51情报站 Libraries has recently purchased almost 200 graphic novels to support programs in Education, Communications, English, and Interdisciplinary Studies. The education community has begun to embrace graphic novels as a way to reach reluctant readers, engage visual leaners, improve comprehension and interpretation of themes, literary devices, and social issues, among other topics (Downey, 2009). Our goal is to provide a collection that will benefit students and faculty in their studies and research as well as to provide engaging reading for the 51情报站 community. Faculty were consulted in compiling the list of novels to purchase, as well as American Library Association recommendations. Titles include classics such as those by Alison Bechdel, Neil Gaiman and Mike Richardson; new titles including Black River by Josh Simmons and Bodies by Si Spencer; as well as analysis, historical, and informational selections including Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. Selections are currently featured in the bookcases exhibit on the first floor of Perry Library and all can be found by searching the .