Library Summer Hours

Southwestern College library will reopen on Monday June 7th at 8:00 am for our summer session.

Our summer session hours will be Monday through Thursday from 8:00 a.m. till 7:00 p.m.

Extended Hours: Starting Monday May 10

Looking for a quiet place to study for your final exams or help with your research paper?

Beginning Monday May 10 the library will be open longer for you.

Extended Library Hours - Main Campus

Monday May 10: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Tuesday May 11: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Wednesday May 12: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Thursday May 13: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Friday May 14: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Saturday May 15: 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Sunday May 16: Closed
Monday May 17: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Tuesday May 18: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Wednesday May 19: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Thursday May 20: 8:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Friday May 21: 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

This Week in CQ Researcher

U.S.-China Relations by Roland Flamini,
May 7, 2010

Is a future confrontation looming?

Disputes that have bedeviled relations between the United States and China for decades flared up again following President Obama's decision to sell weapons to Taiwan and receive Tibet's revered Dalai Lama. From the U.S. perspective, China's refusal to raise the value of its currency is undermining America's – and Europe's – economic recovery.

Beijing also rebuffed Obama's proposal of "a partnership on the big global issues of our time." In addition, the Chinese insist on tackling their pollution problems in their own way, and have been reluctant to support U.S. diplomatic efforts to impose tough sanctions on nuclear-minded Iran. With the central bank of China holding more than $800 billion of the U.S. national debt in the form of Treasury notes, and their economy speeding along at a 9 percent growth rate, the Chinese are in no mood to be accommodating.

• Is a U.S.-China partnership actually possible?
  
• Is a confrontation with China inevitable, as some predict?
  
• Has China's "market authoritarian" model of government emerged as an alternative to Western democracy?
  

To read this article and others visit our Articles and Databases webpage and click on CQ Researcher. Select the Off Campus Access link for information on how to access this resource from off campus locations.

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Check It Out

The great empires of the ancient world
by Thomas Harrison New Book Shelf CB311 .G74 2009


This monumental work studies aspects of ancient empires and their impact across a vast range of time and space: from New Kingdom Egypt and the Hittite Empire in the second millennium B.C.E. to the empires of South Asia through 500 C.E. Other empires covered include Assyria and Babylonia, the first Persian Empire, the Athenian Empire, the empire of Alexander the Great and his successors, the Parthian and early Sasanian Empires, the Roman Empire, and the early empires of South Asia and China.


Check out The great empires of the ancient world, available now in the library on the New Book Shelf E840.8.C43 G45 2008.

ARTstor: Foundation for Landscape Studies

ARTstor has collaborated with the Foundation for Landscape Studies to share approximately 5,000 contemporary photographs and historical illustrations of gardens and landscapes from around the world in the Digital Library. Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, president of the Foundation, is a noted landscape historian, park preservationist, and writer.

The collection provides an overview of landscape studies, encompassing all cultural landscapes, including gardens, parks, cities, suburbs, rural areas, and the humanized wilderness. A subset of the images, approximately 500, consists of engravings depicting gardens and landscapes from rare books dating from the 16th through early 20th century.

To view the Foundation for Landscape Studies collection: go to the ARTstor Digital Library, browse by collection, and click "Foundation for Landscape Studies;" or enter the keyword search: elizabethbarlowrogers..

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

Extended Library Hours Monday May 10

Looking for a quiet place to study for your final exams or help with your work cited page?

Beginning Monday May 10 the library will be open longer for you.

Extended Library Hours - Main Campus

Monday May 10: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Tuesday May 11: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Wednesday May 12: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Thursday May 13: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Friday May 14: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Saturday May 15: 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Sunday May 16: Closed
Monday May 17: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Tuesday May 18: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Wednesday May 19: 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Thursday May 20: 8:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Friday May 21: 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

This Week in CQ Researcher

Gridlock in Washington
by Marcia Clemmitt, April 30, 2010

Is Congress too polarized to act?

Historic health-care legislation was enacted this spring, but the slow crawl of the law through the Senate suggests to many observers that Washington is in a state of gridlock – nearly unable to make new policy. Some political scientists blame the increasingly fierce competition for power between the ideologically rigid Democratic and Republican parties, which has risen to levels not seen since the Civil War.

Other analysts blame the Senate’s cloture rule, which requires a 60-vote supermajority to end a filibuster and proceed to voting. The rule gives undue, perhaps even unconstitutional, power to the minority, its critics argue.

But other scholars maintain that the eventual passage of the health-care law is proof that Washington is not paralyzed. Indeed, they say a more serious problem is widespread voter misunderstanding of the importance the U.S. Constitution places on lengthy deliberation of issues before new laws are made.

• Is Washington paralyzed?
  
• Is party polarization threatening our democracy?
  
• Should Senate filibuster rules be reformed?

To read this article and others visit our Articles and Databases webpage and click on CQ Researcher. Select the Off Campus Access link for information on how to access this resource from off campus locations.