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We have QR codes in COM Library! QR stands for Quick Response and is a way to hyperlink the real world, so look for the signs throughout the library to get the info or help you need! You can learn about Qr codes, get a QR app for your phone, make your own QR code and more from the Scan & Go! LibGuide. Go to the LibGuide . Find the Signs Look for the signs throughout COM Library. Ready Get a QR app for your phone. Scan Scan the QR Code. Go! Get the info or help you need!

James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. But four months after his inauguration, a deranged office seeker tracked Garfield down and shot him in the back. The unhinged assassin’s half-delivered strike shattered the fragile national mood of a country so recently fractured by civil war, and left the wounded president as the object of a bitter behind-the-scenes struggle for power—over his administration, over the nation’s future, and, hauntingly, over his medical care. As his con­dition worsened, Garfield received help: Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, worked around the clock to invent a new device capable of finding the bullet. Meticulously researched, epic in scope, and pulsating with an intimate human focus and high-velocity narrative drive... - from Amazon.com. See all our new books this month ....

Learn about the history of Native Americans, including books, articles, media, primary and secondary sources. Go to the guide . Features -View the excellent PBS Series: We Shall Remain: America Through Native Eyes and more from the Films on Demand. -A selection of EBSCO eBooks and books in the library. -Full text articles from COM Library's databases. -A slide show of historical photographs collected by the Library of Congress, National Archives, Smithsonian, and more. -An excellent collection of primary and secondary Internet sources. -Google Books Preview of Everything you know about Indians is wrong

Paper Troubles? Paper Calculator to the rescue! Type in start and end dates and let the calculator be your step by step guide to getting your paper done! Go to the Guide: http://libguides.com.edu/Paper

Learn what information literacy is, get articles, books, eBooks and web sites on information literacy and see how COM Library supports information literacy at College of the Mainland. Get the guide . What is information literacy? "Information literacy is a set of abilities requiring individuals to "recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information." Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education . American Library Association . 2006." Information Literacy and COM Library One of the missions of COM Library is to help our students become information literate. We do this through our LibGuides, library instruction classes and helping students one on one with their research.  Most of our LibGuides have information literacy built in. Faculty can check out the Library Instruction page to see what kinds of library instruction we offer and schedule for their classes.

Access it on the Hot Topics & News Tab in our Databases by Subject LibGuide: http://goo.gl/8MkXd or go there directly: http://goo.gl/JWfYn . Restricted to COM students, faculty and staff.

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