LibGuides: Faculty/Graduate Student Support from River Campus Libraries: Overview of Services

Instructional Support for Teaching & Learning

Information Literacy Instruction (for traditional, hybrid and online courses)
Instructional Design
- Development of specialized library guides for your course or a particular assignment (see the list of current course specific research guides)
- Assistance with developing a course (serving as a sounding board for folding in pedagogical concepts).
- Assistance developing course assignments (ensuring that the library has or can purchase the resources needed).
- Locate and assist with resources for teaching with technology, including Open Educational Resources.
- Assistance with using/integrating collaborative technologies and new media creation

Assignment Design Resources

Digital Assignment Design Worksheet
A brief worksheet with questions to ask yourself as you develop a digital assignment. Based on L. Suskie's "Creating effective assignments." In Assessing student learning: A common sense Guide (Chapter 16, pp. 205-214).
Digital Assigment Design Workshop Slides (August 2022)

Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains
A brief overview of Bloom's three learning domains.
Bloom's Taxonomy Verbs by Domain
Verbs for developing student learning outcomes for each of Bloom's Learning Domains: Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor.
Learning Outcomes ABCD-Y Method
Provides strategies for writing learning outcomes using the ABCD-Y method.
Information Literacy Framework - Overview
A two page overview of information literacy threshold concepts.
How Information Works
A Tool for understanding growth in information use based on the Information Literacy Framework.

Creating effective assignments
Suskie, L. (2018). Creating effective assignments. In Assessing student learning: A common sense Guide (Chapter 16, pp. 205-214).
Evolving Into the Open: A Framework for Collaborative Design of Renewable Assignments.
Katz, S., & Allen, J. V. (2020). Evolving Into the Open: A Framework for Collaborative Design of Renewable Assignments. Publications and Research. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/le_pubs/306

Blackboard Assistance
- Requesting course reserves via http://www.library.rochester.edu/reserves/faculty
- Audit your blackboard course modules before you open to students
- Collecting and adding open educational resources (OER) as an alternative for textbooks or embed resources (e.g. a short video on using difficult resources or how-tos like using the advanced search features in LexisNexis or searching for a journal title).
- Assistance finding online resources students can access as an alternative to ILL (Gutenberg, Hathi Trust, Google Books, etc.).
- Assistance adding links in Blackboard to library resources
- Librarian presence in course discussions/online discussion forums (all or pre-selected discussions).
- Allow students direct access to their librarian at the point of need and/or participate in discussion boards; offer feedback on drafts, help with incorporating collaborative technologies into the course, etc.
Pop-Up Programming and Workshops - Developing programming to complement your course (e.g. we created pop-up programs in the library for students on researching employers & on developing an elevator pitch as a supplement to students taking WRT 273).

Research Resources by Discipline
Research or Technology Consultations (Schedule an appointment)
Find or purchase resources (data, books, journal subscriptions or database subscriptions) by reaching out to your subject librarian. Not sure who your librarian is? Visit library.rochester.edu/subject-librarians.
Assistance locating open repositories for your own research or data sets or researching journals for publishing opportunities (e.g. finding acceptance rates, impact factors or vetting to avoid predatory publishers).
Assistance with Citation Management Software

If you'd like to work with a librarian to create a guide with specific resources for your course or assignment(s). Contact your Outreach Librarian.

Understanding & Measuring Your Research Impact
A guide for
PROSPERO
A database of systematic review protocols, that is, reviews currently being undertaken. Researchers are encouraged to register their review in PROSPERO when they start, and to record their progress. Publish your own protocol or search the database to see what research is being conducted on a topic.
Copyright & Fair Use
Offers guidance on Copyright & Fair Use.
Open Scholarship
A guide with information on open scholarship, open data and open access initiatives
New Scholar
Resources and strategies to support undergraduate and graduate students as they establish themselves as accomplished scholars by presenting and publishing