Recreational Reading

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:

Turning Point: A Novel by Danielle Steel

The Road to Dawn by Jared A. Brock

The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz by Jack Fairweather

The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth by Michio Kaku

President Carter: The White House Years by Stuart E. Eizenstat

Bunny: A Novel by Mona Awad

The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks

New Items at Hewes Library

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

• Polio: The Odyssey of Eradication by Thomas Abraham
• Mujeres Que Matan by Alberto Barrera Tyszka
• Nevada by Imogene Binnie
• Science for Potters by Linda Bloomfield
• Peter Darling by Austin Chant
• Should We Control World Population? by Diane Coole
• Pen & Ink Drawing: A Simple Guide by Alphonso Dunn
• Brexit and British Politics by Geoff Evans
• Listening to Killers by James Garbarino
• Tibetan Rituals of Death: Buddhist Funerary Practices by Margaret Gouin

Orientation Week Hours

Orientation Week Library Hours (August 12th - August 20th)


Monday, August 12th - Friday, August 16th 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, August 17th 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, August 18th Closed
Monday, August 19th 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday, August 20th 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.


regular term hours begin Wednesday, August 21st (first day of classes)  

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.

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

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

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.