[Insert Arthur episode on visiting the library]

Source: A. Raymond

Just a quick post about the prevalence of research across disciplines, and how schools focus on cultivating researching skills in students, but more importantly, about visiting the library for help on researching. Above is e-flier that students at my university – that includes me – recently received. The email itself describes how student at the university’s business school can contact one of our university’s librarians for help with business research.

Now, this past Tuesday, my class took a trip to the library for that exact reason. We met with this very cute grandma-esque librarian who had us play a series of research-based games. Through these games we learned how to use the databases available to us, how to efficiently search (using phrases and asterisks and the works), and how to write quick descriptions of articles that we might come across in our research process.

I don’t know if the business students are going to be playing any games, or if they are even going to be searching through databases. (Spoiler alert: I’m not a business student, I’m apparently not that interested in the stability of my financial future enough.) But, they are using the resources available to them – librarians – in order to cultivate their researching skills, just like we did this week.

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