New Items at Hewes Library

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

• Food Matters by Holly Bauer
• I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child
• Open City: A Novel by Teju Cole
• Magazine Movements by Laurel Forster
• On The Move by Filiz Garip
• Primers of GIS by Frances Harvey
• Participatory Culture in a Networked Era by Henry Jenkins
• Visual Grammar by Christian Leborg
• All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu
• Thunder and Lightening by Lauren Redness

Linking to Library Resources in Moodle

Faculty -

It is possible to link library subscriptions within YOUR course materials (websites, Moodle, email, and shared documents in Google Drive). Tap into hundreds of databases, thousands of journals, and a treasure chest of articles and digital resources by providing direct access to your students.

Licensed library resources use a proxy prefix on all URLs and allow Monmouth College patrons 24/7 digital access to library resources from both on and off campus. By linking to library-subscribed resources, your students are made aware of these scholarly resources and the library benefits from more accurate usage statistics.

Directions

Link to a Database (like PsycInfo):
Use the links on our Databases A-Z list to harvest direct links to databases.

• Right-mouse-click > Copy link address > Paste into your source document
• The URL you copy/paste will automatically contain the proxy prefix.

Link to an Article in a Database:

• IMPORTANT: don't just copy the URL at the top of the browser; this isn't a permanent address!
• Look instead for language like "permalink" or email the article to yourself to obtain a direct link.  
  
• If the link doesn't already include our proxy prefix, paste it onto the very beginning of the URL 
• Proxy prefix     http://libprox.monm.edu:2048/login?url=

Example:

• Article URL:   http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=32605643
• Paste the prefix directly before the article URL (see sample URL below)
• http://libprox.monm.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=32605643
• Hover your mouse over the link and make sure the corresponding hyperlink includes the proxy prefix. 
• If it doesn't, right mouse click to remove the hyperlink, and press (in Word) to re-create it correctly.

Contact Public Services Librarian Anne Giffey (agiffey@monmouthcollege.edu) or the Reference Desk (309-457-2301) for assistance.

"Affinity" Art Exhibit Opens

"Affinity," an exhibit of ceramics and mixed media by Ian and Natalie Shelly, welcomes visitors to the Everett Gallery on the upper level of Hewes Library. Ian Shelly currently teaches at Western Illinois University, and Natalie is involved with the Macomb Park District Ceramics Studio.  Learn more about the Shellys and their work below.

The show will be displayed through February 10th, with a reception and gallery talk that day, 3pm-4:30pm (talk at 3:30pm).

http://www.ianshelly.com
http://natalieshelly.com/home.html

Create a Library Account!

Did you know that you can create a library account, via the library's catalog, that provides a passport for borrowing materials from dozens of academic libraries in Illinois? It's like visiting libraries at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Bradley University and Knox College, within seconds!

Here's why you should consider it:

• See what you have checked out from Hewes Library and I-Share libraries
• Renew items online – SO easy!
• Borrow books (and possibly films and multimedia) from 80+ libraries in Illinois...for FREE! 

For information on how to create a library account and use I-Share, see: http://library.monmouthcollege.edu/home/account

New Recreational Reading Titles

Several new items were recently added to the recreational reading collection, Scots Read. Check them out for two weeks (with three renewals) and enjoy some light reading over winter break.

• In such good company by Carol Burnett
• Agatha Christie: Closed casket by Sophie Hannah
• How to bake everything by Mark Bittman
• Secret history of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost
• Chaos by Patricia Cornwell
• Guy Fieri family food by Guy Fieri
• Martha Stewart's vegetables by Martha Stewart
• Catalyst by James Luceno
• Turbo twenty-three by Janet Evanovich