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The best COM Library databases for hot topics and controversial issues are CQ Researcher, EBSCO: Academic Search Complete, Facts on File and Gale: Opposing Viewpoints. Go to the Guide! Features: Database comparison chart. Search techniques to get more or fewer articles. Tips on ways to find a topic. Tips on ways to find pro and con articles. Databases are searchable directly from guide. Students and faculty can leave a comment on any box on any page, review the entire guide or suggest more resources on the topic. Please don’t hesitate to provide feedback!

Book Trailers. The idea is to make a trailer for books and generate excitement just as they do for movies. Some publishers are creating their own, others are being made by book lovers. There are even awards for them. Check out the 2010 Moby Awards (scroll down to second blog entry for links to trailers). Here is a really creative one . COM Library has a new Book Trailers box on the Best Sellers & Book Reviews tab of the New Books LibGuide. Or you can go to Delicious and see all the Book Trailer sites saved , including how to make your own .

History fans, check out this fascinating site: http://sundaymagazine.org/ . The “most interesting” stories from the New York Times Sunday Magazine 100 years ago. Here are a few examples: The Hobble Is The Latest Freak In Woman’s Fashions Being Fat Is Like Having Money In The Bank Dr. Hyslop Tells Of Experiments With Famous Mediums Hudson Maxim On “A Coming War Of Aeroplanes” Mark Twain’s Secret Book Gives Startling Views

Why do you need to evaluate? It's one of your jobs as a college student. Your instructors expect you to be able to determine what sources are appropriate for college level research, as well as what is appropriate for your specific assignment. Go to the Guide! Features: Wikipedia Case Study on the Why You Need to Evaluate page. Find out what to look for to evaluate, watch the Credible Sources count video or take the CRAAP Test on the 5 Steps to Evaluate page. Watch the You quote it, you note it! video on the Cite Your Sources page. Learn how to paraphrase, watch the Plagiarism: Don't Do it Video or take the OOPS, I Plagiarized tutorial on the Plagiarism: Don't Let This Happen To You page. Students and faculty can leave a comment on any box on any page, review the entire guide or suggest more resources on the topic. Please don’t hesitate to provide feedback!

Supernatural fiction is very popular lately, especially when it involves vampires. If you’re in the library, be sure to check out our vampire fiction display in the Leisure Reading area! Here are two of the most popular vampire novels from COM Library: Dead Until Dark, by Charlaine Harris Dead Until Dark is the first book in Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire Mysteries, also known as the Sookie Stackhouse series. In this page turner, set in fictional backwoods Louisiana town, Harris creates a fantasy world where humans and vampires coexist (somewhat) successfully, if not entirely believably. If you enjoy this genre and can suspend some serious disbelief, this book might be for you. The HBO series True Blood is based on this series of novels; fans of the book might like to check out the television show, and vice versa. The Twilight Saga, by Stephenie Meyer Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling “vampire love saga” features vampires, werewolves, forbidd

It all started in Galveston, Texas. Access Web sites or COM Only Resources like related eBooks and print books in COM Library. Go to the Guide ! "The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and free laborer." --Major General Gordon Granger, Galveston, June 19th, 1865 Features: Books in COM Library on Juneteenth COM Library Juneteenth Slideshow Google Books preview of Juneteenth Texas Links to other great Juneteenth info like a video of Bill Moyers on Juneteenth

If you use APA for citation, you may want to check out the APA Style Blog. You can get answers to questions like this one: How to Cite the U.S. Constitution in APA Style by Chelsea Lee “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union....” —U.S. Constitution, pmbl. Those immortal words open the U.S. Constitution. But how to cite it in an APA Style paper? The answer... Get the latest from the blog on the homepage of COM Library's Cite APA Style LibGuide with more citation help!

Access the latest hurricane news, find out what to do before and after a hurricane, learn how hurricanes work, and see images or read accounts of Hurricane Ike and the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900. Go to the Guide! Features: Get live feed on current hurricanes from the National Hurricane Center, NASA and Google news on the home page. Get great advice for preparing before a hurricane and what do after on the Before & After a Hurricane page. Watch a video on how hurricanes work on the About Hurricanes page. Read the full text of The great Galveston disaster: containing a full and thrilling account of the Most Appalling Calamity of Modern Times embedded on the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900 page--or download as PDF or EPUB. Students and faculty can leave a comment on any box on any page, review the entire guide or suggest more resources on the topic. Please don’t hesitate to provide feedback!

This COM Library Libguide provides access to the best books, eBooks, articles, Internet resources and media on Drama and Theater. COM Library's LibGuides are media rich and feature embedded videos, podcast feeds, RSS feed, books from the library catalog, and more! Go to the guide! Features: Books from COM Library's collection Movie scripts and screenplays Reference sites Students and faculty can leave a comment on any box on any page, review the entire guide or suggest more resources on the topic. Please don't hesitate to provide feedback!