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Reference Services
The Bradley University, Cullom-Davis Library provides access to research assistance in several ways. Our goal is to provide time and location independent assistance with your research needs. If you have ideas about ways we could serve you better, please let me know by sending an e-mail, appending a comment, or calling. Send e-mail to johnson@bradley.edu or call 309-677-2840 or 309-677-3502.
Reference Desk
The Reference Desk is staffed from 8:30 in the morning until 9:30 in the evening on most weekdays. We do have some changes of hours during weekends, breaks, summer sessions, and interim. For a listing of the hours for the semester, check here: HOURS.
Telephone Reference
Assistance is available by telephone at 309-677-3502.
Online Chat Reference Assistance
We belong to a consortium of librarians throughout the state and around the world who are collaborating to provide online, chat-based reference assistance 24/7 (Yes, that's right, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, year-round.) The name of the online chat reference service is Ask?Away Illinois. You'll find an Ask?Away logo to click on, or a link to Ask?Away service on the Library's web page, or right here: Ask?Away
Subject Specialists (also called Liaison Librarians)
Each department within the university has a Liaison librarian who works particularly with the students and faculty of that department to provide research assistance. Many of the librarians have more than one department for which they are responsible, and some librarians are also responsible for specific types of materials, such as government publications, serials, and special collections (e.g. local history, rare books, and university archives.) If you need assistance with a research project, or just have a question you'd like to get help with, please feel free to call or e-mail the Subject Specialist/Liaison Librarian for your class or department. Here is a listing of Liaison Librarians.
Writing Style Manuals/Resources
Handbook of writing for the mathematical sciences RER. QA42 .H541993
MLA handbook for writers of research papers REF. LB2369 .G53 2003
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association REF. BF76.7 .P83 2001
American Medical Association manual of style : a guide for authors and editors REF. R119 .A5331998
The AMA style guide for business writing REF. HF5726 .A491996
The business style handbook : an A-to-Z guide for writing on the job with tips from communications experts at the Fortune 500 REF. HF5718.3 .C86 2002
Scientific style and format : the CBE manual for authors, editors, and publishers REF. T11 .S386 1994
The elements of style REF. PE1408 .S772 2005
The complete guide to citing government information resources : a manual for social science and business research REF. J9.5 .G37 2002
American Psychological Association (APA) Style Workshop This web text will cover important aspects of using American Psychological Association (APA) style to write and format papers.
MLA Formatting and Style GuideThis resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (6th ed.) and the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (2nd ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.
A Research Guide for Students Research, Writing, and Style Guides (MLA, APA, Chicago/Turabian, Harvard, CGOS, CBE)
MLA Documentation The Writing Center at University of Wisconsin-Madison's guide to MLA Documentation.
Psychology with Style: A hypertext writing guide. A writing guide for papers in APA format. Covers both formatting and content.
Dictionary/Thesaurus Resources
Merriam-Webster’s collegiate dictionary REF. PE1628 .M36 2004
Roget's International Thesaurus REF. PE1591 .R7121994
Merriam-Webster Online This searchable and browseable online dictionary and thesaurus for English are interconnected, offering audio pronunciation, etymologies and illustrations.
Theusaurus.com Roget's Thesaurus of English words and phrases.
xreferplus About 100 dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Urban Dictionary slang words and phrases from A to Z
General Reference Resources
'Internet Tutorials' Clearly written Internet tutorials describing search engines, second -generation searching, and subject directories.
Everything International Valuable, free Internet resources relevant to global business.
Grammar Resources
The Cambridge grammar of the English language REF. PE1106 .H74 2002
Grammar Resources This site contains grammar links to read online as well as grammar handouts as PDF files.
Grammar Resources on the Web The University of Chicago's Writing Program's links to grammar resources including quick guides, writing styles, dictionaries, and thesauruses.
Don't See What You're Looking For?
If you didn't find the help you were looking for on this page, please call, e-mail, or append a comment to let me know what kind of research assistance you were seeking. We are here to help, and we want to know if our services could be made more useful. Thank you for helping us build a better Reference Service.
You can access many of the Library's research resources from the Library's home page, at: http://library.bradley.edu/ --Johnson@bradley 14:50, 4 August 2006 (CDT)
