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Santa Clara UniversityUniversity Library

Teaching and Learning Services

In-Person Instruction

Librarian standing in front of a small group of students and pointing to a large book from the archives. Students are listening and taking notes.

Faculty and instructors can invite a librarian to teach one or more sessions in their classrooms or in one of the several computer lab classrooms in the Library’s Learning Commons. Faculty and instructors can also request instruction in the Library’s Archives & Special Collections Reading Room. 

Librarians can support research and applied topics in your courses from accessing scholarly literature to finding data on social issues or industries to exploring news and algorithmic biases. Example class topics include:

  • Topic development
  • Basic to advanced search
  • Analyzing source perspectiveStudents seated in a library computer lab, listening to a peer who is speaking.
  • Find and evaluate data
  • Find and using primary sources
  • Critical evaluation of sources
  • Attribution and organization

Librarians work with instructors to ensure that each session is tailored to the subject of their course, to their specific assignment, and to the needs of their students. Librarians can also help instructors design effective research assignments that scaffold skills across the quarter and hit specific learning outcomes.  

Where possible, we encourage and support a flipped classroom approach to our instruction -- leveraging Camino, tutorials, and other pre-work -- so that we can use the in-class time for discussion, sense making, and critiquing.

To request a library instruction session for your class or support in assignment design, contact your subject librarian.

Schedule Library Instruction

To schedule a library instruction session, reach out to your subject librarian or Rachel Wishkoski (Head of Instruction & Assessment) with as much notice as possible.

If you would like to schedule a session involving SCU's Archives & Special Collections (A&SC), please email Monica Keane. For classes that have been taught in A&SC in the past, the minimum amount of notice is two weeks. However, we strongly encourage faculty reach out as soon as possible because of limited time slots available for archives instruction. Classes without an existing materials list should be requested before the quarter begins to arrange for consultation and curation.