WRIT 7100.1: Library Resources and Services for FWS Instructors  Tags: graduate_students first_year_writing_seminars library_research writing information_literacy linguistics_language_literature  

Library Instruction Program

The Cornell University Library is the first contact many of your students will have with a large and complicated academic research library. For many of your students research begins and ends with Google and Wikipedia.

Library Instruction sessions provide:

• Orientation to the digital and physical libraries
• Recommended information resources
• Hands-on lab time for conducting research
• Critical thinking and evaluation skills and techniques

To request an Instruction session or sessions for your class, contact one of our Library Instruction Coordinators.

Or fill this Class Request form. (Works for most of our libraries. See pull down menu in form to select your library.)

• Cornell faculty and instructors interested in scheduling a class presentation or research session in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections in Kroch Library are welcome to contact:

Katherine Reagan
kr33@cornell.edu
255-3530

 Ideas for research assignments

• Effective Assignments Using Library and Internet Resources (UC Berkeley)
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/assignments.html
• Creating Effective Research Assignments (U Maryland)
  http://www.lib.umd.edu/guides/assignment.html
• Designing Assignments (U Washington) http://www.lib.washington.edu/help/guides/design.html

Cornell Undergraduate Information Competency Initiative

Encourages Cornell faculty to explore creative and effective ways to engage students by integrating research skills into the classroom and the curriculum through the redesign and creation of assignments for undergraduate courses.

Here are a few examples of web pages that librarians have created for various First Year Writing Seminars:

ANTHR 1128: Cigarette Cultures (Spring 2009) 

BioMI 1250: The Weird and Wonderful World of Microbes (Spring 2009)

ENGL 1131.104: Reading and Writing about Latin America (Summer 2009)

WRIT 1420: Writing and Research in the University (Spring 2009)

And here are more Library Guides.