1. Resources:
Human Rights and Justice Issues Database: HeinOnline database focuses on human rights and justice issues. The Open Society Justice Initiative database provides access to briefing papers, publications, reports, handbooks, legal and policy submissions, and fact sheets by the Justice Initiative on human rights and justice issues.
Ethnic Diversity Database: Ethnic Diversity Source provides rich access to a variety of materials dating back to 1923 that cover the cultures, traditions, social treatment, and lived experiences of different ethnic groups in the United States, including African Americans, Arab Americans, Asian Americans, Jewish Americans, Latinx Americans, Native Americans, and multiracial Americans. The database includes peer-reviewed journals, magazines, newspapers, e-books, biographies, historical documents, videos, and primary source documents consisting of speeches, letters, and interviews.
2. Services:
Diversity Librarian/Coordinator: Library administration selected a librarian to represent the Leatherby Libraries on all related diversity initiatives, including the DEI Chapman University Task Force. The diversity librarian has been charged with creating a comprehensive diversity plan that will include innovative ways of thinking about diversity and emphasize diversity of thought, which has always been at the heart of academic libraries.
MyLibrary! App: The Leatherby Libraries now has the MyLibrary! application which is available on all iOS or Android mobile devices. Some features include renewing items, searching items in the catalog, placing holds, viewing account information, and much more!
Curbside Pick-Up Services: The Leatherby Libraries offered limited curbside services during the pandemic to provide enrolled students, faculty, and staff with the ability to checkout circulating, physical items from the Leatherby Libraries.
3. Spaces:
Italian Heritage Archive Study Room
Sikhs and Sikhism in America Study Room
Mendez v. Westminster Group Study Room
Henri Temianka Archives Multimedia Room
Donna Ford Attallah '61 Angels Room
To read more about the Leatherby Libraries' themed study rooms, check out our blog.
4. Technology:
Open Educational Resources (OER): Research has shown that using OER in place of traditional textbooks helps to create more equitable and inclusive learning experiences for marginalized students. The Leatherby Libraries offers workshops, guides, open access research, and the ability to publish for free in the Wiley and Cambridge University Press Journals.
Increase in Seamless Access to Electronic Full-Text Content: The Leatherby Libraries switched to a new link resolver and Journal A-Z List to make accessibility easier for students, faculty, and staff to locate and access electronic journals and other resources.
EBSCO Mobile App: EBSCO has launched an upgraded version of its mobile app, making it easier than ever to access research and scholarship from the library’s Start Your Search platform or our individual EBSCO databases. The app allows users to read and listen to articles from the databases, conduct searches and save articles, pull up previously saved or viewed search results, and stay organized by providing access to saved items across devices that are logged in to a user’s EBSCO account. In addition, users can download and read EBSCO e-books directly in the app.
5. Exhibits and Displays:
Invisible Disabilities
Egypt the Revolution Continues
Native American Art
A History of Pharmacy and A History of Medicine in Pictures
Check out our blog to read more about our diverse displays and exhibits.
6. Programming and Events:
Challenger: The Final Flight
Empowering Muslim Women
Howard Arthur Tibbs: Citizen, Musician, and Tuskegee Airman
Nobel Prize Winners at the Leatherby Libraries
The Leatherby Libraries’ Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts align with the Chapman University Strategic Plan for Diversity & Inclusion, fostering a diverse and inclusive campus climate. To read more about our diversity accomplishments, check out our blog.