Easter Break Hours

Easter Break 2018 Library Hours

Thursday March 29 -- 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Friday, March 30 -- CLOSED
Saturday, March 31 -- CLOSED
Sunday April 1 -- CLOSED
Monday April 2 --  8:00 a.m. - Midnight

Keep up to date on library hours on our website: https://library.monmouthcollege.edu/home/hours

New Items at Hewes Library

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

• What Matters in College? by Alexander W.  Astin
• Kinetic Anatomy by Robert S. Behnke
• Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture by Michael A Bellesiles
• Truth: A Guide by Simon Blackburn
• Democracy in Classical Athens by Christopher Carey
• Make our Home Among Strangers by Jennie Capo Crucet
• Roadside Geology of Mississippi by Stan Galicki & Darrel Schmitz
• Spatial Analysis of Coastal Environments by Sarah M. Hamylton
• Food and Agriculture During the Civil War by R. Douglas Hunt
• Sula by Toni Morrison

New Recreational Reading

       

The following recreational reading titles were added to the Scots Read Collection, located on the main floor of Hewes Library. Materials may be checked out for 2 weeks at a time, and renewed up to three times.

Enjoy!

At the Southern Table with Paula Deen by Paula Deen

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

Midnight Confessions by Stephen Colbert

Dear World by Bana Alabed

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser

What Unites Us by Dan Rather & Elliot Kirschner

God, A Human History by Reza Aslan

It's All Relative by A. J. Jacobs

Electric Dreams by Philip K. Dicks

Sleep No More by P.D. James

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

Growing Up Fisher by Joely Fisher

Code Girls by Liza Mundy

Dinner with DiMaggio by Rock and John Positano

  

Updates to Sports, Health & Physical Education Research Guide

Hewes librarians are constantly evaluating the print and digital resources the library provides to the Monmouth College community. One effective method for providing access to and raising awareness of resources specific to a discipline is through a targeted research guide.

A growing list of disciplinary, tool and course research guides can be found: https://library.monmouthcollege.edu/guides

We have recently updated the Health, Sport & Physical Education Research Guide to include the thousands of health-related streaming videos available through AVON (Academic Video Online).

Check out the Health, Sport & Physical Education Research Guide at https://library.monmouthcollege.edu/sports.

Research from Off Campus

Don't let traveling slow down your research motivation! All Hewes Library electronic resources are accessible from off campus, using your MC network credentials.

Here's how:

Select an electronic resource from the Library's homepage: https://library.monmouthcollege.edu.

You'll be prompted for your MC username and password. Conduct your search as usual!

Problems? Questions? Contact: reference@monmouthcollege.edu

Current Displays @ Hewes

Need a distraction from studying or a reason to walk to the library?

A variety of informational displays can be found in Hewes Library this month.

"LGBTQ: History, Life Stories and Performance"
A selection of library materials on the history of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and queer movements in the United States, with a special focus on autobiographies and the performing arts. This display features QR codes for many of the materials on display, which will lead the user to the actual item either physically in Hewes Library, available to borrow from the I-Share catalog, or to utilize electronically.


"Books You Always Meant to Read" 
A selection of books we always meant to read, but haven't...yet! Check them out, and add YOUR to-do title to the growing suggestion list.

"My MC Memories"
A rotating exhibition of scrapbooks from the Monmouth College Archives, a fantastic peek into these cultural artifacts.

 

And finally, on the main floor, we are showcasing pieces from our James Christie Shields Collection (two beautiful porcelain pieces from Korea) and our Takashi Komatsu Collection (two gorgeous Hiroshige woodcuts of winter scenes in Japan).

Spring Break Hours

Enjoy the break!

New Items at Hewes Library

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

• More Beautiful Question by  Warren Berger
• Fast Food Kids by Amy L. Best
• Drug Resistance by Sarah E. Boslaugh
• Estratos by Juan Cardenas
• Global Cities by Greg Clark
• History of Illinois by Tom Emery
• Cosmopolitan Peace by Cecile Fabre
• Confucianism and American Philosophy by Mathew A. Foust
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Accidental Universe by Alan Lightman

Sayre Retirement Announced

Rick Sayre, our long time and beloved Director of the Hewes Library, has announced his retirement at the end of this academic year in June. 

We look forward to celebrating his leadership and accomplishments over the last 20 years at the end of this term. Thank you, Rick! 

Flipster: Digital Magazine Platform

Hewes Library has current subscriptions to eight magazine titles in EBSCO’s Flipster database, which provides full-image access to current periodicals (mostly popular and trade periodicals). Access to Flipster is provided on the Databases A-Z link, as well as the rotating graphic on the library's homepage (see below).

Flipster is accessible on your personal computer and on mobile devices via the website...and is accessible via a Flipster app for Android or iOS device. (see "Flipster Digital Magazines" in the app store)

The titles to which Monmouth College currently subscribes on this platform are:
American Scientist
Bloomberg Business
Discover
France-Amerique
New Yorker
Rolling Stone
Sports Illustrated
Time

Learn more about Flipster and how to use it: library.monmouthcollege.edu/flipsterhelp

https://library.monmouthcollege.edu/flipster