Offers advice on working with both instructors and students to develop assignments that successfully integrate your library's resources.

Although building a data management services is not something librarians can do on their own, meaningful data management is a goal that should be supported at all levels of the institution. Learn to build that support in your institution, and maintain the relationships that ensure your service is successful.

In our society we are called upon to fill many roles-- and are increasingly called upon to bifurcate our experiences. Unfortunately we do not have a switch so that we can turn off our personal issues while at work, or our professional issues at home. Reale feels that reflection as both a personal and pedagogical practices has become more important. Her guide is intended to provide a start on your journey toward reflection, both as a librarian and...

Information is abundant and more easily retrieved than ever - but students often misunderstand how to get their information needs met. The first factoids that pop up in a data search are often the tip of the iceberg: to sift through the results and understand the information, students need to approach a search with a spirit of inquiry. Examining issues from various angles, and structuring the search questions, can create different results. The author...

Information literacy involves a combination of reading, writing, and critical thinking. Librarians in an academic library, while not directly responsible for teaching those skills, are involved in making such literacy part of the students' learning process. Broussard approaches the misconceptions about the relationship between libraries as a source of information literacy, and offers suggestions on providing students support when working on research...