Navigate College Admissions Like a Pro!

Navigate college admissions like a pro! College admissions and financial aid can be confusing. Khan Academy resources include video interviews and conversations with successful students from all walks of life and admissions officers and counselors at some of the nation's top schools. http://bit.ly/1rScs0a

Textbook Reserves

Textbook Reserves! Find your textbook. Bright pink labels with your course number on the labels. Use our copiers to make a few copies of some pages. When you walk into the library, it's the first shelves by the Circulation Desk.

Participate in an Information Literacy Survey--You Could Win an iPad

If you'd like, you could participate in a survey about Information Literacy. You could win an iPad! Here's the Student Survey link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NQ8DYLY

Dreamkeepers Grants

The Dreamkeepers grants are made to students who are enrolled in at least six units with a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher and can demonstrate an “emergency” need. These grants are for unanticipated emergency costs. Go to: http://www.grossmont.edu/fa/dreamkeepers.asp

Literati Will Help You Do Faster Research

Have you heard about Literati by Credo? Literati is a discovery tool that combines reliable, citable reference content along with your library's resources and helps you to do faster, more effective research. Check out Literati: http://bit.ly/1uI9S2t

March and Rally for Climate Change This Sunday

This Sunday, September 21, the Peoples Climate March here in San Diego will join others across the globe to send a message to world leaders that now is the time to seriously address climate change. Here is the link to the event: http://www.peoplesclimatesd.org/

Choosing Keywords When You Are Doing Research

Once you've decided on a topic for your research paper, next you'll need to choose keywords. Library databases search differently than Google. In Google, you can put in questions and long phrases, but in library databases you'll need to choose keywords. Here's a short video from another library that explains choosing keywords: