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Library Support for Teaching

Library Liaison Program

The Librarian Liaison is the faculty's link to an extensive range of services and resources offered by University Library. Librarian Liaisons have been designated for each academic department here at Xavier. Find your department's Librarian Liaison. Your library liaison can

  • provide library instruction for your classes;
  • help design library related research assignments;
  • meet with students individually for research help;
  • serve as a TA in your Canvas course offering research help;
  • help faculty with research;
  • help with acquisition orders, new materials, or problems locating materials;
  • communicate information about new library resources to faculty;
  • create a research guide (LibGuide) for a class assignment; and
  • provide a database workshop for your department.

Services for Faculty Teaching Online Courses

The librarians provide a number of services and resources for faculty involved in teaching online classes. They can assist faculty with developing research assignments, identifying resources for their classes, and helping students in their classes with their research.

Library Assistance for Students in Canvas Courses

A librarian liaison has been assigned to each academic program at Xavier. Faculty can add their librarian liaison to their Canvas courses as teaching assistants, and as a teaching assistants, librarians can:

  • Embed links to library resources and services (articles, databases, and streaming videos)
  • Embed online database tutorials and handouts
  • Link to the Library Research Tutorial
  • Notify students of resources and services to support their coursework
  • Meet with students online for individualized assistance. Students can request help using the consultation request form

Faculty and students can contact librarians for research assistance from off-campus in a number of ways.

Identifying Library Materials for Online Classes

The library provides access to thousands of electronic resources, including electronic books, journals, and streaming media. Librarians work with faculty to identify existing library resources and acquiring new resources for online classes. More information about ordering materials.

All the library's electronic resources are available via the library's homepage. Faculty and students can use Search@XU, a service that provides a single search engine to find books, articles, videos, and more. It searches many of the library's databases, as well as the XPLORE and OhioLINK library catalogs.

Borrowing Materials

The library's Resource Sharing Group will provide library print materials and media via UPS to students enrolled in online classes at Xavier. Students must live 30 or more miles from campus and must not be attending any classes on campus in the current term.

Copyright Standards and Guidelines for Teaching Online

This copyright guide explains the standards for using different types of materials in an online format. The site is organized by material type to better explain the usage standards for each.

For additional copyright questions and assistance please complete the Copyright Help Request Form.

Textbooks

If there are textbooks or other books that you are requiring every student use for the class, your resource for those materials is through the bookstore. If there are smaller portions of a work that you are requiring students to read that is not readily available to the students your librarian liaison can help with exploring options to make the content available through your Canvas course.

Technical Support

Information Technologies provides technical support to all Xavier students and faculty, including those in online learning environments. For more information, please visit the Technology Services website.