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February 26th is National Tell a Fairy Tale day.  Telling a fairy tale seems like too much work, though.  Why not just watch one? There are hundreds of titles in the COM library DVD collection, including a number of fairy tale titles, both older and modern retellings.  Bring your COM ID by and pick up a fairy tale DVD to bring whimsy to your evening. For more streaming videos, books, eBooks and articles on fairy tales, visit the library's fairy tales guide.  Not into fairy tales?  Take a look through all of the DVD titles in the library collection.  http://dlvr.it/TJFHPS

Are you a Stephen King fan?  His newest book is now available at COM library. Do you love Grady Hendrix?  His new book is here too! The most anticipated titles released in January are now ready to be checked out and enjoyed.  Bring your COM ID to the library, peruse our bestseller shelves and take one home with you! If you prefer to read your leisure reads online, you can check out hoopla and Libby for great reads available 24/7. COM Library has what you want to read! http://dlvr.it/TJC24B

Peace Corps Week is celebrated this year from February 23rd-27th. Check out these books to learn more about the Peace Corps.  Waiting for Snow is the author's memoir about his time with the Peace Corps in Chile from 1961-1963. Thomas Scanlon was one of the first Peace Corps volunteers when the program was launched in 1961.  When the World Calls is about the history of the first fifty years of the Peace Corps.    http://dlvr.it/TJ9tVC

Most of our library platforms are working on beta versions of AI enhancements to make research easier for students. EBSCO has enabled AI features in most of our EBSCO databases. See all EBSCO AI enabled databases. You can see this and more on using EBSCO databases in How to Use EBSCO Databases.  Generative AI Insights AI Insights offer concise summaries, presenting 2-5 key points for each document. This consistent format, applied across multiple databases and deep backfiles of licensed content, introduces a new level of uniformity, facilitating rapid review. The aim of AI Insights is to reduce the time users spend searching for relevant full-text articles supporting their research.  How AI Insights are generated AI Insights summaries are generated by prompting a Large Language Model to summarize insights from the specific article the user selected AI Insights for. The AI Insight prompt uses a method called Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to reduce hallucination...

COM library is spotlighting books by and about previous US Presidents for the next two weeks on the first floor main display.  Engaging autobiographies/biographies are available for check-out that give an eye-opening look into the day-to-day lives of our previous leaders and what circumstances impacted their decisions.  Bring your COM ID with you to take a look at what's on display, ready to be taken home. For more books/eBooks, articles and videos on U.S. Presidents, check out the library's Presidency guide.   http://dlvr.it/TJ6DCH

Wicked Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. But Elphaba's Oz is no utopia. Get Wicked on Libby.  Nickel Boys A Pulitzer prize winning novel. When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow “delinquent” Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. Get Nickel Boys on Libby.  Dune The Dune Saga begins on the desert planet Arrakis with the story of the boy P...

Did you know the COM library has over 100 graphic novel & comic book titles in the collection?  These are physical items that can be checked out with your COM ID to take home.  In addition to the physical titles in the library, staff and students can access hundreds of additional titles online through hoopla.  These titles are made available by COM library in partnership with hoopla and are available 24/7!  Click here for a list of graphic novel titles available to you to read online through hoopla. Click here for a list of physical titles you can check out to take home. COM library is your one stop shop for comic books, graphic novels, anime and manga.  Come by the library and check out the titles we have today!  Or go online and explore hoopla for the latest and greatest titles available. http://dlvr.it/TJ41xz

This Black History Month check out these books written by African American authors. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance by Zora Neale Hurston is a collection of eight of her stories that were found in her archives after her death.  Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby is about a former getaway driver named Bug who goes in for one more job to get his life back on track, and things don't go as planned.  The Black Panther Party written by David F. Walker and the artist Marcus Kwame Anderson. This graphic novel tells the story of the Black Panther Party and its political and social influences.  Get any of these books from COM Library. Want More? Get more resources by checking out our African American Literature guide. Also, see How to Use OneSearch to find even more resources.  http://dlvr.it/TJ2w1p

On Presidents Day, learn about the presidency. Go to the guide. See all Government Guides or Government news.   http://dlvr.it/TJ1sxf

It's Valentine's Day...craving a good love story?   The library has gothic romances, young adult romances, fantasy romances, drama romances, romantic comedies - something for all reading tastes  Why not pick up one of the recent bestselling romance books from our bestselling leisure shelves? They're only here for a limited time. Get them while you can!   Rather read an eBook online?  Libby and hoopla have lots of great leisure eBooks that you can read online 24/7 through COM library.  Check out the library's leisure guide for information on all of the great leisure materials you have access to by being a student, staff or faculty at COM.   http://dlvr.it/THzP0k

Happy Valentines Day COM Students!  ~ Your COM Librarians http://dlvr.it/THyGP7

Did you know the library has a "library of things" that we can check-out to persons with a COM ID? The next time it's pouring rain outside, duck into the library and check out an umbrella to get around campus. Did your phone die and you forget your phone charger at home?  While in the library, check-out a phone charger to charge it. Math homework require a graphing calculator you don't have with you today?  Do your homework in the library and check one out from us. We have what you need to succeed!  We are here to help. Read more about COM library here. http://dlvr.it/THx8BH

This Black History Month check out one of the books to learn more about America's past.  Stamped From the Beginning discusses racism and anti-black ideas throughout American history. The author frames this story using five major figures from U.S. history; Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, William Lloyd Garrison, and W.E.B. Du Bois.  Each of Four Hundred Souls' eighty chapters covers five years of African American history starting in 1619 and ending in 2019.  The 1619 Project looks at how African Americans have been a part of the American landscape since Europeans arrived in Jamestown. This is a collection of essays and historical vignettes describing the impact of slavery on the country and how the changing views about African Americans have impacted the laws and customs.  Get any of these books from COM Library. Want More? Get more resources by checking out our African American History guide. Also, see How to Use OneSearch to find even more resources.  http://...

Get the eBooks on Ebook Central. Want more? See our Nursing guides or How to Use Ebook Central. http://dlvr.it/THtW4P

As artificial intelligence encroaches into courtrooms around the world, promising fairer rulings free from human bias, serious questions arise. Can algorithmic judges truly deliver impartial verdicts, or will they simply perpetuate or introduce injustices in new, inscrutable ways? This film examines both AI’s potential for creating better justice systems by eliminating structural inequities, as well as the risks of inadvertently encoding new forms of discrimination. Watch Artificial Justice now (51:07) For more videos, books/eBooks and articles on related topics, check out the library guides on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement.   http://dlvr.it/THrP6m

New! You asked us for young adult fiction and we have started our collection! Read top young adult books for free on Libby. That's not all--we've got some great young adult books in out print collection, and you can find more young adult fiction eBooks on Hoopla.   Have a favorite author you'd like to see in the library? Let us know!    http://dlvr.it/THqDxv

Engaging stories and thought-provoking books written by talented African American authors are now on display in the library. Bring your COM ID by the library and take a look at the books/eBooks displayed on the middle pyramids.  You'll discover a number of interesting options to consider taking home with you. Find more books & eBooks featured on the library African American Literature guide. http://dlvr.it/THp34M

Facebook was created on February 4, 2004. Check out this book about the social media giant.  The Facebook Effect tells the history of Facebook and the effects it has had on society by making us more connected than ever.  Get these books from COM Library. Want More? Get more resources by checking out our Social Media & Self Guide and Social Media, Mass Media, & Politics Guide. Also, see How to Use OneSearch to find even more resources.      http://dlvr.it/THmq4J

Get great resources including books, articles, streaming media, primary and open access sources from the African American History guide. Go to the guide or see more African & African American guides like Black Lives Matter Movement, Martin Luther King, Jr. or  Racism & Racial Equality. Featured Resources * Stream Swank feature films Harriet and  Glory free to COM students, faculty & staff! How to Use Swank. * Read one of our great eBooks from OverDrive like Becoming by Michelle Obama, The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, Born a Crime by Trevor Noah or all our African & African American eBook Collection on your device. How to Use OverDrive eBooks. * Check out DVDs like The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Hidden Figures or Green Book. How to use OneSearch.  * Get print books like The last negroes at Harvard : the class of 1963 and the eighteen young men who changed Harvard forever,  A Black women's history of the United State...