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February 26th is National Tell a Fairy Tale day.  Telling a fairy tale seems like too much work, though.  Why not just watch one? There are hundreds of titles in the COM library DVD collection, including a number of fairy tale titles, both older and modern retellings.  Bring your COM ID by and pick up a fairy tale DVD to bring whimsy to your evening. For more streaming videos, books, eBooks and articles on fairy tales, visit the library's fairy tales guide.  Not into fairy tales?  Take a look through all of the DVD titles in the library collection.  http://dlvr.it/TJFHPS

Are you a Stephen King fan?  His newest book is now available at COM library. Do you love Grady Hendrix?  His new book is here too! The most anticipated titles released in January are now ready to be checked out and enjoyed.  Bring your COM ID to the library, peruse our bestseller shelves and take one home with you! If you prefer to read your leisure reads online, you can check out hoopla and Libby for great reads available 24/7. COM Library has what you want to read! http://dlvr.it/TJC24B

Peace Corps Week is celebrated this year from February 23rd-27th. Check out these books to learn more about the Peace Corps.  Waiting for Snow is the author's memoir about his time with the Peace Corps in Chile from 1961-1963. Thomas Scanlon was one of the first Peace Corps volunteers when the program was launched in 1961.  When the World Calls is about the history of the first fifty years of the Peace Corps.    http://dlvr.it/TJ9tVC

Most of our library platforms are working on beta versions of AI enhancements to make research easier for students. EBSCO has enabled AI features in most of our EBSCO databases. See all EBSCO AI enabled databases. You can see this and more on using EBSCO databases in How to Use EBSCO Databases.  Generative AI Insights AI Insights offer concise summaries, presenting 2-5 key points for each document. This consistent format, applied across multiple databases and deep backfiles of licensed content, introduces a new level of uniformity, facilitating rapid review. The aim of AI Insights is to reduce the time users spend searching for relevant full-text articles supporting their research.  How AI Insights are generated AI Insights summaries are generated by prompting a Large Language Model to summarize insights from the specific article the user selected AI Insights for. The AI Insight prompt uses a method called Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to reduce hallucination...

COM library is spotlighting books by and about previous US Presidents for the next two weeks on the first floor main display.  Engaging autobiographies/biographies are available for check-out that give an eye-opening look into the day-to-day lives of our previous leaders and what circumstances impacted their decisions.  Bring your COM ID with you to take a look at what's on display, ready to be taken home. For more books/eBooks, articles and videos on U.S. Presidents, check out the library's Presidency guide.   http://dlvr.it/TJ6DCH

Wicked Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. But Elphaba's Oz is no utopia. Get Wicked on Libby.  Nickel Boys A Pulitzer prize winning novel. When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow “delinquent” Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. Get Nickel Boys on Libby.  Dune The Dune Saga begins on the desert planet Arrakis with the story of the boy P...

Did you know the COM library has over 100 graphic novel & comic book titles in the collection?  These are physical items that can be checked out with your COM ID to take home.  In addition to the physical titles in the library, staff and students can access hundreds of additional titles online through hoopla.  These titles are made available by COM library in partnership with hoopla and are available 24/7!  Click here for a list of graphic novel titles available to you to read online through hoopla. Click here for a list of physical titles you can check out to take home. COM library is your one stop shop for comic books, graphic novels, anime and manga.  Come by the library and check out the titles we have today!  Or go online and explore hoopla for the latest and greatest titles available. http://dlvr.it/TJ41xz