Below find the answers to our most frequently asked questions.  If you cannot find what you need, call 651/962-5001 or 651/962-4664, or Ask a Librarian.

Find articles, magazines, and journals?

• Finding articles
• Finding newspaper articles
• Find out if the full text of an article is available online
• Find out if the library has a particular magazine or journal
• Find out more about magazines and journals in the library

Find books?

• Finding books
• Check out and read an e-book

Find other library materials?

• Find course reserves material?  (O'Shaughnessy-Frey)  (Ireland)  (Keffer)

• Find videos and DVDs?

• Find music scores and recordings?

• Find UST theses, clinical research papers, and dissertations?

Do research?

• Subject guides

• Course-specific guides

• Evaluate resources

• RefWorks

• Cite sources, including those found online

• Get help with your research

Check out and renew materials?

• Borrow/check out books

• Renew books

• Cancel a request you've placed on a book

• Get materials from other libraries

• Interlibrary loan

• Obtain a thesis or dissertation

Find out about library services?

• Check your library record

• Connect from off-campus

• Find out about library services for distance/remote users

• Recommend a book for purchase

• Subscribe to current awareness services

• Fulfill my first-year library computer competency requirement

• Make a donation to the library

Find out about library facilties?

• Make photocopies  (O'Shaughnessy-Frey)  (Keffer)

• Find a place to work on group projects  (O'Shaughnessy-Frey) (Keffer)

• Find a quiet place to study  (O'Shaughnessy-Frey) (Keffer)

• Find out about computers and printing in the library  (O'Shaughnessy-Frey) (Keffer)

• Find out more about the Libraries (including locations, hours, directions)  (O'Shaughnessy-Frey)  (Ireland)  (Keffer)  (Law)  (Media Resources)  (Music Resource Center)  (Special Collections)  (University Archives)

Updated May 2005, August 2005
Marianne Hageman / mdhageman@stthomas.edu
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