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Every month NetLibrary provides free access to a new eBook that is not in our collection, access is only available for one month. This month the eBook is Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word. Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book explores the meaning of censorship, and the power of literature to inform the way we see the world, and ourselves. Contributors including Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk, David Grossman, Nadine Gordimer and other literary heavyweights, discuss the importance of writing from various views, both political and social. They illustrate the need for freedom of speech and human rights, and they emphasize the target writers become in a tyranny. Free, unlimited access is provided from October 1-30, 2009. Go to NetLibrary . (Hint: the eBook of the month is available from the lower right hand corner of the NetLibrary screen)

COM Library has free drop in workshops. Our first workshop this Fall is part of the Student Survival Series, How to Survive with Free Tools. All COM students, faculty and staff are welcome. Google Docs, one of the resources covered can be especially beneficial for students that don't have Office or a drive on which to store papers. Seating is limited and on a first come, first served basis. Find out more here .