Monday, June 24, 2019

Recreational Reading

New titles are now available in our #ScotsRead recreational reading collection.



Absolutely Remarkable Thinking: A Novel, by Hank Green
Becoming Dr. Seuss, by Brian Jay Jones
Pandora Room, by Christopher Golden
Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered, by Karen Kilgariff & Georgia Hardstark
Stony the Road, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
That Churchill Woman: A Novel, by Stephanie Barron
Transcription, by Kate Atkinson
Transformed, by Remi Adeleke
Upheaval, by Jared Diamond



Monday, June 17, 2019

New Items at Hewes Library

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

  • Home and Exile by Chinua Achebe
  • Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress by Elizabeth Bucar
  • Data Science Handbook by Field Cady
  • Ernest Hemingway: A Biography by Mary V. Dearborn
  • Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig
  • Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve by Sandra M. Gilbert
  • After Virginia Tech by Thomas P. Kapsidelis
  • Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy by Anne Lamott
  • Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
  • Drama and Theatre of Sarah Ruhl by Amy Muse

Friday, June 7, 2019

Center for Research Libraries: explore the catalog!

Hewes Library's membership in the Center for Research Libraries allows Monmouth College faculty, staff and students free and unlimited access to the wealth of research materials held in their print, microform, and digital archives. These materials can be requested (again, for free!) via interlibrary loan. 




Examples of materials available to MC patrons:

Brazilian Government Documents (1821-1993)
http://ddsnext.crl.edu/brazil

Agricultural Textbook (historical examples)
https://tinyurl.com/yxew5tru

Documenting the Peruvian insurrection [microform]
http://catalog.crl.edu/record=b2175389~S1

Political Communication and Mass Education - Chinese Pamphlets 1947-1954
https://dds.crl.edu/search/collection/1


Search the CRL catalog for your research interests, http://catalog.crl.edu, and contact the reference desk at Hewes Library with questions: reference@monmouthcollege.edu.