Library Newsletter: September 2022
Welcome Back To Campus!
What's New?
Table of Contents
- Library Hours
- Study Room Info
- New Information Guides
- Grammarly
- Zotero
- Printing
- Faculty Corner
Welcome back to campus. We've noticed the parking lot is full, so we're close to having everyone back on campus.
The past year brought in quite a few changes for library services, including a new process for signing up for a study room, new resource guides, and a new library home page. There are even more exciting changes in the pipeline, but we're not quite ready to roll them out.
Hopefully, this newsletter will refresh your memory of what the library offers.
We start with the open hours, the same as last trimester. We've also included a few dates we know we're closed.
If you're a new student, you may want to learn how to sign up for a study room and read the rules. It's easy and online.
Next, we've added new information guides with links to university and external resources. You can always reach out to the library if you are stumped in writing, research, or evidence-informed practice. But if you're working at 2 a.m. on a Saturday, the guides might just answer your questions. Directions on how to access a Grammarly EDU account are available in these guides. Grammarly is a beefed-up grammar, spelling, and overall writing checker.
Another tool you may want for writing papers is Zotero. Zotero is a citation manager which helps store, organize and create citations. Watch the training to learn more.
You may have noticed new printers in the library. Instead of Uniflow, the print jobs should print to SecurePrint, but the actual process is similar to the old process.
Finally, if you're a new faculty member or missed last week's lunch and learn, the Faculty Corner highlights resource guides created for faculty.
Fall 2022
Sunday: 12:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Mondays-Thursdays: 7:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Fridays: 7:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Saturdays: 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
The library will be closed on the following days based on university holidays. We will update our website and signs on the door should our hours change.
CLOSED
Monday, Oct. 10: Indigenous People's Day
Thursday, Nov. 24: Thanksgiving Day
Friday, Nov. 25: Day after Thanksgiving
SignUp
You can sign up for study rooms on the library's main page. Look for the "Book A Study Room" button.
Some of the benefits of the system include:
- An ability to sign up for 30 minutes to 2 hours (or 4 hours for bigger rooms)
- Start times can be on the hour or half-hour
- You get a confirmation email and a reminder
- Easy to cancel
- A check-in/check-out process will help us monitor use but is not required at the time
The link to the signup is on the library's website, but you can also bookmark the page once you're there for easy access in the future.
Rules
- Study Rooms 1-7 and 10-14 can be checked out for 2 hours at a time per person. If you'd like to stay longer, you can add more time as long as no one has signed up for the room after you.
- Rooms 8 and 9 are larger study rooms. They can be signed up for up to 4 hours at a time, but a minimum of 3 people must use the study room at a time. Fewer than 3 people belong in the smaller study rooms. The only exception to this is if all other study rooms are taken.
- Snacks and beverages are okay in the room. Larger meals are not allowed in the library. Please eat them in the library foyer.
- We have desktop desks you can check out and use to stand and study
Information Guides
The library developed information guides on several topics that are now available. The guides exist to support:
- Learning about library resources
- Finding resources on how to write papers and add citations
- Refreshing your Evidence-Informed Practice (EIP) knowledge
- Your post-graduate careers, such as managing a small business and learning how you can research after graduation
- Finding archival materials and other general information about the library
Links to these guides can be found on the main page. A link to all guides, Information Guides By Topic, is located in Library News. We also directly link to specific guides in the Students, Faculty, and General columns. (See image above).
Or you can read through the description of the guides on our information guide home page.
Grammarly
The university offers access to a free Grammarly EDU account.
Grammarly EDU
- helps with your spelling, punctuation, and grammar
- offers verb tenses and agreements corrections
- suggests ways to polish our writing and strike the right tone
- highlights redundancy, run-on, and wordy sentences
- performs a basic plagiarism check
Instructors tell the writing lab they wish student writing were more polished. Getting a Grammarly EDU account is a fast way to improve your writing and impress them.
So start your trimester right by downloading Grammarly to work with Word, Outlook, and your favorite browsers. Check out our handy guide, with short tutorials, here:
New Citation Management Software
The following training covers reference managers, discusses the differences between Mendeley and Zotero, and demonstrates how to use a citation manager. In that regard, Mendeley and Zotero work similarly, so the training is perfect even if you'd like to know why you should get an account.
SecurePrint
- Setting up the printer to print in color or two-sided is easier when sending the printer a document from a university computer. Change your printer settings so it prints exactly as you'd like. Some printer customizations are available on the actual printer, but not as many as before.
- When printing from your own device, the email address is now papercut@nwhealth.edu instead of printing@nwhealth.edu.
- Do not worry about your balance. You will only hear from IT if you're abusing your printing privileges, which will be unrelated to your papercut balance.
- The printer now accepts both Adobe and Microsoft PDFs.
Information Guides For Faculty
To learn more about library resources for faculty, please view the Faculty Development's Lunch & Learn Presentation. (Faculty Only)
Or check out the following guides:
Library Instruction Guide
(Library) Faculty Help and Resources