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By Roderick Sasis Campus Resources: The African American Studies Library At an institution such as UCLA, most students live such hectic lives that they do not take advantage of all the resources of Powell library, let alone the ethnic studies libraries. Many would probably assume that UCLA did not have such specialized libraries. Hidden away in the basement level of Haines, the African American Studies Library housed typical library equipment such as a television and VCR, a xerox copier, and computers to access the internet and Orion to search for certain subjects. Such resources could prove vital to gaining information for future writing. The whole library itself dealt with African American history and issues. Everything was ethnically centralized. This would benefit writers for community journalism who need information in order to express the full humanity of stories. The print media in the library consisted of black magazines, such as Ebony, Emerge, and the Church Review, and black newspapers, such as the Pittsburgh Courier and the St. Louis American. Books in the library consisted of the Statistical Record of Black America, the Negro Almanac, and biographies on black heroes like Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X. Certain community publications are circulated in the library such as the UCLA Center for Afro-American Studies' catalogs and newsletters that deal with an array of topics from the effects of affirmative action to the Critical Race Theory. The library bulletin board announced current events and issues that affected the black community such as the 13th annual violence against black women and the Prison Outreach program. Also, the African American Studies Librarian Itibari Zulu could prove to be a valuable resource in a search for information pertinent to a story. Whether it be print media or through the current events bulletin, the African American Studies Library informed visitors of events and issues shaping the black community today. (Roderick Sasis is a Sophomore.)