Dear Students,
Whether you’re enrolled in an English class, biology class, speech class, or any other class offered at St. Francis College, you will most likely have to write a research paper, prepare a speech, or organize a presentation. To do that you need to be familiar with search and research techniques.
Google and other Web search engines do not provide credible information, and most professors do not allow students to use them. So what do you do?
You come to the library. We have over 100,000 books, numerous electronic databases, such as EbscoHost Web, ProQuest, JSTOR, Lexis-Nexis, Wilson Web, ScienceDirect, and more than 20,000 electronic journals. If our library doesn’t have a book or an article you’re looking for, we can get it for you via Inter-Library Loan or give you a guest pass to many academic libraries of Brooklyn with whom we have reciprocity.
We also offer Library Instruction and Information Literacy classes that will help you learn how to use the library, how to search the electronic databases, how and where to find credible information on the Web, how to evaluate Web pages and avoid plagiarism, and much more.
Group instruction classes are taught by a librarian in the library classroom (or in your classroom if it has a SmartBoard interactive system installed) and tailored to your professor’s pedagogical goals and your specific needs.
If you want to schedule an instruction class independent of your professor, a minimum of five students is required for the class to be conducted.
Individual sessions are also available during the library’s regular hours.
Contact us by phone: 718-489-5307 or by e-mail: library@stfranciscollege.edu
to schedule a session, or simply drop by the Reference Desk and we’ll be glad to assist you.
To schedule a group class contact Alex Kustanovich at akustanovich@stfranciscollege.edu / 718-489-3445.
See you in the library!
