Happy Holidays from Library Staff!

We wish you a happy holiday season!  See you in January!

Winter Break Hours

The library will be closed to the public from December 21 through January 6.  During this time, library staff will be available to answer the phone, except on Saturdays, Sundays, December 25, and January 1. Please call the library at 651-779-3968 or email askalibrarian@century.edu if you have concerns about due dates or fines.

The library will be open January 7 - 11, 8 am - 4 pm.

The library will be closed January 12 - 13.

Regular hours resume on January 14.

Good Luck on Finals!

Come study in the library, and when you're done with your finals and papers, remember to return your books. We wish all Century students good luck on finals!  

Traveling? Take a Ton of Books Via Kindle

Several of our Kindles are currently available for loan.  If you're traveling over winter break, check out a Kindle and have all of these titles available, without having to lug the books.

• Hide in plain sight
• Pride and prejudice
• Zeitoun
• Jane Eyre
• Unbroken
• The Help
• A Stolen life
• Safe haven
• Moneyball
• Until proven guilty
• Cutting for stone
• Flash mobs, riots, and martial law in America: a special report on the demise of America as we know it
• The best of me
• Jack Kennedy
• Secret daughter
• Zero day
• Steve Jobs
• The time of our lives
• The girl who kicked the hornet’s nest
• The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
• Extremely loud and incredibly close: a novel
• Thinking, fast and slow
• The hunger games trilogy: Hunger games, Catching fire and Mockingjay
• The grace of silence
• Publishing with iBooks author: an introduction to creating ebooks for the iPad
• A game of thrones, A clash of kings, A storm of swords, and A feast for crows
• The Limpozo academy of private detection: no. 1 ladies' detective agency (13),
• Between the lines
• The power of habit : why we do what we do in life and business
• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
• Shunning Sarah: A Novel
• Casual vacancy
• The panther
• Turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide.

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia Available Online

The Library just added the renowned Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia online edition to our Virtual Reference Library collection.  This collection has more than 90 titles, all cross searchable.  Check it out through handy search boxes like this one.  Each subject guide has a search box like this on the Background Sources tab.

Use it both on and off campus!