Library Closed Dec 22 - Jan 1

Winter Break Library Hours  

Monday, December 18 - Wednesday, December 20	8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, December 21	8:00 a.m. - 12 noon
December 22 through January 1	Closed
Monday, January 2 - Friday, January 5	8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 6 - Sunday, January 7	Closed
Monday, January 8 - Friday, January 12	8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Questions? Circulation Desk: 309-457-2190

When the library is closed, materials may be returned using the exterior bookdrop located by the west exit door.

Renew Materials Over Break

(image: NASA via Flickr Commons)

Taking off for the holidays? 

You can renew your library materials, both Monmouth and I-Share, via your library account: https://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-mon/MyResearch/CheckedOut

Login, renew, and have a safe trip! 

Gift Buying Guide: Consumer Reports

Buying gifts this holiday season? Make informed choices using articles from Consumer Reports! 

For example: 
Air purification systems
Electric drills

Hewes Library subscribes to multiple formats of the handy guide; choose the format that's right for you.

• Print monthly edition is browsable on the Hewes Library periodical shelves (main level)
• Annual "buying guide" is shelved in the reference collection (east side, main level)
• Online searching access within the MasterFile database (can use on/off campus)

Happy Holidays!

New Items at Hewes Library

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

• Looting Machine by Tom Burgis
• Polarized: Making Sense of a Divided America by James E. Campbell
• Immersion: A Writer's Guide to Going Deeper by Ted Conover
• Not  a Crime to be Poor by Peter Edelman
• Bougainville, 1943-1945: The Forgotten Campaign by Harry A. Gailey
• Holocaust Across Generations by Janet Jacobs
• WTF?! An Economic Tour of the Weird by Peter Leeson
• Theory of the Novel by Guido Mazzoni
• Journalism and the Public by David M. Ryfe
• What Psychology Majors Could ( and should) be Doing by Paul J. Silvia