The Bronfman Business Library staff welcome students new to York University and welcome back all returning students.  We hope you had a great summer and we wish you success in your studies.

Toni, Meghan and I have had the pleasure of meeting some of  you at a number of library orientation sessions.  However I know the orientation sessions only reach a small number of students.

As you begin your assignments, please do not hesitate to contact us.  I am always amazed at the number of students who when they finally ask us for research assistance, tell me that they have been trying to find information for 2 to 3 hours on their own.  We are here to help you cut down the time it takes to find the information you need.  We are experts in business research and we will spend as much time as is needed to help you identify the resources you need and to suggest how to improve your searching skills.  Most of the databases have different search interfaces, and we can help you to develop the best search strategies for the individual resources.  And don't be shy about contacting us again when you have another assignment because the resources we suggested for your first assignment may not be the ones you need now.

And speaking of contacting us, there are six different ways.  You can drop by our research desk between 11 am and 7:30 pm Monday to Thursday, 11 am to 6 pm on Friday, 10 am to 6 pm on Saturday and noon to 8 pm on Sunday.  But we are available from 9 am to around 5 pm Monday to Friday if our office doors are open.  There is always someone available during these hours and we are happy to have you drop in.  Our offices are on both sides of the front area of the Library which is located on the second floor of the Schulich School of Business Building.

In addition, you can contact us by telephone during library research hours as noted above.  Our telephone number is 416-736-5139 and ask for the research desk.

You can email us at bgref@yorku.ca and we will answer you within 24 hours.

Your can chat with us using our online IM a business librarian service. We are bizyork on AIM and also bizyork on MSN and Google Talk. On Yahoo! we're bronfmanlibrary. We don't read e-mail at any of those addresses. If you don't use an IM client, then you can talk to us through the chat window on the Bronfman Business Library homepage. It uses Meebo, a chat client that works in your web browser.  This service is only available during library research hours.

You can make an appointment with one of the reference staff or email us directly.  Please see our contact list.

If you need research help outside of library research hours please see the links from the Starting Your Research section of the Bronfman Business Library homepage.

We hope to meet you in the Library or "talk" to you soon.