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“The Distance Between Us” Cook Library Book Club Discussion Monday, September 22nd, 12:30pm to 1:30pm Cook Library, RM 507 The Cook Library Book Club will discuss the One Maryland One Book: “The Distance Between Us: A Memoir by Reyna Grande”. This meeting will begin with Lea Ramsdell, Associate Professor and Director of Latin American Studies […]

Students asked for more group study space in Cook Library and we listened! To celebrate the opening of this new space that includes 5 group cubicles, 5 group rooms, and white-board pained walls we invite you to help us decorate. Add your graffiti art to the white-boards and have some colorful candies too. 2nd Floor Group […]

Cook Library with support from the College of Fine Arts & Communication, the Mass Communication & Communication Studies Department, the Office of Civic Engagement & Leadership, Disability Support Services, and Pepsi are proud to present the following events and programs related to self-advocacy:   Self Advocacy: A History of People Speaking Up for Themselves Exhibit […]

This fall, librarians will be teaching free research workshops. Whether you want to get a refresher on how to cite your sources or learn how to research on the go with your tablet, there is a workshop for you. Register now at http://tinyurl.com/libworkshopsF14 Getting Started with Zotero with Megan Browndorf and Kim Miller Thursday, September […]

Al Burt is back and he wants you to learn what he knows about Cook Library! You can view this new commercial (and all of Al’s previous videos) on Cook Library’s YouTube channel or by clicking on the image below

Research help got a new text number over the summer! If you have a quick question, you can now text it to 410-774-1398 to get an answer. There is no more short code to enter. Just text us your question and if it during our research help hours, you will get a quick reply. (If […]

Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager, was shot and killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri (a suburb of St. Louis) on Saturday, August 9, 2014. The firestorm of protests and arrests that followed has led to nation-wide discussions about race, media coverage, policing, and the First Amendment of the Constitution.  Librarians Joyce Garczynski and Megan […]

They are all the subjects of Fall 2014 events and workshops at Cook Library! You can download a pdf of the calendar here or below. Please contact librarian Joyce Garczynski at jgarczynski@towson.edu or 410-704-5168 if you have any questions.

Every year librarians evaluate our electronic resources to make sure that we are getting the best value for the millions that we spend. This includes the databases and  we have made some changes effective July 1. Cancelled because of low usage: CQ Weekly (cost per use last year was $37 per search) International Index to […]

The library’s fines and fees structure has been revised. The new structure will take effect July 1, 2014. Thank you for your understanding and your help in preserving our materials!

Students in Dr. Tara Bynum’s Spring 2014 Towson Seminar class “By Any Means Necessary”: African-American Literature and Social Activism in the 20th Century United States created library resource guides (called infoPlaylists) for an assignment. This new infoPlaylist on the Ku Klux Klan represents the exemplary research of four students in that class, Brittany Diggs, Taylor Grady, […]

Before you leave for the summer, be sure to update your phone so you have the new number for Cook Library’s Text-a-Librarian service. If you have a quick question, you can just text it to 410-774-1398 to get an answer. There is no more short code to enter. Just text us your question and if […]