CSN Libraries are happy to introduce two new Kanopy film databases! PBS Justice Now Collection: Policing, Policy, & Civic Power offers investigations and life stories examining community activism, public policy, and social reform. PBS U.S. History Collection includes the acclaimed series’ American Democracy, Roots & Resistance, and American Stories to offer compelling glimpse of America’s history and institutions. Both collections can be accessed through the Kanopy database and searching for “PBS,” and by following the links above.
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Dear CSN Community, Welcome to the CSN Libraries. We are happy to see you here in our physical spaces and online. The CSN Libraries are designed to support your success at CSN. Whether through access to information, study spaces, information technologies and other resources, and facilitated support for research and learning, all of these are here for you so please do let us know your questions and needs. If you are new to CSN, I encourage you to visit the library on your campus, as well as the online environment to explore how the Library would be supportive of your work. The CSN Library Team
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CSN Libraries would like to extend a warm welcome to our new Director, Jeff Bullington! Jeff joins us from California where he served as Director of the Armacost Library at the University of Redlands. He brings years of leadership and advocacy experience to CSN and we look forward to seeing his skills put into practice for our students and community! Where are you originally from and where have you worked along the way? I was born in Boulder, Colorado and Nevada has now become the 9 th state I have lived in (Colorado, Iowa, Massachusetts, Illinois, Texas, Kansas, Minnesota, California, and
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Please give a warm welcome to our new Systems Librarian at CSN, Christopher Skipper. He has kindly answered a few questions so that we can get to know him a bit better! Tell us about your past experiences with libraries and what brought you to this new role at CSN? I have over 10 years of library experience and I have worked K-12, Public, Academic, and most recently a joint-use public/academic library. I also have done some work with managing digital archives. I came to CSN for many reasons. I lived on the east coast my entire life and I wanted a change of scenery. I started at a community
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It’s that time of the semester when research papers are being assigned in multiple classes, but especially English! If you haven’t stopped by the library yet (either on campus or online at library.csn.edu/ask ), we can absolutely assist you with finding research materials and citing sources. But when it comes to English literature specifically, you might find yourself unsure where to start! The good news is, researching and writing a paper for English Literature involves the same basic strategies as any research paper. Follow the tips below, compiled by our former librarian Clarissa Erwin in