April 8, 2024 by Eileen Sakamoto | 0 comments
The theme for National Library Week 2024, “Ready, Set, Library!,” promotes the idea that in our always-online world, libraries give us a green light to something truly special: a place to connect with others, learn new skills, and focus on what matters most.
Click on the image below to get to know the library staff! By clicking this image, you can enjoy a slideshow of each staff profile!
April 8, 2024 by Leeward CC Learning Commons | 0 comments
Win a $25 Amazon gift card by completing our annual library user survey! You can fill it out at go.hawaii.edu/FGZ. Survey ends Friday, May 3rd.
Gift card drawing is limited to UH students and employees. Winners will be contacted via email.
April 5, 2024 by tashawil | 0 comments
Full SC Workshop Schedule
SC workshops are hosted via Zoom to all UH campuses at 12 pm.
Email writers@hawaii.edu for assistance
April 5, 2024 by Eileen Sakamoto | 0 comments
Looking for ways to engage your students? Our streaming platform, AVON, offers ways to leverage videos for collaboration, reflection, and assessment of student knowledge.
There are a plethora of films and documentaries available on AVON that are from around the world. This streaming video collection provides access to more than 79,000 videos covering a wide range of diverse topics you can share with your students.
AVON can be found on the Leeward Library homepage. Select the Research menu tab and click Full A-Z Databases List.
AVON is available to any Leeward faculty, staff, or currently enrolled student. Creating an account on AVON allows you to clip and bookmark a part of a video to show in class or highlight a portion of a film.
Once you’ve logged into AVON, you’ll discover a vast array of videos spanning diverse subjects such as history, anthropology, Black studies, music and performing arts, science and engineering, and more. This variety is sure to pique your interest and enrich your teaching materials.
Use AVON in your classes to see what it can offer your students! If you need any assistance please contact our wonderful reference librarians.
March 18, 2024 by Eileen Sakamoto | 0 comments
Microfilm is among the most durable storage media for physical records and it can withstand many environmental impacts better and longer than paper. If stored properly, microfilm has a shelf life of about 500 years.
Did you know Leeward CC Library has a microfilm collection of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin (January 1929 – September 2007)* and the Honolulu Advertiser (January 1929 – November 2005)**? Why do we have microfilm if everything is online? Well, in this case, not everything is online and microfilm is the readily accessible medium for accessing this information.
If you need to access our microfilm, please ask one of our reference librarians so they can show you how to locate articles by using the index. The library has a digital microfilm reader called the ScanPro 3000. We have a handy booklet to learn how to operate the machine. If you need assistance, please see the Circulation Desk staff for help. We hope you will find our microfilm collection useful in researching the history of Hawai’i in the 20th Century!
* Honolulu Star-Bulletin – Gap in coverage from April 1970 – December 1987
** The Honolulu Advertiser – Gap in coverage April 1970 – April 1975 and January 1981 – June 1986
March 4, 2024 by Eileen Sakamoto | 0 comments
Statista is a global data and business intelligence platform with an extensive collection of statistics, reports, and insights on over 80,000 topics from 22,500 sources in 170 industries.
Statista is a terrific source of information and statistics research, study, and personal interest.
To locate Statista, go to the Research menu tab on the library’s homepage then click the Full A-Z Databases List option to view a list of databases in alphabetical order.
This database is wonderfully diverse. I love movies, so I searched for the highest-grossing movie of 2023. “Barbie” was at the top of the list making $1.4 billion in revenue!
Did you know that the success of the movie drove sales up at Mattel, the company that manufactures Barbie?
Please check out this amazing resource available at the Leeward Library today. If you have any questions, please contact one of our very helpful Leeward librarians at lccref@hawaii.edu or at 808-455-0379! We are happy to help!
February 20, 2024 by Eileen Sakamoto | 0 comments
The Libby app allows faculty, staff and students to access online magazines, eBooks, and audiobooks from our OverDrive collection on their phones and tablets.
You can browse thousands of popular fiction and non-fiction ebooks, magazines, and audiobooks on OverDrive! To locate OverDrive, go to the Research menu tab on the library’s homepage then click the Full A-Z Databases List option to view a list of databases in alphabetical order.
To browse OverDrive, log in using your UH credentials.
Once you’ve found something to borrow, go to the app store on your phone or tablet and download the Libby app. After downloading Libby, add Leeward Community College as your library and log in with your UH credentials.
If you have a public library card in Hawaiʻi, you can also add Hawaii State Public Library System to access their OverDrive collection!
Please contact us at lcccirc@hawaii.edu if you have any questions. Happy reading!
February 2, 2024 by Ralph Toyama | 0 comments
Over the winter break, we made an adjustment to our library homepage to more prominently feature our Library Research Center page. It’s designed to present our research and information resources in a way that accommodates people with different levels of search experience and familiarity with our resources. Key features include:
To make Library Research Center easier to find, we made it one of the six prominent links on the library homepage. This new link replaces the “Research Databases” link to our A-Z Databases page.
A-Z Databases lists the 100+ databases and online publications we have access to. It has filters and a search function to help find useful databases. We did find that some students misunderstood the nature of the page, assuming it to be a topical search tool rather than a database-finding tool. This sometimes led to erroneous conclusions about the availability of materials on their research topic. Hopefully the more descriptive labels for our other links to A-Z Databases, which can be found in places including the Library Research Center page and in the “Research” menu that appears at the top of almost every library web page, will help reduce confusion.
February 1, 2024
by tashawil
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The Learning Resource Center and Writing Center are available to offer our services to students:
Upcoming Success Connection Workshops in February:
Full SC Workshop Schedule
SC workshops are hosted via Zoom to all UH campuses at 12 pm.
Email writers@hawaii.edu for assistance
January 29, 2024
by Eileen Sakamoto
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Library staff can help you find a book or magazine, show you how to use research databases and other resources, or answer questions about services through several communication channels.
The LibChat online chat service allows you to connect with a librarian or staff person with the click of a button. There’s no login for LibChat. Go to the library’s homepage at library.leeward.hawaii.edu. A chat slide-out window will automatically appear on the bottom right of your screen. You can also click the slide-out button for a chat session on other library web pages at any time for immediate service during the library’s hours of operation. Our LibChat service is available Monday-Friday, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm.
Another way you can reach a librarian is to Book a Librarian. Students, faculty, and staff can schedule a 25-minute appointment with a librarian. This is a convenient way to schedule a short meeting in your busy schedule to discuss library instruction for a class, get a one-on-one session to learn more about our resources, get help with research, or chat about resources you’re interested in.
See our Contact Us page under the About menu on the library homepage for phone numbers and email addresses. Finally, another option is to come to the library to see a librarian or staff member Monday- Friday, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm. We’re always ready to help!
