Home - Chaffey College Library Happenings - September 2021

Did You Know

Students can chat 24 hours, 7 days a week with an expert librarian and get research help.

Student can attend online library workshops to improve their research skills. Online workshops are live and are led by Chaffey librarians.

Meet Us!

Meet Terezita! Terezita Overduin is a Reference Librarian who started at Chaffey in the Fall 2019. One of her primary research areas has been user experience and humanizing online instruction. Terezita has written several scholarly articles and enjoys rock climbing! Watch her welcome video and connect with her.

Faculty Support

Faculty can contact a librarian for help with accessing library resources, ZTC & OER textbook support, or librarian-led information literacy instruction.

What's Happening!

We are excited to share with you what's new at the library.

Library Website - Check out our new library website where you can search for books and articles, get research support, and use library resources.
OneSearch - This is our new library search system. OneSearch can help you find books, articles, videos, and more.
Pick-Up Services - The library at the Rancho location will be offering pick-up services for students, faculty, and staff who need to check out books from the General Collection. Watch this how-to video on how to request books.
Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Library Guide - Celebrate and learn more about Hispanic and Latino accomplishments.

Research Spotlight

Develop your topic & keywords

Review your assignment instructions: What kind of assignment/essay is it? Do you need to take a stance? Make an argument? Provide facts or data?
Will you need library sources? What kind?
Use the Picking a Topic tutorial to help you narrow down your ideas and find keywords.
Use Opposing Viewpoints to browse topics and get ideas.
Watch the Developing a Research Topic video