Talk with your Subject Librarian! Subject librarians are experts in a specific field who can help you navigate the databases and resources available for your area.
Talk to them! When you send an email or schedule an appointment, let them know what you're working on. Here are some things it will be helpful for them to know:
Iowa State University Library offers a variety of services to help you with your research. A few of these are outlined below.
The Iowa State University Library offers a live chat feature Monday through Friday, from 9am to 5pm. The chat is staffed by a revolving team of subject librarians who can answer questions about research in the library. You can access the chat via the "Live Chat" bookmark button on the bottom of the library website.
Each semester, the University Library publishes a list of workshops available to students, faculty, and staff. The types of content covered vary, but each semester there is at least one workshop related to citation management, publishing, or research.
Keeping track of your sources is an important part of the research process. There are some tools available that can help you keep track of and organize your sources, even outputting citations for you when you're ready to cite them in your final paper! A few guides to help you navigate recommended citation management tools are provided below:
The library's collections and services are available to all ISU students, faculty, and staff and Parks Library is open to the public.
