Get Help With Your Research

Librarians are here to help you with your research!

At Knox College librarians are assigned to work with specific departments, allowing them to become expert in finding information for certain disciplines. View a list of librarians and the departments to which they are assigned. 

However, all librarians are available to answer reference questions while staffing the Reference Desk in Seymour Library. During academic terms the Reference Desk at Seymour Library is staffed:

Monday: 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Tuesday: 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm and 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Wednesday: 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Thursday: 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm and 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Friday: 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Saturday: no reference hours
Sunday: 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

On-call reference help is available Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday mornings.

You can reach the reference desk at 309-341-7228, or you can email your question at anytime to reference@knox.edu.

To help you get started with your research, go to Research Guides for various subjects using the drop-down list below. Or, go directly to the Research Guides site.

Links to more information:

• Citing sources properly
• Information about copyright and plagiarism
• How to borrow materials from other libraries
• Using RefWorks to build a database and cite sources
• How to evaluate web sites for scholarliness