Teaching & Learning Support
Librarians and professional staff at the University Libraries are teachers. We create learning environments and opportunities to help students build information literacy and research skills. Our key goal is to advance critical, ethical, and equitable access, use and creation of information.
Instructor Support
We offer support for instructors through:
- Designing/redesigning course assignments to foster information literacy skills
- Customizing online tutorials
- Creating course-specific online research guides
- Conducting in-class or virtual information literacy instruction sessions
- Offering a High School Program for Nebraska and regional students
Teaching Resources & Content
- Open Educational Resources (OER)
Free and open course materials, including textbooks, modules, syllabi, lectures, assignments and more. - Virtual Learning Tutorials
Interactive tutorials and videos that help library users to develop or enhance information literacy skills. - Course Research Guides
Librarian-curated guides that provide information on tools and resources to help with research and assignments. - Reserves & Libraries Course Materials
Support for instructors' efforts to provide accessible and affordable course materials for students.
Student Learning Resources
- Online library research guides for a variety of topics, academic disciplines, and courses, including the Getting Started with Research guide
- Interactive tutorials and instructional videos
- Research consultations with a subject or skill-focused librarian
- Workshops
- Access to course materials from the Libraries through Canvas
- Quick research help through an ASKus service point or FAQs
- Plagiarism and copyright information
- A one-credit LIBR 110 course on a variety of information literacy topics