What does it mean to offer online library instruction?
Would you like your students to have access to a librarian via your course Blackboard site? We can provide instruction via announcements, email and tutorials for specific student research questions. Student questions often result in one-on-one sessions where the librarian offers personal research instruction that can help students save time and become more effective researchers.
When would you choose to add a librarian to a course?
If your course involves a literature review, a research paper, requires accessing statistics or other information, or generally involves information literacy issues, the course could be a good candidate for embedding a librarian. Any course where students need to access library resources like article databases, online/print journals, books or other reference information could use librarian support.
How do I add a librarian into my course?
If you would like the librarian to offer instruction through announcements, you will need to make them a co-instructor or course builder.
Librarians can serve as co-instructors within Blackboard courses and provide valuable virtual assistance from making themselves available for reference questions to providing links and tips for course-related research, etc.
You can add a librarian as a co-instructor by setting up the librarian as a course user and then upgrading the privileges of the user: