VCUarts Qatar Libraries offers a variety of instructional services and resources to support your teaching. By collaborating with librarians, you can be sure that your students will develop the skills they need, understand their responsibilities, and know when and whom to ask for help.
Faculty librarians in the Art and Design Library are happy to teach targeted information literacy concepts such as scholarship as a conversation, understanding authority in research, and finding relevant and credible information sources in order for your students to become successful information creators. Here is a sample of the kinds of library instruction sessions that we can provide...
Research Question Development
Getting the Most Out of ChatGPT: Using the CREATE or CLEAR Framework
Selecting Search Tools and Search Strategies
Evaluating Information Sources
Digging Into the Messy Process of Research
Avoiding Plagiarism: the Art of Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting
Literature Review: What Is It and How to Get Started
Applying Rhetorical Strategies to Analyze Visual Media
Managing Citations
(We can do so much more than just demonstrate how to use our databases!)
Please visit us for more information or schedule an appointment with a librarian who collaborates with your program/department. Find your librarian here.