Library

Needful Terms for New Librarians

This guide is for new employees at Emerson Library. It is designed to help these employees learn key terms, tools, and concepts so that they can integrate quickly into library operations.

Guide Resources

The Library and its parts
A brief listing of the parts of the library you will normally interact with.
Library Software and Tools
The computer and online assets the library uses to do its work.
The Campus
Selected parts of the wider Webster University campus.
The Wonderful World of Acronyms
A key to the potentially confusing array of acronyms used by the library.
Research Guides
A good place to start whether you are a student looking for research help or an employee learning about the library job and its setting.