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From your friendly SWC Library superheroes.

Free workshop today!

Join us for a 30-minute free workshop about Lexis-Nexis at the Library!

When: Thursday, October 29, noon
Where: L-244
What: Learn the basics about finding legal information and other great resources in Lexis-Nexis
Who: Open to all SWC students -- ask your instructor if you can receive extra credit for attending

This Thursday: Lexis-Nexis

Click on the schedule above for more information about upcoming workshops.

Website of the Week

Talk about snail mail...circa 1924. Photo courtesy Calisphere.

Calisphere - http://calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/

Calisphere, a project of the University of California Libraries, is an open source platform that allows digital collections from California's public and academic libraries, archives, and museums to be shared. Collections that have used products such as Omeka, Content DM, or Archivists' Toolkit for data management, can "dump" the data into Calisphere to make collections easier to browse and search. 

Calisphere organizes the information into collections that include images, documents, letters, artwork, diaries, videos and audio recordings...and is a great place to search for primary sources.  There are currently over 4000,000 images, texts and recordings available, and the collection continues to grow. 

A list of contributing institutions is included, and collections can be searched by title or theme.  Once you search for a particular institution's collection, you can refine your search within the collection by title/keyword, type of item, and even decade.

Happy searching!

Review by Tanya Carr, SWC Librarian

What is Lexis-Nexis?

Join us for a 30-minute free workshop about Lexis-Nexis at the Library!

When: Thursday, October 29, noon
Where: L-244
What: Learn the basics about finding legal information and other great resources in Lexis-Nexis
Who: Open to all SWC students -- ask your instructor if you can receive extra credit for attending

This Thursday: Lexis-Nexis

Click on the schedule above for more information about upcoming workshops.

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Available for all SWC students

What are you doing Thursday?

Join us for a 30-Minute Thursday Workshop at the Library!

Learn about how to research for that upcoming paper. Click on the schedule to see more about each workshop.

This Thursday: Primary Sources

Offered at noon every Thursday until November 19, each session will cover a research topic in thirty minutes, including Primary Sources, Finding Articles, and Lexis-Nexis.

No need to sign-up, just be on time! Ask your instructor if you can receive extra credit for attending.

See you at the Library on Thursdays.

Unidos Por La Causa: The Chicano Experience

Unidos Por La Causa: The Chicano Experience in San Diego

http://library.sdsu.edu/exhibits/2010/10/UnidosPorLaCausa/index.shtml

The actual exhibit is currently available for viewing at the City College Library.  It has traveled around to multiple locations over the last couple years including SDSU and the Logan Heights branch of San Diego Public.  I believe it is scheduled to stay at City through spring 2016.

A bilingual interactive online exhibit can be viewed here:

http://library.sdsu.edu/exhibits/2010/10/UnidosPorLaCausa/index.shtml

Unidos Por La Causa: The Chicano Experience in San Diego is "a display of photographs, art, and historic documents illustrating the early years of the Chicano movement for social justice and civil rights in San Diego. The exhibit includes a rich and vivid presentation of a selection of 62 movement-related posters and broadsides produced in the 1960s and 1970s promoting anti-war marches, UFW protests, student conferences and many other cultural and political events, demonstrating the movement's struggle for equal education and its resistance to injustice."

The online version includes some videos.  Meanwhile, both the online version and the actual exhibit include many primary documents.  They are both very comprehensive and impressive.  Carve out some time to take a look at one or the other, or both!

Review by Nate Martin, SWC Librarian