EBSCO has launched an upgraded version of its mobile app, making it easier than ever to access research and scholarship from the library’s Start Your Search platform or our individual EBSCO databases. The app allows users to read and listen to articles from EBSCO databases, quickly conduct searches and save articles for later reference, pull
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to announce that we now have access to a new, free database from HeinOnline that focus on human rights and justice issues: Open Society Justice Initiative. The Open Society Justice Initiative database provides access to briefing papers, publications, reports, handbooks, legal and policy submissions, and fact sheets by the Justice
A new hybrid Reference Desk service model has been implemented and is currently in place at the Leatherby Libraries. Our reference services will be offered partially in-person at the Reference Desk and partially remotely. Beginning this Fall semester, we will continue with our hybrid reference schedule with set hours for in-person assistance and set hours
The Leatherby Libraries has switched to the new and upgraded interface of EBSCO Discovery Service, the technology that powers the Start Your Search tool that students, faculty, and staff can use to cross-search many of the library’s 300+ databases and journal packages to access full-text electronic content. On the library’s homepage, the Start Your Search
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’ subscription to Swank Digital Campus provides us access to the platform’s top 1,000 most-requested videos from the prior year from studios such as Warner Bros., Paramount, NBC Universal, Columbia Pictures, Lionsgate, MGM, Miramax, and more. As new films are added to Swank Digital Campus, this top 1,000 list changes slightly over time.
Librarians at the Leatherby Libraries are always working to ensure that the students, faculty, and researchers at Chapman University have access to all the resources they need to do the best research possible, and to be the best global citizens they can be. To that end, our Reference Librarians have recently put together two new
Leatherby Libraries is switching to a new link resolver and Journal A-Z List in a move that will make it easier for students, faculty, and staff to find and access electronic journals and other resources. What is a link resolver? Have you ever been looking for articles within our Start Your Search bar or another
In honor of National Pride Month, this June the Leatherby Libraries is happy to present a virtual display of titles that honor and provide understanding and education about the LGBTQIA+ community,* especially here at Chapman University. In previous years, the Leatherby Libraries has celebrated Pride Month with in-person book displays, as in 2015 and 2016. To celebrate this year,
With Spring semester wrapped up and the 2020-2021 academic year in the books, it’s also time to finish our My Librarian’s Favorite Resource(s) series, and there’s no-one better to finish it with than Annie Tang, Coordinator of Special Collections & Archives and subject liaison librarian for Film & Media Arts and Art. Annie writes, “There