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Instruction
Our mission is to help you learn to use library resources efficiently and effectively. We offer a variety of seminars, workshops, and classes that will teach you how to navigate the library and how to find the best information for your research. You can also arrange to meet with the instruction librarian for individual instruction, or you can drop by the reference desk for informal help at any time.
Contact
- For scheduling, call (208) 282-5609 or email: libinst@isu.edu
- For questions about instruction, please contact Spencer Jardine, Coordinator of Instruction, at (208) 282-5609.
Scheduling/Requesting Instruction
Check the Instruction Calendars to see if either classroom is available on the day you'd like to hold your class.
- Library Room 212: includes 26 computer workstations, a projector, a screen, a tech podium, an ELMO, a whiteboard, a blackboard, and demonstration software.
- Library Room 266: includes 42 seats, eight tables, a projector, screen, tech station, podium, ELMO, television, and whiteboard. Located in back (left), northeast corner near the study rooms.
- Instruction Outside of Library Rooms: includes scheduled First Year Seminar scavenger hunts, tours, and library instruction given in other locations, both on and off campus.
Then fill out and submit one of the following forms, or invite us to an event with your Google Calendar. To request a Library Room using the Google Apps, follow these instructions. Instruction requests will be processed as soon as possible. Email libinst@isu.edu or call the Coordinator of Instruction (282-5609) if you have any questions or concerns regarding your request.
- Main Library Instruction Request Form
- Library Instruction Menu: Taking Orders
- IHSL Instruction Request Form
Library Instruction Ideas
Here are just a few kinds of instruction sessions/services we can offer:
- Basic research strategies with the catalog and article databases
- Finding a book in the catalog and on the shelves
- Research hour (we can open the computer classroom for your students to conduct research with a librarian on hand to offer reference assistance)
- Customized databases (usually for upper-division and graduate students within their disciplines). Ex: Web of Science, MLA Bibliography, PsychInfo, ERIC, etc.
- Conducting a literature review: finding dissertations, requesting books and articles via interlibrary loan, specialized article indexes/databases, etc. (mainly for those writing a thesis i.e. graduate students)
- Library tours and scavenger hunts
- Academic Integrity/Plagiarism tutorials and discussions
- Jeopardy (Library edition: a game in which students compete to answer questions about the Library. A tour, SearchPath Tutorial, or handout should be taken or studied before this activity to make it more successful.)
- Guidance with library-created tutorials such as SearchPath
- See also our Instructional Services Handout
Tutorials
Evaluations
- Student Workshop Evaluation
- Faculty Workshop Evaluation
- End-of-the Semester Faculty Workshop Evaluation
Policies and Procedures
Staff Directory
| Kristi Austin | Jolene Barnett-Stephens | Beth Downing |
| Cathy Gray | Ruiling Guo | Janet Higgins |
| Philip Homan | Spencer Jardine | Regina Koury |
| Jenny Semenza | Sandra Shropshire |
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