To learn how to use the library’s resources effectively, plan to attend a Library Survivor class. These drop-in sessions will help you be a better [...]
Supplement your class with Vitamin L!If you want your students to use the Library to do research, please consider incorporating library instruction in some way.
We offer instruction on: creating search strategies; finding articles; searching databases; differentiating between popular and scholarly sources; identifying research articles; avoiding plagiarism; using EndNote; citing in APA, MLA, and Chicago/Turabian; and [...]
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Want more hours in a day? Would you settle for more days in your loan period? Grad students, in response to your requests, we’ve extended the loan period for main collection materials to the length of the current semester (instead of just 28 days). Research on!
Because of excessive shipping delays, increased risk of losing items in the mail, and staffing shortages due to vacation schedules for staff and students, most lending libraries will NOT fill interlibrary loan requests from mid-December through the first week or two of January. Also, out of consideration for the RU community, the ILL staff in [...]
Last workshops for 2007!
Library Survivor workshops are a great way to learn research skills outside of class. Many professors offer extra credit for attending; the instructing librarian will e-mail professors the names of participants.
Plagiarism
Tuesday, November 6, 11 am to 11:50 am,
EndNote
Wednesday, November 7, 3 pm to 3:50 pm
APA Citation Style
Thursday, November [...]