News Archive - The Claremont Colleges Library

September 4, 2019

Library Cancellation: RefWorks Citation Manager

The Claremont Colleges Library has cancelled our subscription to the RefWorks citation manager due to unsustainably increasing subscription costs and a decreasing number of users. We will have access to RefWorks until September 30, 2019, ensuring that all of our RefWorks users have time to choose and migrate to another citation manager. The cancellation is […]

September 3, 2019

Fall Exhibit: Preservation through Performance: Sharing Mexican Folklore through the Arts

The Claremont Colleges Library announces the opening of its fall exhibit, Preservation through Performance: Sharing Mexican Folklore through the Arts. Primarily focused on two local performing groups, the Ballet Folklórico Mexicapan and the Mexican Players of Padua Hills Theatre, the exhibit tells their histories and how they preserved and shared Mexican folklore in Southern California […]

September 1, 2019

Announcing our new Library Dean: Janet Bishop

We are excited to announce that Janet Bishop will become the next A. J. McFadden Dean of The Claremont Colleges Library. Janet joins us from the University of Minnesota Libraries, where she serves as the Associate University Librarian for Content and Collections. Reporting to the University Librarian and Dean of Libraries at Minnesota, Janet provides […]

August 27, 2019

Browse E-Journals Online with Browzine

With the move to publishing scholarly journals online, much has been gained. But one thing has been made more difficult with the transition from print to online: the ability to physically browse journals organized by subject, on library shelves. This allowed for easy browsing and opportunities to serendipitously explore and discover journal content. This is […]

August 25, 2019

Open Education: Call for Faculty Fellowship Program, 2019-2020

This yearlong program will create a learning community of faculty, librarians, and instructional technologists from across the colleges engaged in fostering inclusive, equitable, and collaborative learning environments. This fellowship is designed to support faculty in exploring and incorporating open education concepts and practices (open pedagogy, open access, and open educational resources) into their courses. A […]

August 1, 2019

Library staff use GIS to explore a unique habitat at the Bernard Field Station

The use of geographic information systems (GIS) tools to visualize and explore our physical environment has exploded in popularity in recent years in industry, government, and academic settings. GIS supports scholarly work in the environmental sciences, such as the Pitzer field station project in Costa Rica, this and compelling story map from UCLA scholars on […]

June 10, 2019

Applications open for the Roland Jackson Memorial Music Research Fellowship

Are you a music scholar, student, or performer interested in diving deeper into music research? Consider pursuing your project with financial support here at The Claremont Colleges Library. The Roland Jackson Memorial Music Research Fellowship is an opportunity to spend time pursuing on-site research with music resources found in Special Collections. We are particularly interested […]

May 21, 2019

Celebrating the winners of the Library Undergraduate Research Award 2019

The Library Undergraduate Research Award (LURA) recognizes students who demonstrate exemplary research and scholarship, including remarkable skill and creativity in the use of library and information resources. Students submit a reflective essay on their research process which is then reviewed, alongside their finished or in-progress research project, by librarians and faculty. The 6th Annual LURA Ceremony was […]

May 10, 2019

Article Processing Charges and Green OA: Do I Have to Pay to Have My Work Openly Accessible?

Scholarly Publishing Impact News is a regular news initiative spearheaded by the library’s Scholarly Communications Librarian, Jennifer Beamer. Its purpose is to inform and educate on topics related to the scholarly publishing environment. If you have suggestions or questions for topics you would like to see in this news column, contact Jennifer Beamer. Do I […]

March 27, 2019

Open Access News: University of California Cancels Their Elsevier Subscriptions

Scholarly Publishing Impact News is a regular news initiative spearheaded by the library’s Scholarly Communications Coordinator, Jennifer Beamer. Its purpose is to inform and educate on topics related to the scholarly publishing environment. If you have suggestions or questions for topics you would like to see in this news column, contact Jennifer Beamer. On February […]

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