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With the Summer Olympics underway check out these books to see how they all started.  The Games: A Global History of the Olympics by David Goldblatt describes the evolution of the modern Olympic games that were reborn in 1896 in Athens. He shows the games' changes, from allowing women to compete equally, to confronting racism, and the birth of the Paralympics after World War II.  The Ancient Olympic Games by Judith Swaddling covers the ancient roots of the Olympic games, from its beginnings in Olympia, Greece. Swaddling tells readers of the preparation for the events, the ceremonies, and how it was tied to ancient mythology.  https://bit.ly/3SuSLkV

A: You are in luck! All EBSCO databases help you get citations. Here's how: * On the eBook page, select the quotes option.  * Under Select style, use the pull down menu to select APA, MLA or your preferred style.  * Select Copy to clipboard to grab the citation.  * Paste into your references page. Note: Once pasted into your paper, you may need to change the formatting to Times New Roman font, 12", double spaced with a hanging indent.  Get citation tips on other database from the Cite MLA Style or Cite APA Style guides on the Grab a Citation page.  https://bit.ly/4cV8RfE

We have the latest and greatest N.Y. Times Bestselling books at the library.  Don't let the summer go by without getting a good book read into your schedule.  There's so many great options to choose from!  Bring your COM ID by the library to check one out today. Prefer eBooks?  Check out Libby/OverDrive for lots of great eBook read options.  Check out the library guide on Libby/OverDrive for more information. https://bit.ly/3Yq5Xvb

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "More than a guide to better conversations, it's a blueprint for a more connected and humane way of living. It's a must-read for anyone looking to deepen their relationships and broaden their perspectives." --Bill Gates, Gates Notes (Summer Reading Pick)   A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives--from the author of The Road to Character and The Second Mountain. As David Brooks observes, "There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen--to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood."   And yet we humans don't do this well. All around us are people who feel invisible, unseen, misunderstood. In How to Know a Person, Brooks sets out

The 2024 Summer Olympics are about to start. Pick up one of these books to learn about the history of some of the past Summer Olympic Games.  1964, the greatest year in the history of Japan: how the Tokyo Olympics symbolized Japan's miraculous rise from the ashes by Roy Tomizawa. Tomizawa chronicles the history of Japan from the devastation of post-World War II to a short nineteen years later hosting the 1964 Summer Olympics.  The Suspect: an Olympic bombing, the FBI, the media, and Richard Jewell, the man caught in the middle by Kent B. Alexander and Kevin Salwen. Alexander and Salwen tell the story of the terrorist attack on the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.  Legacy: gangsters, corruption and the London Olympics by Michael Gillard. Gillard shows how bringing the Olympics to a city can lead to widespread corruption and a rise in crime. He explores the increase in turf battles between London crime families, corporate greed, and dirty money that took root in the lead-

Our latest guide is Olympics. The Summer Olympics is July 26th to August 11th. Get the latest news and learn about the history of the Olympic games.  Here are a few examples of what you can find in the guide. Some resources must be accessed on campus or login with your COM account to access campus. * The Boys in the Boat on Libby (eBooks) * Courage to Soar: a body in motion, a life in balance (Simone Biles, print book) * HBO The Weight of Gold (Michael Phelps, stream it on FOD)  * Jesse Owens Berlin 1936 (stream it on YouTube) https://bit.ly/3Wgattb

Did you know the library has over 500 DVD titles in our collection?  Popular movies, documentaries and academic films can be checked out with your COM ID any time.  If you aren't into Deadpool, take a look at all of the DVD titles we have!  There is something for EVERYONE. Prefer streaming media instead of a DVD?  We have that too!  Films on Demand, Academic Videos Online, Swank and hoopla all have streaming video content free to you as a COM student or staff member.  Check them out today! https://bit.ly/4f9UrtC

"A window into what is possible when we reject the politics of division, trade individualism for interconnectedness and prioritize coming together for the greater good." -Heather McGhee, author of The Sum of Us- What Racism Costs Everyone A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK from renowned organizers and activists Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor, comes the first in-depth examination of Solidarity-not just as a rallying cry, but as potent political movement with potential to effect lasting change. Here, two leading activists and thinkers survey the past, present, and future of the concept across borders of nation, identity, and class to ask- how can we build solidarity in an era of staggering inequality, polarization, violence, and ecological catastrophe?   Solidarity is often invoked, but it is rarely analyzed and poorly understood. Offering a lively and lucid history of the idea-from Ancient Rome through the first European and American socialists and labor organizers, to tw

There's WAY too many things to do in the library this summer for you to be bored.   Check out the list of graphic novels you can check-out.  Or sign up for a free hoopla account and choose from the many graphic novels available online! Bring your COM ID to the library and check-out the hundreds of DVD titles we have available to take home. Swing by the library after class and spend some relaxation time working on our vintage games puzzle at the puzzle table. Bring a friend by during a break and check out one of our many board games to play. Or spend some quiet time with a coloring page and colored pencils.  We've got both to check out to you! Summer is also a good time to catch up on some fun leisure book reading.  We have lots of the recent bestsellers for you to choose from - both physical books and eBooks online! Don't let boredom (or the heat) get you down.  Come by the library today and do something fun!     https://bit.ly/3Wq7jod

To celebrate Disability Pride Month check out one of these books from our collection.  Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability is a collection of poetry written by poets with physical disabilities. The collection is divided into four sections Early Voices, The Disability Poetics Movement, Lyricism of the Body, and Towards a New Language of Embodiment.  Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong is a memoir made up of a collection of Wong's essays and interviews, some previously published. Wong focuses on the challenges she has faced as a member of the disabled community living in a world built for able-bodied people. She also ties in her childhood as a daughter of Chinese immigrants. Wong became a disability rights activist and founded the Disability Visibility Project, whose mission is to amplify disabled artists and their works in media.    https://bit.ly/3SdNSfJ

The Atlantic was originally created with a focus on publishing leading writers' commentary on abolition, education and other major issues in contemporary political affairs at the time. Over its more than 150 years of publication. It has featured articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, science and more. Some of the founding sponsors of the magazine include prominent writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe and John Greenleaf Whittier.              * The Indian Revolt, 1857 * A Brief Review of the Kansas Usurpation, 1858 * The Progress of the Electric Telegraph, 1860 * The Future of American Railways, 1860 * The Field of Gettysburg, 1865 * The Awakening of the Negro by Booker T. Washington, 1896 * An Odyssey of the North by Jack London, 1900 * Why I Ca

*As quoted on  https://go.mediaed.org/behind-the-shield /> "In Behind the Shield, celebrated author and Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin tackles the myth that the NFL was somehow free of politics before Colin Kaepernick and other Black NFL players took a knee. Digging deep into the history of the league, and navigating a stunning excavation of decades of archival footage and news media, Zirin traces how the NFL, under the guise of “sticking to sports,” has promoted wars, militarism, and nationalism; glorified reactionary ideas about manhood and gender roles; normalized systemic racism, corporate greed, and crony capitalism; and helped vilify challenges to the dominant order as “unpatriotic” and inappropriately “political.” The result is a case study not only in the power of big-time sports to disseminate stealth propaganda and reinforce an increasingly authoritarian status quo, but also the power of activist athletes to challenge this unjust status quo and model a d

A sweeping first novel of love, war, and resistance in post–World War II Vietnam, by the award-winning author of Catfish and Mandala. The peak of the hot season, 1942: The wars in Europe and Asia and the Japanese occupation have upset the uneasy balance of French Indochina. In the Vietnamese fishing village of Phan Thiet, Tuyet ekes out a living at a small storefront with her aunt Coi, her cousin Ha, and her two-year-old daughter, Anh. She can hardly remember her luxurious life in the city of Saigon, which she left just two years ago. The day Tuyet meets Japanese major Yamazaki Takeshi is inauspicious and stifling, with no relief from the sand-stirring wind. But to her surprise, she feels not fear or wariness, but a strange kinship. Tuyet is guarded, knowing how the townspeople might whisper, yet is drawn to Takeshi's warmth all the same. A wounded veteran with a good heart, Takeshi grows to resent the Empire for what it has taken—and the promises it has failed to keep. As

National Simplicity Day is July 12th. Have you been meaning to find a way to find balance in your life - to simplify?  The time is now!  Check out one of these books with your COM ID for fresh ideas on how you might live a more balanced life for better well-being.  For more library eBook/article/video suggestions on well-being, check out the library's guides on Coping with the Hard Things and Fitness & Wellness. COM library has thousands of books on most any topic.  Interested in a different topic?  Check our online catalog, OneSearch, to see what books and/or eBooks we have on subject. https://bit.ly/3zBPNUY

Earthdivers, Vol. 1: Kill Columbus by Stephen Graham Jones; Davide Gianfelice (Illustrator); Joana Lafuente (Colorist (comics)); Rafael Albuquerque (Cover Design by) The New York Times-bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart Is a Chainsaw makes his comics debut with this time-hopping horror thriller about far-future Indigenous outcasts on a mission to kill Christopher Columbus. The year is 2112, and it's the apocalypse exactly as expected: rivers receding, oceans rising, civilization crumbling.   Humanity has given up hope, except for a group of Indigenous outcasts who have discovered a time travel portal in a cave in the desert and figured out where everything took a turn for the worst: America. Convinced that the only way to save the world is to rewrite its past, they send one of their own--a reluctant linguist named Tad--on a bloody, one-way mission to 1492 to kill Christopher Columbus before he reaches the so-called New World. But there are steep costs

Watch Sharknado on Hoopla Click on the covers to see them in Hoopla. More about Hoopla. Check out Books About Sharks Click on the covers to see them in our catalog, OneSearch. More about OneSearch. Watch Documentaries About Sharks Click on the covers to see them in Films on Demand. You'll need to be on campus or have a COM ID to view off campus. More about Films on Demand. https://bit.ly/3xM7Ya0

The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel’s transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy.  Including special end paper artwork spotlighting series villains, these beautiful hardcover books feature full-color artwork throughout. Check out one of these fun reads with your COM ID today! Click here to access the graphic novel collection in the library catalog, OneSearch, to see all of the titles you can enjoy.   https://bit.ly/4eKa0It

Get books, eBooks, articles, media, primary sources and open access sources on the Declaration of Independence, Independence Day and the beginning of the American Revolution from our Independence Day guide or learn more about American History or Government. https://bit.ly/3LbYaZZ

You can use the KIC scanner to scan chapters of a reserve textbook (no more than two per week because of copyright laws), or documents you need scanned.  Then email them to yourself and use the computer lab to read, print or forward them. The library has what you need to succeed!  Check out the Library of Things to see what else the library makes available to students to help with your studies.  Items can be checked out at the library circulation desk using your COM ID. https://bit.ly/3LajH5a

Check out these graphic novels that go beyond Marvel and DC.  Maus by Art Spiegelman through a comic book Spiegelman retells the story of his parent's experience surviving the Holocaust. In Spiegelman's retelling, the Germans are cats, the Jews are mice, and the Polish are pigs.  The Black Panther Party by Davide Walker shows the history of the Black Panther Party, its mission, and its social programming. The graphic novel highlights important events and key figures of the Party.  Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco tells the story of the conflict between Palestine and Israel. Sacco's story spans 50 years, showing the multiple conflicts between the two groups and the devastation Palestinians endured.  Last on His Feet by Adrian Matejka tells the story of the great boxer Jack Johnson. The novel focuses on his Battle of the Century fight in 1910, with flashbacks showing his childhood and his rise to fame.    Get the books from COM Library. Want More? Get mo

Originally published by John H. Johnson beginning in November 1945, Ebony has served as an influential African-American magazine promoting stories important to the black community and focusing on the achievements of African-American leaders. This fully searchable full-text archive covers business, history, politics, entertainment, fashion and culture from the African American perspective. Articles and advertisements are individually identified, ensuring researchers and readers can quickly and accurately locate the information they seek. Here are a few samples from the Ebony Archives (Must access on campus or login with your COM account for off campus access):  *  Langston Hughes, As poet or playboy, he is nearest to an American Shelley, 1946 * THE KING PLAN FOR FREEDOM: Protest leader M. L. King, Jr., stresses eight points to speed equality fight, 1956 * THE SUPREMES MAKE IT BIG: Sweet-sounding Detroiters push to top as new rule