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Research Advising Service
The free Research Consultations with a librarian who has a subject specialty can advise students about their research in numerous ways:
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To discuss your research topic
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To get tips to make your library research more productive
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To locate resources from other libraries
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To locate relevant scholarly articles
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To look for foreign works, dissertations, historical newspapers
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To locate archival materials or special collections
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To find primary sources
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To review how you are doing in your library research and which other avenues you might want to explore further
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To obtain obscure films or audiovisual media
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To help with citing sources, creating bibliographies, or dealing with copyright questions
Important services offered by Standish Library for students doing research include:
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Getting help with your research on the spot at the Reference Center seven days per week
- Obtaining materials you need through Interlibrary loan services and ConnectNY
- Registering for ILLiad strongly recommended: Please click on “First time user”
- You may request materials from ConnectNY through CYRIL using your library account number
- Purchasing important books needed for your research project which are not available from interlibrary loan or which are needed for a full year
- From Library home page, click on CYRIL and then click “Suggest a Purchase”
- Indicate that it is for research for thesis, faculty research, etc.
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Personalized, in-depth and on-going research consultations with a librarian who has subject specialty: You may contact one of the librarians directly or email or call Reference Center (x2988). Indicate that you are a student doing a research project. You then can set up a research consultation.
Important services offered by Standish Library for Faculty advising students on research or assigning major research projects for courses they are teaching:
- Arranging Instruction, contact Catherine Crohan (x6731), Coordinator of Instruction
- Introduction to library research for the First Year Seminars
- Library instruction for research methods classes.
- Library instruction preparing students for major research projects
- Workshops on specific library databases or tools for students
- Arranging for required research consultations for capstone course or major research project
- Contact the librarian who is teaching library instruction or your departmental librarian liaison
- Contact Kelly MacWatters, the Coordinator of Reference and Electronic Resources, to arrange for one of the librarians to do the research consultations for students in your class
- Arranging for research consultations with a librarian who has subject specialty for an individual student doing independent study or summer research with you. Same contacts as above.
- Purchasing important books needed for the faculty-student research project which are not available from interlibrary loan or which are needed for a full year
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