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Summer 2012 Schedule

Listed below are the dates of the First and Second Summer Terms 2012 "How to Use Your Library" workshops. No registration is required, so feel free to drop in. All sessions will be held in the ELI Room, located on the 1st floor of Mitchell Memorial Library.

Wednesday, Jun 6, 2012: How to Use Your Library
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Thursday, Jun 7, 2012: How to Use Your Library
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Friday, Jun 8, 2012: How to Use Your Library
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Monday, Jul 9, 2012: How to Use Your Library
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Tuesday, Jul 10, 2012: How to Use Your Library
10:00-11:00 a.m.

Welcome!

The MSU Libraries provide a wide range of resources and services to help you succeed in your studies and research. To help you learn more about these resources and services, we offer a number of "How to Use Your Library" workshops. Dates and times of this semester's workshops are provided in the box to the left.

You can also get research assistance by contacting the Reference Department in-person, by phone, or online. For more information, visit our Ask-A-Librarian page.

Library Tour on YouTube

This four-part series of YouTube videos takes you on a virtual tour of Mitchell Memorial Library.

Find the Information You Need

The following tutorials demonstrate how to find articles and books in the MSU Libraries. These video tutorials have both audio and captions.

Graduate Students

If you are a graduate student, you may want to attend some of the following workshops as well:

Survival Skills for Graduate Students
These workshops provide valuable information about the process of writing a thesis or dissertation, getting published, and how to find a job in academia. For more information, including links to Powerpoints and podcasts from previous workshops, click here.
Thesis and Dissertation Format Workshop
These workshops help graduate students to understand better the formatting requirements set forth in MSU's Standards for Preparing Theses and Dissertations. For a listing of currently scheduled formatting workshops, click here.