Learn About our Research Guides

Faculty feedback from surveys and in person:

•  This is FANTASTIC!!!  The site looks tremendous and the students are all working on their papers now so the timing is perfect. “
• "In short --we LOVE the library nursing guide and would like you to center the orientation around that. It is one stop shopping and you have done a marvelous job with it. Thank you so much! " 
•  “I wondered how I could incorporate the library resources into my class, this makes my job so much easier!”
•  "This all looks fantastic. I'll look forward to your email announcing this resource to our faculty, and will definitely urge students to use it.”
• “The organization of the site makes it easy for students to use. Useful information on cultures is at their fingertips.  They can search more purposefully rather than randomly looking for any possible source, and relying on the internet.”

Faculty response to guides has been overwhelmingly positive.

Creating guides for subjects and for specific classes and assignments has enriched the relationship we have with teaching faculty. We have discovered several unexpected benefits as we have designed a guide for a specific class or assignment. 

Faculty colleagues are surprised and gratified that we are taking such an interest in their class as we design a course-specific guide for them. They are more willing to discuss their expectations for research assignments and to collaborate on our shared information literacy objectives. 

 As a guide can be built around a syllabus or assignment, the librarian develops an increased awareness of the class objectives, which further enhances our reference service.