SWC Libraries Closed

The SWC Libraries are closed May 25 - June 2

• Summer hours begin June 3 for the Main Campus and the Otay Mesa Campus Libraries.
• San Ysidro Campus Library opens for summer on June 10.
• National City Campus Library will re-open Fall Semester.

Taking an Online Class?

Join us for a one-hour orientation to Blackboard and online learning! No need to sign up, just be on time. All sessions will be held in Room L-244 of the Library.

Saturday, June 1
10:00 AM

Monday, June 3 
5:30 PM

Tuesday, June 4
11:00 AM

Summer @ SWC Library

Summer Hours

SWC Libraries are closed May 25 - June 2

Main Campus
June 3 through July 25, 2013
Monday - Thursday: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Closed: Friday, Saturday and Sunday

Higher Education Center at Otay Mesa
June 4 through July 24, 2013 
Monday: 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Tuesday: 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Higher Education Center at San Ysidro
June 11 through July 25, 2013
Tuesday: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Thursday: 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. 

Finals over? Ready to relax?

Check out our Leisure Reading Collection on the 3rd floor! We have a wide variety of books to read just for fun. Kick back, enjoy the summer, and read a good book.

Extended Hours at the Library!

May 13  through May 22, 2013 
Monday - Thursday: 8:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Friday: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.         
 
Thursday May 23: 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Friday May 24: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Closed: Saturday and Sunday 

The Library would like to thank the ASO for providing funds for extended hours.

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Pacific Worlds : A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures.  

by Matt K. Matsuda

Cambridge University Press, 2012

New Book Shelf: DU28.3 .M34 2012

Check out this book or any other new book for 4 weeks with your SWC photo ID card.

"Asia, the Pacific Islands and the coasts of the Americas have long been studied separately. This history of the Pacific traces the global interactions and remarkable peoples that have connected these regions with each other and with Europe and the Indian Ocean, for millennia. From ancient canoe navigators, monumental civilizations, pirates and seaborne empires, to the rise of nuclear testing and global warming, the author ranges across the frontiers of colonial history, anthropology and Pacific Rim economics and politics, piecing together a history of the region.

The book identifies and draws together the defining threads and extraordinary personal narratives which have contributed to this history, showing how localized contacts and contests have often blossomed into global struggles over colonialism, tourism and the rise of Asian economies. Drawing on Asian, Oceanian, European, American, ancient and modern narratives, the author assembles a Pacific region from a global perspective."

Summary from publisher

Career Guidance Database

The Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center is a new library database that helps you research careers and prepare yourself to get the best job possible! It is available from off campus with the current passwords.

Use the database to learn about a wide variety of jobs and industries; scholarships, internships, and professional programs; and invaluable advice on applying for a job, acing an interview, behaving professionally in the work environment, and more.

The database provides detailed profiles of more than 3,300 jobs and 94 industries, invaluable advice on career skills, more than 48,000 resource entries, and much more.

Other features include more than 90 sample resumes and cover letters created by professional career consultants and a searchable archive of articles from current and past issues of Career Opportunities News, a newsletter that provides timely information about colleges and the job market.

Have a question? Ask a librarian!

May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month

Tom Kobayashi, Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar, 1943 (photograph by Ansel Adams). Courtesy Library of Congress

The first Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month was signed into law in 1992. "The month of May was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869. The majority of the workers who laid the tracks were Chinese immigrants." Library of Congress

Find out more:

• The Library has books and articles on this topic. Get help with your research from a librarian.

• Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month - Library of Congress 

• May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month - San Diego History Center

Library Open Extended Hours for Finals

May 13 through May 22, 2013
Monday - Thursday: 8:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Friday: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Thursday May 23: 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Friday May 24: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Closed: Saturday and Sunday 

The Library would like to thank the ASO for providing funds for extended hours.

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No Easy Day: the Autobiography of a Navy SEAL : the Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden
by Mark Owen
New York: Dutton, 2012. 
New Books: VG87 .O94 2012

“Make no mistake: No Easy Day is an important historic document. Think if we had a first-person account of the last minutes of Hitler in his bunker. No Easy Day is brisk and compelling in its telling of the training, execution and immediate aftermath of the Bin Laden mission by the elite Seal Team Six.” -Los Angeles Times