Daily Life Online: History and World Cultures

Daily Life Online provides a fascinating and fun way to explore how others lived their lives, and how their lives have shaped ours. The material is organized by time period, region, and topic . Daily Life Online's digital content is enhanced with books, articles, images, maps, and primary documents to show the interconnections of everyday life throughout history.

To access Daily Life Online visit our Articles and Databases website http://www.swccd.edu/~library/articles.htm

Currently enrolled students can request off campus access to this electronic resources at http://www.swccd.edu/~library/PasswordRequest/

Guest Writers Series: Olga García Echeverría

Thursday, April 16, 11 a.m. -12 p.m., Room L238 in the Library/Learning Resource Center.

SWC Guest Writers Series Presents:
Olga García Echeverría

Olga García Echeverría was born and raised in East Los Angeles, California. She has a BA in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso.

For the past twelve years, she has worked with a wide variety of students, teaching Composition, Literature, Creative Writing, History, and Civics. Currently, she works for the Upward Bound Program at Los Angeles City College, where she teaches English and Composition to high school students living in the South Los Angeles region.

Her first book, Falling Angels: Cuentos y Poemas, was published by Calaca Press and Chibcha Press in September of 2008. A copy of her book is currently on order for the Library.

This event is sponsored and supported by SWC’s Foundation and the School of Language and Literature. The Guest Writers Series invites authors whose work involves universal themes and multicultural contexts. Live literature enriches audiences by offering new ways to view everyday experiences. Faculty, staff, and students will gain an opportunity to think critically about the world around them through the myriad perspectives offered by the guest writers and their work.

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Spring Break

The library will be closing at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday April 4 for Spring Break. We will reopen on Monday April 13 at 7:30 a.m.

Have a happy and safe Spring Break.

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Artstor: Peabody Museum Mayan Excavations

The ARTstor digital library and the Peabody Museum are digitizing and distributing approximately 55,000 archival photographs of Mayan excavations from the Carnegie Institution of Washington archive, which is housed at the museum. To date, approximately 37,000 photographs documenting archaeological excavations throughout Central America have already been released in the ARTstor Digital Library.

To view the Carnegie Institution of Washington Collection of Maya Archaeological Photographs : go to the ARTstor Digital Library, browse by collection, and select "Carnegie Institution of Washington Collection of Maya Archaeological Photographs " or enter the keyword search: "carnegie peabody ".


To view ARTstor from off campus locations you need to create an ARTstor account at http://www.artstor.org/ from any on campus computer.

April eBook of the Month

After the War: Nation-Building from FDR to George W. Bush By: James Dobbins, Michele A. Poole, Austin Long, Benjamin Runkle. The RAND Corporation, 2008

In recent decades, the United States' overwhelming military superiority has allowed it to "overawe" or overrun adversaries with comparative ease. However, consolidating victory and preventing a renewal of conflict has usually taken more time, energy, and resources than originally foreseen. Few recent efforts of this sort can be regarded as unqualified successes, and one or two must be accounted as clear failures.

After the War: Nation-Building from FDR to George W. Bush addresses the manner in which U.S. policy toward postconflict reconstruction has been created and implemented and the effect that these processes have had on mission outcomes. Through the lens of presidential decision making style and administrative structure, from the post-World War II era through the Cold War, post-Cold War era, and current war on terrorism, it is both possible and necessary to reassess how these elements can work in favor of, as well as against, the nation-building goals of the U.S. government and military and those of its coalition partners and allies.

After the War will be provided with free, unlimited access April 1-30.

If you have already established a NetLibrary account through Southwestern College Library, visit http://www.netlibrary.com/ and log in to read "After the War" or any of our other 19,000 electronic book titles from your home, work or any other off campus location.

If you do not have a NetLibrary account, you can create your own account from any computer on the Southwestern College campuses. Visit our NetLibrary information page .