Resources - From Tiana Taliep, Archivist for the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education Archive - Leatherby Libraries

International Holocaust Remembrance Day and Holocaust Research Resources From Tiana Taliep, Archivist for the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education

January 27, 2020 by Rachel Karas | Resources

Seventy-five years have passed since the Soviet Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp, a place where more than one million innocent people were killed, including Jews, Roma, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the disabled, and others targeted by the Nazi regime. On January 27, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we commemorate the victims of persecution whose lives were

New! Digital Object Identifiers in Chapman University Digital Commons

January 24, 2020 by Kristin Laughtin-Dunker | Resources

For the last five years, Chapman University Digital Commons has served as an open access repository for the research, scholarship, and creative activity of the Chapman community, helping the university collect, store, and showcase these works to readers around the globe. We are happy to now expand these services by creating Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)

New Databases from the Leatherby Libraries

January 15, 2020 by Kristin Laughtin-Dunker | Resources

The Leatherby Libraries are happy to have recently acquired or expanded access to several new resources this month: New! Progress in Brain Research This book series from Elsevier provides extensive documentation of advances in neuroscience. It includes many authoritative reviews and original articles by specialists on topics related to neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neuropharmacology, neuroendocrinology, neuropathology, basic

Welcome to 2020, Panthers! Leatherby Libraries open during Interterm

January 6, 2020 by Rachel Karas | Resources

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.,

Now available: Full data sets from the Roper Center Archives

December 2, 2019 by Kristin Laughtin-Dunker | Resources

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

What Time Is It? It’s Cookies and 24-Hour Services Time! Stay up and study with the Leatherby Libraries

November 25, 2019 by Rachel Karas | Resources

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

Demystifying Academic Librarianship: Reference Interview with Assessment Librarian Lauren Dubell

November 21, 2019 by Rachel Karas | Resources

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 Oxford English Dictionary is Back!

November 20, 2019 by Rachel Karas | Resources

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 An informative display about the discussion of Open Access

October 29, 2019 by Hakeem Wakil | Exhibits and Displays

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

Investigating Resources at the Leatherby Libraries! It is all here at your fingertips....

October 28, 2019 by Ruby Blakesleay | Resources

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