As Finals week fast approaches, it's time to study and finish up those final projects! Usually this week our libraries are filled with students looking for a quiet place to study, but we all know that everything is a little different this year. While the library buildings remain closed for the rest of the semester, we are here with students in spirit, to offer help online and tips to get the most out of studying from home! Tip #1: Pick the Right Spot You might not have access to the perfect ergonomic chair at home, but to keep your back, wrists, and more from hurting while you sit for long
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Winter break is a great time to discover the many online resources available through CSN Libraries that can help with teaching and working in a college environment! We are constantly adding new ebooks to our CSN Libraries online collections--below are some newly published additions: Active Learning in College Science: The Case for Evidence-Based Practice by Joel Mintzes and Emily Walter, 2020. Presents outstanding cases of exemplary practice supported by solid evidence, offering models of teaching and learning that encourage and support meaningful learning and conceptual understanding in the
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Campus might be closed for now, but our librarians are more committed than ever to help students with assignments, research, and citation. We have multiple ways you can get in touch with a librarian quickly and easily to talk about your assignment! While we always promote our online chat service, email, and other contact information, we're rolling out a brand new service where you can book a one-on-one virtual call with a librarian to get the help you need at a time that works for you! Simply click on the link under " Schedule" on our Ask a Librarian page, and choose a time from one of our
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It’s been a long and stressful week of election results, waiting to determine the President of the United States for the next four years, as well as the winners of other local and national races. There’s been a lot of emotion surrounding our current political climate: fear, anxiety, anger, passion, joy, relief, and more. Whether you supported a certain candidate, or have just been bombarded with political news, it’s time now to take a step back and focus on your own self-care. CSN Libraries is here to help! If you type “self-care strategies” into one of the library’s article search bars, you
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Are you exercising your right to vote this fall? Why not choose this topic for one of your assignments? This topic would work for an informative essay or speech and also a persuasive or argumentative essay or speech. You can easily narrow this broad topic to a more manageable and specific area. For informative assignments: What primary sources document your right to vote? Ways you can vote in Nevada / Who can vote What is the Electoral College? What is voter suppression? What lawsuits are before the courts now regarding the Presidential Election? For persuasive or argumentative assignments
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If you are taking a COM 101 class, chances are you have an informative and a persuasive speech assignment to start working on soon. Not to worry--we created a research guide just for you! Our COM 101-Speech Resources guide will help you through the entire research process--from choosing and narrowing down a topic, to finding and citing credible sources for each speech. There are tips and tutorials and lots of helpful advice for finding the best sources to support you in persuading or informing your audience. If you need any help at all, you can always just ask a librarian.
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CSN has a new database called Campus Research . This database is replacing Nexis Uni and will be very useful for students in the paralegal program, criminal justice classes or anyone seeking legal information. With Campus Research you can look up both federal and state cases, statutes, court rules, regulations, administrative decisions, briefs, proposed and enacted legislation, and proposed and adopted regulations. This database also has information on bankruptcy, estate planning, environmental law, immigration, insurance, tax law, retirement, real estate, labor and employment, military law
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CSN's One Book, One College (OBOC) program begins its fifth year of bringing the CSN community together by reading and discussing a single book! The selection for this 2020/2021 academic year is The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. The book explores how to live a happier, more fulfilling life using 10 great ideas from psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, ethics and morality. It's a highly readable mix of enduring wisdom and modern scientific research. If you want to learn more about the ten great ideas in the Happiness
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HBO has announced that Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book Between the World and Me is being made into a television special premiering this fall. CSN Libraries recently acquired the ebook, while the print book will be available to check out from the Henderson and North Las Vegas campus libraries when we reopen. Between the World and Me is a letter that Coates writes to his son, Samori, about their lives in a world that continues to be full of prejudice. Coates writes this letter to his son in 2015 after learning that the killer of Michael Brown would go free. The announcement causes Samori to break down in
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The American Women’s Almanac: 500 Years of Making History by Deborah Felder (2020) is a new addition to our Credo Reference database. This reference book contains biographies, historical facts, essays on significant legislation & movements and over 500 photos. If you’re looking for credible biographical information on well known or lesser known women who had a significant impact on U.S. history, society or culture, just click on the “people” section when you open the ebook. You’ll see an alphabetical list linking to articles that profile over 1,000 women, including activists, artists, athletes