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title: 5 Tips to Engage and Educate Your Science Students
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# [5 Tips to Engage and Educate Your Science Students](https://blog.jove.com/librarian-blog/5-tips-to-engage-and-educate-your-science-students)

 Written by [Ian Murphy](https://blog.jove.com/author/ian-murphy) | Nov 7, 2017 5:00:00 AM

It can be difficult to get science students out of the lab and into the library. Yet, these students have as much of a need for your libraryʼs resources as any other patron. **No one librarian can help every early-career scientist: success requires contributions from the entire library staff, the faculty, and the students themselves.**

At JoVE, our mission is to work with librarians to advance scientific learning and research. So here are 5 tips to better engage and educate the undergrads, graduate students, and postdocs who need your help.

**Tip #1. Tailor messaging for mobile phones**

If youʼre communicating with students, assume theyʼll be seeing it on their smartphone. Today, 70% of all web traffic comes via mobile phones, and that holds true for Facebook and YouTube too...

**Tip #2. Find allies and engage students on their turf**

Word of mouth has long been the most powerful marketing tool for any product or service. Your biggest asset will be students who understand the libraryʼs value...

**Tip #3. Meet faculty halfway - or 99% of the way if thatʼs what it takes**

It shouldnʼt come as a surprise that students are most engaged when theyʼre in the classroom, so do whatever it takes to present to them there...

**Tip #4. Your strategy for graduate students and postdocs**

Science-focused graduate students have little time to escape from the research lab, respond to social media posts, or show up for food and fun events...

**Tip #5. Be aware of unique needs of international students**

International students earn 11.6% of all doctorates conferred by U.S. colleges and universities, according to a 2015 report from the Pew Research Center, but they receive a much higher percentage of doctorates in STEM fields...

 

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