Classes & Workshops

Education Services Offered by the Marriott Library

The Education Services Division helps students, faculty, members of the university and local communities to develop information literacy and technology skills.

Please select a category from the tabs above to find resources and services that are tailored to your needs.

Contact us at:
Education Services at the Marriott Library
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
801-585-9499

E-mail us a question
Use the e-mail link above to inquire about consultations, classes, workshops, make a suggestion, recommend a resource, send a comment, etc.

About Our Librarians

Our Information Literacy Blog

Report Statistics

Workshops, Tours & Labs

How-To Guides & Handouts

LEAP

Strategies for College Success

Writing Program

Library Instruction Resources for Undergraduates

Find Resources for Your Class
Select below for resources that have been selected to help you do research for your class.

LEAP
Writing Program
Strategies for College Success

Learn to Use the Library
Learn how to find information in the library and online, how to evaluate information sources, and how to use them effectively in your papers and projects.

Take a Workshop or Tour
If you're interested in learning about new technologies, library resources, or the research process, sign up for a free workshop or library tour.

Strategies for College Success (EdPsych): Class Resources

Scenarios Background and Links

Research Cycle Handout

What You Will Learn
How to navigate the library web site and locate pertinent information, such as where to go to get help with their research, how to access items on Reserve, and other key library services.

How to interact with peers, librarians, and instructors to formulate research topic interests.

How to express their research topic interests and articulate this/these in the form of a research question.

How to evaluate web sources, select appropriate sources, and identify reasons for their selection

Library Instruction Resources for Graduate Students

Contact your subject librarian
for one-on-one assistance with your thesis or dissertation research. Or, to brush up on basic library research skills, try our online tutorials.

Request Library Instruction for Your Class
Fill out the online form to request library instruction tailored to address your students' research needs.

Workshops and Tours
Register for free workshops for students, faculty, and staff about new technologies, library resources, and the research process.

Evaluate Your Class's Library Instruction
Please fill out this short online evaluation of the library instruction provided for your class in order to help us improve the library instruction program for you and your students.

WebCT Resources
Marriott Librarians have created several online tools for your students that can be linked from your course web pages. For help with WebCT, contact the TAC Center.

Online Tutorials
Resources designed to bring students up to speed on topics such as search strategies, using databases and more.

Strategies for College Success (EdPsych): Class Resources

Scenarios Background and Links
Teaching Guide (pdf)
Research Cycle Handout (pdf)

What Your Students will Learn
How to navigate the library web site and locate pertinent information, such as where to go to get help with their research, how to access items on Reserve, and other key library services.

How to interact with peers, librarians, and instructors to formulate research topic interests.

How to express their research topic interests and articulate this/these in the form of a research question.

How to evaluate web sources, select appropriate sources, and identify reasons for their selection

Library Instruction Resources for Faculty

What is Information Literacy?
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has defined a set if information competency standards for undergraduate students. Marriott librarians are happy to discuss with you how to incorporate information literacy skills into your research assignments and how to help your students learn these skills. The following links provide more information.

ACRL Information Literacy Standards

Workshops and Tours
Register for free workshops for students, faculty, and staff about new technologies, library resources, and the research process.

WebCT Resources
Marriott Librarians have created several online tools for your students that can be linked from your course web pages. For help with WebCT, contact the TAC Center.

Online Tutorials
Resources designed to bring students up to speed on topics such as search strategies, using databases and more.

LEAP      Writing Program

Request Library Instruction for Your Class
Fill out this online form to request library instruction tailored to address your students' research needs.

Evaluate Your Class's Library Instruction
Please fill out this short online evaluation of the library instruction provided for your class in order to help us improve the library instruction program for you and your students.

Note: Some classes are held outside of the Marriott Library. Here's a link to a guide of the labs on campus.

Record Your Teaching Statistics

Print and fill out this form and submit it to the instruction division assistant.

Library Instruction Links

The following links provide more tips, tricks, and standards for effective library instruction.

Information Literacy

ACRL Information Literacy page

50 Ways to Reach Faculty

Pedagogy

Active Learning

Problem-Based Learning

Gen-Y Learning Styles

Learning Objectives Worksheet

Articles on Pedagogy and Technology

Assessment

Outcomes Assessment in Higher Education

One-Minute Papers

Instructor's checklist

Getting Students to Participate checklist

Ideas

LOEX Clearinghouse for Library Instruction

PRIMO: Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching