1010 Campus Drive
Big Rapids, MI
Main Telephone
(231) 591-3500
Check-Out Desk
(231) 591-2669
Reference Desk
(231) 591-3602
Archives
(231) 591-3731
Text
(231) 821-5499
Work with the librarian assigned to your area to create clear library assignments!
Questions?
Call the Reference Desk at (231) 591-3602.
How We Can Help
- Contact us before your class begins their research
- Send a copy of the assignment to your librarian
- Discuss the assignment with us
- Tell us how many students are in the class
- Describe what you want your students to learn
- Learn their way around the building?
- Find print materials within FLITE?
- Use general databases?
- Narrow to specific subject areas?
- Define the level of help needed
- Do students need to find the information themselves?
- Can they ask for help right from the start?
Ask for a Library Instruction session. We’re glad to assist you!
- Check your resources every semester! Can your students find the materials at all?
- Online library resources databases change all the time.
- Print resources and physical materials disappear too.
- Your librarian can check for them if you have no time.
- Place print material the whole class must use on Course Reserve at the Checkout Desk.
- Design the assignment so students can use similar, but not the same items.
- Assume students come to Ferris with little previous library experience.
- Follow FLITE library instruction with our step-by-step research process.
- FSUS
- An introduction to the FLITE building
- A glimpse of the library webpage
- A beginning search for research
- First year courses
- Beginning research with SmartSearch (hyperlink to the Using SmartSearch page), the library discovery service
- Upper level instruction
- Specialization in the subject databases
- FSUS
- Match the assignment to the educational level of the student.
- Help students pace the assignment – provide deadlines for different stages of the work.
- Avoid procrastination and the last-minute panic.
- List specific FLITE resources to kick-start research.
Contact your librarian if you need help!
- Discuss citations with your students early in the semester.
- Specific clearly which citation style you want.
- Point students to FLITE Citation Guides for APA, MLA, or Chicago styles.
Come visit FLITE and learn more!