Stop by the WLA Campus Library and have a look at the display highlighting the prolific publishing of Dr. Sonia Nieto, the GSEP Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series speaker. Dr. Nieto is a leading authority in the field of multiculturalism and Professor Emerita of Language, Literacy and Culture in the School of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her talk [...]
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Dr. Terrence Roberts at Pepperdine University Libraries: “We Are All Making History”
Friday, February 15th, 2013
On January 31, Dr. Terrence Roberts, one of the “Little Rock Nine” — the nine African-American students who volunteered to desegregate Little Rock Central High School in 1957 – spoke at Pepperdine University’s Payson Library, before a capacity audience of students, faculty, and community members. He recounted the days in 1957 when the world watched [...]
Library Hack – Hanging Indents for Works Cited/Bibliographies
Thursday, November 15th, 2012
Are you writing a research paper and have gotten stuck formatting the Works Cited/Bibliography? Whether you are using MLA, APA, or Chicago, each style requires that the lines for each citation after the first line be indented – these are called “hanging indents.” Rather than trying to manually manipulate the citations using tabs, spaces, etc., [...]
Dia de los Muertos display at WLA Graduate Campus Library
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
Dia de los Muertos Display (October 27-November 16, 2012) Co-sponsored by California Association of Bilingual Educators (CABE) and Pepperdine University The Dia de los Muertos altar & installation created by artists Alberto Hernandez Castillo, Kay Gott,and Maria Pickmen includes both traditional and non-traditional approaches to observing the holiday and honoring ancestors. “This is an event [...]
Pepperdine Librarians publish research on eBooks
Friday, October 19th, 2012
Lizette Gabriel and Maria Brahme have published an article describing the findings from their study of distance student use of and preferences for Ebooks. The article appears in the July edition of Journal of Library and Information Services in Distance Learning. The full text of the article is available through the library via the Taylor [...]
Pepperdine Libraries Assessing First Year Students’ Research Skills
Saturday, September 1st, 2012
During Fall 2012, Pepperdine University Libraries is administering the SAILS (Standardized Assessment of Information Literacy) Cohort Test to assess the information literacy skills of incoming undergraduate students. The information literacy skills tested are based on the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education which address competencies such as: (1) determining the nature and extent of [...]
Library Hack – Textbooks in the Library
Sunday, August 26th, 2012
At the beginning of each semester, we frequently get asked, “Does the Library have this textbook?” Generally speaking, the Library does not purchase textbooks as part of its collection development — in part, because textbooks are updated so often that having the most recent edition used in each course would be cost-prohibitive. There are enough [...]
New traveling exhibition tells the story of the origins, creation, and impact of the King James Bible
Wednesday, August 1st, 2012
Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible, a traveling exhibition opening at Pepperdine University’s Payson Library on August 23, 2012, celebrates the 400th anniversary of the first printing of the King James Bible in 1611 and examines its fascinating and complex history. The story behind the King James Bible remains surprisingly [...]
Library Staff Member and Spectrum Scholar reflects on American Library Association Annual Conference
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
Casey Ann Mitchell is the Acquisitions Supervisor for Pepperdine Libraries and she works out of Payson Library. In addition to being a great member of the Library staff, Casey is currently pursuing her MLIS (Master of Library and Information Science) at the University of North Texas and was selected as a 2011 Spectrum Scholar. Below are Casey’s [...]
Pepperdine Libraries Welcomes the Round Table West Collection
Thursday, June 28th, 2012
Saturday, June 9, was a glorious, sunny day and the weather was only half the story. That afternoon, Pepperdine University Libraries celebrated Gary Hudson’s donation of the Round Table West Collection to our Special Collections with a garden party at Robert Barbera’s beautiful San Marino home. Robert Barbera, Chair of the Library Committee of the [...]
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