Study on Fridays until 4 pm!

The Library is open later this fall!

Main Campus SWC Library

Monday - Thursday: 8 am - 8 pm

Friday: 8 am - 4 pm

Saturday: 10 am - 2 pm 

Sunday: Closed

Taking class at a Center? Library Services are available at the three Centers in National City, Otay Mesa, and San Ysidro. We also have increased hours at the San Ysidro Higher Education Center Library.

National City SWC Library

Monday: 8 am - 11 am

Tuesday: 3 pm - 6:30 pm

Wednesday: 3 pm - 6:30 pm

Thursday: 12 pm - 2 pm

Friday - Sunday: Closed

Otay Mesa SWC Library

Monday: 9 am - 4 pm

Tuesday: 11 am - 6 pm

Wednesday: 11 am - 6 pm

Thursday: 9 am - 4 pm

Friday - Sunday: Closed

San Ysidro SWC Library

Monday: 1 pm - 5 pm

Tuesday: 10 am - 2 pm

Wednesday: 10 am - 2 pm

Thursday: 10 am - 12 pm; 1 pm - 5 pm

Friday - Sunday: Closed

Have a question? Ask a Librarian

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SWC National City Library

Taking a class at National City? The Library offers a variety of great resources for you, including:

-- Research help from a Librarian

-- Research databases, e-books, and print books

-- Books delivered from main campus

-- Textbooks for some classes on Reserve

National City SWC Library

Fall Hours - Librarian Available

Monday: 8 am - 11 am

Tuesday: 3 pm - 6:30 pm

Wednesday: 3 pm - 6:30 pm

Thursday: 12 pm - 2 pm

Friday - Sunday: Closed

Current hours for all four SWC Library locations are posted on the Library's Hours webpage.

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Tours -- Today and Thursday!

Tours of the Library

When: Noon and 4 pm, Wednesday and Thursday

Where: Meet in the Library lobby (main entrance)

What: A brief tour of the resources available to you!

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Database Feature of the Week

Scientific and Medical ART (SMART) Imagebase : Anatomy Coloring Book Feature 

Courtesy SMART Imagebase: EBSCOhost

If you’re a fan of coloring books, the SWC Library has access to a database feature that lets you print out images to color, but also learn about the human body too!

The “Anatomy Coloring Book” feature is new to the Scientific and Medical ART (SMART) Imagebase database. You can access it by going to the SWC Library’s Articles and Databases website at: www.swccd.edu/libraryarticles. Look for the Health and Medicine section box and click on the link to the Scientific and Medical ART Imagebase: (EBSCOhost).

If you’re off-campus, you will need to use your WebAdvisor username [first initial of your first and last names, 0 (zero) and your six digit student ID number, like aa012345] and password before accessing this database.

You will then find the “Anatomy Coloring Book” image and link as a New Feature on the database’s homepage. Once you decide on an image to color, you can choose to print, email, download, or socially share it.

This is a great feature to learn about the human body in general, but really helpful if you’re studying a health-related course, such as dental hygiene, nursing or emergency medicine.

Happy coloring!
Review by Arnold Josafat, SWC Librarian 

 

Library Tours -- Today!

Brief tours of the Library are offered today at noon and 6 pm. Meet in the lobby -- see you there!

Website of the Week

Food Timeline
http://www.foodtimeline.org/ 

Do you ever wonder where your food comes from? I don’t just mean where it was grown, but where it originated. You can trace the origin of foods back to the earliest times (17,000 BC and earlier) with the Food Timeline. This internet resource is great for better understanding the earliest conditions of foods, as well as discovering how modern day foods were invented.

Did you know ice cream was invented in China? It took the form of something closer to flavored ice and dates all the way back to 3000 BC. There are claims that Marco Polo brought it to Italy, where the creamy, cold treat we know today as ice cream was invented during the 17th century.

Another example is the delicious breakfast (or brunch) dish known as eggs benedict, which was invented in New York in the 1890s. However, there is a rich and perhaps controversial story about how this eggy favorite came to be. Besides finding out when these foods were first mentioned, there are often accompanying recipes, which allows the researcher to replicate the original dish.

The timeline presents information in chronological order with water, ice, and salt making the top three earliest forms of food (no dates given). Some of the more recent entries include cronuts and test tube burgers. While the design leaves much to be desired on this website, the simplicity of the Food Timeline does offer an easy to use experience. Librarian Lynne Olver created the website and the content. Her research on the topic comes from a variety of sources, and her background in cooking and researching food is discussed on her site.

If you’re the type of person who when eating a watermelon wonders if Cleopatra might have eaten one too (she probably did), then the Food Timeline is a great resource to check out.

Review by Lauren McFall, SWC Librarian

San Ysidro SWC Library

Taking a class at San Ysidro? The Library offers a variety of great resources for you, including:

-- Research help from a Librarian

-- Research databases, e-books, and print books

-- Books delivered from main campus

-- Textbooks for some classes on Reserve

San Ysidro SWC Library

Fall Hours - Librarian Available

Monday: 1 pm - 5 pm

Tuesday: 10 am - 2 pm

Wednesday: 10 am - 2 pm

Thursday: 10 am - 12 pm; 1 pm - 5 pm

Friday - Sunday: Closed

Current hours for all four SWC Library locations are posted on the Library's Hours webpage.

See you at the Library!