Faculty Library Guide

Librarians can help your students learn the best ways to find and evaluate information by providing library instruction tailored to your course. Librarians can create custom-designed sessions to help your students learn about specific resources and research strategies. Request an instruction session or library tour using our Library Instruction Request Form. 

Please see a full list of instruction options below. If you have questions about any of these options, please contact us.

• Tour of Library including service points (reference desk, circulation desk) and book stacks
• Explore special collections that are relevant to course
• Explore library website and online resources that are relevant to course

• Students investigate a variety of source types and learn their differences and advantages
• Sources may be books, journals, newspapers, primary sources, social media, or others depending on course needs

• Students learn why we cite (give credit where it is due, citations as research resource)
• Identify the parts of the citation
• Practice creating citations
• Track down sources from a citation
• Introduction to Zotero citation management software

• Introduction to brainstorming and keyword formation
• Mind map worksheet activity

• Demonstration of databases relevant to course including: Search tips, Navigating database search results, Keeping track of research.
• Students learn how to assess search results and adjust search methods accordingly.

• Students learn to identify scholarly articles and understand what research is peer reviewed
• Students learn how to find scholarly articles using library resources
• Students do an activity that deconstructs the parts of a scholarly article

Students conduct independent research in the Learning Lab with a librarian on-hand to provide research help and assistance

Students are guided in an exploration of specific library materials such as artists' books, zines, rare books, and institutional archives