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Examine a Latin American issue or historical event that had a major impact on a Latin American/Hispanic country. You can research a moment in Latin American history, for example, the Tlatelolco massacre; you can explore a topic over a long period of time, for example, what have been the differences between right-wing and left-wing governments in a Latin American/ Hispanic country; or you can focus your work around the experiences of a particular indigenous group.
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The LBCC Library, like many academic libraries at colleges and universities, lives within the credible web domain of .edu.
The Spectrum of Credibility helps illustrate why your professors want you to use library sources. After all, librarians and scholars have spent decades curating credible resources for students like you to easily access and use.
You will likely begin by searching one or more of your keywords in the Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC), also known as OneSearch.
Learn how to use OneSearch to find books, ebooks, articles, and other media that are housed within the LBCC Library, academic databases, and even at external publisher sites.
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Learn how to explore individual academic databases that are relevant to the assignment. We'll learn about general (multi-disciplinary) databases and subject-specific databases.
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Covering Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Social Sciences, this very popular database is user-friendly, with a clean and simple interface. A "Go To" websites for college students.
A great student oriented database with current events, consumer health, and career information. Topic overviews, reports, biographies, journal articles, and more. Education majors can access Curriculum Standards.
One of the most used and popular academic databases for college students, Proquest uses a student-friendly layout and covers business, medical, social sciences, arts and humanities, education, science and technology, and religion. Formats include books, articles, dissertations, videos and blogs. Use the thesaurus tool to use the databases' keywords.
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