Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists. —Marcel Proust How often do you get to know your coworkers? Not the ones you lunch with, but those you say “hello” to out of custom. How
The Leatherby Libraries is excited to announce that a long-beloved tradition is returning in person and virtually this summer! The 15th annual Community of Readers (CoR) starts June 5, 2023, and ends August 17, 2023. Not only will this program help you complete your reading challenge on Goodreads, but you can also earn book-themed prizes!
Twice a year, Professor Daniel De Arakal’s guitar students perform at the Malloy Performance Portico in the Leatherby Libraries. This musical tradition started back in 2015 and gives students the opportunity to practice their music performance skills for a live audience. The Chair of Research and Instructional Services and Performing Arts Librarian, Taylor Greene, helps
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
Research data management has emerged as a need among academic researchers, and liaison librarians are building skills in response. This fall, the Leatherby Libraries will be hosting a workshop – funded through the SCELC Project Initiatives Fund (SPIF)- from the ACRL’s Virtual Roadshow series, “Building Your Research Data Management Toolkit: Integrating RDM into Your Liaison
Beginning Friday, October 22nd, at 3:00 p.m., Leatherby Libraries librarians Doug Dechow and Kristin Laughtin-Dunker will be leading a series of five webinar workshops on Open Educational Resources (OER). This series, aimed at Chapman University faculty, will explore the pedagogical possibilities and cost-saving potential of OER, a topic that Doug and Kristin have presented on
It’s hard to believe it, but the 2021 Virtual Community of Readers is halfway over! Cheryl Baltes from the School of Education won a devilishly hard-looking puzzle featuring famous first lines of literature at our first meeting on July 1st, and the winner of the raffle at our July 29th meeting will take home a
The Leatherby Libraries is excited to announce that a long-beloved tradition is returning this summer. Join the Community of Readers (CoR) and enter to win prizes as you read! The Leatherby Libraries has hosted Community of Readers for twelve years now. The program is open to anyone with a Leatherby Libraries account – that includes faculty,
On Wednesday, April 7th, the Leatherby Libraries held its first virtual event, “Researching a Disaster Through the Making of Challenger: The Final Flight.” Two of the producers (an archival producer and a post-production producer) of the recent Netflix documentary series, along with a Mission Operations Engineer from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Chapman University Leadership Professor
Join librarians Doug Dechow, Ph.D., and Annie Tang, MLIS, as they moderate a discussion with a panel of researchers about the legacy of the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster and the behind-the-scenes research process involved in the production of the Netflix documentary series Challenger: The Final Flight. Researchers from the film project will share their