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In 1942, Bill Manbo and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming. While there, Manbo documented both the bleakness and beauty of his surroundings, using Kodachrome film to capture community celebrations and to record his family's struggle to maintain a normal life under the harsh conditions of racial imprisonment. Colors of Confinement showcases sixty-five stunning images from this extremely rare collection of color photographs, presented along with three interpretive essays by leading scholars and a reflective, personal essay by a former Heart Mountain internee. --from Amazon.com . See all our new books this month 

Monday April 15th is our kickoff! Stop by the library during College Hour and enjoy cookies from 12:30-1:30! Fav Books & Candy! Tuesday April 16th come see our Staff Faves Book Display! Post your favorite book for everyone to see and enjoy some candy. Popcorn! Wednesday April 17th be sure to Pop Into the Library! We will be serving popcorn from 11:30-2:30. While you’re here, challenge a friend to a game of checkers or backgammon! The library has game tables for you to enjoy. Poetry! Thursday April 18th we are celebrating National Poetry Month! Stop by the library to see our poetry display, and check out a book by your favorite poet! iTunes! COM students, take the time to enter our drawing for two $100 iTunes gift cards* to be held this Friday! All you have to do to enter is complete a COM Library survey and show us your current COM student ID. Return your completed library survey to the Circulation Desk before Friday the 19th at 2:30 and library staff will put you...

This introductory textbook introduces students to the terminology of visual literacy, methods for analyzing visual media, and theories on the relationship between visual communication and culture. Exploring the meanings associated with visual symbols and the relationship of visual communication to culture, this book will provide students with a better understanding of the visually oriented world in which they live. --from Amazon.com . See all our new books this month 

Great New Resources for the Women’s History LibGuide March is Women’s History Month and March 3rd marks 100 years since suffragists marched on Washington. We have created a new page in our Women’s History LibGuide with great new resources to cover it, including books, eBooks, and fantastic streaming video from our great new Films on Demand collection. Read about the history of women, including books, articles, streaming media, primary and secondary sources. Go to the guide ! New Features •Watch Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Series (94:00) from Ken Burns (Women’s Suffrage Page). •Watch Stories of Women in Kabul (27:00) (Find Media page). •Go to National Archives: The 19th Amendment (Find Internet Page). • Read Women's suffrage in America : an eyewitness history (Women’s Suffrage Page). More Features •View historical photographs from George Eastman House (Home page). •Read and download full text classics like His...

A renowned collector of Civil War photographs and a prodigious researcher, Ronald S. Coddington combines compelling archival images with biographical stories that reveal the human side of the war. This third volume in his series on Civil War soldiers contains previously unpublished photographs of African American Civil War participants—many of whom fought to secure their freedom. --from Amazon.com . See all our new books this month 

February is Black History Month. This year the theme is At the Crossroads of Freedom and Equality: The Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington and we have created a new page in our African American History LibGuide with great resources to cover it. Read about the history of African Americans, including books, articles, streaming media, primary and secondary sources. COM Library's LibGuides are media rich and feature embedded videos, podcast feeds, RSS feed, books from the library catalog, and more. Go to the guide ! New Features: -Watch The March on Washington, 1963 (Emancipation & March on Washington Page). -Watch NBC's Martin Luther King, Jr.: Look Here (30:00) from 1957 (Find Media page). -Go to EyeWitness to History: President Lincoln Signs the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 (Emancipation & March on Washington Page).` -Read The dream : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the speech that inspired a nation (Emancipation & March on Washingto...

In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf uses the story of Samuel Johnson, a free black man from Virginia attempting to free his family, to add detail and depth to our understanding of the lives of free blacks in the South. Almost Free looks beyond the majority experience, focusing on those at society’s edges to gain a deeper understanding of the meaning of freedom in the slaveholding South. --from Amazon.com . See all our new books this month