Tired of learning on Zoom?

Come to the fabulous Core building at the center of our campus and learn in person!!!

INFO 230 offered Spring 2025 T-Th 1-2:15pm in Core Building 301.

Stay after class and talk to your classmates and instructor face-to-face!

Or grab a cubicle and get some studying done in the library, conveniently located in the Core!

Meet three GE requirements in one course:

INFO 230 - Argumentation and Information Literacy for Sustainability Topics
In-person section available
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-A3; Second Composition; Sustainability Overlay
Students analyze case studies in sustainability and environmental justice, exploring multiple perspectives and sources of evidence. Students will build coherent and cohesive arguments, using inductive and deductive reasoning, honing their argumentation skills through dialogue, outlining, and peer review of drafts. Must earn C- (CR) or better for GE credit.

Learn about sustainability and environmental justice!

Build key writing and argumentation skills in a supportive environment!

Email: Sharon Radcliff at sharon.radcliff@csueastbay.edu for more information.

On Thursday last week, our Intern from San Jose State University, Jarah Blum, led a fascinating talk on baking in the Library. Jarah has been working as a professional baker for 7 years and shared her tips and advice for baking. In addition to giving some great advice, such as weighing your ingredients rather than using volume, Jarah also brought fudge brownies she baked to share--complete with a piped spider and spiderweb decoration on top! It was truly a sweet talk and we hope you will join us at a future Library talk!

Brownie recipe: https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/fudge-brownies-recipe

Spiderweb recipe: https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/spider-web-brownies-recipe

We are excited to announce the hiring of our first ever Archives Student Assistants!

While the University Libraries has housed the University Archives and Special Collections for decades, this is the first time we have had the delight of having Archives Student Assistants. Lanii and Keisha will be helping with digitization work, our online presence, and other duties around the archives and library.

Lanii

Lanii is a Psychology major in her second year at Cal State East Bay. Her current work involves scanning as part of our retrospective digitization project of theses. When we have received permission from the authors, we are able to post these scanned theses in ScholarWorks.

Anna, our Archives Assistant, recently finished adding the metadata and uploading the first thesis Lanii scanned, which you can see it here: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12680/b5645152p

Lanii will also be helping out with other archives work beyond scanning, including outreach at tabling events, assisting with UX testing, and helping when classes and researchers visit the archives and special collections.

Keisha

Keisha is a graduate student in the Interaction Design and Interactive Arts Masters program. She brings with her previous experience in product design and UX testing. Keisha is currently helping with revising our archives and special collections web pages to make them more user-friendly and accessible. Keisha will also be working on scanning, UX testing, and helping us improve our archives communications online and in-print.

For more information about the University Archives and Special Collections, please visit our website: https://library.csueastbay.edu/archives

Special October Edition

Expanded Weekend Library Hours
Starting This Saturday (10/26)

We are excited to announce that the Library will have expanded weekend hours starting this Saturday to coincide with Preview Day!

Starting on Saturday, October 26th, the Library will be open from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm on Saturdays and 12:00 pm to 7:00 pm on Sundays.

For all current Library hours, please see https://library.csueastbay.edu/aboutthelibraries/hours

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INFO 200-02: Mon. & Wed. 9:30-10:45AM, Synchronous Online
Instructor: Jeffra Bussmann
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-E
This special version of the INFO 200 course is for Science conscious or Science curious students. The class will be focusing on science communication, covering such topics as peer review, pseudoscience, open science, data visualization, ethics in science, COVID-19 science, and more.

INFO 210-02 [7w1]: Asynchronous Online with instructor Daisy Muralles
INFO 210-03 [7w2]: Asynchronous Online with instructor Kate Pham
Units: 1 ; Breadth Area: GE-E
From a topic of your choice, this 1 unit asynchronous course will dive into the research process from developing a focused research question, translating that question into a sophisticated search strategy to find appropriate information sources, to finally learning methods to evaluate the information sources you find.

INFO 230-01: Tues. & Thurs. 1-2:15pm, Hybrid
INFO 230-02: Asynchronous Online
Instructor: Sharon Radcliff
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-A3; Second Composition; Sustainability Overlay
Students analyze case studies in sustainability and environmental justice, exploring multiple perspectives and sources of evidence. Students will build coherent and cohesive arguments, using inductive and deductive reasoning, honing their argumentation skills through dialogue, outlining, and peer review of drafts. Must earn C- (CR) or better for GE credit.

INFO 250-01: Tues. & Thurs. 9:30-10:45AM, Synchronous Online
Instructor: Kate Pham
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-E
Introduction to the Critical Information Studies Minor. Covers critical information literacy theory, basic academic research skills to assist in research processes, and issues of seeking, finding, evaluating, using, and creating sources of information on a scoped topic.

October 1, 2024 Edition

From the New Dean of Libraries, Kristin Hart

This past summer, I got into my car with my elderly rottie mix, my teenage son, two rugs, some art, a smattering of books and a single giant suitcase and I headed west from New York City, where I’d been living and working for more than 35 years. Destination: Cal State East Bay in Hayward.

I knew this was going to be a big change for us, and I knew how beautiful the Bay Area is, but I did not anticipate how quickly I would fall in love with the Hayward Hills around campus, the smell of straw and eucalyptus, the spectacular views everywhere, and the people who had NYC energy and smarts (without the anxiety) and a friendliness and depth that comes from living somewhere especially nice.

Not to mention the food! Amazing food everywhere. Even the new Cane’s at the foot of the hill was a reason to celebrate.

As my first semester as Dean of Libraries gets well underway, I wake up grateful every day to walk over to the CORE Library building to see what the students are doing. The building was created for students and students fill every corner. Students are also there to help each other. Over 40 students work in the library building. They check out books, shelve materials, answer inquiries at the information desk, help students access and navigate technology, serve as subject and writing tutors at the SCAA, and perform many, many other duties.

Without our student workers, the Library and the Student Center for Academic Achievement (SCAA) simply couldn't operate. Two terrific exemplars of this hardworking crew are Faith Neuberger and Angel Lara Jimenez. We thought you might want to get to know them better.

Student Assistant Spotlight

By Linda S. Dobb

Meet Faith

Faith Neuberger is a junior at Cal State East Bay, majoring in psychology. Faith started working as a Student Library Ambassador in 2022. She wanted to work in the library because she met another library ambassador who really seemed to be enjoying her work of answering questions at the Information Desk, helping with exhibits and presentations, and contributing to the Library's social media feeds. Faith does not believe she wants to be a librarian, but she enjoys being able to help students who come in the CORE and she likes seeing other students outside of class and in the context of the great library building. Faith has a flair for exhibits and she was instrumental in putting together the library's exhibit on banned books last year (Banned Book week this year will start on September 22, 2024). Faith has also assisted with other library activities, such as last year's Sustainability Crafts event and our APA (citation) workshops.

One of the most rewarding parts of Faith's job as an ambassador has been when students thank her profusely for being there and helping them when they are "at their wits' end." This year, Faith will work with other student library ambassadors on a series of small pop-up events in the CORE; these will be one hour sessions where people can get together and do themed crafts. As Faith noted: "Truthfully the CORE is the heart of the campus for students and I am happy to be working there."

Meet Angel

Angel Lara Jimenez is the co-lead peer academic coach in the Student Center for Academic Achievement (the SCAA). Angel works with students on their study skills such as time management, planning and prioritization, utilizing resources, and communicating effectively. These are referred to as the "Four Pillars," and Angel not only talks with students on how to deploy these skills at East Bay, but he also trains other students to be peer academic coaches (there are currently 15 peer academic coaches in the SCAA).

Angel came to East Bay from Silver Oak High School in Hayward. He is a Kinesiology major who hopes to one day open a clinic and a gym. Angel stated that he is interested in helping individuals who are undergoing rehabilitative therapy. He would like to not only see them not only recover but also get stronger!

The impulse to help others has been strong in Angel since coming to East Bay in 2021. In 2022 he became a peer academic coach after observing another student perform this job as part of our Foundations of Success seminars. Angel attributes his strong sense of belonging at Cal State East Bay to his job as a peer academic coach. He loves working with students whether they are freshmen, sophomores or transfers. And, students love working with him. As one wrote: "Hey, Angel, I just want to say thank you for everything you have done not only for me but the class. I can see you have a passion to be around students and help others. Your actions will lead you to success in the future. Keep on striving for greatness!"

It's pretty clear that Angel will do just that.

Both Angel and Faith are wonderful representatives of the very talented and dedicated students working in the CORE. Thank you to Angel and Faith and to all of our great student assistants who help keep things humming at the "heart of the campus." Bravo!

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