Did you know that your department has a liaison to the library? They are another good resource for discussions about how the library can best assist you and your department. See this list for your current liaison.
The Information Literacy program at Hope College Libraries is a collaborative effort between teaching faculty and the teaching librarians designed to prepare students to be effective information seekers and users, both in general and in their disciplines with the goal of developing information fluent students.
The General Education curriculum requires that all First Year Seminar (FYS) and English 113 classes receive information literacy instruction, but many other courses with research components can benefit from sessions—in the library, or another learning space—led by librarians.
Get Help Designing Library Related Assignments
The key to a successful information literacy program is close collaboration between teaching librarians and classroom faculty to design and guide students through research projects. Librarians can also be helpful in thinking about writing assignments. Librarians often create custom tailored course guides to serve as specialized research portals for students enrolled in a particular course.
Request a Course Guide
To see the list of Course Guides available, visit the Course Guide site. You may request a new Course Guide through Ask a Librarian or contact your Department's Librarian directly.
The library offers students a variety of resources in order to help students avoid plagerism and cite sources correctly.
Citation Tools
Citation tools are available to assist students with the correct formating of citations.
Several style guides are available online.
If you want to give students practice with avoiding plagiarism, integrating quotations etc. there are Research exercises available on the Diane Hacker website for MLA, APA and Chicago style. (Disclaimer: This website does not contain the most up-to-date version of APA (6th ed.). For Hacker’s pdf version of the APA updates, click here)
Faculty Resources:
All faculty may request that the library purchase books, ebooks, DVDs, music, and reference materials in support of a course. Contact your Department Librarian directly to have materials ordered. Librarians can also create visual displays of books on a selected topic for a course guide.
To facilitate access to readings and other materials, faculty may place materials on reserve at the main circulation desk at Van Wylen Library. See the Library Reserves Webpage for guidelines and instructions. If you have questions, call Allison Van Liere x7889.
The library supports student use of technology to present research and learning through digital projects and presentations including research posters, video, web pages and a variety of new media. The Library Digital Media Lab will work with instructors to design projects and coordinate the use of equipment. Students can get assistance learning to use equipment, software and presentation techniques. Contact dml@hope.edu with any questions about this service.
Many faculty have found that having students use primary source materials from the Joint Archives and Rare Books collection is a great complement to course goals. Librarians and the Archivist will work closely with you to give students first-hand experience in doing research using library special collections.