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Election 2014 information, including the Galveston Votes app, voting in Galveston County, Texas, voting guides  and more. Go to the Guide .

COM Library has a new database that is great for just about all of your courses! ProQuest's Research Library covers the arts, business, health & medicine, history, literature & language, science & technology and social sciences with full text scholarly journals, magazines, trade journals, books, reports, working papers, conference & proceedings, news, images, audio, videos and more. You can access it from COM Library's home page by choosing Articles from Research Library from the  Go Straight to the Good Stuff   box and hit Go .   You can learn more about the databases from our guide, including the basics, grab citations and more from our How to Use Research Library LibGuide. Go to the Guide . 

The Smithsonian Institution is America's largest, most important, and most beloved repository for the objects that define our common heritage. Now Under Secretary for Art, History, and Culture Richard Kurin, aided by a team of top Smithsonian curators and scholars, has assembled a literary exhibition of 101 objects from across the Smithsonian's museums that together offer a marvelous new perspective on the history of the United States. . Beautifully designed and illustrated with color photographs throughout, The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects is a rich and fascinating journey through America's collective memory, and a beautiful object in its own right.-Excerpt courtesy of amazon.com. See it in the Catalog . You can see all our new books on the New Books page .

COM Library has a new database that is great for all your science courses! Science in Context c overs astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth and environmental sciences, health & medicine, math, physics with academic journal articles, statistics, experiments, news, images, videos and more. You can access it from COM Library's home page by choosing Science in Context from the  Go Straight to the Good Stuff   box and hit Go (also available from the Science tab on  Databases by Subject  page).   You can learn more about the databases from our guide, including the basics, grab citations and more from our How to Use Science in Context LibGuide. Go to the Guide . 

COM Library has a new database that is great for all your science courses.  Science Online covers physics, chemistry, biology, weather and climate, astronomy, computer science, mathematics, and environmental science with articles, animations, images, videos, definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments. You can access it from COM Library's home page by choosing Science Online from the  Go Straight to the Good Stuff   box and hit Go (also available from the Science tab on  Databases by Subject  page).   You can learn more about the databases from our guide, including the basics, grab citations and more from our How to Use Science Online LibGuide. Go to the Guide . 

Good news for COM student, faculty, staff and COM Library card holders! You can now access the  Galveston County Daily News and Houston Chronicle online , 24/7 on or off campus from our latest database, America's News . Here's how: From COM Library's home page , choose America's News from the  Go Straight to the Good Stuff   box and hit Go (also available from the  News  tab on  Databases by Subject  page). Once in  America's News,  look and under Search shortcuts and click on  Galveston County Daily News, The or Houston Chronicle to browse or search the full text, which is updated daily. There's more! America's News covers current issues, events, people, government, sports and more with a full text collection of news sources, including Texas and US newspapers, newswires, news blogs, web published newspapers, transcripts from network news, major news magazines and some video. Hig...

Beetles and other insects by Gerhard Scherer French painter and illustrator Bernard Durin (1940-1988) discovered the beauty of insects for himself and for his art during a walk in Provence in 1972. During the following decades he made around 60 portraits of insects, using rare and fascinating specimens entrusted to him by the etymologists of the Museum of Natural History in Paris. . Superior in detail to photography and highly esteemed by natural scientists and art lovers alike, 48 of these portraits adorn this book. Going far beyond the centuries-old tradition of documentary representations of animals, Durin succeeded in portraying each insect as an "individual personality." Gerhard Scherer wrote the introduction and the texts accompanying the plates --Excerpt courtesy of amazon.com.  See it in the Catalog . You can see all our new books on the New Books page .