The library has both wireless [ Wi-Fi ] and high speed Internet acccess. We have several state-of-the-art PC's to help you with your research. All computers have printers and the latest PC software. Our friendly and knowledgeable staff will be happy to assist you with any of your research needs. We carry a wide variety of books, including fiction, mysteries, westerns, Sci-Fi, and more. Looking for the latest best sellers? We've got them! Our Biography and general non-fiction collections are comprehensive and current.

SERVICES & COLLECTIONS

• Free Internet, Wi-Fi, copier, fax, and scanner
  
• Suggest your favorite book or movie and we will do our best to purchase the item for you!
• We can borrow books from all of the 16 Marine Corps Libraries at your request
• Over 2,500+ movies on DVD
• Educational children’s DVDs
• Award-winning and bestselling novels.
• Non-Fiction: Americana to World History
• Biographies on famous people from A to Z
• Travel Guides: USA, Europe, Asia, etc.
• Marine Reading List with all the current titles
• Audio Books (fiction and non-fiction bestsellers)
• Over 50 magazines and newspapers
• Database search on magazines, newspapers, and journal full-text articles
• Conference Room available for meetings
• TV Room. 55” flat screen TV with DVD player. Watch your favorite movies here.
• Wide range of reference materials
• Typewriters

STUDY GUIDES

• ASVAB
• CLEP
• Law Enforcement
• Nursing

LANGUAGE CD'S
Three week check-out

• Arabic
• Chinese
• French
• German
  
• Italian
• Japanese
• Russian
• Spanish

SEND US YOUR WISH LIST FOR WHAT YOU'D LIKE THE LIBRARY TO BUY
Send wishes to Dan Cisco, Supervisory Librarian, MCRD Library

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HOW TO ACCESS TUTOR.COM

1. Go to the tutor.com login page at http://www.usmc-mccs.org/library/tutor/index.cfm
2. Enter the password for our base and select our installation " MCRD San Diego" in the pull-down menu. Press the "Submit" button.
3. Please contact the library for our base's password.

MILITARY ONE SOURCE
Subject databases from A to Z.
Website: www.militaryonesource.com

NAVY KNOWLEDGE ONLINE
Visit Navy Knowledge Online at http://www.nko.navy.mil You are leaving this site to go to theirs to access databases for your general interest and academic research. Other popular databases include: Business Health History Computer Software Genealogy Home & Auto Repair.

PLAYAWAY AUDIO BOOKS
Free! Playaway audio books now available. No CDs. No downloads. Just Play. Portable. Fits in your shirt pocket!

MAKING DONATIONS
Do you have unwanted books or DVDs? The library will take them. Drop off gently used donations anytime. Call ahead to arrange for large donation drop offs.

CHILDREN'S READING ROOM
We have a terrific selection of Children's books and videos! Our Children's Reading Room is comfortable and fun. Children’s Preschool Storytime is held every Wednesday at 10 am. Join the fun!

• Easy Readers:
  http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/auto_login.asp?U=navy1&P=libra
  
  Chapter Books // YA
  http://www.tumblereadables.com/auto_login.asp?u=navy&p=login
  
  Adult // More advanced Reads:
  http://www.tumbletalkingbooks.com/auto_login.asp?u=navy&p=login

TRANSPARENT LANGUAGE ONLINE WITH BYKI



Registered Library patrons in good standing (no overdues, lost/damaged items, etc.) are eligible for access to this program.

http://library.transparent.com/marines/game/modern/login

USMC REQUIRED READING LIST

MARINE CORPS PROFESSIONAL READING LIST
Current, topical titles provided by Marine Corps University at each Executive Off-Site.

Updated July, 2011

Commandant’s Choice Book

• First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps by LtGen Krulak

Recruit/Poolee

• I’m Staying With My Boys by Jim Proser
• The United States Marines: A History by Edwin Simmons

Private/Private First Class

• A Message To Garcia by Elbert Hubbard
• Rifleman Dodd by C.S. Forester
• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
• 1984 by George Orwell
• No True Glory by Bing West
• The Gift of Valor by Michael M. Phillips
  

Lance Corporal

• The 360 Degree Leader by John Maxwell
• The Afghan Campaign by Steven Pressfield
• My Men Are My Heroes by Nathaniel R. Helms
• Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
• The Ugly American by Eugene Burdick
• WeWere One by Patrick K. O’Donnell

Corporal

• Afghanistan by Stephen Tanner
  
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Tony Napoli
  
• Chosen Soldier by Dick Couch
  
• Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
  
• Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides
  
• Noble Warrior by James E. Livingston
  
• Once a Marine by Nick Popaditch
  
• The Defence of duffer’s Drift by Ernest Dunlop Swinton
  
• Marines in the Garden of Eden by Richard Lowry

Sergeant

• American Soldiers by Peter S. Kindsvatter
• Common Sense Training by Arthur S. Collins
  
• Counterinsurgency Warfare by David Galula
  
• From the Horse’s Mouth by Major Ted McKeldin
  
• The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
  
• A Soldier’s Load and the Mobility of a Nation by S.L.A. Marshall
  
• Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
  
• The Village by Bing West
  
• Tip of the Spear by G.J. Michaels
• With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge

Staff Sergeant

• A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
  
• American Spartans by James A. Warren
• The Arab Mind by Raphael Patai
  
• Attacks by Erwin Rommel
  
• Battle Cry by Leon Uris
  
• The Defense of Hill 781 by James McDonough
  
• The Face of Battle by John Keegan
  
• The Last Stand of Fox Company by Bob Drury
  
• McCoy’s Marines by James M. McPherson
  
• On Killing by Dave Grossman
  
• Soldiers of God by David Hagberg
• The Speed of Trust by Stephen M.R. Covey
  

Gunnery Sergeant

• Afghan Guerilla Warfare by Ali Jalali
• Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War by M. Sallah
• Islands of the Damned by R. V. Burgin
• Killing Ground on Okinawa by James H. Hallas
• The Mission, The Men, and Me by Pete Blaber
• On Command by Dave Grossman
• Ride the Thunder by Richard Botkin
• The Savage Wars of Peace by Max Boot
• Victory at High Tide by Robert Heinlein
• We Were Soldiers Once and Young by Harold G. Moore
  

Master Sergeant/First Sergeant

• The Accidental Guerilla by David Kilcullen
• Courageous Follower by Ira Chaleff
• Fields of Battle by John Keegan
• Forgotten Warriors by Thomas Hammes
• Ghost Wars by Steve Coll
• The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
• The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman
• The Passion of Command by Bryan Mccoy
• Seven Deadly Scenarios by Andrew Krepinevich
• The Sling and the Stone by Thomas X. Hammes
• Technology and War by Martin L. Van Creveld

Master Gunnery Sergeant/Sergeant Major

• Achilles in Vietnam by Jonathan Shay
• At the Water’s Edge: Defending Against the Modern Amphibious Assault
  by Theodore Gatchel
• The Crisis of Islam by Bernard Lewis
• The coldest Winter by David Halberstam
• Crisis Leadership by Gene Klann
• The General by C.S. Forrester
• The Mask of Command by John Keegan
• No Bended Knee by Merril B. Twining
• On War by Carl Von Clausewitz
• A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin

Officer Candidate/Midshipman

• The Armed Forces Officer, DoD 2006
• My Men Are My Heroes by Nathaniel R. Helms
• United States Marines: A History by E. Simmons
• On Infantry by John A. English
  

2d Lieutenant / Warrant Officer/Chief Warrant Officer 2

• The Art of War by Sun Tzu
• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
• Counterinsurgency Warfare by David Galula
• Leadership: The Warrior’s Art by Christopher D. Kolenda
• The Mission, The Men and Me by Pete Blaber
• The Savage Wars of Peace by Max Boot
• Soldiers of God by David Hagberg
• The Speed of Trust by Stephen M.R. Covey
• Storm Landings by Joseph H. Alexander
• A Tactical Ethic by Dick Couch
• The Village by Bing West

1st Lieutenant / Chief Warrant Officer 3

• The Enlightened Soldier by Charles Edward
• Seeds of Disaster by Robert Doughty
• Stormtroop Tactics by Bruce Gudmundsson
• Command or Control by Marin Samuels
• The Breaking Point by Robert Doughty
• Fighting Power by Martin L. Van Creveld
• Transformation of War by Martin L. Van Creveld
• Attacks by Erwin Rommell
  
• Battle Leadership by Adolf Von Schell
• The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
• The Last Stand of Fox Company by Bob Drury

Captain / Chief Warrant Officer 4

• The Arab Mind by R. Patai
  
• The Defense of Hill 781 by James McDonough
  
• The General by C. S. Forrester
  
• Lions of Iwo Jima by Fred Haynes
  
• Lost Victories by Erich Von Manstein
  
• The Mask of Command by John Keegan
  
• Passion of Command by Bryan McCoy
  
• Sources of Power by Gary Klein
  
• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
  
• Victory at High Tide by Robert D. Heinl
  
• We Were Soldiers Once and Young by Harold G. Moore

Major/Chief Warrant Officer 5

• The Crucible of War by Fred Anderson
• The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
• This Kind of War by T. R. Fehrenbach
• The Landmark Thucydides by Robert Strassler
• The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of Little Big Horn by Nathaniel Philbrick
• The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman
• Masters of War by Michael Handel
• Once an Eagle by Anton Myrer
• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Goodwin
• Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War by M. Sallah
• Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa by Joseph Alexander
• Wired for War by P. W. Singer

Lieutenant Colonel

• A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
• Accidental Guerilla by David Kilcullen
• At The Water’s Edge: Defending Against the Modern Amphibious Assault by Theodore Gatchel
• The Blitzkrieg Legend by Karl-Heinz Freiser
• The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier
• Brute: The Life of Victor Krulak by Robert Coram
• Carnage and Culture by Victor Hanson
• Defeat into Victory by William Slim
• Forgotten Warriors by Thomas Hammes
• A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin
• Seven Deadly Scenarios by Andrew Krepinevich

Colonel to General *

• • Another Bloody Century by Colin Gray
  • The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam
  • The Crisis of Islam by Bernard Lewis
  • Decoding Clausewitz by Jon Sumida
  • Dereliction of Duty by H.R. McMaster
  • Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
  • Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World by Raghuram Rajan
  • How Wars End by Gideon Rose
  • Tried by War by James McPherson
  • Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime by Eliot A. Cohen

* Current, topical titles provided by Marine Corps University at each Executive Off-Site