Librarians are eager to collaborate with you to promote information literacy among our students. Librarians are available to instruct students in the best strategies for locating, evaluating and using information resources effectively and ethically. The Library instruction program provides the following services:

• Library Instruction Classes

  When you request a Library instruction session, a librarian will collaborate with you to provide a class which is tailored to your class goals and assignments. Library instruction sessions provide students with an overview of resources in a subject area, present strategies for searching databases, and provide guidance for evaluating the resources discovered.
  • Request a library instruction class for your students
  • Contact the Coordinator of Library Instruction: Meg Grotti, (302-831-6310)
  
  
• Library workshops

  The Library offers workshops on specific resources, new technologies, and other topics of interest. For more information please see the list of current workshops.

• Teaching with primary resources or historical documents

  If you would like your students to use primary resources in their research or wish to introduce your students to such resources, please contact the Special Collections Department to learn more about their collections and how primary resources can be integrated into your class.

  Contact Timothy Murray () or call the Special Collections Department at 302-831-2229.

• Teaching with Media

  • Interested in using films or documentaries in your course? Contact the Instructional Media Collection Department or call 302-831-8419.
  • Interested in having your students use multimedia in their work?
    Contact the Student Multimedia Design Center or call 302-831-8832.

Unsure of whom to contact?

• Email Meg Grotti, Coordinator of Library Instruction (Reference Department phone (302) 831-6230; e-mail ).
• Call the Reference Office at 302-831-2432.
• Request a library instruction class for your students.
• Contact the librarian for your subject; see the Subject Librarians for Instruction page.

Additional Library Instruction Materials for Faculty

• Learn how to design more effective research assignments.
• Teaching With Learning Outcomes: What's Different? An in-service presentation to University of Delaware reference librarians, August 26, 2009
• Teaching Research Skills to the Modern Student: A presentation at the University of Delaware Writing Program's in-service meeting, February 5, 2010

• University of Delaware Policy for Copyright and Fair Use in Instruction  
• Multimedia and Copyright In a Nutshell
• Resources for Copyright

Sakai @ UD Resource Guide

Library electronic resources can be linked from Sakai @ UD and course webpages. For information, see Resources for Sakai.