Kelly Library Instruction Program
Instructional Classes

Why should you have library instruction for your classes?

Library instruction will help your students find a wider array of sources than just their textbooks, reserve readings, a few encyclopedia articles and some dubious web sites.

Librarians can give students basic information on how to do library research as well as how to use more specialized indexes and online resources. We can give students guidelines on how to evaluate web pages and how to tell the difference between scholarly and popular periodicals.

So, if your students are researching a paper or project, preparing an oral presentation, speech or debate or need book reviews, we can show them how to find the information they need.

What can we do for your classes?

For English 100 classes, we show students how to use the online catalog, one or two basic indexes such as Expanded Academic ASAP, an online newspaper service and an Internet search engine. Students will complete a brief exercise finding items with these tools.

For English 101, we give a fuller tour of the library's resources, and students will receive a booklet detailing these items. Since most English 101 sections work on a research paper, students will complete an exercise related to this project. Librarians will review and mark the exercises, and return them to the professors. This assignment may be weighted by the instructor in any manner he or she wishes.

For first year and sophomore classes, librarians can give students basic information on how to use the online catalog and some general, all-purpose online and print indexes.

For upper division classes, we focus on more specialized indexes and online and print resources appropriate to the subject matter of the class. We will incorporate any sources you would like to have brought to the attention of your class.

What do you need to do?

If you would like to have library instruction for your class, please contact Jane Caldwell at ext. 6209. Please give the librarians seven to ten days notice, so we may prepare instructional materials for your class. All classes meet in the McGowan Telelearning Room, located on the ground floor of the library.