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Resources for Faculty
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Contact Bruce Connolly (phone: 6281 / email: connollb@union.edu), David Gerhan (phone: 6614 / email:
gerhand@union.edu), or any librarian with
whom you have a comfortable working relationship to set up an initial planning
meeting geared toward the needs of your SRS course.
Training
for Faculty Members:
- Informal, one-on-one orientation and training session on
Library resources and services for the SRS faculty member
prior to the term and, ideally, at the point where the
research project is being planned.
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Helping SRS faculty to become acquainted with the
full range of resources that the library has to
offer is an important component of the program for
us, and helping faculty learn to use these resources
effectively themselves is also a high priority for
the library. Librarians affiliated with the program
are interested in taking you on a tour of the
reference collection, demonstrating the capabilities
of the online catalog, identifying electronic
resources that are suited for the research projects
you are planning for your students and bringing you
up to date on how to search them yourselves,
determining what types of handouts and instructional
materials are needed for you class, and hearing your
suggestions regarding the resources the Library
might need to acquire to support course-related
research. We are happy to meet with you individually
or in small groups, in the Library or in your
office.
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Support
for Courses:
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A
web-based research guide for your SRS section, customized to
include the specific print titles, scholarly databases, and
web resources that you want students to use for their
research and writing.
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Handouts on general and specific topics that will be covered
in your SRS section, for print, online, or Blackboard
distribution.
See the Subject Research area of the Library website for
some examples or contact one of the librarians.
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These could be one of the
standard, hour-long library
instruction sessions, scheduled
during a class time and covering
reference sources appropriate to
the research assignment,
searching the catalog, selecting
and searching scholarly
databases, and authoritative
websites. Alternatively, they
might involve a quick visit to
demonstrate a specific
information gathering skill or
technique—marking search results
in the catalog or a database and
downloading them into a
bibliographic management
software package, saving search
strategies that can be
re-executed over and over via
the catalog’s “My Library”
feature, or setting up an alert
in a database which will
automatically email journal
citations on a research topic at
regularly specified intervals.
Examples:
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Support for Blackboard, including resource development,
participation in online discussions where appropriate, and
the option of registering a librarian as an instructor for
your course.
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Faculty would have the option, in Blackboard, of
registering a librarian as an instructor for the course
and granting the privilege of posting research-related
materials on the Blackboard site. Alternatively, a
librarian might create materials that are published via
Blackboard and/or the “Subject Research” area of the
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- Individual mentoring, assistance, and informal instruction
for your students.
This would include reference service, of course,
provided by all members of the Library professional
staff, but it would also include the offer of access
(for you and your students) to the librarian affiliated
with your course by phone, email, and appointment.
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Back-up for
Faculty:
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Plagiarism
checking using the Turnitin system.
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The Library maintains a plagiarism website and provides
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- Support for bibliographic management software such as RefWorks.
Access
to RefWorks software, training workshop, customized
materials, consultation.
A RefWorks training session will be held during Spring Term.
Please contact the Library Office for more information. 388-6277. |
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