For Your Teaching
Instructional support
The University Libraries offers a variety of instructional services designed to actively integrate information literacy into the curricula and to facilitate students' acquisition of critical thinking and information-seeking skills. Library instructional services include:
- Course-related instruction
- Individualized instruction and assistance in developing library-related assignments
- Train-the-trainer sessions for graduate assistants, peer mentors or others who may be teaching a course
- Online course guides (LibGuides) for disciplines or specific courses that can be embedded into Canvas
- Integrating information literacy learning outcomes and assessment into departmental curricula
- Creating online tutorials
- Individual Research Appointments which can be booked online as well as more advanced research consultations.
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More Tools & Services to Support Your Teaching
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Reference librarians & assistants are available 72 hours a week during the semester for drop-in in-person, phone, email, and online chat assistance, and are also available during breaks and intersessions. We can help your students find resources, refine topics, troubleshoot access issues, and more.
Individual Research Appointments
Encourage your students to make an appointment with a reference librarian any time during the semester for research assistance on a specific subject or assignment. We offer increased appointment times during weeks seven through eleven of fall and spring semesters to accommodate demand. Remote appointments can be arranged with librarians.
Course Reserves
Put books from the library's collection, your personal books, extra copies of textbooks, or other materials on reserve in the library for your students to use during the semester. We also maintain streaming audio and video reserves through Avalon.
LibGuides
LibGuides are course- and subject-specific guides developed by librarians. They are designed to help users do research in specific subject areas (like music or environmental sciences), find resources to complete specific assignments, or build proficiency using specific material types (like images and newspapers). If you would like a librarian to create a guide to support your course, please contact the liaison for your area.
Alt Source Your Textbook Adoption
We encourage you to alt-source your textbook! Discover the content we subscribe to and purchase in support of teaching and learning on behalf of you and your students. Explore quality open educational resources developed specifically for college teaching. We also have several repositories for you to use to publish your own curriculum materials.
ProQuest Research Companion
ProQuest Research Companion is a database of online information literacy/library instruction modules that can be easily embedded in Canvas and assigned to your classes.
Kanopy
Kanopy is a streaming service with nearly 20,000 educational and documentary videos that can be used to supplement course content. Faculty need to send a request through the Kanopy platform in order to view a video. This may take up to 24 hours to approve, so please plan accordingly. Trailers and other previews of Kanopy films can often be found on YouTube or elsewhere online.
Additional Resources
Use the book purchase request form to suggest an item for the library's collection.
The Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE) provides professional development workshops, consultations, web resources, learning communities, and more - all designed to help those involved in teaching to create an engaged and articulate learning experience for all BGSU students.
- Stanford University Copyright and Fair Use
- Copyright FAQs from Stanford University
- Fair Use information from the US Copyright Office
- Cornell University Copyright Information Center
- ARL Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries
- “Fair Use Checklist” from the Columbia University Copyright Advisory Office
- Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States 1 January 2015 (Cornell University)
- Copyright Clearance Center
The Authorized Borrower Form allows an individual you identify to borrow books, place holds, and pick up OhioLINK and ILL materials on your behalf.
The authorized borrower will present their own ID and tell the library staff member that they need to borrow the materials on your account. An OhioLINK book can only be borrowed on the account from which the request was made.
We encourage you to bring your class to the library, either to meet with a librarian or to allow your students to work on their own. You can reserve one of the spaces online. Many professors also meet with classes in the first floor reference area.
Many faculty assign articles from our databases by saving links to them in Canvas. But the url in the browser bar is not always the url that points back to the article. This guide to creating persistent links shows you how to obtain links that will work from on or off campus to articles in EBSCO, JSTOR, and other online database platforms.
Our special collections also offer services to enhance your teaching.
The BGSU Textbooks site includes information about and suggestions for keeping textbooks affordable.
The Learning Commons offers drop-in and scheduled peer tutoring for a variety of courses and disciplines, as well as Supplemental Instruction for targeted courses.
The Writing Center offers services that can help both you and your students!
Resources for Faculty Research
The information found on this page highlights library services & resources to support faculty teaching. See "For Your Research" to explore library services & resources to support faculty research.
Workshops for Faculty
The University Libraries offers a range of workshops on various topics related to the process of discovery, teaching, learning, research, and creativity. See "Workshops for Faculty" to learn what workshops are available on demand.
Updated: 02/03/2023 11:38AM