 Hi everyone and welcome to this short video to introduce you to the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. My name is Sarah Young. I'm the librarian for the Heinz College including CMU Australia and the Departments of Information Systems, Statistics and Data Science and the Institute for Politics and Strategy. I'm also the co-l liaison librarian to CMU Africa along with my colleague Matt Marsteller. There are three physical library locations at the Pittsburgh campus. Hunt Library houses the physical collections for social sciences and humanities. There are many options for study and collaboration space for those of you studying in Pittsburgh but everyone studying at CMU around the globe will be able to access our collections of e-books, journals, articles and more online through our library website. CMU Library's website is your portal into all of our services and collections. You'll find our daily hours at the top of the page for the physical libraries and to do a search in the library collections you can start with this main search box. It searches our books and e-books, the contents of some journals and databases and other materials. This is a good place to start if you're just exploring a topic or looking for a specific item. When you run a search don't forget to sign in with your Android and password for complete results and functionality. If you're not at the main campus in Pittsburgh you won't be able to use our print collections. However, you can request a digital scan of a book chapter or section for books that we only have in print. Also keep in mind that most of our newer books are available as digital e-books and our current journal articles and newspaper content are also available digitally. If you can't find what you're looking for you can request items from other libraries through interlibrary loan. You can request electronic scans of book chapters or journal articles that we don't have through the Iliad system. If you're studying off-campus you can connect to our resources just by starting your search at the library home page. More information about off-campus access including the virtual private network is available from this link on the home page. I also recommend setting up Lubekey Nomad. This is a browser plugin that will make it much easier to quickly access journal articles you find while browsing the web. When you find an article through a web search a button will pop up in the lower left of your browser window which will link directly to the full text through our subscriptions. Additionally you can set up your Google Scholar library link to enable access to CMU subscriptions through Google Scholar searches. In addition to our books and e-books we have many specialized research databases to help you find and access scholarly articles news business and market information statistics and data and much more. To access library databases from the library home page click on databases e-resources and tools. You can explore our many databases by subject using this drop-down menu. If you're not sure where to start you can explore our research guides which will point you to the best resources for information on specific topics both library resources and publicly accessible ones. To access the research guides go back to the library home page and choose research guides from the quick links menu. In the public policy guide for example you'll find information and links to the contents of many relevant databases but also newspapers including how to set up your own accounts for access to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Beyond the collections the library also supports your work in many other ways. We can help you find data sets for research and apply good practices to managing the data that you collect and analyze. We can provide guidance on conducting your research with an eye toward reproducibility and transparency and we can help with data visualization using tools like Tableau and GIS. We can also help you get up and running with a citation manager like Zotero or Mendeley which will help you organize your research and create bibliographies in any citation style quickly and efficiently. You can learn more about our many services from our services directory including things like technology and multimedia lending, reserving study spaces, accessing newspapers and more. Lastly don't forget to check out our workshop calendar. We offer many in-person and virtual workshops on a wide range of topics. So that's a quick summary of some of the ways the library can help you as you get started and throughout your time here at CMU. Don't hesitate to get in touch with me directly if you have any questions.