Research & Education

Free tutoring for both writing and math is available in the Meriam Library throughout the spring semester! Visit the fourth floor during the following dates and times:

Math Learning Lab
Monday - Thursday, 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Drop in with your homework and tutors will be available to help.

Writing Tutoring
Monday - Thursday, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Bring your essays, research projects, reports, resumes, graduate application materials, blog posts, or more!

Students! Over in our Events listings, you'll see we're running a series of open workshops on topics designed to help with common research skills that may help with your end-of-semester projects.

Topics for the Research Ready Workshops in October and November are...

Students! Over in our Events listings, you'll see we're running a series of open workshops on topics designed to help with common research skills that may help with your end-of-semester projects.

Topics for the Research Ready Workshops include 

Free tutoring for both writing and math begins in Meriam Library on Monday, September 10th. Visit the fourth floor during the following dates and times.

Math Learning Lab
Monday - Thursday, 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Drop in with your homework and tutors will be available to help.

Writing Tutoring
Monday - Thursday, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Bring your essays, research projects, reports, resumes, graduate application materials, blog posts, or more!

Have you ever struggled with how to present course readings to students in a logical and organized manner? Have students ever said they couldn’t find or didn’t see a reading that you had provided in your syllabus or reading list?

Meriam Library is partnering with the Student Learning Center to bring drop-in writing tutoring to the 4th floor of the library. Trained, faculty-recommended, and experienced peer tutors are ready to help students in any stage of the writing process. Tutors can help with:

Big changes are coming to the search interface and catalog at the Meriam Library in July 2017. For the past several years, the CSU has worked to combine the 23 campus libraries’ physical and shared electronic holdings into one catalog and search interface, called OneSearch. This system is in the final stages of completion and will be going live at Chico State in July. The new vendor, ExLibris, is a library leader in innovative searching interfaces and library management systems.

The Meriam Library is ready to kickoff Brown Bag Talks this semester starting Tuesday, February 14, 2017 continuing through Tuesday April 25, 2017 at noon. The library faculty, as well as Research and Sponsored Programs, will be presenting on a variety of topics that you will find informative, supportive and interesting. The topics are:

Anybody can edit Wikipedia! Let’s gather to strengthen Wikipedia’s scope and content related to Black History. Join Meriam Library on February 23^rd in MLIB 226 from 3-5pm, with the goal of collaborating to enhance and expand on Wikipedia articles that document black leaders, thinkers, and artists throughout history. In this interactive workshop, users will:

The Meriam Library will be hosting a workshop sponsored by the Student Learning Center and the Meriam Library’s Information Literacy Program on how to research and write a literature review. The workshop, led by Hailey Collord and Kevin Crittenden of the Student Writing Center, and Kevin Klipfel of the Meriam Library, will be held on Wednesday March 23 from 5-6pm in MLIB 226. All Chico State students are invited to attend.