The document highlights the importance of university libraries, detailing various branches and services offered at institutions like BU and Stanford. It discusses library fees, citation tools, and tips from students on effectively using library resources, including borrowing materials and utilizing databases. The overall message emphasizes the supportive role of librarians in navigating vast information resources.

1. Libraries are your friends.
Neil Gaiman

2. • Most university libraries have more than one
branch. For example, at BU, there is an….
• African Studies Library
• Alumni Medical Library
• Astronomy Library
• Fineman and Pappas Law Libraries
• Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center
• Mugar Memorial Library
• Music Library
• Frederick S. Pardee Management Library
• Pickering Educational Resources Library
• School of Theology Library
• Science & Engineering Library
• Stone Science Library

3. How many do you think that Stanford has?
25!
You are welcome to study in most library
branches – check them out and find one you
like!

4. • Regular Material
= $.25 per day to a maximum of $15 per item
• Recalled Material (given 7 days)
= $1.00 per day after recall due date to max. of $30 per
item
• Reserve Material
= 5 cents per minute ($1/minute?!) to a maximum of
$100 per item
What are Course Reserves ?
How about overdue fines ?

5. Printing & Scanning
+
Estimate:
10 cents/page-print
15 cents-copying
Scanning=free

6. Citation fun!
We use Noodletools, but many
universities are going to provide a
more robust citation tool, ie:
ProCite or Refworks.
These will help you organize your
notes/sources/citations and will
also help you navigate styles that
are new to you. Ask your librarian
to teach you how to use them.

7. @ Emma, we subscribe to approximately 15
different databases.
You’re going to find something more like this.
What’s your plan?
In the nonstop tsunami of global
information, librarians provide us with
floaties and teach us how to swim.
Linton Weeks, Washington Post

8. Tips from grads…..

9. 3rd year Arts, St Andrew’s
• “It seems so simple, but just learning how to use
scanners, photocopiers, etc, would have been really
useful. Because it costs money to print & copy it is
helpful to know how to be efficient with all the
machines (e.g. double siding, getting multiple pages
on one side of the sheet, etc).”
• ”My university offers a tour of the library at the
beginning of each year and I took it in my second
year and it was amazing. I'd encourage people to go,
even if it seems super dorky ;)”

10. Recent grad, McGill Engineering
• Used print more than he thought – good
amount of information not available online or
is expensive (eg. Perry’s Chemical Handbook)
• Library is overwhelming at first and librarians
will not seek you out – you need to take
initiative and won’t be the first to ask the
question
• RefWorks / ProCite
• At McGill – citation guide dist with student ID

11. Interlibrary Loan-when the library
doesn’t own what you need.
• Books, journals, articles, dissertations, etc.
• ie: Yale’s ILL information.

12. Chat Service, how to contact.
Email
Call
Text
Walk over!
(Lauren, that’s
you!)
OR
You can chat with
a librarian live to
ask for research
help!

13. Things You’re Going to Recognize:
Libguides

15. LC—You’ve Got This!

16. Cafés, Study Rooms,
Group Meeting Setups, Oh my!

18. Let’s continue the conversation!
• Scenarios:
• You get there and realize you were prepared
for X, Y, or Z. YES!
• You realize there’s something you missed that
really could have helped you.
• You see something really, really cool that
should go into an Emma Library redesign.
• Email me! Send me pix! @emmalibrarylove