Teaching Resources
Library Services supports teaching and learning at NSCC through the provision of resources, services and programs. Library Services collaborates with faculty in developing resource materials for students, building Reserve collections, developing and delivering workshops customized to the information needs of a program as well as providing access to effective web resources for faculty and their students.
College students, faculty and staff are guided by Canadian copyright legislation and need to adhere to specific guidelines and specifications.
Discover how to set up a web link to a full-text article in many of the College's databases to e-mail to students or link to from a faculty web page.
Explore the concept of information literacy and how faculty can partner with Library Services in developing the information search and retrieval skills of their students.
Explore the ability to set up a profile in three of the Library's
databases, Academic
Search Premier, Canadian
Reference Centre, and ERIC,
that will save a search to be run at a later time or a Table of
Contents of a favourite journal e-mailed as new issues are published.
Library Services has developed a Subject Guide that recommends valuable books, periodical articles and web resources on the topic of portfolio development.
Library Services develops and delivers library instruction workshops and programs designed to increase a student's information literacy skills. Browse a number of library workshops that are available for faculty and their students and consult with Campus Library staff to determine the most effective program.
Visit the Library Service's Research Guide which is a step by step guide to completing research. Consult with Campus Library staff as to how this guide could be incorporated into a College program.
The Library Services' Reserves system enables faculty to create a temporary collection in their Campus Library that supports the information needs of their program's students.
Consult a resource list that provides access to recommended web resources on the topics of distance education, prior learning assessment/recognition, the adult learner, assessment and evaluation, instructional technology and more.
Visit the Library Services' World Wide Web Guide which is a comprehensive overview of the Word Wide Web and how to search it effectively. Consult with Campus Library staff as to how this guide could be incorporated into a College program.
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