ESL — English Language Learners

To request or renew library books, DVDs, or other materials, log into your library account using Library Account Login.

Use your MyPortal login credentials (W# and MyPortal password). For more information about MyPortal login details, visit MyPortal Information.

Your library account allows you to:

• Request materials from LPC and Chabot libraries.
• Check your account to see current checkouts and due dates.
• Renew items online.

To search the catalog, visit: Library Catalog - OneSearch

Check-Out: Check-out is the process of borrowing items from the library. Students may check out items at the Check Out Desk. Materials include reserve textbooks, laptops, calculators, and group study room keys.

Library Card: An LPC student ID card also serves as a library card. Students may check out library materials with their student ID cards or with their W#s and picture IDs.

Library Catalog: The online library catalog is a listing of all the items held within the library. The online catalog's search bar on the library's homepage searches books, basic readers, articles, DVDs, and CDs.

Reference Desk: This is the desk where the librarians sit. Students may come to this desk for help with finding books, articles, and more, as well as help with citing.

Librarian: A librarian helps students find and cite items for research projects. All librarians have a master's degree and have studied how information is organized, managed, and created.

Library Stacks: Most of the library's books are shelved in the stacks. The library stacks are the shelves of books located to the left when you walk past the Reference Desk.

Call Number: Call numbers are located on the books' spines and act as the “address,” or location, of the book on the shelf.

Print Station: This is where students pay for and release print jobs.

Reserve Textbooks: Reserve textbooks are for courses available to students to check out for a short amount of time. Students may use reserve textbooks in the library for one or two hours.

Database: A library database is an electronic collection of information organized to allow users to get that information by searching in various ways. Library databases contain periodical articles, images, music, and more.

Cite, Citing, & Citations: To cite is to give credit to the source of a piece of information that a student may use but does not own. Citing sources is the act of giving credit to the creators of information. Citations provide the exact information about the source. Citations appear throughout a research paper as “In-Text Citations” and then at the end of the paper in their full form in the “Works Cited” list.

Plagiarism: Using information without giving credit to a source of information is plagiarism. Students can avoid plagiarism by citing any source using in-text citations throughout their papers when writing information that is not their own and then providing the full citation at the end in the Works Cited list.