Mabee RAP Sessions

The Library is having RAP (Research Assistance Program) sessions to tell students about the library and resources! There are three groups of sessions:

Introduction to the Mabee Library

This session highlights the services and resources that the Mabee offers. A basic orientation to the Mabee Library and the Curriculum Resources Center, an overview of the Library's website, and a physical tour of the Mabee will be included in this session.

Sessions will be held at:

February 4 4:15pm to 5:15pm

February 5 9:30am to 10:30pm

February 6 7:00pm to 8:00pm

February 7 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Introduction to Academic Research

This session will cover the research process, such as how to find relevant books and articles. By the end of the session students should be able to 1) identify appropriate article databases and use them to find articles; 2) use ATLAS, the online catalog, to find specific books and periodicals; 3) identify locations in the Libraries for books and periodicals; and 4) identify whether an article is considered scholarly or not.

Sessions will be held at:

February 11 8:30pm to 9:30pm

February 12 2:30pm to 3:30pm

February 13 1:00pm to 2:00pm

February 14 11:00am to 12:00pm

Finding Scholarly Internet Resources

This RAP session will introduce students to visual and clustering search engines, as well as strategies for finding scholarly Internet resources.

Sessions will be held at:

February 19 5:00pm to 6:00pm

February 20 7:00pm to 8:00pm

Hope that you are able to make it to one or more of the sessions!