You may have seen online images filled with facts that analyze anything from water conservation to Disney princesses. Infographics are exactly what they sound like: a combination of information and graphics. They’re a way to share data more visually, and typically look like one long page of charts, icons, pictures, and text. If your professor…
When looking at all of CSN’s initiatives, projects, and goals across the campus, student success is the most prominent and most important. Everything the college does is to help our students succeed in their classes, their degrees, and future careers. So in order to make sure that those success initiatives are known, CSN hosted a…
If you use the library website or Canvas, you may have noticed some issues on February 28. If you were doing schoolwork, you probably could not get Canvas to load or you may not have been able to access an article from our library’s popular databases like ProQuest or ScienceDirect. While everything is back up…
Can’t make it on campus to check out books? Need to get a paper done tonight? Just because you’re working from home doesn’t mean you can’t use quality library sources in your assignments. Our website offers over 100 different databases tailored to specific sources and content. From eBooks to newspaper articles to digital streaming videos, you…
To understand how something works, it often helps to narrow in on one small piece of the puzzle and work out from there. To understand how your college library works, it can help to narrow in on one day in the life of the library to paint a picture—or a “snapshot”—of the kind of business done and services provided by the library overall. On April 16, 2015, the CSN libraries participated in the state-wide Nevada Library Association “Snap Shot Day” to collect statistics and photos showing a day in the life of a Nevada library. Here’s what happened at CSN …
Did you miss the eLearning Conference last month? From February 18-21, Las Vegas held the annual conference for eLearning faculty, instructional designers, online media specialists, and web course developers to exchange ideas with colleagues coming from across the country and the world. Right down the street at the Planet Hollywood Report & Casino, CSN served…