The Harriet Cheney Cowles Memorial Library's bibliographic instruction program forms a part of the college's critical thinking goals. The aim is to teach students how to define their research enterprise, find the appropriate methodologies, and assess the results.
Librarians work closely with the faculty in tailoring library workshops to individual courses.
The research tools fundamental to a particular discipline are taught, especially in upper-division courses. We expect that the students in a particular major will graduate with a knowledge of the bibliographic structures in their fields. I and II sequences. In these classes the students receive an orientation to the library and to our various databases. They also learn about the purposes served by journals and about the differences between these journals.