The upgraded Ebsco Discovery Search has arrived! You'll find all the library resources you rely on, in a new, modernized results list and search interface. See a demo and learn more about searching the new Ebsco Discovery Search. Please book an appointment or email us if you need research assistance or are unable to access needed items!
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Email: library@harrisburgu.edu
Call: 717-901-5188
Text: 717-516-7359
Use the online reservation calendar
Each group study room features:
You can also email library@harrisburgu.edu or call 717-901-5188 with your request.
We have a complete Information Literacy course, including videos, tutorials, and quizzes. Whether you're new to research, or an experienced scholar, you're likely to find some new strategies here!
Faculty: use these materials in Canvas for a flipped classroom environment, incorporate them into your face-to-face instruction, or add them to online class content. Links can be easily copied and pasted into your Canvas course, a PowerPoint, or an email.
Use this box to search all of the HU Library's resources at once (print books, e-books, and journal articles).
Exciting changes are coming to the HU Library website! Open these links for a preview of our newly redesigned HU Library website and the New Ebsco Discovery Service, and learn more about searching in the New EDS.
We're crowd-sourcing stress management and academic success tips! Explore resources from Counseling, Tutoring, and the Library, and watch videos created by members of the entire HU community.
Includes books, interactive tutorials, and videos in computer science, information systems, user experience, business, communication, professional development & more.
Credo is an easy-to-use tool for getting started. Try the Mind Map for exploring topics! Find facts from hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific ebooks, plus videos & images.
Digital Commons is the repository for Harrisburg University student and faculty research. If you have published an article, completed a project or thesis, or presented at a conference, your work may be eligible for the Digital Commons. Learn what Digital Commons is and view the repository here.
Hundreds of training videos on almost any web app, software package, etc., you can think of. To learn how to log in, visit this page.
Use our Interlibrary Loan service to request items that aren't full-text in our library collection.
Customize Google Scholar to show HU Library resources in the search results.
Interlibrary loan helps current Harrisburg University students, faculty, and staff get copies of items that are unavailable in our own library. Just tell us what you need; we will find out which other library owns it and request a copy, free of charge to you.
There are two ways to make requests:
Most library resources are now using the myHU login for access.