Announcements and Highlights from the SMC Library
Join us for conversations with nationally best-selling authors online every month!
Are you ready to for a revolutionary guide to fixing what’s not working—in systems and processes, organizations and companies, and even in our daily lives? Join us for an enlightening conversation with bestselling author Dan Heath as he talks with us about his newest book, Reset: How to Change What’s Not Working.
Join us for a transformative conversation with award-winning journalist and author, Clara Bingham, as she chats with us about her new book, The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America, 1963-1973. The Movement is the first oral history of the decade that built the modern feminist movement.
You’re invited to a glimmering conversation with New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner as we chat about the signature emotional depth of her books that have been inspiring readers toward self-discovery for decades.
Missed a library workshop? View our workshop recordings!
This workshop session covers the importance of having a research plan, choosing a topic, finding books and articles, and evaluating online resources for credibility.
An introduction to formatting and citation using the Modern Language Association (MLA) style.
This workshop guides students through retrieving and citing references in the American Psychological Association (APA) style.
Looking for a textbook? You can easily access print textbooks and eTextbooks from the Textbook Commons. Please check your syllabus for the title of the book that your class is using.
Take a look at the new books that have been added to the library!
The library is undergoing a renovation! New paint, new carpet, and new furniture! Individual study booths (aka: Zoom booths) have already been installed and are available for student use. Stay tuned for upcoming new features to the library later this month!
March 3 - 7
An annual celebration, Open Education Week (OE Week) is an opportunity for actively sharing and learning about the latest achievements in Open Education worldwide. To participate, see the events currently listed on the OpenEd calendar or learn more about your local efforts through the SMC Library or OER Committee.
Check out these select films from the library's streaming video collections in observance of Women's History Month.
This biopic of Ugandan chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi traces her journey from the slums of Katwe, where she is forced to abandon her schooling at the age of nine, to the upper echelons of the chess world after she develops an interest in the game at a youth-outreach program.
Adaptation of Amy Tan's bestseller about four immigrant Chinese women and their American-born daughters. The story begins in San Francisco, where three of the women have gathered to bid farewell to their deceased friend's daughter, who's departing for China to meet her long-lost half sisters.
Best Actress nominee Salma Hayek stars as Mexican surrealist Frida Kahlo in this biopic, which chronicles her turbulent marriage to Diego Rivera, her political activism and the severe pain she experienced following a bus accident.
A look at the first women's professional baseball league is set during World War II and focuses on the rivalry between sisters, one a sweet-swinging catcher and the other a pouty, impulsive pitcher, who play on the same team, which is managed by a washed-up, hard-drinking ex-Major Leaguer.
How It Feels to Be Free takes an unprecedented look at the intersection of African American women artists, politics and entertainment and tells the story of how six trailblazing performers—Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Diahann Carroll, Nina Simone, Cicely Tyson and Pam Grier— changed American culture through their films, fashion, music and politics.
Erin is a sassy single mother and low-level law-office worker who becomes obsessed with a case involving a California utility company that's accused of polluting the drinking water in a small town. She puts everything into fighting the corporation.
Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans
Entertaining, thrilling and radical, THE DILEMMA OF DESIRE shatters the myths and lies about female sexual desire, bodies and – ultimately – power.
WARNING: This film contains frank discussions of sex and sexuality.
Through Stonewall, the feminist movement, and the experimental cinema of the 1970s, lesbian filmmakers built visibility and transformed the social imagination. Filmmakers Barbara Hammer, Su Friedrich, Rose Troche, Cheryl Dunye, Yoruba Richen, Desiree Akhavan, Vicky Du, film critic B. Ruby Rich, Jenni Olson, and others share moving and often hilarious stories from their lives and discuss how they've expressed queer identity through film.
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