Social Work: Home

Social work is dedicated to assisting people to improve their lives, with a focus on their personal and social wellbeing. Social workers take the time needed to build relationships with people so that together they can consider all aspects of their situation, including their strengths and capacities, as well as the areas where they need help.
(adapted from: “About Social Work.” AASW, https://www.aasw.asn.au/social-work/about-social-work/. Accessed 15 Aug. 2024.)

The libraries at the University of Utah directly support the College of Social Work students, staff and faculty with great collections across all academic disciplines, services and research librarians to foster your research and education success.  What follows are a few undergraduate-specific quick start videos by your own librarian, Dale Larsen.  See other tabs for more specific support and reach out to Dale at dale.larsen@utah.edu :-)

quick video: Crash Course in Using the Library

quick video: How to Find a Specific Book!

Using AI tools for... Keywords Help in General
Searching academic library resources can be frustrating and slow -here's a few tips and background info that will help you speed up the process and understand how it all works.  ask me anytime :-) "what's a good keyword for...?" at dale.larsen@utah.edu

Very short annotated bibliographies for use by scholars with an emphasis on understanding the contexts of events in the world around us.  No bibliography can be unbiased -ask your librarian how you can continue the research on what you're interested in!