New ScotsRead Titles

New ScotsRead titles include:

• Simply Nigella by Nigella Lawson
• Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild
• Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King
• Timeless Beauty by Christie brinkley
• Wheat Belly 10 day grain detox by William Davis
• Muralist, A novel by B. A. Shapiro
• Magic strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom
• Crimson Shore by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
• Bohemian Gospel: A Novel by Dana Chamblee Carpenter

Hours: Winter Break 2015-2016

The library will be on break hours starting today, Thursday, December 17, when it will be open Monday - Friday from 8am until 4:30pm.

Hewes Library, and the rest of the Monmouth College campus, will be closed for Christmas Break: December 24, 2015 through January 3, 2016.

Hewes Library will begin its regular semester hours again on Monday, January 11, 2016 when classes begin for second semester.  You can view the full hours schedule online.

ScotsRead Collection - Check one out for break!

New titles are constantly arriving!  Don't forget to check a ScotsRead title out for Winter Break for some recreational reading.  Keep your eye on the blog for lists of new titles.

Take a Study Break in the Main Lobby

If you are in need of a study break, stop by the Main Floor Lobby.  There are coloring books, puzzles, sudoku, Mad Libs, crosswords and more. Relax for a few minutes with a candy cane before returning to your studies.  Good luck on finals!

New Items at Hewes Library

New items are added to the Hewes Library collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included:

• Corporate Social Irresponsibility by Paula Alexander
• From mainframes to Smartphones by Martin Campbell-Kelly 
• Everyone is African by Daniel J. Fairbanks
• Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing
• She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
• Understanding Evolution by Kostas Kampourakis
• Friendships in the Classical World by David Konstan
• Great Tapestry of Scotland by Alistair Moffat
• Lalla Rookh by Thomas Moore
• Sowing Change by Adriana Premat

ScotsRead Titles

The following new books were added in the last few weeks.  Stop by and check one out:

• Never Broken by Jewel
• Why Not Me by Mindy Kaling
• Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz
• Two Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nights by Salaman Rushdie
• Sweet Caress by William Boyd
• Once In A Great City by David Maraniss
• Yes, My Accent is Real by Kunal Nayyar
• Mycroft Holmes: A novel by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Anna Waterhouse
• In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park
• Last Midwife by Sandra Dallas
• Black Flags by Joby Warrick
• Brief Candle in the Dark by Richard Dawkins
• See me by Nicholas Sparks
• Bream gives me Hiccups by Jesse Eisenberg
• Gates of Evangeline by Hester Young
• Tough as they Come by Travis Mills

Finals Hours, Fall 2015

Good luck on your final papers, projects, and exams of the semester.  Hewes Library has extended hours during Finals Week.  The full schedule is below:

• Monday - Wednesday, December 7- 9: 7:30 a.m. - Midnight
• Thursday - Friday, December 10 - 11: 7:30 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.
• Saturday - Sunday, December 12 -13: 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.
• Monday - Tuesday, December 14 - 15: 7:30 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.
• Wednesday, December 16: 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

The library will be on break hours starting, Thursday, December 17, when it will be open Monday - Friday from 8am until 4:30pm.  Hewes Library, and the rest of the Monmouth College campus, will be closed for Christmas Break: December 24, 2015 through January 3, 2016.

Journal of the Month: Bloomberg Businessweek

Journal of the Month: Bloomberg Businessweek

December 2015

Published by Bloomberg L.P. Periodicals, Businessweek is a weekly business magazine which Hewes Library subscribes to in print and online.  There are back-issues from 1996 to the present available through the Business Source Elite database and also on Microfilm and Microfiche. 

Businessweek was founded in September 1929, only weeks before the stock market crash. The magazine was created to provide information and interpretation about what was happening in the business world.  Early sections of the magazine included marketing, labor, finance, management and Washington Outlook, which made Businessweek one of the first publications to cover national political issues that directly impacted the business world.

Businessweek was originally published to be a resource for business managers. However, in the 1970s, the magazine shifted its strategy and added consumers outside of the business world. Since 1975, Businessweek has carried more annual advertising pages than any other magazine in the United States

Businessweek publishes the latest local and international business news, market reports, economic calendars, insights on financial planning, as well as annual rankings of United States business school MBA programs and undergraduate business programs. An interactive app is also available for iPad and Android devices.

See more at: www.bloomberg.com/businessweek or on the Main Level of Hewes Library in the Current Periodicals section.

From the Archives: Aerial Photographs of Monmouth College

Stop by the Archives case on the Main Floor to view some of the aerial photographs of the Monmouth College campus over the years.  How many buildings can you identify?

Database of the Month: Statista

The database of the month for December is Statista.  Statista is a statistics portal that integrates over 60,000 diverse topics of data and facts from over 10,000 sources, including market research, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases.  It is easy to use and will suggest search terms to you as you begin your search.

In addition to being one of the largest statistic portals, Statista contains marvelous color info-graphic capabilities allowing the researcher to pull dynamic statistics straight into a paper or presentation.  After a test search for smartphones, the database recommended this info-graphic as a recommended result:



Each statistic in the database also provides you with source information so researchers can go back to the original study or survey to learn more information.  Fast, easy to use, and reliable make this a wonderful statistical database.  Find Statista on the library's Databases: Find Articles page.

Access to library databases is limited to the current students, staff, and faculty of Monmouth College.

Pre-finals and Finals Extended Hours, Fall 2015

Hewes Library will have extended hours during Pre-Finals and Finals Week which runs December 4 - December 16.  The full schedule is below:

• Friday, December 4: 7:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
• Saturday, December 5: 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
• Sunday, December 6: 9:00 a.m. - Midnight
• Monday - Wednesday, December 7- 9: 7:30 a.m. - Midnight
• Thursday - Friday, December 10 - 11: 7:30 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.
• Saturday - Sunday, December 12 -13: 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.
• Monday - Tuesday, December 14 - 15: 7:30 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.
• Wednesday, December 16: 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

The library will be on break hours starting, Thursday, December 17, when it will be open Monday - Friday from 8am until 4:30pm.  Hewes Library, and the rest of the Monmouth College campus, will be closed for Christmas Break: December 24, 2015 through January 3, 2016.

Research Tip: Locating Magazines & Journals in print

Did you know that magazines and journals are located in two different places in the Hewes Library? The current year’s issues of all the print journals received by the library are located on the Main Level, near the coffee shop. The most recent issue is found on top of the shelf, and all of the previous issues for the current year can be found underneath the current issue by lifting the shelf.

Issues older than a year can be found on the Lower Level on the shelves with green ends. They are filed in alphabetical order. Still can’t find it? Ask a librarian.

New Items at Hewes Library

New items are added to the Hewes Library collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included:

• Emmett Till by Devery S. Anderson
• Jose Bedia by Ramis Barquet Gallery
• Jazz Harmony Book by David Berkman
• Inferno by Dan Brown
• Challenge of Congressional Representation by Richard F. Fenno
• Women in Religion by Mary Pat Fisher
• Presidency of George H.W. Bush by John Robert Greene
• Secrets From the White House Kitchens by John H. Hanny
• Loving Literature: A Cultural History by Deidre Shauna Lynch
• Let Your Life Speak by Parker J. Palmer

Research Tip: Locating Stable URLs for Articles

Have you ever been interrupted while researching and copied the search URL in an email with the intent to return to your search at a later time? If so, you have learned that in most cases, it does not work when you return to it.

Why? Each time you start a session in one of the library's databases, a unique session ID is attached to that search. When the window is closed, the database considers your research session over and the URL is no longer valid.

The fix: enter stable URLs. A stable URL is a short URL listed somewhere in the record for the article or periodical that you are interested in. It can also be called a permanent URL. If you bookmark, save, or copy a stable URL, you will be able to directly return to the article you selected. Look for stable and permanent URLs in our library's databases.

Fall Break 2015 Hours

Hewes Library will have shorten hours for Fall Break, October 16 - 21, 2015.  The library will be open:

• Friday, October 16: 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
• Saturday - Sunday, October 17-18: Closed
• Monday, October 19: 8:00 a.m - 4:30 p.m.
• Tuesday, October 20: 8:00 a.m. - Midnight
• Wednesday, October 21: 7:30 a.m. - Midnight

Hewes Library and Einstein Brothers Bagels resume normal hours on Wednesday, October 21.

Research Tip: Locating the Full Text of Articles

Found the perfect article, but can’t find the full-text anywhere?  Sometimes a search in a database like Academic Search Premier shows you an article that looks like it would be perfect for your research only the complete article isn’t found in the database.  If this happens to you the first thing to do is click on the Article linker button found at the bottom of the listing.

This will tell you if the article can be found in either another database or in one of the journals found in Hewes Library.

If the clicking the “Article Linker” button returns the words “no holdings found for this title”, don’t despair, you can still request the article by logging on to your ILLiad account and filling out an Article Request Form.  The circulation staff will find a library that has the journal and request them to send a copy to Monmouth.  Please be sure to fill in as much information as possible on the request and you will be notified by the library when the article has arrived.  This process can take up to a week, so do your research early!

New Items at Hewes Library

New items are added to the Hewes Library Collection on a continual basis. Recent titles
 have included:

• Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson
• Wilson by A. Scott Berg
• Just Call me Superhero by Alina Bronsky
• Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln by Richard Brookhiser
• Road to Tara by  Anne Edwards
• Subcultures: The Basics by Ross Haenfler
• Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction by Damien Keown
• Key Concepts in Race and Ethnicity by Nasar Meer
• Making Waves by Scott M. Peters
• Stage Kiss by Sarah Puhl

Research Tip: Off Campus Database Access

All of the databases provided by Hewes Library can be accessed from off campus. To do so, follow these directions:

• Select the database you wish to use off campus. (You must select it from the library's web page instead of doing a web search for it.)
• You will be prompted at a MC log in screen to enter a user name and password. Enter your MC user name and password - which is the same one you use to access your MC email.
• Once logged in, you can use the resource as if you were on campus.

Database of the Month: JSTOR

The Database of the Month for October is JSTOR.  JSTOR is an archival collection of hundred of journals encompassing the humanities, social sciences, and sciences disciplines.  The collections include Arts & Sciences, Life Sciences, and e-book collections that are all searchable from a single interface.  Searching with the Advanced Search screen option allows you to filter results by source - articles, reviews, pamplets, etc - and by subject discipline allowing the user to create powerful and specific searches.

The best part?  JSTOR is completely full text - meaning that you will always be able to get the .PDF copy of the article that you are looking for.  It also contains plenty of books reviews, so if you ever find yourself looking for a review to see what an author's peers said about a work you can often find a review in the collection.

Within JSTOR, users can choose to create personal accounts.  A personal account will allow you to save articles and citations as you continue your research.

Find JSTOR on the library's Databases: Find Articles page.

Access to library databases is limited to the current students, staff, and faculty of Monmouth College.

Research Tip: The Research Process Guide

The Research Process guide, which is accessible from the Research Process tab on the library's homepage, will walk students through the steps required to complete a successful research project or paper.

You will find information on:

• Developing a Topic
• Selecting a Topic
• Develop Research Questions
• Identify Keywords
• Find Background Information
• Refine a Topic
• Locating Information
• Find Books
• Find Videos
• Find Articles
• Find Websites
• Search Strategies
• Evaluating Information
• Evaluate Sources
• Primary v Secondary Sources
• Types of Periodicals
• Using Information Correctly
• Notetaking
• Paraphrasing
• Legal/Ethical Information Issues
• Plagiarism
• Citation Styles
• Works Cited Examples
• Copyright

Research Tip: Course Reserves

What are they? Where are they? 

Course Reserves are library materials that check out for two hours and can only be used within the library building. They are available at the Circulation Desk and you'll need your student ID card to check out materials.

How can I find them? Does my professor have any course reserves?

You can find course reserves using the syllabus provided to you by your professors, or you can view the Searchable Course Reserves List in the Hewes Library Catalog. You can search by class, professor, or department.

New ScotsRead Titles

Take a break from academic reading and try a ScotsRead book.  New titles include:

• Hand That feeds You by A. J. Rich
• Go set a watchman by Harper Lee
• Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
• Pirate Humters by Robert Kurson
• A Thousand Miles to Freedom by Eunsun Kim
• Silver Linings by Debbie Macomber

Research Tip: Learn About your 2 Library Accounts

Each MC affiliated patron has two accounts.  The accounts manage the resources you borrow from Hewes Library and those throughout the country.

Your Library account is accessible through the library catalog and will allow you to:

• See what you have checked out
• Renew items online
• Place I-Share requests (books & media) from other academic libraries in Illinois

Your ILLiad account will allow you to:

• Place requests for journal articles
• Download filled article requests
• If a book is not available though I-Share, place a book request

• Library Account
  

  Renew and request materials.
• ILLiad Account
  

  Manage your interlibrary loan materials.

If you haven't set up your Library Account, see last week's instructions.  Your ILLiad account is already set up for you - all you need to do is verify some personal information when you log in for the first time.

New Items at Hewes Library

New items are added to the Hewes Library collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included:

• Good Stuff by  Salman Akhtar
• Stone Mattress: Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood
• In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
• Glass Cage: Automation and Us by Nicholas Carr
• Queen's Necklace by Alexandre Dumas
• Women in Religion by Mary Pat Fisher
• Chief Executive to Chief Justice by Lewis L. Gould
• Rethinking the Other in Antiquity by Erich S. Gruen
• Subcultures: The Basics by Ross Haenfler
• Gabriel: A Poem by Edward Hirsch

Research Tip: Setting up your Library Account

First-Time Users will have to create your Library Account before you can view items you have checked out or place a request in the I-Share Catalog. To create your Hewes Library Account, please follow the steps outlined below. You will only need to do this once.

• Visit the Create New Account page on the Login Screen of the Hewes Library Catalog.
• Enter your personal information:
• First Name
• Last Name
• Monmouth College Email Address
• Desired Username: We recommend using your Monmouth College Network ID.
• Password: We recommend using your Monmouth College Network Password.
• Borrower ID: This is your 7-digit barcode number located on your Monmouth College ID Card.
• Last Name on your Library Account
• I-Share Library that you are affiliated with: Monmouth College

Once you have created your account, you will be able to view your personal information, including which items are checked out on your library account or you can renew items online.

Database of the Month: Academic Search Complete

The Database of the Month for September is Academic Search Complete.  Provided by EBSCO, Academic Search Complete (ASC), is a wonderful multi-disciplinary database that features a large variety of academic and popular articles - many of which are available in full text.

According to EBSCO, ASC contains:

• More than 13,800 indexed and abstracted journals
• More than 9,000 full-text journals
• Full text for more than 7,800 peer-reviewed journals
• PDF content dating back as far as 1887
• Searchable cited references provided for more than 1,400 journals

At Monmouth College, we recommend Academic Search Complete for students just getting started with their research and those wishing to make a complete review of the literature on their topic.  Recognizable to some already, we regularly use this database with all of our first year students since the interface is very user friendly and it contains a wide array of sources - including media items.

Find Academic Search Complete on the library's Databases: Find Articles page.

Access to library databases is limited to the current students, staff, and faculty of Monmouth College.

New ScotsRead Titles

The ScotsRead program continued to have new titles arrive over the summer.  Find the books on the main level, next to the large study tables.  A few recently arrived books include:

• Sick in the Head Judd Apatow
• In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
• Forensics by Val McDermid
• Dexter is Dead by Jeff Lindsay
• One Way or Another by Elizabeth Adler
• How To Catch  a Russian Spy by Naveed Jamali
• Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
• Long Utopia by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter

On Display: Back to School

Currently on display in the East Lobby is a collection of Back to School items from the Monmouth College Bookstore.  You can visit the bookstore in person or online to purchase any of these items.

Faculty: Don't Forget Course Reserves

If you are a MC faculty member and plan to place items on course reserve, remember that all of our course reserve information is available on our website along with the necessary forms.

Please allow 48 hours for processing. At times of high volume, especially at semester's beginning, processing may take longer. For this reason, we recommend that reserve forms be submitted well in advance of their anticipated date of first use.

Welcome Back to Campus

Welcome back to campus!  Hewes Library would like to welcome our new students and say hello to our returning students, staff, and faculty.

This fall, be sure to watch for materials from the MC Archives on display in the main lobby.  Lynn Daw, Technical Services Librarian and Archivist, will be filling the new display case with college memorabilia throughout the year.  Stop by and glance through some of the photographs of the campus through the years.

The library website also received a face lift this summer and has a cleaner, more streamlined look.  The organization of information remains the same, so resources that you are used to using should be in the same location.

Einstein Brothers Bagels opens and resumes regular hours on Tuesday, August 25, 2015.

New Items at Hewes Library

New items are added to the Hewes Library collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included:

• Nation of Enemies by  Pamela Constable
• Politics and the Street in Democratic Athens by Alex Gottesman
• Maculate Muse by Jeffrey Henderson
• Stonewall's Scout by Reginald Horsley
• Do Funerals Matter? by William G Hoy
• Jail by John Irwin
• Discursive Ideologies by C.H. Knoblauch
• Picasso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin
• Death in a global Age by Ruth McManus
• Star Trek and American Television by Roberta Pearson

New Items at Hewes Library

New items are added to the Hewes Library collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included:

• Zombies & Calculus by Colin Adams
• Jerry Lee Lewis : His Own Story by Rick Bragg
• Zofloya or The Moor by Charlotte Dacre
• Enchanted: A Novel by Rene Denfeld
• Figure Drawing by Michael Hampton
• Secret of Magic by Deborah Johnson
• On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee
• Riz Noir by Anna Moi
• Santa's Last Stop by Fred L. Pauly
• Doing Oral History by Donald A. Ritchie

New Items at Hewes Library

New items are added to the Hewes Library collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included:

• I Lived on Butterfly Hill by Marjorie Agosin
• Flashlight by Lizi Boyd
• Music Direction for the Stage by Joseph Church
• Roots of the Revival by Ronald D. Cohen
• Speaking Personally by Rosalind Coward
• The Ball is Round by David Goldblatt
• Unamuno's Theory of the Novel by C. A. Longhurst
• How Television Shapes our World View by Deborah Macey
• Setting the Agenda by Maxwell McCombs
• The Missionary edited by Julia M. Wright

Summer Hours at Hewes Library

Hewes Library begins our Summer Hours today.  The library will be open Monday - Friday from 8am until 4:30pm.  The library is closed on weekends.

Periodical of the Month: Fitness

Published by the Meredith Corporation, Fitness is a monthly magazine which the Hewes Library subscribes to in print only.

Launched in 1992, Fitness focuses on women’s health, exercise, beauty, and nutrition. The magazine also sponsors several real-world fitness and health-themed events to promote its brand and raise money for charity.  Events include the Mind, Body, Spirit Games and a half-marathon.

Fun features of the print and online magazine include a monthly #MakeFitHappen, Burning Questions and a profile on the featured cover model.  The website includes editor and user blogs, a BMI calculator and links to workout videos.  An interactive app for the publications is available for Android devices.

See more at: www.fitnessmagazine.com or on the Main Level of Hewes Library in the Popular Periodicals section.

Library Finals Hours

During Finals week, Hewes Library will be open later than normal.  The library's hours are:

• Thursday - Friday, May 7 - 8: 7:30 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.
• Saturday - Sunday, May 9 - 10: 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.
• Monday - Tuesday, May 11 - 12: 7:30 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.
• Wednesday, May 13: 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Database of the Month: PsycInfo

The database of the month for May is PsycInfo - provided by EBSCO - which focuses on the fields of psychology and related behavioral and mental health areas.  PsycInfo is extremely comprehensive, encompassing research and data originally collected by the American Psychological Association at the turn of the 19th century.  Today, the database contains more than 4 millions records with several thousand being added each week in more than 2,500 journals.

Find PsycInfo on the library's Databases: Find Articles page.

Access to library databases is limited to the current students, staff, and faculty of Monmouth College.

Pre-finals extra hours begin tonight!

Hewes Library begins its pre-finals hours with additional hours this week.  Tonight and Saturday night, the library is open until 9pm and will open early on Sunday at 9am.

Full hours for the next two weeks are:

• Friday, May 1: 7:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
• Saturday, May 2: 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
• Sunday, May 3: 9:00 a.m. - Midnight
• Monday - Wednesday, May 4 - 6: 7:30 a.m. - Midnight
• Thursday - Friday, May 7 - 8: 7:30 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.
• Saturday - Sunday, May 9 - 10: 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.
• Monday - Tuesday, May 11 - 12: 7:30 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.
• Wednesday, May 13: 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Senior Student Art Exhibitions: Group B

The second group of Senior Studen Art Exhibitions opened this week and will run through May 11, 2015.  Group B will host its opening reception this Sunday, May 3 at 12:00pm in Gallery 204 on the Upper Level of Hewes Library.

New Items at Hewes Library

New items are added to the Hewes Library Collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included:

• Schubert's Winter Journey by Ian Bostridge
• Unending Hunger by Megan A. Carney
• Vanishing Neighbor by Marc J. Dunkelman
• Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
• Desert by Roslynn D. Haynes
• Mathematician Comes of Age by Steven G. Kratz
• Writing in Psychology by Scott A. Miller
• Greek Art and Archaeology by Richard T. Neer
• LGBT Youth Issues Today by David E. Newton Ph.D.
• ISIS: The State of Terror by Jessica Stern & J.M. Berger

Pre-Finals and Finals Library Hours

Hewes Library will have extended hours during Pre-Finals and Finals Week, May 1 - May 13, 2015.  The library's hours are:

• Friday, May 1: 7:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
• Saturday, May 2: 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
• Sunday, May 3: 9:00 a.m. - Midnight
• Monday - Wednesday, May 4 - 6: 7:30 a.m. - Midnight
• Thursday - Friday, May 7 - 8: 7:30 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.
• Saturday - Sunday, May 9 - 10: 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.
• Monday - Tuesday, May 11 - 12: 7:30 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.
• Wednesday, May 13: 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

New ScotsRead Titles

Several new ScotsRead titles recently arrived, including:

• The beekeeper's daughter by Santa Montefiore
• The angel court affair: a Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel by Anne Perry
• The dream lover: a novel by Elizabeth Berg
• Very good lives: the fringe benefits of failure and the importance of imagination by J.K. Rowling
• The world before us: a novel by Aislinn Hunter
• The Cavendon women by Barbara Taylor Bradford

Find them on the Main Level near the study tables.

Don't Forget: Renew Your Library Materials

It's a busy time of the semester with the end of classes and finals approaching!  Don't forgot to renew your library materials to avoid late fines.

To renew items that you have checked out, please visit your account - which is accessible from the Hewes Library Catalog - to login and renew materials.  If you have any interlibrary loans that you requested via your ILLiad Account, don't worry - you can renew those items online in your ILLiad Account by selecting the transaction number if you need to keep resources a little longer.

If you have questions or problems, please call the library's circulation desk at 309-457-2190.

Periodical of the Month: Mix

Published by NewBay Media LLC, Mix is a monthly magazine which the Hewes Library subscribes to in print and online.

Distributed in ninety-four countries, Mix has focused on being, “the world’s leading magazine for the professional recording and sound production technology industry.”  Filled with current industry news, up-and-coming artists, and insider tips ‘n tricks, Mix is a must-read for all music and theatre students and connoisseurs.

Fun features of the print and online magazine include a monthly Tour Profile, New Products with reviews and Techtalk.  The website includes editor and user blogs and links to their Twitter and Facebook pages.

A star feature of the site is access to the Mix Master Directory Online, the most comprehensive listing of professional audio producers, engineers, facilities, manufacturers and business services. With more than 35 years of research and data acquisition, the MMD is a one-stop resource for essential industry contacts. An interactive app for all of their publications is available for iPhone and Android devices.

See more at: www.mixonline.com or on the Main Level of Hewes Library in the Current Periodicals section.

Senior Student Art Exhibitions: Group A

Group A of the Senior Student Art Exhibitions opened in Gallery 204 this week.  The opening reception is tomorrow, Saturday, April 11 at 1pm.  Group A's artwork will be on display until April 21.  Group B will open their work on April 27.

Database of the Month: SPORTDiscus

For sports and sports medicine journals, Hewes Library recommends SPORTDiscus provided to us by EBSCO.  The database includes content from over 660 journals as well as books, conference proceedings,  magazines, and more.  A full text database with content from the 1970s to present, SPORTDiscus is an excellent tool for those students in kinesiology, health sciences, and life sciences. content covers the following topics:

• Clinical specialties such as orthopedics
• Coaching and education
• Consumer health
• Exercise science and fitness
• Health education
• Kinesiology
• Nutrition
• Occupational health and safety
• Physical education
• Physical therapy
• Sports sciences

SPORTDiscus can be found on the library's Databases: Find Articles page.  

Access to library databases is limited to the current students, staff, and faculty of Monmouth College.

Senior Student Art Exhibitions

The Senior Student Art Exhibitions will run April 7, 2015 - May 6, 2015.  Student work will be broken into two groups for exhibition.  Group A will run April 7 – 21 with their Reception Saturday, April 11 at 1:00pm and Group B will run April 27 – May 11 with their Reception Sunday, May 3 at 12:00pm.  Both groups will have their artwork on display in Gallery 204 on the Upper Level of Hewes Library.  The galleries are open the entire time that the library is open.

Library Hours over Easter Break

Hewes Library will have abbreviated hours over Easter Break, April 2 - April 6, 2015.  The library will be open:

• Thursday, April 2: 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
• Friday - Sunday, April 3 - 5: Closed
• Monday,  April 6: 8:00 a.m. - midnight

Hewes Library and Einstein Brothers Bagels will return to regular hours on Tuesday, April 7. 

New ScotsRead Titles Added

The following ScotsRead titles have just been added to the collection.  Stop by the main floor of the library to check out:

• A Dangerous Place by Jacqueline Winspear
• Endangered by C.J. Box
• Mademoiselle Chanel by C.W. Gortner
• Dead Wake: the last crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
• Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule: a novel by Jennifer Chiaverini
• Sisters of Shiloh by Kathy Hepinstall
• NYPD Red 3 by James Patterson

New Items at Hewes Library

New items are added to the Hewes Library Collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included:

• It's What I Do by Lynsey Addario
• El Deafo by CeCe Bell
• Drown by Junot Diaz
• 999: A History of Chicago at Ten Stories by Richard B. Frizdale
• Psychology of Screenwriting by Jason Lee
• Hate Crime in the Media by Victoria Muro
• Question of Sex by Kristan Poirot
• Creating a Learning Society by Joseph E. Stiglitz & Bruce Greenwald
• Blogging: How our Private Thoughts Went Public by Kristin Roeschenthaler  Wolfe
• Archaeology in Practice edited by Jane Balme & Alistair Paterson

Search Databases by Subject

The Databases: Find Articles list on the library's website can look overwhelming with all of the choice available.  However, if you are unsure which would be the best to start looking for information on your topic, you can always try the Search Databases by Subject list which breaks our database collection down into broad discipline areas to help you focus your research.  The topic areas are:

• Arts & Humanities: Art, Communication, Language, Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy & Religion
• Biography
• Business & Economics
• Dictionaries & Encyclopedias: Reference
• Education
• General Research
• Government & Political Science
• Life Sciences, including Sport & Physical Education
• News & Current Events
• Physical Sciences
• Social Sciences: Anthropology, History, Psychology & Sociology
• Statistical Information

More ScotsRead Titles Added

Several more ScotsRead Titles were added to the collection.  Stop by to find:

• Prodigal Son: a novel by Danielle Steel
• The fifth gospel: a novel by Ian Caldwell
• Into the savage country by Shannon Burke
• It's what I do: a photographer's life of love and war by Lynsey Addario

Research Help

Are you struggling with a research paper? Are you unsure where to find scholarly journal articles on your topic? Stop by the Reference Desk or email the Reference staff to step up an appointment.

The Hewes Library librarians can help you locate scholarly articles for your paper, statistics for your speeches, and more! Librarians are available at the following times or by appointment:

• Monday - Thursday: 9am - noon, 1:30pm - 4:30pm, and 6pm-9pm
• Friday: 9am - noon and 1:30pm - 4:30pm
• Saturday: No librarians are available
• Sunday: 1:30pm - 4:30pm and 6:30pm-9pm

New ScotsRead titles in time for Spring Break!

The following titles were just added to the ScotsRead shelves.  Check one out for spring break:

• Find Me: A Novel by Laura van den Berg
• The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
• The Damned: a novel by Andrew Pyper
•  In his keeping: a slow burn novel by Maya Banks
• The love song  of Miss Queenie Hennessy: a novel by Rachel Joyce

Hewes Library Spring Break Hours

Hewes Library will have shortened hours over Spring Break, March 6 - 15, 2015.  The library will resume regular hours on Monday, March 16 at 7:30am.  Spring break hours are:

• Friday, March 6: 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
• Saturday - Sunday,  March 7 - 8: Closed
• Monday - Friday, March 9 - 13: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
• Saturday, March 14: Closed
• Sunday, March 15: 6:00 p.m. - midnight

Einstein Brothers Bagels will also be closed over Spring break and will resume normal hours on Monday, March 16.

New Items at Hewes Library

New items are added to the Hewes Library collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included:

• Artspeak by Robert Atkins
• 100 Painters of Tomorrow by Kurt Beers
• Updike by Adam Begley
• Pompeii: The Living City by Alex Butterworth & Ray Laurence
• Lunch: A History by Megan Elias
• Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence by Daniel Goleman
• Music in Words by Trevor Herbert
• How Snakes Work by Harvey B. Lillywhite
• Greek Tragedy on Screen by Pantelis Michelakis
• Carl Sandburg: A Biography by Penelope Niven

Current Periodicals: Finding Recent Issues

Recent periodicals are available on the main floor of Hewes Library.  Popular and scholarly periodicals are both located on the South side of the building - across from the Einstein Brothers Bagel Coffee shop.

The most recent issues are displayed on the front of the shelving.  The shelves lift up to store the older issues of the magazine or journal.  Issues from the previous six months to a year are available on the main level.  Back issues of the periodicals can be found in the lower level of the library shelved alphabetically by title.

Research Tip: Magazine & Journal Locations in Hewes Library

Did you know that magazines and journals are located in two different places in the Hewes Library? The current year’s issues of all the print journals received by the library are located on the Main Level, near the coffee shop. The most recent issue is found on top of the shelf, and all of the previous issues for the current year can be found underneath the current issue by lifting the shelf. Issues older than a year can be found on the Lower Level on the shelves with green ends. They are filed in alphabetical order. Still can’t find it? Ask a librarian.

New ScotsRead Titles

The following titles have arrived and are now available:

• Mr. Mac and Me by Esther Freud
• Private Vegas by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
• Sweetland: a novel by Michael Crummey

Research Tip: Stable or Permanent URLs

Have you ever been interrupted while researching and copied the search URL in an email with the intent to return to your search at a later time? If so, you have learned that in most cases, it does not work when you return to it.

Why? Each time you start a session in one of the library's databases, a unique session ID is attached to that search. When the window is closed, the database considers your research session over and the URL is no longer valid.

The fix: enter stable URLs. A stable URL is a short URL listed somewhere in the record for the article or periodical that you are interested in. It can also be called a permanent URL. If you bookmark, save, or copy a stable URL, you will be able to directly return to the article you selected. Look for stable and permanent URLs in our library's databases.

New Items at Hewes Library

New items are added to the Hewes Library collection on a continual basis. Recent titles have included:

• Yucatecans in Dallas Texas by Rachel H. Adler
• Tangled Routes by Deborah Barndt
• Forensics in America by Michael D. Bartanen &  Robert S. Littlefield
• Complete Pompeii by Joanne Berry
• Dictatorship in South America by Jerry Davila
• Lunch: A History by Megan Elias
• Infectious Microbe by William Firshein
• Japan 1941 by Eri Hotta
• Theatre and Event by Adrian Kear
• Plants and the Human Brain by David O. Kennedy

Research Tip: Locating the Full Text of Articles

Found the perfect article, but can’t find the full-text anywhere?  Sometimes a search in a database like Academic Search Premier shows you an article that looks like it would be perfect for your research only the complete article isn’t found in the database.  If this happens to you the first thing to do is click on the Article linker button found at the bottom of the listing.

This will tell you if the article can be found in either another database or in one of the journals found in Hewes Library.

If the clicking the “Article Linker” button returns the words “no holdings found for this title”, don’t despair, you can still request the article by logging on to your ILLiad account and filling out an Article Request Form.  The circulation staff will find a library that has the journal and request them to send a copy to Monmouth.  Please be sure to fill in as much information as possible on the request and you will be notified by the library when the article has arrived.  This process can take up to a week, so do your research early!

Spring 2015 Gallery Schedule

Several different gallery exhibitions are scheduled for Gallery 204 for the spring semester.  They include:

George Olson
January 19, 2015 - February 13, 2015
Reception: Friday, January 23, 3:00 - 4:30pm

Carla Markwart and Thomas Foley
February 13, 2015 - March 27, 2015
Reception: Friday, February 27, 3:00 - 4:30pm

Senior Exhibitions
April 7, 2015 - May 6, 2015
Receptions: TBA

New ScotsRead Titles

New ScotsRead titles arrived and are available on the main floor, including:

• Three may keep a secret by Susan VanKirk
• Her: A Novel by Harriet Lane
• Batman. Arkham originsby Adam Beechen, Doug Wagner
• The Last American Vampire by Seth Grahame-Smith
• Cold cold heart by Tami Hoag
• A pleasure and a calling by Phil Hogan
• Fifty Mice by Daniel Pyne

Return from Winter Break

Hewes Library returns to normal hours today.  Einstein Brothers Bagels will also resume their normal hours today.  Good luck with the beginning of second semester!