Getting Started at the Library
Fri. Sep. 22, 2023
Welcome from the Reference Department!
If you’re not sure how to start an assignment, borrow a book, or use a research database, talk to the library! We’re here to help. You can come in person, use our Online Chat (look for the red and white textbox icon on each page), contact a librarian, or sign up for an online research workshop with the Reference librarian.
We can help explain vocabulary questions (what’s a scholarly source?), show you how to look something up in a database, and help you choose search terms to find the right resources.
Research Guides
Get an Intro to the Library, learn what library and research-specific vocabulary words mean, look up the Research Guides for your subject, watch or read videos and tutorials to learn research skills, and learn to use and format citations.
See the Help with Research button on the library homepage for more.
The Library In Person
- Library hours
- Plan Your Visit: Maps, service updates, and health and safety info
- Borrowing: Books and more
- COVID-19 Updates, campus health and safety, and info on accessing masks and rapid tests from the Safety Office
NOTE: The library and the UW Bookstore are different places. The library is where you get research material for assignments. The bookstore is where you buy or rent required books.
Library Accessibility
Details on accessible study space, research material, and assistance on the Library Accessibility page.
Outside the Library, Get Help With...
- Study Skills: Workshops from Academic Advising
- Getting textbooks: UWinnipeg Bookstore textbook search
- Printing help and paying for printing with debit cards: Printing Services
- Wifi and computer account help: Technology Service Centre information and Help Desk hours
- Writing help: The Tutoring Centre by appointment
- Course texts in alternative formats: Accessibility Services
If you have questions about research or using the Library, you can reply to this email, come visit, or ask on help chat—it’s what we’re here for!
- The Library reference team: reference@uwinnipeg.ca