Welcome back!

In case you want to start the semester off with a fresh attitude towards library research, you might want to check out the general orientation tours and open workshop schedule.

General orientation tours are open to anyone who wants to know more about the library. The times will be posted and all you do is show up at the reference desk on the second floor. If you have a specific interest you can relate that to the librarian scheduled. Generally, the general tours are offered the first 2 full weeks of the new semester. The schedule should be ready soon.

Open workshops are offered throughout the semester and the topics vary from general database searching to using the MRI marketing database. Some workshops are offered more than one time a semester and are open to anyone. The workshops take place in room 101 downstairs and around the corner from the student lounge.

You can also learn more about Refworks by attending one of the Refworks sessions offered.

If you like to find information and use it on your own check out the IL wiki and library research guides for help with specific subjects. Also, we have created a few tutorials and uploaded them to YouTube. (eventually this intervening page will go away and everything will be on our youtube page.)

Have a great semester and remember if you need help or have a question about anything... Ask a Librarian!!

Links on the Catalog main page

The library catalog's main search page has a few links that you might find useful. You can search the hard copy reserves by professor or course name/number. This can come in handy when you need to know if your professor has put your textbook on reserve or if there are any old tests to study or books to read, etc. You can also access the e-reserve from the catalog. Professors put electronic copies of articles, book chapters etc. on e-reserve. You usually get a password from you teacher to access the e-reserves. Something that was just added this week is the New Titles List. This is a report that is run periodically that shows all the new titles that have been ordered, processed and made ready for use. This list will be updated frequently and are ordered by the end-process date. This may change some as we become more familiar with the report functionality and ways of sorting the results. You can also recommend a purchase, fill out a search request, or request a book that is checked out. Just a few things to make things easier.