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Spooky season is here!  Come check out the featured books in our Reader Beware - You're in for a Scare display on the first floor pyramids  These books will be on display through October 31st. There are lots more scary reads available online through COM library's Libby and hoopla platforms.  These eBooks are available 24/7 and are free for COM students/staff/faculty to check out.  Why not take a look? For more information on our leisure reading options, visit COM library's leisure collection guide. http://dlvr.it/TNsNv8

October 23rd is National Horror Movie Day.  Why not take a break from studying and watch one of these favorite thrillers with your friends.  Bring your COM ID to the circulation desk and take one home today! Want more horror movie options?  Try one of the hundreds of horror films streaming online through hoopla.  Use your COM ID to register for access once and enjoy five monthly checkouts.  Take a look at the hoopla horror titles available.  More information on hoopla is available in the library's hoopla guide. http://dlvr.it/TNqC9l

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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows ... by Steven Pinker From one of the world's most celebrated intellectuals, a brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other's thoughts about each other's thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds impossible, but Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This awareness, which we experience as something that is public or "out there," is called common knowledge, and it has a momentous impact on our social, political, and economic lives. Common knowledge is necessary for coordination, for making arbitrary but complementary choices like driving on the right, using paper currency, and coalescing behind a political leader or movement. It's also necessary for social coordination: everything from rendezvousing at a time and place to speaking the same language to forming enduring relationships of friendship, romance, or authority. Humans have a sixth sense for common knowledge, and we create it...

Curiosity Stream offers something for every inquisitive mind! Hundreds of high-quality documentaries on science, history, nature, and tech documentaries. Available now through COM Library's Academic Videos Online (AVON) Stream them on AVON now!  Want more on AVON? Try the How to Use AVON guide.  http://dlvr.it/TNjXfW

I bet you think you know how to evaluate information.  Just for giggles, ask yourself these questions: * Do you know how to tell if that article you found in a Google search is college appropriate? * Do you know how to tell if something is scholarly or not? * Is everything you read in the library's databases considered scholarly?  Is it all peer reviewed? * Do you have to cite a table you copied/pasted into your PowerPoint presentation? * What do you look for to determine if something is fake news or not? * Is all news media trustworthy and considered factual? If you don't know the answer to one or more of these questions, consider coming by to check out the books on display for Information Literacy Awareness month.  The library will be featuring both physical books and eBooks on this topic through October 31st.  For more information, check out these library guides: Media Bias, Find Your Sources, College Level Research, Propaganda, Fake Ne...