Working with you
- Share successful strategies that we've developed
- Meet with you or email to develop library or in-class sessions
- Help to create pre-session or follow-up assignments
- Send you relevant sources related to the class topic
- Solicit and answer students’ library and research-related questions
- Help you to incorporate different media into the class or assignments
- Showcase your students' work in the library through displays and presentations
- Review students’ bibliographies as part of an assignment
- Collaborate with you on assessing student learning
Working with your class
- Visit your class once or multiple times
- Hold individual consultations with students about their topics
- Be embedded in your course, engaging with students through your Blackboard site, chat, or other preferred spaces
- Find, provide, or create instructional tutorials
- Provide hands-on, active learning experiences, including pre-class assignments and flipped classroom activities
- Attend student presentations to support their efforts and to better inform our practices
Working with other libraries and collections
Additional specialized collections might be a focus for your classes, including Rare Books and Special Collections, Robbins (medieval studies), Miner (medical), Sibley (music). Librarians and specialists in each can work with students in various ways. For example:
Rare Books and Special Collections
- Visit the department, to learn about rare and unique primary sources, and how to conduct research with special collections
- Discuss book history, manuscript studies or archival practices and how they relate to the subject of your class
- Register your students in order to come back on their own to conduct future research
- Tour exhibits of special collections
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