New ScotsRead Titles

The following titles were just added to the ScotsRead Collection.  ScotsRead titles are part of a collection of best-selling and popular books located on the main floor of the library.  They are near the main study tables and have green labels on their spine.  Stop by to check out:

• Her Last Whisper: a novel by Karen Robards
• Daring: My Passages: A Memoir by Gail Sheehy

Research Tip: Research Process Guide

The Research Process guide, which is accessible from the Research Process tab on the library's homepage, will walk students through the steps required to complete a successful research project or paper.

You will find information on:

• Developing a Topic
• Selecting a Topic
• Develop Research Questions
• Identify Keywords
• Find Background Information
• Refine a Topic
• Locating Information
• Find Books
• Find Videos
• Find Articles
• Find Websites
• Search Strategies
• Evaluating Information
• Evaluate Sources
• Primary v Secondary Sources
• Types of Periodicals
• Using Information Correctly
• Notetaking
• Paraphrasing
• Legal/Ethical Information Issues
• Plagiarism
• Citation Styles
• Works Cited Examples
• Copyright

New Items at Hewes Library

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

• Arsenal of Democracy by A.J. Baime
• One Summer by David Baldacci
• Stranger by Albert Camus
• Gandhi and Beyond by David Cortright
• Mitchell Goes Bowling by Hallie Durand
• Funerary Sculpture by Janet Burnett Grossman
• Feud: The Hatfields & McCoys by Dean King
• Acts of Faith by Eboo Patel
• Do Fathers Matter? by Paul Raeburn
• Dignity of Difference by Jonathan Sacks

Periodical of the Month: The Economist

Published by The Economist Newspaper Limited, The Economist is a weekly magazine which Hewes Library subscribes to in print and online. 

Established in 1843 to campaign on one of the great political issues of the day, The Economist remains, in the second half of its second century, true to the principles of its founder. James Wilson, a hat maker from the small Scottish town of Hawick, believed in free trade, internationalism and minimum interference by government, especially in the affairs of the market.

What, besides free trade and free markets, does The Economist believe in? "It is to the Radicals that The Economist still likes to think of itself as belonging. The extreme center is the paper's historical position." The Economist considers itself the enemy of privilege and predictability. It has backed conservatives such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. But it has also endorsed Harold Wilson and Bill Clinton, and espoused a variety of liberal causes: opposing capital punishment from its earliest days, while favoring penal reform and decolonization, as well as—more recently—gun control and gay marriage.

The Economist reports on and offers analysis of international news, world politics, business, finance, science and technology.  The print and online editions both offer sixteen news categories; including summaries on politics and business, surveys of countries and regions, obituaries, and reviews of literature and the arts.  Regular features include Economic and Financial Indicators, Leaders, and Science & Technology.

See more at: www.economist.com or on the Main Level of Hewes Library in the Current Periodicals section.

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Research Tip: Learn more about your Library Accounts

Want to learn more about your Library User Accounts? Each Monmouth College students, staff, or faculty member has two Hewes Library accounts.

1. Library / I-Share Account: Allows patrons to renew items currently checked out and to place requests for books through the I-Share Catalog. You can also maintain a list of favorites in the system.
2. ILLiad Account: Allows patrons to place interlibrary loan requests for articles and print materials that are not available in the I-Share catalog. Electronically received interlibrary loans requests can also be retrieved in a patron's ILLiad account.

Learn more about the differences between the two accounts and how to locate your username and passwords for each account.

Database of the Month: Business Source Elite

For the month of September, Hewes Library selected Business Source Elite as the database of the month.  Provided by EBSCO Host, BSE is one of the premier resources for journals and magazines in business, economics, and management.  Topics covered in the database include marketing, sales, international business, finance, banking, accounting, industry & trade, labor, public policy & administration, and more.  


Full text information is available for more than 1,110 business publications and more than 10,000 company profiles are available from MarketLine via BSE.  To compliment access to Business Source Elite, students and staff can find local and regional business news in Regional Business News, an additional database available on the Database A to Z page of the library's website.   Access to the database is available to current students, staff, and faculty of Monmouth College.
Some of the titles included in the database are:

• Academy of Management Review

• Accounting Forum

• Advances in Consumer Research

• American Economist

• Columbia Journal of World Business 

• Contemporary Economic Policy 

• Economic Affairs

• Economic Review

• Global Management Review

• Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy

• International Business: Strategies for the Global Marketplace

• Journal of Accounting Research 

• Journal of Management & Public Policy 

• National Tax Journal 

• Review of International Economics

• Studies in Comparative International Development 

Faculty: Don't forget your Course Reserves

If you are a MC faculty member and plan to place items on course reserve, remember that all of our course reserve information is available on our website along with the necessary forms.

Please allow 48 hours for processing. At times of high volume, especially at semester's beginning, processing may take longer. For this reason, we recommend that reserve forms be submitted well in advance of their anticipated date of first use.

Welcome Back to Campus!

Welcome back to all of our returning students, staff, and faculty and hello to all of MC's first year students!  We hope that your first week of classes went well.  If you need to learn more about your library accounts, please visit the Hewes Library homepage or read through the library's help documentation to learn more.

New ScotsRead Titles

The following ScotsRead titles have just arrived and are available on the main floor:

• The Nixon Tapes, 1971-1972 edited and annotated by Douglas Brinkley and Luke A. Nichter.
• Lucky Us: A novel  by Amy Bloom
• A Perfect Life: A Novel by Danielle Steel
• The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee by Marja Mills
• The Heist: A Novel by Daniel Silva