The Research Requirement: The UW-Madison Libraries Can Help
What the Libraries Offer
The Libraries have many services and resources to support your Comm-B course, including:
- In-person library instruction sessions (e.g., instruction in a library classroom, or a librarian visit to your classroom)
- Online library instruction sessions (e.g., Canvas modules, synchronous or asynchronous instruction, online research tutorials, support for research activities, or virtual assistance)
- Research Guides designed for your course (e.g., customized lists of databases, resources and research strategies for your course or assignment)
If you’re interested in any of these options, simply fill out this online form and we’ll be in touch: Request Library Instruction
And if you have questions or want to learn more about how the Libraries can support you and your students, contact Ros Faulkner, Instructional Services Librarian: ros.faulkner@wisc.edu
Library Instruction Sessions for Comm-B
Scholarship looks different in each discipline: how it’s recorded, how it’s shared, how it’s evaluated, how it’s used. With this in mind, librarians have identified these four common learning outcomes for Comm-B library sessions:
- Identify and locate information sources
- Apply search strategies
- Understand scholarship as an ongoing conversation
- Evaluate sources
If you schedule a library instruction session for your course, the librarian will most likely address these learning outcomes in addition to any specific topics, resources or skills you request.
Library Resources for Comm-B
In addition to instruction sessions, the Libraries offer several other resources to support you and your Comm-B students.
Research Guides
You can request that the Libraries create a Library Course Guide to support your students in quickly finding the most relevant resources for your course. These online guides pull together links to library databases, embedded tutorials, and other resources. If you’re interested in a Library Course Guide for your class, I encourage you to contact the Libraries as soon as possible.
Tutorials
The Libraries also have a number of online interactive, text, and video Library Research Tutorials that cover a wide range of topics, and these can be linked to or embedded in your Canvas course. For example, below you’ll see some screenshots of a video on evaluating sources, a video on scholarship as a conversation, an interactive tutorial on how to read scholarly articles, an interactive library resource recommender for Comm-B subjects, and an interactive tutorial illustrating how to map scholarly conversations.
