 inches."
Questions? Call us at (425) 235-2331.
POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 10:00 AM
June 4, 2012
Ebscohost Databases Will Be Down Saturday June 9
All Ebscohost databases will be down between 5AM -10 AM for maintenance,
including:
Auto Repair Reference Center
Questions? Call us at (425) 235-2331.
POSTED BY RTC LIBRARY AT 8:00 AM
June 1, 2012
Resume Resources
After graduation comes the job search. These are some of RTC Library's
latest resources to help you prepare:
The Gallery of Best Resumes.
"A collection of quality resumes by professional resume writers." Call
Number: 650.142 NOBLE 2012.
Step-by-step Resumes.
(2nd edition.) Lots of word lists and worksheets to help you quickly build a
quality resume. Call number: 650.142 SALVADO 2011.
Federal Resume Guidebook.
A job-winning resume for a federal government job is different than a
private-industry resume. It's longer and more detailed. Learn how to
prepare an excellent resume for a federal job. Call number: 6503142 TROUTMA
2011.
Questions? Want to find more job search resources? Call us at
(425) 235-2331.
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