Tisch Library is deeply committed to fostering partnerships with faculty to provide useful library instruction for your students, to support your research and grants, and to explore new collaborations that make creative use of our staff, collections, services, and spaces.
We have subject librarians that support all of the departments and disciplines throughout AS&E.
Contact your subject specialist with your requests, questions, and ideas.
Below are a few examples of recent partnerships between the library and faculty.
- Literature & data management support for lab research
- Classroom instruction on specialized disciplinary resources
- Curriculum planning support
- Assignment-focused learning objectives
- Multimodal assignment support
Literature & data management support for lab research
Cece Lasley (Research Librarian for the Social Sciences) and Elizabeth McCall (Research Data Librarian) collaborated with Professor Aerielle Allen’s Intergroup Processes and Social Equity (IPSE) Lab in the Psychology department. Lab staff and undergraduate research assistants learned about the literature search process, how to use a shared Zotero library, and the basics of data management. The workshop gave everyone in the lab shared language and tools to better conduct research as a group.
Classroom instruction on specialized disciplinary resources
Professor Angela Lai wanted to make sure her Biomedical Engineering Senior Design students could find patents related to their projects, as well as relevant standards. David Fristrom (Research Librarian for Engineering) designed and delivered a workshop that covered the history of patents, why they are important to engineers, and how to search for them. He also talked about the importance of standards and how to find them in the library.
Curriculum planning support
Sean Corning (Research Librarian for the Sciences) partnered with Professor Peggy Morris of Occupational Therapy to incorporate library support into the new Post-Professional Occupational Therapy Doctorate (PPOTD) online program at the course and program development stage. They collaborated to understand the particular needs of this program's online-only students, and identified opportunities for multiple library workshops across the planning, execution and writing stages of the program's central doctoral project.
Assignment-focused learning objectives
Stacey Brownlie (Research Librarian for the Social Sciences) collaborated with Professor Elizabeth Remick (Political Science) to articulate clear learning objectives for library support of her Chinese Politics course. Library workshops were carefully scheduled to engage students in active learning in the moment when they were researching and writing for the course assignment.
Multimodal assignment support
Kim Forero-Arnías of the Digital Scholarship department partnered with Professors Colin Orians and Nina Gerassi-Navarro to provide a unique assignment for Environmental Studies 196: Sustaining Your Cup. In this international GILD course, Kim taught students how to create and use ArcGIS StoryMaps to research and tell the complex stories of different beverages. Whether a traditional research paper, a multimedia project, or using digital scholarship tools, we can provide planning and instructional support for multimodal assignments.