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Follow the link above to set up your CMU access to over 30,000+ eBooks and Audiobooks, courtesy of Smiley Memorial Library.

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Mission Statement (Adopted 8/22/23):   Smiley Memorial Library seeks to be an essential part of student, faculty, and staff success at Central Methodist University. To support our users’ informational needs, we strive to offer academically relevant resources and services, support information literacy and scholarship, and maintain a welcoming and inclusive space for all our users. Whether on campus or online, we seek to promote research, discovery, and lifelong learning throughout the CMU community.

Spring 2025 Semester Hours

Sunday: 5:00pm - 9:00pm

Monday - Thursday: 7:30am - 9:00pm

Friday: 7:30am - 5:00pm

Closed Saturday

Research Guides

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Fake News & Digital Media Literacy

View our Fake News and Digital Media Literacy guide to learn more about the different forms of misinformation and how to spot them. This guide includes links to many interactive tutorials and videos.

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Introduction to Research Skills

View our Introduction to Research Skills guide for tutorials, videos, and other resources that guide you through the steps of the academic research process!

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Managing Sources with Zotero

View our Managing Sources with Zotero guide for instructions, tutorials, videos, and other resources that guide you through how to sign up and use Zotero as a citation management tool.

Setting Up and Using the Libby App

Using Libby

Learn more about how to set up and use your free account with Libby to access our extensive collection of eBooks and audiobooks. 

Using InterLibrary Loan (ILL)

View our Using InterLibrary Loan guide for ways to get the full text articles and books you need, even if if you can't find them in our catalogs or databases!

Smiley Memorial Library Orientation: Learn more about the services and resources offered by Smiley Memorial Library

Smiley Memorial Library Orientation

Learn more about the services and resources offered by the Library! 

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View More Research Guides

Take a look at the Research Guides tab of the website to view our full offerings for subject, course, and topic guides.

Upcoming Events

Inscape 50 Year Anniversary Celebration, 100 Years of Student Writing. A new Archives and Special Collections exhibit

⚠️New Exhibit âš ď¸Ź

Did you know Inscape, the campus literary magazine, is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year? To celebrate this milestone, we have set up digital and physical exhibits filled with items from the Central Methodist University Archives and Special Collections! You can visit the physical display on the second floor of the Library, or check out its digital companion through the Archives and Special Collections' Omeka website: Celebrating 50 Years of Inscape · CMU Archive and Special Collections

Stress ReDUCKtion @ the Library. 100 mini ducks will be hidden on the second and third floors of the Library... Find one? Stop by the front desk and let us know so that your name will be entered into a drawing for a gift card prize! April 22, 2025 starting at 7:30 am.

⏳Coming Soon: Stress ReDUCKtion @ the Library

100 mini ducks will be hidden on the second and third floors of the Library... Find one? Please stop by the front desk and let us know so that your name will be entered into a drawing for a gift card prize! 

đź“…April 22, 2025

🕢Starting at 7:30 am

Please note that the ducks will be "hidden" in visible places and not behind books or on tall shelves. 

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

Sunrise on the Reaping

Written by Suzanne Collins | Available in print or as an audiobook or eBook from Libby

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Mavericks

Written by Jenny Draper | Available as an eBook on Libby

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Pomona Afton Can So Solve a Murder

Written by Bellamy Rose | Available as a Libby audiobook

Cover of What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman

What She Left Behind

Written by Ellen Marie Wiseman | Available in print or as a Libby eBook

Cover of The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy

The Perfect Mother

Written by Aimee Molloy | Available as an eBook from Libby

The Rose Bargain by Sasha Peyton Smith

The Rose Bargain

Written by Sasha Peyton Smith | Available as an eBook from Libby

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Isola

Written by Allegra Goodman | Available as a Libby eBook

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Long Bright River

Written by Liz Moore | Available as an audiobook from Libby

Did you know?: This instant New York Times Bestseller will soon to be a Peacock limited series starring Amanda Seyfried. 

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Dream State

Written by Eric Puchner | Available in print of as a Libby audiobook

Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of our Deadliest Infection

Everything is Tubreculosis

Written by John Green | Available through Libby as an eBook

All Systems Red by Martha Red

All Systems Red

Written by Martha Wells | Available as an eBook from Libby

Did you know?: This title from Martha Wells's Murderbot Diaries series is being adapted into a television series by Apple TV+. Murderbot, starring Alexander Skarsgård, will be released in May. 

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