HWC Library Newsletter: September 2022: Home

The Library's website has a new look! Visit our homepage to access online resources and learn more about what the HWC Library can offer.

Librarians are available via chat during the fall semester. Chat hours are: Monday - Friday: 8:00 am-10 pm and Saturday - Sunday: 10 am-10 pm. The chat box feature will open on the lower right corner of any library page including the main CCC Libraries information page.

On the HWC Library homepage, you can also chat with a librarian by clicking on the blue "Chat With A Librarian" button on the left side of the page.

In 2019, the library piloted a program that embedded librarians in English 102 classes. These librarians assisted with student research needs, supported up to five class sessions per semester, and created readings/assignments that would support English 102 assignments. If you are interested in learning more about the embedded librarian program, please let us know. As always, we are deeply committed to ensuring that your students are getting all the help they need. We build department-, course-, and class-specific research guides. Please see the links below for examples of other services we offer:

• In addition to our face-to-face offerings, we can add information literacy modules to online classes. You can see our distance offerings here: https://researchguides.ccc.edu/EL_modules 
• If your department offers courses that have identical research projects, we can build a page that encompasses all of them. 
• If your department has many kinds of research projects, we can build a page with more general information. 
• If your class is doing its own thing, we can make a custom page for you. 
• If you are looking for OER for your class, please review our local guide and email us for further assistance.   

Take a look at our previous newsletters for any information you might have missed.

Textbook didn't arrive in time for the first day of class? Not able to purchase a copy of a textbook you need this semester? Did you know that the HWC Library has a collection of current textbooks (also known as our Course Reserves)?  Stop by to find out if the Library has what you are looking for. While items in Course Reserve cannot be taken out of the library, we have copiers and scanners available if you need specific chapters in class or at home. Please keep in mind that there may be instances in which the Library does not have a textbook being used in the current semester. Visit us for more information. 

Schedule Library Instruction (for HWC faculty)

Schedule a Research Consultation (for all HWC community)

Suggest a Purchase (for all HWC community)

Request an Interlibrary Loan (for all HWC community)

Request a Video for Online Viewing (for HWC faculty)

Faculty Publications (for HWC faculty)

The Latino American Experience is a database dedicated to the history and culture of Latinx people. Included in the contents of the database is the Bracero Program Collection, a collection of primary and secondary sources provides an in-depth look at the Bracero Program and the experiences of the workers who participated in it. The Latino American Experience is part of the Library's collection of online databases. Remember that remote access to our online databases requires you to log in with your CCC username (do not include the @student.ccc.edu part) and password.

Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain by Shankar Vedantam and Bill Mesler delves into the war in our brains between logic and emotion, fact and deception, superstition and logic, and so much more! Each chapter illuminates examples of how people deceive and allow themselves to be deceived for all manner of reasons. Yet, the authors argue that these different strategies we use to try to make sense of the world may all serve a purpose. In the end, the book discusses how difficult it is to change your mind when you learn that something you believe is untrue, as well as the value of doing so. Paradoxically, the authors show how metaphors, symbols, and parables may sometimes serve us better than rationality and logic. -- Todd Heldt, Librarian 

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