Teaching and Learning Support

What does learning and course support look like?

In your classroom

• Meet your librarian
• Single class session
• Series of visits

In Snell Library

• 3D printing
• Archives and Special Collections workshops
• Hands-on labs developed for your class
• Recording studios
• Tours of Snell Library and University Archives
• Workshops (View a list)

Online

• Web pages and guides developed for your class
• Online tutorials
• Video instruction for classes beyond the Boston campus

One on One

• Individual and small group consulting with subject librarians

What do we teach?
 

Engaging students in the research process

• Developing a research topic
• Strategic searching/using specialized vocabulary
• Finding data, images, funding, patents, etc.
• Evaluating sources/differences between scholarly and popular
• Identifying discipline-specific and interdisciplinary databases
• Citation management (styles, methods, software)
• Copyright and fair use practices
• Literature and systematic reviews
• Creating audio & video projects/digital storytelling
• Podcast Support
• Assistance with oral history projects
• Working with primary sources/archives and special collections 

Specialized workshops and consultation services

• 3D design and printing
• Citation tracking and analysis
• Contributing to Wikipedia
• Data analysis and visualization
• Data management
• Data plans
• Digital humanities projects
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Mapping
• Online exhibits (WordPress and Omeka)
• XML, TEI and related technologies