Director's Welcome, Fall 2010

Welcome to Monmouth College and Hewes Library, your academic resource center! The library staff is looking forward to introducing you to the resources and services of the library over the course of the next year and beyond. The library will be opening earlier on weekdays at 7:30am along with our new Einstein Brother’s Bagel franchise! It’s already been a very busy place during the first week of classes.

Hewes Library has over 310,000 books, periodicals, government documents and videos to fill your information needs. We provide access to approximately 100 online databases, which includes full-text access to articles in over 18,000 periodicals, all accessible through our Hewes Library web site. Over the past year we’ve added some exciting new databases, including Music Online with hundreds of thousands of musical works, including popular, classical, jazz, folk, and international pieces. American History in Video offers nearly 5,000 video historical documentaries, some from History Channel or A&E, as well as news reels covering historic events of past times. These can be accessed on any network computers or on your personal computers any time of day or night, along with all of our databases.

Since July 2007 Hewes Library has been a member of the I-SHARE consortium catalog that allows the sharing of catalog information, as well as, the collections of 76 academic libraries in the state of Illinois. For those items that we do not own, our students and faculty have enjoyed the opportunity to directly request items from any of the I-SHARE libraries through the I-SHARE “universal catalog”. For journal articles and other items not available through our I-SHARE consortium libraries, we continue to provide our new ILLiad Interlibrary Loan services for materials from any of thousands of libraries in the United States. The library staff will be happy to answer any questions you have any time on locating the resources you need.

Our lovely surroundings include the Barnes Electronic Classroom suitable for computer instruction and presentations and a more open HL124 for classes experimenting with tablet PC technology. Throughout the building, ample study space is combined with wireless network access that allows you to use your own laptop within the library. Several special collections reside on the Upper Level: the Rare Book Collection, the James C. Shields Collection of Ancient Art and Antiquities, and the Len G. Everett Galleries. An exhibit of native American artifacts on the upper level lounge area will be going up sometime this semester. Also new this fall to the Lower Level is the Archaeology Research Lab (HL11A).

The library is also celebrating its 150th anniversary as a Federal Depository of U.S. Government Publications. Monmouth College is the fourth oldest federal depository in the United States dating back to 1860 when the program was officially created by an act of Congress.

Please take advantage of the rich resources and helpful information on our library website and feel free to seek help from the library staff. We’re looking forward to working with you.

Cheers,

J. Richard Sayre
Library Director

Welcome back to Campus!

The staff of Hewes Library would like to welcome new and returning students back to campus as everyone starts the fall 2010 semester! The library staff worked on several projects over the summer and hope to unveil a few new services to the campus over the next few weeks. We're excited to announce that we will be continuing ScotsRead, our collection of bestsellers and popular books. A few of the recent arrivals have been:

• Spider Bones by Kathy Reiches
• The Girls of Murder City by Douglas Perry
• The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory
• Midnight Angels: A Novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra
• Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography by Andrew Morton

Over the summer, the library coffee shop was renovated into an Einstein Brothers Bagels locations. To accomodate the new early morning coffee option, the library is now opening at 7:30am to allow students, faculty, and staff to grab a cup of coffee and a bagel before 8am classes start. The library's new hours are:

• Monday - Thursday: 7:30am to Midnight (Einstein Bros. 7:30am - 8pm)
• Friday: 7:30am t0 5pm (Einstein Bros. 7:30am - 2pm)
• Saturday: 9am to 5pm (Einstein Bros. 11am - 3pm)
• Sunday: Noon to Midnight (Einstein Bros. 4pm-8pm)

New Items at Hewes Library

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

• Drugs: America's Holy War by Arthur Benavie
• Night Angels by Lorenzo Carcaterra
• Magic Flute Unveiled by Jacques Chailley
• Beethoven by William Kinderman
• Gender and Culture by Anne Phillips
• Rachael and Sammy Visit the Prairie by Jannifer Powelson
• Authentic Educating by Robert Leahy
• Spark by John J. Ratey
• A to Z of Russian Theater by Laurence Senelick
• Predestination by Peter J. Thuesen

New Items at Hewes Library

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

• American Art to 1900 by Sarah Burns and John Davis
• Mother Jones by Simon Cordery
• Bud not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Megadisasters by Florin Diacu
• Artscience by David Edwards
• Introduction to Visual Culture by Nicholas Mirzoeff
• Immigration Law: A Primer by Micahel A. Scaperlanda
• Christendom at the Crossroads by J.A. Sheppard
• Twelve-Toned Music in America by Joseph N. Straus
• Not a Chimp by Jeremy Taylor

Summer Hours 2010

Hewes Library is currently operating on summer hours. We're open Monday through Friday from 8am until 4:30pm. We're closed on Saturdays and Sundays throughout the summer. For more information about the library's hours, please visit the Hours webpage.

New Items at Hewes Library

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

• Super Crunchers by Ian Ayres
• Remaking The Presidency by Peri E. Arnold
• Those About Him Remained Silent by Amy Bass
• Century Turns by William J. Bennett
• Costume Since 1945 by Deirdre Clancy
• Sledding Hill by Chris Crutcher
• Calvin by Bruce Gordon
• Arab Interlude by Kathryn Hulme
• Muslim Women Reformers by Ida Litcher
• Cracking the GMAT by Goeff Martz & Adam Robinson

Atlases: Part 7, Census and Business Atlases

Census and Business Atlases: The final entry in our series on Atlases covers miscellaneous atlases on topics that do not neatly fit into the previous categories.

2000 Commercial Atlas & Marketing Guide. This atlas contains detailed information on the transportation, economy and population of the United States. Aimed at business planners, the charts include information on regional trading areas, statistics on sales comparing the population/income/sales of a given area and detailed demographic information on areas that can be used to find basic business data on almost any location in the United States. Color

Atlas of the 1990 Census: This is a short atlas published with data from the 1990 census. It covers population, household makeup, housing, race and ethnicity, the economy and education. It contains a combination of text and charts and can be used for comparisons with the 2000 atlas described below. Text. Color.

Census Atlas of the United States. The official atlas published after the 2000 census by the U.S. government. It contains statistics and charts showing population distribution, race, age, sex, living arrangement, place of birth and U.S. Citizenship, migration, language, ancestry, education, work, military service, income and housing of the residents of the United States in 2000. There is a short text at the beginning of each section explaining patterns revealed by the data. Color

World Travel Atlas 1999. This interesting atlas has four main sections, General maps, Specialist maps (including Natural Heritage sites, Cultural Heritage Sites, International Flight times, info on ocean cruises (showing main areas where cruises take place). Very interesting information for planning a trip showing things like Hill Stations and Beach resorts in India, the Swiss Alps, route of the blue train in South Africa and many other sites and activities of interest to travelers.

Atlases: Part 6, Religious Atlases

Religious Atlases: In addition to the historical atlases, Hewes library contains a small number of atlases dedicated to the history of religion. Again the use of text and color illustrations is indicated after the entry.

Atlas of Islamic History: Unlike the Historical Atlas of Islam, this atlas contains text along with the maps explaining the development of Islam from its beginnings until the mid-twentieth century. It primarily concentrates on the Middle East and Europe showing how Islam and Islamic empires developed and changed over the centuries, with each map showing the developments of a given century. It has small sections on Islam in other parts of the world. B&W
Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land: An old (1915) map describing the physical, political , and economic geography of the Holy Land during the time prior to the establishment of the ancient kingdoms of Israel to the early years of the Christian era. Color.

Biblica: the Bible Atlas: A beautifully illustrated book containing text, illustrations, maps and charts illustrating the timeline of the events of the Bible from the time of Adam and Eve until the Revelation of John. It begins with explaining the difficulties inherent in developing a chronology of the Bible and the approach used in the book. Text, Color.

Historical Atlas of Islam: Illustrates the growth of Islam throughout the world from the time of Muhammad until the 19th century through the use of maps. There are special sections on the Ottoman Empire, the Muslim conquest and expulsion from Spain and Portugal, the development of Islam in India and the Far East, and even a section on Arabic names for the constellations. Color.

Choose Privacy Week

The American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom (OIF) has announced the inaugural Choose Privacy Week, and the focus, according to OIF is "a celebration of our right to privacy and an opportunity to engage libraries, librarians, and the general public about the importance of this issue in our increasingly public world."

Visit http://www.privacyrevolution.org/ for more information or take a look at the video OIF has put together below. A grant from the Open Society Institute helped fund part of the Choose Privacy Week effort.

Choose Privacy Week Video from 20K Films on Vimeo.

Reminder! Return your library materials!

This is a reminder to all students to remember to turn in all of your library materials before you leave campus next week. The library is open until midnight every night through Tuesday, May 11, and then open on Wednesday, May 12 from 7:45am until 6pm.

Seniors: All your library materials must be turned in by Thursday, May 13 to have your account cleared with enough time for you to participate in Commencement.

If you have any questions, please contact a library staff member at 309.457.2190.