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Research Guides

How I Can Help You

For students, I can:

  • Recommend the best databases to search for your research topic
  • Answer your questions via email, phone or in-person
  • Meet with you individually to hash out your topic or discuss research strategies
  • Tell you about library services
  • Show you how/where to do a literature review
  • Refer you to the subject librarian who is the liaison to your department

For faculty, I can:

  • Track down tricky citations
  • Show you how/where to do a literature review
  • Introduce your students to research tools and strategies via a workshop
  • Create a webpage tailored to your class assignment
  • Discuss ways to best incorporate research skills and library materials into your class assignments
  • Meet with your students individually
  • Purchase books and other material needed for your research
  • Tell you about library services
  • Act as a liaison communicating the department's concerns and needs to library administration

Library Guides

Subject and class guides created by me to help you with your academic work:

My BA and MS are from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).  I have been an engineering librarian at UIUC and the University of Kansas before being named Head of the Engineering Library here at UW in 2000.

Subject Guide

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Mel DeSart
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Contact:
Head, Engineering Library

Engineering Library, Box 352170
2066858369
Subjects: Engineering

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