A: insideCOD

Your instructors may tell you that you need to email them using your COD email address. Or maybe you reset a COD password and it’s being sent to your @dupage.edu address. So how do you get there?

Easy! Just visit the College’s homepage www.cod.edu and look for the EMAIL link at the bottom of the left-hand menu. Click it and you’ll see a whole slew of useful links including the elusive COD email link. You can also go directly to www.outlook.com/dupage.edu.

If you need instructions on how to get started using COD email or want to know helpful tips like how to forward your COD email to a personal email account, be sure to take a look at the Guide to Student Email.

A: Sure.

Your battery’s dead. You left your cell at home. You’ve got zero bars. It’s an emergency. No matter the reason, sometimes you just need to use a public phone. Unfortunately, they can be hard to come by. That’s why the Library has a phone that you can use for short, local phone calls. Just ask at the Reference Desk and we’ll set you up.

Call your ride and tell them where to pick you up. Dial up your professor to let them know you’ll be there for office hours. Confirm a meeting time with the dude who’s going to sell you his textbook for $1. Just keep it short, keep it local and please ask first.

Student IDs are available for $5 in the PE Center, Room 118B, Mondays to Fridays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call (630) 942-2364.

If you get one, stop by the Library and get your ID activated– you can use it as your Library card!

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A: Click the Request button and enter your Library card number.

You just checked the Library catalog and you see that the book you need is on the shelf– awesome! But it’s Friday afternoon and you’re not on campus again until Monday– bummer!  How can you make sure that book is here when you come to the Library? Easy– put that book on hold.

Click on the title of the book so that the page you’re looking at only has information about that book and you’ll see a Request button at the top of the screen. Click it, enter your last name and Library card number and that book is reserved for you! Library staff will put the book on the Hold Shelf for you and keep it there for a week. The next time you’re in the Library, just stop by the Circulation Desk and let them know you have a book on hold.

You can even put a hold on a book that is already checked out. Click Reserve and you’ll be next on the list when that book is returned. The Library will contact you to let you know the book is available and you can pick it up at the Circulation Desk.

To learn more about putting Library materials on hold, visit http://www.cod.edu/library/libweb/fitzwater/CODrequest.htm

The Library will be closed Monday, Sept. 5, for the Labor Day holiday. Enjoy!

See the Library Hours & Closings page for full listings of the Library’s hours and closings.

Biutiful (2010). Dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu, Spain.

Recipient of Academy Award nominations for Best Actor (Javier Bardem) and Best Foreign Language Film, Biutiful is the story of a single father in Barcelona struggling to keep his family safe as his life, lived outside the law, closes in on him.

Director Alejandro González Iñárritu is best known for his critically-praised 2006 film Babel. Biutiful, only his fourth feature film, represents a return to González Iñárritu’s native Spanish-language, this time, in Barcelona, Spain.  Critics compared Biutiful to a poem and were moved by what The Guardian called the directors “cinematic language”.

Spanish actor Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, 2007) impressed critics and audiences alike with his performance as Uxbal, the petty criminal at the heart of the film. In addition to his Oscar nod, Bardem received the Best Actor award at Cannes. Roger Ebert, who gave the film 3 stars, wrote that “What drew me into the film and engaged my sympathy was the presence of Bardem himself. . . a vastly human actor”.

Biutiful will certainly take you to place you are unlikely to ever visit outside of film; and with Bardem in front of the camera and González Iñárritu behind it, this will be a journey to be remembered.

Watch the trailer on YouTube.

Unless you’re planning a study abroad experience for the semester, you probably don’t have any international travel plans for the next few weeks.

Don’t let your homebodiness get you down– experience the world through the Library’s international film collection. We have feature films from 81 countries and every one of them is available for rental– just $1 for a week in a faraway place. You can’t beat that kind of vacation.

Pack your bags with DVDs and get ready to travel as Movie Monday shares highlights from our great international film collection– a new movie every Monday until we move on to the next theme!

A: At the Circulation Desk.

Frequently, instructors will put items “on reserve” for a class– a collection of articles, a book or lab manual, videos or other materials. A Reserve item will be held at the Circulation desk where you can ask for it by title, course name or instructor name.

Generally, Reserve items are only available for check-out for a limited amount of time– 1 week, 24 hours or sometimes 2 hours. Occasionally, you may be able to bring the item home with you; other times, the item may be available for in-library use only.  This limited use ensures that everyone in your class has an opportunity to use the item. You can learn the check-out availability of an item by searching the Course Reserves in the Library catalog.

To learn more about Reserves, visit: http://www.cod.edu/library/resources/reserves.htm