English Research

Did you know...

On the second floor of the library there is a Teacher's Studio available to all students.  The Teacher's Studio has:

• Collection of children's literature 
• Collection of Education text books for grades K-12
• An ellision machine (for cutting shapes and letters)
• A smart board
• Collection of children's DVDs
• Puppets to borrow

Use Scholastic's Book Wizard

• find intended audience and age-group
• reading level. 

Use American Library Association's (ALA) Banned Book site

• Lists most challanged books
• Reasons for challenging books by book
• Statistics on challenged books

Google Scholar
Search for scholarly literature from one place. Tip: View Niagara University Library's holdings by doing the following:

1. Go to http://scholar.google.com
2. Click "Settings" in the top right hand corner
3. Click "Library Links" on the left
4. Search for "Niagara University Library"
5. Click the checkbox
6. Click Save. Now all the results will link to what the NU Library owns on the right side of the results!

NOTE: Google Scholar is unique in that it allows you to see how many other scholars have cited that particular source in the past. Look for the "Cited By" number to decide if a work is seminal, or very influential based on how many people have cited it before.