Librarians can help you find peer reviewed articles, trade journals, books, streaming videos, DVDs, textbooks, and other materials. Librarians are the ideal person to ask for help with academic citations such as MLA, APA, and IEEE! The library is open 8:00 – 7:00 p.m. M-TH and 8:00 – 4:30 on Friday. There are study rooms that you can book online. The library has charging stations with adapters for many cell phones and tablets. Calculators, headphones, laptops, USB drives, along with other things you can check out and take home.
This all-in-one search box finds a variety of materials in many of our resources at once, saving time and organizing search results in one place.
These are the databases that are searched all at once:
Some resources show up in the results of One Search that are independent of our database subscriptions. Here are some of those sources that are automatically searched when you use One Search. However, we do not own access to all of these. This means that you and your students may discover resources that are not available through the Ray Howard Library. Some of these are open access databases, so you and your students can access them for free. For articles from other databases, you will be able, in many cases, to order copies through Interlibrary Loan.
54% Print books, magazines, journals, maps, and more
21% Electronic newspaper, magazines, and journal articles
16% Online encyclopedias and non-fiction e-books
9% Streaming video and other mediaUse interlibrary loan (ILL) to borrow books and articles that are not available in the Shoreline Community College Library, and that you do not want for the permanent collection. ILL may be the right choice for your disciplinary professional learning.
Find the college's plagiarism policy along with resources, materials, and more at the library's page about plagiarism.
The library pays for a subscription to the Chronicle of Higher Education, a popular publication that touches on educational trends and information.
This link opens in a new windowTo put aside your own personal item for your students, click the button and fill out the form. Keep in mind that you will need to tell us how long to put it aside and the checkout period your students will have when they check out the item.
Copyright and open education: Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen
Your division liaison can help purchase items, provide library instruction, or support you by creating content specific to your assignments.
