The HWC Library invites you to visit and explore the services and resources we offer the HWC community including research assistance, access to course textbooks, books for research or for leisure reading, a quiet space to study, curriculum support, and much more. We are located on the 5th floor. Stop by! Our Spring 2025 hours of operation are Monday - Thursday from 8AM to 8PM and Friday from 8AM to 4PM.
Please note that the library will be closed on Monday, February 17, in observance of Presidents' Day.
Visit the HWC Library's homepage to access online resources and services and to learn more about what the HWC Library can offer.
Take a break and join us for movies in the library! Not able to make it? All of the movies are available through Kanopy on the A - Z list of databases found on the HWC Library's website.
Thurs., 2/9: Punch 9 for Harold Washington (Running time: 1hr 43min)
Thurs., 2/13: Moonlight (Running time: 1hr 50min)
Wed., 2/19: Tell Them We Are Rising (Running time: 1hr 22min)
Wed., 2/26: Middle of Nowhere (Running time: 1hr 41min)
Coming in 2025! We are curating an exhibit of all the interesting bookmarks we have found in library books, and we're inviting you to participate. Do you have a favorite bookmark? A unique bookmark? A bookmark with which you have a long history? Reach out to cperez2@ccc.edu for more information on how to submit your bookmark for possible inclusion in the exhibit.
You can now manage your library account by clicking on the Sign In link at the top right corner of the online catalog search page. Log in with your CCC credentials (the same username and password you use for your other CCC accounts). Once logged in, you can: view the items you have checked out and their due dates; renew books; view any book requests you have placed; view any fines or blocks on your account; views searches; view any search results you have saved (pinned). Have questions or need help accessing your account? Come by the library and speak with a librarian!
"The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was an important milestone in the effort to achieve equality and autonomy for African Americans. In the decades that followed, Black Power, the Black Arts Movement, Black Nationalism, Separatism, and Black Feminism emerged as movements and grew in influence. Independent Voices provides scholars unprecedented access to writings and thoughts of those who led and participated in these diverse movements in Black American.
Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century."
Independent Voices collections, including the publications in Black American, are accessible through the JSTOR database.
*Description from the databases publisher.
Looking to spice up your reading life? Willing to take a chance on a story?
Mystery books await beginning February 10.
Missed us at the Student Involvement Fair in January? Look for the pop-up library (Ask A Librarian!) on the first floor from 10:00AM to 1:00PM and at College-wide events on the following dates:
Tuesday, 2/11
Tuesday, 2/19
Tuesday, 4/1
Contact Us | 312-553-5760 | 30 E. Lake Street, 5th Floor | Chicago, IL 60601