The way to an "A" leads through your library!

Research has shown that students who make the effort to learn how to efficiently use their library are 94.6% more likely to get an "A"!

OK, I made that statistic up, but I'm sure the numbers are that high... :-)  Learning how to quickly find and use the hundreds of library databases will definitely get you to the best material faster -- leaving you lots more time to focus on the analysis required for your assignments.

Take charge of your library education with the workshops and other services below.

1. Discover Your Library (library research skills) workshops are scheduled near the beginning of every term. Registration is requested; library instructors will contact registrants so that the instruction can be tailored to students' needs.
2. Can't make it to one of the Discover Your Library workshops, but still want an in-person overview of core library research skills? Consider Instruction on Request: For the Spring 2015 semester we are piloting a new service on the Burnaby campus, Instruction on Request, a way to "Discover Your Library on your schedule:" groups of three or more students may request a customised version of the Discover Your Library workshop at a mutually agreeable time.
3. Students may also use the Library's online tutorials at any time to learn general skills such as how to use the Library catalogue and how to discern the difference between popular and scholarly sources.
4. And for the Business students out there, consider investing just 6 minutes in a video that refines the process down to... Only 4 Steps: Researching in Academic Business Journals.
5. Finally, since we're at that time of term when many students are just now finding out what major assignments they'll be working on for the next few months, now's the time to get organized and map out the steps you'll need to take. Our Assignment Calculator will do that for you! The first step in stopping procrastination is breaking the task down into do-able bits.

All of these options are aimed at giving you a solid foundation. The more complex, subject-specific skills and resources in Business and Economics are still the sorts of things you'll want to get individual help with, either at the help desks in any of our libraries or by contacting your bus/econ subject librarians -- the super-helpful team below.

Happy January, all!

-- MarkB

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We are…

• Mark Bodnar (Business – Burnaby): mbodnar@sfu.ca
• Megan Sorenson (Business – Vancouver): megan_sorenson@sfu.ca
• Ania Dymarz (Business – Surrey): adymarz@sfu.ca
• Carla Graebner (Economics – Burnaby): cgraebne@sfu.ca