Reaching Out to International Students Minglu Wang & Wen-Hua Ren, John Cotton Dana Library

Collaboration with International Students Office

Library Workshops for International Students

Library Guide for International Students

Library Newsletter for International Students

Create library flyer for new international student’s folder

Meet and greet at orientation

Taught by librarians with international background

Hands-on exercises

Library terminology

Visualization of complex

library system

Library resources & services

Local useful information

Highlight certain library services and resources

Discuss a hot topic in learning and research

Comments/Feedbacks from students

“This workshop was very helpful. It helped well-organized my research, find quickly references and create a bibliography. This 1-h workshop makes me save many days of work in my research. Isn't it amazing?”

– Yves R. Personna from Environmental Science “This workshop is very helpful. The best part is to find out that there are so many valuable resources available online that I didn't know before. Now I have learned a more efficient way to do research!” – Ko-Hsin Hsu from School of Criminal Justice “I really appreciate your workshop, it was a great idea and I wish I have done it in previous years. It has been really helpful and I cannot imagine any student that would not be able to take advantage of it. Anybody who ever need to find a book or articles for a research paper, or any kind of writing project can benefit from it. The most important is that can save you a lot of time looking around for sources and references. Just been able to save the articles and citations in Refworks alone can save a lot of valuable time. I have been working for hours trying to put citations and references in the right format using books that I had to buy in order to properly finish a paper. Refworks does it with a couple of clicks in any format you wish.”

– Pericles Papamichalis from College of Arts & Science