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COM Library will be closed for the Holidays from Saturday, December 18th through Sunday, January 2nd along with the rest of the campus. The campus and the library will re-open on Monday, January 3rd.

Two new LibGuides on journals from COM Library: COM Library Journals Online The emphasis here is on COM resources, including journals available online through EBSCO, Gale and Literature Online databases, The Chronicle of Higher Education and the TexShare Electonic Journals tool. Learn step by step how to find out if COM Library has your favorite journal online or what journals are available in your field. These journals can be accessed on or off campus 24/7. Go to the Guide! Public Journals Online LibGuide The emphasis here is on publicly accessible journals, magazines, and newspapers. Includes library, news, medical and science journals as well as Google Scholar, Google Magazines and Google News Archives. All journals listed include full text articles, varying from one or two sample articles to all the articles contained in the print version. Go to the Guide!

The beta version of Europeana recently launched, a joint effort of EU countries. It is a wonderful digital library that is archiving European culture. One may view paintings, full text literature watch video, more. Great collections. Check out the Reading Europe or Art Nouveau exhibits. From the about us page:   Ideas and inspiration can be found within the more than 14.6 million items on Europeana. These objects include: Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts Some items and topics are world famous, like Isaac Newton's book about the Laws of Motion , the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci , Johannes Vermeer's painting of the Girl With A Pearl Earring or objects about the Berlin Wall. Others are hidden treasures, waiting for you to discover them.

 College of the Mainland celebrated International Education Week in November.  Come to the Library and check out our International Poetry books and novels from Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa!

Baker has incorporated all the available research on Thanksgiving and enriched it with his unparalleled access to original sources as the former director of research at Plimoth Plantation. Most appealing about this book is that it has been produced by an expert on the topic, and one who is also a Plymouth, MA, native. He shows us how Thanksgiving is seen through each generation's reality, having morphed from a holiday for pilgrim hats and turkeys to a cause for Native American protests to a holy day to several ancient holidays combined and a full-scale orgy of food and football. Thanksgiving is not the holiday you think it is and will not be the holiday you know now in 100 years, but it can be whatever holiday you need. There is now a desire to make it an international holiday—Who knows? VERDICT This is destined to become the accepted text for research on the history and myth of this most American holiday, and it will be an enjoyable, fascinating read both for students and for anyo