Resources for Subject Instruction: Curricular Positioning

• TARGET individual faculty (first priority); personnel will change over time.
• SCHEDULE TIME to find the RIGHT faculty
• CONTACT faculty - consider phone calls followed up with email

• If you try to get students in your major to "think like [discipline, e.g., like a biologist/historian/psychologist...]" what does that mean to you?
• When it comes to students doing research in published sources, what problems do you see them encountering? Are the problems fairly constant, or has the nature of the information-seeking problem changed?
• Do you know about the learning objectives listed in the General Education program? Do you feel like research assignments are a good way to help students achieve them, and how do you see librarian guest lectures, or tutorials, or our research contest, fitting in?
• If we wanted to focus on some courses for sending "quickie" tutorials on how the information world works, for students to view as homework, and other courses for a more in-depth research coaching workshop with a librarian, within your department's curriculum, where do you think I should focus my efforts?
• If we were to design short (5 minutes or less) videos about some aspect of how the information world works in your discipline, what would you want us to focus on?
• If we were to design a quiz or pretest, to help demonstrate to students that they do not, in fact, know as much about research as they think (or as much as their professors want them to know), what would you want us to ask them?

You'll want to have your own answers to many of these questions, but you also need to listen to your faculty's answers.

Faculty care about what other faculty are doing. Be prepared to talk about faculty who are working with the library that others might consider.

SPEC_ED 4020 Inquiry in Learning--About a year ago, a discussion including the professor who teaches this class, the E-Learning Librarian and myself resulted in an agreement to develop a series of interactive online library-research focused lessons for her students. These lessons comprise the LibGuide Library Resources for Special Education Students.                                                                            PLJR

ESC_PS 8020 Overview of Research Methods--The professor who taught this class for the last two summers, approached me in late 2014 asking for an online introduction to library resources for graduate students.  With the help of the E-Learning Librarian, I put together a series of lessons on various library topics with the primary focus being research methods.  This resource is accessible through BlackBoard. 
                                                          PLJR