Faculty Guide: Library Support for CORE 3990

You can assign or link to some of Lavery Library's online information literacy tutorials, guides, and videos.

Sharing some of these with your students may be especially helpful for transfer students who didn't take the Research-Based Writing course at Fisher.

You can either link to these in Blackboard or show any these in class. If you want other ideas or support, feel free to reach out to your course librarian or email us: libraryreference@sjfc.edu

Your Lavery Librarians have created two online self-guided tutorials especially for students in 3990.

Research Basics at Lavery Library

Link: https://libguides.sjfc.edu/research-basics

Self-guided tutorial about using Lavery Library's resources in order to search for books, ebooks, and articles.

We recommend assigning this tutorial near the beginning of the term, when you are asking students to start searching for scholarly sources.

• Important for transfer students; they'll learn basics about Fisher's library
• Refresher for students who went through Fisher's first-year library instruction (Learning Communities, Research Writing)
• Takes students 20-30 minutes to complete
• You could set aside time for students to do it during class, or have them do it between classes.

Quiz

If you would like to ensure your students completed this tutorial, librarians have a short quiz available. Contact your designated course librarian or email us if you would like to embed it into your course within the course management system: libraryreference@sjf.edu.

How to Read a Scholarly Article

Link: https://libguides.sjfc.edu/scholarly-article

Self-guided tutorial about the anatomy of a scholarly article. Includes an example of an article that presents research findings, as well as a humanities article.

You can assign this after students have completed the Research Basics at Lavery Library. We designed this for students to use when they are beginning to search for scholarly articles.

• Takes students 10-15 minutes to complete.
• Students read about parts of a scholarly article, then practice labeling these parts in an ungraded matching game.
• Students view a checklist they can use to determine whether a particular article is a good fit for their course assignment.

Quiz

If you would like to ensure your students completed this tutorial, librarians have a short quiz available. Contact your designated course librarian or email us if you would like to embed it into your course within the course management system: libraryreference@sjf.edu.

If you have an idea for a tutorial, video, or guide you'd like to see, please contact us to let us know! libraryreference@sjfc.edu 

Recommended for 3990

In-Class Guide

Full List of Lavery Library Video Tutorials