Available at MLC Library:
(If remote learning were required, due dates/renewals would be adjusted until students return to campus.)
Additional copies available at local public libraries:
(If remote learning were required, students might have to send the books back when due or request special arrangements.)
(No worries about returning books.)
(If remote learning were required, due dates/renewals would be adjusted until students return to campus.)
- Ascent of Babel (Altmann)
- The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Bryson)
- Made in America (Bryson)
- How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Crystal)
- Goodbye, Descartes: The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind (Devlin)
- Metaphors We Live By (Lakoff)
- Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind (Lakoff)
- The Miracle of Language (Lederer)
- The Story of English (McCrum) 1st ed.
- The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language (McWhorter)
- Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (McWhorter)
- The Language Instinct (Pinker)
- Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language (Pinker)
- You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation (Tannen)
- Thought and Language (Vygotsky)
- Lessons to Share on Teaching Grammar in Context (Weaver)
- Teaching Grammar in Context (Weaver)
Additional copies available at local public libraries:
(If remote learning were required, students might have to send the books back when due or request special arrangements.)
- The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Bryson)
- How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Crystal)
- The Story of English (McCrum) 1st ed.
- The Language Instinct (Pinker)
- You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation (Tannen)
(No worries about returning books.)
- The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Bryson)
- Made in America (Bryson)
- The Miracle of Language (Lederer)
- How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Crystal)
- Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind (Lakoff)
- The Language Instinct (Pinker)
- You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation (Tannen)
Quick Links
- MLC Library Website: Information about the library and its resources.
- Discovery: One-stop source for journal articles and other digital content.
- MLC Catalog: Books in the MLC Library. Also includes items from area public libraries (TdS); place holds for pickup at MLC, usually in 3-5 days.
- MNLINK: Minnesota libraries--Request items for pickup at MLC, usually in 5-10 days.
- ILL (interlibrary loan): Items that you can't find in MLC, TdS, or MNLINK, usually arrive in 1-3 weeks.
- Music Library: Find piano and organ music based on hymn tunes.
- MLC KnightHelp: Help with passwords, Moodle, and more.
Library Staff
Sue Gurgel
Reference, Research Help, Interlibrary Loan, Children's Literature
gurgelsl@mlc-wels.edu
Susan Plocher
Databases, Journals, Reserves, Website
plochesm@mlc-wels.edu
Liz Wessel
Curriculum Library, Makerspace, Checkouts, Fines and Bills
wesselea@mlc-wels.edu
Mary Hames
Catalog Records, Call Numbers
hamesmb@mlc-wels.edu
Linda Kramer
Library Director, Materials Selection, Research Help, Reference
kramerlm@mlc-wels.edu