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This year COM Library was lucky enough to receive a $10,000 Impact Grant for Library Innovation and Improvement. The project is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act. The purpose of the OverDrive Project @ COM Library is to provide eBooks to our students, faculty and staff that we can’t get from our current eBook providers, like great 20th and 21st century authors such as Cormac McCarthy, George Orwell and Chinua Achebe as well as eBooks that support student success, health, and more. The eBooks are available on or off campus, 24/7 with your COM ID. You can read on your favorite Android, iOS or Kindle Fire device.

COM Library was successful in securing a grant for eBooks in the amount of $10,000, the maximum possible for this grant! This project is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services and Texas State Library and Archives Commission (2014) and we are grateful for their generosity! Our library received the highest score of all the libraries applying for the grant. What impressed Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLA) the most about our plan?  -They liked that we are choosing the specific eBooks that best support the mission of the College, rather than buying a preconfigured vendor package as most libraries are; we are using data from our Distance Ed classes which have a greater need for eBooks, as well as our own circulation statistics to determine what the best subjects to cover are with these eBooks.  -They like that we are embedding the new eBooks into our very popular LibGuides to provide easy access to our studen...