Set up a library session for your class!

For those of you teaching Gender and Women's Studies classes that have a research assignment, I encourage you to bring your class in to the library to get your students on their way to finding appropriate materials for their research. This works best if they have already chosen a topic for their research and they know that they will need a certain amount of non-free Web sources. I usually spend about 1.25 to 1.5 hours with them, showing them our main resources and having them find those on their topic, but I can make this shorter or longer, as you wish. I will send you information on our revised tutorial ResearchPath, as soon as it is up. ResearchPath will be replacing Searchpath with an updated style, but it will still cover the basic research methods. We have encouraged instructors to assign this before bringing their class in to see us, especially if the students have not had any library instruction. Please contact me at maira.bundza@wmich.edu to set up a time and date. The library classroom calendar is filling up quickly.