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Instruction Support
Doherty Library partners with faculty to create engaging learning experiences and strengthen students’ research and information literacy skills. Whether you’re designing a new course, updating existing materials, or looking for ways to integrate research into your curriculum, our librarians are here to help.
From classroom instruction and embedded librarian support to syllabus reviews, assignment design, and course resource development, we collaborate with instructors to support student success both inside and outside the classroom.
Explore the services below to discover how the library can support your teaching, your students, and your scholarship.
| Service | Tile Description |
| Request a librarian-led class session tailored to your course learning outcomes, research assignments, and information literacy goals. | |
| Embedded Librarians | Bring the library into your Blackboard course with an embedded librarian, customized resources, and direct research support for your students. |
| Syllabus Review | Partner with a librarian to review your syllabus for research support opportunities, current resources, affordable course materials, and information literacy integration. |
| Research & Assignment Design | Collaborate on research assignments and scaffolded learning activities that build students’ research skills throughout the semester. |
| Finding Course Resources | Discover scholarly resources, newly available online content, open educational resources (OER), and alternative course materials. |
| Research Tutorials | Incorporate self-paced tutorials on research skills, database searching, source evaluation, citations, and more into your course. |
| Purchase Requests | Recommend books, databases, media, and other library resources to support your teaching and student learning. |
| Subject Liaisons | Connect with your subject librarian for discipline-specific expertise, collection support, instruction, and ongoing collaboration. |
Updated: July 15, 2026