Sawyer library

On Thursday, my classmates and I met in the Sawyer library, which is located on the 2^nd floor of 73 Tremont St. The library is devoted for all Suffolk students but especially for those who attend the college of arts and sciences and the sawyer business school. The library is open from 8am until midnight from Monday to Thursday. However, on Friday and Sunday the library is open between 8am and 8pm.On Sunday, it opens late in the morning at 11am and closes at 12pm.

The reference desk is on the 2^nd floor, which is definitely helpful for the students who are looking for resources in the library. The reference desk helps you find the exact location of the resources that you want to focus on. In the same floor, there are many computers and printers available for the students at anytime during the working hours. In addition, there is a circulation/reserve desk near the entrance accessible for any student who is looking for books or laptops. Afterwards, we went to the third floor, which is almost entirely devoted for quite studies and private rooms. Then, the librarian guided us to a lab where she explained the concept of accessing the impressive mass of resources stored in the online database, which is, in my opinion, the most important part of the tour. Students can access the database by entering the Suffolk home page website and then choose the library section. In order to seek for resources, Suffolk students have three options. They can search either by letters from A to Z or by category. They can also search by subject or by the author’s name. And finally they can search by the title of an article or a book. The database is a useful tool for every student attending Suffolk University and can help in various types of assignments. In addition, the librarian made an important remark concerning citations and quotations. She mentioned that every student must cite the article or book from where he/she took the information, otherwise the student risks to be plagiarising.

I advise every student to visit the Sawyer library, not only because of its nearby location, but also because of its massive amount of resources that are available in the database.