Service Description
Fondren Library is here to help Rice Graduate and Undergraduate Students with their research.
Circulation Assistance
Research Assistance
- There are 16 subject librarians assigned to work with one or more academic disciplines.
- Check our our Research Guides: If your class has a research assignment, check out the selected resources and instructions for a particular subject area.
- Take one of our free short courses.
- Submit a question to our Reference Librarians.
- Get a book from another institution with the Interlibrary Loan Department.
Digital Media Commons Assistance
- Poster printing
- A/V equipment
- Media editing and converting
- Document/film/slide scanning
- Audio Studio or Video/Photography Studio
GIS/Data Center Assistance
- Request GIS data
- Request one-on-one GIS project training
Digital Scholarship Services Assistance
Grad Students
- Research Assistance
- Provide assistance in identifying and using digital research tools
- Offer assistance and training in managing research data
- Scholarly Communications Assistance
- Offer consulting, training and support for creating ORCID identifiers
- Provide publishing support
- Digital Scholarship Assistance
- Help to develop scholarly digital projects
- Provide access to digitization and digital preservation facilities
- Create digital collections in the Rice Digital Scholarship Archive (for publications, data, video, audio and other materials) and JSTOR Forum (for images).
Undergrad Students
- Research Assistance
- Provide assistance in identifying and using digital research tools
- Provide support for the Rice Digital Scholarship Archive (for publications, data, video, audio and other materials) and Shared Shelf (for image collections). (DSS)
Kelley Center for Government Information, Data and Geospatial Services Assistance
- Microform scanning
- Assistance finding government information and data
- Patent and trademark searching
- Targeted instruction using government resources for research
- Self-service government research and resource guides
Woodson Research Center Assistance
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