Orientation to Mildred F. Sawyer Library
Modules:
- A Research Process
- Searching for Information
- Retrieving Information
- Evaluating Information Resources Found and Retrieved
- Ethical Use of Information
Links to:
- Information Instruction Services Home Page
- Site Map for Information Instruction Services
- Descriptions of the Modules
- Orientation to Sawyer Library Services
- Sawyer Library Home Page
Orientation to Mildred F. Sawyer Library Resources and Services
We invite you to explore the Mildred F. Sawyer Library and its resources and services. The staff, information resources, study space and technology of the Sawyer Library is available to help meet with your academic needs:
- books and periodicals to use for course-related assignments
- availability of almost all course-required textbooks on reserve
- electronic databases with thousands of full text peer-reviewed academic journals inclusive of millions of articles
- laptops and a wireless network enabling students to sit anywhere in the library and search the library's as well as other online resources
- free printing at computer and microform workstations
- help finding and mediating the multiplicity of information resources
- instruction on how to productively find, retrieve and evaluate information sources
- physical space for individual studying and group projects, and as a social gathering place