Schedule Library Instruction
EKU Libraries offers a variety of teaching and learning services to support you and your students, regardless of whether your course is in-person, hybrid, or online. Librarians can work with you to customize learning outcomes and develop assignments, educational materials, and/or instructional support on subjects like research question or topic development, finding and evaluating sources, attributing sources, and more. From co-designed research assignments to synchronous and asynchronous instructional options, librarians are here to help you support student success.
Professors may collaborate with a librarian to plan and schedule information literacy instruction, including instruction with EKU Libraries Research Center for Special Collections & Archives.
Synchronous Instructional Support
Can be facilitated in-person or via Zoom to accommodate the modality of your course
- Individual library instruction sessions delivered during regular class time and focused on a particular assignment, topic, or skill.
- Cultivated series of library instruction sessions delivered during regular class time and focused on the scaffolded development of a set of skills.
- Research consultations for individuals or small groups, scheduled by the student(s) at a time convenient for them outside of class.
Asynchronous Instructional Support
Can be embedded directly into the LMS (e.g., Canvas, Blackboard) or accessed from the Libraries website.
- Research Guides: Specialized guides created to offer students access to and instruction on library and research resources for specific courses, subjects, and topics. Explore our current subject, course, and/or topic guides for inspiration.
- Canvas Modules and Interactive Tutorials: Self-paced or instructor-assigned information literacy modules or tutorials designed to teach students college-level research skills. Explore current offerings at Interactive Tutorials and in the EKU Libraries Canvas Commons [coming soon!].
- How-to Videos: Video tutorials designed to showcase core information literacy skills, demonstrate strategic approaches to searching, and more. Explore individual videos and cultivated playlists on the EKU Libraries YouTube channel.
- Lesson plans: Information literacy lessons you can facilitate; each lesson plan provides an outline, resources, and suggestions for fully engaging students in the application of foundational information literacy skills. Explore our current lesson plans.
- Assignments: Quizzes, activities, and other interactives designed to help students develop information literacy and/or research skills unique to the course objectives; assignments can be developed on a platform that auto-grades (e.g., a Canvas quiz or assignment) or graded by the instructor-of-record with guidance from a librarian as needed (Note: librarians do not grade student work).
