Welcome, New Faculty, Staff and Students! Using your Monmouth ID card.

Hewes Library welcomes all new faculty, staff and students to campus! Here is information on utilizing your Monmouth College ID card as your library card. Please direct any questions to 309-457-2190 or reference@monmouthcollege.edu and we are happy to help.

Your Monmouth College ID card gives you access to the Hewes Library circulating collections AND, if you create a Library Account online, you have these additional benefits:

• Renew library materials online
• Check due dates
• Request materials via I-Share (a group of 90+ other Illinois academic libraries!)

To create your Hewes Library Account, please follow the steps outlined below (video tutorial).

• Visit the Create New Account page on the Login Screen of the Hewes Library Catalog.
• Enter your personal information:
• First Name
• Last Name
• Monmouth College Email Address
• Desired Username: We recommend using your Monmouth College Network ID.
• Password: We recommend using your Monmouth College Network Password.
• Borrower ID: This is your 7-digit barcode number located on your Monmouth College ID Card.
• Last Name on your Library Account
• I-Share Library that you are affiliated with: Monmouth College

Once you have created your account, you will be able to view your personal information, including which items are checked out on your library account or you can renew items online.

And just for fun, it's Arthur's Library Card Song! 

New Items at Hewes Library

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

• Occupying the Stage: The Theater of May '68 by Kate Bredeson
• Sustainable City by Stephen Cohen
• Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
• Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewig
• Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture by Racquel J. Gates
• Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion by Tansy E. Hoskins
• Syria: by David W. Lesch
• Baseball Goes West by Lincoln A. Mitchell
• Citizen Illegal: Poems by Jose Olivarez
• Psychology Graduate School: A Users Manual by Steven R. Smith

Best Sellers!

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

These titles, and many more, can be found on the main floor of Hewes Library. Materials circulate for two weeks and may have three renewals. Enjoy!

New this month:
Impeachment: An American History, by Jeffrey A. Engle
Maid, by Stephanie Land
My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Ottessa Moshfegh
Frederick Douglas: Prophet of Freedom, by David Blight
Disappearing Earth: A Novel, by Julia Phillips

July 4th Holiday

Hewes Library will be closed on Thursday, July 4th and Friday, July 5th in observance of Independence Day. 

Photo: Drum Majorette, Tyler (1938). Part of the Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University.