Getting to Know
Research & Instruction
Swarthmore students
checked out library materials
28,000 times
last academic year.
Last year, Swarthmore...
55,000 articles from JSTOR
Downloaded over
20,000 articles from Science Direct
Listened to more than
16,000 audio clips from Naxos Music
Viewed well over
200,000 chapters from Library e-books
Wondering how you'll navigate
these resources?
Swarthmore's research librarians and RIAs work with students on this every day.
Research & Information Associates are students who help peers learn how to do research effectively.
"It begins with an urgent request for information.
A stranger up against some deadline walks into an office, whether a researcher or a student, with a question. But with a little digging, ulterior motives might shine through, and the answer found is not always the answer sought.
Reference librarianship is a shadowy art--part hardboiled experience, part blind luck.
"These portraits playfully disrupt the well-worn stereotypes of librarians as mousy sticklers, stereotypes as reductive and two-dimensional as the clichés of any genre.
As an alternative, these images ask what if librarians looked different, what if they were far more ambiguous characters than is commonly held, key agents in an unfolding story whose contributions might never see the light of day.
PAM
Languages
Education
Psychology
NABIL
English
Film/Media
Digital
Scholarship
ANDREA
Sciences
Math
Engineering
DONNA
Music
Dance
Theater
SARAH
History
Politics
Economics
Sociology
Anthro
ROBERTO
Philosophy
Classics
Latin
American
Studies
LORIN
Interdisciplinary Studies
Philosophy
RIAs
Swarthmore librarians visit more than 80 academic classes per year.
You can drop by McCabe's Research & Info Desk to talk to a librarian or RIA.
What do
students ask?
I really need this one book of poetry for my research. Even though there may only be one copy.
In Poland.
How do I compare voter turnout across multiple US elections?
Where can I stream Criterion Collection films? Or just catch up on GoT?
You have up to five minutes to evaluate the following website.
Use any Internet resources (including leaving the site). Do what you would normally would do when landing on an unfamiliar site.
https://www.minimumwage.com/2014/10/denmarks-dollar-forty-one-menu/
Minimumwage.com is paid for by another person or organization. Spend up to three minutes to figure out who is behind this site.
What Reading Laterally Means?
Read laterally . . .
Move beyond the About page . . .
Scroll through results to even 2nd or 3rd page!
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