Connect to Knowledge: Health Poll Database
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer access to the Health Poll Database from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University. This comprehensive database for health-related U.S. survey questions covers over eighty years of national polling from 1935 to the present day. Searchable questions and results, demographic crosstabs, and trends are available
Martin Luther King Jr. Display
The Leatherby Libraries presents a display on Martin Luther King Jr. to start the new year! This display honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his nonviolent efforts to resist racial segregation in the United States. The display includes books such as I Have A Dream by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dear Dr. King: Letters
The Leatherby Libraries now has access to the Wall Street Journal Website
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to now offer access to the Wall Street Journal website for students, faculty, and staff at Chapman University. This new subscription offers access to the past four years of Wall Street Journal web content and allows users to access the site from anywhere after registration. To gain access, Chapman users
Faculty and Staff now have access to the New York Times
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer faculty and staff access to the New York Times website. The Student Government Association has provided access to the New York Times for students for several years, so with this new addition, we are finally able to offer access to all users at Chapman University. To gain access,
The Black Book Nook
On Friday, November 4, 2022, the Leatherby Libraries and Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion celebrated the launch of the Black Book Nook on the first floor of the library. The Black Book Nook Collection fosters education and community engagement with Black history, thought, literature, and culture. The Black Book Nook currently has over 250
Celebrating the 77th Anniversary of the United Nations
October 24, 2022, marked the 77th anniversary of the United Nations. The Leatherby Libraries honored this day with a book display. The Leatherby Libraries’ United Nations Book Display draws attention to the significance of the United Nations’ history. With over 30 books on display, we inspire students to learn more about the history of the
The Life and Art of Charlotte Salomon
The Leatherby Libraries, in collaboration with the Sala and Aron Samueli Holocaust Memorial Library and the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education, created a display to highlight German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon. With the Holocaust progressing and belonging to a family with a long history of suicide, Charlotte expressed her grief, fear, and love through paintings and
Connect to Knowledge: Water Rights and Resources
The Leatherby Libraries has gained perpetual access to a new collection from HeinOnline: Water Rights & Resources. It can be accessed either through the hyperlink or via our default link to HeinOnline (provided by the Law Library). This database contains “Congressional documents, books, Supreme Court briefs, and legislative histories on major legislation at the state
Connect to Knowledge: OAPEN Library
The Leatherby Libraries is participating in a pilot project to make open-access, peer-reviewed ebooks easier to find and use by adding nearly 20,000 ebooks from the OAPEN Library to the library catalog! Students, faculty, and staff may find these books by searching for “Open Access eBooks from OAPEN library” as a keyword in the library
Connect to Knowledge: Constellate Text and Data Mining Tool
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer a new subscription to a text and data mining tool called Constellate. In addition to our recent subscription to TDM Studio, this is the second text and data mining tool acquired to support research, learning, and teaching at Chapman University. Constellate was created by the non-profit ITHAKA to support