The Leatherby Libraries is always happy to celebrate the scholarly achievements of our librarians and staff, and we’re delighted to announce the latest of these: Coordinator of Special Collections & Archives Annie Tang has recently co-authored an essay, “Shared Service in the Archives: The Johns Hopkins University First-generation Students Oral History Project,” published in the
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to offer access to a new database of use to the science and engineering students and faculty on the Chapman University campus: Optics InfoBase Premium from the Optical Society of America (OSA). As with our recent subscription to the IEEE Electronic Library, the acquisition of Optics InfoBase Premium was a
The Leatherby Libraries recently added new e-books to its collection, including a book that includes a chapter written by Chapman Business Professor Noel Murray. In the book, Destination management and marketing : breakthroughs in research and practice, Murray contributed Chapter 14, “GoT Belfast?: How a Television Epic about a War-Torn Land was Employed to Rebrand
Several new databases have been added to the Leatherby Libraries’ ongoing subscription to the ProQuest Social Science Premium Collection. These new databases are excellent resources for students and faculty doing research in the fields of government, political science, linguistics, and more. Read on for details about each: Policy File Index is a resource for U.S.
One of the primary goals of the Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections & Archives is to preserve materials related to the history of Orange County, which has been the home of Chapman University since 1954. The newest archive added to Special Collections and accessible to the public through the Chapman University Digital Commons,
As of October 2020, the Leatherby Libraries, in partnership with the College of Performing Arts, is happy to offer Chapman and Brandman University students and faculty access to the Art Song Transpositions Database. The database offers professionally crafted scores of art songs and arias as well as vocal repertoire from operas, choral works, and musical
The Leatherby Libraries recently added a wide range of business e-books as part of the library collection. Some of the topics include starting a small business, project management, leadership skills, social media engagement, marketing strategies, and more. For more information about our business resources, contact the business librarian, Essraa Nawar, at nawar@chapman.edu. Our newly acquired
Friends of the Leatherby Libraries are well-acquainted with the Center for American War Letters, and the CAWL Archives housed on the lower level of the Leatherby Libraries, and we’re always delighted when even more people learn about this treasure trove of American history, which now includes more then 150,000 war-related correspondences from every conflict in
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to announce that, in collaboration with the Dale E. and Sarah Ann Fowler School of Engineering, we have upgraded our existing subscriptions to materials from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) to a larger, more comprehensive database: the IEEE Electronic Library. This new database replaces, supplements, and expands
Nobel Prize awards are announced every October, when award committees in Sweden and Norway name illustrious thinkers in the fields of medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, peace, and economics. This year’s winners were announced over the course of a week in mid-October, and several of them have exciting connections to the Leatherby Libraries, in particular a