The Library of Congress states, “Women’s History Month honors and celebrates the struggles and achievements of American women throughout the history of the United States. American women have struggled throughout our history to gain rights not simply for themselves but for many other underrepresented and disenfranchised groups in America.” At CSN we honor women not…
By Jack Sawyer Our Teachers’ Curriculum Library (TCL) is a model children’s library located in our North Las Vegas Campus Library with over 3,000 children’s books, including most American Library Association award winners like the Newbery Medal for children’s literature and the Caldecott Medal for illustrators. One sub-collection at the TCL is the “Big Books,”…
You may have noticed that instructors, professors, and librarians spend a lot of time and effort talking about the importance of citation and referencing so that you can avoid plagiarism, but what you may not know is that it is equally important to make sure you understand how to fairly use images, film, and other…
CSN’s One Book/One College program and CSN Libraries present: A Genealogy Talk with Genealogist Melise Leech: Wednesday, April 4, 2-3 PM, Henderson Campus, Room C-105 Local genealogist and historian, Melise Leech, will discuss how anthropologists, sociologists, geneticists, statisticians, economists, historians, and others use genealogy as a research tool in their discipline. For more information, email…
From March 13 to April 15 we celebrate Deaf History Month, a time of year recognized for important moments in deaf history. March 13 marks the first deaf president of Gallaudet University in 1988 and April 15 marks the founding of the American School for the Deaf (the first public school for the deaf) in Hartford,…
The new Learning Express Library has the same quality academic and career related information that you’ve used in the past, but now with a much easier to use interface. Access practice tests and tutorials covering a wide range of subjects and professions including nursing, firefighting, law enforcement, Praxis, computer skills, grammar, math, vocabulary and more.…