You can choose from a variety of instructional services to help prepare your students for papers or projects you assign and to help them become information literate. There may already be Research Guides on the Library's Web site that would help your students. During the session, the librarian will teach students how to use library databases, print resources, and perhaps the Web to gather the information needed for the assignment. The Lab will soon add screen control software, a SmartBoard, and an Elmo projector to its teaching equipment. The librarian would coach and assist students as they work.
Librarians regularly employ active learning methods in their instruction sessions.
For students to become information literate and to acquire proficiency in using both basic and discipline-specific information resources, they need assignments in a variety of courses giving them staged instruction and regular practice with these skills. They also need assignments that require them to evaluate the information sources they select and use for their papers and projects. Library assignments, besides teaching information literacy, can also help develop students' critical thinking, writing, speaking, computer, or diversity skills. Many such assignments do not require extensive writing and grading. If you've used our instruction services before, please feel free to contact directly the librarian you've been working with.