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Free tutoring is available at the Library in the Interdisciplinary Tutoring Center (ITC) on the top floor.

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• Appointments can be made for 30-minute tutoring sessions. Appointments are available Monday - Thursday 10 am - 2 pm. Stop by the Library ITC Desk to make your appointment today.

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The votes are in!

College Book Favorites

We took an informal poll -- what are your favorite SWC College Book selections over the past 20 years? The winners were The Help and The Kite Runner.

Do you Agree? Disagree?

Stop by the Library to see a display of all of the former College Book selections! Bring your SWC photo ID card to check out any of them for 28 days.

10 Ways to Spot Fake News

Source: Kirschenbaum, Michele. EasyBib. 1 Feb 2017. 

http://www.easybib.com/guides/evaluating-fake-news-resources/

Is it true? Is it biased? How can you tell?

Here are a couple of handy guides to figuring out the quality of information.

Ten Ways to Spot Fake News
Michele Kirschenbaum's "Ten ways to spot a fake news article" on EasyBib provides some easy tips for spotting fake news.

SWC Library -- Evaluation Criteria
You can also apply the five evaluation criteria from the SWC Library website to determine the credibility, the bias, and the accuracy of what you are reading.

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Check It Out

The Global Business Culture Guide 
by Lothar Katz

Chula Vista Campus Library
New Books HF5389 .K38 2014
Available for four-week check out with your SWC photo ID card

Anthropology, Psychology and Business majors rejoice, this book will keep your attention. The author, Lothar Katz is a management advisor and cross-cultural consultant to many US companies and author of several books about conducting international business.

He organized the book from general to specific in three parts: Part I discusses the different cultural models (Hall, Hofstede, Trompenaars, the Globe Study, Walker/Walker/Schmitz) that describes how people behave in countries. As with all general forms, the author warns that these culture models fit some countries more than others or the culture can or cannot handle more deviation from its values and practices. Part II focuses on business dealings in cultures. It stresses the importance of always learning about the history of the country and observing the geographical influences in all business relationships. This part of the book also hashes out the subcategories that are used in Part III, such as the power of relationships, respect and trust, non-verbal messages and so on.

Several of the chapters offer good advice on successful communication, negotiations and other parts of business transactions, and warns us on the danger of getting comfortable with little knowledge and lots of luck in working across cultures. Part III gives specific details of descriptions of the cultures of 50 countries.

The do and don’t boxes at the end of the country descriptions are particularly useful information as well as the concise summary of statistical data and history portion in the front of these chapters.

Review by Erika Prange, SWC Librarian

Database of the Week

Biography in Context 

Where can I find articles about Xi Jinping? Can you help me to find Netanyahu’s biography? What sources can I use for my presentation about Marie Curie? These are just some of the questions we heard at the Reference Desk this past week.

If you are looking for information on a particular important person, the Biography in Context database is a great starting point for your research. This database contains nearly a million of biographical entries on more than 400,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all subject areas – politics, government, science, business, literature, entertainment, sports, history, and the arts.

The Biography in Context database includes not only reference sources, such as online encyclopedias, but also full-text articles from more than 250 periodicals, images, videos, and audio clips. You can search for people by name, birth/death years and places, gender, occupation, nationality or ethnicity. The content is updated on a daily basis, and more than 50,000 bios added annually.

Find the BIOGRAPHY IN CONTEXT database on the SWC Library Articles and Database page.

Review by Svetlana Kondratenko, SWC Librarian