Instructional Services For Faculty

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Overview of Information Literacy

• What is Information Literacy?
• Information Literacy and General Education (a PowerPoint presentation)
• Readings on Information Literacy and General Education

Working With a Librarian to Enhance Your Courses

• Specialists by Subject Find out who your subject librarian is.
• Request an Instruction Session Sign up for a tailored research session with your class and a librarian.
• Faculty/Librarian Collaboration See examples of benefits of collaborating with librarians.
• Library Resources for Specific Courses A list of guides for specific classes that were prepared by subject librarians. Help your students get to choice resources.
• Subject Research Guides Comprehensive research guides prepared by subject librarians for finding information in various subjects. These are much more extensive than the course guides listed above.

Adding Library Resources to Your Web Pages, Blogs or SPARK site

• Library Resources for Faculty Using Online Teaching Methods Some possible information literacy enhancements for faculty using SPARK, blogs, and other online learning tools.
• Linking to Online Library Resources: What's possible? Information about how to link to the fulltext online resources of the library.
• Linking to Business Resources A streamlined step by step approach of how to link to library resources and examples using business resources.
• Sample bibliographies that have been linked to library resources:
  • Using RefShare
  • Using individual persistent URLs

Special Tools Available to Assist with Research

• RefWorks Bibliography Manager RefWorks collects, stores, and organizes citations from books, articles, web sites, and other sources. It automatically converts citations into properly formatted bibliographies.
• Citation Linker Find out if a specific article, journal, or book is available through the Library.
• Using Citation Styles General information for students about citation styles and citation elements.

Plagiarism

• Plagiarism Prevention and Detection Services The UMass Amherst Library partners with other campus offices to offer online plagiarism detection services for faculty support and student education.
• Faculty Guide to Plagiarism and Cyber-Plagiarism from the University of Alberta.
• Basic Plagiarism Tutorial developed at San Jose State University. Sign in as guest.