LibGuides UFV: Bachelor of Integrated Studies CHAD Cohort: General Resources and Help

Contact a CHAD Librarian

Colleen Bell (more info)

Email Colleen
Request an online appointment (ask for Colleen in the "My project is about..." text box)

Availability:
Monday to Friday (including most evenings)

Diane Cruickshank (more info)

Email Diane
Request an online appointment (ask for Diane in the "My project is about..." text box)

Availability:
Wednesday to Saturday (including Wednesday and Thursday evenings in fall semester)

Other Library Help Available

AskAway Chat Reference
This is a chat service that will connect you immediately with a librarian who can answer your questions related to the library. Available 7 days a week during the academic semester. Note the scheduled hours.
Libguides (Research Guides)
These guides can provide you with recommended resources and strategies for a discipline or topic within a discipline. You can use the search box to search for guides that might address your topic.

Requesting Library Materials

Students in the CHAD cohort are considered distance students, since you do not meet on campus regularly. As such, you have access to services such as having materials from the library collection delivered to you. We'll ship books to you, complete with a postage paid return label. For more information, see:

Services for Distance Students
Can't come to campus? We'll send the library materials to you. See "Delivery of Library Materials" for request forms and details.

Organization and Time Management

The Assignment Planner encourages you to see the research process as a series of related steps or stages by breaking your project into manageable chunks, based on your due date. Each step includes hints and "how-to" links.

Select one of the following assignment types to start using the Assignment Planner

Research Paper
Use this assignment planner to help organize your work when writing a paper requiring sources.
Literature Review Paper
Use this planner when writing a paper whose purpose is to review the literature on a specific topic. See the Research Paper planner for papers where a literature review is generally the background research for your project.
Speech or Presentation
Use this planner when you need to prepare a speech or presentation that requires you to research on your topic.

APA Citation Resources

The following guides are useful for citing sources using APA style:

Academic Success Centre APA Guide
In the Documentation Style Guides section, offers an extensive guide to citing a wide range of sources using APA's 7th edition, including citing Indigenous elders and knowledge keepers. Check out their Quick Bits for a more condensed version.
Citing Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers
This UBC guide will support you in creating common citation formats in the APA (American Psychological Association) Style - 7th edition.
APA Style Handouts and Guides
The definitive resource from the American Psychological Association. Includes formatting and grammar guidelines, as well as reference examples.