New Databases

New Database Alert

In support of the new CSU initiatives to support Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, the Chancellor's Office has agreed to fund FIVE archives and ONE new database! 

These holdings were identified by the CSU as valuable resources for EDI research.

• American Indian Histories and Cultures
• American Indian Newspapers
• Ethnic Diversity Source
• Japanese American Incarceration: Records of the War Relocation Authority, (1942-1946)
• Los Angeles Sentinel Newspaper (1934-2010)
• Race Relations in America

Introducing New Resource

The Meriam Library now offers Mango Languages.  Mango Languages is a language database with over 70 world languages from Spanish to Swahili, English to Icelandic, and Shakespeare to Ancient Greek. This database prepares learners for realistic conversations and strengthens everyday communication skills. Mango teaches students how to create new meaning on their own by challenging them to combine freshly learned language structures and vocabulary with what they already know.

Updated daily, both these databases are recognized as extremely useful resources that “bridge the information gap between mainstream and alternative literature.” Meriam Library is happy to announce access to two significant databases has been renewed.

Ethnic Newswatch supplies full text access to articles from newspapers and periodicals covering the 1960s to present, published by minority, ethnic, and Native presses in the United States.

    The Meriam Library has a new database -- Musical Theater Songs.  

The Meriam Library is pleased to offer access to historical local newspapers on Digital Reel. All available Butte County newspapers on microfilm have been scanned and digitized and are now online. The content includes a variety of titles beginning with the Butte Record (1851) and continuing with The Chico Enterprise and Chico Record through December 1922. Issues later than 1922 are still available on microfilm.

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