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Faculty at Meriam Library seek to lead the campus in the instruction of practices and tools designed for effective and efficient academic research. We believe that students have greater success during and after their collegiate experience when they are literate in the evaluation, construction, and synthesis of the information available to them.

Inspired is the celebration of Chico State’s faculty research and creative activity presented by the Meriam Library. 2023 marks the 4th year that the library is recognizing the stellar works and awards of Chico State faculty.

The Inspired 2023 event will recognize faculty publications, creative activities, and campus awards produced and awarded from January 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023.

Small changes alone won’t stop climate change, but even the smallest of actions will contribute to keeping our planet habitable

The Meriam Library has implemented a new form for InterLibrary Loan requests.

If you can't find the article, book, or chapter(s) you are looking for at the Meriam Library, you can submit a request for us to locate the item from another library. To make this request, visit the InterLibrary Loan Services Page and click "Submit InterLibrary Loan Request" button. Use the form to complete your request:

The University Police Department has offered to station Community Service Officers (CSO) on the second floor of the library, and the library administration has complied. The CSOs will supplement the library student workforce, bringing new possibilities to help the library with various student worker tasks.

When will CSOs be on duty?

CSOs will cover the evening shift, from 6pm - midnight.

Where will the CSOs station be located?

Perhaps you've heard about the new library pilot project, Virtual 1st!?

This spring 2023, Meriam Librarian, Stef Baldivia is going to be "popping-up" to offer a Research Breakdown in places where students are usually gathered. The Research Breakdown is a low-stakes space where students can get insight from a librarian about:

Lights, tinsel, trees, wrapping paper, bows, and so much more stuff gathers around us during the holiday season. How do you enjoy all the pageantry of the season while leaving a small climate change footprint?  Here are a few holiday climate change and sustainability tips.

Michelle Mussuto is the newest faculty librarian to join the Meriam Library. She completed her master's in information studies from McGill University in Montreal, Canada with an emphasis in research on libraries and their educational role in climate change and sustainability.  She earned her B.Sc. in Community Nutrition with an emphasis in Exercise Physiology from UC Davis. Prior to joining Chico State, Michelle was the Acquisitions and Collections Coordinator at the State University of New York's Maritime College.