New Items at Hewes Library

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

• Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology by David Abram
• Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir
• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
• Do I Make Myself Clear? Why Writing Well Matters by Harold Evans
• Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant
• Iced: A Novel by Robert Grindy
• Plotinus on Consciousness by D. M. Hutchinson
• Dead Poets Society: A Novel by N. H. Kleinbaum
• Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong on GMOs by Mark Lynas
• How to be an Illustrator by Darrel Rees

New Art Exhibition

Altered States: Painting Myanmar in a Time of Transition,

our first art exhibition of the year, is now open in the Len G. Everett Gallery in Hewes Library.

The paintings in this exhibition are from a collection called, Thukhama, organized by Ian Holliday from the University of Hong Kong.

More about the collection is available here: http://thukhuma.org/about/

More about Dr. Holliday, the collector, is available here: https://presidentoffice.hku.hk/smt/pvc-TL.html

Mark your calendars for Dr. Holliday’s visit to campus and lecture on September 21, 2018.

He will speak about the collection at 3pm in the Barnes electronic classroom in Hewes.

His lecture will be followed by a gallery reception from 3:30-4:30.

We hope to see you there!

Reset Your Library Account Password

August 17, 2018

We have been notified by our library consortium office that there is a current problem with user logins to Monmouth College and I-Share library accounts.

If you receive an “Invalid Login - Please try again” message when attempting to login, they have suggested you do the following.

Please reset your password using the “Forgot Your Password” link. (see image below)

For those of you who may have signed up using an @monm.edu email, be sure to use that email address.

You may use the same password again.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Contact Hewes Library (x2301 or reference@monmouthcollege.edu) if you have any problems.

Purdue OWL Updates Website

Purdue University's helpful OWL (Online Writing Lab) website has become the defacto free citation guidance source online in the past few years, providing helpful citation examples in the major styles:  APA, MLA (2016) and Chicago.

Purdue OWL has recently updated their URL from https://owl.english.purdue.edu/ to the new https://owl.purdue.edu/ (and more specifically the citation help page:  https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html.

The website indicates that a redirect is in place, so never fear if you don't update your bookmarks!


Their press release:

It's Here: A new look for the Purdue OWL!

The new version of the Purdue OWL is available at https://owl.purdue.edu/. Worry not! Our navigation menu and content will remain largely the same. In 10 days, we will be discontinuing owl.english.purdue.edu and you will be automatically redirected to the new site.

A peek at the new website:

New Items at Hewes Library

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

• Makers: The New Industrial Revolution by Chris Anderson
• Stan Lee: The Man Behind Marvel by Bob Batchelor
• Transgender Phenomenon by Richard Ekins and Dave King
• Death Makes the News by Jessica M. Fishman
• Diagnosis and Stigma of Schizophrenia by Charles E. Harman
• Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
• Jasper Johns edited by Roberta Bernstein
• End of White Christian America by Robert P. Jones
• Seaweed: A Global History by Kaori O'Connor
• Heart of Wilderness by Adrian Onyando

New! Web of Science Database

New Database Subscription: Web of Science

Don’t be fooled by the name! Web of Science is an indexed collection of over 20,000 scholarly journals in science, social sciences, AND humanities disciplines.

The database provides cited reference searching  within those 20,000 journals. This means a growing collection of over 1.3 billion cited reference connections going back to 1900 are discoverable.

Cited reference searching lets you track how any idea, innovation, or creative work has been confirmed, applied, improved, extended, or corrected, and discover anyone who is citing particular research worldwide.

Value of Citation Indexing (video 6:17 min):  https://youtu.be/_dnT5vmeoSc

Contents of the Web of Science Core Collection:

•                    Science Citation Index Expanded: 1900-present

•                    Social Sciences Citation Index: 1900-present

•                    Arts & Humanities Citation Index: 1900-present

•                    Conference Proceedings Citation Index™

•                    Science: 1990-present

•                    Social Science & Humanities: 1990-present

•                    Emerging Sources Citation Index: 2015-present

•                    Index Chemicus: 1986-present

•                    Current Chemical Reactions:1993-present

New Library Director

Welcome to Sarah Henderson, joining the staff of Hewes Library as Director! 

This is a “welcome back” for Sarah who is returning to Monmouth after 12 years, most recently serving as the Chair of the Gordon B. Olson Library at Minot State University in Minot, North Dakota.

In this photo, Sarah (right) views a scrapbook donated by the family of Josephine (Kilpatrick) Marshall ('47) with Technical Services Librarian, Lynn Daw. 

Rick Sayre Retirement

Hewes library director, Rick Sayre, retired at the end of June 2018. For the past 20 years, Rick led the library through many changes, including a complete building renovation, the addition of hundreds of digital resources, and membership in the CARLI consortium (Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois).

Happy retirement, Rick!

Monmouth College story 

New ScotsReads

Summer reading just got more exciting with these newly acquired recreational reading titles!

The ScotsRead Collection can be found on the main floor of Hewes Library, and check out for two weeks, with up to three renewals.

Sandman, by Lars Kepler
Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind, by Barbara K. Lipska
Blessed Life, by Kim Fields 
Rocket Men, by Robert Kurson
Woman in the Window, by A. J. Finn
Promise Me Dad, by Joe Biden
How to Stop Time, by Matt Haig
Need to Know, by Karen Cleveland

Everett Oil Painting Donation

William Blackwell and his dog Happy 

Len G. Everett

Oil on canvas

1966

Monmouth College is the recipient of a generous gift of a Len G. Everett oil painting.  


Mr. Ralph Glaser, Jr., of Florida donated this paining to Monmouth College and it is temporarily on display in Gallery 203 on the upper-level of Hewes Library, and later will find a home on the wall outside the gallery.

The painting, titled "William Blackwell and his dog Happy" is the portrait of a close personal friend of the artist, Len G. Everett, and the artist’s parents.  Mr. Blackwell attended the University of South Carolina and earned a Bachelor of Laws Degree, passing the bar and admitted to the practice of law in 1945.  He was active in many professional and social activities in southern Florida, and included Sir George Roberts, the first President of the Bahamian Senate, and Lady Roberts, among his friends.

For more information about the Hewes Library Len G. Everett Galleries: https://library.monmouthcollege.edu/home/gallery