Library instructional expertise
Our librarians and curators partner with instructors to bring research and critical-thinking skills to classes. We focus on library research tools and collections. We are dedicated to helping students become inquisitive, responsible, and critical researchers in any course or discipline.
How we can partner
Teach library research skills and introduce library resources in a class
We offer customized, hands-on class instruction in alignment with course objectives. We partner with instructors to design and refine research assignments, interactive activities, and learning objects that develop students' research skills. We can also provide an introduction to library research tools, collections, and services.
Create a customized research guide for your course
We can create a course guide with class-specific tools and resources to maximize student success in the research process. These guides are integrated into the Library Course Page in Canvas.
Integrate special collections, primary source materials, or archives in your course
We can partner to integrate primary source materials and other special collections into your class, building skills in this specialized research practice and tying a broad range of collections to course objectives.
Apply experiential learning technologies from the Libraries Makerspaces and/or Virtual Reality Studio
We can help you integrate a range of innovation and emerging technologies into your class. We will work with you to develop multimedia projects, creative assignments with our makerspaces, and virtual reality experiences.
Additional instructional resources
Online tutorials: Integrate videos and tutorials into your assignments and Canvas. These tutorials will help students find, critically evaluate, and effectively use sources for their course research.
Libraries workshops: Explore in-person and online workshops on student success topics, Makerspaces, research tools and more.
Media services for instruction: Library Media Services provides the University community with support for media creation and commercial media resources, with emphasis on course integrated, multimodal scholarship, and creative expression contexts.
Course materials services: The Libraries have a number of ways to help instructors deliver course materials to their students including course reserves, e-text(s), articles, media, open education resources and more.