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Academic Support Services

Textbooks

Through Messiah's partnership with Slingshot, you are auto-enrolled to receive your required textbooks and course materials automatically, delivered to your home or campus store. Once you enroll for your course or courses, the default setting will be for you to rent your books, but you may change that to purchasing or using digital formats in your account preferences. To change your preference, use your Messiah credentials and log into http://messiah.treeoflifebooks.com. You may also look up pricing for your materials, see when rentals are due, access required digital materials, and update your mailing address through your portal.

When you sign into your account portal, you may also access a live chat feature to receive assistance from Slingshot.

For assistance regarding Messiah's campus store, you may contact Ms. Aleisha Wildon at awildon@messiah.edu.

Murray Library

A key facility in the University's educational program is the Murray Library. It contains quiet places for individual and group study; more than 250,000 books, periodicals, online databases and journals, audio/visual media, and other media, as well as access to myriad web-based electronic resources. The library building houses the media center, including audiovisual production space, a film production studio, a computer laboratory, and the archives of the University and Brethren in Christ Church. The Office of Academic Accessibility, and the Learning Center moved into recently renovated space; now educational services to support student learning are located in one facility. Membership in various consortia expedites the loan of resources from other libraries.

Reference services are available from librarians; hours and contact information are listed on the library website. All students, residential and online, have access to online databases (including full-text articles, e-books, and streaming videos) and the library catalog. Students can access the library through the Messiah website. Most graduate courses also have direct links to the library in Canvas. Journal articles not available online can be requested through Interlibrary Loan and will be forwarded electronically to students. Books owned by the library will be mailed to a student’s home address. Students may also present their Messiah ID card at various Pennsylvania libraries to check out books from a local library. Students outside of Pennsylvania may visit their local college to see if they offer borrowing privileges. If in the area, students in online courses are always welcome to visit Messiah’s Murray Library to do research, check out materials, or place interlibrary loan requests in person.

Editing & Writing Support

Messiah University partners with Heartful Editor to provide editing support and writing coaching to graduate students. Heartful Editor’s team of caring and supportive academic coaches and editors strives to uphold the highest ethical standards in their work with students, blending ethics and compassion to build a responsible and productive editing and coaching experience.

Heartful Editor coaches and guides graduate students on writing and the mechanics of style, specifically the guidelines outlined in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA, 7th Edition), the American Medical Association Manual of Style (AMA, 11th Edition), and the Chicago Manual of Style (17th Edition). Their academic coaches and editors:

• Read and review all documents for grammar, spelling, punctuation, consistency in formatting, and alignment with style guidelines.
• Suggest alternative words or phrases, provide guidance on sentence structure, and advise on how to better organize ideas.
• Provide graduate students with a thorough overview of areas that need attention and improvement.
• Track all edits and changes for the client to review and accept or reject.
• Format master’s theses and doctoral dissertations in alignment with Messiah University formatting standards.

To learn more about Heartful Editor or to schedule an appointment for editing or writing coaching, please visit https://heartfuleditor.com/messiah-university/. They will respond to your request within 2-3 business days.