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09/23/2026

🎊 Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month: Sept 15 - Oct 15 🎊

FREE scholarly eBooks to download, read, and share & local cultural venues to explore!

🗺️ Transnational Diaspora Entrepreneurship: Cases from Brazil, Mexico and Japan https://uwest.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1543126642

🗪 Literary Translation in Latin America in the Twenty-First Century: Bridging Experiences, Theories and Cultures https://uwest.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1592043164

🏞️ The Maya Forest Waterlands: Shared Conservation, Entangled Politics, and Fluid Borders https://uwest.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1500467178

⚕️ Advancing Latino, Hispanic, or of Spanish Origin+ Leadership in Academic Medicine https://uwest.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1579002572

🐆 Animal Symbolism in Hispanic Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day https://uwest.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1564178385

📰 Stories That Make History: Mexico through Elena Poniatowska’s Crónicas https://uwest.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1601792184

🤩 Experience the vibrant Latin American culture of Los Angeles with these resources & venues:

📅 Los Angeles' Latino Heritage Month 2026 Calendar & Cultural Guide https://culture.lacity.gov/programs-and-initiatives/la-hm

🖼️ MOLAA Museum of Latin American Art has FREE Sunday admissions https://molaa.org/

🎨 LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes (a Smithsonian affiliate) is FREE to visit https://lapca.org

09/15/2026

Newly added dissertations are now available via the library catalog! Some sample titles on topics in the zeitgeist:

🧠 “Code or Clinician? A Preliminary Analysis of the Efficacy of AI Chatbots in Psychological Diagnosis and Treatment Planning https://uwest.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1613818448

🛠️ Gesture-Controlled LED Matrix Display: A Buddhist Approach to Engineering https://uwest.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1601063238

☁️ Abstracting Away: Psychological Distance, Climate Change, and Corporate Sustainability https://uwest.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1505967778

👤 Reorienting Shadows: Navigating Ambiguous Loss in Faith Deconstruction https://uwest.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1584528162

If you can name a topic, there's probably a dissertation for that! Let us help you look 🤓

09/08/2026

🔥 Last chance for extra credits THIS FRIDAY 9/11 only!

New students: If you are an incoming new student for Fall 2026, complete the OMIS requirement to get to know the ins-n-outs of using the library and the online databases. Show off your research skills and aim for that A+ on your papers!

You will get ✨10✨ extra print/copy credits if you complete by this Friday. This is your last chance to get extra credits for early completion.

▶️ Start here http://lib.uwest.edu/omis

09/04/2026

New students, remember to complete your OMIS requirement!

Today's the last day to get ✨20✨ extra print/copy credits for early completion!

▶️ Start here http://lib.uwest.edu/omis

09/03/2026

We will be closed on Monday 9/7/2023 for Labor Day.

This holiday is celebrated on the 1st Monday of September in the United States & Canada. Other countries celebrate a similar theme on May "International Workers" Day (5/1). Why the difference? Find out here in our Encyclopedia Britannica database https://academic-eb-com.uwest.idm.oclc.org/levels/collegiate/article/Labor-Day/2416

Our website however, is open 24/7! Go to http://lib.uwest.edu to find ebooks and ejournals via our catalog, and find online articles from our databases.

(Photo from a newspaper article of the first US Labor Day: The Iola register. Iola, Kan., 31 Aug. 1894. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83040340/1894-08-31/ed-1/seq-8/)

08/27/2026

There's still room! Graduate students (Masters & PhD/DBMin) can apply to get a dedicated study carrel and small locker for the entire semester:

https://zurl.co/8MPJ

08/03/2026

If you are a new incoming student for Fall 2026, you can get a head start by completing your OMIS requirement early. Get to know the ins-n-outs of using the library and the online databases. You will get ✨30✨ extra print/copy credits if you complete by Friday 8/28.

▶️ Start here http://lib.uwest.edu/omis

Questions? Get the library on the phone, text, chat, or email: https://lib.uwest.edu 🤗

07/14/2026

Find authoritative works 👍 & must-reads on various Buddhism topics at the Oxford Bibliographies Buddhism database: https://lib.uwest.edu/weblinks/goto/9517

New topics:

🔥 Buddhist studies pedagogy https://uwest.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1603501612

🔥 Museum and heritage studies in Southeast Asia https://uwest.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1603501671

🔥 Buddhist art and architecture in Cambodia https://uwest.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1603501762

07/01/2026

The library will be closed on Friday July 3rd in observance of Independence Day.

Read the original text for the Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1776: https://tinyurl.com/yys5kryk

05/18/2026

🕘 Summer Intersession & Semester

Mon-Fri: 9 AM - 5 PM
Sat-Sun: Closed

Upcoming Holidays:
5/22 Buddha Day
5/25 Memorial Day
7/3 Independence Day (Observed)
8/21 Flex Day

Items may be returned via dropbox right outside the library doors when we're closed.

✈️ Traveling or 🚙 going home for the break? Remember you can still access our databases full of journal articles off campus: http://lib.uwest.edu/services-requests/databases. Contact us if you need assistance!

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