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A new LibGuide for our new database, Learning Express Library. LearningExpress Library offers eBooks, practice exams, preparation, courses, guides, and skills improvement. In the LibGuide, learn about the database, how to create an account, access resource in My Center, and access tutorials. Go to the Guide . You can practice your skills or prepare for (see more on the Featured Resources PDF ): -Professional certification, licensing, and aptitude tests in nursing, civil service, law enforcement, firefighting, EMS, military, and real estate, among others.  -Workplace skills preparation such as networking, success on the job, business writing, and core computer skills, creating professional resumes step-by-step with an easy-to-use program.  -eBooks & courses on the art of interviewing for career advancement, career change, or re-entry into the workforce.  -Practice tests and eBooks on preparation for college and graduate school admissions tests including the SA...

In a world of chaos and disease, one group of driven, idiosyncratic geniuses envisioned a universe that ran like clockwork. They were the Royal Society, the men who made the modern world. At the end of the seventeenth century, sickness was divine punishment, astronomy and astrology were indistinguishable, and the world’s most brilliant, ambitious, and curious scientists were tormented by contradiction. They believed in angels, devils, and alchemy yet also believed that the universe followed precise mathematical laws that were as intricate and perfectly regulated as the mechanisms of a great clock. The Clockwork Universe captures these monolithic thinkers as they wrestled with nature’s most sweeping mysteries. --from Amazon.com See all our new books this month 

A journalist traces her 2009 immersion into the national food system to explore how working-class Americans can afford to eat as they should, describing how she worked as a farm laborer, Wal-Mart grocery clerk, and Applebee's expediter while living within the means of each job. See all our new books this month

Earth Day, April 22, 2012 is the kick off for COM Library’s reduce, reuse, recycle books program. It has been so successful that we are now including other items, such as media. So bring us your books, videos, CDs, DVDs, cassettes or magazines! This Earth Day is just the kick off, you can bring us your stuff anytime! 1. Reduce the clutter in your home or office by bringing us your books and media items. 2. Reuse books and other items in our collection or libraries in developing countries 3. Reuse books and other items in our book sale so we can improve our collection, services, access our facilities to better serve our students. 4. Recycled if books cannot be reused or sold. What to Bring: • Bring us any non fiction book that supports courses taught at the College. • Bring us current or older textbooks are also great. • Bring us your bestsellers that you are done with so we can add to our leisure collection.  • Bring us any general interest videos, DVDs, CDs, cassette...

You can get more info from our National Library Week LibGuide . All Week: COM students, to take the time to enter our drawing for two free $50 iTunes gift cards* to be held that Friday! See all the details under Friday. All Week: Free databases from ProQuest April 8-14. All Week: Free Databases from Gale April 8-14. All Week: Check out all our events on our new library calendar . Monday April 9th is our kickoff! Stop by the library during College Hour and enjoy free cookies from 12:30-1:30! Tuesday April 10th come see our Staff Faves Book Display! Pick your favorite book for everyone to see and enjoy some candy. Wednesday April 11th be sure to Pop Into the Library during College Hour! We will be serving free popcorn from 12:30-1:30 . While you’re here,  challenge a friend to a game of checkers or backgammon! The library has game tables for you to enjoy. Thursday April 12th is your opportunity to attend the Titanic Anniversary Presentation by Brian Ander...

Along with the rest of the College, COM Library will be closed for Spring Holidays Friday, April. 6 and Saturday, April 7. COM will reopen Monday, April. 9.

Diversity in business and other organizations has been a goal for more than a quarter of a century, yet companies struggle to create an inclusive work place. In Reinventing Diversity, one of America's leading diversity experts explains why most diversity programs fail and how we can make them work. In this inspiring guide, Howard Ross, uses interviews, personal stories, statistics, and case studies to show that there is no quick fix, no easy answer. Acceptance needs to become part of the culture of a company, not just a mandated attitude. People still feel alienated because of their race, language, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or culture. Many of these prejudices are unconscious and exclusions unintentional. Only through challenging our own preconceived notions about diversity can we build a productive and collaborative work environment in which all people are included... - from Amazon.com. See all our new books this month