Instructional Services
For Students
Follow this link if you are a Kwantlen Polytechnic University Student and you need help with finding resources for your class assignments.
For Faculty
Follow this link if you are teaching a course at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and would like to work together with a librarian on improving your students’ research skills.
For Students
Ask a Librarian Need help finding resources for your assignment? Talk to a librarian in person, phone us, email us or chat live. Need more help?
Book a Personal Research Sessions in the Library
- Make an appointment for some uninterrupted one-on-one time with a Librarian. These information specialists can show you how to focus in on a research topic, teach you how to find the information you need and explain how to use citation styles to reference your information sources. Fill out this form to request a session!
- (Limited to Kwantlen Polytechnic University students only, one session per course)
Guides and Tutorials
- Help With Research : learn the 7 steps to successfully completing course assignments
- Virtual Library Tours (links to campus library tours (vodcasts) - TBA
Cloverdale - Langley - Surrey – Richmond
Online Tutorials
- the a.r.t. of Analysis - choose a topic, determine what information you need, and select which sources to search for information
- the a.r.t. of Planning – outlines the processes on how to refine your topic and write a research paper
- the a.r.t of Strategy - learn about primary & secondary sources and how information is created and published.
- evaluation of sources - learn to evaluate the sources you find
Guides
How to avoid plagiarism - Plagiarism is a very serious academic misconduct. Learn how to avoid plagiarism.
Citation Styles - When writing a research paper, you must always cite any sources that you have consulted in your research
How Do I...?
For Faculty
How We Can Support Your Course
There are a variety of approaches to teaching the information literacy competencies. You may request any of these approaches based on your preferences and what works best for your discipline. Regardless of the method of delivery, best practices indicate that students learn the most when teaching is tied to a specific research assignment and timed when students have an information need. Popular approaches include:
Library instruction sessions
If your course has a research component, schedule an instruction session to have your students work hands-on with a librarian. We will work with you to ensure the session is scheduled after students have chosen topics and when you can be present. Use the request form to schedule a session.
- Book a Library Instruction Session
- Assignments (link to other page)
Librarians can help you to create assignments that will develop your students’ information literacy skills and help them succeed in their studies.
Tailored Subject (Research) Guides
In addition to the number of Subject Guides that the Librarians have already developed, in consultation with you and time permitting, we will develop research guides tailored to your course and assignments. Librarians can provide tips on how to create exercises that will teach information literacy skills. These exercises are assigned by you as part of the course workload.
Tutorials
Add tutorials from the Library website to your course web site to help your students find library resources, avoid plagiarism and cite sources.
Workshops
- Advanced Google searching
- Zotero – manage citations
- Alert services
- Wikis – getting started with wikis
- New research tools on the web: Google Books, Google Scholar, Google docs (share docs), Diigo (share bookmarks)
Moodle
How to integrate library online tutorial on the course siteUpdated
03/25/2010
