Celebrating Student Success2026 Library Research Awards
Now in their 20th year, the Library Research Awards recognize LMU students whose research makes expert and creative use of the services, resources, and collections of the William H. Hannon Library to produce a scholarly or creative work.
Our winners this year include both undergraduate and graduate students conducting research in courses ranging from biology and biochemistry, to history and yoga studies, and cover topics such as health communication, museum studies, medieval manuscript production, community responses to natural disaster, and more! Read about each of our winners and their research over on LMU Library News.
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First Year ExperienceRedesigning Library TutorialsTo support LMU's recently-launched “Intellectual Character Initiative," we're updating our First Year Seminar information literacy tutorials to incorporate intellectual virtues, aligning those virtues with the skills necessary for effective academic research. Learn more » | | 
Hot Summer REadSpicy Book RecommendationsWe've collected our staff members’ favorite romance novels–perfect for your summer reading plans! Our list has something for all types of readers: from heart ache to heart flutters, from food adventures and ghosts to athletes and fantasy. This booklist will sweep you off your feet. Learn more » | |
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May 4-14Feel Good Finals
Finals can be a stressful time. So in addition to providing you with spaces to study and spaces to work-out your anxieties, we are partnering with units across campus to offer a number of stress-relieving activities. Learn more »
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May 6, 6 P.M.
Graduation Hat Decorating Party
Need help decorating your commencement hat? We'll provide some supplies and light snacks! Learn more »
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Now Through Sep. 25On Display: Mismeasured
“Mismeasured” is an exhibition curated by the students in HIST 5400. The exhibition examines the 19th century preoccupation with measuring human character through the sciences of physiognomy and phrenology. Learn more »
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Streaming Films
Before you all run off for the summer, it might be a good time to remind you that we have a number of streaming film databases. Whether you're researching a specific topic, exploring the history of cinema, or just need a film to watch on a quiet Friday evening, check out Kanopy, Swank, or any of our other online streaming platforms.
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APIDA History and Culture
Here is a selection of new, staff-picked titles from our collections in celebration of Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Heritage Month. Explore more titles, including children's books and films, on our Staff Picks LibGuide.
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Ruth Maxey (Editor)
The Collected Short Stories of Bharati Mukherjee
The first volume to feature the author's complete short fiction: all 35 stories. Leading Mukherjee scholar Ruth Maxey edits the collection, unearthing seven unknown stories. Mukherjee's short fiction raises provocative, often prescient political questions about migration, nationhood, class, and history. It is an essential volume for readers both familiar with Mukherjee's work and new to her groundbreaking fiction. Find it in our Main Stacks collection »
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Tanika Raychaudhuri
The Social Roots of Asian American Partisanship
This book explains one of the most transformative but puzzling trends in contemporary American politics: strong support for the Democratic Party coupled with recent movement towards Republicans among Asian Americans. In contrast to existing theories rooted in familial influence and social exclusion, the book advances a new explanation that emphasizes the crucial role of peer groups, a theory of "social transmission." Find it in our Oxford E-books collection »
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Connie Y. Chiang (Editor)Nature Unfurled: Asian American Environmental Histories
Examines the links between Asian American and environmental history from the late 19th to the early 21st century. With essays on topics such as health in urban Chinatowns, Japanese oysters on Washington tidelands, American Indian and Japanese American experiences at the Leupp boarding school and isolation center, Southeast Asian community gardens, and contemporary Asian American recreation. Find it in our J-STOR E-books collection »
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Prachi Gupta
They Called Us Exceptional: and Other Lies that Raised Us
The author articulates the dissonance, shame, and isolation of being upheld as an American success story while privately navigating traumas invisible to the outside world. Gupta weaves a deeply vulnerable personal narrative with history, postcolonial theory, and research on mental health to show how she slowly made sense of her reality and freed herself from the pervasive, reductive myth that had once defined her. Find it in our Main Stacks collection »
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Use Multiple Sources
No one source, no matter how strong, can tell the whole story. No single article can capture the full picture: it's a single contribution to a much larger conversation. That's why reading multiple sources is so important. By engaging with more than one scholarly voice, you move from seeing research as a process of gathering isolated facts to understanding it as participating in an ongoing conversation.
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Library POV: Instructional Design
Librarian Darlene Aguilar’s expertise in instructional design supports the development of targeted and intentional online learning modules for students. Specifically, Darlene is building out a more robust support structure for our transfer students, who sometimes miss out on the information literacy instruction that happens in the First Year Seminar and Rhetorical Arts courses. Discover more on Instagram »
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Access with your MyLMUNew E-Resources: Spring 2026
This semester, we added four new e-resources to our always-growing list of research databases, including the Sports Business Research Network, LA Times Digital Edition, Wall Street Journal Digital Edition, and Shakespeare in Silent Film. Learn more »
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Support Student Success
Make a donation to the library this year as part of your annual giving practice. Your support helps us continue to adapt to an ever-changing landscape. Please consider becoming a William H. Hannon Library donor today and help us create new worlds in which our students can live, learn, create, and grow.
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