Library Guides: New Faculty and TAs: Getting Started at ISU Libraries: Teaching Support

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You'll be GLAD you worked with your librarian!

Streaming Videos
The Library has 1000s of streaming videos you can use for your courses! See our Streaming Video Guide for more information.....
e-Books
We subscribe to numerous large packages of ebooks plus many individual titles. You can discover many of these via Quick Search.

Let Us Help!

Do you want your students to learn to use specific research indexes and scholarly resources? Do you want your students to use academic research tools in your subject area rather than rely exclusively on unvetted web resources and Wikipedia? Do you need to incorporate research skills into your student learning goals for your classes? Do you need help making course materials available online to your students without infringing copyright? Talk with your librarian today!

Let us help you teach your students research & information literacy concepts and skills! You can arrange for your librarian to visit your class to teach information literacy topics (such as getting started with research; evaluation of sources; distinguishing between popular & scholarly materials; evaluating websites; understanding plagiarism, correct paraphrasing, and ethical use of information), and to teach the ins and outs of specific indexes & authoritative finding tools relevant to your class assignments and subject area. Contact your librarian to get started!

Course-Specific Library Sessions
Collaborate with your librarian and schedule them to visit your class to help teach your students research methods, information literacy skills, specific databases, and more!
Distance Learning Library Support Guide
Distance learners are a very diverse group and those truly at a distance are rarely if ever able to be on campus to ask questions or seek materials. Our DL Guide strives to help off-campus students access and use our many online resources and services.

Useful Sevices

Canvas & My Library
Handy links to selected ISU Library tools and services are now available within Canvas! Use the page as-is or instructors can embed library content into individual courses.
Class Guides & Research Guides
Locate course-specific guides and research guides in your subject area. Work with your librarian if you'd like to see specific Guides for your classes and students included here!
Course Reserves
The Library's Course Reserves is an important partner for faculty in putting together required materials in many formats and making them available for students. Course Reserves manages all relevant copyright issues (including fees) related to posting or distributing copyrighted materials within the Canvas Course Reserves system. This service saves time and money for faculty and the ISU community. Students benefit with easy 24/7 accessibility of online course materials and no costly coursepacks.

Library 160 - Information Literacy

LIB160 is a credit-bearing course that is a graduation requirement for all undergraduate students at ISU. Students learn how scholarly information is produced, organized, and accessed; how to construct and use effective search strategies in a variety of web tools and scholarly databases; how to choose finding tools appropriate to the type of information needed, and learn critical thinking skills in the evaluation of resources and best practices in the ethical use of information.

LIB160 does not teach students more than basics. If you want your students to learn about research tools specific to your subject area, we recommend you collaborate with a librarian to teach specialized research tools. Librarians can tailor sessions to specific class assignment needs and provide hands-on sessions using various library resources.