Library's Hours in the Future

After this Friday, when we close at 2, we will be closed until Tuesday, January 22nd. Please return your books before Friday, December 21 to avoid any overdue fees. If you need to return a book during break, Library staff will accept books and overdue payments on Mondays through Thursdays, starting on January 2nd. To find times on those days when you can do so, please call (510) 723-7513.

The Hours starting in the Spring semester will be the following:

Spring Hours (NOTICE CHANGE IN HOURS):

Open-- Mondays through Thursdays 8:30 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Fridays 8:30 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Thursday, February 14 4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Closed-- Saturdays and Sundays
Thursday, February 14 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Friday, February 15 (President's Day Weekend)
Monday, February 18 (President's Day)
Week of March 24-28 (Spring Break)
Monday, May 26 (Memorial Day)

The Library wishes you a wonderful Holidays season and we look forward to seeing you in 2008!

Power Plants Breaking News Update: Join your Chabot Professors to Make Your Voice Heard on Monday, December 17!

PowerPlants Breaking News Update: Chabot Representatives Making Case on Monday, December 17

SHOW THE ENERGY COMMISSION THAT YOU CARE! SUPPORT THE HEALTH OF YOUR COMMUNITY!

Monday, December 17 AT Hayward City Hall, the California Energy Commission will hear our case in opposition to the proposed siting of the Eastshore Power Plant. WHERE:
HAYWARD CITY HALL CHAMBERS
777 B Street

WHEN:
Monday
December 17, 2007
10 AM to 1 PM (Testimony)
2:30 PM to 5 PM(Testimony)

6 PM -8 PM (Public Comment)

Susan Sperling's Testimony Before the California Energy Commission
To be given on December 17 at Hayward City Hall Chambers

As The Semester is Winding Down, It's Time for Some Activism!

Update: Information on Proposition 92 for this Thursday's rally is up.

Update: NEW INFORMATION ON THE POWERPLANT HEARINGS--Chabot will be making its voice this Monday!

Yes, Finals are around the corner. But sometimes it is important to speak up as a student and demand the best for your education and your personal/environmental health. Coming up there are two very important activities where instead of chatting with your friends on Facebook or MySpace, you may want to head down to the Cesar Chavez Court at noon on Thursday, December 13 or to the Hayward City Chambers on Monday or Tuesday, December 17 and 18 and make your voice heard.

What's happening at the Cesar Chavez Court on Thursday?

There will be a rally to provide information and support for Proposition 92, the Community Colleges initiative. Do you want more stable funding for your college? Would you like a lower cost per unit with firmer controls that keep the legislature from raising your tuition rates? Proposition 92 will do those things. Some of your friends who were students in 2003-2004 can tell you how their tuition rates more than doubled due to two cost increases within a one year period! Your tuition will drop to $15 a unit and the California budget will provide firm guarantees of funding each year JUST for community colleges. If you support those ideas and want to help, be sure to attend the rally on Thursday.

What is going on with the Power Plants? How come we as residents, students, and workers of this area in Hayward were not informed? To get up to speed as to what this is about, be sure to read the sites on our Power Plants in Hayward page. The construction of two Power Plants near Chabot will have an effect on our environment and could have effects in the long term on people's health. There will be two hearings at the Hayward City Chambers on Monday, December 18 and Tuesday, December 19 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2:30-5:00 p.m. There is also an online petition regarding the Power Plants (Note: the energy produced from both Power Plants will go to the Peninsula and not to the East Bay). If you are against the construction of the Power Plants, let your voice be heard. The ASCC (Associated Students of Chabot College) have a petition online. Sign it to have your voice be heard.

Finally, for everyone who cares about their education and their health, please remember to vote. The next election is already LESS than two months away. It will be the Presidential Primaries and if you participate you will already be giving your voice as to who you want to be President next year. Registration forms are available online (though you will still have a filled out form mailed to you so that the State can receive your signature. The deadline to register is January 22, 2008. We will have a new President starting in January, 2009. Study up on the candidates and make your selection. To find what will be on your vote go to smartvoter.org

The Library will be revamping its Elections page soon. It should be launched by late January. Stay tuned!

Don't Let Someone Phish For your Virtual Wallet!

So you get an Email claiming to be from Ebay saying that someone is trying to fraudulently use your account and that you need to click on a link to an online form and reput your information.

Watch out! The fraud may be coming from the Email itself, where you will go to a phony online form that is NOT from Ebay and you will be entering personal, sensitive information such as Social Security Numbers, Credit Card numbers, or checking account numbers. Once those are submitted, someone then has your information and you could be a victim of identity theft!

This act is called "Phishing"--which means "a scam by which an e-mail user is duped into revealing personal or confidential information which the scammer can use illicitly" (Meriam-Webster Online Dictionary).

How can you protect yourself?

First of all--ask if email is an appropriate place to solicit funds? Government entities like the IRS cannot legally contact you by Email. Companies like Ebay and AOL have certain procedures on how to handle fraud that will not arrive to you as a normal Email. Charities usually use regular paper mail. In general, in most cases, you will be notified by other means than Email such as secure mail or a phone line.

Second of all--PAY ATTENTION to the URL of the form! Even if the email you receive may tell you to go to www.ebay.com, take your mouse on that link and look at the URL listed below your browser to see if it really takes you to the site it claims. Most often the forms will have a completely different web address.

When and if you do receive such a Email, forward it to your Internet Service Provider (AOL, Comcast, etc.) Notifying them about such Emails will allow the companies to add the author to their Spam filter, as well as forward it to appropriate police or other security entities.

In general, if you receive Emails such as these, treat them as Spam. Delete them immediately. If there are issues related to your account, etc. the company will contact you by other means.

For more information on Phishing, go to:

How Stuff Works: Phishing: http://money.howstuffworks.com/phishing.htm

Article: Why Phishing Works: http://repositories.cdlib.org/iber/xlab/XL06-013/

Have an Office 2007 or Microsoft Works File That Cannot Be Opened? Introducing Zamzar . . .

Sometimes the documents we are working at from home may be too new or too different from the programs operating on campus. We may mean well to save files properly to the right format (such as Office 2003) but we forget. And now here we are on campus, and we want to work on and later print our finished homework assignments. What do we do?

As mentioned before last summer, we are now in a Web 2.0 environment. You need to convert a file so it will work with a computer on campus? Go to a site to do it for free!

Introducing Zamzar. Say goodbye to clogging up your hard drive at home with bunches of file converters. And don't feel at loss when you're using public computers such as those on campus where you can't download converters. At http://zamzar.com you can quickly convert your files within minutes and then get back to working on your assignments.

If you need any assistance, a librarian will be happy to show you how to do it (though remember, you cannot do this from our reference area computers--they do not read flash drives or disks).

Blackboard Help--Where It Is Now

As some of you may have noticed, our mezzanine has changed a bit with respect to our services. The WRAC Center has been reassigned to the left side of the Mezzanine, and the student computer lab, now with 50 computers is right in the middle. Face to face Blackboard help has also been moved to another place on campus. Melita Fogle will now provide direct assistance in room #3916, and as always you can also get help via Email. Information about how to get help is available at http://www.chabotcollege.edu/DistanceEd/help/

Have Questions?

One month and a half into the semester and you may already have your first research assignment. Anything you want to know about how to use Library resources, where to begin, come up with and narrow down your research topic? We are available on the left side of the reference desk and by phone at (510)723-7006 and by email at chabotref@chabotcollege.edu

Or . . . hit the Comments button and we will respond right here on this blog. Librarians are here to help you learn how to do research and help you find hard to find stuff. We're much more resourceful (as well as reliable and credible) than most web sites, so see us, contact us, or hit the "Comments" button, and make your research experience a bit more pleasant.

On The New Books Shelves This Week

We have just updated our New Books shelves. Take a look at what we've got! The call number is where you will find these books in a couple of weeks.

Acosta, Carpenter.
Title IX
KF 4166 .c37 2005


Benioff, Marc and Karen Southwick.
Compassionate Capitalism: How Corporations Can Make Doing Good an Integral Part of Doing Well
HG 4028 C6 .B46 2004

Rostker, Bernard.
I Want You!: The Evolution of the All Volunteer Force
UB 323 .R67 2006


Shorris, Earl.
The Life and Times of Mexico
F 1210 .S543 2004


Thakur, Ramesh and Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu.
The Iraq Crisis and World Order
DS 79.76 >I7255 2006


Ungar, Peter S.
Evolution of the Human Diet: The Known, the Unknown and the Unknownable
GN 282 .E84 2007

Washington, Harriet A.
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
R 853 .H8 W37 2006

Woodward, Kath.
Understanding Identity
BF 697 .W57 2002

Banned Books in the Library?!

Banned Books Week
September 29-October 6, 2007
Free People Read Freely ®

"Intellectual Freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored. Intellectual freedom encompasses the freedom to hold, receive and disseminate ideas." -- www.ala.org (Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Q & A)

Chabot Library will once again mark Banned Books week with a DISPLAY in the library of books that have been challenged over the years. For lots of information on this important issue go to www.ala.org

Stop by for a copy of the list: "The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000"

"The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) received a total of 546 challenges last year. A challenge is defined as a formal, written complaint, filed with a library or school, requesting that materials be removed because of content or appropriateness. Public libraries, schools and school libraries report the majority of challenges to OIF.

'The number of challenges reflects only incidents reported,' said Judith F. Krug, director of the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom."

Before You Reach for Your Credit Card . . .

it is time to come to the Library Tuesday, September 18, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. to see the Frontline Documentary, "The Secret History of the Credit Card."

Have you been paying attention to your spending? Have you thought much about any finance charges or late fees you have spent? Eager to buy your family expensive Christmas gifts or buy that new style Ipod for yourself? Before you do, it is best to understand how it all works.

In addition to viewing the film and discussion, dinner will be served and librarian, Kim Morrison, will be teaching you how to find more information about credit cards and particular credit card companies and to get your own free credit report.

Space is limited! So be sure to sign up for this event, AHEAD OF TIME, in room 2325, the Aspire Office, in building 2300 (above the cafeteria). For more information go to: http://tinyurl.com/yrzpl2

This event is sponsored by The Aspire Program, the ASCC, and Chabot Library

Textbooks, Cheap--Where?!!!

And you may have come to the Library, hoping the textbook is there for you to check out the whole semester?

Well, it doesn't work that way. First of all, your instructor has to put the textbook on Reserve. If they do not do so, we do not have it. The Library does not purchase textbooks on its own--we do not have an annual budget to buy them as is. Second of all, when the textbook is on Reserve, you're asking for a checkout time of 1 hour, most often, because as you can imagine, many students may need it as well. With 1 hour, you will most often need to photocopy many pages, at 10 cents per page, and that adds up.

So most often, you WILL have to purchase your own textbooks.

But maybe you can find them at a cheaper price?

The New York Times recently documented a number of sites in this article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/fashion/30Cyber.html?th&emc=th

It lists a number of sites. And especially encourages comparison shop sites, such as:

Bookfinder: http://www.bookfinder.com/textbooks/

A couple of other comparison sites are:

Direct Textbook: http://www.directtextbook.com/

and AddAll: http://www.addall.com/

Hope you find some TRUE bargains!

Instructor Kleven's English 101A Course

Dear English 101A students:

Feel free to ask us any questions or to comment on the books that you are reading this semester. Interested in finding another author like one you like? Ask here. We'll be more than happy to give you insights.

Questions on how to use "Author by Type" in Literature Resource Center? Want to know how to search the Library Catalog? Request a book from Las Positas? How to get an Alameda County Library Card and use their catalog? Ask here, but if you've misplaced your handout, it's available at this address: http://tinyurl.com/2kka3v

To ask us questions, click on the "Comments" link.

Welcome Everyone to the Fall Semester!

Welcome, students! We hope your summers were great.

For those of you who are new to Chabot, we give a special welcome! From our website to the Library, which is on the second floor of Building 100, we provide all sorts of information resources that can be beneficial for your research. Want to learn how to use library subscription databases to find quality articles, or how to find a book, or find a movie or documentary, or find quality web sites that are much more reliable than Wikipedia? Or if you want to say hi . . .

We have bunches of friendly faces up here. A lot of us are at the main desk of the Library (right in front). So please stop by. Librarians are faculty members who will provide you instruction on how to be able to find materials, and in the process, become better students.

So if you do have any questions, do not hestitate to ask. Librarians are available on the left side of the reference desk.

Library Reserves

Welcome back to all faculty and students!

Faculty: If you have a copy of your textbook and/or special readings that you want your students to access, please place them on reserve in the library. Please come in and ask for Sandy Tran at the Circulation desk, call her at 723-7112, or email her at stran@chabotcollege.edu.

Students: Please come to the library if you want to check if any of your textbooks are on reserve. Please note: NOT ALL TEXTBOOKS ARE PLACED ON RESERVE. The library can only place them on reserve if your instructor gives the library a copy of it.

If you have any issues or concerns, you can contact me, Debbie Soares, at 723-6768 or dsoares@chabotcollege.edu.

Thanks and have a wonderful fall semester.

New Lexis-Nexis Now Live

The Library would like to announce that the new Lexis-Nexis Academic is now live. As time goes on, other links on our other pages will be linking to the new Lexis-Nexis. When searching Lexis-Nexis, keep this in mind:

1. Type in the box search terms. Do NOT type in the box as if you are filling a form.

2. When using phrases surround them with quotation marks such as "Chabot college"

3. When looking at your search results, pay attention to the menu on the left--use the pull-down menu to narrow your results.

Tutorials for the new Lexis-Nexis Academic are available at http://tinyurl.com/yozyhn

For any other questions, please contact a librarian or reply to this post (contacting a librarian in person or by phone directly will give a more prompt response).

Update on New Interfaces: Lexis-Nexis and Literature Resource Center

By the end of this summer, two of our databases will have a new makeover--where your searching experience in them should be easier than ever. The new interface to Lexis-Nexis Academic should appear on July 9 or shortly thereafter. The new interface to Literature Resource Center is slated to appear by late August. We will submit a new post when live with further discussion on the new searching features.

Technology Is Fine, But What About Books for the Summer?

Ah yes. Nothing to enrich the mind as reading a good, literary novel. In fact, just behind the main desk are shelves of suggested works of fiction you just may enjoy. Granted, we're closed until June 11-- but do take a look when we're open again.

In the meantime--want a sample of especially what are the "greats"? Well, everyone has an opinion--but renowned literary critic Larry McCaffery, happens to have a list that he calls The 20th Century Greatest Hits: 100 English- Language Books of Fiction. Take a look--then go to a public library to check one of these out. Happy readings!

Make This Summer a Technology Summer!

Students, faculty, staff, and yes, even librarians-- We are supposedly in a Web 2.0 world now, and we probably are not even totally aware as of yet what that means for our teaching and learning.

But in this world where we can simply "type in a box" the opportunities to improve our learning and teaching are here. There's so much to share. So below is a laundry list of what tools are out there, and as the summer and fall progress--some of these tools will be discussed in detail. We've discussed Picnik, already.

For Instructors Who Teach DE or Are Curious About DE
Top 10 Things to Do This Summer

Introductory YouTube Videos to Web 2.0 Technologies
What is all this?
Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us
RSS in Plain English
Are You Blogging This?

Create Your Own Web 2.0 Site
Host your forum, invite participation
Blogger
PBwiki

Present What You've Found On the Web
Trailfire

Sharing Photos, Editing Them, Tagging Them
. . . and Turn Them Into Discussion Forums (Team Projects, Instructors and Students)
Flickr
Picnik

Sharing Videos
Submit your closed captioned video or also include a transcript, when teaching
YouTube

Sharing Your Bookmarks
View your favorite sites from any computer and learn new ones from your new found online friends.
Del.icio.us
Stumble Upon
Blackboard scholar (not currently available at Chabot or Las Positas)

Sharing Attachments
Without clogging Email boxes
YouSendIt

Make It Come To You: RSS Feeds
Really Simple Syndication
What is RSS?
RSS Readers
How to Create an RSS 2.0 Feed
Bloglines

Send URL's People Can Easily Copy on Paper
TinyURL it
TinyURL

Share Your Word Processing Documents and Spreadsheets
Teams work together from one file. Instructors, provide feedback to revisions
Google Documents

Roll Out Your Own Search Engines
Create subject-oriented search engines that only retrieve the reliable sites you know
Google Custom Search Engine

Find More Music You Like and Share It
Turn your favorite song into a radio station for similar songs, or share what you're listening on ITunes
Pandora Radio
ILike

Social Networks
Librarians using web 2.0 technology use Ning and Facebook
Ning
Facebook

Tag . . . You're It!
Find what you've created, easily. Enter text or search a file to see what keywords will make your photo, web page more easily found.
TagCrowd


Want more insight? Podcasts, PowerPoints and links to tools are available at http://ic.arc.losrios.edu/~ccli/Much thanks goes to the presenters of this year's California Clearinghouse of Library Instruction workshop--librarians and educators David Silver, Anne-Marie Dietering, and Michele Mizejewski. Thanks also to Eileen O'Shea from InfoPeople for the wonderful workshop she gave to California community college librarians back in April.

And in the meantime, share your experiences with these tools. Hit the Comments link--how can these tools enhance your learning or teaching? Part of Web 2.0 is sharing what we have found and learned.

The Computer Lab and the WRAC Center: The Transition Begins

If you are wondering what is going on at the mezzanine--the computer lab is still open--it is now available in the center of the mezzanine near the Audio Visual Center. If you see signs that say closed off, the Computer Lab is not closed--It is open today from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. , tomorrow 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., and it will be there open during regular Library hours, as always (June 11 to August 2-- 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.).

The WRAC Center will move to the Mezzanine of the Library in the coming weeks as the College begins its major renovations as provided by the Facilities Bond that was passed back in 2004. It will be situated on the left side--the computer Lab will be in the center--and the Audio Visual Center will continue to provide services to the right.

Whenever we are open, there will still be computers available on the mezzanine for writing, spreadsheets, Blackboard course work, web browsing, Email, online communities--this will not change. The ten computers around the reference desk will also continue to be available for library research purposes, with a librarian near by who can assist you in finding relevant, quality information from our databases and the Web (and do not forget our own Google Search Engine--it's there on the right menu of this blog. If you do not see it, hit reload. It will show up!)

Please let us know if you have any questions. During this period of transition, keep in mind that for you as a student, you will be able to get assistance on how to improve writing your papers from the staff of the WRAC Center, and just downstairs you can get assistance on how to improve your research for those same papers and projects, from a librarian. Not too bad, huh?

Open Reference Thread

Do you have a research question related to your assignment? Have a question about the Library and its services? Ask them here and we'll be more than happy to help you. Click on the "Comments" link below this post, type in your question, and click on the Publish button below. Responses take at least 24 hours. If you want to ask us more privately, contact information is available at Contact Us.

Amnesty Days In the Library

STUDENTS: Have you been holding onto overdue library books to avoid paying the fines? We've got a deal for you!!

All students that return their overdue library books the week of finals, from Monday, May 21 through Friday, May 25, 2007, will get their records cleared without paying any fines.

This offer EXCLUDES Reserve materials.

Summer Hours

After May 25, the Library will be open:

June 11 to August 2nd
Mondays through Thursdays
9:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

We will be closed on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and Wednesday, July 4.

Please make a note on your calendar. Do remember that our website and our databases are available 24/7.

On the New Books Shelf This Week

On most weeks during the semester, we like to feature the latest books we have received. They are located on the "New Books" shelves, in stands you'll find just left of the main desk. Here's what's new this week.

Peddie, Ian. The Resisting Muse: Popular Music and Social Protest
Currently on New Books Shelf.
ML 3918 .P67 R47 2006
"Popular music has traditionally served as a rallying point for voices of opposition across a variety of genres. This volume examines the various ways popular music has been deployed as anti-establishment and how such opposition both influences and responds to the music produced."

Other New Books

Moore, Robin D. Music & Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba
Currently on New Books Shelf.
ML 3917.C9 M66 2006



van Wormer, Katherine Stuart and Clemens Bartollas. Women and the Criminal Justice System
Currently on New Books Shelf.
HV 9950 .V38 2007


Herbert, W.N. and Matthew Hollis. Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry
Currently on New Books Shelf.
PN 1064.S85 2000

Harris, Mary B. School Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Youth: The Invisible Minority
Currently on New Books Shelf.
LC 2575.S36 1997

Simon, Michele. Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back
Currently on New Books Shelf.
TX 360.U6 S56 2006


More books listed in Part 2

On the New Books Shelf Part 2

This continues Part 1 of our New Books Shelf Announcement for the week of May 14.

Waltman, Jerold L. The Case for the Living Wage
Currently on New Books Shelf.
HD 4918.W264 2004



Koff, Clea. The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo
Currently on New Books Shelf.
GN 69.8 .K64 2005


Tuominen, Mary C. We Are Not Babysitters: Family Child Care Providers Redefine Work and Care
Currently on New Books Shelf.
HQ 778.5 .T86 2003


Dionne, E.J. Jr., Jean Bethke Elshtain, and Kayla M. Drogosz. One Electorate Under God?: A Dialogue on Religion & American Politics
Currently on New Books Shelf.
BL 2525.O53 2004


Want to find reviews of these books? Go search in Book Reviews Databases

Books are ordinarily available for two weeks checkout, but as it is the end of the semester, we ask that you return the book on Friday, May 25. These same books will also be available in the stacks, when we re-open on Monday, June 11.

Hungry to Resize That Image? Go on a Picnik!

At the reference desk, we often get a question from one of you who have found that perfect image for your project--but want to resize it. And often, many computers on campus do not have a photo editor like Photoshop. Well, where have you been? It's a Web 2.0 universe now and you should expect to find a site you just go in and visit, register if you want to save your work, to do what you want-- right?

Well, there is a new site--currently in beta mode but in this site you are able to do simple photo and image editing functions. It's called Picnik. Go to http://www.picnik.com/app, upload the image you have found--and you can rotate, crop, resize, modify colors, sharpen, reduce red eye-- in other words, be able to do what you most often want to do with your photos and images. You can set up an account to save your photos and images and variations as well. And there's a tab where you can easily get your photos that you have saved on Flickr.

The Library would like to remind you--however, to keep in mind copyright restrictions when planning to use images. They're fine for projects you present for class--but for websites, if they're not clipart, check for permissions and ask the site owner from where you got it.

Again, enjoy your picnik: http://www.picnik.com/app . This is one where you certainly will not get ants (unless it's a picture of them you want to resize). And at home, if you think you'll use it often, check out Picnik tools at: http://www.picnik.com/info/tools

We Now Have a Browsing Magazines Section

Did you know that Chabot Library now has a browsing magazines section? The most recent issue of select magazines are now available in the center of the Library, on a rack, right in front of our Pamphlet cabinets. They are to be enjoyed the same as a reference book, in-house only.

As always, print journals and older magazines are available for a 7 day checkout period. Come to the right side of the main desk (the Check Out) side to look at and/or check out the issue you need.

ATTENTION ALL FACULTY!!

As you clean up your offices in anticipation of summer break, please take a few minutes to look around for any overdue or long lost library books or AV materials. We would like to start the semester with full shelves for you and your students.

Thank you...

Welcome to the Chabot Library Read!

Good weekend! This is the first posting of the blog of the Chabot College Library.

We have big news coming up with changes to our web site!

The databases page will soon have a new look! We are splitting up our long list of databases to different pages so that you can select and choose your database quicker. To get a preview go to the New Databases Web Page

Also new, the Library now has a quality Google search engine to public world wide web sites selected by Chabot Librarians. When you have finished searching for books and articles, search the new search engine to find quality information on the public World Wide Web. Clicking on journals will lead you to free, peer-reviewed articles. To get to the search engine, start at the home page and click on Online Search Engines . The search engine is there on the top right. Enter your search terms and click on "Search."


Two databases will soon have new looks that may begin appearing over the summer. Tutorials on the new Lexis-Nexis are already available. Click on the menu on the top right to engage in three tutorials on how to use the future product. Get a feel for the new search enhancements! Later in the summer, there will also be a new look for Literature Resource Center. When available, we will announce when both have the new looks!

Stay tuned for more changes and improvements including more online tutorials on how to use the Library and search particular databases.

If you have any questions--as always you can contact a librarian on the left side of the main desk of the reference room, by phone at (510)723-7006, and by Email. We wish everyone a good final two weeks of the semester!