Off Campus Access

Researching this summer?

All Hewes Library electronic resources are accessible from off campus using your MC network credentials.  Here's how:

Select an electronic resource from the Library's homepage: https://library.monmouthcollege.edu.

You'll be prompted for your MC username and password. 

Conduct your search as usual. It's that easy!

Problems? Questions? Contact: reference@monmouthcollege.edu

New Items at Hewes Library

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

• Hag-Seed: The Tempest Revisited by Margaret Atwood
• Demystifying Hospice by Karen J. Clayton
• Designerly Ways of Knowing by Nigel Cross
• Character and Person by John Frow
• Joyce's Ghosts: Ireland, Modernism and Memory by Luke Gibbons
• On Literary Worlds by Eric Hayot
• Molecule of More by Daniel Z. Liberman, MD and Michael E. Long
• Consciousness and the Novel: Connected Essays by David Lodge
• Rise of Yeast by Nicholas P. Money
• Evolving Feminine Ballet Body, Pirkko Markula & Marianne I. Clark, Editors

New Recreational Reading

Our newest recreational reading titles, in the ScotsRead Collection, are ready for summer reading!


How are You Going to Save Yourself, by JM Holmes
American Hate: Survivors Speak Out, edited by Arjun Singh Sethi
Tom Clancy Oath of Office, by Marc Cameron
Fraternity:  An Inside Look at a Year of College Boys Becoming Men, by Alexandra Robbins
Sweet Home Café Cookbook, by Albert Lukas
The Moment of Lift, by Melinda Gates
Kindred, by Damian Duffy
No Exit, by Taylor Adams
Library Book, by Susan Orlean
The Storm King, by Brendan Duffy
Only Girl in the World: A Memoir, by Maude Julien

Summer Hours

Take note of these NEW summer hours at Hewes Library!

Monday - Friday,  8am-4pm
Closed Saturday and Sunday

The library will also be closed on the following holidays:

Memorial Day Holiday

Monday, May 27th

Independence Day Holiday
Thursday, July 4th 
Friday, July 5th


Enjoy summer, and be sure to stop by the library for all your summer reading needs!

Commencement Weekend Hours

Hewes Library Schedule Commencement Weekend

Thursday, May 9th - 8:00am-4:30pm

Friday, May 10th - 8:00am-4:30pm

Saturday, May 11th - CLOSED

Sunday, May 12th - opening after Commencement until 3:30pm  

Summer hours begin Monday, May 13th:

Monday - Friday 8am-4pm,  Closed Weekends

*Closed Thursday, July 4, 2019 and Friday, July 5, 2019 

Return Library Materials!

As the spring semester winds down, don't forget to return all library materials to Hewes Library! 

Return materials to the library circulation desk or utilize the outdoor book return slot on the west side terrace (facing the Scots Spirit piper statue).

Monmouth College patrons who will be on campus this summer are welcome to check out materials all summer long with a valid ID.

Image of German book with silver binding c.1700, courtesy of the National Library of New Zealand via Flickr Commons

Finals Hours