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Just a friendly reminder that the library will be closed during Convocation om Monday, August 23 from 9-11:30.

OK, let's just say it: Google rules! It's the quickest and easiest way to get good search results. What you may not know is that you can get a lot more out of Google than a quick search. This guide describes how to get the best out of Google searches and much more. Go to the Guide! Features: Set Google up to alert you for new results in a search. Save Word documents to Google and access them anywhere you can access Google. Make your own Google Maps. Take your favorites and bookmarks with you. 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! And don't forget COM Library's Google Books, Magazines & News Archives LibGuide , where you can discover Google’s hidden library of full text books, magazines and even newspapers.

"Which Came First? The Movie or the Book?" Come and check out our new display in the Library Leisure Reading area!

Save Yourself Some Time: Use a Database! The best way to find articles is using online databases. Databases collect articles from print periodicals and may include abstracts or full text articles. Content of the article can be printed, downloaded or emailed. Go to the Guide! Features: How to get started. Real articles questions from COM students answered by COM Librarians. COM Library Databases v. Google. How to get more or fewer articles. Hot Topics and all COM Library Databases. 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!

Our most popular COM Library page, Databases, has been converted to a LibGuide, Databases by Subject: Google is great, but COM Library's databases get you the college level articles you need for your research faster. Search for articles in the best databases for your subject. Go to the Guide . Special Features: Real database questions from COM answered by COM Librarians, updated as they come in on the main page, and the appropriate subject page. All our great databases listed by subject so our students know which are the best to use for their research. Subjects include: business, education, en Español, government & law, health & nursing, hot topics, humanities, kids, literature, multidisciplinary, reference, science, speech, social science, technology and Texas. Relevant LibGuides on the subject will be conveniently listed on the database subject page so students can find even more resources on their topic. Select high demand subjects have in depth LibGuides of their own: H

Online reference sources are great for finding quick, reliable and authoritative facts about everything under the sun. This LibGuide shows you how to use the top 3 Reference databases: Encyclopædia Britannica, Oxford Reference, and Facts On File World News Digest. Go to the Guide! Features: Special features for each database. Databases are searchable directly from guide. Access to all COM Library reference databases. 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!

In this exhaustive study of the credit card industry, Geisst (Undue Influence) delivers a scathing critique of the routine practices that led to the current consumer debt crisis. He details the origins of credit cards, a path pioneered by merchants bent on making loyal customers, including Sears Roebuck, which established a consumer credit business in 1911, followed by General Motors and Ford opening finance divisions to facilitate car purchases. The banks followed their profitable example, creating finance subsidiaries through their parent holding companies. The book highlights the sweeping financial deregulation in the 1980s and 1990s, the backdrop of the rise in credit card offers, adjustable rate mortgages and, ultimately, the current poor state of consumer financial affairs. Given the crippling debt load that many Americans now carry, this important discussion of the troubling marriage of consumer credit and mortgage lending is long overdue. (Aug.) Copyright © Reed Business Infor