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.