Happy New Year, Panthers, and welcome to 2020! For those of you who are enrolled in Interterm classes this year, or just happen to be on campus this month and need a quiet place to study and relax, the Leatherby Libraries is open. Our Interterm hours are Monday through Friday 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.,
The Leatherby Libraries has upgraded our subscription to the Roper Center Archives, enabling students, faculty, and staff to download full data sets from this large collection of poll data from U.S. polling firms. The Roper Center Archives contain over 710,000 polling questions from 1935 to the present, with broad topical coverage of opinions and behavior
The Leatherby Libraries will be open 24 hours each day during the last two weeks of the semester: Open from Monday, December 2, 2019 at 8 a.m. and will not close until Friday, December 13, 2019 at 10 p.m. During the late night hours, the following services will be available: circulation services, bookable study rooms, and print/copy
Tied with classroom instruction, the place Chapman University students most frequently see librarians is behind the Reference Desk. Sitting behind the large desk in the lobby of the Leatherby Libraries 62 hours a week, librarians on reference duty help students with a wide variety of questions. I sat down with Assessment Librarian Lauren Dubell to
The Leatherby Libraries is pleased to reinstate access to the Oxford English Dictionary after receiving many requests and a lot of feedback from passionate Chapman faculty and students. Unlike many other dictionaries, which only provide current definitions of words, the Oxford English Dictionary is an important tool for tracing the origin and history of words
Open access to information is a sticky subject. As our world continues to progress, many individuals want information readily accessible at their fingertips. Open Access Week, which is now in its tenth year, is designed to share the benefits of open access, the free immediate access to scholarly information. Here at Leatherby Libraries, we attempt
The Leatherby Libraries has A LOT to offer the Chapman community…if you take advantage of the resources. As a Chapman student myself, I have a heavy academic load at 18 credits on top of work, filming, my sorority, Chapman Ambassadors, clubs on campus, and a social life to maintain. Taking advantage of what the Leatherby
I grew up in northwestern Pennsylvania in a town called Wilcox. Wilcox has a population of roughly three hundred and sixty people and surrounding it is over five hundred thousand acres of forest. All of which is to say, growing up, I was not surrounded by many different religions. My only exposure to different beliefs
This year, we here at the Leatherby Libraries are committed to using the blog to showing off more of what we have to offer, to students, faculty, staff, and visitors. Jimmy Elinski’s (’21) “Exploring the Magic of the Leatherby Libraries” blog series is taking readers on a virtual tour of the library’s places and spaces,
The Leatherby Libraries is proud to celebrate Open Access Week 2019 from October 21-27. Open Access Week is an international celebration, originally put together by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and student advocates, with aims to make openness the default for research. This year’s theme is “Open for Whom? Equity in Open