For faculty and students, your Library Liaison is your link to an extensive range of services and resources offered by the library, and the two departments that make up the library: Discovery Services and Content Management. Librarian Liaisons have been designated for each academic department here at Xavier. Each academic department has also selected Faculty Liaisons who coordinate with the Librarian Liaison.
Advise you about library services, resources and policies
Serve as a communications channel between the library and your department
Represent your concerns and interests to the library
Participate in relevant committees and departmental meetings to provide specialist advice
Connect you to other people and services available through the Library, Discovery Services, and Content Management
Offer one-on-one consultation
Review your department’s monthly acquisitions budget and remind you of pertinent ordering deadlines
Introduce you to specific library services such as:
Course reserves and e-reserves
Document delivery and interlibrary loan
XPLORE Library catalog
XU.Tutor
Xtreme Subject Guides
Journals @ XU
OhioLINK
Help Advance Your Research
Work with you to advance your research interests and identify information needs
Locate, recommend, and evaluate print and electronic sources
Provide you with guides tailored to your discipline for books, databases, journals, media, and internet resources
Collaborate with you to develop a library collection that is relevant for the learning and teaching needs of the university, through collection development and resource support
Assist in identifying seminal resources in your discipline
Work with you on grant-funded projects
Help with Your Teaching
Assist you with developing course resources within Blackboard
Introduce you and your students to citation help using RefWorks
Train you and your students to use the plagiarism detection tool TurnItIn
Collaborate with you on curriculum design to develop information fluency in your coursework
Brainstorm about effective student assignments and alternatives to traditional term papers
Provide advice and support to help with teaching commitments and requirements
Collaborate with you to develop appropriate assessments
Assist you in providing distance education
Provide Information Fluency Skills for Your Students
Provide general library instruction to instill students with basic library skills
Teach advanced information fluency skills to students in various settings
Provide one-on-one help for students doing research and/or writing papers
Provide discipline-specific, course-specific or assignment-specific training tailored for different student audiences
