Semester Break Hours

The library will have reduced hours surrounding the semester break, from Monday, April 29 through Sunday, May 5. Regular hours will resume with with the beginning of the fall semester on Monday, May 6.

April 29 - May 5

• Monday - Friday:     9am - 5pm 
• Saturday - Sunday:   CLOSED

If you need assistance over the break or after hours, you can use our 24/7 Chat Now service, available on the library website. You can also email us at tclibrary@smumn.edu for a response the next business day.

Enjoy your break!

Featured: 30-Second Economics

30-Second Economics

The Fifty Most Thought-Provoking Theories in Thirty Seconds or Less

Want to learn economics, but don't have a lot of time?  We've got you covered!  Just pick up this book and peruse fifty one-page, thirty-second examples that demonstrate and define the major economic theories of our time.  From Keynesian economics to game theory, this book has it all!

Recommended for: those short on time, but who still want to understand finance.

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Library Hours: Easter Weekend

Twin Cities Library will be closed for Easter beginning on Friday, April 19th.  The library will be closed through Monday, April 22nd

Regular hours resume at 9:00am on Tuesday, April 23rd.

Have a safe holiday weekend!

Short Closure Thursday, 4/11

The library will be closed from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon on Thursday, April 11th for an all-staff meeting.

If you need assistance during that time, you can email us at tclibrary@smumn.edu and we will respond as soon as we return.

New Books: April 2019

What's new in the library?

This month's selection of new books includes volumes on building culture in a workplace, guides on writing, grammar, and style, and several new assessment test versions.  Here's what's new at the library this month:

NON-FICTION

• The Awakened Woman: A Guide for Remembering & Igniting Your Sacred Dreams
• Conversational Intelligence: How Great Leaders Build Trust and Get Extraordinary Results
• Grading and Learning: Practices That Support Student Achievement
• English Grammar in Use
• The Art of Asking Questions
• A Stake in the Outcome: Building a Culture of Ownership
• Optimization in Economic Theory
• The Great Game of Business: The Only Sensible Way to Run a Company
• Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
• From Values to Action: The Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership
• Confessions of an Advertising Man
• We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
• How to Give Effective Feedback to Your Students
• Assess Higher-Order Thinking Skills in Your Classroom
• The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need
• Heavy: An American Memoir
• Reporting Quantitative Research in Psychology: How to Meet APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards, Second Edition
• Community College Student Success: From Boardrooms to Classrooms
• Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge
• Practical Strategies for Technical Communication
• Seven Keys to a Positive Learning Environment in Your Classroom
• Nonprofit Sustainability: Making Strategic Decisions for Financial Viability
• The Effect of Minnesota Open Enrollment on the Racial Composition of Minnesota Public Schools
• Qualitative Methods for Family Studies and Human Development
• Deep Reading: Teaching Reading in the Writing Classroom
• Engaging Learners through Artmaking: Choice-Based Art Education in theClassroom
• Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace
• Awakening the Sleeping Giant
• Reactive Attachment Disorder: A Case-Based Approach
• Treating Attachment Disorders: From Theory to Therapy
• Image Grammar: Using Grammatical Structures to Teach Writing
• The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse: Recognizing and Escaping SpiritualManipulation and False Spiritual Authority within the Church
• Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way WeLive, Love, Parent, and Lead
• Becoming
• Environmental Expressive Therapies: Nature-Assisted Theory and Practice
• Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD: Emotional Processing Of TraumaticExperiences
• Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader
• How Learning Works: 7 Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching
• The Descriptive Phenomenological Method in Psychology: A ModifiedHusserlian Approach
• Asking For It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do About It
• Minority Outcry for a Dialogue in Education
• Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People

ASSESSMENT TESTS

• Comprehensive Test of Nonverbal Intelligence, 2nd edition
• Piers-Harris Self Concept Scale, 3rd edition
• Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory, 4th edition
• Brief Symptom Inventory 18
• Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, 3rd edition