CSN Libraries News

By Torri Kellough
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CSN Libraries invites students, staff, and faculty to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month by engaging with items available in its collection of electronic resources with some notable items listed below. Also check out the book displays at the campus libraries to learn more about the history, cultures, and accomplishments of Hispanic and Latin Americans. Title: Apoyo sacrificial, sacrificial support: How undocumented Latinx parents get their children to college Author: Stephany Cuevas Location: ProQuest EBook Central database Details: Explores how undocumented parents support their

By Torri Kellough
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Register today for this one-credit online 8-week second session course beginning on Monday, October 21, 2024. For more information contact Torri Kellough at torri.kellough@csn.edu .

By Raine Rosales
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CSN Libraries and North Las Vegas Campus Life present: Coffee & Charms! Join us in the library for this midterm week event! Come study for your midterm, then take a break to enjoy a free hot cup of coffee, de-stress with some coloring, then browse through some cool croc charms! While supplies last. Wear your crocs! North Las Vegas Campus Library classroom E201D Tuesday, October 15 11:00am-2:00pm

By Torri Kellough
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CSN Libraries is excited to announce a new single user study pod available at the Charleston campus library. This pod was made available through an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant by way of Nevada State Library, Archives & Public Records . This study space can be checked out by a single user for quiet study, test taking, slide deck voice recordings, and other uses that comply with the library’s use policies . The pod includes an adjustable chair, table, and connectors for charging devices. If you have questions about using the study pod, contact the Charleston campus library

By Rebecca Blunk
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Searching for health-related topics? Try using MeSH! If you are a Health Sciences student, taking a class related to health science topics, or just interested in the subject in general, you may find that locating sources from the CSN Libraries catalog and databases that are precisely related to a medical or scientific term to be challenging at times! You may ask yourself whether you should be using the search term “heart attack” or “myocardial infarction,” and you may not be aware that what people often commonly refer to as having “shin splints” is technically an ailment known as “medial

By Christopher Zahedi
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Kanopy is a streaming video service offering countless films covering a wide range of topics and interests. Subjects include Art, History, Political Science, Business among many others. Kanopy offers documentaries from renown documentarians such as Ken Burns, Alex Gibney, and Michael Moore. Kanopy even offers award winning narrative films from acclaimed filmmakers like Akira Kurosawa, Charlie Chaplin, and Ingmar Bergman as well as much of the Criterion Collection of "important classic and contemporary films ." In addition to offering closed captioning like typical streaming services Kanopy

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By Emily Pattni
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CSN Libraries would like to give a warm welcome to our new permanent director, Chewala “Che” Gant. He has just relocated from Colorado where he served as the Library Director at Front Range Community College’s Boulder campus. Che comes to us with experience in fostering a collaborative institutional culture, instruction, and leadership in advocating for student/staff needs. Che has kindly answered a few questions for us to get to know him better: Where are you originally from and where have you worked along the way? I’m originally from Louisiana, but moved to Denver, Colorado when I was in

By Torri Kellough
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Statista is a prolific database that contains over 1 million statistics and covers 80K topics across 170+ industries. Users can search by topic or use Statista’s subject categories to find statistical reports, consumer, and industry reports, as well as global information and data. Infographics are an invaluable tool that display data in easy-to-read charts that are downloadable in multiple formats including PNG images which can be inserted into a Word or Google document. In addition, the computer-generated1 citation tool allows users to cite charts and data sets with ease. Among its many uses

By Christopher Zahedi
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Thanks to a recent update, accessing the JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) database is now much easier for CSN students. In the past, all users were required to create a separate JoVE account. Now, all CSN students have to do is sign in using your CSN student ID and Canvas password! What is JoVE? JoVE is a database provided by the publisher of the same name that offers short videos about topics and experiments related to Biology, Chemistry, Neuroscience, and even how to use laboratory equipment. Each video includes narration and transcripts in 10 different languages for improved