Faculty FAQs
What is the Library Services Portal?
The Library Services Portal (pdf, 2.1mb) is a suite of services and resources for your Independent Study course. It contains the following elements:
- Research guides for your course
- Online research databases for finding articles
- A link to the library catalog for finding books
- Electronic reference sources such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, newspapers, style manuals, etc.
- Basic research strategy outline
- A link to the Books and Articles Delivery Service
- Help links
How can my subject librarian help me?
Your subject librarian will consult with you to:
- Choose appropriate research guides for your course
- Choose appropriate databases for your course
- Review assignments and suggest resources
- Suggest ways to incorporate instruction on using library resources in your course
- Answer library or research related questions from your students
Can I put articles on E-Reserve for my course?
At this time, because Independent Study students do not receive a NetID and password, there is not a way to give them access to E-Reserve articles. However, this provides a learning opportunity for your students.
- You can provide citations to the articles you wish them to read, making sure the articles are in the databases you incorporate into the portal.
- This has two benefits: (1) you don't have to worry about providing the students with the articles and (2) the students gain experience and practice in searching databases to find the articles.
How do off-campus instructors access library databases?
Off-campus faculty access databases via the portal using their course access code.
Who can I contact in the library for more information?
- Allyson Washburn
- Distributed Learning Services Librarian
- 2228 HBLL
- 422-2675
- allyson_washburn@byu.edu
