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Learn what banned books are, the history of banned, burned and challenged books, view an interactive Google map of the United States that shows where books are being challenged or banned even today! Go to the guide: http://libguides.com.edu/banned or see the display in COM Library.

Eight years ago, an old man told me a story that took my breath away. His name was Louie Zamperini, and from the day I first spoke to him, his almost incomprehensibly dramatic life was my obsession. It was a horse--the subject of my first book, Seabiscuit: An American Legend--who led me to Louie. As I researched the Depression-era racehorse, I kept coming across stories about Louie, a 1930s track star who endured an amazing odyssey in World War II... It is a tale of daring, defiance, persistence, ingenuity, and the ferocious will of a man who refused to be broken. The culmination of my journey is my new book, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. - from Amazon.com

Access over 38,000 eBooks in COM Library's EBSCO eBooks collection. eBooks can be viewed online in COM Library, on your computer and in many cases downloaded to computers or mobile devices. Go to the Guide! Features: EBSCO eBooks Basics How to download EBSCO eBooks How to transfer EBSCO eBooks to a mobile device such as nook, Sony reader or many smart phone. Watch COM Library's EBSCO eBooks YouTube Playlist.

EBSCO offers many individual databases as well as interfaces that search multiple databases simultaneously. This guide will show you how to best use EBSCO and many of its features. Go to the Guide! Features: COM Library's EBSCO Playlist Find out if specific journals are in EBSCO Link to EBCO articles Cite from EBSCO Get the EBSCO Mobile App

With all of the new developments in information storage and retrieval, researchers today need a clear and comprehensive overview of the full range of their options, both online and offline, for finding the best information quickly. In this third edition of The Oxford Guide to Library Research, Thomas Mann maps out an array not just of important databases and print sources, but of several specific search techniques that can be applied profitably in any area of research. From academic resources to government documents to manuscripts in archives to business Web sites, Mann shows readers how best to exploit controlled subject headings, explains why browsing library shelves is still important in an online age, demonstrates how citation searching and related record searching produce results far beyond keyword inquiries, and offers practical tips on making personal contacts with knowledgeable people. Against the trendy but mistaken assumption that "everything" can be ...

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New from COM Library , Biblioteca de COM LibGuide! Learn all about COM Library, including Library hours, who can use the library, what you can do in the library and more. Go to the Guide . For those of you who don't read Spanish but are curious, our About COM Library LibGuide covers the same information in English--plus a little bit more. Go to the About COM Library LibGuide . Features: What's New. Get the latest news about the library. What's in the library? Who can use the library? What can you do in the library? Real question from COM students answered by COM Librarians (in English).