Please include the following statement in your syllabi:
Students are responsible to obtain any library resources assigned for this course. Questions about library resources should be directed to librarians in Jenks Library. Librarians are available to assist you by email at library@gordon.edu or by appointment.
Jenks Library can provide information literacy instruction for your students in a variety of ways. Below are some suggestions on how to integrate information literacy into your course:
Library workshops on research techniques and library resources are available for individuals, small groups, or entire classes for general or subject-specific content. Instruction may be held in a single session or a series of sessions in a computer lab, in the Reference Room, or in the classroom. To request an instruction session for your class please fill out the Library Instruction Request Form.
Ask a librarian for help producing instruction videos to distribute to your class via Canvas or our Jenks Library YouTube page. This is the next best thing to in-person instruction, and in some ways better, because we can create highly tailored video content your students can access again and again. Check out the Jenks Library YouTube page to view examples of instruction videos.
The library can create a tailored subject guide or course guide for your class or discipline. These guides are curated resources designed to meet the needs of your students. They contain links and how-to information for the most relevant library resources and search strategies related to your discipline or class.
Here are links to subject guides that might be helpful to you:
Embed information literacy directly into your Canvas course by asking the library to help you build a research module. This module will be designed as a self-passed resource for students to complete. It includes a mixture of reading and videos, followed by short assignments to help check for understanding. See an example of a Canvas Module by searching the Commons for PYL 257 Research Module.
You can point students to specific journal articles and ebooks by using persistent links from library electronic resources. Permalinks, also called persistent links, durable links, or bookmarks, are Internet addresses that connect directly to specific full text articles or ebooks. For most databases it is important to copy the permalink from the article record rather than the URL appearing in the browser address bar, which is temporary and may not work later on.
Most persistent links can be placed within Canvas class sites, syllabi, and reading lists. Using a permalink is preferable to posting the PDF or placing print articles on reserve, because it avoids copyright issues.
For articles and EBSCO ebooks, copy the hyperlink at the top of the webpage (yes, that's all you need to do!).
For Gale databases, select "Get Links" in the menu in the upper right menu. Copy the provided link.
Select "Copy URL" in the menu at the top of articles.
Sage Journals is an online collection of journals.
You can add in links to the catalog to books or ebooks by copying the link in the browser window.
If you would like to link to a specific format (book, audiobook, ebook), select the link for that format and copy the new URL.
To abbreviate these links, you only need the information before the question mark.
For example, when I searched for The Anxious Generation, the URL was
https://gordon-new.noblenet.org/GroupedWork/ebad593c-7d2f-0b62-32b0-276aa6c25aec-eng/Home?searchId=660988&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local&referred=resultIndex
but I can shorten it to:
https://gordon-new.noblenet.org/GroupedWork/ebad593c-7d2f-0b62-32b0-276aa6c25aec-eng/Home
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