The IPFW Library offers a variety of services to support the teaching mission. For an overview of those used most frequently by IPFW faculty, the best place to begin is our online guide Services for Faculty. This guide provides descriptions of and links to services such as:
Copyright Information which pulls together copyright laws and fair use guidelines that impact faculty doing research and teaching in a university setting.
Faculty Guide to ReservesEXPress which gives students access to their instructor's reserve readings 24 hours a day, seven days a week from home or campus computers. This guide includes a handy link to ReservesEXPress Copyright FAQ for copyright questions directly related to this service.
Document Delivery provides all the basics for faculty and student use of this popular library service which significantly expands our library's ability to provide access to research materials.
Course Guides which our subject liaison librarians create contain information basics on most frequently needed library databases and can also be customized to include resources targeted to specific projects. See the current version of the SOC S161 Principles of Sociology. One of the most used sections of this guide, "Databases for this Course" includes links to two sources often needed by S161 students, Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) and Sociological Abstracts (CSA).
Other library guides containing information on important issues for teaching faculty include Plagiarism Information, an excellent guide which gives several different definitions of plagiarism, links to online articles, and web sites dealing with preventing and detecting plagiarism.
Creating Effective Assignments offers quick tips and ideas that work best, and also provides a few "red flags" to watch out for. Sue Skekloff, skekloff@ipfw.edu, the librarian liaison to Sociology is available to critique library assignments in advance of their distribution to make sure any changes in the library environment are represented.
Due to the number of 100-level courses it is impossible for librarians to conduct individual class sessions at this level. We offer instead a vigorous train-the-trainer program. We offer any 100-level instructor who wants to conduct a library instruction session for their students the use of our Electronic Information Training Classroom (EITC) after they have had instruction in the room on its use and reservation procedures. We also offer library training at the beginning of every semester for associate faculty teaching beginning courses on library enhancements, new or changed databases. Contact Sue Skekloff, skekloff@ipfw.edu, for more information.
Most important? Make sure your students know that they can sign up at the Library's Service Desk for a one-on-one appointment with a librarian for customized help with any library related question.
