Posts Tagged as ‘books’

December 17, 2009

Holiday viewing, listening and reading guide from the Harper College Library

Looking for a favorite holiday book or DVD?
How about an audiobook of seasonal stories
or some holiday music?
The Harper College Library has a number of holiday stories for kids and adults:
DVDs (1st floor Library

DVD PN1997 .N554 2000 Tim Burton’s The nightmare before Christmas
DVD PN1997 .C4757 2007 A [...]

December 13, 2009

Take a break…relax….read a book

The end of the semester is fast approaching.  Finals will soon be a distant memory. Don’t forget to stop in to the Library to check out a book from the Bestseller collection or a DVD from the Media Browsing collection.
Sure, the Harper College Library has books, AV and databases to help you with your [...]

November 22, 2009

And the winner is…..

Congratulations to the winners of

this year’s Edible Book Contest!
15 Creative, Innovative and Imaginative entries!
Congrats to each participant:

The Little Engine that Could–submitted by Marie Eibl

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest–submitted by Carole Gallo

The Tell-Tale Heart–submitted by Melissa Tiltges and Phil Kane

Tao Te Ching–submitted by Jeffrey James

The Monster Book of Monsters–submitted by Jeff McDonald

Atlas Shrugged–submitted by [...]

October 23, 2009

16th Annual Children’s Book Drive

Give a child the gift of reading!
16th Annual Children’s Book Drive

 
 
 

For the month of October, Harper College Library is collecting new and gently used children’s books that will be donated to the District 214 Community Education Program and the Elk Grove Village Township.  You can help give a child the gift of reading by bringing [...]

October 14, 2009

Textbooks in the Library?

Textbooks in the Library

For the first three weeks of every semester the most frequently asked question in the library is “do you have the textbook for my class?”  Unfortunately the answer is probably no.  Typically libraries do not purchase textbooks for a variety of reasons

The library’s role is to buy materials that supplement and expand [...]