IRC Hours Update

IRC Hours: Thanksgiving Break

• Monday, 11/24:  8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.
• Tuesday, 11/25:  8 a.m. to Noon
• Wednesday, 11/26 - Sunday, 11/30:  Closed

The IRC's fall hours schedule will resume on Monday, December 1st.  A full listing of IRC hours and updates is available on the main library calendar. Wishing you a blessed Thanksgiving holiday break.

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Explore Academic Video Online (AVON) 

Just in time for the holidays! Enjoy our trial database, Academic Video Online (AVON), effective now through Dec. 31, 2025. Please let us know whether the library should subscribe to it or not, as well as any questions regarding access at library@ashland.edu. 

Access AVON from the Library's A-Z Database List. For quick access, there's a link in the New/Trial Databases section. 

Database Description: Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers 62,000+ titles with content curated for the educational experience including documentaries, films, demonstrations and more.

Juvenile Books • YA Fiction & Fiction

The following books have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the 2nd floor, outside the IRC, or in their regular location.

• Swimming with Spies
  PS3612.U285 S95 2024
• J vs. K
  PZ7.A37723 Jav 2025
• On the block : stories of home
  PZ7.1 .O57 2024
• The puppets of Spelhorst
  PZ7.D5455 Pup 2023
• Afia in the land of wonders
  PZ7.1.A7235 Af 2025
• Onyx & beyond
  PZ7.5.M427 On 2024
• Outsider kids
  PZ7.7.T3743 Ou 2025
• Norah's ark
  PZ7.1.W548 Nor 2023
• The Hotel Balzaar
  PZ7.D5455 Ho 2024

Juvenile Books • Fiction & YA Fiction

The following books have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the 2nd floor, outside the IRC, or in their regular location.

• Octopus moon
  PZ7.5.P97 Oc 2025
• The trouble with heroes
  PZ7.5.M57 Tr 2025
• Right back at you
  PZ7.M189437 Rig 2024
• It's all or nothing, Vale
  PZ7.5.A72 I87 2025
• When Sally O'Malley discovered the sea
  PZ7.C962 Wh 2025
• Max in the house of spies : [a tale of World War II]
  PZ7.G3588 Max 2024
• Rebellion 1776
  PZ7.A54385 Re 2025
• Benny on the case
  PZ7.K58922 Be 2025
• The secret of honeycake
  PZ7.F96666 Se 2025
• The girl and the robot
  PZ7.1.R639575 Gi 2025

Juvenile Books • Fiction & Poetry

The following books have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the 2nd floor, outside the IRC, or in their regular location.

• Awesome Earth : concrete poems celebrate caves, canyons, and other fascinating landforms
  PS3557.R213 Aw 2025
• I am the wind : Irish poems for children everywhere
  PZ8.3.J153 Iam 2024
• Gather Grateful
  PZ8.3.L73874 Ga 2025
• The keeper of stories
  PZ7.1.P7695 Ke 2025
• The beach day : three-and-a-half stories
  PZ7.D9715 Be 2025
• Bear and Bird : the adventure and other stories
  PZ7.1.J3896 Ad 2024
• Henry's picture-perfect day
  PZ7.1.B325 Hep 2025
• La vuelta a un año
  PZ73.R85 Vue 2025
• All That You Are
  PZ8.3.P77 Al 2025
• Jordan's perfect haircut
  PZ7.M6336 Jo 2025
• I Hate Everything
  PZ7.H3912 Iah 2025
  

Juvenile Books • Graphic Novels

The following books have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the 2nd floor, outside the IRC, or in their regular location.

• Smash, crash, topple, roll! : the inventive Rube Goldberg : a life in comics, contraptions, and six simple machines
  NC1429.G46 T49 2024
• Charles M. Schulz : the creator of Snoopy & Peanuts
  PN6727.S3 Z75 2024
• Absolutely everything
  PZ7.7.A3537 Ab 2025
• Refugee : the graphic novel
  PZ7.7.G7297 Re 2025
• The fairy tale fixers. Case file #1, Cinderella
  PZ7.7.U54 F35 2025

Juvenile Books • Non Fiction

The following books have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the 2nd floor, outside the IRC, or in their regular location.

• Arm in arm : the Grimké sisters' fight for abolition and women's rights
  E449.G865 C37 2025
• Endangered animals atlas : a journey across the world and into the wild
  QL83 .J33 2023
• Rise and fall : great empires that shaped the world
  D200 .R58 2024
• My Book of Bugs
  QL467.2 .H79 2025
• The daughter of Auschwitz : the girl who lived to tell her story
  D805.P7 F745 2025
• Future vision : stories of our brilliant tomorrow
  J303.49 Fut 2025
• Fungi are... : more than mushrooms
  QK604.2.E26 G33 2025
• Britannica all new kids' encyclopedia : what we know & what we don't
  AG5 .B775 2025
• Ghost food : 75 spooky, fun, and frightening Halloween-inspired sweet treats
  TX773 .G467 2025
• Down syndrome out loud : 20+ true stories of disability and determination
  RC571 .H37 2025
• White lies : how the South lost the Civil War, then rewrote the history
  E468.5 .B38 2025

New Books • General Collection

The following titles have been added to the library's circulating collection. You will find these titles displayed with new books on the main floor, or in their regular location in Archer Library.

• The art of memes in feminist digital culture
  HM626 .M325 2025
• The craft of research
  Q180.55.M4 B66 2024
• The portable feminist reader
  HQ1150 .P556 2025

Juvenile Books • Non Fiction

The following books have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the 2nd floor, outside the IRC, or in their regular location.

• Life after whale : the amazing ecosystem of a whale fall
  QH541.5.D35 B78 2024
• Gifts from the garbage truck : a true story about the things we (don't) throw away
  TD794.9 .L37 2024
• Frida Kahlo's flower crown
  ND259 .K3 2025
• Lady of the Lines : how Maria Reiche saved the Nazca Lines by sweeping the desert
  F3429.1.N3 M28 2025
• Claudette Colvin : I want freedom now!
  F334.M753 C65535 2024
• How sweet the sound
  ML3928 .A38 2025
• Weather
  QC981.3 .J67 2025
• Mighty : the story of an oak tree ecosystem
  QK495.F14 C64 2025
• Whales in the city
  TD176 .C378 2025

Juvenile Books • Non Fiction

The following books have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the 2nd floor, outside the IRC, or in their regular location.

• Women in the American Revolution
  E276 .S54 2025
• Women in the fight Against Slavery
  E449 .S54 2025
• Women in the Suffrage Movement
  K1896 .S532 2025
• Women in the Wild West
  F596 .S48 2025
• Sound : discovering the vibrations we hear
  QC225.5 .F33 2025
• My pollinator garden : how I plant for bees, butterflies, beetles, and more
  QH541.5.G37 Z94 2025
• Girls belong in space
  TL793.H37 G57 2024
• Hot Planet
  C981.8.G56 C53 2024
• Abzuglutely! : battling, bellowing Bella Abzug
  E840.8.A2 A76 2024
• Daughter of the light-footed people : the story of indigenous marathon champion Lorena Ramírez
  GV1061.15.R36 C33 2024