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Notable Electronic Acquisitions, 2017-2018

January 1, 2019

The library continues to focus on expanding its user-focused print and electronic collection, combining demand- and evidence-based acquisition models and drawing on the evaluations, insight, and recommendations of librarians, faculty, and students. Notable additions to our e-book collection included offerings from important publishers such as Cambridge, Springer, Oxford, Taylor and Francis, and Elsevier/Science Direct, while.

Meet Me at the Main Services Desk: The Research Appointment Model at The Claremont Colleges Library

January 1, 2019

The Library does not have a traditional central reference desk (although Special Collections does have one). Instead, Subject and Teaching Librarians offer research support through an appointment system advertised on the library’s website. We market these appointments to Writing Centers, offer a description of the service to faculty to include on their syllabi, and point.

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Steelcase Active Learning Center Grant, 2017-2019

January 1, 2019

In March 2017, the library was awarded a $65,000 grant from Steelcase Education to transform our main library classroom, which was last renovated in 1998, from a traditional lecture style room, into an “Active Learning Center.” The new space enables librarians to experiment with and incorporate a variety of active learning strategies into their classes..

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CCEPS Fellows 2017-2018 In Their Own Words

January 1, 2019

The Claremont Center for Engagement with Primary Sources (CCEPS) program promotes connections between students, primary sources, and research activity through directed, hands-on experience with original special collections by providing professional archival training to graduate and undergraduate students at The Claremont Colleges. Fellows write weekly entries for the “Out of the Box” blog to share their.

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Exhibitions and New Acquisitions in Special Collections and Libraries, 2017-2018

January 1, 2019

New Acquisitions in SCL Special Collections supports The Claremont Colleges’ teaching and research missions by collecting and preserving original manuscripts, books, and other primary source materials of a rare or unique nature. We acquire new holdings predominately through donations and transfers, and purchase a select amount of material. We promote the use of our collections through outreach.

A user puts their feet on the Hovr leg swing.

Move while you study using Hovr devices

December 13, 2018

Tired of sitting still while you study? You’re not alone. More and more people who primarily work at a desk or computer are opting to stand or move while they work, instead of sitting all day. Here at The Claremont Colleges Library, our standing desks and treadmill desks on the 2nd floor bridge have been.

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Student Guide to the Library: Night Owls

December 12, 2018

Marie Tano (PO ’21) is a student employee at The Claremont Colleges Library in the User Services and Resource Sharing Division. This year, she is writing monthly posts sharing her library knowledge and making the library easier to use for students. If you hang around the library by the time Finals Week begins, you have.

Large poster in a frame. The poster is titled "Course Readings."

Student Guide to the Library: Course Readings

November 26, 2018

Marie Tano (PO ’21) is a student employee at The Claremont Colleges Library in the User Services and Resource Sharing Division. This year, she is writing monthly posts sharing her library knowledge and making the library easier to use for students. The library’s Course Readings system is a life saver for many students at The.

Library Search Tips & Tricks: Group Related Editions

November 26, 2018

Library Search is built on OCLC’s WorldCat system, which is a massive database of library holdings (over 425 million items) from around the world. To address the huge number of items that can show up for a given search, a new feature was implemented last year that groups all related editions and formats (print and.

Library Search Tips & Tricks: Find a specific title

October 12, 2018

One of the advantages of Library Search is that it searches not just what we own here at The Claremont Colleges Library, but also other libraries’ collections from around the world. If you need a specific item that we don’t own, you can request it from another library using Resource Sharing. Sometimes it can be hard.