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Is the Google Generation – children born after 1993 – different from the rest of us? Do they reach for a computer mouse while still in the crib, showing an instinctive ability to navigate the Internet and find quick answers? And where does college level research fit into all this? read more

Access HotSpot web sites, eBooks and print books on President's Day, all available in COM Library. Here are a few samples: LOC: By Popular Demand: Portraits of Presidents and First Ladies , Herblock's History Presidents (editorial cartoons), "I Do Solemnly Swear . . .": Presidential Inaugurations , Presidency , Presidents as Poets: Poetry Written by United States Presidents , Thomas Jefferson (Website) EB: The American Presidency (COM only, database) The Constitution and the American Presidency (COM only, eBook) George Washington : the Founding Father E312 .J67 2005 (COM Only, print book) Get more President's Day HotSpots . See also COM Library's US Executive Branch and American History Pages.

Access HotSpot web sites, eBooks and print books on black history, all available in COM Library. Here are a few samples: LOC: African American Odyssey , African Americans at War , Voices from the Days of Slavery (audio), Voices of Civil Rights , "With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty (website) ProQuest: History Study Center (multimedia, historical documents, articles): American race relations, 1896-1954: Plessy to Brown ; The American Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 ; Black Power: Race and race relations 1968- (COM Only, full text articles) Imagining the African American West (COM Only, full text eBook) The birth of Black America : the first African Americans and the pursuit of freedom at Jamestown F234.J3 H295 2007 (COM Only, print book) Get more Black History HotSpots . See also COM Library's permanent collection: African American History .

Politicians are well known for playing fast and loose with the truth, but the Truth-O-Meter can help you figure out when it's a lie, half true, or even when it's all true! Want to know more about the candidates, the issues and the race to the White House? Check out COM Library's 2008 Presidential Election HotSpots .

Read speeches, papers, and biographies, view images and listen to speeches by and about King from these sample HotSpot web sites, eBooks and print books all available in COM Library: Stanford: The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project ; Chronologies of the African American Freedom Struggle ; King Encyclopedia ; Scholarly Articles (Web) Amid the Fall, Dreaming of Eden : Du Bois, King, Malcolm X, and Emancipatory Composition (eBook) From civil rights to human rights : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the struggle for economic justice E185.97.K5 J34 2007 (Book) Get more MLK Day HotSpots .

Between semesters, the Library's hours will be: Th-Fri, Jan 3-4, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Sat, Jan 5, 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM M-Th, Jan 7-10, 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM Normal Hours resume Friday, January 11th: M - Th, 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM Fri, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Sat, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Along with the rest of the campus, COM Library will be closed for the Holidays from Saturday, December 15th through Tuesday, January 2nd. The campus and the library will re-open on Wednesday, January 3rd.