Liaisons & the Curriculum

Librarian and academic technology liaisons, who are subject specialists, support the research and curricular needs of academic departments in a variety of ways. Our goal is to promote information fluency across the curriculum.

Strategize with academic departments to create a plan for developing information fluency skills in students -- from foundation to capstone
Teach students about the information resources available to them and how to conduct searches effectively and efficiently -- as well as critically
Teach students to use information, in all formats, ethically and legally
Develop library components for First-Year Seminars with First-Year Seminar faculty
Work with faculty to develop classroom and out of classroom support for specialized software applications, including SPSS, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Text-Encoding Initiative (TEI), RefWorks and Blackboard
Explore with faculty the opportunities for using primary resources, material culture, and early/contemporary printed materials for cultural context in individual and class projects and presentations
Perform in-depth research consultations for students
Provide faculty with specialized research assistance
Keep individual faculty and/or academic departments aware of new online and print resources in their fields of interest
Create discipline-specific, interdisciplinary, or course-specific web guides for research
Provide guides for users of electronic resources and specialized software
Reserve and prepare the Woolley Electronic Classroom for faculty one-time class use
Refer faculty and students to Library and Information Services (LIS) staff who can best serve their needs, as necessary.

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