Happy New Year! We hope your Spring 2025 semester is going well so far. To kick off the start of the Spring term, we invite you to join us for Library Welcome Week January 13-January 18. Stop by for some treats*, meet library staff, & learn about helpful & time-saving library services.
During Welcome Week, everyone, including online students, is also invited to participate in a drawing for $25 gift cards. To participate, take our Library Welcome Week Quiz to get entered into the drawing! Winners will be notified on January 21.
Update: The Los Angeles campus is moving Welcome Week to January 21-27th, due to the ongoing wildfires/ campus closure.
*while supplies last
Spring 2025 Library Webinars
Learn savvy research strategies, tools, and tips that can help you save valuable time and help you succeed in your studies in this webinar series presented by your expert librarians at The Chicago School Library. Topics include
- Navigating the Library: Services and Resources Wednesday, January 15 @ 7:00pm CT
- First Year Students in the Library Tuesday, January 28 @ 6:00pm CT
- Citation Management Thursday, February 6 @ 7:00 PM
- Savvy Searching: How to Find Relevant Peer Reviewed Articles Tuesday, February 11 @ 8:00pm CT
- Database Spotlight: *NEW* ProQuest Psychology One Tuesday, February 18 @ 5:00pm CT
- Conducting a Literature Review Monday, February 24 @ 7:00pm CT
- Using AI in Research Wednesday, March 12 @ 12:00pm CT
- Navigating Misinformation: How to Evaluate Information Online Tuesday, March 18 @ 8:00pm CT
- Finding Tests and Measures for Your Dissertation Research Wednesday, March 26 @ 8:00pm CT
Reading, Annotating, and Organizing Scholarly Articles Tuesday, April 1 @7:00pm CT
Click here for more detailed information about the sessions, or to register!
Staff Updates
The Chicago School Library is pleased to welcome a new librarian to the team: Elaine Mitra, Head of Access Services!
Based at the Chicago campus, she provides services to the entire Chicago School community, including managing the assessment library, loans, reserves or other material issues and needs. She loves learning and helping people which is part of what spurred her to make the career change from working in advertising to librarianship. She graduated from The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in December 2023 with her MSLIS. Before joining the library team at The Chicago School, she worked at DePaul University’s Loop Library. She grew up in Metro Detroit and then lived in Chicago since 2010 when she moved to Chicago for college at Loyola University.
Outside the library she loves to read, watch movies, see live theater, and travel. Her door is open if you have any questions regarding library materials and things or want to chat!
New Resources
- ProQuest OnePsychology -designed to be “one-stop-shopping” for a variety of resources, supports multiple learning styles with essential, authoritative content spanning scholarly journals, therapy videos and counseling transcripts, with articles, news and ebooks covering psychological conditions, therapy, research concepts, tests and more in an all-inclusive, user-friendly interface. Learn more in the library’s upcoming webinar on Tuesday, February 18, @ 5:00 pm CT register here
- Cambridge Higher Education -An extensive collection of online textbooks from Cambridge University Press
Library User Voice Survey
Please take a few minutes to fill out the Library User Voice Survey. Feedback from students, faculty, and staff at The Chicago School is valuable and helps us helps us prioritize development of new services and resources.
