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Teaching & Learning Support

What Does Library Support Look Like?

The Northeastern University Library provides workshops, digital learning objects such as online guides, tutorials and Canvas modules, and other resources designed to support undergraduate, graduate, and professional learning at all levels.

NUpath

The library supports the critical competencies of Northeastern’s undergraduate core curriculum, NUpath, including:

  • Engaging with the natural and designed world
  • Interpreting culture
  • Understanding societies and institutions
  • Analyzing and using data
  • Employing ethical reasoning
  • Writing across audiences and genres

See below for examples of our services at all levels.

Synchronous course-based workshops

  • Introduction to library resources
  • Specialized resources and AI tools

Contact your subject librarian or specialist or request a workshop here

Asynchronous course support

Research Consultations

  • One-on-one or small group support, by appointment

Make an appointment with a subject librarian or specialist

 

What Do We Teach?

Information Literacy Concepts

  • Archival and primary sources (more)
  • Citation management: concepts, styles and software (more)
  • Developing a research topic
  • Ethical use of information
  • Finding data, images, funding, patents, etc.
  • Evaluating sources: scholarly, professional, peer-reviewed, popular
  • Identifying discipline-specific and interdisciplinary databases
  • Oral history and interviewing skills
  • Strategic searching skills
  • Systematic reviews and literature reviews (more)

Specialized Skills

  • Audio and video projects and digital storytelling (more)
  • Citation tracking and analysis
  • Contributing to Wikipedia
  • Data analysis and visualization (more)
  • Data management
  • Data plans
  • Digital humanities projects
  • Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and mapping (more)
  • Online exhibits (WordPress and CERES)
  • Systematic reviews and evidence synthesis (more)
  • XML, TEI and related technologies

Learn more by contacting your subject librarian.

Contact:

Christine Oka
Library Instruction Coordinator
Email: [email protected]
Tel: (617) 373-3316