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Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm
December 17-January 3
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Closed December 24, 25, and January 1.
Click here for a complete listing of OSU's databases.
We have more than just Academic Search Complete to help you with your research needs. Above, you'll see a link that will take you to a complete list of your databases. These can be broad and inclusive, like Academic OneFile, or ultra subject specific, like 19th Century U.S. Newspapers or SocIndex, an entire database of social work resources.
Feel free to explore, and remember: Contact a librarian if you have any questions at all.
With candor and heart, Alejandra retraces her trajectory as a Mexican American woman raised by an immigrant single mother in Los Angeles, foregoing the tidy bullet points of her resume and shining a light on the spaces between them instead. What emerges is a moving testimony of personal struggle and triumph that shatters the one-dimensional glossy narrative we are often sold of what it takes to achieve the American Dream. Alejandra uses her own experiences to illustrate the emotional tolls First and Onlys often face that are widespread yet rarely acknowledged, providing a road to truth and healing in the process.
More students are enrolling in college than ever before in U.S. history. Yet, many never graduate. In The Journey Before Us, Laura Nichols examines why this is by sharing the experiences of aspiring first-generation college students as they move from middle-school to young adulthood. By following the educational trajectories and transitions of Latinx, mainly second-generation immigrant students and analyzing national data, Nichols explores the different paths that students take and the factors that make a difference.
March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement.
