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A live, online panel discussion featuring first-time women office-holders Carrie Koelker, Lindsay James, Kate Parks, and Nancy Fett

Thursday, October 1, 7:00-8:15pm 
Register to participate online at https://loras.libcal.com/event/7090705

This year marks the one hundredth anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which opened up the electoral system to participation by women. As part of Loras College’s commemoration of this milestone, please join us in listening to four women recently elected to their first term in state or local office. They will share why they decided to run for public office, their experiences campaigning, and the rewards and challenges of the job so far. 

This online event is free and open to the public. To receive a link and password for the online webinar, please register here: https://loras.libcal.com/event/7090705. 

Sponsored by the Loras College Library, the History, Sociology, and Politics Majors, and the Gender Studies Minor. 

Students! Go to “Citation School” with the Library. Join Librarian Marissa as she walks you through some of the key citation styles and then in the second webinar shows you how to use Zotero to store and organize your sources. Register now at the links below.

October 6 @ 5:00pm – Mastering Citations – Registration is open!
October 8 @ 5:00pm – Using Zotero – Registration is open!

Looking for research or reading related to National Latinx Heritage Month? Check out the Library's guide to Latinx Research & Reading.

Join poet Kyla Lacey online via Zoom on Friday, 9/18 at 2:00pm for a virtual poetry workshop. 

Lift Every Voice: Whay African American Poetry Matters is a yearlong national public humanities initiative that engages participants in a multifaceted exploration of African American poetry, the perspectives it offers on American history, and the on-going struggle for racial justice, and the universality of its imaginative response to the personal experiences of Black Americans over three centuries.

To received the zoom credentials, register online by visiting: https://loras.libcal.com/calendar/events/lacey 

Sponsored by: Lift Every Voice, the Loras College Library, and the Loras College Center for Inclusion and Advocacy.

Celebrate Constitution Day 2020!

Have fun exploring the links and books below:

A Revolution in Favor of Government by Max M. Edling

Call Number: 342.73029 Ed53 | 2nd Floor Stacks

Publication Date: 2003

 

 

 

Encyclopedia of the American Constitution

Call Number: 342.73023 L57 2000 | 2nd Floor stacks

Publication Date: 2000

 

 

 

Miracle at Philadelphia : the story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September, 1787 by Catherine Drinker Bowen

Call Number: 342.732 B67 | 2nd floor

Publication Date: 1967

 

 

 

 

The Presidents and the Constitution by Ken Gormley

Publication Date: 2016

You might already know about the benefits of information that comes from government websites and publications. In fact, here’s a guide that breaks that all down.

Did you know that there is a growing number of government mobile apps? 
•    They are available on a wide variety of topics.
•    They are reliable and useful.
•    They promote the use of government information.
•    They are available for nearly every mobile platform, although not all apps are available on all platforms.

The best place to look for government mobile apps, is the directory on USA.gov, but just about every government agency website will list available apps, such as:
•    Disaster Info https://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/apps 
•    FEMA https://www.fema.gov/about/news-multimedia/app 
•    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention https://www.cdc.gov/mobile/index.html,
•    National Library of Medicine https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mobile
•    Internal Revenue Service https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/ris2goapp 
•    Veterans Affairs https://www.va.gov/patientcenteredcare/resources/mobile_apps_and_online_tools.asp
•    The Library of Congress https://loc.gov/apps/ 
•    The Congressional Record https://loc.gov/apps/

Topics include: children, bullying, bioengineering, disabilities, disasters, congress, healthy living, education, and epidemiology.

Happy downloading!

Library account and interlibrary loan system login functionality has been restored as of late Tuesday 9/8/20. If you continue to have a problem with any Library system, please let us know at library@loras.edu. Thanks for your patience!

Having trouble placing ILL requests or checking on your Library account? You’re not the only one. We are working closely with our software vendor and Loras’s amazing IT team to figure out why our systems aren’t talking to each other right now. Unfortunately, it looks like the system will be down through the weekend. We’ll post an update as soon as a solution is found. In the meantime, you can still access all of our databases, just be sure to check the full text option to make sure you have access to all the articles you find.

Thank you for your patience as we deal with this hiccup.