SHSU - The Woodlands Center Library Services

Library services at The Woodlands Center are provided in The Information Resources Center (Computer Lab): room 315.

The hours listed below represent typical library staff availability -- not computer lab or TWC hours. 

For information about The Woodlands Center, such as building hours, please call 936-202-5000 or visit the TWC home page at http://www.shsu.edu/academics/woodlands-center/.

To schedule a Zoom meeting, simply contact me at your convenience.

Staff will be limited during the week of 5/30 - 6/2.

For immediate research assistance, please contact the library in Huntsville at 936-294-1614.

For computer lab or Woodlands Center assistance, please contact the Administrative Office at 936-202-5000.

For other inquiries, please email me at tyler@shsu.edu and I will get back to you as soon as I can. 

This guide is intended to help students of Sam Houston State University - The Woodlands center learn about the library resources and services available to them from a distance. Newton Gresham Library strives to support the academic success of its student population and has made a concerted effort to provide the best possible library services to students taking classes remotely. With the distance education services offered by NGL, students will have complete library support without having to visit the library.

Students at SHSU - TWC will have access to:

• a full-time Librarian to assist you with your research– and library-related needs, such as locating research materials, completing citations, etc.

• over 100,000 combined online scholarly journals, e-books, newspapers, videos, etc.

• Interlibrary Loan delivered to your home

• Newton Gresham Library print materials delivered to your home

• One-to-one academic consultation

• In-class library and research instruction

This guide is not comprehensive and will not provide all of the resources and services available. This guide is merely intended as an introduction to get you started. If you are looking for more detailed research assistance, see Tyler Manolovitz in the Information Resources Center (Room 315) or check out some of the other guides available here.

For introductory information and examples about APA citations, please view our APA Citations guide. 

If you need access to the full style guide, Newton Gresham Library and SHSU-The Woodlands Center have print copies you can check out. 

Other helpful resources include Purdue OWL and the APA Style Blog.

Take advantage of our Interlibrary Services to get almost any article or book you need, even if our library does not have access. If you are a distance student you can even request books from the main campus and have them shipped to your home for free. 

To request a book we do not own, an article we do not have access to, or a book from the main campus, simply log in to ILLiad using your SHSU credentials and fill out the appropriate form. Please be sure to verify your contact information and mailing address. 

For more information, please visit our Interlibrary Loan page. 

• Research Organization / Citation Managers -- Start using one of these right away!
  • Mendeley
    • ​​Make your own fully-searchable library in seconds, cite as you write, and read and annotate your PDFs on any device.
  • Zotero
    • ​Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.
  • EndNote Web
    • ​Web-based tool for keeping track of all your sources (export them from many databases). Create formatted citations and bibliographies in just a few clicks. 
      • Introduction / instructions for SHSU users.
      • Create an EndNote Web account off-campus.