Instruction:

• Library Instruction includes:
  • Prepare your students for a library orientation
  • Schedule a library instruction/orientation
  • Reproducible handouts
  • FLASH instructional materials
    
• AP Images provides online access to more than 500,000 current, almost immediate, and historical photographs from the Associated Press Photo Archive for educational purposes.
• Reproducible Handouts
• Designing Effective Library Research Assignments
• Information Literacy Subject Guide
• VCCS Core Competencies
• Standards of Learning

Collection Building:

• Building Your Library Collection offers an online request form.
• Books in Print
• RCLWeb (Resources for College Libraries)
• Collection development policy

Research:

• Chronicle of Higher Education
• Education Research Complete
• ERIC (EBSCO or U.S. Dept. of Education) Educational Resources Information Center offers citations to journals and full text ERIC documents.
• JSTOR
• Copyright Subject Guide
• Faculty Authors@your library, a bibliography

Support:

• Off-campus links to database articles EZProxy URL
• Online Forms
• Course Reserves Policy (.doc) Request form (.pdf) (.doc) is required for each item.
• Web Accessibility Initiative from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998 available from The Access Board.
• Distance learning support.

Plagiarism

• What is Plagiarism? Rutger's University's Flash-based online tutorial for students.
• Plagiarism.org at The Learning Center.
• Plagiarism handout for students on how to avoid plagiarism.
• Best Information on the Net- Hot Paper Topics-Plagiarism
• Busting the New Breed of Plagiarist offers pointers on using search engines to detect Internet plagiarism.
• Cheating 101: Paper Mills and You, a Teaching Effectiveness Seminar thoroughly covers the topic and includes sites that sell papers.
• Cyber-Plagiarism: Detection and Prevention (Penn State) includes sites that sell papers.

The library staff welcomes you and looks forward to supporting you this semester. A printer friendly view of this page is available.