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Need to take a breather from studying and paper writing?  Check out a DVD from COM Library. Click here to browse the titles available in the library's collection.  We have over 500 titles from which to choose. DVD's can be checked out for one week with a valid COM ID.  If you check one out the Friday before spring break, it won't be due back until after the break.  No worries about late fees!  We have what you want to watch - check out our DVD collection today! http://dlvr.it/TJNhJV

Happy Women's HERSTORY month! For the month of March, the library is spotlighting books on women's history as well as engaging fiction reads by female authors.  Come by the library between classes to take a look at what's on display.  Be sure to bring your COM ID so you can take something home with you.  Great eBooks by women writers are available online 24/7 in the library's Libby Collection.  Click here to access the women authors collection. Also on display this month, Who is She?  Entertaining and engrossing autobiographies about various women you may not have heard of before.  Make sure you come by to check them out! For more books/eBook, video and article suggestions on related topics, take a look at the library's guides on women's history, women's rights & suffrage movements, American women's history & women's suffrage around the world. http://dlvr.it/TJLLQP

Country Music by Dayton Duncan; Ken Burns A gorgeously illustrated and hugely entertaining story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the twentieth century--based on the eight-part film series.   This fascinating history begins where country music itself emerged: the American South, where people sang to themselves and to their families at home and in church, and where they danced to fiddle tunes on Saturday nights. With the birth of radio in the 1920s, the songs moved from small towns, mountain hollers, and the wide-open West to become the music of an entire nation--a diverse range of sounds and styles from honky tonk to gospel to bluegrass to rockabilly, leading up through the decades to the music's massive commercial success today.   But above all, Country Music is the story of the musicians. Here is Hank Williams's tragic honky tonk life, Dolly Parton rising to fame from a ...

We have some great guides on the history of women and issues women face today. Go to the Women's History guide. Featured Resources * Stream Swank feature films Harriet, free to COM students, faculty & staff! How to Use Swank. * Stream Iron Jawed Angels, Unbreakable: One Girl Changing the World—The Story of Malala, or RBG. How to Use Academic Videos Online (AVON), How to Use Films on Demand (FOD). * Read one of our great eBooks in our Women Authors collection in OverDrive like The Radium Girls by Kate Moore, She Said by Jodi Kantor or Violeta by Isabel Allende or classics like And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood or Kindred by Octavia E. Butler. How to Use OverDrive eBooks. * Get print books like D-Day Girls, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet, or Mother Tongue: the surprising history of women's words. How to use OneSearch.  Mor...