Just Arrived! More ScotsRead Titles

The following ScotsRead titles have just arrived and are available:

• Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris by David King
• Pirate King: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes by Laurie R. King
• Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War by Hal Vaughan
• Kill Me If You Can: A Novel by James Patterson and Marshall Karp
• The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
• The Good Theif's Guide to Venice by Chris Ewan

New BookScan Station Now Available

Hewes Library has acquired a new BookScan Station, which includes a flatbed scanner, document scanner, and touch screen instruction monitor. 

The BookScan Station will allow users to scan booksor documents quickly and convert them into .PDF documents, Word Files, text files, and more.  Files can be sent directly to your email address, USB flash drive, or uploaded to your Google Docs account.

The BookScan Station is located near the Public Workstations computers and printer on the Main Floor of the library.  If you have questions, stop by the Reference or Circulation Desks.

Einstein Bros Bagels Resumes Normal Hours

As of this morning, Einstein Bros Bagels has resumed normal hours. 

Library Resumes Regular Hours

Welcome back to campus after Fall Break!  As of today, Tuesday, October 11, Hewes Library has resumed regular hours. 

New ScotsRead Titles

The following titles have recently arrived and are now available in the ScotsRead Collection on the Main Level of Hewes Library.

• The 3rd Alternative: Solving Life's Most Difficult Problems by Stephen Covey
• The Dovekeepers: A Novel by Alice Hoffman
• The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
• The Deception at Lyme: Or, the peril of Persuasion by Carrie Bebris
• Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton by Jeff Pearlman
• Shatner Rules: Your Guide to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World at Large by William Shatner

Check out these titles and more from ScotsRead: the leisure reading collection.  If you are interested in a particular author or book titles, please email the information to referenceATmonmouthcollegeDOTedu.

Why use a dictionary?

Most people think of dictionaries as places to look up how to spell a word or to find the correct meaning(s) of a word.  Among the best known are the many varieties of Merriam-Webster’s and the most famous of all the Oxford English Dictionary.   Another common use for dictionaries is to look up an equivalent word in a foreign language in a French-English, Spanish-English, Greek-English Dictionary, etc.  All of this is true, but dictionaries can be a lot more. 

There are many other sorts of information that can be found in a dictionary.  For instance when reading a book or article about art or theatre, you may come across a reference to an unfamiliar concept, such as “conceptual art “.  A quick look at the “Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes” will tell you that conceptual art is the “..radical idea that a statement which need not be in words can be an aesthetic experience” and that it is found in visual art, music and performance art.  Or if you are reading a financial article and see the word “bubble”, you may not know what is referred to by the term.  However, if you look it up in the “Wall Street Dictionary” you would know that in business terms a bubble is ““..a speculative venture that has little chance of making a profit”. 

And dictionaries may not just illustrate words, but also concrete objects such as a Brewster chair and the aurora borealis as shown in “The Dictionary of Interior Design” and the Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology respectively.  There are many uses of dictionaries for short bits of information on, or even pictures of, a term or concept that is unfamiliar. 

Look for more on with this series of articles that will explore some of the many dictionaries found in or accessible through Hewes Library.

Einstein Brothers Bagels Fall Break Hours

Over Fall Break, Einstein Brothers Bagels will have reduced hours.  They will be open:

• Friday, October 7: 7:30am – 2:00pm
• Saturday -Tuesday, October 8-11: Closed

Normal hours will resume on Wednesday, October 12 at 7:30am.

Library Fall Break Hours

Hewes Library will have shortened hours over Fall Break. 

• Friday, October 7: 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
• Saturday - Sunday, October 8 - 9: Closed
• Monday, October 10: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
• Tuesday, October 11: 8:00 a.m. - Midnight

The library will return to normal hours on Tuesday, October 11.

Research Tip! Printing from JSTOR

Printing from the database JSTOR can be tricky.  If you just select print from your internet browser's window, it will only print the first page of the article that you are interested in.  To print the full article, you need to download the .PDF.  You can access the article .PDF file from either the search results list or the top right if you are viewing the first page of the article.  Once you select download, you will have to agree to the copyright restrictions before you can view the full article to print.

Banned Book Week Wrap Up

Banned Book Week 2011 officially comes to a close today, but the library displays will remain up until the beginning of next week.

Take a few moments to browse the books that have been challenged or banned throughout the country.  Browse through the list of most frequently challenged titles to see how many you have read.....you may be surprised!

Books are available for checkout.  Please take them to the Circulation Desk on the main floor of the library with your MC ID card to take them with you.