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Instructional services

A wealth of library resources are available for student and faculty curricular and research needs.   Keeping up with new resources as well as changes in established resources features and functions can be a formidable challenge with your very busy schedule.   Let us help you save time and effort in this endeavor with our many and varied instructional services.  We can provide  1:1 consultations and office calls for faculty, and class sessions as well as 1:1 consultations for students.

Here are just some of the Instructional services the CPLA Center at the Funk ACES Library can do for you: 

• Conduct tours of the Funk ACES Library including CPLA Reference & Resource Center and CPLA New Books Area

• Provide sessions on library use and services (Online Library Catalog, how to locate library materials, borrowing, interlibrary loan, etc.)

• Present workshops on how to use particular databases, how to set up current awareness services to keep up-to-date on the literature, etc.

• Provide sessions on the use of library resources for reading research papers

   

• Formulate course, project, or research related library instruction sessions

• Assist with research assignment development

• Create handouts, guides, Web pages, Web tutorials, and other library research or subject related information tools

• Compile source selections for class assignments and curriculum

• Provide sessions on information sources that are useful to laboratory classes

• Design customized print and Web resources for a specific class, project, or subject area

• Present new faculty workshops

• Present new graduate student workshops

• 1:1 consultations with librarian

• Office calls for faculty
  

For further information please contact Funk ACES Library by email or phone (333-2416).

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LEARN to Use the Library

The University Library Central Reference Library has many online tutorials, streaming videos, and other instructional assistance at their LEARN Web site.   See their FAQs.  They also schedule many workshops throughout the semester, with the special needs of undergraduate and graduate students in mind.  This is a must stop for any student, and useful for faculty members, too!

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Last modified by: Amy Gullen on 10/18/09