Familiarize yourself with the Library's home page (on your own device you may want to bookmark it). Scroll and click around.
Especially look under Quick Links you'll see some of the most often-used things.
- Library FAQs cover numerous areas, as you can see on the drop-down list under Topics. Notice, too, under Groups you can get to FAQs about Tutoring and about College Resources for Students that are available from other offices on campus.
- Explore Printing Help and get set up with a passcode or connect your ID card so you're ready when you or your teacher wants a printed copy of something. We're happy to help you do this initial set-up. It's a few steps! If you want to print from your own device, go ahead and bookmark Pharos.
- Click Ask a Librarian to see our research experts and the subjects they specialize in. Who works with the programs you're interested in?
Under the Research heading, notice that Citation Help is available. Click Research Guides to see if there is a guide made for your class, assignment or program. If there isn't, don't worry! The library will still be able to support your work.
Scroll to where you can see the Hours, not just for the Library but for Tutoring and Access and Equity, too.
The library's Chat is live and anonymous - you'll be sending messages to TC3 librarians and library staff, and unless you choose to identify yourself, we won't know who you are. If we're offline, you can always send in a question and we'll respond as soon as we're back.
There are some things you can set up in advance so you're ready when you want to use them.
- Activate your accounts to be able to get articles, newsletters and more from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.
If you will be working from your own computer:
- Connect Google Scholar to the TC3 Library.
- Once you do, if you search Google Scholar, and if TC3 has the full article available, you will be given a link to it.
- Install the Nomad browser plug-in.
- That way, if you are searching on the Web, an indication and link will display to help you get an article through the TC3 library, without having to pay for it.
- Install the Libby app on your phone and connect it to TC3.
- You'll be able to borrow ebooks and audiobooks, fiction and non-fiction.
- You can also get these books on your desktop or laptop. Go to the OverDrive site and connect your TC3 card there.
