Fresh Snow, Fresh Start

It's fitting that just a few days before the Winter semester will start that we would finally get a measurable snow! I have to admit that I found the warm (for December) days pretty convenient for holiday visits and shopping. But now that the weather seems to have aligned with our winter expectations, I feel ready to buckle down to the business of supporting the research needs of our students. Many of you will make trips to the library this semester for class instruction and for help with assignments. We count on you to let us know what you need to help you succeed in your classes. Oh, and for you Graphic Novel fans, there's a new bunch on the way!

December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor Day

On this day in 1941, Japanese planes attacked the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, which resulted in the deaths of 2,300 Americans. Read more about this tragedy at the Library of Congress American Memory Project.

Try a Kindle, Read a book!

Kindles are now available to be checked out from the library. These devices will be available to students, faculty, and staff for a 10 day checkout period. If you would like to checkout one of these devices, you can place a hold on the device in our library catalog or ask at the library desk for assistance.

The following books are currently available to read on our
electronic devices:

NEW RELEASE FICTION: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Greater Journey, To Fetch a Thief, The Night Circus, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen, The Eyre Affair, The Help, Mile 81, Far Away Home, House of Sand and Fog, The Kitchen House, The Paris Wife: A Novel

NEW RELEASE NONFICTION: The Greater Journey, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, Killing Lincoln, The Great Sea, That Dark and Bloody River, Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World, The Orchard: A Memoir, Into the Silence, Miss Minimalist: Inspiration to Downsize, Declutter and Simplify, Heaven is for Real, Unlikely Friendships

WESTERNS: The Night Horseman, Gunman's Reckoning, The Last of the Plainsmen, The Call of the Canyon, Riders of the Purple Sage, Black Jack, The Untamed, The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains, The Last Trail

TEXTBOOKS: CK-12 Chemistry, CK-12 21st Century Physics Flexbook, CK-12 Algebra I, CK-12 Calculus, CK-12 People's Physics Book Version 2

PUBLIC DOMAIN: Anne of Avonlea, Emma, An Old-Fashioned Girl, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Anthem, Treasure Island, Pollyanna, Pollyanna Grows Up, Little Women, The Last of the Mohicans, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion

CHILDRENS: Girls to the Rescue Book #1, The Blue Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, The Mouse and the Christmas Cake, The Velveteen Rabbit

OTHER: Circle of Friends Cookbook, Einstein's Refrigerator, Cookouts Veggie Style, Hide in Plain Sight, I, Spy? (Sophie Green Mysteries No. 1), Invisible (Ivy Malone Mystery Series #1), Starwars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #1-5

When a device is returned we will notify the next person on the hold list that the device is available. That person will have 24 hours to come into the library and check out the device. Check with the
library staff to ensure that your contact information is up-to-date in our files.

Textbooks in the Library

The first week of school students frequently ask if their course textbook is available in the library. The college store, not the library, is of course the place to go to purchase your textbooks. For many reasons students struggle to obtain their textbooks, especially at the start of the semester and we in the library want to be as helpful as possible.

Some textbooks have been placed on reserve in the library by the course instructor. We have also tried to provide a few commonly requested textbooks on our reserve shelf. Reserve shelf books are available for 3 hour checkouts and may not be taken out of the library.

There are several other options for those struggling through without a textbook in the first week of school. Talk to your classmates and see if there is a time when you could borrow their book to complete those week one assignments.

Many textbooks are also offered as ebooks. Some of the vendors that provide ebooks may have first chapter samples, or the ability to purchase individual chapters. Find out more about ebook and check the companies that are mentioned to see if they can provide resources to get you through that first week, here.