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Library Orientation & Instruction

The Access Services Librarian is available Sunday through Saturday to conduct a Library Orientation or Instruction Session for your Distributed Learning course upon request.

Please contact Linda LeBlanc, Access Services Librarian, for more information or to schedule a library instruction session:
Phone: (978) 665-3062
Email: dllibrary@fsc.edu or lileblanc@fsc.edu

Library Instruction sessions may be arranged at each Extended Campus cohort and online (or at a site location) for the Distance Learning programs at any time through out the year for your faculty. We recommend that each program have at least one session each year for their faculty as our services and resources are continually evolving. These sessions will provide an overview of library services for the disributed learning community, a tour of the library website, and a demonstration of how to access the library's electronic resources to keep up to date with the changes going on in the Gallucci-Cirio Library.

The full range of Library Instruction that is available on-campus can also be arranged for your students at your extended campus location and is tailored to meet the research needs of your students and your course. We encourage everyone, especially if you are teaching a research or research intensive course to use this service to keep up to date with the changes going on in the rapidly changing world of searching, research and information. Each session will include a brief overview of our library services and how to access them.

The following instruction session formats are suggested:

1. A cohort student session for new students and/or an individual course 
2. Several faculty may combine their classes for a joint session
3. Several individual or joint classes at a cohort could arrange for seperate sessions at different times on the same day
4. Tailor the session for your online course through Blackboard or Elluminate

Library Instruction Program

We provide library instruction sessions, upon request of the faculty member, for Fitchburg State College courses offered through the Fitchburg State Extended Campus and Distance Learning progams. The librarian will work with you to develop the session to make sure it covers the needs of your students. If you are teaching a course at an Extended Campus site, the librarian will conduct the session at your extended campus location. The session counts as actual class time the same way our on-campus library instruction sessions do. If you are teaching an online course through Distance Learning, we can modify the library instruction session to meet your needs and make it available for your students online.

We provide faculty sessions, upon request of the Extended Campus site coordinator, as well.

You may request a library instruction session that entails the following:

• A basic orientation which consists of a general introduction to the library, its services, and its informational sources.
• Specialized instruction consisting of a more in-depth review of a specific subject's resources tailored for the course or research project and how to search in a specific database(s).
• A combination of the basic orientation and the specialized instruction.
• If you have computer and Internet access available at your site location for the students, hand-on searching is incorporated into the specialized instruction session. If you do not have computer access and/or Internet access, the librarian has a laptop and projector through which to provide the session.
• If you use Blackboard or Elluminate, you can embed the librarian as an active participant by making the librarian a co-instructor/guest to interact with students through the Discussion Board and Cummincation Tools, load tailored documents (PDF files, PowerPoint, etc.), tailored tutorials, etc.