Book an Appointment

• Meet with a staff or peer consultant
• Get feedback on your writing at all stages of the writing process
• Learn strategies for organising your ideas and structuring your thesis, papers, and chapters
• Receive advice on clarity, cohesion, and style
• You do not need to have a completed draft of your paper to book or attend an appointment

Faculty and instructors can also request instruction sessions on the above topics. Learn more about writing support in the library.

Research assistance appointments will help you:

• Identify and narrow your topic
• Learn advanced research skills
• Get started on a literature review, scoping review, systematic review or other knowledge synthesis
• Learn how to use the citation manager Zotero

For immediate help, you can also chat with us online.

Faculty and instructors can also request instruction sessions on the above topics. Learn more about Research Assistance in the library.

If English isn't your first language, we can help with

• Reading
• Writing
• Listening
• Pronunciation
• Communication

Learn more about English language support programs and services in the library.

Find & Collect Data

• Find the datasets you need for your assignment, research project, thesis, or dissertation
• Create your own survey using Qualtrics
• Learn how to collect data from the web using web scraping and APIs

GIS & Maps

• Find and analyze geospatial data
• Create maps using ArcGIS

Clean & Prepare Data

• Identify and fix errors and inconsistencies
• Sort, filter, and tansform data from into usable formats

Data Analysis

• Select and use the right statistical software for your needs
• Understand statistical tests (class requests only)
• Select and use the appropriate statistical test (class requests only)
• Analyze qualitative or quantitative data
• We support R, SAS, SPSS, Stata, and Nvivo

Data Visualization

• Create a chart, table, graph, or infographic
• We can provide helpful critiques of your visualizations
• Learn to use Tableau, Excel, Gephi, R, Voyant, and others

Please note: If you need help acquiring or installing software, visit the Computing and Communication Services (CCS) supported products page.

Studying and Time Management

Our appointments and coaching sessions support you in reaching your academic goals. You can meet once to address a specific concern or question or regularly throughout the semester. 

• Plan and use your time effectively 
• Control procrastination and perfectionism, and complete your assignments, thesis, or program on time 
• Set goals and maintain motivation
• Prepare for many different types of exams, including multiple choice 
• Read textbooks and scholarly articles more effectively 
• Take better notes and study efficiently 

Presentation Skills

• Enhance your presentation skills, including strategies for managing nervousness
• Practice your presentation and receive feedback from professional staff
• Design and present academic posters

Faculty and staff can also request instruction and training sessions on the above topics.

Systematic Reviews and Other Knowledge Syntheses

• Select an appropriate type of review
• Get started on a literature review, scoping review, or systematic review
• Refine a review topic
• Understand review methodologies and logistics
• Develop a search strategy by choosing databases, generating keywords, and using controlled vocabulary, operators, and search modifiers

Author Rights​

• Ready to publish? We can help you keep your rights as authors and help you sort out the world of copyright, intellectual property, and author addenda

Share & Publish Your Research​

• We can give you the inside track on publishing in traditional journals, open access publishing, and other publishing formats (social media, podcasts, etc.)​
• Host an online open access journal

Preserve Your Research

• We provide support to help researchers meet funding requirements
• We help researchers prepare and deposit research outputs for preservation and sharing in:
  • An appropriate selected repository
  • A U of G repository (Atrium and University of Guelph Research Data Repositories)

Track Your Research Impact​

• Create researcher identifiers such as ORCID and ResearcherID ​
• Analyze the impact of your published research

Digital Scholarship Support

• Planning for digital projects
• Needs assessment and technology selection
• Using specialized software and tools
• Designing databases
• Publishing and preserving your digital project
• Creating online exhibits using Omeka, ArcGIS Online, and other publishing tools

Open Educational Resources​ (OER)

• Find, evaluate, and curate openly licensed textbooks, media, modules, and other educational resources for integration into your class
• Migrate self-published materials into Pressbooks publishing software

Research Data Management

• Create a plan that describes how your research data will be collected, managed, and preserved throughout the research life cycle

Research Consultation

• Meet with an Archival & Special Collections specialist to discuss your class, project, or research

Exhibits

• Check out our Exhibition Policy

Donate Rare Books or Archival Materials

• Please feel free to review our donations policy and get in touch regarding the suitability of your deposit

1. Register with us in advance if you are a first-time visitor.
2. Book an appointment to visit the Reading Room
   • We will follow up with you for a research consultation to help you identify the materials you’d like to see during your appointment 
   • If you already know what you’d like to see, you can request the items.

Library Accessibility Services (LAS) is a service for students who are registered with Student Accessibility Services (SAS).

We provide adaptive technology access and instruction, accessible study space, and other services designed to help with reading, writing, note-taking, and studying.

Book an appointment or contact us:

Phone: 519-824-4120 ext 52312

Email: las@uoguelph.ca

Drop in to the LAS area on the first floor of the Library during our staffed hours.

Learn more about how the Library supports accessibility for all users with disabilities.

Brooke Hiemstra provides:

• Course textbooks and readings in alternate formates (e.g., digitized text, audio books, Braille, and tactile images)
• Captions, transcripts, and audio descriptions for course-based audio-visual materials

Athol Gow provides:

• Library Accessibility Services orientation for new students
• Training in the use of access technology, software, and mobile apps that support reading, writing, note-taking, and studying
• Digital recorder, smart pen, and tablet loans

The media studio has space, equipment, and software available to work on media projects such as videos, digital storytelling, podcasts, and vlogging.

Book an appointment to:

• Film a project in the filming studio
• Record audio in the sound booth
• Edit a project with the studio’s editing suites

The Media Studio provides support for undergraduate and graduate students as they develop digital literacy and media creation skills. We support digital media assignments such as videos, digital storytelling, podcasts, blogging and more.

Book an appointment to:

• Get help with learning a new tool
• Selecting the best tool for your project
• Troubleshoot issues with a tool

The Media Studio assists faculty and instructors on integrating digital media skills into their courses.

Book an appointment to:

• Discuss designing a digital assignment for your course.
• Reserve access to web-based video creation accounts. A limited number of seats are available each semester.
• Request a custom help guide for your students tailored to your assignment requirements.

The media studio has a collection of circulating equipment that current students, faculty and staff can reserve and borrow for up to 2 days at a time.

Reserve equipment to:

• Record audio using the portable sound booth.
• Film an interview using a camera and microphone.

The Media Studio provides access to state-of-the-art technology required for the creation of digital projects. Media Studio staff provides support in the development of digital literacy and media creation skills.

Learn more about the Media Studio.

We offer a variety of in-class instruction sessions depending on your class’s needs. Below is a non-exhaustive list of topics we have delivered in-class sessions on in the past. Feel free to request a session on other topics and we will do our best to accommodate. We can also assist with developing learning outcomes, assignments, and assessment tools. 

To schedule a session on one of the following topics, follow the links below:

• Writing skills, including academic writing, writing in the sciences, academic integrity, project management for writing projects, and English as an Additional Language Support.
• Learning and studying skills, including presentation skills, critical and strategic reading of scholarly articles, note-taking from articles, building academic resilience and coping with failure and stress, effective group work and conflict management, study strategies, exam preparation, and poster design.
• Research skills, including using Omni and other databases, narrowing a research topic, learning advanced search skills, getting started on a literature or scoping review or knowledge synthesis project, and using Zotero, Mendeley or EndNote.
• Data skills, including survey design, data analysis, data cleaning and preparation, GIS and ArcGIS, data visualization, using software packages like Excel, Qualtrics, R, SAS, Python, Tableau, and more. 
• Support for researchers and authors on research data management, preserving, publishing and sharing your research, open educational resources, digital scholarship, and more.
• Using Archives & Special Collections