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Resources: Students

A guide to Butler Libraries and Archives for students.

Butler Libraries & Archives: Overview

Welcome to Butler Libraries and Archives! We, like other American libraries, are here to help you succeed in the classroom and beyond.

As an academic library, we support Grizzlies by helping them access information, understand how to evaluate, manage, and use information, and provide space for leisure activities and studying. You will find that our libraries have a collection filled with books, movies, video games, anatomy models, and textbooks that can be accessed in our stacks (library shelves) or online, in our catalog (database of materials in the library) or databases.

All of our materials are organized by call number (address), so you have an easier time finding what you need, when you need them. If our libraries do not have what you need, we can order them from other libraries through a process called inter-library loan (ILL). We can also deliver materials between our campuses, so you can get what you need without having to drive.

We also know how to have fun in our libraries. Check out and follow our Instagram account to learn more about what events we are holding and how you can participate.

Ask Us for Help

Help is always available. With six librarians, two library assistants, and a handful of student workers between two campuses, we can help connect you to the information and resources you need. We can also help you in the following languages:

  • English
  • Spanish

If you are having trouble understanding or translating library terms into your native language, check out the link below to get translation in Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Vietnamese.

You can also use the following multilingual library signage website to translate phrases into your native language.

Academic Integrity, Cheating, & Plagiarism

What is academic integrity?

Butler Community College defines academic integrity as "the development of knowledge and/or skills without any form of cheating or plagiarism."

At American universities, it is important that students are honest about who, what, or where they get their information from. When you are not honest, you are cheating. Cheating is when you use people or tools to complete or do something for you without permission. There are different types of cheating, such as plagiarism. When you do not credit someone for their ideas or work, it is considered plagiarism.

The American approach to academic integrity may be different from what you are familiar with. Students who go through the American school system learn and use ideas and information differently than other countries.

  • Any information that is not considered common knowledge needs to be cited, or the original author or source should get credit for their ideas and work.
  • American colleges and universities expect you to know when you are cheating when not citing who or where you got information online.
  • You are expected to cite the original source, no matter how much or how little you take from a source.
  • Even if you rewrite someone else's work, you are expect to cite the original source.
  • You are required to cite your own work, and you are not allowed to use papers that were submitted in other classes unless you get permission from your instructor first.
  • Citing the original source is not limited to school. Not citing can even affect your career.
  • There are different levels of consequences for not citing the original source.

Note: The information above is provided directly from California State University Library - Northridge.

Test Your Knowledge: Academic Integrity

Cheating includes:

  • Giving, receiving, or using unauthorized help on individual and group academic work (papers, presentations, quizzes, and tests)
  • Pretending to be another student
  • Sharing content without permission
  • Creating false data or information to support academic work
  • Changing academic documents, including records
  • Using AI generators (e.g., ChatGPT), language translators, or computer algebra systems (e.g., Photomath) to complete coursework without credit or permission

Butler defines plagiarism as:

  • Representing or turning in someone else's work without appropriate citation
  • Not acknowledging the paragraph, quoting, or complete use of someone else's work
  • Citing work that is not used
  • Taking credit for a (group) project without contributing
  • Letting another person or organization write or contribute to any part of an assignment, including hiring someone or a company to do your assignments
  • Using AI (e.g., ChatGPT) without proper attribution or authorization
  • Using the same written assignment for more than one class without permission from prior instructors
  • Failing to cite yourself as a source when using work submitted at Butler or other schools, including high school

Citing: NoodleTools

Understanding how to cite to give credit to the original author(s) or source can be overwhelming if you are new to it. Fortunately, Butler Libraries and Archives offers a citation manager that is free to you as a Grizzly.

NoodleTools not only helps you create citations for your works cited or reference page, but it also helps you keep track of your citations.

You can organize your thoughts, develop ideas and arguments, and take notes with their notecards or outline features before you start writing. NoodleTools keeps your sources, notes, and ideas in one place so you can focus on what matters.

Getting Started: NoodleTools

Learn more about using NoodleTools by visiting our NoodleTools research guide. There, you will find video tutorials and guides on how to set up an account and begin citing.