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During Winter Mini, COM Library has you covered!

Physical Library Open December 9th-11th, 7:30-5:00





COM Library will be open 7:30-5:00 on December 9th-11th. Anything that you need to do physically like checkout laptops, scan chapters, or checkout physical books will have to be done during those 3 days. 





* Laptops

All Fall laptops need to be returned by December 6th. If you'd like a laptop for Winter Mini, you will need to checkout that out separately. 






Online Library Open 24/7





The campus will be closed during winter break as usual, but COM Librarians will be available online from 8-11 M-F, except for December 25th.



During all other hours, live chat will still be available 24/7 with real academic librarians working at colleges from around the world hopping online to help you out. 



What library services will be available?





During winter mini, COM Library has students covered! Get help, access databases, and library guides. 



Real, Live Help from Librarians 24/7





COM librarians will be available to help during the winter mini from 8-11, M-F, except for December 25th.



When COM librarians are not available, library help will still be real librarians available 24/7. Academic librarians working at colleges from around the world will hop online to help you out. These librarians can help you with all the same things that COM Library staff do, like helping you find scholarly articles, primary sources and grabbing citations. Just as you can now, students can go to any COM Library page and get started with the blue Ask a Librarian button. 



Great Databases 24/7





All of our great A-Z Databases can be accessed 24/7. Databases include tens of thousands of eBooks, hundreds of thousands of articles, streaming media and primary sources that can even help students cite their sources, librarians can show you how! Access them from our A-Z Databases page.



Library Guides 24/7





Students can also help themselves 24/7 with our great library guides. The library guides are collections of carefully curated top books, eBooks, articles, databases, journals, steaming media and open access resources based on COM courses. We also have some very popular How to Guides and Tips, covering things like How to Cite APA or MLA Style, or Tips for Writing an Annotated Bibliography. Browse all our guides. 



How Can Students Get Help? 





Students can ask questions via live chat from any library page 24/7. If you start a chat M-F, from 8am-11am you will be chatting with a COM Librarian. Chats started at other times will get help from academic librarians from other college libraries from around the world. 



You can also text, email, fill out a form, or Book a librarian for longer sessions and you'll get answers M-F, 8am-11am. If you prefer, you can find answers in our Knowledge Base or send an email. 



Here is our contact info:




* Live Chat, 24/7. Real People, Real Help. Ask from any library page. 

* Email: ask@com.libanswers.com

* Book a Librarian for one on one help via Teams or chat. 

* TXT: (409) 229-4142

* COM Library Knowledge Base


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