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Looking for ideas for your paper? Or background information?
Looking for quick explanation of a theory or theorist?
Looking for company history? Or demographics?
Need it fast?

Try the online database, Gale Virtual Reference Library

The Gale Virtual Reference Library is a collection of full-text encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources in every discipline taught on this campus. The collection is made up of more than 1,700 volumes of college-level reference sources, including fields of arts, biography, business, education, environment, history, law, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nations and the world, news, political science, religion, science, social science, technology and more.

This database includes an intuitive three-box search engine that makes it simple to narrow your search and focus on the information you need. Search results are all full text and full image. They can easily be emailed, printed, downloaded or saved to your mp3 player.

The topics covered are useful for undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty.

This is a fast way to warm-up to your research and get things going.

Give it a try.

To find the Gale Virtual Reference Library; start at the Library home page, then click on Databases and enter in Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Library Tabbed Search - Gale Virtual Reference Library

Use the "Databases" tab on our home page tabbed search box.

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11pm Extended Library Hours

The Pollak Library is pleased to announce that it has expanded library building service hours!

Both Library North and Library South are now open from 7:45 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

In fall 2009 — as part of a cost-savings move — we began closing the Library at 9:00 p.m., keeping the first floor of Library North open until 10:30p.m. for studying and computer use. We are happy to be able to offer this extended building access, along with our new Sunday hours, to students and patrons of the Pollak Library.

Circulation staff will be on duty during these new extended hours, to answer general library questions and to assist patrons wanting to check out and renew materials, retrieve course reserves, retrieve holds, and locate library materials. The Circulation Desk is located on the first floor of Pollak Library South. Please refer to our Library Hours calendar to confirm daily staffed hours at our other service desks.

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Spring Break Hours 2013

Looking to catch up on research, studies, or group projects over spring break next week? Both the Pollak Library and the Irvine Campus Library are open during the Spring Recess!

Classes and normal library hours resume on Monday, April 8th.

Pollak Library Hours

  • Sunday, March 31st: 10:00am – 6:00pm
  • Monday, April 1st: Closed (Cesar Chavez Day observance)
  • Tuesday, April 2nd: 7:45am – 6:00pm
  • Wednesday, April 3rd: 7:45am – 6:00pm
  • Thursday, April 4th: 7:45am – 6:00pm
  • Friday, April 5th: 7:45am – 5:00pm
  • Saturday, April 6th: 10:00am – 6:00pm
  • Sunday, April 7th: 10:00am – 6:00pm

Irvine Campus Library Hours

  • Sunday, March 31st: Closed
  • Monday, April 1st: Closed (Cesar Chavez Day observance)
  • Tuesday, April 2nd: 9:00am – 6:00pm
  • Wednesday, April 3rd: 9:00am – 6:00pm
  • Thursday, April 4th: 9:00am – 6:00pm
  • Friday, April 5th: 9:00am – 1:00pm
  • Saturday, April 6th: Closed (normal closure)
  • Sunday, April 7th: Closed (normal closure)
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