Independent research at the University is about to get a little easier with the launch of a new Webpage designed to make the library more user-friendly. Firestone library's General Humanities Reference Department — the reference collection and research assistants located in the Trustee Reading Room — is now available online.
The Webpage, located at www.princeton.edu/~refdesk, provides tips on how to get started with a junior paper or a senior thesis and ways to contact the librarians.
"I hope that the Webpage will let students know that we are there to help them," said GHRD librarian Nancy Pressman, whom Wright consulted while creating the site. "We really want to have students ask us questions about how they should research. It is what we do, what we love. We are not sitting there [in the reading room] to check in luggage."
The Webpage, which Firestone librarian Audrey Wright created during the summer months to introduce students to the research aspect of the reading room, also offers a new way for students to make research appointments with the librarians. Students enter times at which they would like to meet and information about what they are researching. The librarians then put the students in contact with a member of the department.
"It is impossible to know who to speak to when starting your research," said Wright, who specializes in technology related to humanities research. "This way we can match students to the librarian with the appropriate specialty."
The Webpage differs from Firestone's main site by serving predominately as a tool for how to get started and proceed in research, rather than as a guide to all of the library's resources. The Website also provides links to a list of pages that Firestone librarians and University branch library staff have compiled to help students find where to research particular subjects.
The site contains a link to the electronic reference shelf, an online tool that contains links to reference materials such as thesauri, dictionaries and encyclopedias, as well as movie reviews and scholarship information.
The Webpage also coordinates inter-library loans, through which students can find books in other libraries and make arrangements to borrow them. In addition, the page provides a referral service, which directs students to different libraries if their subject matter does not pertain to humanities. Through an online search engine, students can also search for off-campus librarians with specific specialties.
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