What these tools do
Save a source with one click from a database or the browser, keep your whole library in one place across devices, and drop formatted in-text citations and a bibliography into a paper — switching citation style in one step. The payoff scales with the number of sources.
Where it goes wrong
Duplicate entries, a broken word-processor plugin, a style that's almost right but not quite. The library runs short workshops on setup and holds drop-in hours for the specific “my bibliography won't generate” problem.
In and around Porter Falls
Online and Extended Learning works out of the second level of Halvorsen Library and supports learners across Wesconsin who rarely come to Porter Falls in person.
The practical details
Supported: The major reference managers, all with a campus site licence or free tier. Help via: Drop-in library hours, scheduled workshops, and written guides. Best for: Anyone writing something with more than a dozen sources. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Online & Extended Learning (Halvorsen Library, Level 2). Call (715) 555–0128 or email online@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.