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Our latest guide is Urban Legends. Learn more about urban legends, access books and eBooks that collect urban legends and articles and media that discuss urban legends.  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. * Phantom Hitchhikers and Other Urban Legends (eBook) * Curses! Broiled Again! The Hottest Urban Legends Going  (print book) * HBO Beware The Slender Man (01:55:23) (stream it on FOD) * Reader’s Digest: 50 of the Spookiest Urban Legends from Every State (website) http://dlvr.it/TLdm9L

Get the New York Times bestselling series from Lauran Roberts on Libby.  Download books from the series and and read them on Libby. Already checked out? Get on the waiting list by logging into your account and placing a hold. You'll be notified when it be available.  Fearful is coming in September, but you can put it on hold now.  Want More? See all Lauren Roberts books available on Libby, see all Fantasy in Libby, browse our whole Libby collection or see How to Use Libby/OverDrive.  http://dlvr.it/TLcTcF

The library is your source for N.Y. Times chart topping novels!  The latest round of bestsellers highlight women's friendship, America after world war II, summer romances, mystery/suspense and a biography of Mark Twain.  Your COM ID is your key to checking out great summer reads that will engage and entertain.  Come by and check one out today! For more leisure reading options, check out the library's Leisure Collection guide.  http://dlvr.it/TLbR24

If you are in the cosmetology program at COM, June 26th is your day!  THANK YOU for the work that you do everyday to help us feel good and to look our best. Are you preparing for your cosmetology certification exam?  Use EBSCO Learning Express to access practice exams to get ready.  You will need to register once to set up a free account, and then you can access the practice tests.  For help on using EBSCO Learning Express, click here. Are you considering a career in cosmetology or barbering?  Check out the library cosmetology or barbering guides with more suggested books, eBooks, articles and videos on these careers.   http://dlvr.it/TLYHZn

La adaptación oficial al español de la novena edición del MLA Handbook es un recurso integral para autores de trabajos de investigación en español. Proporciona directrices sobre el uso del formato MLA para documentar fuentes y brinda consejos de escritura específicos para el español —desde cómo dominar el uso de la puntuación hasta las mayúsculas y mucho más—, así como cientos de nuevos ejemplos en español.  Acceda al manual (debe tener una cuenta COM para accederlos fuera del campus). Colección en Español.  The official Spanish adaptation of the ninth edition of the MLA Handbook is a comprehensive resource for writers of Spanish language research papers. It provides guidelines on using MLA format to document sources, advice on writing unique to Spanish—from punctuation to capitalization and more—and hundreds of new Spanish-language examples. Access the manual (Login with your COM account for off campus access). See Colección en Español.  http://dlvr.it/TLWSMP

If you've ever read a book series that has a movie but never seen the movie, you're missing out!  Books on film are a great way to relive the action, romance or intrigue all over again onscreen.   If you've never seen any of these books on film, stop by the library today with your COM ID and check one out.  It's a great way to spend some leisure time this summer. Want to know what other DVD titles we have?  Check out our DVD collection in OneSearch.  Or take a look at the streaming media titles you can access in one of our streaming media platforms, listed in our Media & Streaming Video Collection guide. http://dlvr.it/TLSlrp

Access the best resources on Juneteenth and Emancipation in COM Library. Go to the Guide! "The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and free laborer." --Major General Gordon Granger, Galveston, June 19th, 1865 Featured Resources For some reserouces you must access on campus or login with your COM account for off campus access. * Read the eBook Juneteenth Texas : Essays in African-American Folklore. How to Use EBSCO eBooks.  * Red the article On Juneteenth, three stirring stories of how enslaved people gained their freedom. How to Use Gale.  * Read Ralph Ellison's classic print book Juneteenth. How to Use OneSearch.  http://dlvr.it/TLRkd8

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/TLQdS7

A History of American Nursing A History of American Nursing: Trends and Eras is the first comprehensive nursing history text to be published in years. It provides a historical overview essential to developing a complete understanding of the nursing profession. For each key era of U.S. history, nursing is examined in the context of the sociopolitical climate of the day, the image of nurses, nursing education, advances in practice, war and its effect on nursing, licensure and regulation, and nursing research and its implications. From early nursing to Nightingale's influence, through two world wars to today, this text engages students in an exploration of nursing's past while connecting it to nursing practice in the present. A History of American Nursing: Trends and Eras is designed to inform and empower today's student nurses as they help to create the future of nursing. Want more? Get the eBook on Ebook Central. Want more? See our guides on Nursin...

Life was launched as a weekly magazine in 1936 by Henry Luce, publisher of Time, and it quickly became a cornerstone of his Time-Life Publications. it covered every day life, popular culture, politics and world events. Life was best known for it's icons photographs, featuring top photographers such as Margaret Bourke-White, Gordon Parks, and Robert Capa. Login with your COM account for off campus access. * Life Goes to America's Most Famous Party: New Orleans Mardi Gras, 1938 * America Goes to War, 1941 * Dusty Plague Upon the Land, 1954 * Castro on Eve of His Big Bid, 1958 * Split-Second Horror as the Sniper’s Bullets Struck (Kennedy Assassination), 1963  * Here Come Those Beatles, 1964 * What I want, What I am, What you force me to be, is what you are by Gordon Parks, 1968 * Apollo’s Great Leap for the Moon, 1969 * Three Days That Shook America: A Vision of Terror (Rodney King), 1992 ...

ProQuest Education Research Index is a new resource developed using Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) as its foundation. ERIC is the world’s most widely used index to education-related literature and has long been an essential tool for academic libraries, education researchers, and practitioners worldwide. To ensure ongoing, reliable access to this foundational content, the ProQuest Education Research Index includes ERIC alongside ProQuest Supplemental Education Index, a newly created index that covers the majority of scholarly journals currently indexed by ERIC.  This supplement will grow over time and is designed to ensure continued coverage of as many ERIC-indexed titles as possible. ProQuest intends to preserve ERIC on its platform and make it available to all regardless of future budgetary impacts on this essential resource. This provides access to over two million bibliographic records spanning journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides...

COM Library has close to 100 graphic novels in the collection just waiting to be read.  We've got lots of popular titles with something for everyone.  Check out the library's online catalog, OneSearch, for a list of the titles we have or come by the library today to peruse the graphic novel section.  Don't forget to bring your COM ID with you to check-out items. The library has lots of leisure reading options perfect for summer reading!  Check out the leisure reading library guide with collection information.  http://dlvr.it/TLL2CJ

The holiday known as Juneteenth, so called because it is celebrated annually on June 19, is the oldest commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States. Recognized as Emancipation Day among African Americans, it marks the anniversary of the official freeing of slaves in Texas on June 19, 1865, in Galveston. Just as the Fourth of July celebrates liberty for all American people, for descendants of former slaves, Juneteenth symbolizes the attainment of freedom. Honoring the legacy of struggle and perseverance on the part of African Americans throughout their enslavement, Juneteenth also serves as a day of reflection on African American progress. (From CREDO Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World) The library is now featuring books and eBooks on Juneteenth and emancipation on the main floor display board.  Come by and take a look. For more suggested books/eBooks, articles and videos, check out the library guides Juneteenth, Texas history, Afri...

The Life of Chuck by Stephen King Now a major motion picture and winner of the Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award, The Life of Chuck is a glorious story about community and about humanity at its best, a celebration of joy, mystery, existential wonder, and the multitudes contained in all of us.   Originally featured in the acclaimed story collection If It Bleeds, this unforgettable, mind-bending tale unfolds in reverse, taking readers through the extraordinary life of Charles "Chuck" Krantz. In a crumbling world plagued by natural disasters, collapsing infrastructure, and mass panic, bizarre billboards and advertisements appear throughout town: "Charles Krantz. Thirty-nine great years. Thanks, Chuck!" Marty Anderson, a schoolteacher, becomes obsessed with these messages as the world, inexplicably linked to Chuck's life, seems to be approaching its end. Told in three acts, presented in reverse order, The Life of Chuck explo...

The COM Library Lab is open to COM students, faculty staff and community. To use a computer, simply sign-in at the Library Lab desk and use any computer in the Library Lab. * Get tech help with the numerous software applications available including word processing, spreadsheets and presentations as well as help with Internet problems, Wi-Fi setup, printing and scanning. * Work on a PC or MAC.  * Print for free for COM related school work, there's no charge as long as it's in black and white. Just send your document to the printer and let the lab attendant know the number of the computer you are using.  They will release your print job for you. Have any questions?  Library lab staff are ready to help! The lab is open anytime the library is open.  Click here for library hours. http://dlvr.it/TLFgt1

"I Was There" offers an immersive trip back in time, placing host Theo Wilson—the grandson of a Tuskegee airman with a passion for history—at the center of some of the world's most impactful events to deconstruct how they truly unfolded. Through original archival material, expert testimony and dramatic re-creations using CGI technology to place Wilson in the scene, the series features surprising perspectives on some of the most pivotal moments in history. Wilson is a fly on the wall as he breaks down the barrier between the audience and the action to revisit a series of critical historical events, disasters, triumphs and true stories to learn unexpected facts in an engaging, fast-moving, and often unpredictable way.   This is a series of 12 episodes, each episode about 21 minutes.  Events like the Salem witch trials, the Challenger disaster, and bloody Sunday are covered.  Check out the series now. For more suggested books/eBooks, articles, and videos on history r...

"Landing on the coast of France under heavy Nazi machine gun fire are these American soldiers, shown just as they left the ramp of a Coast Guard landing boat." ~Photograph by CphoM. Robert F. Sargent, June 6, 1944 from the National Archives and Records Administration. D-Day, the code word designating June 6, 1944, the day for the invasion of the Cotentin Peninsula in Nazi-occupied Normandy by Allied forces during the Second World War. The invasion was the largest amphibious landing in history. Within one week of D-Day, the Allies had landed, in the face of hostile obstacles, and by August 25, 1944 had liberated Paris.  Featured Resources * Stream videos on Films on Demand like Ken Burns' Pride of Our Nation (June 1944-August 1944). How to Use Films on Demand (FOD). * Read eBooks from our Ebook Central Collection like Voices of D-Day: Eyewitness Accounts from the Battle for Normandy. How to Use Ebook Central * Get print books like D-Day Girls: The ...

They're #1 in their series! Get the first book in a new-to-you series and read the series all summer long!   eBooks and physical books for the first in a series available through COM library now on display. Check out the leisure collection guide for all available reading options for fun summer reading through the library. http://dlvr.it/TL95L7

Switcheroo by E. J. Copperman Fans of Janet Evanovich, Anthony Horowitz, Elle Cosimano and Amanda Flower will enjoy this "hilarious quest" (Kirkus Reviews). A laugh-out-loud, quirky and twisty new installment in the Fran and Ken Stein mysteries by talented author E.J. Copperman. A new case sets private investigators Fran and Ken Stein on a tangled and corrupted path in this new installment of the light-hearted and fun cozy mystery series with an intriguing paranormal twist. New York private investigators - and super-sized, ever-so-slightly-paranormal siblings - Fran and Ken Stein are back in business.   Thirty-two-year-old Austin Cobb is trying to find his birth parents to get an answer for a deeply rooted question: Was he put up for adoption because he's on the autism spectrum? Fran and Ken personally know about abandonment, due to their parents leaving to keep them safe, hence the reason they founded K&F Stein Investigations. So naturally they want to he...

Explore Your Library... Here are some of the great things you'll find in your library.  Library Guides, Tips & Help Our guides are great one stop resources designed by COM Librarians with COM students in mind, to help you find the best resources for your projects and save you time. We also have created shorter, focused tips to get you started. You can tweet, text, chat and more to get answers to your question. Go to Ask COM Library to ask a question or see some we've already answered from real live COM students! Ask for help with research and citations 24/7! So if it is 2 in the morning and you need a source, head to COM Library and get started with Ask a Librarian! You will get help from real live people, and it's available from every page! During library hours COM Library staff will still be answering chats, but when we close real academic librarians working at colleges from around the world will hop online to help you out. They can help with a...