Consultation services are available by appointment at times convenient for you. Contact a specific librarian or your department's librarian liaison. Consultation services are available for individuals or small groups; over the telephone, in-person or through online chat; and in the library or in a faculty/staff member's office. Faculty, staff and students may take advantage of consultation services.

The library encourages students to use this service for:

• Automatically sending the results of search strategies to your email address periodically
• Developing search strategies for senior research papers, dissertations or theses
• General library orientation: using research databases, XPLORE, OhioLINK, (Electronic Journal Locator & more) and document delivery services
• Preventing plagiarism with TurnItIn
• Saving search strategies to run at another time
• Using RefWorks (creating perfect bibliographies and in-text citations with the click of a button)

The library encourages faculty and staff to use this service for:

• Adding library resources to Blackboard's main menu
• Adding library resources to your courses in MyXU, the campus portal
• Automatically sending the results of search strategies to your email address periodically
• Creating electronic reading lists
• Do-it-yourself  electronic reserves
• General library orientation: using research databases, XPLORE, OhioLINK, (Electronic Journal Locator & more!) and document delivery services
• Keeping current with RSS (Really  Simple Syndication) feeds
• Painless publishing with RefWorks or creating perfect bibliographies and in-text citations with the click of a button
• Preventing plagiarism with TurnItIn
• Saving search strategies to run at another time