Library News & Updates

Library Highlights for Graduate Students

Whether you’re a returning SU student, have come from another institution, another country, or have been out of education for a long time, we recommend connecting with your subject specialist to make sure you know the unique resources that the Lemieux Library can provide for your graduate work.

Some highlights of what’s available to support our graduate students:

• A broad range of subject-specific research databases tailored to the SU graduate program needs – and expert Library Faculty available 24 hours a day to help answer questions as you navigate graduate research.
• Access to books and articles from across the Pacific Northwest and beyond through Summit and interlibrary loan
• Workshops tailored to graduate student needs - this fall check out our sessions on “your first graduate literature review”
• Research consultation services are available by appointment or at the 3rd floor desk, noon-4 Mon-Fri without an appointment.  Meet with Library Faculty with expertise in your subject areas to help develop research topics, explore the literature for your first literature review or proposal, access resources to help demystify research methods, and get tips on citation management, writing for publication, and opportunities to disseminate your research.

The library also has space and technology to help support graduate needs. Visit our 24-hour spaces, which include computer labs and printers, as well as high-powered CPUs with processing power to support data or programming processes that may exceed your laptop’s capacity!

Of course, all services are available to our graduate students – make the most of your time at SU by also exploring the Makerspace and Media Production Center.

What our graduate students say about working with Librarians:

"I was thrilled at not only the amount of resources the library has, but also newfound ideas on how to advance my own research."

"Very engaging - the librarian helped walk me through how to properly search with the SU library resources. It can be difficult narrowing down what journals that can be most effective with our research and the librarian helped make that easy for me." 

If you have ideas for programs, workshops, or events – reach out to your Library Faculty!  Email askalibrarian@seattleu.edu with questions and suggestions, and we'll make sure your message gets to the right person.

By Lydia Bello, Director, Research Services, bellolydia@seattleu.edu